Dead
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In “Dead,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about biblical love, the cross and Christ’s blood, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Ephesians 1, Romans 6, Ephesians 4, Ephesians 5, the teaching emphasizes that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin.
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Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that the inner life must be healed, guarded, and brought under the truth of God’s word. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Ephesians 1. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on biblical love. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. 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 biblical love while working through Romans 6. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on the cross and Christ’s blood. The message argues that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. 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 grace and mercy while working through Ephesians 4, Ephesians 5. The message argues that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. It connects this with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on the soulish life while working through Galatians 5, Colossians 3. The message argues that natural emotion and self-directed reasoning must yield to the Holy Spirit and the mind of Christ. It connects this with the conviction that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on biblical love while working through Matthew 16. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. 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 costly discipleship while working through Luke 13, Luke 14. The message argues that following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. 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 respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on family discipleship. The message argues that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to examine the heart, receive correction, and finish faithfully.
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praise god it's good to worship the lord amen it's something when it and when it ends up being uh more than songs you're singing in it amen praise god i want everybody to take your bibles this morning because i really do have something burning on my heart this morning i want you to take your bibles and turn with me first to the book of ephesians chapter two we're going to start there ephesians chapter 2 because there's just something burning on my heart and it's it was so vivid and clear it's like the lord gave me a vision of this first slide that i've created this morning for the powerpoint and i just saw it but this this issue's been burning on me for some time but the title of the message this morning is real simple dead dead doesn't sound good some of it's not but some of it is amen dead glory to god there's good side there's a bad side we're going to examine this this morning in detail but i want you to hear what leonard ravenhill says everybody know who leonard ravenhill is anybody know who he is if you don't if you don't know who leonard ravenhill is you should probably go up to sermonindex.com and and download some of his uh messages because uh he passed away in about 1994 but he was probably one of the most fiery godly holy men of prayer he was a prophet to our nation and to england he wrote many books his one of his best-selling books was why revival teres he wrote another book entitled sodom had no bible just books like that on the judgment seat of christ and other things he was a mentor to david wilkerson uh to evangelist steve hill and dr michael brown and others um he was friends with a.w tozer and preached together he was just a preacher of preachers he was really a prophet to preachers is what he was just a a man of holiness a man not afraid to preach the truth you can see him on youtube you know and um anyway this is what he said and i'm i want you to i want you to look at this comment this morning this was uh he said this in a message he preached in 1989 entitled where's the fire but he made this statement and this is a radical statement for most of christianity but i'll show you this morning in the word of god that it's true he said there are only two kinds of people in this world those dead to sin and those dead in sin well you need to let that one settle in
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right there the christian the born-again christian the christian who loves god with all of his heart soul mind and strength or her for that matter the christian is supposed to be dead to sin we are supposed to crucify the deeds of the body that we may live so this is the good side of being dead being dead to sin is good somebody ought to say amen right there and if god let me just say this if god said be dead to sin then we could be dead to sin and let me just say this the problem that the reasons that most christians are not dead to sin is because they don't want to be they in a lot of them because of their preachers don't think they have to be but if you read the word of god especially romans and galatians and ephesians and colossians if you read those books that paul wrote to christians he said mortify the deeds of the body die to the flesh die to the world the world should be crucified unto you and you unto the world we've got to break the chains off of us of loving the world once and for all amen no more games and i'm going to talk about loving self too about dying to self two kinds of people in this world those dead to sin or those dead in sin let's let this sink in this morning let's talk about those dead in sin first for a minute here's what the bible says i had you turn to the book of ephesians ephesians chapter 2. i want you to see this just so you know what the bible calls us before we were born again before you came to know jesus and you had a born-again experience and you really turned to the lord for the first time believed in his in his death on the cross for your sins believed in his resurrection from the dead believed he was god manifested in the flesh hated your sin understood