Hatching Snake Eggs
About this sermon
Dean Odle uses Isaiah 59’s imagery of cockatrice or viper eggs to warn that lies, slander, concealed sin, and false teaching eventually hatch destructive consequences. He applies the metaphor to doctrinal controversies, personal integrity, and church relationships, repeatedly urging believers to become valiant for truth rather than sheltering deception. Examples involving unsupported biblical claims and compromised leaders illustrate his contention that impressive language cannot compensate for a lack of Scripture or honest fruit. King Saul becomes a picture of someone who begins with a genuine calling but allows disobedience and deception to corrupt his course.
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Odle introduces the biblical image of hatching viper eggs and presents it as a warning that hidden lies and sins produce destructive fruit. He tells listeners that compromise, false witness, and concealed wickedness are the eggs; the harm becomes visible only after they are protected long enough to hatch.
He criticizes arguments that rely on impressive imagery or assertions without biblical support and urges hearers to test every claim against Scripture. A cosmology-related example illustrates his objection to presentations that appear biblical while providing little or no relevant biblical text.
Reflecting on disputed movements and long-term ministry experience, he argues that falsehood can survive for years but will finally reveal its consequences. Rather than excusing his own past associations, he says time exposes movements, leaders, and private conduct that were built on unstable claims.
The sermon contrasts God’s complete truthfulness with human concealment and insists that habitual lying is a grave spiritual issue. Jeremiah’s call for people to be valiant for truth turns honesty into a covenant responsibility, not merely a personality preference.
Odle contrasts David’s pursuit of God with Saul’s compromised course, using Saul to depict believers who begin well but tolerate rebellion and deception. Saul’s mixture of spiritual moments and disobedience becomes the example of a person whose public calling cannot compensate for tolerated rebellion.
He describes how one lie demands another until a person lives inside a false refuge, while truth brings freedom and exposes bondage. He applies the pattern to testimony and relationships: truthful speech may cost something immediately, but layered deception creates deeper bondage.
Odle distinguishes necessary, sometimes painful correction from cruelty and urges maturity rather than resistance when truth confronts sin. The image of a young bird leaving the nest supports his appeal for growth; mature believers must receive hard truth and act on it.
A survey of Proverbs identifies lying lips, false witnesses, and slander as conduct God condemns and warns will not remain unpunished. He cites Proverbs 6, 19, and related sayings to show that God hates lying and that a false witness will face judgment.
He explains how rumors and insinuations fracture fellowship, opposing that work to the Holy Spirit, whom Scripture calls the Spirit of truth. Odle identifies church rumor as a practical form of egg-hatching because hearers repeat an unverified accusation until fellowship is poisoned.
The closing appeal urges repentance from lies and slander and confidence in Christ’s authority to stop the destructive cycle before it spreads. Prayer and worship redirect the congregation from fear of demonic harm to the blood, name, power, and authority of Jesus.
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hallelujah hallelujah we worship you mighty god heavenly father we exalt you
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we exalt the name that is above every name today the name of Jesus the one who died on that cross for our sins rose from the dead we exalt you Lord we praise your name we thank you Lord God for everything you've done for us and the things you're going to do Lord you have great plans for your people Lord here in this time and in the age to come Lord you have great things for us and we thank you Lord that there is not just hope but God there is excitement and joy and just amazing things we know they're ahead we don't want to miss them for anything Lord we're gonna lay down every weight every sin every compromise every bit of lukewarmness every distraction lay it aside and let you wash our sins away so we can walk with you I walk with you a newness of life walk with you and holiness and obedience to walk with you being led by your spirit that's what we want so help us today Lord I ask you to move through this time speak through me today Lord as we get into your word we pray this in Jesus name amen amen you may be seated this morning welcome everyone fire and grace church those of you out there watching listening from all over the place Denmark Soren you always say thank you to Soren in Denmark for doing the denotal Europe page I noticed last night I do look at the comments I can't comment because you won't know it's me because YouTube won't let me have a an actual account with them anymore but I do see the the comments and I appreciate and I saw where the deal Europe page is up to almost 10,000 subscribers and that's pretty amazing so he has to edit me quite a bit to keep that up in Europe but but that's okay as long as they get some of it they can get the unedited version at our website I've entitled this today we're gonna get into the world we got a lot of scriptures we don't cover today I've entitled this today hatching snake eggs and it's something I'm gonna tell you right now we're gonna show you in the word you don't want to be doing that's actually a baby cobra coming out of that thing right there why anybody I started looking this up means people out there that raised baby cobras something is not right up here with that whole concept right there right and anyway I want everybody to take your Bibles and turn to Isaiah 59 is where we're gonna start and we'll start at verse 1 there and if you're wondering what this means you're gonna see that this
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sermon today this message today is about lying it's about lying it's about slander it's about bearing false witness and this is something I think the body of Christ does not take seriously enough as a serious sin that you are going to be held accountable for and I think there's just two mouths wagged too easy these days against your brother your sister your leadership it's just there's too many lies slanderous words said and I just want to say something at the outset of this we get into this today really be careful when you say thing something about someone else unless you absolutely know positively know that it is true because you don't want to be a liar you don't want to be bearing false witness you don't want to be hatching snake eggs I'm gonna show you the Bible says this it's like hatching snake eggs when you do these things all right let's read this Isaiah 59 verse 1 behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear now you don't want that in your life he's telling you the problem the problem always comes back to one thing it comes back to where if we're feeling separated from God we feel like he's not blessing us or now yes we can walk through seasons of trial it doesn't mean that we've sinned but a lot of times it is because we've sinned and listen a lot of our sins come straight out of our mouth all right now and and the Lord he is this is a big deal to him okay but he says he goes on say he tells them he said for your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity why your lips have spoken lies your tongue hath muttered perverseness things that are twisted they're not exactly right it's what perverseness is none call it for justice nor any pleaded for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity they hatch cockatrice eggs that there is a viper a poisonous snake they hatch these eggs these snake eggs and weave the spiders web he that eateth their eggs diet and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper now
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we're gonna stop there for just a second and I want you to put up the definition this word cockatrice it's only in the Bible like three times I think but it's an important the definition kind of gives you a little understanding of it it's either sepa or sepa here is the Hebrew word the outline of biblical usage meaning they've taken from all the lexicons to basically get you a definition but poisonous serpent a viper snake or adder the strong definition of this word for cockatrice means to extrude what is to extrude means something that goes what out right so it's alluding to the viper as it's thrusting out its tongue and hissing using its tongue so what he's talking about here in the context of this he's saying that if you speak lies deceit falsehoods that literally you are like the mouth of the serpent the serpent's tongue is coming out of you yours like the hissing of a serpent and you are a serpent also that's multiplying because you're laying you're laying eggs to be hatched out and make more little serpents and that's why he says he says you're basically just spreading demonic stuff and really helping the kingdom of darkness because remember in the book of Revelation Satan is called the accuser of the brethren right and this is a very important issue see I and the reason I'm bringing this up to is because I sat down one day you know I've heard Greg locks latest rant basically at me throwing me under the bus with everybody else that's into biblical cosmology aka flat earth now he sent me an apology and the reason I didn't make a big deal out of the apologies because I believe the apology was not real and it wasn't because the things he apologized for which I have the text messages to prove it the things he apologized for he went on a podcast the other day and said the same lies that he put out on that press release right after the debate and I sent him a personal text yesterday a very long one because what he's doing is telling lies and the things that whole press release was a lot and then you know I have the text message where I asked him I said you should have taken that down and he had his staff take it down now why would you take down a press release if you thought it was true so if you took it down you thought it was incorrect but then you're gonna go on a podcast with 500,000
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