End-Times Mindsets
About this sermon
In “End-Times Mindsets,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, Bible prophecy, biblical love. Drawing especially from 1 Thessalonians 5, Luke 12, Revelation 21, Matthew 24, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone.
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Odle focuses on the Lord’s Supper. The message argues that communion is presented as remembrance of Christ’s sacrifice, self-examination, and covenant fellowship. 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 Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Luke 12, Revelation 21, Matthew 24. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction 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.
Odle focuses on biblical love while working through Matthew 24, 2 Timothy 3. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on biblical love while working through Hebrews 4. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Matthew 24. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction 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.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Luke 17. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction 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.
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what you want lord you want us to love you with all of our heart soul mind and strength lord you want us to demonstrate that love you said if if we loved you we would obey you lord lord it's not just words that come out of our mouth but do we prove it with our lives and lord we're grateful lord that you are a god that when we do sin when we do fall short you've said that if we would confess our sins you would be faithful and just forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness lord you are merciful and good and patient and kind and forgiving and we thank you lord that you are the one true god we worship you this morning and lord we thank you we choose this morning also lord to to come before you and take communion and lord that is another time of of intimate fellowship with you and we we thank you for that it's in jesus name we pray amen and amen um yeah you go ahead karen i was going to get kevin but kevin's got his lap full so but we can [Music] pass out the communion elements and while she's doing that i will turn to the scripture first corinthians chapter 11 you don't have to turn there as you'll be holding what you got there communion is an important thing um really i could probably say that we don't do it enough and maybe uh you guys can help me remember that we need to do this more often but i want to say this about about communion of course we as protestants view it very differently from catholics we view this as a symbol the bread is a symbol of jesus body it's a symbol the the juice or the wine is a symbol of
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his blood and jesus said that we should do this in remembrance of him we don't believe it literally becomes the body of jesus and or the blood of jesus or that it can be worshipped or anything like that and that's an important difference that that is one of the reasons for the entire protestant reformation was that that is a form of idolatry and that's not what jesus meant this to be but having said that i want to say this i do believe that when we obey the scriptures that there's power in that and there's also something about and i'll read it here in a second about that if you take this bread or this cup unworthily that you eat and drink damnation to yourself and literally paul told the corinthian church that because some of them were in sin and were dealing with things in their lives that when they took communion in an irreverent manner like that that they were they were some of them were sick and some of them had died prematurely that's how serious this is and that is another reason i'll say this why i don't do it very often because i'm not into getting folks killed okay i think sometimes some churches do it too often and it becomes too much of a ritual you know it's something you need to think about and we're going to bow our heads for a moment before i read this passage and we take communion but i just want you to take a moment and as the bible says in ii corinthians it says examine yourself and if there's anything that you need to confess to god and you need to ask him to forgive you of i would do it before you take communion it's that serious so let's bow our heads and you don't have to say it out loud but just examine your heart ah god we are grateful that we serve a god that forgives sins and then lord you just want your people to be humble enough to acknowledge them and to repent and we thank you lord for the forgiveness
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and the cleansing of the blood of jesus and what it means that god this this communion is is just represents so many things that that you took on a human body when you didn't have to god became flesh and dwelt among us lived a sinless life that symbol and this unleavened bread the bread without any leaven representing your sinless life your perfect spotless lamb that you are that you became for us you allowed yourself to be nailed on a cross and took upon yourself the sins of every man woman boy and girl forever and all time you made the way you went down into hell and got the keys of hell and death you rose from the dead and lord this communion means so much only it only through the blood of jesus is there forgiveness of sins not through muhammad or buddha or mary or anything else only the blood of jesus christ god in the flesh and so lord we acknowledge that today the spirit of antichrist will not acknowledge that jesus christ god came in the flesh so lord we just worship you right now and we thank you that we are cleansed and forgiven and that if we have fallen away or fallen down that we can get back up and that today right this moment we can make a new start of walking with you it's in jesus name and i'm going to read this first corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 he says paul's speaking to the corinthian church and to us he says for i have received of the lord that which also i delivered unto you that the lord jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me after the same manner also he took the cup and we need sup saying the this cup is the new testament in my blood this do ye as oft as you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do show the lord's death till he come and whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the lord but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup for
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he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the lord's body for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep or are dead for if you would judge if we would judge ourselves we should not be judged and then he goes on to say wait for one another so right now i want you to take the bread and we've already broken it and lord we ask you to bless it and we do what you say to do we take any in remembrance of you we thank you lord the only way man could be redeemed was for you to take on a body a human body we're grateful for the body of the lord jesus christ lord in like manner you said this is the cup the new testament in your blood so lord we take this in remembrance of you you may drink praise you lord praise you lord hallelujah well amen um somebody want to you can grab these and there you go amen praise god i don't know about y'all but it was like before the service started this morning i was feeling a bit oppressed and i was feeling attacked and a little bit but ever since we sat down i just felt the presence of god here something's up amen something good will everybody get their bibles because we're gonna get started well i was praying about this last night and all you know i pray about during the week all week long lord what do you want for sunday morning and i'm not just asking about uh what do you want for um [Music] you know not just the message or what
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