WEEKLY SERMON

Death in the Pot

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In “Death in the Pot,” Pastor Dean Odle warns that corruption can enter Christian teaching while still appearing religious and respectable. Beginning with the apostolic warnings in 2 John and moving through the image of poisoned food in 2 Kings 4, he argues that believers must test doctrine rather than accept it because it comes from seminaries, popular pastors, church traditions, or modern Bible scholarship. The sermon especially criticizes Roman Catholic influence, ecumenism, and teachings that Odle believes obscure the deity of Christ and the authority of Scripture.

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01
Through 10:29

Odle opens in worship and introduces the sermon as preparation for a deeper study of early Christian witnesses. He argues that the apostolic writings were deliberately preserved and that believers need their testimony to recognize later doctrinal corruption.

02
Through 20:58

Working from 2 John, Odle warns that teachers who deny the biblical identity of Jesus must not be welcomed as Christian ministers. He connects that warning to his defense of the King James Bible and alleges that modern scholarship has carried Roman Catholic influence into Protestant churches.

03
Through 31:28

Odle uses Paul’s picture of an ox treading grain to describe elders who labor to make Scripture understandable. He then turns to the poisoned stew in 2 Kings 4, treating the added wild gourds and cleansing meal as an image of false teaching entering the church and being exposed by the word of God.

04
Through 41:57

The sermon applies the poisoned-pot image to Roman Catholic doctrine and recounts Keith Green’s public criticism of Catholicism. Odle also makes disputed claims about Green’s death and subsequent handling of his writings; these remain the speaker’s allegations rather than verified conclusions.

05
Through 52:26

Odle criticizes prominent evangelical cooperation with Catholic leaders and argues that apparent ministry success does not excuse doctrinal compromise. He interprets later tragedies involving named ministers as warnings of judgment, a connection presented as his pastoral interpretation rather than established causation.

06
Through 1:02:55

Moving to Revelation’s woman riding the beast, Odle says the Vatican and a future global political system will cooperate during the Antichrist’s rise. He urges pastors to identify what he sees as Mystery Babylon instead of pursuing ecumenical unity with it.

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Through 1:13:24

Odle broadens the appeal from institutional error to personal holiness, insisting that sound doctrine must produce repentance from sexual immorality and other habitual sin. He rejects a Christianity that affirms correct ideas while allowing an unchanged life.

08
Through 1:23:54

The sermon recalls reformers and former Catholics who opposed teachings they came to believe were false, sometimes at great personal cost. Odle holds them up as examples of believers who valued the true Jesus and the gospel more than safety, reputation, or inherited tradition.

09
Through 1:34:23

Odle warns that comfortable American Christians may face the same pressure and persecution experienced elsewhere. He frames the message as a watchman’s responsibility: once truth has been proclaimed, listeners are accountable for whether they receive or dismiss it.

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Through 1:44:52

The closing section calls for surrender, repentance, and renewed loyalty to Jesus Christ as Creator, Savior, and the Holy One of Israel. Prayer and worship return the focus from institutional critique to the hearer’s own response before God.

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    Jesus in this place. Hallelujah. We lift up holy hands without wrath and

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    doubt and we worship you almighty God, the King of Kings in the Lord of Lords, the name above every name, the true Creator of heaven and earth, of mankind. We worship you Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth who died on that cross and rose from the dead. Oh Lord you are God in the flesh fully. The fullness of the Godhead bodily as Paul wrote in Colossians and Colossians. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. We praise you today. Oh we thank you Lord that we have your Word and we have your Holy Spirit of truth to dwell in us and to lead us and guide us into all truth. And God your people, your people will listen to you. They will hear your voice and they will follow you. That's what you said. Lord we pray that happens today in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. You may be seated this morning already getting tongue-tied. I made up a new book. Colossians. Oh Lord you can tell I've been staying up too late. Oh have I ever been studying y'all. I've been digging in. In fact today's gonna be a little bit of a introduction to what we're gonna be getting into at Skyfall. Really to tell you the truth what I've been studying could be in a series that I may have to just do because there's no way to cover everything but and a lot of it is stuff that I have known for many many years but just I don't know refining it and taking it deeper and especially I am learning more about our early church fathers you know what I'm talking about not the Roman Catholic ones I'm talking about the guys that were discipled by John like Polycarp and then his disciple Irenaeus and people like Ignatius of Antioch and Clement of Rome before the church at Rome became the Roman Catholic Church. These guys that were taught and trained and discipled by Paul and by Peter and by John it's amazing when you read start reading their writings and how God preserved his word over the centuries the New Testament as it was given to the Apostles and that's what we're going to be covering that in great detail in at Skyfall. I want you to turn with me this won't go take a little journey through the word today I've entitled this one death in the pot death in the pot all right there's death in the pot all right we're gonna find out primarily who it's from did you get the picture I sent you okay but

