Preaching the True Gospel
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In “Preaching the True Gospel,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about biblical love, eternal life and hope, repentance. Drawing especially from 2 Peter 3:9, Luke 15, Matthew 9, Mark 9, the teaching emphasizes that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ.
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Odle focuses on biblical love while working through 2 Peter 3:9. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that the inner life must be healed, guarded, and brought under the truth of God’s word. 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 the gospel announces Christ’s saving work and calls every hearer to repent, believe, and obey. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on costly discipleship while working through Luke 15, Matthew 9, Mark 9. The message argues that following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. 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 respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on repentance while working through Psalm 51. 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 God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
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 the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on eternal life and hope. 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 marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on worship. The message argues that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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.
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and it is true that i love you with an everlast for i have given myself on the cross for your sins i have loved you even before you were born for i have known you before you were formed in your mother's womb i knew you i had a plan for you says the lord and i have a plan for you now says lord i have a plan to show you my love and my forgiveness but that plan means you must turn to me with all of your heart away from every sin away from every distraction away from every idol you must turn to me and give me all of your heart and i have promised if you will give me all of your heart i will give you all of mine for does not my words say draw nigh unto me and i will draw nigh unto you i have promised to draw near you i have promised to heal the brokenhearted to set at liberty them that are bruised i want to heal your broken heart i want to fix your shattered emotions i want to fix your heart and your mind i will forgive you if you will come to me with all of your heart turn from your sin and follow my son i saith the lord thank you lord jesus thank you hallelujah thank you jesus you know i feel that real strong this morning even uh during praise and worship you may be seated this morning we'll get into the word i want you to turn with me to luke chapter four luke chapter four you know the truth of the gospel is that jesus loves us amen that is the truth that he loves us so much that he willingly laid down his life and died on the cross became sin for us so that we could be forgiven of our sins that is according to god almighty the creator that's the greatest act of love that's ever been done ever in the history of the world
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that jesus christ the messiah the son of the living god god manifested in the flesh this mystery that we have a hard time grasping with our minds that god became a man lived a sinless life died on the cross for our sins rose from the dead and that through believing and following him that we can be forgiven that our broken heart can be healed that our emotions can be healed that every wound from our past and our childhood can be healed this is the gospel but let me say this there is there is something in the way no you'll hear people you'll hear preachers talk about god loves us and that jesus died for us and all of that is true but there's a big part that's being left out today because there's this there's this ocean of god's love and healing and forgiveness that he wants to give us but he says there's something you have to do there's something that i have to do to get all of that and this is the problem we tell people there's preachers on tv there's preachers in churches this morning they tell people basically they just say god loves you he loves all of us and they almost make it sound like everybody's going to heaven they almost make it sound like everybody has access to this forgiveness and and and truly they do have access but for some of us there are these big obstacles in the way some of us it is sin it is rebellion it is disobedience some of us it is simply an unwillingness to give everything to god to truly surrender our lives 100 and say i will no longer do my own will i'll no longer follow my own plans i'll no longer try to do it myself but i surrender god all of me and this stands in the way of experiencing the love and the healing and the deliverance that jesus wants us to have folks let me say this yes is jesus coming back one day here soon to judge the wicked and to judge the earth and are many people going to be thrown into hell forever yes that is a sad reality but that has never been god's first choice for anyone that's why the scripture says in second peter 3 9 that the lord is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance god wants everyone to come to repentance the problem is is that the preachers and the churches and many christians have quit preaching the very thing that will get the obstacles out of the way of people's lives they've quit preaching repentance and they and most people don't even know what that means anymore
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they think a lot of people think it means feeling sorry for what you've done guess what everybody feels sorry for what they've done they've done even bill clinton felt bad about what he did but he didn't change his ways you see it's not about feeling sorry that your sins messed up your life or that you got caught it's about what are you going to do with how god feels about it now i want to read some things this morning because basically i don't even know what to call this this morning um the gospel preaching the gospel i don't know but in luke chapter four this is when jesus had just he'd been baptized by john the baptist he'd been in the wilderness tempted of the devil 40 days he came back and it says in verse 14 we'll start reading there and jesus returned in the power of the spirit into galilee and there went out of fame of him through all the region round about and he taught in their synagogues being glorified of all and he came to nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and stood up for to read and that was delivered unto him the book of the prophet isaiah and when he opened the book he found the place where it was written the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance to the captives and the recovering of sight to the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised and to preach the acceptable year of the lord and he closed the book and he gave it again to the minister and sat down and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him and he began to say unto them this day is this a scripture fulfilled in your ears now before i read any further in this i just want you to see this is what jesus came to do he came to preach the gospel what is the gospel the gospel is simply simply this we are all sinners we are all lost we are all in need all of mankind we are all in need of the forgiveness of sins because we have all broken god's law and that no good deed we could do could save us in and of itself we couldn't be good enough we could never be good enough because we have all broken god's law so god had to send his only begotten son to die in our place to pay the penalty for our sins even though he didn't have to and he came and he did that he became the sinless spotless lamb of god the sacrifice to shed his blood and the bible teaches only the blood of jesus washes away sin
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not buddha not muhammad not karma not krishna nothing only the blood of jesus there had to be a sacrifice for sin and so jesus became that sacrifice and because he was the holy spotless son of the living god death could not hold him even though he willingly tasted of death for us and he rose from the dead three days later because he is life itself that's why he told mary and martha i am the resurrection and the life i don't even understand people who don't want hope of eternal life who don't want to make sure that they have it man i want to make sure how about you i want to be sure i have it i don't want to just guess right i don't want to just think and that's one thing that's beautiful about jesus this thing is not about religion there are a lot of people that believe a lot of things but if you really turn to the creator of heaven and earth to the one true god jehovah yahweh elohim if you turn to him and his son jesus christ he will let you know that you are saved you will have an experience called being born again the holy spirit will come in you and he will wash you and cleanse you and you will feel the peace of god and the power of god and you will be changed it's nothing you have to guess about it's nothing you have to wonder about if you truly meet him and turn to him and meet him you will find out that you can know the creator of heaven and earth that is good news see the the short definition of the gospel is good news what is the good news you can know that you know that you know that you know that jesus is real that he is who he says he is that he did what he what the bible says he did and that we can trust him for all eternity we can trust him in the good times and in the bad times we can trust him to be our comforter and our healer and our deliverer and everything we need amen he is the messiah you guys i think there's there's not enough we need to focus back again on who jesus is amen and what he wants to do and it's listen it's out of his great love jesus wants listen he wants everybody to be saved he desires everybody to go to heaven forever he wants every person that's ever been born he wanted them to come to him the problem is he gave us a free will he gave us a free will we're not robots he doesn't make anyone love him or follow him or obey him but listen it's out of love
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