The Gift of Tongues
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In “The Gift of Tongues,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about gifts of the Holy Spirit, holiness, the Holy Spirit. Drawing especially from Acts 2, John 18, Acts 2:19, Mark 16:1, the teaching emphasizes that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness.
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Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through Acts 2, John 18. 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 biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 12, John 20. 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 gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through Acts 2, Luke 24, Acts 1. 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 holiness while working through Acts 2, John 20, Matthew 3. 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 test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 13:1, Matthew 12. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Corinthians 14:1. 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 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 gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through 1 Corinthians 14, Isaiah 28, Jude 1:20. 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 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 gifts of the Holy Spirit while working through Mark 16, Isaiah 28, Matthew 24. 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 prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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 biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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Lord we truly thank you that you said that your sheep would hear your voice and they will follow you Lord you have ordained it and called us that we should be led by the spirit and not by our own minds and reasoning and not by the flesh not by the religious doctrines of men Lord we just thank you today that we have the truth of your word and we have your Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us in it and Lord I pray that today will be the day that people will break free from some blindness demonic doctrines of men of nonsense and hunger and thirst and pursue all that you have for them we pray this today in Jesus name amen hallelujah you may be seated this morning this morning I've just entitled this the gift of tongues I've talked about over the years the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the gift of tongues that ACC the baptism of the Holy Spirit many many times but it seems like the spiritual blinders are still on people and um it this is so important listen there's nine gifts of the holy spirit but this one is the most hated by the devil he despises it he speaks against it he twists people's minds and ideas all to pieces over this but let me just go ahead and tell you something right now this is in your Bible okay and I know the Baptists and the methodists and the Presbyterians and a lot of so-called truthers they don't want to deal with this but you have to ignore a lot of scriptures now let me tell you why I'm going to give you a few things I'm going to tell you why this is so important and I'm going to say this at the outset of this and I've said it nearly every time I get on this subject do you have to speak in tongues to be saved to be born again to be a Christian no no you do not you do not have to I love what one of my old pastors used to say you don't have to you get to you understand now what this gift is about we're going to find out the primary purpose of this gift is not just to speak in known languages so that you can be a better missionary did God do that in the in in the beginning in Acts chapter 2 yes he did is that the only purpose for this gift no and if anybody says that they're teaching a false Doctrine did God use it that way in Acts 2 yes but is there more in the scripture about this yes so if you ignore the rest of the scripture then you're purpose either purposely deceiving people or you're just spiritually blinded because you have some bias some Prejudice you've bought into some tradition or doctrine of men and what does tradition and doctrine of men do what Jesus say the traditions and doctrines of men make the
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word of God none effect in your life if you believe the nonsense of of of men that's not biblical or we get partial doctrines where they take part of a subject but they ignore the rest of the subject then you still have a doctrine of men because it's incomplete and I had to tell somebody that this week cu the moment I brought up the gift of tongues here they come right here comes the social media keyboard Warriors trying to teach me about the gift of tongues when some of them haven't been saved but a few years so this is something we've got to understand because listen the primary purpose for the gift of tongues unknown tongues new tongues that Jesus called them new tongues Paul called them unknown we're going to get into that in the second but the primary gift is to help you in your prayer life life and to strengthen you spiritually to charge you like a battery is the terminology that is important then Paul says if he says the unknown man and we're going to cover these he said if he said let the the man that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret well when you couple the gift of tongues unknown tongues with the gift of interpretation you are hearing the voice of God you are hearing the Holy Spirit speak to you and I'm going to show you where God said in the in the book in the prophet Isaiah with stammering lips in another tongue will I speak to this people but they won't listen they don't want to hear it I have never seen a Doctrine a Biblical truth more opposed by Christians than this one people who say they believe the Bible to be the inspire ired infallible word of God I it boggles my mind but I have watched this particular subject and this gift be attacked misunderstood people be in total confusion about it people ignore what the Bible says about it and believe what their denomination or their Pastor tells them that's not correct now the first thing people want to throw out is a verse in in First Corinthians it's always bring up Tong here it comes do all speak with tongues I have to remind people in that verse in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 does it say all can't speak in tongues only a few will no just because he said do all speak with tongues implying of course not all Christians do does not mean all Christians can't don't make up stuff that's not there because you're going to find out Jesus said this he said these signs shall follow them that believe he didn't put a limit to it
