Leaving the House of Micah
About this sermon
In “Leaving the House of Micah,” Pastor Dean Odle develops a Scripture-centered message moving through prayer and the state of the church, micah’s self-made religion, silent watchmen and missing truth, money, celebrity, and ministry. The sermon follows the speaker’s argument chronologically, grounding its principal appeals in biblical passages and practical ministry examples.
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Opening worship and exhortation ask whether believers possess God’s peace and know they are walking in His will. The appeal asks hearers to measure their response by that biblical priority.
Odle prays for the Holy Spirit. The speaker introduces a warning about churches that retain religious form while resisting Christ’s rule.
Judges 17–18 becomes a picture of worship constructed according to human preference, with Micah’s idols and hired priest replacing obedience. This portion explicitly uses Judges 17 and Matthew 7 in developing that point.
The sermon criticizes leaders who omit repentance, the cross, judgment, and costly discipleship even when their public teaching sounds positive. This portion explicitly uses John 10 and Isaiah 56 in developing that point.
Odle alleges that prosperity and celebrity culture turn ministry into a career and train congregations to measure success by wealth and scale. This portion explicitly uses Mark 10 in developing that point.
Jesus’ warnings about riches frame a choice between trusting Christ fully and allowing money, profession, or security to govern obedience. This portion explicitly uses Luke 9, John 10 and Romans 8 in developing that point.
Moses and other biblical examples show that doing God’s will may require surrendering status, pleasure, and material advantage. This portion explicitly uses Matthew 7 and 1 John 2 in developing that point.
Odle presents discipleship as dying to the carnal will and following Jesus even when obedience is painful or unpopular. The speaker applies the point to the choices believers make under pressure.
The message warns that professing Christians are accountable to obey the gospel and must not become offended by plain Scripture. This portion explicitly uses Romans 13 and John 16 in developing that point.
The conclusion calls listeners to leave compromised religious systems, seek the Holy Spirit, and worship Christ with undivided loyalty. This part of the message turns the doctrine into a question of loyalty and daily conduct.
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- 0:02:13
We're gonna do that one again y'all that one right there, and I didn't tell my wife what I was preaching on today But that's basically the essence of the entire message. I have for you today. There is nothing more important You need to understand this there is nothing more important Than for you to learn to hear the voice of God and know When he is leading you so that you can know That you are in his will for your life, and I can tell you right now his will 99 times out of a hundred is not going to be anything that's in your mind or your plans your agenda in Fact I want to tell you this today the Lord laid this on my heart last night and this morning, and I was praying and for some of you that he has a Radical change for your life a completely different direction and You've gonna have to hear his voice on this matter, and you say well pastor Dean. How do I know you need to take some time? to fast and pray and Say Lord. I want to do your will from my life whatever it is And I'm willing to lay down whatever I need to lay down I'm willing to change whatever I need to change And you're not going to let money or fear Dictate what you do because this is one thing I know about the Lord when you obey And you do his will doesn't mean it won't be difficult at times, and they won't mean that they won't be suffering at times or Seems like the bank account may be empty sometimes But he will always be with you and provide for you When you're in his will for your life, and if you're not and he loves you enough to start interfering With the way you're going things to start messing up bad and Sometimes it's cuz he's trying to get our attention This is not what I have for you. There's something else I have for you to do So it is important. I can't stress this enough the life of a Christian Is to completely and totally deny self take up the cross and follow Jesus wherever his Holy Spirit leads you in whatever he leads you to do and I'm not preaching something that I have not done for the last 37 years. I Will do what the Lord? Tells me to do and that is why and I'm gonna tell you right now That is why the anointing of the Holy Spirit and the blessing of God is on my life
- 0:05:15
He's ever passed me you got all these difficulties going on in your life and battles going. Yes, absolutely But do I have the peace of God? Do I know that I'm absolutely in the will of God for my life? Absolutely. Do I always pray and ask him? What's next Lord? What's next and you know what I found? It's always he's always gonna stretch me out of my comfort zone Always if you're comfortable You probably in trouble. Let's do this one again, and I want us to really think about the word. This is a beautiful song I don't even know who this dude is, but It's a great song. I mean he may be completely off-base who knows anymore But yeah, this song is a word from the Lord. Amen So let's worship one more time and then we'll get in the word. We're not in a hurry I know Facebook may silence this video. Who cares? We're gonna worship the Lord as we see fit. Amen. All right, let's do it
