Forsake All
About this sermon
In “Forsake All,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about prayer, family discipleship, costly discipleship. Drawing especially from John 8:31, John 8, Mark 10, Amos 3:3, the teaching emphasizes that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example.
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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 following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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 following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on faith while working through John 8:31, John 8, Mark 10. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. 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 trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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 biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Matthew 7:7, Luke 18:1. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Ephesians 6. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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 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.
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I just I just want more more of you God more of you God I just want more I just want more more you got more of you pour out all I had lay down all I am making room for you Lord I'm ready to open up my heart to receive not part but the fullness of who you are Lord I'm ready I just want more I just one more more of you can more of you I just want more I just want more more of you more of you pour out all I lay down all making to you Lord I'm ready to open up my heart to receive not with the fullness of who you are Lord I'm ready I just want more I just want more more of you God more of you God I just want more I just want more more of you more of [Music] you come and reach into my heart come and heal every part Lord I want more of you just one Ti from your RS the weakness from my bones I need more come and into my heart come and heal every Power Lord I Want More You oh just from
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your the weakness from my I need more than [Music] you just you I just want more I just want more oh more of you Lord more of you I just need more oh I need more oh more you [Music] more one just one my heart come andal [Applause] every I want more of you Just One Touch of your Ro the weakness from [Music] my I need more I just yes Lord hallelujah we want more of you Hallelujah but we know the answer to that Lord is that you want more of us and Lord I pray in the name of Jesus Jesus Lord that you will reveal Lord just the truth of what you spoke that you demand everything that we forsake all and follow you that we hate sin and wickedness and evil that we choose to be a disciple and follow you even if it means suffering even if it means rejection that you want us to be true disciples that take up our cross and follow you no matter what and that we follow you to the end whether it be the end of our lives or the end of this age Lord you want us to follow you to be true disciples so Lord Jesus I ask you to make that real and we pray this today in Jesus name amen amen you may be seated this morning welcome everyone fire and Grace Church those of you watching and listening out there so much so much to cover this morning morning um I hope you have your Bibles everybody got their Bibles or at least
- 0:06:05
got it on the phone I hope you know the phones one day is not going to work for you so you're going to have to have one of these a all [Laughter] right I don't know what it is I can read the Bible on the phone and I can read it like here and I just it's doesn't even compare to me about I I need the book but I want you to turn to Luke chapter 14 and and um this is going to be one of those days I'm convinced that probably about 95% of the problems in a Christian's life or in anybody's life for that matter uh in a marriage uh we say Christian marriage most any problem you want to break it down it comes down to this how surrendered are we to Jesus you see I believe this is why the church is full of people that say they believe in Jesus but they're not born again and their lives are not transformed and they don't hate sin and and love righteousness they don't hate sin and love Jesus with all their heart because let me tell you something something if you love Jesus you will look at sin like it's a rattlesnake right and only crazy people fool with rattlesnakes right and you hear what I'm saying you're supposed to love Jesus and hate sin and want to flee from it if that's not your desire one of two things is going on either you're not truly Born Again Jesus is not truly Lord of your life and you haven't had a supernatural Born Again experience or you're completely backsliding because you've been deceived by some false Doctrine out there and see this is what you don't hear in churches and what I'm about to read this is Jesus speaking here and this is you know in my Bible it's in red we're going to go down to verse 25 and it's important to notice that Jesus was speaking to the multitudes here and when he was speaking he wasn't again so this wasn't to his disciples in private this wasn't even a parable this was him letting them know the multitudes that there is no such thing as halfway with him there is no such thing as well I got I I got my church fixed or I got a little bit of Jesus and and I'm good and then you go live like the devil the rest of the week do whatever you want to do indulge sin love
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sin love the things of the world um if that's true you just haven't died to yourself you haven't truly repented and you haven't truly made Jesus Lord and you're not truly a disciple of Jesus so he says this to the multitudes let's read here verse 25 and there went great multitudes with him and he turned and said unto them if any man come to and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and Brethren and sisters and yay his own life also he cannot be my disciple now I've given you the definition of hate if you look it up in the the Strong's uh Greek dictionary you'll find out it'll say on there to love less right we we sometimes we put these connotations of things in English and it's not exactly the same name in the original Greek or Hebrew but you know we go oh I don't hate anybody well but if you go by the biblical definition it means to love less than you should so what Jesus is saying here is not that you have hatred in your heart toward your father your mother your sister your wife your brethren your children he's saying You must love them less than you love me God has to be first your children can't even be first I I know Christians that worship their children they will get offended they will get all bent out of shape about their children instead of what God wants a lot of people make decisions based on their children and not what God wants but that goes too there people have made Idols out of their spouse or a girlfriend or a boyfriend and the Lord is saying you cannot love anything more than more than me and if you do it's idolatry you understand and he's saying if that so if you love if there's something you love more than me then you cannot be my disciple means it's impossible you can't truly follow Jesus and put other things in front of him you can't do it not a job not money not your own Comfort even you understand what most Christians in America just want they just want comfort and sometimes when the Lord is wanting you to do certain things to follow him it's uncomfortable let's keep reading this is verse 26 that's just the first one he said If any man come to me and hate not his father
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