The Baptism of the Holy Spirit
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In “The Baptism of the Holy Spirit,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about holiness, gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Drawing especially from Acts 23, Matthew 16, Matthew 16, Isaiah 28, the teaching emphasizes that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes.
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Odle focuses on holiness while working through Acts 23, Acts 2. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Matthew 16, Matthew 16. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through Isaiah 28, John 20. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Matthew 12, 1 Timothy 3. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. 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 biblical love. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. 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 Bible prophecy while working through John 1, John 3, Acts 2. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Acts 2, Acts 10, Acts 19. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. 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 trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through Acts 2, Acts 10, Acts 19. The message argues that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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lord your word declares that your spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of god i mean there are times that you reveal yourself by your tangible presence and we thank you for your presence for your power for the moving of the holy spirit god there's nothing more precious in this world than the moving of the holy spirit upon your people where we thank you now just lead us in your word this morning anoint your word this morning guide us and put a hunger and thirst in us for your word and for more of the holy spirit to have his way in our lives in jesus name amen you may be seated this morning somebody say hallelujah in this place glory glory glory to god you know it's been on my heart for some time to share what i'm about to share with you this morning and it's not like it's new but you know uh it behooves a pentecostal church to explain why it's pentecostal and what that means amen and i'll tell you i'm about tired of the blind guides out there there are a bunch of blind guides out there now we're going to start in an unusual place but today we're going to talk about the baptism of the holy spirit but we're going to go about it a different way but i want you to have your bibles and i want you to follow along with me real well because this is important this is important for the church of jesus to get this there are many believers that uh that need to pursue the baptism of the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and begin to operate in the other gifts that is god's call and destiny upon your life if you don't do that you're really short-circuiting some of the things that god wants to do with you it's that simple now we're not a church that gets crazy with it says you have to speak in tongues to be saved or you have to speak in tongues to go to heaven it's not about that it's about you being able to be filled with the holy spirit to pray supernaturally to hear from god better to operate in the gifts of the spirit where you can hear god's voice better and minister to other people better it's to help you in every facet of your christian life and why these blind guides block people from this i will never know i had a little discussion with a guy that i'm friends with on facebook he's a minister up in uh new jersey and he made a little or a friend of his made a little snide comment that he seemed to agree with about basically all charismatics are crazy and so i had to say something as i do
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sometimes and i just sat here and go you know i said and i know he's calvinist so i said well that would be like me saying all calvinist or heretics i said but anyway so we started a little discussion about it but i'm just blown away by the people within the body of christ and some of them are arrogant and prideful and some of them are sincere but sincerely wrong about the baptism of the holy spirit and the gifts of the spirit operating in the church now let me just say this morning that there's a difference between being a pentecostal or a charismatic and being what i call a charismatic okay there's a big difference and listen you can get in the ditch when it comes to the holy spirit and the gifts of the holy spirit and the power of god and and the supernatural you can get in either side of the ditch you can get in the side of the ditch that says you know that's not for today those gifts have ceased and you can have a dead dry church service like most baptists will have this morning and most presbyterians i know there's a church in montgomery of rich presbyterians that they they enjoy calling themselves the frozen chosen they really do they laugh at it i don't think it's funny right god said to be hot be on fire quench not the spirit he's saying to be sit in the pew and be cold and dead that is completely contrary to new testament christianity but then on the other hand we got people like you know some of those involved in in the ihop movement of mike bickel and some of the others out there that are getting into everything from trying to levitate to um you know to pray in uh buddhist and hindu type prayers repetition and trying to visualize things themselves and they're over and operating in the occult and so you got people that because they've seen the errors in the in the pentecostal and charismatic church world they've seen people go to extremes they basically say well i'm not gonna have anything to do with that and so their bias blocks them from seeing what's plainly written in the word i mean it's just blinded what's interesting is is that you know the bible and everybody knows that the bible talks about the pharisees and the sadducees remember they were the ones that primarily opposed jesus rome wasn't even really opposed to jesus they would let him just do what he was going to do but it was it was really the religious folk right and the religious folk when i say the religious folk i'm talking about the religious folk who said they believed in the holy scriptures who said they believed in the coming of the messiah who said they believed in in the word of god as it is written from genesis to malachi because that's all they had then right they said they believe they're just like us today we've got a bunch of people that call themselves christians that say we believe the word of god but yet parts of it reject parts of it and are
