Isaiah's Revelation
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In “Isaiah's Revelation,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, pride and humility, prayer. Drawing especially from 1 John 1:8, Romans 7, Isaiah 6, Luke 18, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that spiritual pride blinds people to correction, while humility receives truth and depends on God.
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Odle focuses on pride and humility while working through 1 John 1:8, Romans 7. The message argues that spiritual pride blinds people to correction, while humility receives truth and depends on God. 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 spiritual leadership while working through Isaiah 6. The message argues that leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Isaiah 6, Luke 18. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. 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 eternal judgment. The message argues that the reality of final judgment gives urgency to repentance, salvation, and faithful witness. 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 the wisdom of God while working through 1 Corinthians 1. The message argues that God’s wisdom confronts human pride and teaches believers to judge life from an eternal perspective. 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 the condition of the church while working through Isaiah 6, 1 Corinthians 8, 2 Corinthians 8. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 prayer while working through Isaiah 6, Isaiah 64. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on faith while working through 1 Corinthians 1, 1 Corinthians 13. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. 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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You don't have to cross in your act of love and your act of mercy. You just call upon us to believe. Lay down our own will and our own plans and our own pride and follow you. And you'll give us heaven and earth and all eternity. We thank you for your great love. We thank you for your mercies. We thank you for the truth laid out in the scriptures. We thank you we can have hope and forgiveness. We just thank you for it, Lord. We praise your name today in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. You may be seated this morning. Hallelujah. Lord is good. We welcome those of you here to Fire and Grace Church this morning. We welcome those listening by Blog Talk Radio, Mixlr, Facebook Live. I hope it's working this morning. Uh forgot my phone, so we're having to use my wife's phone that's full of stuff. It was trying not to work. But we'll see. Praise be to God. I want everybody this morning to turn with me first of all to Isaiah chapter 1. Um I've entitled today and the Lord really just gave it to me a few moments ago, Isaiah's revelation. And this is really a message for Christians this morning. So, if you're not a Christian, you may not fully understand what I'm saying, though you may like it because I'm going to deal with some self-righteous pride this morning. It's something that we have to be very, very careful about. Um can I just say this? If you start getting the idea that you're more righteous than other people or you're better than other people or your sin's not as bad as other people, even though there are differences between sins. I'll address that maybe in a moment. But once you start getting the idea you got it and somebody else doesn't, uh you're in pride. You're in self-righteousness. You're trusting in your own righteousness. And that means you're going to stumble and fall because pride goes before a fall. Unless you recognize it, you humble yourself, and you ask God's forgiveness, and you remind yourself you're not all that. You really aren't. We are nothing. We are nothing. If Jesus had not died for us,
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if he had not paid the price for our sins on the cross, sent his Holy Spirit to constantly prick us and draw us and wake us up, we would be as blind as anybody else. Our only you say good point is we finally gave in and said, "Yes, Lord. I believe you. I trust you." Right? What's the what's what's it all going to come down to in the end? It's not going to be how many people you led to Jesus. It's not going to make how many people you prayed for that got healed or how many demons you cast out. I mean, all those are good things. All those are good works. God wants us to do those good works. It's not how many mysteries you understand. It's not how many revelations you have. It's not how whether you speak in tongues or prophesy or work miracles. There are a lot of people that did all of those things and ended up in pride, falling, and then falling away from God and you know, I think of the great Solomon. The great Solomon, humble, called by God. David had many sons, but God picked him. Said, "You're going to be the king." Think about that. The son of Bathsheba even, the woman David committed adultery with, the woman whose husband David had killed. After all that, after God's great mercy in David's life and forgiveness of sins, he picks Bathsheba's son, Solomon, just to show us that it's his choice. It's his wisdom. It's his righteousness. Not Can you imagine people in the kingdom at that time going, "What in the world? Solomon? Bathsheba's son after that scandal? He's going to be the next king?" But don't look at the at me like you would have been one of them. Church folk are the worst. WHAT? THE WHAT? THAT PERSON'S A PASTOR? WHAT? THAT PERSON'S A DEACON? WHAT? WELL, THEY used to What? Careful, careful. Last time I checked, the Bible said all have sinned and come short of his glory, right? All. And for you believers out there, there's a whole section of believers now that
