Eternal Purpose
About this sermon
In “Eternal Purpose,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, Bible prophecy. Drawing especially from Matthew 24, Galatians 6, Philippians 1, Colossians 3, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
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Odle focuses on gratitude. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. 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 the authority of Scripture while working through Matthew 24. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on spiritual deception while working through Matthew 24, Galatians 6, Philippians 1. The message argues that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. 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 Colossians 3, John 2. 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 urged to remain sober, alert, prayerful, and ready amid spiritual danger. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
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 believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Matthew 10. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that the believer must answer fear with trust in God, sober judgment, and faithful action. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Matthew 24, Matthew 10, Revelation 13. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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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you father we worship you god we worship you we thank you jesus for your grace and power we thank you for your presence we thank you that you shed your blood on the cross for us we thank you that you rose from the dead you're alive forevermore interceding for us praying for us god we thank you lord that your word is true that it's alive and powerful from genesis to revelation we thank you for truth we thank you for understanding we thank you holy spirit for guiding us into all truth we thank you for giving us power to live as a christian lord we thank you for giving us power to be a witness well we ask for more of that jesus name amen and amen um babe would you do me a favor i think i forgot my in the car and i gave you my keys too um man a lot going on in the world isn't it um [Music] i'm gonna need sound too i want everybody to take your bibles and turn first of all this morning to um let's go to second peter chapter three we're actually going to go quite a few places this morning and i have some things to show you just kind of going with the flow this morning [Music] look up some of my notes here i told you second peter chapter three i'm going to welcome those listening by blog talk radio this morning welcome you to fire and grace church service you know [Music] i've never seen a time where more ministers alleged ministers of the gospel ministers of jesus christ are mocking or minimizing how close we are to the second coming of jesus and all the events surrounding that i mean it just didn't used to happen there just didn't used to be this mockery this attitude and i'm talking about now it's always been in the world thank you it's always been in the world but i'm finding more and more of it within the church realm especially as we are in what i believe the bible calls the
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falling away the apostasy of the end times part of that apostasy is what i'm i'm going to speak to you a little bit about just as is my introduction here but this mockery how close we are to the great tribulation and all those events um shows a great ignorance to the bible and it shows a great ignorance um to just what's going on in the world but it's a it's a blindness that comes in willfully i want to show you that too this morning as christians we have got to lose our fixation on the physical world and i'm going to give you a bunch of scriptures that really when i first came to the lord was it was a revelation that was just to me it's elementary for a christian but we get away from it and we get so focused on the temporal world and not the things that are eternal that we begin to get blinded and we get blinded by our own plans and our selfishness or sins or temptations and we get blinded and something can literally be happening all around us and we can miss it um but this is second peter chapter three we're going to look at verse one [Music] he says this second epistle beloved i now write unto you in both which i stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance that you may be mindful of the words which are spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the lord and savior knowing this first that in that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lust their own desires and saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation for this they willingly are ignorant then he begins to talk about noah and the judgment that came on in the days of noah the flood now as i was looking at this it's interesting because he says knowing this in the last days there will come these scoffers saying where is the promise of his coming right and he says that they do this because they're they're after their own desires they're selfish worldly desires they can even be to build a big ministry you understand
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but these scoffers he says they're saying where is the promise of his coming for since the beginning of creation meaning people have talked about this forever have you heard that one all people been saying for a long time that jesus is going to come and that we're in the last days and one of the recent prophets out there that i just heard someone a friend on my facebook posted his uh comment but he talked about he you know basically what's all this talk about the end times you know and he mentioned he goes ebola blood moons war in the middle east isis but hey nothing to worry about our best days are ahead okay that was basically it yeah i agree what's he smoking right all these things these unprecedented things that are happening and it's like no no no we don't need to talk about end times that's getting focused on the fear this is kind of where he went with this it's interesting too that he said that his post had 500 000 likes and yet i didn't count 500 000 likes though it had way too many but [Music] here's the problem what the lord really had jumped out at me right there was you want to a hint that in the days of noah that things might have been getting close uh when noah started finishing the boat and the animals started getting on board you think they had some signs that it was getting close and still they mocked the bible says noah was a preacher of righteousness and in all those 120 years of building the ark and preaching about the flood and god's judgment coming the people just laughed and they mocked you you got to remember this is when people live noah lived 600 years or more whatever i can't even remember his age but this is when before the flood this is when people were living 300 years 400 years 600 years 700 years so their lifetimes was much much longer and they heard noah preach for 120 years the judgment of god is coming he's going to flood the world for its wickedness did they repent did they take him seriously so god always has his prophets foretell of the coming judgment a warning and they're always preachers of righteousness preachers of repentance preachers that deal with sin and confront sin but they always warn there is a judgment
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of god the wrath of god coming for the wicked coming for those who reject and refuse who won't repent who won't ever confront their sin and that judgment day god may bear long as he did in the days of noah it took 120 years but it said he bore along with them but when the ark began to be finished and when it was finished and when god began to help noah gather the animals into the ark that should have been assigned everyone that had been mocking everyone that had been scoffing that the day of god's judgment was coming near and and here's the thing the prophet the man of god believed it enough to build an ark to gather the animals to get his family in there no there were plain signs all around them but see what this world doesn't understand is the days coming when it'll be too late see in that days when noah shut the door and the rain began to fall nobody else was getting on board in our day it'll be when you take the mark of the beast that's it it's over and you will be forced to decide whether you take it or you don't you will get on the ark of jesus or you will get on the ark of satan but you will be forced to choose but once that decision is made for you if you decide to deny jesus to walk away from jesus or to take the mark of the beast that's coming in your right hand or your forehead and you take that mark then you have shut the door of the ark you will not get on the ark of jesus christ you will not get on the road to heaven the bible is very clear about that revelation chapter 14 if any man takes the mark he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and the smoke of his torment will go up day and night forever taking the mark of the beast is the ultimate denial of the god of the bible of jesus christ but folks i want to tell you there is great deception in the body of christ right now there is great deception in the world and a greater deception is coming and i want to say this as clear as i possibly can this morning there is no true christianity that exists that is outside of the bible the word of
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