Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Tongues, & the Power Gifts
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In “Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Tongues, & the Power Gifts,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about gifts of the Holy Spirit, holiness, the Holy Spirit. Drawing especially from 1 Corinthians 14, Acts 2, Acts 2:36, 1 Corinthians 13, the teaching emphasizes that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness.
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Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through 1 Corinthians 14. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through 1 Corinthians 14, Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 13. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through Mark 16, Mark 16:1. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through 1 Corinthians 14, Luke 10:19, 1 Corinthians 12. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Acts 10, Acts 19. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Acts 19, John 3:16. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Matthew 14, Mark 6, John 7. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Romans 11, Romans 11:29, Matthew 25. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the wisdom of God. The message argues that God’s wisdom confronts human pride and teaches believers to judge life from an eternal perspective. It connects this with the conviction that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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preparing you for the second coming of Jesus Christ you're listening to prophecy Quake on Blog Talk Radio [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good evening everyone we welcome you to this edition of Prophecy Quake I'm your host Pastor Dean Odell along with my co-host pastor Kevin Wilkinson we are live here in East Central Alabama it is June 13th 2017 already uh but we welcome you tonight we welcome those watching by Facebook live YouTube uh and all the different uh mediums we have here Blog Talk Radio uh mixler and uh anyway we welcome everyone tonight uh we're going to be talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit tongues and the power gifts tonight now this is uh something that I've been teaching in the scriptures from the scriptures uh for 30 years and not just teaching it um this is a an issue that I think a lot of people try to teach on when they've never experienced these gifts and they don't even know what they're talking about yet they try to teach what they don't know and they try to lead where they won't go but that's not the case here uh 30 years ago in fact it was back in June of 1987 I rededicated my life to the Lord finally came to full repentance and uh got my life right with Jesus and he called me to the ministry and shortly thereafter and I really believe it was still within the month of month of June or July but it was shortly thereafter after true repentance in my life after I truly made Jesus Lord of my whole life and turned from my sin and uh and truly you know said that's it Lord I'm going I'm going to follow you I'm going to do what you want me to do I'm going to leave the fornication the drugs the uh drunkenness the party life the modeling career the being rich and famous uh goal that was right there before me I'm going to leave all that and I'm going to do what you want me to do Jesus and uh the Lord called me to the ministry but but he first after you know after repentance after truly being right with him knowing that I was born again washed in the blood of the Lamb he led me to Acts chapter 2 and then to the baptism of the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking other tongues as the Bible teaches now we're going to get into all of those scriptures tonight and I want to say this at the outset of this show tonight please um pay pay close attention pull your Bibles out follow along uh we're going to dispel all of
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the false teaching all of the misunderstandings uh the error and and really a lot of intellectual um a lack of I should say intellectual integrity and and proper hermeneutics even in many Bible schools and seminaries and pastors and and even entire entire denominations who are not honest about what the Bible teaches about is and how to receive the baptism of the holy spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues and how to move on and operate in the other eight gifts of the holy spirit so we're going to try to cover this tonight but I want to also let you know that you can um through Facebook or through Blog Talk Radio we would love to have your questions or comments and we will try to get them in as much as possible tonight hopefully we will answer all the questions um part of tonight too you can go to Dean o.org uh Kevin's going to put up uh a link to a free um ebook you could say or PDF book that we have I wrote back in 2007 entitled tongues of fire and this it's a short little booklet it goes through the scriptures on uh the baptism of the Holy Spirit about how you know what the Bible says about that it is for today it is for all believers uh the gift of tongues how why why tongues why do you need to speak in tongues why should you and so it's all there in written form again I've I've had it there that's 2007 it's 2017 so this that little book's uh 10 years old but many people have read it and been helped by it but we're going to go through the scriptures tonight I want to say this and make this as crystal clear as I possibly can because so many people hear things that are not said not ever not once in 30 years in 30 years of preaching and teaching have I ever said or implied that you must speak in tongues to be saved I do not believe that this is a completely separate issue uh I know there's a Pentecostal denomination out there that teaches that you're not saved unless you speak in other tongues Supernatural tongues I do not believe that do not believe it is a requirement for salvation um it is something not that you have to do it's something you get to do you should desire to do H because it's biblical and because it can help you greatly this gift uh in your private devotional Life As We will see and to also with coupled with the gift of interpretation as Paul taught is it is equivalent to the gift of Prophecy that we should all uh seek after so we're going to start tonight on the baptism of the Holy Spirit tongues and the power gifts we are going to start in the book of Acts chapter 2 we're going to read there and try to dispel one of the the first arguments that you hear all the time and this is one that I've been hearing a lot lately but it is a false teaching and that is
