Hearing God, Chaos & Portland Oregon
About this sermon
In “Hearing God, Chaos & Portland Oregon,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, the authority of Scripture, prayer. Drawing especially from Galatians 5, Romans 8, 1 Thessalonians 5, 1 Corinthians 15, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. 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 the soulish life while working through Galatians 5, Romans 8, Matthew 26. The message argues that natural emotion and self-directed reasoning must yield to the Holy Spirit and the mind of Christ. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through James 4. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through John 10, John 16, John 8. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. 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 Bible prophecy while working through Jeremiah 28. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Jeremiah 28, Daniel 7. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Daniel 7. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that Revelation’s beast imagery is connected with coercion, worship, and end-time deception. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Daniel 7, Revelation 13, Revelation 12. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that unresolved offense can become bitterness, while forgiveness releases judgment to God and protects the heart. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on God’s commandments while working through Revelation 11, Daniel 11. The message argues that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. 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 divine judgment. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
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thank you [Music] [Applause] praise your name this morning God we thank you for your peace your presence that you're real that your word is true father we thank you God that you still speak to your people we can still hear your voice Lord help us to grow spiritually help us to draw near to you and let us hear your still small voice we pray this in Jesus name amen and amen you may be seated this morning welcome you fire and Grace Church those listening by Blog Talk Radio mixler and on Facebook live we welcome you got a lot to talk about this morning as usual world's going crazy it's already crazy but it's just going crazier and crazier uh a few passages of scripture this morning we're going to look at quite a bit I hope we can I throw so much at Kevin and throw it at him at the last minute too y'all y'all need to pray for Kevin but you also need to just thank the Lord for him he makes a lot of this possible and he goes through he goes through a lot of warfare from the enemy too to help me do all of this stuff so be in prayer for him this morning I've talked we're going to talk about what's going on in the world I've called this hearing God chaos in Portland Oregon I know that may sound odd but you'll understand it in a minute um first and foremost I want you to go to the book of Acts I just want to lay a little bit of a foundation this morning because we we have new people here attending we have always have new people watching uh and listening all over the world and so if this is repetitious to you I have to do it just for the sake of of new people but Acts chapter 2 let's go there first because before I get into some of the specifics this morning about things the Lord has spoken to me and that we see are coming to pass I want to encourage everybody in here that all Christians are supposed to be people who not only study and meditate in the scriptures the word of God where we're also to be filled with the Holy Spirit and learn to hear God's voice this is imperative all Christians are supposed to grow in this and learn how to hear and discern God's voice how to discern
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spirits around you whether good or bad most Christians I'm sad to say do not walk in the spirit yet that is the command of God walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh Galatians 5 says right but too many you know Romans 8 talks about there's the carnal mind that we have that's in enmity or an enemy of God and then we have the spiritual mind the mind of Christ is what we're supposed to have and too many of us spend too much time developing feeding the carnal mind the Flesh and so the spirit man stays strap bound weakened everybody needs to know this according to first Thessalonians 5 23 every human being has three parts this is what Paul said it there he said I pray God that your whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ all right you need to understand that those are three different words there are three different parts of you they are even in the original Greek there are three different Greek words a lot of people even out there teaching that the spirit and the soul is the same thing that's not true the spirit part of you Paul said you have a spiritual body and you have a physical body First Corinthians 15. so the spiritual man has ears the spirit man has eyes the spiritual man has a mouth a tongue a voice the spirit of man his arms legs we have a spiritual body and a physical body the soul is your mind will and emotions the soul is your personality all people have a spirit all people have a body but the soul is the uniqueness of you it's what makes you you and is where you make decisions now between in your soul is always caught in the middle your soul your mind will and emotions your soul is always caught between the desires and the voice of the flesh and of the devil and of the evil side and your spirit is wanting to do what the holy spirit of God wants you to do and that's why you find yourself so many times in a war doing things you don't want to do or not doing things you should do okay but here's the thing I've told people all the time in this spiritual issue that we are you know we're really Spiritual Beings but in this situation it's just like if you have two dogs that are going to fight all right you got one over here chained to a tree and another one over here chained to a tree and they're going to fight in three weeks and you decide the one over here you're going to feed you know ribeye steaks every day and this one over here you're going to give nothing when they
