Strongholds in the Mind
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In “Strongholds in the Mind,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, Satanic opposition, faith. Drawing especially from 1 Corinthians 10, 1 Timothy 4, Ephesians 5, Romans 1, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 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 Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
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 demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance. 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 natural emotion and self-directed reasoning must yield to the Holy Spirit and the mind of Christ. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
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 demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through 1 Timothy 4. 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 the condition of the church while working through Ephesians 5, Romans 1. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 idolatry and occult influence while working through Proverbs 29. The message argues that objects and practices tied to idolatry are treated as spiritual compromises that should be renounced. 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 family discipleship. 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 biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on eternal judgment while working through John 8. The message argues that the reality of final judgment gives urgency to repentance, salvation, and faithful witness. 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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you have to guide us you have to illuminate our minds you have to show us lord truth you have to give us discernment you have to sharpen us and show us where the enemy is working against us you have to guide our path lord even when we're not aware you have to guide us lord we're in big trouble lord help us to not let sin distract us or idols distract us or or the devil and the demons and their lying spirits distract us lord we worship you jesus you are the king of kings and the lord of lords god in the flesh our creator our savior our redeemer the soon-coming king and we worship you today in jesus name amen and amen you may be seated this morning hallelujah you might want to turn me up a hair if you can praise the lord praise the lord well i hope everybody has their bibles this morning if you're listening by blog talk radio this morning make sure you have a bible nearby because you're going to need to follow along with us this morning we're going to talk about strongholds in the mind um listen if i could get this across to you in one simple sentence i would tell you that 95 of your problems happen in your head because you either listen to yourself or you listen to the devil into demon spirits and i'm talking to christians this morning and i'm going to prove to you that the bible talks about christians born again spirit-filled christians who listen to the devil and let the devil build strongholds in their minds and i'm going to tell you right now that if you don't get a hold of this truth and then apply what you need to do to defeat the devil in this area and to cast down the strongholds in your mind you will as a christian be defeated you will be defeated and destroyed and may be ultimately carried away from the faith all of the battle and i when i say all of the battle this is true all of the battle with satan and the demonic forces and the fallen angels all of that battle that we deal with every day is going to take place in your mind and your mind once it gets convinced of something or believes something will act upon it
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now we're going to look at these scriptures today and again this is something i've taught on and this is really kind of maybe part three of the soulish christian but we're going to dig into it a little deeper this morning because we're going to dig into definitions of these greek words and we're really going to spell it out so i ask you to do this if you have a problem being distracted in church bind the demons right now over you in jesus name and pay attention and take notes and learn something today because this is vitally important it's vitally important to your relationship with god as a christian it's vitally important to every relationship in your life it's vitally important at work it's vitally important between a husband and a wife and kids and trying to raise kids and everything else because what we allow into our minds and what we allow the devil to build strongholds and i'm going to show you this will affect everyone around us and i'm going to show you the ultimate goals of it so this morning first of all let's just turn to the book of second corinthians first and of course we've been on this subject on the radio talking about spiritual warfare the last couple of weeks on the prophecy quake our radio broadcast and this morning of course i really had planned to go another direction last night but this morning as i prayed the lord really laid it on my heart to to get into this in more detail but second corinthians i'm trying to get there myself second corinthians we're going to start chapter 11 first and then we'll back up to chapter 10 and i may put these notes up here so you can see them i don't know why it's not seeing what's on my screen because i'm about tired of these problems uh windows updated and changed what i've been using in my settings on this thing forever i don't know why he just plugged it in and it just changed on its own bill gates is evil and that's what he is and all more than one level let's see does it want to work on this one ah yes look at there plugging it in changed it here anyway let's read this this is a familiar passage of scripture we'll get on that in a second this is just an illustration of a point that i'm going to make today
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but second corinthians chapter 11 we're going to read verse 1 and a few verses would to god you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me for i am jealous over you with a godly jealousy for i have espoused you to one husband that i may present you as a chaste virgin to christ but i fear the apostle paul said lest by any means as the serpent beguiled eve through his subtlety so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ for if he that cometh preacheth another jesus whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted you might well bear with him meaning that if the devil can deceive your mind listen to me if the devil can deceive your mind he's saying like he did with eve you will end up believing anything okay but i want to focus on this phrase he says to christians that the church of corinth your minds could be corrupted oh boy he said i fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled eve through his subtlety so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ now before we dig into this much further i want to say something very clearly because our church gets a little friction we get a little flack from people because we actually talk about demons and how they work against people in their lives um you know we get the accusations well you know it seems that those kind of things only happen in churches that talk about this stuff well that's because your church is ignorant and has no discernment and they don't know the scriptures and wouldn't recognize demonic activity if it slapped them in the face right a church it actually gets a little teaching on what's in the bible about demons and how they operate actually begins to recognize when they're operating imagine that but that somehow among christians today that's somehow bad to actually learn about how demons operate and how to fight them and resist them and withstand them the whole church world is turned around it's upside down and backwards but that's just for the naysayers out there because i want you to understand the scriptures that i'm going to read to you today the first one i just read is a reference to how satan deceived eve in the garden so it's talking about demonic activity in the mind suggestions temptations in the mind that deceive you and corrupt your mind and get you away from simple devotion to jesus christ now when i say devotion to jesus let's be clear that i'm not just talking about there's a lot of people that say a lot of christians say that they're devoted
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to jesus and they love jesus but because they've allowed satan to corrupt their minds they are departing from the faith of god's word in certain areas and if you depart from the word of god you're departing from jesus because jesus is the word of god do you hear me you must have the doctrine of christ to have god do you hear me there's people out there saying doctrine doesn't matter even people saying doctrine can be and be idolatry not the truth not true sound biblical doctrine the bible is clear in the book of ii john that if you don't have the doctrine of christ jesus meaning everything he taught and everything he taught his apostles and everything the holy spirit taught through the apostles if you don't have that doctrinal truth and you start departing from it you are departing from god himself and it says that if you don't abide in the doctrine of christ you do not have god you have to walk with god you have to walk in the truth of god's word and the doctrines of scripture it's that simple okay you hear what i'm saying and that covers everything that covers everything from how god feels about sin to what repentance is to what it means to be saved and born again to what it means to be washed in the blood how to have your sins forgiven confession of sin repentance of sin baptism of the holy spirit how to bind demons cast out demons how you're supposed to handle the relationship between a husband and wife and children and submission issues and discipline issues everything is covered in the scriptures and if you begin to depart from the doctrine of christ simple devotion to christ jesus the word of god then you have been listening to demon spirits it's that simple if you think it's not it's not right to spank your kids you're listening to demon spirits you get what i'm saying i'm going to show you this your mind is being corrupted if you think you can live in sexual sin and still go to heaven you're listening to demon spirits your mind is being corrupted if you can think you can pray to mary and bow to statues and still go to heaven and not be committing the sin of idolatry you're listening to demon spirits if if you wise think that you can disrespect and disobey your husband you're listening to demon spirits and you're in rebellion in the sin of witchcraft we got a lot of mental corruption going on
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