Mega Apostasy
About this sermon
In “Mega Apostasy,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, the condition of the church. Drawing especially from Psalm 11, Matthew 24, Matthew 23, Psalm 12, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
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Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Psalm 11, Matthew 24, Matthew 23. 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 test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Psalm 11, Psalm 12, Hebrews 4. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. 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 the authority of Scripture while working through 2 Timothy 3. 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 the authority of Scripture while working through Luke 24. 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 seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on spiritual leadership while working through Matthew 23. 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 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 idolatry and occult influence while working through Luke 24. The message argues that objects and practices tied to idolatry are treated as spiritual compromises that should be renounced. It connects this with the conviction that leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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we worship your name a name above every name the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth we worship you we praise you you are truly the fullness of the godhead bodily you are God In the Flesh you are the logos The Living Word you are the way the truth and the life Jesus we exalt you you are above all Lord you are above Muhammad Buddha Krishna all the lies and the false religions of this world Lord You Are the one true God and the only savior of mankind we come to you today and we worship you we praise you we thank you and it's in Jesus name we pray amen and amen you may be seated this morning we welcome everyone here to fire in Grace Church we welcome those listening by Blog Talk Radio mixler and watching on Facebook live this morning hopefully be able to get through all of this again I did not plan any of this this way but this is kind of a part three over the last few weeks just to let you know next week we're going to have a guest speaker I don't want anyone to miss my friend um Troy from Montgomery Mr Troy towns he'll be with us known him a long time he's definitely a preacher he's got the gift of preach upon him so he's going to be preaching next Sunday morning so don't miss that amen he's going to have a word from the Lord I want everybody to take their Bibles and we're going to turn this morning to Psalm 11 first psalm 11. title of my message today is Mega apostasy Mega apostasy not a really a new theme for me especially those of you who've been in fire Greg's church for any amount of time I've tried to be very faithful to let you know what's going on out there in the world and of course this is part of Bible prophecy Jesus foretold Matthew 24 verses three there the apostles asked him they said what will be the sign of your coming and of the End of the Age and Jesus spoke very clear he said take heed that no man deceive you for many will come in my name saying I am Christ or I am anointed or I am of Christ the word Christ means anointed one so he's saying there many would not come saying I'm Jesus Christ that wouldn't deceive us he said many would come saying I am anointed I'm an anointed one of Jesus
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Christ and he said Jesus said take heed many will come in my name saying I am the anointed one or I am the anointed and deceive meaning so people would come in the name of Jesus and deceive many now this is the first thing that Jesus said when his disciples said what will be the sign of your coming and of the End of the Age so what he was saying was mass deception in the name of Jesus is that not what he said is that am I uh taking that too far now let me say this I've been very hard on some of these uh the whole mega church philosophy okay don't get me wrong when I talk about mega churches as if I'm lumping them all into one basket just because they're a big church there are big churches that teach truth as long as they are faithful to the word of God and they teach the whole counsel of the word of God I'm off I'm fine with the church being a big church that's fine we we actually need churches of all shapes and sizes okay that's not what I'm saying but what I'm saying is there's a philosophy of ministry that invaded the church a number of years ago it started really I would say the father of this Church growth cult this Seeker sensitive watered down version of Christianity really started with Robert Schuler I believe I would say Norman Vincent peel Robert Schuler and then the men who followed Robert Schuler bill hybels Rick Warren and many others okay including as we're going to find out today Andy Stanley the son of the Baptist famous Baptist preacher Charles Stanley who was the I think I guess he may still be the pastor is he still the pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta or not he went through a divorce I don't know he stayed and then I don't know if he's still there or not but anyway he's he was the for Charles Stanley was the uh the Baptist pastor at First Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia for many many years he may still be I don't even know how many maybe in 30 years I don't know his son Andy Stanley was on staff there for a while then started his own church over what is it in North North Atlanta area somewhere I don't know but he's got churches all over um that area satellite churches I am I I have to say this morning that I am blown away I'm absolutely Blown Away by how far we are into the great falling away the apostasy the falling away from truth that you know according to Wikipedia Andy Stanley's church North Point Church
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there in Atlanta according to Wikipedia since 2014 says that as of 2014 it is the largest church in America okay so I guess he somehow has eclipsed um Joel Osteen Lakewood in Houston but but regardless think about that for just a second that the two largest churches in America tens of thousands of people attend these churches and they're satellites and on a Millions more watch them on television internet YouTube whatever and these guys are completely away from God in the Bible and I want to say this this morning too is it does matter what they say but I'm going to tell you you can be you can be a church and be in just as much deception on what you refuse to say and what you refuse to teach right it's not just teaching falsehoods it's holding back truth right both are equally damaging to the people of God because God put it in here and the Apostle Paul made it clear in the book of Acts you know he told them he said hey I'm clear of the blood of all men because I have declared unto you the whole Council of God's word I have not shunned he said to declare unto you I've not hidden anything I've not kept anything back from you my job is to declare it from Genesis to the maps every subject every word okay um so I'm blown away because you know in the last few weeks I've been pretty hard on this whole contemporary mega church philosophy okay the secret sensitive thing now a lot of them will point to well we've grown big churches or people have been saved in these churches um remember Jesus said something about the Pharisees and this is in Matthew 23 and I won't turn there just at this moment but this is just kind of an introduction you can go read the whole chapter if you want to matter of fact it'd be good homework go read Matthew 23 and 24 right if you hadn't in a while but Jesus looked at the Pharisees who were at the time the leaders of the correct and only correct religion of the world right they had the scriptures the holy scriptures the Torah the law the writings of Moses and the prophets and King David and the psalm and they were the head of the synagogues right in the temple and they were the teachers of the law and Jesus looks at them and he says you
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guys not false prophets not false teachers in the sense of they were in a false religion like Buddhism or Hinduism or Islam but he says you guys will will go around Land and Sea to make one convert and when you have made him you have made him twofold or double the child of Hell than yourselves because whenever you go around Land and Sea to make a convert like we'll find out these people are going around the word of God and the gospel and the truth and a lot of things about they avoid those things like the plague they go around the Bible they've got in this uh their as this article says we'll look at here in a minute in their obsession to engage the culture they're leaving the scriptures and they're creating another Jesus and another spirit and another gospel now what's shocking to me especially we're going to play a clip here in a minute you got that video ready I'm gonna let you see it for yourselves pastor of either the largest church in America or one of the largest churches in America and when you hear this I want you to say his his apostasy his attack upon the Bible and the scriptures it's not subtle it's not a misunderstanding I'm Blown Away but I have never seen in my life now I you know we know the Bible is clear the Bible warned us that people God's in His prophets and his Apostles warned us that the world the Wicked the unsaved the Heathen the rebellious the you know the Lawless they would hate the truth they would hate the light of scripture the truth of scripture the the gospel message they would hate Jesus because he's the light of the world they'll hate the Bible because it is the lamp and light I mean that that we're not surprised about we shouldn't be shocked when the unsaved the world the wicked I mean I got Satanist and everybody you want to talk about you want you want the crazies to come out post the post a video on YouTube talking about the Bible Well you get it all man I've got literally hundreds hundreds of comments and emails is it working okay Facebook work um but man some of the attacks against the Bible from the unsaved satanists and people on my page just vicious but what's shocking is when we see Christians or people who claim to be Christians pastors with thousands of people who flock to their churches say things like
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