Storms
About this sermon
In “Storms,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, Satanic opposition, demons and deliverance. Drawing especially from Mark 4, Mark 5, Mark 6, Matthew 24, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes.
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Odle focuses on gratitude while working through Mark 4. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. It connects this with the conviction that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance while working through Mark 5. The message argues that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. 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 the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. 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 biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. 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 biblical love while working through Mark 6. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. 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 marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Matthew 24. 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 gratitude. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. 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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on the cross you are the one who rose from the dead you are the one who ascended to heaven you're seated at the right hand of the father you are the one who is high and lifted up your name is above every name lord jesus and we praise you and we worship you today and we declare god that our lives they're yours lord do what you will god you we we pray it today your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven not our will not our plans not our timing but yours lord we ask you to direct everything we submit to the lordship of jesus to the word of almighty god written in that bible we thank you lord for those inspired powerful living words that are written in that bible lord that gives us an anchor and a guide and a safety net lord we thank you for your word we thank you for your holy spirit we thank you for the spirit of truth and we thank you lord that you have a plan for our lives no matter what we go through no matter what we face and we thank you this morning it's in jesus name we pray amen and amen hallelujah it's good to worship the lord we praise you jesus welcome those listening again you're listening to fire and grace church our internet radio we welcome you here uh my name is pastor dean odle we're going to get in the word a little bit this morning this may be a little bit for our church but i think it applies to everybody i want everyone in here i want you to turn to mark chapter four i'm going to share some things that the lord spoke to me yesterday morning in prayer thank you jesus we thank you for the word hallelujah i'm going to read a couple of stories here just to kind of set the uh to set the stage where i'm i'm going this morning but in mark chapter four uh let's go down to verse 35 that's where jesus calmed the storm a lot of people don't realize that there's two different uh incidents where jesus calmed the storm uh they they're not they don't happen at the same time they were two different times one time uh he was in the boat with them and one time he wasn't and uh so i want you to look at that but i believe the lord has something to encourage you this morning uh verse 35 we'll start there mark 4 verse 35 and the same day when even it was come the lord said unto them speaking to his disciples let us pass over unto the other side and he was speaking about going to the other side of the sea of galilee of course in a boat and when he had sent the away the multitude they took him even as
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uh they took him even as he was in the ship and they were also with him other little ships and there arose a great storm of wind and waves beat into the ship so that it was now full and he was in the hindered part of the ship asleep on a pillow and they awake him and say unto him master cares not that we perish and he arose and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea peace be still and the wind ceased and there was a great calm and he said unto them why are you so fearful how is it that you have no faith and they feared exceedingly and said one to another what manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey him now this is the first incident and uh i've been to the sea of galilee i've actually went swimming in the sea of galilee right there so i've been all around that area there and the sea of some of them called the sea of galilee the sea of tiberias is what it was once called but um it's it's interesting because it's not that big of a of a lake i think it's about seven miles or so at its width and now it's a little bit longer than that of course but um it's amazing to me being there and swimming in that in that beautiful i mean it is a beautiful uh lake it's just crystal clear and the fish will come up and swim around your legs and i mean it was beautiful but um i can't imagine hardly a storm on the sea of galilee to get that vicious i mean that's something that sounds like you know when you would be out to see out in the ocean somewhere because i mean this is pretty vicious for a lake i mean how many of you been to a lake you've been in a boat in the lake before right i mean even on a windy day even on a stormy day it's it's amazing to even think that the ship would get beat to death nearly and and fill up with water you know um now some people may disagree with me on this but i believe that this was a supernatural storm that was perpetrated or made more intense by the devil and spiritual forces now why do i say that well some people think i'm crazy but if you go back and you read the book of job you find out that when job got permission to attack i mean not when the devil got permission rather to attack job's family actually even to kill some of his grown children he used the wind he used the weather i think this is why some of the ancient people worshipped baal and believed that that this baal god or the devil balesi bub had power over the wind and the rain the storms to some degree um why they would end up worshiping because the devil has been given the ability by the lord he doesn't have anything that the lord didn't give him the ability to do but he does have the ability at times to manipulate and use wind and use the weather
