Great Awakening Under the Tent - Ariton, AL
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In “Great Awakening Under the Tent - Ariton, AL,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about demons and deliverance, the condition of the church, faith. Drawing especially from Matthew 10, Matthew 10:6, and Matthew 15, the teaching emphasizes that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.
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Odle focuses on demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance while working through Matthew 10 and Matthew 10:6. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on repentance while working through Matthew 23, John 10, Galatians 5. The message argues that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word. It connects this with the conviction that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Matthew 12. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Mark 5, 1 Corinthians 14, Luke 10. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on salvation while working through Isaiah 9:6, Luke 16, and 2 Timothy 3. The message argues that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith. 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 demons and deliverance while working through 1 John 1 and 2 Corinthians 7:1. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. 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 demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance while working through John 14:12. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. 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 demons and deliverance. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. 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.
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hallelujah hallelujah let me get my stuff set up here for just a second praise be to God that's great to be here wow uh some of you know some of you may not know that I'm the crazy preacher from opica that ran for governor last time so I pretty much have seen almost all of this state I think and but I haven't been out this way in a long time um I used to live in Montgomery lived in Montgomery for many years but now you know I'm from opala grew up opala Auburn area for uh my life the Lord took me all over the place though took me to Israel took me to Nigeria um little island out in the Indian Ocean called macius I preached there um just all over the place we recently went and I spoke at a conference in Myrtle Beach South Carolina uh the impact conference on Deliverance and uh that was just uh it was a good time there and then God's just doing all kinds of amazing things I want to say something we we we brought some books tonight but they're not for sale um if you want a book it's yours out there whatever whatever's here is a gift and if you want to give anything give it to the church here as an offering okay yall okay with that yeah all right well I want to tell you this I I will say this Beyond any Shadow of Doubt I know that I have a word from the Lord for you tonight amen so I hope you have your Bibles because we're going to be going to few places here uh the first place in fact just go ahead and turn to uh the gospel of Mark chapter 1 and you know there's times that I know and I'm going to just tell you there's times I know and then there's times I know that I know and tonight I know that I know amen let's pray though let's pray over God's word tonight Father in heaven we thank you so much for your blessings we thank you for who you are that you are the king of of Kings and the Lord of lords you are the mighty one the Holy One the only true God the Savior the Redeemer the name above every name the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth we lift that up and Lord we just pray tonight in this place God as you touch every person here those who will be watching online father we ask you to touch people and we ask you Lord to change us and revive us and renew us and if our theology needs to be wrecked Let It Be wrecked yes and let you guide us and lead us into all truth the truth that will set us free and that's what you shed your blood for Jesus that's what you died on that cross for that's what you rose from the dead for that's why you went down into hell and got the keys of hell and death so we could have victory over sin over sickness over demons and Devils we thank you Lord you've given us all that power and authority but we must use it in faith and we must understand it so Lord I pray for for the spirit of wisdom and
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Revelation and understanding from the Holy Spirit tonight to come upon every person here and Lord I ask you to help me speak this word tonight in Jesus name amen and amen all right now I don't know we may need to turn me down a little bit uh I'm getting a little bit of a ring so I don't know who who would do that I'll try to hold the mic back a little bit but I can't help it sometimes um we're going to go to uh Mark and I know my page is just turned here but Mark chapter 1 one let me start here and I'm going to talk about something tonight I've talked about many times in fact I've been preaching about Deliverance since 1987 it's a long time I've been in the ministry now going on 37 years and I've cast demons out of a lot of people now I'm probably going to mess with your theology tonight but there's been a teaching in the body of Christ for as long as I I can remember that a Christian can't have a demon uh let me just go on and tell you at the 36 years of casting demons out of people that 99.9% of them been Christians okay and it's because we've had a misunderstanding about the word possessed we tend to take English words in the Bible we think that we know what they mean but this new testament we have here was originally written in Greek and you have to look up the Greek words and then you have to look at the Bible now I'm going to give you a little introduction on just about the Deliverance issue um we see in the Bible everybody thinks when you talk about Deliverance that every uh you know we're talking about the Linda Blair situation the head spinning around and spitting out the Pea Soup everybody remember that movie or we're thinking about the gadin demoniac in chapter 5 of Mark chapter 5 there where it says that he was screaming and crying and cutting himself with stones and he couldn't be Chained and we we start we think about that and that's what we see in our minds but we forget that in Luke chapter 13 there was a woman that said just had one Spirit of infirmity and she was a daughter of Abraham that's right okay she was a daughter of Abraham she had one demon Spirit of infirmity and it was causing her to be crippled and bent over and if you remember correctly the Pharisees weren't too happy when Jesus cast that demon out of the daughter of Abraham and she was healed and I'm going to add this too about healing if you read the New Testament you have to face the fact that some healings came when they cast demons out of the person not just when they laid hands on the sick you understand Jesus did a lot of casting demons out of people and then they would be healed all right so Deliverance is a very important aspect and I'm going to show you that there's two prongs to Deliverance now I know already in some people's minds because you've been brainwashed for so many years and I want to tell you right now the church world has brainwashed a lot of people about some stuff that's not not Bible okay and if
