The False Light
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In “The False Light,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about prayer, spiritual deception, biblical love. Working through the biblical themes raised in the sermon, the teaching emphasizes that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture.
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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 thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
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 thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on the biblical text. The message argues that the teaching centers on live, voice and its implications for Christian faithfulness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
Odle focuses on worship. The message argues that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
Odle focuses on the biblical text. The message argues that the teaching centers on hear and its implications for Christian faithfulness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
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 biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on spiritual deception. The message argues that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. 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 the biblical text. The message argues that the teaching centers on lift, voice and its implications for Christian faithfulness. The practical emphasis is to examine the heart, receive correction, and finish faithfully. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
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We have Lord to give to you. We just love on you Lord. Thank you Jesus. We love you Lord. [Music] Let's just sing that to him. I love you Lord. Thank you Lord. I love you Lord. Let's meet him. And I live my voice to worship you, oh my soul. Rejoice, take joy, my king, in what you hear. May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear. Let's sing that one more time. I love you, Lord, [Music] and I lift my voice to worship you, oh my soul. Rejoice. Thank you, Jesus. Take joy, my king, in what you hear, you hear. May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear. Sweet Holy Spirit, [Music] sweet Holy Spirit, sweet heavenly, [Music] stay right here with us, filling us with your love. For these blessings [Music] we lift our hearts in praise. Without a doubt we'll know we have been revived. When we shall leave this place, [Music] we are standing on holy
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ground [Music] and I know that there are angels all around. [Music] Let us praise. Blessed be your holy name Jesus. Now let us praise. We are standing in his presence on holy ground. [Music] This is holy ground. [Music] We're standing on holy ground. For the Lord is here and where he is is holy. This is holy ground. We're standing on holy ground. For the Lord is here and where he is is holy. Let's sing. I love you, Lord. Sing it to him. And I lift my voice to [Music] you. Oh my soul. Rejoice. Take joy my king in what you hear. May it be a sweet, sweet sound. May it be a sweet, sweet sound. May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ears. [Music] Yes, Lord. Yes Lord God. We worship you today. We thank you almighty creator of heaven and earth. We exalt you Lord Jesus name above every name. King of kings and lord of lords. We are grateful that you came down here, became a man so that you could walk this
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life sinless, and then lay down your life as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. And then you rose from the dead, Lord, after you got the keys of hell and death from the devil. And we thank you that you are not a truth. You are the truth and the only way, the true Messiah. We praise your holy name, Lord Jesus. Jesus name we pray. Amen. And amen. Hallelujah. You may be seated this morning. Welcome everyone to Fire and Grace Church. Thank you, Johnny and Julie. That was good. It's wonderful to have y'all doing this worship. Yeah. Love you too, brother. Love y'all. Thank you, sir. Um, y'all ready? We can just put up the first one, the first title page. Um, I'm probably going to upset some folks, not necessarily in here, but I might some upset some folks out there in our social media world this morning. um because I had an uh weird experience this weekend. So, I'm going to tell y'all a little bit about it. Uh but first, I want you to get your Bibles out and I want you to turn to Genesis chapter 3. And I've entitled this today, the false light. Uh Jesus is the true light. That's what First John says. That's what the Gospel of John says. Chapter one. Why do you think that the Apostle John made sure he said Jesus is the true light? Why? Because there's a counterfeit. Just like these lights in here right now, these are man-made, right? These are counterfeits to the original. And who is light himself? Exactly. Jesus is the light of the world. And you know there can be some good out of this light but it doesn't mean it's God because guess what evil can be done under these lights or good can be done under these lights right? Good is not always God. This is something we got to get a hold of because uh there's a lot of people think that if something's good it has to be of God. No. And I'm going to show you that today. And we're going to get into this a little bit about the false light because this false light is all throughout the truther movement. It's all throughout the patriot movement and it's crepy into a great portion of Christianity. They're operating in false light, counterfeit, supernatural,
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and they think it's good. And you know, it's kind of like the AA programs. You know, people go to the AA programs and maybe they get off of alcohol and that is good. But if they don't come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, just because they got off of alcohol does not mean they are born again and on their way to eternal life in heaven. And this is where the world stops. The world has plenty of false light out there. It just wants to keep you from Jesus. It'll give you all the good you want as long as you don't go to the true Jesus Christ of Nazareth of the Bible. Now, they'll they're fine if you go to this Jesus that's just an ascended master. He was just human like you and he learned how to tap into his consciousness, his cosmic consciousness, and become a god. But you can, too. That's what they teach, right? If you can tap into this and they teach you how for $99.95. They always want to point at churches about money. The new age movement loves to make money. All right. Um but it sounds good. Um let's read. Let's go to Genesis 3. Let's just read right here starting from verse one. And I know we've probably looked at this before and I've talked about this before, but we're going to go in a little different route this morning. He says, "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yay hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden." And the woman said unto the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden. God hath said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die." And the serpent said unto the woman, "You shall not surely die." So again, Satan's first lie was to tell her that God God's word's not true. You can do this and you're not going to die. You're not nothing's going to happen to you. You're going to be all right. That's what the devil always tells you. You can disobey God and you're going to be all right. That's a lie. Not going to work out for you. Not ever, ever, never. And though you may walk in a season of good, it's going to end up in spiritual death and then physical death and then eternal death. All right? But he goes on to say here goes on to say for God doth know was what Satan said that in the day you eat thereof
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