- 0:13:26
Hallelujah Heavenly Father we ask you to fill us with your Holy Spirit Lord fresh in the new Lord. We need a fresh Anointing of the Holy Spirit in our lives constantly Lord We need you to fill us and we need you Lord to speak to us through your word and by your Holy Spirit speak to us Lead us into all truth lead us into the truth of your word lead us into sound Doctrine, but also Lord give us the direction For our lives and Lord we know at times those directions are new They change We can't let anything any idle Or any other thing stop us from doing your will and following you and walking with you Listen, Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. You may be seated this morning. I Want to welcome everyone to fire and grace church this morning. We have a lot of people with people traveling and people sick So be praying for all your brothers and sisters, especially the Taylor family. They got a little one. That's 103 fever this morning That's been going around My wife and daughter had fever this week, but it's gone. Hallelujah Ninety eight point seven this morning. So we figured they could come on to church. Hi Hallelujah Wanted to share just a couple of things God is good. We love soaring in Denmark. He's our good brother in Denmark and He just wanted to share with us. He sent us a little screenshot that the Dean Odell Europe page Which is a miracle. It's allowed to survive Just hit 10,000 subscribers What's that? Oh, he posted it. Okay, it's a screenshot. We We have it. We'll put it up for you, but that's pretty cool now, of course, we had a channel before that had 24,000 subscribers and growing and YouTube terminated that channel but soren edits those so they can be played in Europe and so I guess that they survive But if you want unedited sermons, then you have to go to either Dean Odell org or to rumble And if you go to rumble you have to go to FGC on rumble there so Also want to hey, we got a good portion of our Pelham Bible study in the house this morning. Give them hand. Hey, I Think there was over 20 at the last Bible study in your house there John That's pretty wild. But that's that's that's been good. It's been very good we just and that's one of those things the Holy Spirit when You guys were at the skyfall back in last year in 2023 and we're talking outside I just felt the Holy Spirit come on me and say hey We need to do something up there and we'll just pray about it and see what God wants to do And it's being it's been good But we're gonna get into the word this morning, so I hope you have your Bibles and I hope you're ready to roll
- 0:16:27
This is I guess this is kind of part three This is part three of It's kind of weird. I guess you know when the Lord spoke to me a few weeks ago, and he said come out of her my people It's turned into a little bit more Of course last week was the congregation of the dead and the week before that was the Roman Catholic whore of Babylon And I'm gonna deal more that in fact just let y'all know I've been doing a much deeper dive into church history and Roman Catholic history and Jesuit history and I'm probably God willing in the creek don't rise as we say in Alabama God willing I'm gonna do a series on True churches where the Bible came from we need to know that how it was preserved how the Roman Catholic Church has fought The true scriptures from day one how they've killed Christians and burned them at the stake for years over the Bible We're gonna talk about that and then there's a lot of people think that the Roman Catholic Church has changed it has not changed But we'll get into that in the days ahead Today I've kind of I guess I've entitled this leaving the house of Micah Leaving the house of Mikey's and what is the house of Micah? We're gonna find out and this is even though it has gonna have a broad application of kind of the condition of the church world it's also a personal word and it's a personal word of The only thing that's gonna make us any different than the dead lukewarm backslidden Church world it's pretty much dominating the West right now most of the world the only thing that makes us any different The only thing that's gonna bring the anointing of the Holy Spirit and the power of God on her life is what I was sharing A minute ago, and that is people who are totally surrendered to the will of God Totally surrendered to be led by the Holy Spirit unafraid Unafraid to say whatever the Lord wants you to say unafraid to go where he wants you to go unafraid to do what he wants you to do That's it unafraid and also never letting money Become the issue that causes us to make our decisions money or the lack thereof You know Jesus said this in fact go ahead and put this verse up. This is Matthew 6 24 You're gonna see why I'm saying this today Because I'm gonna tell you right now the idol in most churches and the idol in most people's lives is money And it's not just rich people But Christian people now it takes money to do things and this is not a sermon on giving I know it takes money to do things
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