Foundations Destroyed
About this sermon
In “Foundations Destroyed,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, the authority of Scripture, faith. Drawing especially from Psalm 11, Proverbs 22, Acts 20, Revelation 21, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience.
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Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through Psalm 11, Proverbs 22. 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 Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on a biblical foundation while working through Psalm 11, Acts 20. The message argues that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on a biblical foundation. The message argues that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. 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 a biblical foundation while working through Revelation 21. The message argues that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. 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 the condition of the church while working through Hebrews 5. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 Revelation 18. 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 judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily 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 trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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but lord you have given us your presence through the blood of jesus lord you've made a way into the holy of holies through the blood of jesus not our own righteousness and we are grateful that we can enter in god by faith we can enter into that lord by repentance by seeking after you by worshiping you by drawing near to you by believing lord we thank you that we can enter your presence and experience your power your joy your peace your love your everything that you have for us lord we thank you for that we praise you for it this morning in jesus name amen amen well good to see all of you this morning we welcome those listening by blog talk radio welcome you to fire and grace church well there's quite a few things on my mind this morning kind of few quite a few things rolling around in there in my head about what's going on but i want everybody let's just turn first to uh i believe it's psalm 11. let's see here let's kind of go with the flow this morning yes it is psalm 11. [Music] i've touched on this verse before probably two three years ago but i'm going to touch on it again today because there's such there's so much foolishness going on in the body of christ it's it's beyond it's beyond word sometimes it's so foolish you know i remember the scripture in proverbs 22 i can't remember what verse but i know it's in proverbs 22 but it says foolishness is bound in the heart of a child but the rod of a correction will drive it far from him well of course that applies to raising children in the natural but it also applies to raising spiritual children in the in the body of christ you know the bible says very clearly when we first come to jesus and we're first born again it says that we are babes we are born spiritual babes babies needing milk and not strong meat just yet and then it talks about us growing into children of course in the book of first john it talks about us growing into children and then into young men and young women or teenagers and young adults and then it talks about being fathers and mothers in the spirit so we find that god wants us to not only as much as we want to see our children grow up and become mature responsible adults god wants to see his church his his
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children grow up to be mature strong responsible discerning wise uh mature believers walking with him now for the most part in the church right now particularly in the west especially in america and europe and we we really don't have a lot of mature christians we have a lot of foolishness it bound up in a lot of children this was hilarious last night nancy was we were going to bed and she was looking on facebook and now they have interbreeded this little creature there's a sheep and a goat together and they call it a geek and when she showed me that i said boy we got a lot of geeps we've got a little a lot of half goats half sheep in the church world who refuse to grow up and grow into what god wants us to be which is a new creature in christ all the way a sheep some of us you know some of us are still goats completely i said well that's your lukewarm christian the geeps are your lukewarm christians they're neither hot nor cold i must admit the little geek was freaky looking but he was cute he was so freaky looking he was cute all right and that's the problem in the church world being a geek now is cute it's what's hip it's what's relevant it's what's it's it's what's happening to be indifferent to doubt the bible to uh you know quote people in books that are unbiblical and to you know try to be hip in in stupidity but [Music] really we got a church full of children that are have foolishness bound up in them and they like even normal children they don't want the rod of correction anybody that brings any correction to them is looked at as a self-righteous jerk i think that's what i was called yesterday a self-righteous jerk and i just dealt with this brother this guy that's we've known for a long time who's a christian but of course he's backslidden and he's done some pretty horrible things and then he puts up this post that's completely unscriptural that basically saying that jesus forgave us all decided to forgive us all 2000 years ago and there's no talk of that we have to confess our sins we have to repent we have to have faith we have to walk with the lord to receive that forgiveness so what i did was all i did was posted three scriptures contrary to that i didn't even comment on them i just gave three passages of scripture that refuted that and because i brought correction with the scriptures i got called a self-righteous jerk by another spirit-filled christian actually several of them this is where we are
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a bunch of foolish children who embrace foolishness love foolishness hate correction hate the truth now listen we got a lot of christians in the church who hate the truth that's the fact that's why we are where we are because the bible is true the whole bible from genesis to malachi in the old testament matthew revelation in the new testament it is all the inspired infallible word of god and what's interesting is the book of timothy says that all of it is for correction and instruction so that we may live in righteousness but the church doesn't want righteousness they want to use jesus righteousness and the grace of god as a license to sin and do whatever they want it's this attitude towards sin in the church that's killing us but let me just say this before we go too far this morning that the responsibility of this horrible problem we have of this foolishness that's bound up in the church and these foolish doctrines of men and these foolish ideas is primarily going to be laid the responsibility and the judgment and the wrath of god is going to primarily be laid at the feet of the pastors and the preachers of the gospel i'm going to just read this morning as i was getting ready i got up to pray i was getting ready to start getting dressed and getting ready and this article came across my attention here [Music] and this was from the barna barna research group and it blew my mind you know george barna the barna research group they do they're a polling company they take polls they're into math and statistics and trying to measure you know they spend a lot of time trying to measure the christian pulse and the religious pulse within america and the west this one is no surprise but here is just the proof of what i've been sharing with you and barna did a research poll on i don't know how many pastors they use i'm sure they use several thousand pastors uh in america i guess and in the west but it says here this is uh barda many pastors wary of raising controversy now but let's let's just look at the question they ask it says on thursday george barna research expert and founder of the barna group shared with america family radio today's issues about new information he's compiling at american culture and faith institute over the last two years gauging where theologically conservative pastors are politically he said what we're finding is that when we ask them about all the key issues of
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the day that would mean homosexuality that would mean sin that would mean what it means to be saved all the key issues of today israel end time prophecy all the key issues right it says 90 of them tell us yes the bible speaks to every one of these issues okay so ninety percent of these conservative pastors in america say that the bible speaks to every issue that the barna group asked them about but here's where it gets interesting when they ask them the second question well are you teaching your people what the bible says about those issues the numbers drop to less than 10 percent of pastors who say they will speak to it this is a massive problem and the article goes on to say the reason that they won't do it are five factors of why they won't do it it says the five factors are they're really only concerned about what will increase attendance giving number of programs number of staff and square footage of their buildings yes is it any wonder that the church in america is so weak and anemic and cannot even take listen what i'm finding is that christians a lot of people call themselves christian and i'm talking about should be mature christians should claim to be spirit-filled speaking in tongues prophesying believing in miracles and know the word christians who cannot take the slightest bit of correction if they say something or or or write something that's wrong cannot take it there is no humility there is no brokenness there is no uh that just don't want anything that has to do with correction because of what i just read to you in this in this barna research poll and what i've seen over the last several years on facebook and throughout the christian world particularly in america the foundational issues of christianity are being eroded the foundation is being destroyed and god himself even said if the foundations are destroyed what will you do and that's what i want to read to you let's look at this verse this is psalm 11 verse 3. he says this very very simple statement here if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do if the foundations be destroyed
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