Israel or Islam?
About this sermon
In “Israel or Islam,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Israel in prophecy, Islamic origins and claims, grace and mercy. Drawing especially from 2 Peter 3, Isaiah 53, Ephesians 2, Romans 10, the teaching emphasizes that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation.
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Odle focuses on Islamic origins and claims. The message argues that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation. 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 seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on biblical love while working through 2 Peter 3. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on Islamic origins and claims. The message argues that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation. It connects this with the conviction that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Isaiah 53, Ephesians 2. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Romans 10, Romans 1. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. 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 Israel in prophecy while working through Isaiah 35, Romans 1. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. 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 Israel in prophecy. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. 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.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Isaiah 53. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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but you know i want to say this this morning you know god wants to god wants to reveal himself to a lot of people if they just listen if they just want him just a little bit he would reveal himself because god wants to save people out of all kind of horrible things he wants to save people out of homosexuality and wants to save people out of drug addiction he wants to save people out of islam and he wants to save people out of adultery and and and all kinds of things god wants to save people out of those things and you know what there are people walking around he's you know he's saved us those of us that are truly saved that truly know jesus in our heart and our lives some of us have been saved out of some of those things and it's a awesome thing you know and that's one thing i just feel this morning i posted this i've been up for quite a while but i posted this this morning just what a powerful testimony of this ex-hezbollah terrorist muslim that did everything he could to try to find the god he thought was the god of creation allah he thought allah was god and he did everything he could do i mean he he did he he read the quran through he said something like every 10 days he would pray five times a day he went out and he murdered people and he killed people in the name of allah to try to find god he he he wanted to know god he wanted to find god and so he finally gets thrown in jail in malaysia and he gets thrown in jail for trying to get a bunch of illegal passports of counterfeit or ford's passport i don't know but he's thrown in jail in malaysia and so he's in in the prison teaching all the inmates islam okay you know this satanic false religion but this guy is crying out in his heart and he said you know the quran teaches that that allah does not reveal himself and and he said the quran teaches you can't be sure that you can even be forgiven and they they say that even muhammad doesn't even they don't even know if muhammad's in heaven because no one will know if they're forgiven and they go to heaven until the last day yes now that's kind of convoluted thinking because they contradict themselves and saying if they blow themselves up you know in a jewish restaurant and kill a bunch of women and children that they automatically go to heaven so i don't know they're confused but this guy finally just said you know a demon spirit he knew it was an evil spirit attacked him in this prison and he said he was choking him to death it was going to kill him and he said this evil spirit he did
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everything he knew he knew all the 99 names of allah he used all the names that the quran gave him and that muhammad gave him and that all the imams gave him to to invoke power you know because the muslims chant the names of allah all the different names and so he used all the things he quoted the quran he was fighting this demon and he said it got him pushed in a corner and he's choking him to death and something told him a voice told him call on the name of jesus he said he didn't even know why he did it because he said but you know a drowning man he does not going to argue with you about the color of the rope that you throw and he said i was dying he was choking me to death it was strangling me this evil spirit of course in islam they call them jinns and he said this thing was was trying to kill him and he said when he when he spoke the name of jesus christ the thing left the demon left immediately it all stopped he was fine he said now that wasn't the point of my conversion that was the point of my confusion he said i could not believe why this happened to me why would this happen to me and why would this evil spirit not respond to anything the name of allah the name of muhammad anything i said but i had to call on the name of jesus you don't have a poor confused muslim at this point so he said he didn't know he just said he he decided that he was just going to push that out of his mind and he was going to fast and he was going to pray and he was going to ask allah to explain this to him right his god allah and please understand i do not believe allah and the god of creation the god of abraham is the same god at all i'm just telling you what he's saying right because he thinks allah is god of creation he's confused so anyway he he fast and he prays with all his heart right and he said he's just miserable and then he said after after reading the quran over and over and over again after praying with all of his heart after fasting he's still in prison he's fasting he's not eating for days and days and days two weeks he said nothing he said so in his mind he said that's it i'm done with this i'm done with with islam i'm done with with allah i'm done with muhammad i'm done with the quran i'm through with this i'm going to go live my life and just do what i want live the way i want i'm through with this religion thing right he said i cried out to allah i cried out i cried out i cried out and he never answered me and then he said that he was praying
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he said in this and and he knew he had committed in islam he said they teach that if you doubt allah you doubt muhammad that you have committed a sin and that you cannot be forgiven if you doubt i mean they're just ruthless it's just a cultic satanic but he just realized that he was he was in trouble because he had just doubted allah he had doubted muhammad and so now he would he he was crying out and he said the presence of god filled the room he said the presence of god the power of god came into his cell in a powerful way came into his cell and he said that he was just backed himself in the corner and he was just crying god please forgive me forgive me forgive me forgive me he was just saying forgive me forgive me forgive me and he said he felt someone walk over to him and put their hand on he said i forgive you now this was completely foreign to him because islam does not teach forgiveness they don't know they can be forgiven they live with the weight of their sin and trying to earn their way even by killing they try to earn their way to heaven and so he feels his hand on him and he feels the moment this this god says i forgive you he said immediately i felt in my body in my heart in my mind immediately i knew i was forgiven of my sin but i didn't know who this god was and i said who are you and he said the lord said i am the way the truth and the life he goes i knew that this was important he said but i still he goes no no no but but what is your name and with the lord's hand on his head he said jesus christ of nazareth he said at that moment it felt like there were no bones in my body he said i melted before him and his feet and you know when i watched that this morning i just realized how much and that's what he said he goes i did not know how much god loved me and i had been deceived and lied to and by this religion called islam he said god wanted to forgive me god wanted to love me god wanted me to have it my whole life he wanted me to have it but i went the
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other way and i sit there he and he he said the lord spoke to him he said he said how easy was it for me to forgive you he said we have a saying in farsi because he was a iranian he said we have a term this is as easy as drinking water and he said i said to the lord it was as easy as drinking taking a drink of water he goes no no lord it was easier he goes well i can do that for any of your people and so he he looked he said he just sat there and the lord said now who's but who's going to tell him he said i will you know this is the god the god of creation the one true god there's not all kind of ways to get to heaven there's not all kind of ways to be forgiven of sin there's no work there's no righteous good deed there's no charity you can give enough money to to be forgiven and know the god of creation there is only one who died for the sins of men because he could as god in the flesh and that is the lord jesus yeshua yeshua in yeshua hamashiach jesus christ the messiah of nazareth the god man and i think about that i think about how bad you know the bible says this it's in ii peter 3 you can look there verse 9. what does it say 9-10 the lord is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance god doesn't want anyone to die in their sins and go to hell that is not his desire but listen to me folks and listen clearly it doesn't matter if you're jew or gentile it doesn't matter if you're male or female it doesn't matter if you're old or young black white red or yellow it doesn't matter you have to come to jesus christ and believe he died on the cross for your sins that he rose from the dead the third day that he is the true god who came in the flesh and he's the only one that can wash your heart and really forgive you and remove your sins from your life so that you can go to heaven and not spend eternity in hell with the devil and his angels that is the gospel and that is the love of god people want to talk about they want to be angry at god they want to accuse god why would god send people to hell god doesn't send anyone to hell if
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