Teeth Marks
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In “Teeth Marks,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Satanic opposition, endurance, prayer. Drawing especially from Luke 10, Revelation 12, the teaching emphasizes that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that faithful endurance is necessary when obedience brings testing, opposition, or suffering.
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Odle focuses on spiritual leadership while working through Luke 10. The message argues that leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim. 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 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 demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on freedom from fear. The message argues that the believer must answer fear with trust in God, sober judgment, and faithful action. It connects this with the conviction that faithful endurance is necessary when obedience brings testing, opposition, or suffering. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on spiritual leadership. The message argues that leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim. It connects this with the conviction that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through Revelation 12. 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 faithful endurance is necessary when obedience brings testing, opposition, or suffering. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that faithful endurance is necessary when obedience brings testing, opposition, or suffering. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on David’s example. The message argues that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. 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 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 Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
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quiet and be with you lord and worship you and love you and let you bring peace to us even in the midst of a storm lord we we thank you lord that even though in this world we will have tribulation you said that you'd bring us through that you'd be our shield in our fortress and our deliverer or you are god and we praise your name this morning in jesus name we pray ma'am you know i had a weird i just had a weird battle over this sunday for some reason and uh praying about it last night praying about it this morning uh almost to the point of god do you even want me to preach because i didn't didn't feel any specific direction though there's a million things i could talk to you about i try to ask god what he wants me to talk to you about and not just be you know something out of my head and the only thing i felt was just just wait and see who's here and sometimes the lord doesn't tell me until i get uh into praise and worship and then he'll tell me what the message is and um but as we were in praise and worship it came as clear as a bell so i want you to turn with me this morning to first peter chapter five um first peter chapter five and this is just something that's been on my heart kind of all week i i've thought about it in different ways but i i'm not going the direction i thought i was going to be going with it but i do need to share this this with you i think you need to see these verses and you need to think about them because of course as a church we teach you know that christians have authority over the devil we do have power and authority over the devil right everybody ought to know luke 10 19 in this church luke 10 19 jesus said behold what i give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you now sometimes we take a scripture like that out of out of its context of course jesus didn't mean you'll go through this battle that we're in unscathed but that god would bring you through it if you stay if you stick with him he'll bring you through each battle right how many of you know that i've been through a few battles since i've been here in in auburn i've been through a few uh over the last 24 25 years now i've been through a few battles and you just need to know that this battle with satan is uh it gets tough sometimes and i want to show you what peter says about it and uh and just you need to understand as christians that sometimes it's gonna be rough mentally emotionally physically
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financially sometimes um loneliness temptation um persecution uh even if it's just being snubbed you know seemed like you know being snubbed by people but let's read this we're going to start at verse 1 because it's just too much good stuff here to pass up but he's writing and exhorting elders and other pastors and he says the elders which are among you i exhort who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of christ and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed so he tells these elders in verse 2 feed the flock of god which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly and again that means not because somebody's forcing you not for filthy lucr don't just be doing it for money and we know that's not happening around here but of a ready mind right neither is being lords over god's heritage but being examples to the flock and when the chief shepherd shall appear you shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away likewise younger submit yourselves unto the elder yay all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for god resists the proud and gives grace to the humble humble yourselves therefore unto the mighty hand of god that he may exalt you in due time casting all your care upon him for he cares for you be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resists steadfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world but the god of all grace who has called us unto his eternal glory by christ jesus after that you have suffered a while make you perfect establish strengthen and settle you to him be glory and dominion forever and ever amen now i wanted to read that to you because i want you to see some verses i think get overlooked sometimes you know verse 7 we hear verse 7 i mean not verse 7 but we hear verse 8 quite frequently be sober that means be alert be vigilant that means be aware that there is danger involved with satan and his demonic forces that they are as a roaring lion seeking whom they may devour okay so the devil and his demonic forces are seeking constantly seeking whom they may devour they're constantly moving they're constantly he says as a roaring lion why is that because they're constantly crouching in the shadows they're constantly stalking you like prey trying to smell a weakness trying to see a place where they can attack you and they hear your words sometimes that gives them a hint sometimes they see an action or or
