Milk or Meat?
About this sermon
In “Milk or Meat,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, the condition of the church. Drawing especially from Hebrews 5, 1 Peter 3, 1 Peter 4, John 21, 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 prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture. 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 condition of the church. 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 trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on repentance. The message argues that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on baptism while working through Hebrews 5. The message argues that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. 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. 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 practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through 1 Peter 3, 1 Peter 4, John 21. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that angelic activity is examined within the biblical passage and its prophetic sequence. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Ezekiel 34. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Hosea 4. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily 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 seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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ask you to fill your church fill your church with joy overflowing feel us lord with peace fill us with your love fill us with god just your fire lord i thank you lord for these songs this morning that we had in worship lord come like a a rushing wind a fire again lord i believe you're gonna breathe new life in in us lord breathe you're really breathing new life in us individually and corporately lord i thank you for the gifts of the holy spirit i thank you for the presence and anointing of the holy spirit i thank you lord that you have plans for each and every person in your kingdom you have specific plans and you reveal your will and direction to them father i thank you for that today holy spirit we give you this service it is yours jesus you are lord you are king wow goodness gracious well the lord gave me several things for different people paul was one of them so i guess that's probably one of the reasons for this strange episode but um during praise and worship the lord gave me several things for different people first of all patrick the lord wanted me to say ask you if you're ready to get on your path to be ordained and fulfill your calling and that's partly on me and you but if you're ready he must be ready to get started to get serious no more abstract talking about it it's time to get to doing it um sandra the lord wanted me to tell you he said tell her she is my daughter and not to worry about a thing okay but he is going to work everything out because you are faithful to him and that doesn't mean bad stuff doesn't happen that doesn't mean difficult he didn't have but he is going to work all the details out and you quit worrying about that's what he all right um kevin the lord told me one simple thing for you he said he's going to reward you for your faithfulness i don't know what that means but for your servant
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heart and your faithfulness there's a reward coming for you and for paul i guess we'll have to wait on that one but just remind me to tell him later okay all right that was all the lord gave me this morning but uh you guys can be seated and we'll get in the word this morning oh there was one other thing um andy are you what are you doing friday night well i felt the lord lay on my heart that church-wise we need to go out preaching and witnessing on friday night with you and auburn so anybody who wants to go is welcome to go do that on friday night we'll uh eight o'clock all right eight o'clock friday night uh we'll meet at toomer's corner all right and um also on that while we're talking about that um you know we had talked a while back about when we were possibly going to get the building i'll just say this there are some things we want to do we want to get some tracks made and printed up so those of you that wanted to give a little extra for the building maybe the lord let the lord deal with you about giving a little extra and we're going to make some some tracks to take out witnessing some more specific kind of what the lord has us focus on and uh instead of just being kind of generic in our track all tracks you know if they preach the gospel they preach the word they're good but we want to be a little more a little more laser focused on it okay anyway and then don't let me forget to tell paul later poor thing are they okay she feeling good we okay over her there's just a lot going on and we prayed over her and she was fine she was like i'm good but then during worship she told me she goes i'm hot mom i'm hot and i said just you'll be fine i could just keep praying well let's pray everybody for leah right now father in heaven we pray god we ask you lord to bless uh the fricks right now all of them lord silas and josiah and elia paul and marlene but we just pray for healing right now for leah whatever this attack is this sickness coming over her we just pray in jesus name god for your healing power to touch her we rebuke the forces of darkness we rebuke the spirits of infirmity and sickness we rebuke this in jesus name we command it to go from aaliyah and we plead the blood of jesus over her and we pray for her healing now
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together as a church we pray for her to be healed and to feel well in jesus name amen amen you okay sweetie all right um during praise and worship the lord gave me several things for for different folks but what he wanted me to tell you and he really laid this on my heart yesterday and i kind of you know got busy and forgot but then he reminded me so it must be important but the lord told me he wants you to prepare to preach your and teach or and even put it in written form your testimony of what we were talking about coming back from miami of the transformation from where you came as a baptist and some of the doctrines you were believed and taught and how how god moved and guided you into different truth and how god moved in in in some of the things you didn't used to believe in but but how god moved in your family with healing and deliverance and the baptism holy spirit i felt that strongly when we were writing just how powerful your testimony is and it your testimony will help a lot of people and the lord wanted me to tell you to to get it in written form we need to make a little booklet out of it really and that you need to get ready to preach that here as well so um anyway testimonies are powerful what god's done in your life um and where you came from and things you believed and what you did testimonies power we overcome satan by the blood of the lamb and what word of our testimony as well our testimony what jesus has done in you where where you started where he's brought you things he's brought you through amen and oh and i needed to tell you that you got to get ready with him on this thing it's not him over here doing this you over here doing this you too will be done i saw you going out from here and preaching in churches from time to time okay it'll happen but it's a team all right what he's called to do is just like nancy what what i'm called to do she is she is involved i mean she is called to be with me in the middle of it it's yeah and but and she is she is truly with me in it all well we welcome those listening by blog talk radio welcome to fire and grace church and we're going to get into the word this morning i already posted it online uh the blog talk links and the title of the message we're going to talk about milk or meat this morning all right
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we got a lot of scripture to cover and this is let me just say we're going to continue the series on science and the bible we're we're not done with that at all this is kind of to deal with some problems that have arisen because this sermon series has stirred up some animosity and some uh some definite devils have gotten irritated with this one um but this week and i'm just going to share i want to say this week i'm going to say this month really has been a wild month for me and for nancy in particular in regards to the attacks in the sense of mockery uh reproach false accusations all kinds of stuff that's come from christians i'm talking about you know i i like to tell people all the time people would say want to criticize me sometimes i'm a little too strong i'm too firm i'm too harsh or whatever and i turn people away that turns people away from jesus it's funny because i don't ever upset them really the unsaved people i very few of them ever get uns uh upset with me it's the it's the christian folk they get upset i'm gonna call them the the milk bottle suckers get really upset and we're going to talk about that because i've really discovered in the last few weeks even more how most of christians do not want the meat of god's word they they want the milk and some of them as i'll show you don't even want the milk they've become lactose intolerant to even the milk the milk of the word is just the very basic fundamental doctrines of the bible and we'll see that and some of them don't even don't even want those anymore or they want a few of them and not all of them but there comes a point that you know as a christian you're supposed to grow up and you're supposed to want you know i still drink milk you know that's what you start out as with a baby you drink milk and that's all but then as you grow up and you begin to mature you you know god created you to have teeth in your mouth so you could choose solid food real food meat right [Music] and god uses these metaphors these analogies whatever you want to call in the word to try to teach us something we're going to start here i want you to go with me to so you'll know what i'm talking about let's just go to first peter and look at this verse first first peter chapter 2. everybody with me we got quite a few places to go this morning
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