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is that the gift of tongues is only it is only known languages in the world it is only the tongues of men it's only known languages in the world that you did not uh learn by study and practice but that just God gave you like say the supernatural ability to speak French or to speak Spanish or to speak Chinese um and in though that's part of it part of the gift of tongues is that that's not where it stops and that's where a lot of the false teachers out there the cessationist and all the different ones they will try to say well the gift of tongues is own own languages well I'm going to show you that just because Acts chapter 2 talks about God's supernaturally giving known languages that's not the only place the gift of tongues is talked about in fact 1 Corinthians chap 12 talks about diverse kinds of tongues or different kinds of unknown or Supernatural tongues and so we'll talk about that there are the tongues of men and the tongues of angels according to first uh Corinthians chapter 13 there are tongues that men some men can understand for instance if God gave me the ability I've never learned to speak Chinese but if if I was in a situation and the Holy Spirit came upon me and and I spoke in in other tongues and I spoke in Chinese and some Chinese people heard and understood what I was saying you know that's awesome but the Bible also talks about 1 Corinthians 14 the tongues that no man can understand and we're going to look at that in a second so let's go to Acts chapter 2 let's read this this is after the death uh of Jesus Christ on the cross his atoning death for our sins of course he went down into hell and took the keys of hell and death from the devil but he was in the grave uh three days and three nights he arose from the dead physically and after this he appeared to his disciples for 40 days and then he told them he said go wait for the promise of the father and he told them he said you will be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence he told them again he said you will be endued with power from on high in Luke chap 24 so you know he he was speaking to people already saved already born again and uh he tells them go wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the father there's more and so I want to say this to you you're going to see a consistent um theme as we go through this that salvation is not where God wants us to stop that's the beginning being born again most important thing uh in our lives is to be saved to know that Jesus has come in that we've been born again it's a supernatural experience that we receive because we believe the gospel that Jesus died for our sins that he rose from the dead we confess him as Lord with our mouth we we repent we we ask for forgiveness of our sins and we turn from them and the Bible says when we're born again the Holy Spirit comes
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in the spirit of Jesus Christ and he he quickens us he regenerates us there is a supernatural movement in us to make us uh truly saved truly born again but if that was enough if that was all that they needed then why would Jesus after being with them 40 days after his resurrection after breathing on them as when he appeared to them in the beginning you know you go to the end of the Gospel of John and it says he appeared to them uh while they were all me meeting together all the apostles and it says he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit then later he tells them you know 40 days later he tells them no you go to Jerusalem and wait for the promise there's more there's a baptism of the Holy Spirit there is a an enduement an outpouring an anointing of power that's going to come upon you and you're going to need this and so you know I think about it at that Jesus Ascension there were 500 witnesses there that saw Jesus uh Ascend into heaven but there was only 120 that obeyed and went to Jerusalem to the upper room on the day of Pentecost and that's where we're going to pick up reading here in Acts chapter 2 Acts chapter 2 verse one and it says this and when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all with one Accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared to them clothing tongues like as a fire and it set upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance and there were dwelling at Jerusalem devout men out of every nation under heaven and now when this was noised abroad the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language and they were all amazed and marveled saying one to another behold are not all these which speak galileans and how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born parthians mes elamites dwellers of Mesopotamia and in Judea and capus and Pontius and Asian FIA and pamilia and Egypt and parts of Libya and sirene and strangers of Rome and Jews and prelit creit and Arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God and they were All Amazed and were in doubt saying one to another what meaneth this and others mocking said these men are uh full of new wine so here you see very clearly that 120 were filled with the Holy Spirit Jesus called this you will be baptized with the holy spirit so the baptism of the holy spirit is a unique thing it is a second experience after salvation that all believers should seek and should receive and here in this particular one you know a lot of people want to focus on the 12 apostles but hear me um it wasn't just the 12 of
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