Prophetic Leadership
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In “Prophetic Leadership,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, spiritual leadership, faith. Drawing especially from Romans 1, Matthew 10, Proverbs 28, Matthew 28, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim.
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Odle focuses on the prophetic sign while working through Romans 1, Matthew 10. The message argues that the biblical narrative is used to show God’s power to recover what has been lost and restore usefulness. It connects this with the conviction that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Matthew 10. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Proverbs 28. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on biblical love while working through Matthew 28, Matthew 23. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Ephesians 5. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that objects and practices tied to idolatry are treated as spiritual compromises that should be renounced. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Matthew 10, Proverbs 29. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Ezekiel 13, John 16. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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holy spirit upon us the anointing to empower those words to flow through our lives to change us to speak to us to lead us and guide us lord we invite you here we thank you god we praise you god this morning we thank you god for everything that your word promises when we do things your way lord we just worship you i thank you have this time to be together with our church family and those listening we thank you lord god for uh those who will hear this all over the world and we pray god that you would just ordain and speak and move through this entire service jesus name amen you can be seated this morning could have done those last two songs several times i think [Music] okay i thought the sound system was coming back on what's that oh yeah we'll turn this on now all right well good morning to everyone hallelujah so as most of you already know that today is our ordination service we have a message to preach before we do that though because it is a serious thing amen it's something that i've never taken lightly and never done quickly with anyone because it is a it is a serious matter you know the bible talks about in hebrews chapter 6 talks about the foundational doctrines of christ and it says there the doctrine of repentance from dead works faith toward god it talks about also the doctrine of baptisms plural not one doctrine of baptisms but it also talks about the doctrine of the laying on of hands and there are multiple just like there are multiple baptisms there's the baptism in water until repentance after you're saved there's the baptism of the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues that the the christians already saved received on the day of pentecost and on throughout the new testament then there's the baptism of fire when god truly baptizes you with fire and sanctifies you and does a cleansing work and and frees you from a lot of things that you used to habits and issues that you've had okay how many of you know christians still have bad habits and sins and issues that
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need to be burned out of them amen so that's the baptism of fire the old the old uh you know wesley and his guys used to call it sanctification and they believed it was a complete second work of grace after you were saved that you needed to be saved sanctified and filled with the holy ghost that's the way the old pentecostals used to preach it amen and the old methodist circuit writers so there's multiple baptisms there's multiple reasons for the ministry of the laying on of hands the ministry is laying on hands if you look and again this is just giving you a little introduction to this this morning this is really not the message but but the ministry of laying on the pants is for divine healing she said these signs will follow them that believe they will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover amen so it's for the ministry of healing but it's also the ministry of laying on hands for the ordination of ministers and the impartation of the gifts of the holy spirit and not just the gifts of the holy spirit but the ministry gifts this is a biblical principle you see it in romans 1 verse 11 you see it talked about in timothy both first and second timothy uh you see in the old testament as well you see it when moses god instructed moses to call 70 of the elders and he called the 70 elders and the lord spoke to him and said i'm going to take of of the spirit that's on you the holy spirit of god that was only said i'm going to take of that anointing that's on you and i'm going to put it on them so they can help bear the burden of the congregation and so god transfers anointings i don't know you know some people in the traditional church world they don't understand this they don't believe it but it's bible we see the picture with elisha and elijah you know and and they understood that man in fact all the prophets then because you know back in the days of elijah and elisha there was a group of prophets there was a school of the prophets actually they called them the sons of the prophets but elijah was the head prophet over those prophets of that time and i remember when he said the lord told him he said go do such and such a few things here and i want you to go anoint elisha to be in your place when you leave when i take you and so elijah went and obeyed the lord and anointed elisha to be prophet in his place when he left and so for a time for a season elisha served elijah with humility and learning and maturing and then of course we know that before elijah left and this is all in second kings before elijah left that you know god took elijah up to heaven and a chariot of fire and before elijah left elisha asked him and said you know elijah said well what do you want
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and he said i want a double portion of your spirit to be on me and what did the lie elijah says you've asked a hard thing but i'll tell you what if you see me when i'm taken it'll be so and so elisha stuck with him and he was there and saw him when he was taken up into heaven and he said as elisha or elijah brother i mean was taken up to heaven his mantle or his coat fell down to the ground and his coat fell down to the ground and elisha walked over and picked it up because it represented the calling and the gifts and the anointing it wasn't that there was anything special about that coat except that it represented those things and elisha walked over and picked it up and he went to the jordan river and he smote it just like elijah had done before and divided it he smoted he said where is the lord god of elijah and the water parted and the prophets the sons of the prophets the younger ones that were standing back on the hill looking at all this watching all this happen they said surely the spirit of elijah rests upon elisha see this may sound odd but this is biblical let me go to acts chapter 19 and you see where paul it said had aprons paul was working when paul sometimes when paul was in a place planning a new church he had to work a physical job of building tents and he said so obviously he said you know he he had to wear you know like his work belt like an april dominant like a carpenter's belt type thing type apron that you can wear and it said they took those things handkerchiefs and aprons from that the apostle paul had just worn while he was working and he took those to people who they people took those to people who were demon-possessed and when the clothing got near them they were delivered and healed by the power of jesus there's just something about the principle of god and that's why you know there are people out there who think it's foolish when i talk about accursed objects because you know just like i've just shared with you there are things blessed in this world by god's spirit like elijah's mantle and and um and these things paul's apron and handkerchiefs you know i hate it for our some of our baptists and methodists and traditional brothers but that's in the new testament about pieces of clothing getting people set free from demons and getting healed in jesus name you know i don't try to argue with the bible amen and i've seen that happen myself okay but it also happens the other way in the other world in the demonic realm in the witchcraft realm they curse things they put their demon spirits on things and they can be brought into our possession and we can have that demonic blessing that i say lightly demonic blessing but
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anyway so ordination into the ministry this is no like thing now we're going to start i want you to go with me go to matthew 10. and of course i'm going to talk about prophetic leadership this morning but i got to share some things with you god always uses men to affirm and confirm his calling on your life he always use other men other women who have been called who have been walking in the anointing who have been walking in the gifts he always calls them to confirm your calling it's not that man calls you it's not that man ordains you but god calls and he uses a man to ordain or confirm that calling on you because god knows everything in the in the world he does everything through somebody and if you don't believe me of course you can go to the store of john the baptist in jesus and jesus when jesus comes to john the baptist and he said to be baptized and john the baptist goes what are you doing here i need to be baptized of you and jesus said no suffer or allow this to happen because we must do this to fulfill all righteousness well why did that have to happen why did a a sinful man in john the baptist because there's no men that's never sinned but but how could a sinful man have to baptize jesus christ of nazareth god in the flesh before jesus could fulfill all righteousness and begin his ministry why did why did jesus have to be recognized by a prophet or a man on the earth because that's the way god works john the baptist represented the prophetic leadership that was on the earth anointed by the holy spirit called by the holy spirit and every true man or woman of god that goes out into the ministry has to come from someplace some other ministry some other church some other prophet they have to come and they have to be recognized it's just part of the thing part of the way god does it amen i mean is that bible all right now that's why i'm giving you that because it's important that we recognize that and especially those of you who are about to be ordained this morning some of you do the five-fold ministry we've won this
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