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they just know that we're an area you're vulnerable in but i wanted you to see i mean everybody knows that we're in a a constant war with satan with the demonic forces but notice what he says after this verse he says of course whom resists steadfast in the faith and that's again what we teach you bind the devil rebuke the devil resist the forces of darkness take control over your thoughts cast down imaginations you know all those things that you've been taught to do in the name of jesus to exercise that authority that we have in christ to resist the devil but notice he doesn't say that in this fight you will never have an affliction or suffering look what he says here he goes on down and he says knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world wait a minute so he's sitting there talking about you're going to come under satanic attacks at times fight it with everything that's in you resist it steadfast in the faith but know that it is not going to be a cakewalk it will feel like afflictions and i can just tell you that their seasons are you know there may be a week sometimes it's a day maybe maybe even it's a season a month or a few months you can be under a serious onslaught of the devil more than more than anything in your mind and this is where the number one this is the number one battlefield is your mind and i don't care the devil can come with with sly thoughts that make you depressed or he can come with sly thoughts that make you feel lonely even though you're around people he can come with sly thoughts making you feel like you're not good enough he can come with sly thoughts and make you feel like you know um you know you really you really can't do this you can't walk this walk and then you can come with the temptations you know why don't you just why don't you just have that beer why don't you just go out to that ball why don't you just you know why don't you just go out with that person you know you shouldn't go out with why don't you know he comes along with all these things tries to make you feel bad emotionally physically and spiritually so that then he can slip in temptation and i just wanted i just want to tell you that no one's immune i don't care fivefold minister or not no one's immune to to the bombardment of the devil and this week particularly i can just say i have had the bombardment of satan against my mind and my body i mean everything and i you know i get up in the mornings and pray and steal put on the armor of god bind the devil resist the devil but that doesn't mean i'm not going to have any wrestling match with him
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and i just i want to say this because again i know we got some some people that have been christians in here for a long time and we've got others that haven't been really walking with the lord for a long time and you just need to be reminded or you need to know that this fight sometime is not easy it can it can almost feel make you the devil is just brilliant making can almost make you just feel miserable just just miserably unhappy with everything in your life if you constantly listen to his thoughts but notice he says here the same afflictions don't be surprised every true christian in the world that's really walking with jesus that really loves jesus that really is trying to obey the lord and get close to the lord he's going to go through these same afflictions the devil is not going to leave people alone if they're serious about jesus amen he wants you to fall some way he wants you to fall to disgrace the name of jesus or even to get you to fall to the point where you you know not that you can't be forgiven not that you can't get back up and and ask god for forgiveness and move on past that but he wants to get you to fog and then go i mean he'll be the one to make you fall or help you fall and then he'll be the one to say see you can't do it it's just constant in your mind constant stuff and i'm just telling you don't think it's strange he says here it's sometimes it feels like you're just being afflicted and it's in your mind everybody know what i'm talking about sometimes it's fear you know and i want to say this and make this very clear to you guys and i almost wanted to preach on this today but i want to make this very clear i know that that i preach on the end times stuff and that stuff is coming it's happening now and things are going to happen and it in the it's it's going to be some some frightful things that we see happen in the world but the bottom line is do we believe that our god is our refuge and our fortress and our god in whom we trust and that though ten thousand fall at our side and a thousand at our right hand it will not come near us that god can protect us in the midst of any horrible thing that's going on and trust him that if he delivers me or if he lets me be a martyr either way he will be with me at that moment through that time and there's no fear no fear you should bind fear rebuke fear cast it down resist it do not let it settle in your head amen i trust god you know what when the economy fails and all these things happen do i believe god god made molten start doing miracles of multiplying food you know what i mean like he did with the widow
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