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are believing that they live sinless lives. That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever heard right there. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8. Right? Pretty plain and simple. If we, Christians, we, John was including himself, the Apostle John, if we say we have no sin, even as believers, we deceive ourselves. The truth is not in us. Why? Because the Apostle Paul said in Romans chapter 7, he said, "Even when I want to do good, I find that evil is present with me." He said, "In my flesh dwelleth no good thing. What I the things I want to do, I don't do. Things I don't want to do, I do." You know, one of the greatest awesome things about Paul in that passage, he was just very honest that even though he was a very dedicated Christian, he was dedicated to God. He was dedicated to the gospel of Jesus Christ. He was dedicated to live it out the best he could. There was no one more diligent than Paul. He even said in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 16 that God had made him a pattern to those who should believe after. So, Paul said God made me a pattern of what a Christian should be. AND YET PAUL SAYS, "I am the chief of sinners. I do not deserve to be an apostle. I persecuted the church of God and wasted it." He said, "I was a blasphemer before." And then he admits in Romans 7 that evil is constantly present with me. Things I want to do, I don't do. Things I don't want to do, I do. Even as a Christian. HE SAID, "I DESIRE to do the will of God in the inward man. The spirit man desires to do the will of God, but he said, 'How to perform it?' I don't know I don't always perform it." Would that be a true account of your Christian life? Do you always do what you should do? Do you sometimes do the wrong thing, the evil thing, the sinful thing? Yes. And if you say you don't ever, you're a liar and you're deceived. And you're in self-righteous pride. And it's time for you to say and return to the truth that I'm no better than anyone else. Just because say I've been saved longer than some of you. Just because I'm called to be a pastor, I can sit here and tell you right now that I am no better than you. I am no more righteous than you. We are both, if we are walking in Jesus
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Christ in faith and best we can, I can tell you right now, we're both cleansed by the same precious blood. We have different gifts. We have different callings. We have different responsibilities in the kingdom of God, BUT WE ARE NOT ONE better than the other. It's the same thing in a marriage. It's Just because God says a man is the leader of his house, doesn't mean he's better than his wife. Now, we know I tell my wife all the time she's the best Christian I know. She's far better Christian than I am. But that doesn't mean she gets to be in charge. Oh. All right? Cuz God has an order to things. But again, it doesn't make me better. It's just I have a call to as the husband to be the leader of the home. And that's the way it is. Sometimes I don't like it. Sometimes it's tough to be the leader. Cuz in the buck stops with you when you screw up, right? It's not her fault when you screw up. It's your fault. Right? Leadership's Leadership's not always fun. Right? We got a bunch of leaders out there. We got leaders now, of course, like Obama don't take responsibility for anything. I mean, he's almost eight years into presidency and it's still Bush's fault, right? Everything's still Bush's fault. That's a bad leader. No, it's your fault, buddy. Where we are, it's all you. All right? Same thing though. Now, today is just a reminder of something. We need to always remind ourselves not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. I come to Remember that's a verse in the Bible. Romans chapter 12. Now, not to think more highly of ourselves than we we should. All right? But I said this is Isaiah's revelation. I want you to go to Isaiah. I want to show you something. Everyone thinks when they receive a vision of God or a new touch from God or or an anointing or uh God moves in your life that it's always about goosebumps and miracles. Right? It can be but not always. I want you to see something first in Isaiah chapter 1 just so you understand this. Of course, the theologians, the reason I have to bring this up is cuz we've got theologians who confuse people. Right? But verse 1 in Isaiah, I want you to notice something. He says, "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, that's King Uzziah Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah."
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