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fight who's going to win the one you feed this is why I talk about all the time how important it is to be men and women of prayer to be men and women who read and study the Bible to be men and women who fast and worship God who go to church who hear the word of God spoken the reason you need to do all those things and begin to shut off the entertainment the media the satanic stuff in this world is because whichever side you feed in your own life spiritually is the side that's going to win and either the spirit's going to win or the flesh is going to win and this is what Jesus was talking about if you go to Matthew 26 and you read the story of The Garden of Gethsemane and Jesus went to pray and he said he asked he wanted Peter James and John to go with him and he said you pray here while I go over here and he came back and he found him sleeping and he was just like could you not watch with me one hour he said the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak Paul said in Romans 7 after the inward man Delights after the law of God the inward man Delights and wants the things of God but the carnal man the carnal side the flesh the selfish evil side of us wants the evil thing now the only answer to this war the only answer to this dilemma is you have to come to the only one who defeated the devil and the flesh sin and hell you have to come to Jesus there is no other way to win this battle you have to come to the Lord Jesus Christ you have to believe he died on the cross for your sins you have to believe he rose from the dead on the third day you have to confess you're a sinner you have to ask Jesus to forgive you and to wash you clean and to be your lord and then you have to repent and say I'm going to follow you Lord if you're going to have any strength if you're going to have any ability you must first be washed in the blood of Jesus born again truly saved truly dedicated you can't be lukewarm you can't be halfway one foot in one foot out you got to be all in for Jesus amen but if you are the next step is also to pursue what the Bible says of being baptized and the Holy Spirit now this is Bible I know that most denominations don't teach us anymore or teach against it but I'm sorry it's in the Bible the next step for the born-again Christian who's make Jesus the Lord of their lives and they're serious about getting out of sin and becoming a disciple the next step is to seek the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and if you're baptized in the spirit or filled with the Holy Spirit like they were on the day of Pentecost you will speak with other tongues new tongues Supernatural tongues of of angels
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and you will prophesy you will begin to flow and operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit the other gifts of the Holy Spirit now this is Bible okay and this is what I'm getting at the reason so many people do not hear or learn to discern the voice of God and following the gifts of the Spirit is because either they're not serious about the lordship of Jesus Christ and Holiness and obedience to God in their lives serious about the word of God serious about worship serious about church most of the time you're not hearing because you're not serious about God you're more serious about yourself your own will your own plans your own desires or your own lust that's why you don't hear that's why you don't discern do you hear me [Music] you want to know why that's why and then those of you who have walked with God at times and you've heard God's voice and you've operated the gifts of the Spirit and then you've drifted into this lukewarmness because you quit praying you quit fasting you quit studying your Bible you got lazy you started watching hours and hours and hours of TV you wonder why you're dry you wonder why why didn't God speak to me well guess what you can't hear people talk to you you don't hang out with amen with God there's no long-distance relationship you hear me he wants to be it wants it all to be up close and personal and I know I'm just throwing some verses out because I I'm just trying to get through all this this morning without keeping you here to two o'clock okay so you just write down these verses I promise you everything I'm saying is there all right but the but the good news is we can hear from God James 4 verse 7 and 8 two of my favorite passages of scripture submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil and he will flee from you draw near to God and He will draw near to you guess whose responsibility is first to draw near to who right draw near to God can I say this you cannot draw near to God if you won't turn loose of sin and idols and lust you cannot draw near to God if you sit at home and don't go to church you can't draw near to God if you don't spend time in prayer you can't draw near to God unless you spend time reading and meditating in the word of God you hear me you can't draw near to God if you won't worship Him in spirit and in truth okay he's not far from any one of us he just wants us to take this all seriously and draw near to him and the beautiful thing about God is if
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