The Calm BEFORE the Storm
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In “The Calm BEFORE the Storm,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about biblical love, Bible prophecy, faith. Drawing especially from Genesis 9, Psalm 7, Matthew 7, the teaching emphasizes that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone.
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Odle focuses on worship. The message argues that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on grace and mercy. The message argues that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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 leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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 angelic activity is examined within the biblical passage and its prophetic sequence. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Islamic origins and claims while working through Genesis 9, Psalm 7, Matthew 7. The message argues that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation. 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 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 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.
Odle focuses on eternal life and hope. The message argues that the promise of eternal life directs believers toward hope, holiness, and perseverance in Christ. It connects this with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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Lord we exalt you there is none other like you Lord hallelujah to your name glory to you Lord we exalt you we praise you you are high above all God you are above the heavens and the Earth King of Kings and the Lord of lords Jesus we worship you great king we worship you today Lord I pray God pray Lord that many many more people would come to know you to know the peace the love the joy that is found in your presence made possible through the blood of your cross and your Resurrection from the dead Lord I want many many more people to know the reality of what it means to be born again to know that you live within them that you've washed their sins away that you saved them that you are real and that it's become so real to them Lord that nothing else in this world matters anymore there's no sin there's no lust there's no Idol there's no money there's nothing they want to cling to but only you and your word we love you Jesus we exalt you and it's in Jesus name we pray amen and amen you may be seated this morning Hallelujah we welcome you to Fire and Grace Church we love Jesus around here amen so much to get into just going to go ahead and make an announcement I know that last week we cut off our live broadcast on Blog Talk Radio and I know many of you uh we're not happy about that out there but that's all right some of you were patient and understood but it was clearly the Lord's will and the Lord's Direction but next week next week the Lord willing we plan to get into the subject that I shared with the church here the fire and Grace Church that I've labeled probably the most controversial message that I will ever preach or teach I have spent several weeks now researching this studying this out in the Bible um so I want to ask those of you listening that didn't get to hear last week uh to be sure not to miss next week if you want to find out what we're talking about um and also those of you here in our
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church this would be a good week if you're going to try to share this truth biblical truth with people around you first of all you need to be here and you need to be paying close attention and you need to learn this and it will be a good opportunity if there are people you would like to invite to come let me just go ahead and say that the service I'm going to change things we will not do praise and worship next week we will just start 10 35 I'll start we'll start Blog Talk at 10 30. I'm guessing we'll just say 10 30 and we'll go to 12 30 we'll do a two two hour solid teaching on this so get yourselves ready buckle up going to be a wild ride but you'll be glad you you got on board because I'm just going to testify again that even as we were in praise and worship a minute ago I am sensing beginning to sense the glory and the presence of God again like I did in the Revival days and the Lord is again showing me that this truth that I shared with you last Sunday that I'm going to share next Sunday publicly this truth of the scriptures is part of not being ashamed of God's word and it's part of his glory that he wants us to take a stand for and to reveal and you know he promised if we preach his word he promised signs and wonders would fall problem is what we realized last week and what many of you listening will realize as we get into the subject is that many Christians have not believed his word fully We Believe Parts but not all and we'll present both the scriptures and some of the evidence that proves the points that we'll make but uh those of you here just is this Mike on here those of you here just for our listening audience where your mind's blown last week let them hear you was it biblical though yeah yeah all right that was pitiful yes but uh anyway um anyway let's get into what the Lord wants me to share with you this morning and this morning may be very brief because I just feel like the Lord wants me to share um a prophecy that I was tagged in um by a friend of mine in Australia and um I'm going to read it first because I really felt impressed that it was from the Lord and those of you know I don't take that lightly
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and see if I can find it here yeah here we go the time difference between here and Australia makes it makes me have to go back and uh look these things up now um I've entitled this message the Calm before the storm I really do believe that especially in America and worldwide we we've been in a period of relative let's put it this way relative Calm before this doesn't mean that nothing has been going on in the world are that there are not events that are clearly Bible prophecy in the process of coming to pass I mean we've got some pretty bad events going on in the world with what Isis is doing in the Middle East great deception sweeping across the world the Russians moving into Syria um in the Middle East so I mean there's things that have been happening of course the Russian uh airliner shot down over Egypt we'll address that a little bit too this morning so it's not that we're not seeing or seeing things swirling about and happening but it does seem to be in America a little too calm for what is really on the horizon for what's really coming it's been kind of eerie hasn't it I remember when I was a kid I remember several times I remember when hurricane Eloise came through here tore Opelika to Pieces back there I remember being without power for seven days here I think about that powerful of a hurricane coming that far inland and uh I was just I think I was in second grade I was in first grade or second grade I can't remember now which one but um but I remember the Eerie quietness and calm and gentle breeze I mean we knew it was coming the weather forecasters and the radar and everything we knew it was going to hit and I remember even being at school I went to Lee Academy here at the private school it's now Lee Scott I went there kindergarten first and second grade so I remember being there I remember the trash cans beginning to blow away as it came in but before that it was just very calm and I remember the the teachers starting to talk about that they had called our parents that all our parents were coming to get us early um but I remember it was so calm and then boom and when it hit man did it hit I remember you know I guess I was about eight years old
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and I remember trying to walk against that wind I could lean forward Against the Wind and didn't fall over I mean that I remember playing with that I remember all the trees we had to we had to weave and Bob them we couldn't get down this road right here Second Avenue we remember my mom tried to go down this road to get us home and we couldn't there were so many trees and telephone poles were going down and it was interesting I remember my dad cooking outside on the grill for a week no power in the house um back in the 1970s but this Eerie calm that was before we knew it was coming you know and that's just like a big storm like Katrina Hurricane Katrina in 2005 I was down on the Gulf Coast in fact I worked for a company and I was on the Gulf Coast the entire week leading up to that weekend I was there in I'd been on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the early part of the week and I was in Mobile on the Saturday right before Katrina came in and I remember looking outside knowing this massive hurricane was headed toward the Gulf Coast but you would walk outside and remember that Saturday the Sun was shining the wind was blowing gently everything looked normal and I had been up and down the Mississippi Gulf Coast working that week with that company and I knew every building every restaurant every Casino every Hotel they have everything up and down that strip remember when I went back after that storm basically nothing left but I don't think anybody dreamed how bad it was going to be I mean I don't know how many of you saw the I actually was there the week before and then there a few weeks later and it looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off especially Gulfport Biloxi Mississippi he was just gone they got the east side of the hurricane bad but the calm that was before the storm you just would look at it and you go no it's a beautiful day the sunshine the birds are singing the wind is blowing nice it's not going to happen not gonna it's not gonna come in and destroy everything that I see it's not going to happen oh it won't be as bad as they say maybe it'll weaken maybe they'll die down you know we human beings we're good at that aren't we we're good at going that that it won't be that bad kind of what we do with the prophetic revelation of the Bible about the end times well you know we've we've got entire denominations in churches and
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