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blinded because of either their pride their arrogance or their or whatever they're blinded for different reasons some of them are just too educated for their own good they're educated fools right because let me tell you if you're educated in the wrong thing that didn't help you right you got to be educated in the truth and i just i hate to say it but most bible colleges and seminaries today are nothing but but heresy factories that's all they are they're dead dry religious institutions that's been infiltrated by jesuit priests and and false teachers and that is what is producing most of the pastors and ministers today i'm afraid today that's just the way it is right but when when the bible talks about the pharisees and the sadducees paul said something interesting about him and he ought to know because he was a pharisee right so go did you turn to acts chapter 23 right now this is when paul went to jerusalem after he had been uh he had a word of warning kind of from the prophet agabus and he had a little word of warning but it wasn't don't go it was just if you go this is what's going to happen and paul of course knew he was supposed to go and he went of course an uproar took place and he went into the temple and of course they seized him and they brought him to a council and this is chapter 23 verse one let's go to this i want you to see the difference that paul stated between the pharisees and the sadducees both groups that jesus called blind guides both groups that he told his disciples do not catch yourself falling for the leaven of the pharisees and the sadducees well what was part of their leaven not just their rejection of jesus as the messiah it was their inability to discern when the holy spirit was moving when the demon was moving they just blocked that out and we need to you just need to see this because the pharisees and sadducees are still with us today okay acts 23 verse 1 and paul earnestly beholding the council said men and brethren i have lived in all good conscience before god unto this day and the high priest ananias commanded them that stood by to smite him on the mouth then said paul unto him god shall smite thee thou whited wall for sins thou to judge me after the law and command me to be smitten contrary to the law and they that stood by said revile us thou god's high priest and then said paul i wish not or i knew not brother and that he was the high priest for it is written thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people but when paul perceived that the one part were sadducees and the other part pharisees he cried
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out in the council men and brethren i am a pharisee the son of a pharisee of the hope and resurrection of the dead i am called into question and when he had said so there were rows of dissension between the pharisees and the sadducees and the multitude was divided he knew how to divide them for the sadducees tell me that there is no resurrection neither angel nor spirit but the pharisees confessed both and there were rose of great cry and the scribes that were of the pharisees part or rose and strove saying we find no evil in this man but if a spirit an angel has spoken unto him let us not fight against god and when there arose a great dissension the chief captain feared unless paul should have been pulled in pieces of them commanded the soldiers to go to him to take him by force from among them to bring him into the castle and that night following of the night following the lord stood by him and said be of good cheer paul for i as thou has testified of me in jerusalem so must thou bear witness also at rome now this is interesting because he points out he knew you know basically satan's principle divide and conquer right but here's the thing look at what it says about the pharisees and the sadducees the sadducees said there's no spirit there's no angel there's no resurrection basically what the sadducees were where they were a bunch of religious leaders who didn't believe in the supernatural power of god they were politically motivated they were money motivated they were not true believers in the god of creation who made everything and let me just ask you this if god is almighty and all powerful enough to create the heavens and the earth and the sun and the moon and the stars and everything in the universe and he can make man and he can make everything perfect how does somehow he cease at some point being supernatural when he is supernatural is god in the natural world is god just part of the natural world or is he beyond the natural world i mean just the very nature of god if you say i believe in god you're saying i believe in something beyond the natural i believe in something supernatural something spiritual something more powerful than myself so how can you say you're religious how can you say you're a christian and you can say that the miracles ceased and the in tongues ceased and prophecy ceased and the gifts of the holy spirit sees after the first how can you say that i mean you're literally saying that the supernatural god decided all of a sudden to cease being supernatural it's blasphemy to be honest with you it's irrelevant it's illogical it's just incorrect it's just that simple it's just blows my mind but you had the sadducees you had those that
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