Resurrection from the Dead
About this sermon
In “Resurrection from the Dead,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, the resurrection, salvation. Drawing especially from Romans 10, 1 Corinthians 15, Romans 7, Psalm 39, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Christ’s resurrection establishes the believer’s hope and the certainty of God’s final victory.
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Odle focuses on the condition of the heart while working through Romans 10. The message argues that the inner life must be healed, guarded, and brought under the truth of 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 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 Christ’s resurrection establishes the believer’s hope and the certainty of God’s final victory. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on biblical love while working through Romans 7, Psalm 39. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that the reality of final judgment gives urgency to repentance, salvation, and faithful witness. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Romans 10, Ecclesiastes 7, John 1. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the wisdom of God. The message argues that God’s wisdom confronts human pride and teaches believers to judge life from an eternal perspective. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through Matthew 24. The message argues that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. 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 practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on healing and faith. The message argues that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. 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 Christ’s resurrection establishes the believer’s hope and the certainty of God’s final victory. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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we praise you lord that you are the living king you rose from the dead to prove to prove who you are lord the god of life the resurrection and the life lord i just praise you this morning lord i worship you i thank you for your presence in this place lord for your peace i thank you lord you've made a way for us i thank you for truth the truth of your word although we praise your name today jesus name we pray amen you may be seated hallelujah hallelujah yes amen praise be to god there's a lot there's a lot to say this morning i'm kind of overwhelmed overwhelmed by quite a few things this morning um i don't know there's some things on my heart this morning we're just going to kind of go with it where we end up the holy spirit knows but um take your bibles this morning let's go to romans chapter 10. now you guys know i don't usually do resurrection sunday or what people call easter sunday i don't usually do messages that are oriented toward whatever holiday or special day it might be but you're never wrong about talking about the resurrection of jesus and we're gonna talk a little bit about that probably from a little angle that most people don't focus on and then we're going to go into some other things um that hopefully will help you you know um this morning and as you're turning to to romans 10 this morning uh just thoughts were going through my mind as i got up to pray about about christianity about the struggle christians have to live the christian life it's really not that easy sometimes is it just the struggle against our own flesh that wants to sin all the time the struggle against our emotions that are easily offended or easily wounded um you know we got a battle going on then we got family problems problems with kids problems with
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marital issues we have problems with friends we have problems in church we you know sometimes it almost gets completely overwhelming just trying to live this life as a christian you know i think every true christian understands that you know god wants us to live obedient lives he wants us to live righteous lives he wants us to live holy uh lives as we possibly can that we have responsibility to to try to be what god wants us to be but here's the dilemma that we're in as christians and this is comes from somebody who's been saved since i was young fallen away come back been back with the lord 27 years and walked this thing out uh with ups and downs with fouls and struggles by no means has my christian walk or my christian life being perfect or without sin or without struggle or no no i don't and i hope i don't portray that i i really hope that i don't try to seem holier than everybody else because i'm not um but i i've realized that you know that god wants us to live as obedient and righteous and holy but the christian dilemma is that even the people who don't make excuses that don't try to come up with doctrines like once they've always saved or what they call hyper grace now and and try to make excuses to live in sin even the ones trying to live godly lives obedient lives who are walking in the truth and have the fear of god we all still struggle with sin don't we and we all still sin in our thoughts and our heart and our with our mouths especially don't we with our eyes there's a struggle there now here's what i want to get at i'm just going to read a few verses here but let's look at the famous verse real quick in romans 10. i'm going to go through a few verses this morning probably probably not that typical for our church to deal with because so many so many abuse this truth the wrong way but let's look at this this is uh romans chapter 10. everybody there okay we're going to start with verse 1. paul says brethren my heart's desire and prayer to god for israel is that they
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might be saved he's talking about his own people the jewish people he says for i bear them record that they have a zeal of god but not according to knowledge for they being ignorant of god's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves into the righteousness of god for christ jesus christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth for moses described the righteousness which is of the law that the man which doeth those things shall live by them but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise say not thine heart who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring christ down from above or who shall descend into the deep that is to bring christ up again from the dead but what saith that the word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart and that is the word of faith which we preach that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus shall believe in thy heart that god has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with a heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation the statement i just want to make this morning to everyone who may be listening or who may listen to this message into our church this is not an excuse this morning to live in sin to compromise to backslide to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it but hear what i'm saying this morning there is no one no one that will be good enough or righteous enough in their own strength or in their in their own selves what i'm saying is there'll never be a point that you don't need the righteousness of jesus christ the blood of jesus christ to cleanse you the forgiveness of god that comes from two things his death on the cross his sinless blood that was shed on that cross and his resurrection from the dead now did you know that if you don't believe that jesus christ of nazareth the messiah if you don't believe that he physically and bodily rose from the dead do you understand you're not saved there are people out there say they believe in jesus but they don't believe in him as the messiah the resurrected son of god they don't believe me anymore that way and notice and and this is something that i think a lot of people just kind of i think we just kind of bypass it
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when he said for if you what confess with your mouth the lord jesus and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead it's an absolute requirement for salvation for eternal life to be saved to be forgiven of your sins you have to believe in jesus christ what he did on the cross for for the sins of mankind and you have to believe that he rose from the dead and if you don't paul says your faith is vain pretty strong in it let's read another passage about this go to first corinthians chapter 15. see there's a lot a lot of blasphemers now that are changing who jesus is and what he did you can never allow that to happen first corinthians 15 let's look at this starting at verse one vitally important here and here's what's amazing you know what when you read this and realize that paul wrote this when he wrote this letter to the fir to the corinthians first corinthians when he wrote this letter that most of the eyewitnesses of jesus resurrection were still alive so when the apostles of course wrote us the gospels were written matthew mark luke john were written before this most of the people who were there who were eyewitnesses to jesus resurrection and i'm saying how he showed himself alive we'll read that to over 500 people most of those people were still alive so had these things been lies you would not have had the growth and explosion of the church and thousands and thousands and thousands of people becoming christians and churches beginning all over all over the countryside in in jerusalem and judea and samaria to the uttermost parts of the earth what i'm saying is you you can't there's no way that little persecuted group could have built a a religion around the lie impossible i'm saying it was a religion built upon eyewitnesses all right let's read it
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