Leviathan & the Children of Pride
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In “Leviathan & the Children of Pride,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about pride and humility, Satanic opposition, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14, Proverbs 21, Genesis 1, the teaching emphasizes that spiritual pride blinds people to correction, while humility receives truth and depends on God. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes.
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Odle focuses on pride and humility. 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 Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on pride and humility while working through Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14. 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 Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on eternal life and hope while working through Proverbs 21. The message argues that the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. 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 the authority of Scripture while working through Genesis 1, Psalm 14. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 pride and humility while working through Proverbs 21. 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 Saul’s decline illustrates the danger of insecurity, partial obedience, and resistance to correction. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on pride and humility while working through Philippians 2, Isaiah 13, Matthew 24. 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 God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on pride and humility while working through Malachi 4, Isaiah 27, Revelation 13. 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 true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on pride and humility. 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 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.
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Lord we worship you today we love your presence we love you Jesus Lord we love the anointing and presence of your Holy Spirit we love your word your truth God we just love you today that's your first commandment and we would love you with all of our heart soul mind and strength and love our neighbor as ourselves Lord we thank you God for your grace that you enable us to see now what it means to love you what it means to obey you what it means to walk with you father I pray today if anyone is walking in darkness that their eyes will be open we pray God that the spirit of pride will be broken we pray that you would touch and convict every Christian and every non-Christian that's listening here today or listening today about this sin of pride because Lord we want to be humble Lord you said you give grace to the humble we know you give your Holy Spirit to the humble so Lord help us to understand the difference between humility and pride today in Jesus name amen and amen we welcome you this morning everyone the fire and Grace Church those listening by Blog Talk Radio uh we're gonna be discussing what I've called it this morning is Leviathan and the children of pride you all ready I'm gonna clean these off here Leviathan and the children of Pride this is very important Pride Creeps in on us many ways but it's a destructive force and I got a lot of scriptures we're going to go to today first one I want you to go do first of all just just go to Job chapter 41. we'll turn there Job chapter 41. I'll get there myself in just a second now in Job chapter 41 it's also mentioned in the book of Isaiah you'll see this term in the Hebrew this term Leviathan Leviathan defined in the Hebrew language I'll just give you the definition here this is from the Strong's Hebrew dictionary it is a wreath animal that is a serpent especially the crocodile or some other large sea monster
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figuratively it is the constellation of the Dragon also a symbol of Babylon so the this Leviathan creature that God is talking about he gives the definition that it is like a serpent uh that has wings many people don't understand like the the angels of God many of them we have the Bible talks about there's different kinds of angels seraphim cherubim um there's different kinds Ministers of fire flames of fire they're called they're different things and they look different and what the term seraphim means a lot of people don't know that it means literally flying serpent or Flame um so some of the Fall you got to remember some of the angels that fell are these different kinds of angels cherubims seraphims the ministering spirits that are flames of fire you know people I saw this the other day I was watching and I watched these shows sometimes just to see what's going on but Ancient Aliens I keep up with that one because that's the clear Illuminati agenda there but they were talking about going different people going to these places where spiritual or paranormal activities going on and they're always seeing these these orbs of light you know come down and descend and some of them come down and make these crop circles you know and I know some of the crop circles are are hoaxes but others are not they're made by Supernatural forces well we know that those forces are Fallen Angels and Demons doing those things but these people will see these orbs of light not too long ago someone posted on Facebook a video of this little like flame looked like it was moving around in the clouds playing a little hide and seek game it was it was a wild little thing that somebody sent me and I was like you know the Bible says Satan transforms himself into an angel of Light but some of the fallen angels that went with him are literally called flames of fire so there'll be these orbs of light um but this Leviathan creature really is a symbol or represents just another term I believe for Satan or Lucifer or his original name in Hebrew halal but the Fallen Angel Satan Lucifer now when he describes this dragon serpent sea monster creature to job he's telling job he said can you basically can you control him you deal with him can you kill him and of course job never says anything because he knows he can't and I'm just going to say this today this is not part of really this is not important one way or the other but I'm just going to share with you that I believe that this creature really
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existed was real and was a representation our physical representation on the earth of Satan just like when Jesus came Jesus was the physical manifestation of God upon the Earth so I believe this creature was real because God describes it is real as a dragon that brings fire that had scales a lot of the things that are in the movies and the books and things that we think are myths really are not myths and you know they found skeletons of these creatures and there's one huge one and God does say that he slayed this Leviathan but then he talks about this Leviathan and we're going to read it in the last part of this chapter because I don't want to read the whole chapter you can read it later of all the descriptions of Leviathan but he makes this statement in the end about this Leviathan which is interesting which lets you know he was more than just a physical creature that he represented the spiritual also the spiritual creature I believe Satan the Dragon and he says this let's go down to the last verse it says he verse 34 he beholdeth all high things he is the king over all the children of pride you see that he is the king over all the children of Pride so we know that even though he's talking about I believe a creature that really existed but the symbology here the the symbols represent Satan as the king or the ruler or the commander over all the children who let Pride rule their life and we've got to think about something and we've got to remember this Satan did not get kicked out of heaven because of sexual sin or drunkenness or you know partying he got kicked out of heaven over Pride and can I just tell you something Pride the sin of pride can determine heaven or hell for a lot of people and there are a lot of people I mean the unsaved are automatically in Pride they can't help but be that way they have no alternative the world revolves around them their lives it's all about self but the problem with this is not just that pride is in the lost the unsaved and the worldly the ones who don't know Jesus as their lord and savior it's the pride that's in the Christians that's really bad
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and boy is there ever Pride but I want to tell you this if the sin of Pride dominates your life then Leviathan is your Lord and Jesus is not he is the king over all the children of Pride let's look at go to Ezekiel 28 I want to bring out some of the stuff here about Lucifer's fall and I hope y'all are going to stay with me because I'm not going to get in a hurry this morning this is so very important this is one of those examine your heart messages you've got to hate Pride with a passion and as you're turning there I want to say this about Pride a lot of times people and I'm talking about Christian people who are bold and confident get mistakenly or falsely accused of being prideful when a lot of times it's the complete opposite if somebody is bold and they're confident that they're speaking the truth of the word of God and you think they're just too Brash they're just too you know straightforward or plain spoken or blunt or whatever you want to call it if you sometimes we we accuse people of that of being in Pride and especially as Christians we accuse one another being in Pride especially when we're in a debate are wearing a doctrinal discussion or over what is truth in a situation or over an issue and one of the first things that comes out if you're bold and strong and outspoken oh you're in Pride somehow the church World got an idea that being weak and and uh lukewarm and uh indecisive and uh trying to play politics and be on both sides of the fence at the same time and stuff like oh well we're both right no you're not foreign the most prideful people are the ones that look like they're the most Meek and mild and gentle people pride is a deceptive day I know a lot of people that are in Pride over their humility they are really convinced that they're humble because they're sweet and they don't offend anybody they don't hurt anybody's feelings I don't want to hurt the poor homosexuals feeling but we don't tell them and they're going to tell them the truth that it will damn them to hell if they don't get out of it now that's believed to be humility now
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