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so in this situation i believe that this is what this was because the word rebuked there is kind of the same word that the lord used when he would rebuke demons now the reason i believe this is because in the very next chapter where were they headed they were headed from the the sea one side of the sea over to an area called um the the land of the gadarenes they were headed over to that area now if you look at mark 5 they were headed across there why there was a demon possessed man over there fully demon possessed he was so demon possessed that people had tried to chain him with fetters and and all these things and he would be crying and cutting himself with stones and like you guys have heard me teach before there are degrees of demon demonic contamination and infiltration but this is your worst case scenario here and the devil knew you know he heard jesus say these words get into the boat get in and go to the other side we're going to go to the other side well the devil knew that this demonically possessed man this tormented man was over there that everyone knew was demon possessed and he knew the devil knew that if jesus got there the man was going to get set free so what the devil was doing was basically trying to kill jesus trying to kill the disciples trying to stop them from getting to the other side so that they could help this man now i want to say this to you and this is something for our church and and uh something i guess it'll help anybody that might be listening but think about this you know whenever i think a lot of times we think well if god speaks to me if god leads me if the holy spirit's leading me or god tells me to do something and i step out there to do it that it's going to be easy sailing i don't know why maybe it's the prosperity preachers that tell us everything's going to be wonderful all the time or it should be or something's wrong with us and sometimes we do stupid stuff that causes problems but the disciples here were getting into the boat obeying they obeyed jesus to get into the boat and it was jesus who said let's go to the other side okay now listen to me clearly the devil sometimes sees where you're headed and who's in front of you that you're going to affect even before you do now i think jesus knew by a word of knowledge i think he knew from the holy spirit that he was going over there to set a demon-possessed man free but the disciples didn't know it all they knew was get in the boat and let's go to the other side now the storm came and again like i said i believe it was demonic opposition and the devil trying to stop this miracle from happening now see let me let me explain something whenever we step out to do something that god's told us to do expect
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a storm we need to expect that the wind of in the spirit realm will begin to blow contrary to us okay but let me explain to you the storms that come to us more than this physical storm that they were facing when we step out and are trying to obey god whether it's go to this church or you know uh what whatever go to this church or don't go to this church or go work here or don't work in that place whenever we're trying to be led by the spirit of god or maybe go over there i want you to go and witness to somebody or give somebody a a word you know a prophetic word or you know whatever it may be i want you to take somebody through deliverance and cast the demons out of them or go to the hospital and pray for a sick person and believe that for their healing for a miracle whenever you step out we need to expect that the demonic storm that's going to come what is it trying to do it's trying to rob our faith i look at what jesus said you got to realize that these guys were already had exhibited a lot of faith to leave everything their families their jobs and everything and and believe that jesus was not just a man not just a prophet but that he was the son of god that he was god the messiah they believed that and at times they wavered a little bit here and there in the process but they believed that enough to step out in faith leave their families leave their jobs you know and follow this man right and so it wasn't that they didn't have faith but i find it interesting that the lord speaks to them in the midst of this storm when they get all afraid and say master don't you care that we're perishing that he says how is it after he steps up and calms the straw he says how is it that you have no faith this is not even the story where he says oh ye of little faith he said how is it that you have no faith this means in a matter of of just a few hours they went from watching jesus teach the multitude and being fine with everything to getting into a storm and their faith and let me say this faith means your confidence your trust your peace that god is with you that you're doing what you're supposed to be doing that jesus is leading you but listen in this story everything in them got shaken by a little storm now i didn't say it a minute ago but our storms usually come in the form of demonic oppression that causes depression and discouragement and doubt i mean it's just usually the way it comes it doesn't have to be the real wind blowing outside okay spiritual forces can come and hit us like a sudden
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