your sin was going to damn you to an eternity in hell you understood the truth and you turn from it and there was a supernatural experience in your heart you were born again when that happened the bible says something about that it says that you before that happened that you were dead in trespasses and sins now wait a minute i was walking around alive so god's talking about something else he's talking about being spiritually dead now even though the human body the or the human being has a spirit a soul and a body and even though a witch or somebody into satanism or the new age movement their spirit man is still works and will travel outside their body and they can do different things just because it's active does not mean it's spiritually alive to be spiritually alive means to be connected to the creator god through the blood of jesus christ to have the life of god in you and to know that you have passed from death unto life that's what being saved is being saved
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is not saying i believe in jesus and nothing changes in your life or inside of you that's just a lie from the pit of hell but it's preached in every church pray this prayer sign this card believe in jesus you know the bible says that the devils believe and tremble but it doesn't save them right all right the bible says we were dead in trespasses and sins when we walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air let's read this in ephesians verse chapter 2 verse 1 and he says and you speaking to christians now here he matter of fact if you go back to ephesians 1 verse 1 he says to the saints at ephesus and to the faithful in christ jesus so people that aren't living faithful to jesus can't claim anything in the book of ephesians for them all right let's understand who he's writing to sometime a bunch of sinners out here a bunch of backslidden lukewarm christians go around claiming they're they're sealed and all this stuff that's in the book of ephesians no you're not the book was written to the saints and the faithful in christ jesus but he says he said you saints and faithful brethren in christ is you has he quickened or made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins say this with me i was dead in trespasses and sins when i walked according to the course of this world so when i walk like the world walks i was dead before jesus came into my life and i repented and turned away from that stuff before he made me alive i was dead in trespasses and sins dead dead doomed ephesians goes on to say alienated from the life of god boy that doesn't sound good does it alienated from the life of god boy i don't want to ever be there alienated from the life of god but he says when we walked according to the course of the path of this world according to the prince and the power of the air now i want to turn to something real quick just so we understand what he's talking about when you see the word world used okay world what he's talking about world or worldliness let's go to first john go to 1st john chapter 2. and i got to do this before we go any further i mean this is burning on me i can tell you right now it's just like a fire on the inside of me of my heart right now because you're going to be dead to sin or you're going to be dead in sin we're going to talk about what it means in a minute to be twice dead and plucked up by the roots and that's a scripture we'll read that in a minute first john chapter two after he says quite a few matter of fact
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let's just read a few scriptures leading up to this first john chapter two verse one he says my little children these things write unto you that you sin not and if any man's sin we have an ad advocate with the father jesus christ the righteous and he is the propitiation or the sacrifice for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world and here is how we know that we know him if we keep his commandments he that saith i know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him but whoso keeps his word in him verily is the love of god perfected and this is how we know we are in him so this is the context by which he's talking about what obeying god keeping his commandments this is how you know we are in him all right everybody see that in your bibles now go down a little bit further in chapter 2 and go to verse 15. now this is something that the modern american church just does not want to deal with okay now again john here speaking to christians and i'll prove it in just a second he's speaking to christians but he says to christians love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh and the lust of the excuse me lust of the eyes and the pride of life it is not of the father but is of the world and the world will pass away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of god abideth forever or will live forever well you ought to underline all that in your bible love not the world now now when he's saying this what is he talking about he's not talking about don't love the sinner don't love the lost person don't love your neighbor he's not talking about that god wants us to love the sinner he wants us to love the lost or the backslidden one he wants us to love our brothers and our neighbors and try to to help them and minister to them and and you know it's not talking about that he's talking about loving the world system and then he goes on to define it do not love what the lust he says don't love the world then he tells you what what what am i talking about the lust of the flesh you know what that word means they're lust it means a longing or desire for that which is forbidden the lust of the flesh we'll look at that in a second what the details are on that but he says don't love the things that are in the world here's what's in the world this world system the lust of the flesh and guess what you don't have to commit adultery to be an adultery because it says the next thing the lust of the eyes boy do we ever have a problem with that right now some of you may have have seen my internet post earlier in the week but i was riding home from work the other day and had the radio on
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