Knowing God Intimately
About this sermon
In “Knowing God Intimately,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about biblical love, God’s commandments, faith. Drawing especially from Jeremiah 17, John 14, Psalm 16, the teaching emphasizes that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life.
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Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Jeremiah 17. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 biblical love while working through John 14. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on biblical love. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on biblical love. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. 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 biblical love. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on revival while working through Psalm 16. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
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 the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on grace and mercy. The message argues that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. 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 respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
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got upon the word upon our worship lord god we just ask you to touch every person here every person listening by radio this morning internet radio we bless them and we pray god that your power and your anointing and your glory and your presence lord that you will touch people listening people here this morning god we need your presence we need your presence and we need your truth both together we pray it in jesus name foreign we're on the lord thy god i am here i hear your prize i hear your pains i hear your worship i hear your joy i am with you walk to my glory see me hear me feel me know that i am with you at your side i walk every day just save the world praise the lord amen you may be seated this morning you know there's nothing better than the presence of the lord amen and i talk about when he when he manifests his presence in a special way you know the lord has kind of been laying on my heart some scriptures this morning so we're going to turn first to john chapter 14. because i believe we're moving into a new season that the lord is is revealing that he's ready to move among us and do some new things in our lives and everything accomplished by by jesus in our lives would be by the power of his presence by the power of the holy spirit and by the truth of the word of god amen i want to show you something that a lot of christianity doesn't even understand
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anymore because it's not simply enough for everything to be academic amen it's not enough to just have information right you got to have the presence of god the reality of the presence of jesus christ in your life and there's different degrees of that the bible talks about the anointing that's one thing the bible talks about his presence the bible talks about his glory there's different degrees and different aspects to how god manifests his presence and his power in our lives and i've talked about that in the past about the difference between the anointing of god or the presence of god versus the glory of god i've talked about that i may mention explain that a little more in a minute since we have some new folks with us but here's the thing for the christian your ultimate desire should be to know jesus intimately and in a real way where you feel his presence from time to time where you s where you speak to him and you hear him speak to you where you feel his power and you see his glory working in your life it's it's a real relationship it's a real interaction it's a real thing that should be going on it's not just about going to church it's not just about reading your bible it's not just about you know learning things in the scriptures all that's good but the ultimate goal of all that should be pushing us toward hungering and thirsting and experiencing the presence and the power of god in our lives through jesus blood through the holy spirit and see much of the church world now is to simply go to church sing some songs sing two or three songs and hear a 30 minute sermon and we go home and we don't do anything different we just live our lives and that's why so many young people i'm gonna be honest that's why so many young people are leaving the church that's why so many young people are getting involved in witchcraft and the occult because there is a hunger in the human heart for power for the power of the spirit world for the power of something beyond us that's why so many people are into the whole alien thing and they want they want to find out that aliens are real because the human being knows deep in their soul deep in their spirit that we need something else beyond just us because we're pretty pathetic and pitiful right we're pretty evil we're pretty selfish we're pretty self-driven and self-absorbed and and wicked and sinful and as the scripture says you know jeremiah said the prophet jeremiah the holy spirit said through him in jeremiah 17 10 he
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said the heart of man is is deceitfully wicked i mean it's it's just wicked it's just deceitful and desperately wicked he said who can know it you know people the people of the world walk around and go well well he's got a good heart she's got to go no they don't no they don't listen good deeds don't well never outweigh your bad deeds no matter how much good you try to do nothing can can deal with the evil that's in each one of us see that's the thing we have this deep embedded evil in us that was passed down from adam and eve it's inside of us and the bible told us that this evil that's inside of every person will never go away until we come until jesus comes back until we are resurrected till you believe in him and you're born again and then we're resurrected and jesus sets up his kingdom that's the only way the only way your flesh is going to cease from wanting to do evil is it's going to have to die and be resurrected and be a body like jesus has that's the only time but the good news is this is that jesus knew that we needed help he knew we couldn't save ourselves by good deeds that we could never out we could never get rid of the evil we could never control the evil in our hearts or our flesh without him coming and dying on the cross for sin and evil and wickedness and being raised from the dead and then giving us his spirit to help us obey the scriptures and not give in to our evil nature but to walk according to the spirit of god and according to the word of god now i've preached a lot in this church and over the years i've written books about it i've preached messages about that the bible expects us to live obedient lives holy lives but here's something i want to focus on today we're going to talk about that too but i want to focus on some there's the there's the benefit if you're willing to do things god's way there's a massive benefit all right let's look at that benefit here in this world there's something you can have that's from the other world that's from heaven amen let's look at this what jesus said this is john 14 jesus speaking to his disciples and of course verse 6 is where he said i am the way the truth and the life and no man comes to the father but through me and then as he goes on down and he's talking to them we're going to look down at verse 15 he says this and if the church world could just get this chapter down in their heart and understand well we got a lot of the church world now doesn't even believe verse six anymore that jesus is the only way to heaven so i mean this chapter is an important chapter in the bible amen it's exactly what jesus spoke and what jesus said
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but we're going to look at verse 15 and jesus said this this is jesus christ of nazareth the lord the messiah god in the flesh this is what jesus said if you love me keep my commandments and i will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever notice the the condition and then the promise the condition if you love me what more than yourself more than your sinful desires more than your wicked ways more than the evil things in the world if you love me then keep my commandments and he says if you do this if you love me and you keep my commandments then i will send you the comforter or the holy spirit see this is the beauty of it god is always saying if you can turn loose of sin if you can turn loose of your own ways if you can turn loose of your own evil wicked lustful desires if you can turn loose of your own plans and do what i command you love me first and obey me i will give you the holy spirit i will give you a comforter how many would like a comforter amen again what i'm talking about the human heart the human being knows we need something beyond our world to help us through this life and jesus said when i go back to heaven i will send you my holy spirit to be a comforter a helper a guide a strength a power that you need and the reason the church doesn't have power is because we won't yield and obey the commandments of god we won't meet the conditions to have the power of his presence a reality and so that's why we have so many people walking around saying they're christians but they have no power in their lives to live differently or to heal the sick or cleanse the leper raise the dead cast out demons the real christian is supposed to have the comforter the holy spirit of god living in them on them around them and flowing through them like a river to help other people that's true christianity but it all hinges on the verse if you love me jesus said then keep my commandments look i can tell my wife all day long i love her i could say it every day 10 times a day but if i'm committing adultery and having an affair my actions say i do not love her but because i keep the commandment to not commit adultery and break my covenant it shows her it proves to her that i love her it's the same with god lip service is no good
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