Demons & Deliverance Part 6: Hidden Hatred & Unforgiveness in Christians
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In “Demons & Deliverance Part 6: Hidden Hatred & Unforgiveness in Christians,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about grace and mercy, bitterness and forgiveness, biblical love. Drawing especially from Matthew 25, 1 John 3:11, 1 Corinthians 5, Matthew 24:10, the teaching emphasizes that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that unresolved offense can become bitterness, while forgiveness releases judgment to God and protects the heart.
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Odle focuses on the biblical text. The message argues that the teaching centers on show, live, seconds and its implications for Christian faithfulness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
Odle focuses on the biblical text. The message argues that the teaching centers on preparing and its implications for Christian faithfulness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
Odle focuses on divine judgment while working through Matthew 25. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. 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 test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on grace and mercy while working through 1 John 3:11. 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 unresolved offense can become bitterness, while forgiveness releases judgment to God and protects the heart. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through 1 Corinthians 5. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on grace and mercy while working through Matthew 24:10, Romans 14. 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 biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on grace and mercy while working through 1 Corinthians 5, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Matthew 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 unresolved offense can become bitterness, while forgiveness releases judgment to God and protects the heart. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
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Your show will go live in 5 seconds. 4 3 2 1 [Music] Preparing [Music] you for the second coming of Jesus Christ. You're listening to Prophecy Quake on Blog Talk Radio. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Okay, we want to welcome everyone tonight. You're listening to Prophecy Quake. I'm your host, Pastor Dean Odel, along with my co-host, Pastor Kevin Wilkinson. Uh we are live here in East Central Alabama. It is June 6, 2017. Uh we are also live right now on Facebook and on YouTube if you want to check those out if you uh and also on at Mixler uh mixlr rather.com. But we want to welcome everyone tonight. Uh it's good to be back. I know we've been out a couple of weeks. Kevin was traveling. I was traveling uh Memorial Day. Hope everyone had a good vacation uh time. But uh we're going to get back in the word tonight. Uh my heart's been a little heavy today. So, I'm going to just uh try to share with as much uh enthusiasm as I can, but this this just has been weighing on me today. So, um we're going to talk about hidden hatred and unforgiveness in Christians. Um now, this is also a word to those who were not saved. They also need to understand that God desires them to repent uh not only of their other sins and believe in Jesus and follow Jesus as their Lord and Savior, but they need to deal with this issue of unforgiveness, hatred, bitterness. Um you know, those things will get in the way of receiving God's forgiveness. So, it's an important issue. Um but we're going to talk about how many Christians uh tonight because because here's the deal. So, so many Christians, folks, and I I I am finding out more and more day by day. Um, so many more Christians uh out there have hidden hatred in their hearts. Now, they would never admit it. We're going to
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explain that and going to define that word tonight because Christians know that hatred, you use the word hate. Oh, wait a minute. I don't hate anybody. Um, hatred is such a strong word. But I'm going to show you that the uh the Hebrew and Greek definitions, particularly the Greek definition in the New Testament of hatred, once you really break it down, you discover that uh there's a whole lot of people that really have hatred and unforgiveness in their heart. And and I'm talking about Christian people. And this is a serious serious issue that we need to confront. And a few weeks ago, I did in the series that I'm doing um I'm in part I just finished part four of a series on deliverance on demons and deliverance and I did touch in on it uh forgiveness and unforgiveness in part three as one of the doorways to demon spirits the tormentors. Um and I did, you know, touch on it a good bit, but I just felt again that I really needed to address this last night. I was reading First John and I got to 1 John chapter 2 and the the verses there about hating your brother and just leaped off the page and I started looking again at the at the definition of those words and um and then there's some situations going on. I mean in even within our church with uh extended family members and um there's just situations. There's constant situations. a phone call yesterday with a lady and and you can you know just so many people there's so many people out there who have been hurt and wounded and they've been done wrong by uh pastors and churches and friends and family and you know spouses and and I mean there's just so many so many people doing wrong out there and doing others wrong and there's so many uh people being hurt and Christians being hurt but uh Christians Christians aren't truly dealing with uh when they're hurt, dealing with the unforgiveness that comes in, the offense, the hurt, and then it turns into hatred and bitterness. And it's it's a serious issue. And we have to we really really have to deal with these things and and deal with them correctly. And and and here's the thing. Most people and again, most Christians when I start bringing it up, I I had this happen just a few weeks ago. You know, somebody I can I can listen to somebody talk for a few minutes and I can tell when they have a a hurt or an old wound or they're still or they're angry or they're bitter and they have unforgiveness towards someone and and you know, I just confronted them about it and boom, I confronted them about it and what did they do? the first thing. Oh, no, no, no. I don't have unforgiveness. I don't have I'm just frustrated. I'm just angry. I'm just hurt. Um, but you can tell as the anxiety level rises in their voice, as
