The Fire of Pentecost
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In “The Fire of Pentecost,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about holiness, the Holy Spirit, the condition of the church. Drawing especially from 1 Corinthians 14, John 14, Revelation 19, Psalm 91, the teaching emphasizes that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God.
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Odle focuses on the Holy Spirit. The message argues that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit. 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 test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on demons and deliverance while working through John 14. 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 the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on revival. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Revelation 19. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Psalm 91. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. 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 Bible prophecy while working through Luke 21, Matthew 24. 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 holiness. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. 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 examine the heart, receive correction, and finish faithfully.
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oh [Music] yes i praise you for i am the lord your god for i have called you and i will anoint you says the lord and i will fill you with my spirit hunger and thirst for me and i will give you more than you can handle more than you could ever dream for i long to fill the people with my spirit i long to speak to you and to show you things to come i long to lead you and guide you into all truth i long to fill you with fire and power i want to see you walk in the fullness of my spirit do not sell yourself short do not let things distract you go after me says the lord search for me and i will fill you i will anoint you i will empower you i will flow through you i will set the captives free be filled with my spirit says the lord thank you jesus praise you jesus you know many people don't know that that is a command in the bible ephesians chapter 5 verse 18 be not drunk with wine whereas in excess but be filled with the spirit it's a command it's not a suggestion it's not just an idea that sounds nice or religious or spiritual it is a command to each of us to be filled with the holy spirit and that it's up to us to seek him to thirst he promised that he would fill those who were hungry and thirsty the problem is not with god's willingness to fill us the problem is with us hungering and thirsting enough until he does fill us he's looking you know there's that scripture in second chronicles i believe it is 16 where he says he's looking to find people whose hearts are perfect toward
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him that doesn't mean perfect people but a perfect heart wants god more than anything else once god's word wants god's will wants god's spirit in them you know david when he fell into sin his cry was take not your holy spirit from me he realized you know what i'm in trouble here i could end up like saul where where he even talked about saul had been anointed saul had been touched and filled with the holy spirit prophesying became another man was given another heart by the holy spirit and yet when when he died david said it was though he had never been anointed he lost it the spirit of god departed from saul that's the last thing you want to happen but the lord has said this in prayer meeting last week and now this morning through tongues and interpretation which is equivalent to prophecy he's saying be filled with my spirit hunger and thirst for my holy spirit do whatever you must do to search to desire to thirst and be filled i keep you know this is twice in a week and that i have felt him impress me it's up to you how much you want up to you how much you want to be filled how much you want to be anointed how much do you want to flow in the gifts of the spirit and be be a powerful christian he he said that he sent the holy spirit to give us power to be a witness it's all about that i want the power of the holy spirit so that i can walk in the spirit so that i can walk closer to god and so that i can impact people around me because they need more than just words they need those words to be powerful they need those words to be penetrating there are many preachers and there are many christians who say a lot of words but they don't have power behind them you got to have the power of a holy life the power of a of a hungry thirsty heart a power that's anointed i love what i remember leonard ravenhill said this because you know a term for the anointing a term for the spirit of god empowering a person they used to call it function when the holy spirit ocean or the holy spirit empowerment the holy spirit anointing and he would say you know i'm not quite sure what what auction is but i sure know what it is not this morning all across america and across the world they're going to be people preaching and they may even be saying words that are correct but it doesn't mean they're anointed it doesn't mean they're powerful it doesn't mean it's what the holy spirit wants at that moment being said and being preached there's nothing like a man woman of god
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a true christian that's not only knowledgeable of the scriptures but is is in tune with the holy spirit and knowing what word to speak in season to a person to a congregation even to a city to a nation i'm telling you a lot of people go you know they think preaching is just just knowledge and and and understanding how to speak publicly but true preaching is just trying to find what the holy spirit is saying at that moment and to say it from the scriptures and from the heart what the holy spirit is saying to the church that's why the church is so powerless and dead and struggling is because there's so little true anointed preaching and teaching even counseling man let me tell you we need the holy spirit tell my wife all the time hey people ask me sometimes why how do you how would you go to a nation like when i went to mauritius or nigeria and preach three times a day sometime for two three four weeks you don't have time to prep for each sermon it's called being filled with the holy spirit and just letting him speak through you in the moment that's why you got to get filled that's why you feel yourself with the word that's why you spend time in prayer that's why you get baptized in the holy spirit and pray in tongues that's why so listen folks we that's why we we need listen we gotta study the bible yes be faithful studying the bible know the bible backwards and forwards the best you can but then be filled with the holy spirit be anointed and that only comes by agonizing in prayer that comes by hungering and thirsting that comes from fasting that comes from resisting temptation i wanna tell you another thing the lord impressed me this morning was he said you know what there's a there's a time of temptation before there's a time of empowering remember jesus was led by the spirit of god into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when jesus resisted that temptation and won that victory through prayer and fasting and spiritual warfare resisting the devil when he came out of that wilderness it says he was filled with holy ghost power he came out of that wilderness in time of temptation with power so much that people wondered and the demons cried out when he walked into church amen you resist temptation you go through your time of temptation you resist it and you keep praying and you keep fasting and you keep crying out to be filled with the holy ghost and god sees that true heart of hunger and thirst for righteousness and thirst for him he will fill you and he will shock you
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what he will do through you he's looking for people who want him that's revival when enough people in the church want him like that he will fill the place amen y'all may be seated this morning god is faithful to fill his children amen several things i want to share with you this morning and what happened oh it's over here we're preparing to do something as a church i want everybody to do and if we're going to get everybody this book if you don't already have it but in the next month hear what i'm saying in the next month i want everybody to have this book and to read this book as in our church this book is the account of the azusa street revival from the firsthand witness intercessor and man who preached there ministered there he wasn't the leader per se but he was one of the leaders his name is frank bartleman anyway the book's called azusa street and i read this book back in probably 1989 or so when i began my study of revivals and revival history and you cannot ignore the azusa street revival if you study revival history now i know there's a lot of people who are baptist methodists and presbyterian and anti-holy ghost and anti-tongues and anti-jesus healing almost sound anti-christ to me but the bottom line is this revival was really the most significant move of god in the 20th century and is still impacting us to this day and it restored when god poured out his spirit and i'm going to show you some things this morning but when god poured out his spirit at azusa street at the azusa street mission and really it started at another place called bonnie on bonnie bray street but they outgrew that place and they moved to the azusa street 3 312 azusa street in los angeles but when god poured out his spirit there in april of of 1906 it was to restore the baptism of the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and all the other gifts of the spirit to the church now you know there's a lot of people that are anti-tongues but i'm just gonna say it if your anti-tongue is your anti-bible and if you're anti-tongues you're anti-holy ghost because he's about those things tongues god wanted that truth the gift of tongues for and there's diverse kinds of tongues but he wanted that gift to restore to the church because it is powerful to help you in prayer privately it's also powerful in
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