Arrows
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In “Arrows,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Satanic opposition, demons and deliverance, prayer. Drawing especially from Luke 8, Psalm 38, Psalm 64, Zechariah 9, the teaching emphasizes that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides.
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Odle focuses on the gospel while working through Luke 8. The message argues that the gospel announces Christ’s saving work and calls every hearer to repent, believe, and obey. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on David’s example while working through Psalm 64, Zechariah 9. The message argues that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. It connects this with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through Proverbs 25. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through Psalm 11, Ephesians 6. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that the biblical narrative is used to show God’s power to recover what has been lost and restore usefulness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on David’s example. The message argues that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. It connects this with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through Ephesians 6. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Psalm 127. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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dying to self giving up everything that self wants and and surrendering to the will of god to your will father and taking up our cross and following jesus wherever he leads us and being willing to lift up the gospel of jesus christ and the truth of the word of god no matter what persecution or rejection that that may bring you didn't call us to be liked by everybody you didn't call us to be accepted by everybody you called us lord to be close to you first and then to proclaim the gospel of jesus christ to this world lord without fear without shame not not a partial gospel lord but the full gospel of jesus christ and lord i thank you for the blood of jesus that was shed it was it is a precious thing it is a holy thing not to be taken lightly that you are willing to wash our sins away if we will repent and turn from our sins and give you our whole lives or so many people fail in the christian walk because they don't really give it all in the beginning they don't really understand that it must be everything so lord if there's anyone in this room today that has not given everything given up every sin given up every self-made plan and totally surrendered to the lordship of jesus christ into obedience and to walking this out the lord i pray they will do that father i thank you for it in jesus name amen and amen listen to me understand that the gospel of jesus is a total surrender he doesn't ask for half of you part of you eighty percent ninety percent it has to be a hundred percent amen all the way halfway doesn't cut it amen all right you ought to know that by now but we just got to grasp that i was i've started listening to uh a documentary kind of on rick warren and the whole seeker sensitive movement of course i did a sermon series in 1998 against the seeker sensitive movement so it's nothing new for me to be against that whole philosophy because it's not biblical but the bottom line is it doesn't demand anything of you it tries to cater church to what you want or what a sinner or unsaved person wants guess what nowhere did jesus say hey i'm going to make it the way you want it unsaved sinner person
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no if you want me you want eternal life jesus said take up your cross and follow me he told the woman caught in the act of adultery go and sin no more right he didn't say stay an adulteress and you can have eternal life never said that it's not in the bible but anyway i could preach on that for a while but kevin's got a word for us today hallelujah i am enjoying taking some time time off a little bit here i needed it but anyway brother if you're ready it's good to be in the presence of the lord this morning let me get set up and we'll uh i'll bring this word to you the best i can y'all forgive me if it uh doesn't come out exactly right but we'll uh we'll get there nonetheless today i'm going to talk about arrows and we all know archery we all have seen different movies with arrows in them and sometimes they light the ends of them on fire and shoot them to burn things down and sometimes they shoot them to for food so but the kind of arrows i'm going to talk about today are arrows of the lord and arrows are talked about a lot and sometimes when they when scripture mentions arrows they're talking about lightning god sending lightning down on people and not just an arrow like what we think of so you don't want to be on the receiving end of one of those arrows for sure but there's a couple of topics i want to cover with the arrows of the lord and most of us we all talk about planting seeds and things like that a seed is a gospel truth planted in an unsafe person and that's that we can we can take the seed we can take the gospel we plant the seed of of the gospel in them and the the seed is a gospel truth an arrow is a correction or harsh truth sometimes about someone's walk with god that continually stays with them until they deal with it i mean you're not going to just pull an arrow from the lord out of you it's going to stay there it's going to convict you it's going to draw you closer to him it's going to make you miserable until you deal with it and you know we can talk about the seed from the parable of the sower which isn't luke 8 5. but a seed is this one of the definitions of this of a seed off of dictionary dictionary.com where i got this so it's the source beginning or germ of anything
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and the example they gave was the seed of revolt so if we plant a seed we're beginning a growth in someone to bring them to a point in a christian walk but if we've been doing this for a while when when the lord brings correction on us he whether it's from somebody that we are like our pastor or someone that we are close to if they see you doing something wrong and they bring correction that's a arrow from the lord and we'll look at a few scriptures we'll start and a lot of these are going to be in the old testament there's only just a few mentions in the new testament of arrows or arrow or darts things like that so we'll start off in psalms 38. [Music] and we'll go to uh verse verse one [Music] and says oh lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chastened me in thy hot displeasure for thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presses me sore there is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger neither is this there any rest in my bones because of my sin so here david is obviously feeling some kind of conviction here from the from the holy spirit that is making him feel sorrowful for something that he did so the lord shot an arrow at him and said look this is going on you've got to deal with it and he's feeling sorrowful for it he's wanting to deal with this he's wanting to get rid of this pain this arrow this conviction that's been brought in his life he wants to deal with it and get rid of it he said god don't don't chasing me in anger you know but basically he was looking for mercy from god in this and that the arrow was more than he could bear and then we'll go to uh go to psalm 64 and we'll go to verse 3 there and then here
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dave is talking about well i just start at verse one then we'll come to three hear my voice o god in my prayer preserve my life from fear of thine enemy hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity who wet their tongues like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows even bitter words that they may shoot in secret at the perfect sudden secret at the perfect suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not they encourage themselves in an evil manner they commune of laying snares privily they say who shall see them they search out iniquities they accomplish a diligent search both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart is deep but god shall shoot at them with an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded so here's god shooting an arrow at the enemies we get down in verse seven here god shooting an arrow at the enemies of david trying to protect david trying to lead him in a direction he's trying to bring david in a direction so he's trying to protect him and he's then we'll go uh let's go to zechariah 9. and then we'll get verse 14 there and the lord shall be seen over them and his arrows shall go forth as the lightning and the lord god shall blow the trumpet and shall go with whirlwinds of the south and uh zechariah here is god's protection again is god protecting his people with arrows or here in this case lightning that he's sending out so god again is just he's bringing correction and he's bringing protection he's bringing the protection to his love to his people that he loves from those that are trying to attack them bring destruction on them or bring harm if you will or change the direction god has for their plan that god's plan for them is i'll get that out but uh god has he's the arrows of the lord do many many things i mean you saw inc we saw correction we saw protection and we've you know there's time after time after time
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