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the anger rises, as as you know, you're around them two, three, four times and it's always coming up, the same issue, the same people. Um, uh, I know we we seem to be having a few problems, but anyway, I'm going to take these off because I'm getting echo right now. But, uh, anyway, hopefully everyone can hear me uh through Facebook and um, YouTube. I don't know. We may be having a blog talk problem there, but that's all right. Uh Kevin's working on getting that figured out, but uh I can't if I start hearing two and three of myself talking there, I get I it kind of throws me off. But anyway, um and and then the second part of this, and I put in the description of the show tonight, that it's real simple that uh even the people, even the Christians who will admit, yes, I know that I have an issue. I have some hatred. I have some bitterness. I have some unforgiveness in my heart toward a a person or certain people or a family member or a pastor or whatever a church. Um they don't know how to deal with it. They'll say, "I've tried to deal with it, but I don't know how to deal with it." And um anyway, that is what we're going to try to address tonight from the scriptures. Now, I want to read something. This is going to be u Matthew 24. So, if you're uh want to follow along in your Bibles tonight, I want you to turn first to Matthew 24. Uh we're going to start reading here at verse 10, and we're just going to read a few verses down to about verse 13 about how uh what Jesus said. This is, you know, we we really haven't I haven't since the Gog and Magog message really haven't been on end time Bible prophecy. God's had me dealing with other issues, but uh this is an end time Bible prophecy issue. This is something Jesus said would be going on I believe in the people of God among Christians it would be like epidemic proportions and uh here it is. This is Matthew 24 10-13. Jesus speaking here and he says, "Then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many and because iniquity or injustice people doing other people wrong, doing wrong things." You know, he says, "Because of iniquity, injustice and sin, because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." And I found this interesting, and you know, this is a passage I've taught many, many, many, many times over the 30 years of preaching. And it's a passage that I go back and I look at, you know, and reread often. We have reached. But it really stood out to me today that the context of verse 13 when he says, "But he that shall endure to the end shall be saved." Endure what?
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And in in the context here and in these few verses of being offended, being um not letting your love for even those who hurt you and do you wrong, even your enemies, not letting your love grow cold. And the the interesting word here that lets you know this is talking about bornagain bibleelving Christians is the word love here. When he says the love of many shall wax cold, it is the word agape. So it is the the love of God shed abroad in our hearts from the Holy Spirit. Uh uh in fact only a born again Christian who has been made new through the blood of Jesus by faith ha had you know had their spirit made alive again resurrected through true repentance and true faith in in Jesus death on the cross and his resurrection. That person um is the only one who can have the true love of God shed abroad in their hearts as it says in Romans chapter uh five. And so when you see he says there that the love of God, the love that that God wants us to have that he wants to put in our hearts and that he wants us to show to other people even our enemies um is going to wax cold. And that's why it's in the midst of this verse 10 and then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another. And then he says, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." So, I want to look to at this word hatred. Now, before we before we go any any further, um this is a verse here. We're going to look at Leviticus. I don't know if Kevin if you're able to put those up or not, but uh Leviticus and we're going to jump on over here to Leviticus 19, just verses 17 and 18. And I found this interesting because I was just looking up the words forgive and hate in in the Bible. And I came across this verse. I haven't read in a long time in Leviticus, but he he says this even in the Old Testament, the Old Covenant. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart. Boy, I tell you what, it's pretty. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart. You say, "Well, Pastor Dean, I don't have any hatred in my heart." I'm going to tell you. I'm going to show you. Some of you, you're going to find out tonight. If you're if you're willing to stick in here and let God work on your heart, you're going to find out you do. But he says, "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart. Thou shalt and any wise rebuke thy neighbor and not suffer sin upon him. Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. I am the Lord." Now, we all know that was what Jesus repeated. He said, you know, the two commandments, the two greatest commandments, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul,
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