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    let's go to the book of 2nd John did I say 2nd John hope I did now you know you guys know our church knows anybody's been listening for any amount of time knows that I cover this passage quite a bit and I may repeat it at Skyfall but this is vitally important and we know the Apostle John lived longer than all the other Apostles he lived well into the second century AD and discipled a lot of people after he was released from his exile at on the Isle of Patmos he went back to the church in Ephesus and there he pastored and as the Apostle he trained many others and they sent missionaries throughout the world and that's where he wrote it is believed that's where he wrote 1st 2nd and 3rd John there during that time period in fact we are not sure how long he lived the Lord may have let him live all the way to 120 but he was the only one that did not die a martyr's death he died of old age and that was because God wanted to everything from him to be passed on to the next generation and it's just a beautiful thing when you see how it was passed on and how we have just devils in the church world today in seminaries and Bible colleges that will say stuff like the book of Revelation was not in some of the manuscripts and all this nonsense that they say or first second third John or first and second Peter were not or books in question this is it's all let me just tell you you have been fed so many lies and let me just go in and tell you right now it's for the English-speaking people if you don't have a King James Bible you don't have the Bible you don't have the original words of the New Testament translated and given to you perfectly you have a corrupted Bible version and I don't care what scholar or Bible college professor or seminary graduate tells you differently I'm gonna prove this to you not not today really but we're gonna get into that in Skyfall and and beyond but we have the Word of God here we have the inspired God promised and in Psalm on Psalm 12 he said that he would preserve his word for all generations right I mean you got people in Bible colleges teaching that Moses probably didn't write the first five books let me let me tell you let me tell you who who that is right there that's the Jesuits you want to hear the Jesuits voice the Jesuits voice are

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    coming out of these Bible colleges and seminaries their voices are coming out of these translations of the Bible that have been corrupted by them I want to tell you right now I'm gonna prove it to you by them the Roman Catholic whore of Babylon has been at work for centuries trying to corrupt the Word of God and get people to follow them instead of following the word that's what the battle has been y'all and it's been a bloody battle you go back and you look up people like the Albigenses the Waldenses the Lollards these people that the Roman Catholic Church brutally tortured and massacred simply for preaching what we preach today what I preach I should say not what all of what we preach but this right here is vitally important let's look at 2nd John let's go down to verse 9 he says here whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son if there come any unto you did it say anybody I don't care what the degrees beside their name or what seminary they went to it doesn't matter if any come to you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him Godspeed for he that bideth him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds so not only are you to abide and remain in the pure sound doctrine of Jesus Christ as he gave it to his apostles and prophets but you are to not even be a partaker not even to say God bless you if someone comes teaching something contrary to this book now let me give you an example here you know Jesus said if anyone say lo here is Christ or there believe it not right yet a Catholic priest will get up and do his Latin hocus-pocus over a wafer and say that this wafer becomes the actual blood and body of Jesus Christ and put it in a little tabernacle and people will bow down and worship it he's literally saying here is Christ in my little cookie that's called transubstantiation over that false doctrine right there that false doctrine and because there were Christians like the Albigenses and the Waldenses and the Lollards and the Puritans and the and the reformers stood against that and said that's not what the Bible teaches what you're teaching is

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