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you want to know why we have so many problems in the church and we don't have Revival in the church because we don't follow the scriptures we follow tradition yeah on and we follow the doctrines of men but I want to tell you right now immediately when somebody starts talking about a Christian needing a demon cast out of them your brain goes oh wait a minute light and darkness can't dwell in the same place at the same time or a demon in the presence of God can't be together at the same time I'm going to just destroy that with one passage of scripture you want to know what it is one one little passage of scripture The Book of Job if you look at Job chapter 1 and 2 what do we find says the angels of God were presenting themselves before the Lord meaning in heaven not on the earth they were presenting themselves before the Lord in heaven and it said Satan presented himself there too yes that's right whoa wait a minute how could how could Satan if he can't be in the same place at the same time at times Allowed by God how could Satan stand in the presence of God it literally says that Satan when he went to attack job when he got permission from God it said he left the presence of the Lord so I want to tell you right now some of these things we've heard they don't go along with scripture nor do they go along with what we experience now because churches have believed that a Christian can't have a demon then what we've had is a lot of of Christians and it's not mean again it's not doesn't mean a Christian is totally controlled it just means you have areas that Satan has a stronghold in there let me just I give you a quick a quick uh testimony I'm kind of just we we'll get to the Bible the the mark one in a minute years ago the Lord had me go to Texas now the Lord just told me said go to Texas now at the time I had a car that had no gas in it I had no money in my pocket now I'm in opalak Alabama's Texas is over 700 miles away Dallas Texas I knew where he wanted to go well rock wall Texas at the time and I knew the Lord wanted me to go to rock wall Texas and go visit this particular Church big church about 8,000 members and I was go supposed to go the holy spirit let me to go go sit down right in the middle of it but I didn't have any money I said Lord how the world am I going to Texas how am I going to pay for a hotel room gasoline food how am I going to do all that he said go to Texas and I kept arguing with him he said go to Texas so I picked up my bags I packed my bags started walking out the door walking down the steps somebody pulls up in my yard walks up to me and hands me the money all the money that I would need to go to Texas now I'm about see sometimes the Lord says jump through the hole in the wall and the hole in the wall is not there yet but he wants you to jump see that's faith faith believes it before you see it so I get in my car drive all the way to Texas get me a hotel room there outside of rock wall Texas and I walk into church some of you older folks should know Church on the Rock You might remember Church on the Rock in rock wall Texas Dr Larry Lee's Church he wrote the bestselling book could you not Terry 1 hour uh I walked in obeyed
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the Lord on Sunday morning sat down right in the middle of that church and I was in there early and this man and his wife came in and sat down beside me and I said well Lord you know he he struck up a conversation we started talking and I said well Lord if this is the guy you want me to uh to uh go home you know go further Ministry or something with this guy oh I forgot the best part well first I said you know Lord have him invite me over to lunch after church and he did but before that I forgot to tell you that on the way to Texas I stopped by and saw a friend of mine who was very prophetic uh Godly person a Godly family and they prayed for me and they said you're going to meet a man that says these words to You prayer partner and a friend this why you don't despise prophesying and you believe you should believe that God still speaks to his people today so I get there this man sits next to me and he starts talking and he says the words prayer partner and friend to me and I said well this is the guy guy that's why I'm in Texas well what I found out was this guy was a former Baptist preacher said he used to preach had a pastor to senior pastor of a Baptist Church used to lead people to Jesus said he felt the anointing would come on him and he would preach and people would get saved and I'm like I'm sitting there wondering well why is he sitting in this Charismatic Church in the middle of you know rock wall Texas and not in his church on Sunday morning but anyway after um after the service over he you know he did ask me that him and his wife said will you come have lunch with us I drove up to North Dallas and had lunch with him so his wife said you know after lunch he said hey you know I got to go uh to the store real quick I'll be right back so she walked out the door that's when he turns to me and he says that I have been contemplating suicide he said in fact several times I was this close to driving my car off the road and ran cling it into a tree or off into a ravine to kill myself because the reason I'm not a Baptist preacher anymore is because I was lested by my uncle when I was 5 years old and it went on between the years of when I was 5 and six years old and he said I never could overcome this this impulse toward homosexuality after that and he said I would just suppress it you know we think us Christians sometimes well if I do enough prayer fasting if I do enough reading of the Bible if I go to church enough if I worship enough if I serve enough I can I can press these things down these beach balls and keep them underw us pastors know because we have to counsel you guys that you don't keep them underw all the time right all right so he tells me this and I said well I know that your Baptist theology taught you that a Christian can't have a demon I said but the moment your uncle molested you you the doorway was open to some very powerful demon spirits of perversion lust homosexuality
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