God's Family Plan
About this sermon
In “God's Family Plan,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about marriage and covenant, family discipleship, biblical love. Drawing especially from Genesis 4, Psalm 133, John 14, 1 Timothy 3, the teaching emphasizes that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. 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 while working through Genesis 4, Psalm 133. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. 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 practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant while working through John 14, 1 Timothy 3, Ephesians 5. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that angelic activity is examined within the biblical passage and its prophetic sequence. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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 Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. 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 trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant while working through Genesis 2, 1 Timothy 2. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. 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 test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant while working through Genesis 3, Genesis 12, 1 Peter 3. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant while working through Genesis 12, Genesis 16. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. 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 marriage and covenant while working through Colossians 3, Matthew 7. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. 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 test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Matthew 7, Psalm 139. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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handy dandy actually my husband's huge print bible so i can see and not have to wear glasses because i just found out that my bible is missing about what 10 000 words and yes so i don't take that very lightly how many know that this is god's word and what's in it is important amen and what he put in here he means he means for us to know as his children he he means for us to obey um anyway so we're we're going to get into something that god said for us as his children to do and it's a subject that that most people don't even like to hear about especially women you know i have a grin on the front she knows exactly where we're going with this but i don't want you to tune me out just yet because it boils down to it's in god's word it's in god's word so we're supposed to know it learn it and do it that's what it boils down to um some of you may have seen my facebook post a few weeks ago about potty training because we have a two and a half year old and we're potty training or at least trying to and god just spoke something to me while i was while i was dealing with her because i say when she does you know that yuck in her diaper as i'm changing it i say i said faith this should have gone to into the potty but it should have gone into the potty you should have told told mommy and she says i know i know and god just god just kind of brought it to me we we know a lot of what his word says but if we don't do it we're sitting around in the same poop you know we don't get free from it we don't move on we don't go on to the next thing um so that's what i want us to god god said that we were supposed to be doers not just hearers so i want us to keep that in mind today that we take what his word says and what he's been showing me and i promise you as i always say when i get up here i don't have it this is a lesson that i'm dealing with daily if not hourly even you know i i'm not there so i'm not pointing the finger at anybody and i'm not saying and and the thing about it is this is this this sermon is about god's christian order okay what he set forth in his word for us to do and it goes both ways it goes for the man it goes for the woman and it goes for you children that are in here so i want y'all to listen to this pay attention and i want you to make an effort this week to go go back into god's word everything that i'm saying everything that i'm reading i want you to study it out and put it to practice in your life and i mean this for the kids too okay kids are looking at me this goes
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for you too all right we're to obey god all right well i want to start off by reading a quote i've been reading this this book by john bevere called undercover it's a real good book talking about spiritual authority and and things like that and i really liked this this quote so i'm going to just go ahead and start us off with this because what we're going to hear today is a truth and we have an option about how to handle it he said confronted with the truth we can respond two ways we can become angry and defensive like cain adam's son and forsake the very revelation we need as he did in genesis 4 or we can hum be humble and broken like david when challenged by nathan and let the pain and repentance raise us to another level of godly character let's have the heart of david in this matter and reject the pride endeavoring to keep us from god's plan of provision and protection and i just thought that's real that that goes for any any truth that we receive it's really really easy to say we love god we love the truth we love god's word we we love god but god said if you love me obey me it's just that simple if you love me obey me so if you're not obeying then you've got work to do and like i said this goes for me um i want to also start off with y'all can turn to and my because our printer's off i'm having to look because i've got these weird squiggly lines all through my my print but psalm 133 1-3 that's the whole chapter it's on 133 okay psalm 133 it says behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity it is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garment as the dew of hermann and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of zion for their for there the lord commanded the blessing even life forevermore so unity that's what god says about unity it's like the precious ointment it's an anointing it's a blessing if you can walk in unity with people if you can walk in and i'm talking about as in your wife your husband you know children obeying your parents and walking in unity and being obedient not fussing and complaining and all that god has a promise here
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in his word he says that it's going to be an anointing it's going to cover you all right unity being obedient being unified with your spouse will cover your family all right with his anointing with his blessing you know we have a lot of people who say you know the blessings are this listen to that oh preach preach preach prosperity this and that but there are things you have to do to get god's promises sometimes and this is one of them walk in unity he commands a blessing that's pretty strong when god commands something anybody know what happens it happens it happens that's right so that's how important unity is so it's a subject that we really need to focus on now i'm not talking about there's a some people out there that say you know to walk in unity you have to ignore sin and tolerate things and not speak up about you know issues and you know let people run all over that's not what i'm talking about that's not the unity that god is talking about so let's let's move on and and as i said before if you love me keep my commandments that's what that's what god jesus said in john 14 15. you can jot that down uh let's turn to ephesians five ephesians five and we're just going to jump right on into talking about family order because the thing is if you can get it right in your family the people that you deal with every day then the other areas of submission like your boss and your pastor and all of these other things they won't be as big of an issue you have to get it right in your family and and god makes that very clear you know if i'll i'll tell you what it says let's see how important is it i'll just read this real quick it's so important that god said in first timothy 3 4 5 and you don't have to turn there i'm just going to read this he says to be a bishop leader in the church says that one has to be one that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity for if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the church of god all right that's how that's how important this is and he says as to be a deacon in the church let the deacons be the husbands of one wife ruling their children and their own houses well so this is a priority for god and his people he makes it clear all right so ephesians 5 and let's go to 23.
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we're going to read 23 and 24. let's see well no we need to go back up i wrote down the wrong we'll go back up to um 21. it says submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of god now make a mental note of that in the fear of god wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the lord for the husband is the head of the wife even as christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body therefore as the church is subject unto christ so let the wise be to their own husbands in everything everything even the silly things you know even even things and that's usually where i blow it with my husband is the things that i'm like but but what does it matter you know just i told i told a story to someone here the other day it just it just happened you know we were talking about it the night before and then it came trash night right and i wanted the the recyclable plastics to go down to the street and he was like they haven't been picking them up but you know well i'm not doing it and i said well i'll do it then i'll do it i'll do it then he said no don't but babe and i start arguing all of a sudden it goes this is a little thing and i'm not obeying god and i had to admit and he said something a story that we've been talking about he said one word from the the story we've been talking about before and it was like oh i'm doing it look at this look how quickly we were talking about it and i flipped over and started doing it immediately but i recognized it and repented okay so it says so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything husbands love your wives even as christ also loved the church and gave himself for it that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of the water by the word all right let's go on over to um let's go to first corinthians and this is where it really all started for me i was reading this and god just started kind of giving me a visual because i i had nev i've never really read it like this but first corinthians if you go to first corinthians 11 okay 11. and then three all right and we're all familiar with these i mean if we've been in church at any point in
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