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the problem is people don't believe either they don't believe it's for the day they don't believe it's necessary they don't believe it's important or like some of them they want to believe it's demonic and I'm going to tell you right there those people are messed up and one of them is Mr Nathan Roberts has lost his mind and if you don't know him don't worry about it there's a lot of people that do and he even spoke out about it he thinks the tongues of angels are Latin that sounds like Catholic nonsense to me right there wouldn't they love that the tongues of angels to be Latins and just validate everything um but I want to read this I want to read this uh post I put on here because there's so many people that are anti- Pentecostal can I just say this our church is a Pentecostal church I've never hidden that from anyone we're we're non- denominational we're not part of a denomination I never will be again I don't want to play that political game I won't play that political game anymore and uh but Pentecostal let me just Define for you what Pentecostal means cuz it is it is misunderstood now are there some crazy Pentecostals and charismatics out there that are off in la la land goofiness we call them Charis Maniacs that are into the counterfeit the false the Demonic yes I wrote about this EXT extensively in the book I wrote the polluted Church from Rome to Kansas City in 2012 in fact I wrote about the calini spirit when Nathan Roberts was still going to Andy Stanley's church and still in the Baptist Church and didn't know what cundalini was so he is not the expert let's just get that out there all right um and you know right now the way Nathan Roberts and a lot of his groupies and a lot of people are today uh if if if Moses was standing in a church today and a chair started manifested burning on fire but wasn't being consumed they would scream calini and dare don't let him throw his rod down and it turned into a serpent they'd scream cundalini too cundalini means serpent power it and it comes from participating or opening the door to Eastern religions to meditation yoga visualization chanting mantras you want to open yourself up to calini now all you got to figure out is well are some Christians have they opened themselves up to this calini Spirit I'm going to cover this more in detail in the weeks ahead but yes but all you have to do is Trace back what practices are they doing and I did this in in the polluted Church book and show you how they got into Eastern meditative practices that are called uh Christians call them contemplative prayer but it's eastern mysticism and a lot of Christians have gotten into yoga and even they don't even realize that in some of them are practicing transcendental meditation and they don't
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even know that they're calling upon Hindu gods when they do this so this is a completely different issue we're talking about all right so can Christians can Christians get into this stuff yes but remember what did Jesus say Jesus talked about if you are sincerely seeking the holy spirit in your life what did he say I'm not going to give you a serpent or a scorpion not going to do it now let me just say this tongues is just one of the manifestations of the gifts of the holy spirit when the power of God comes on you see we got people right now all upset because people have fallen in the floor you get prayed for and somebody falls out right they're against that that's calini that's a calini spirit I guess Jesus was operating in it then cuz when the soldiers came to get Jesus in John 18 and they said Jesus they said who do you seek and Jesus said they said Jesus of Nazareth all the Roman soldiers it said when he said I am he went backwards and fell to the ground cond stop this foolishness Daniel fell on his face and under the power of God people trembled and shook under the power of God people weep and cry under the power of God I remember that the the first time I was truly born again when I was 11 years old in that little Baptist Church the power of God came on me his love his peace that power I was crying and shaking as 11y old kid and it wasn't cine I'm so over these immature people who think they're experts why is it everybody in their 20s and 30s thinks they're an expert cuz they got the internet right they think they're an expert they got YouTube your theology better come from the scriptures and not YouTube these YouTube keyboard Warriors that sit there and don't go to church and think they're experts on everything because they watched every video it's on YouTube these questions a lot of these questions just get answered if you read your Bible and look up a definition of a word or two not really complicated and take all the scriptures on a subject together and look at them all and let them all speak and let them all show the whole picture not part of the picture but I wrote this the other day after Mr Robert spoke against Pentecostal I said being Pentecostal means that you believe and have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of unknown Supernatural
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