The Josiah Generation
About this sermon
In “The Josiah Generation,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about divine judgment, faith, Bible prophecy. Drawing especially from 2 Timothy 3, Isaiah 9, Daniel 7, Revelation 13, the teaching emphasizes that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
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Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through 2 Timothy 3, Isaiah 9. 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 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 Daniel 7, Revelation 13. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through Matthew 13. 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 revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on divine judgment. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. 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 divine judgment while working through Jeremiah 28. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. 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 family discipleship while working through Psalm 91. 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 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 the authority of Scripture. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that the reality of final judgment gives urgency to repentance, salvation, and faithful witness. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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 natural emotion and self-directed reasoning must yield to the Holy Spirit and the mind of Christ. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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hallelujah lord those songs this morning god those are our prayers lord that you will send your glory lord that you will send the power of your holy spirit lord sin revival into our midst lord into this church into this area lord into this region lord into our nation we so need a move of god to bring conviction again to bring conviction of sin revelation of of what repentance is of the lordship of jesus and what it means to take up our crosses and and and follow the lord with all of our hearts and to forsake our sins and to forsake our old lifestyle to break up with the world and give the devil back his stuff and and truly move on and be true christians father we pray for a revival of true christianity a revival and a move of the holy ghost even in this dark hour even in this hour when we are so close to the end of all things as we know it we pray for a move of the holy spirit and we pray god for grace to be intercessors to be examples to be oh lord god those who live it and preach it lord we thank you for the grace and power to do it in jesus name amen hallelujah you may be seated praise god i sense the presence of the lord here this morning i want to welcome you to fire and grace church i do have a word this morning for you but before we turn to the scriptures in first kings i want you to turn to first corinthians chapter 10 because i'm going to be preaching mainly out of the old testament this morning so i want to share this passage with you because some people have a problem with the old testament some even christians i don't know why last time i checked second timothy 3 16 said all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for correction for instruction so you know i believe the entire bible is god's inspired infallible inerrant word that he breathed through men and women so let's uh let's read this and i'll just share with you what i'm going to be speaking to you this morning i think we'll call it the josiah generation we have a josiah in here it's not about him but the josiah generation we're going to look at king josiah in just a second but in first corinthians chapter 10 verse 1 this is what paul stated here about the old testament and
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how it works for us today and he said moreover brethren i would not that you should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and were all baptized unto moses in the cloud and in the sea and did all eat the same spiritual meat now let's just think about that for a second it says they did all eat the same spiritual meat and drink that we drink god has not changed jehovah the lord god almighty the god of abraham isaac and jacob the god and father of our lord jesus christ he is the same god of the old testament as he is of the new testament i need to make that clear because there's a lot of people out there saying that there's two different gods there's one god in the old testament one god in the new testament that comes from gnosticism and from heresies that sprung up in the late first and second centuries but regardless it's been revived now but the bottom line is jehovah as i told an israeli mossad agent one time jehovah yahweh is jesus there is one god who manifest himself in three persons the father the son and the holy spirit but jesus said if you've seen the father if you've seen me philip you've seen the father right isaiah taught it isaiah 9 6 he said you know the son will be given there will be a son that will come forth right we quote it every time at christmas time but sometimes i think we forget when he says his name will be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father and the prince of peace so this is for everybody out there's got a problem with who jesus is jesus christ is god manifested in the flesh to say anything different is to deny jesus christ and who he is that's just the fact of life but anyway i had to say that right there that's for you know nobody in here of course but we never know who's listening so anyway he said we did all eat the same spiritual meat in verse 4 did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was christ but with many of them god was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness now look at verse six now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted neither be ye idolaters as were some of them as it is written the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play neither let us commit fornication and that's any fornication covers all sexual immorality he says neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand neither let us tempt christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer look at verse 11 now all these things happened unto them for examples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come
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so everything written in the old testament are is for us they're examples they're things that we should learn from and then he he says it here wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls so i wanted you to see that because too many times i think people nowadays think that the old testament has no application or no profit for us and our spiritual lives but how many of you know that jesus said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god so every word is important so now i want you to take your bibles and i want you to turn back and i want you to go to second kings chapter 22. now what i'm going to be speaking to you about today about king josiah and some of the things that that god did through him and the things that were going on around there i want to say this because i feel that this is a kind of a prophetic word kind of a prophetic revelation there are times that god makes things in the scriptures kind of jump out at you and you know that it's something that he's saying for this time that's why he would say many times like when he spoke to the churches of asia through when jesus spoke to the apostle john he says he that has ears let him hear what the spirit says not what the spirit said you see sometimes it's there's we we have to hear what god said but he's also saying things and that's why he makes the bible come alive to us remember we've talked about hearing from god and god can just speak make something just leap out of the bible and you know that that's for now i know that this is for now because of where we are on the threshold of god's judgment in america and the world i mean i believe and you guys know this that we are at the end of the age i believe we're about to enter uh what jesus called the great tribulation we're about to enter that time we're in the beginning of sorrows we're seeing uh the earth travail we're seeing the we're seeing every sign that jesus and his prophets and his apostles told us about everything's coming to pass and and i believe we're at that time and you know there are a lot of people right now the reason i bring this up because there's a lot of people out there even within the pentecostal charismatic realm presbyterian there's a lot of people beginning to accept this what they call kingdom now theology or dominion theology and basically what they believe their preterist in the sense what they believe is that all of the end time or what we call end time passages or end time judgments all happened in 70 a.d when titus invaded and destroyed jerusalem and tore down the temple and they they believed that was it they even believed that the second coming happened then and was spiritual some of them and that now the church has moved into this spiritual millennial reign and the church has been given the power to take dominion and take control of the government and take control of finances and take control of all of this stuff and that we're going to make the world a better place and
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make it this utopia so that jesus can come back and and rule and reign one day okay i'm sorry but that's not what the bible says okay the book of daniel chapter 7 the book of revelation chapter 13 we've all seen that it doesn't end like that as a matter of fact the bible tells us paul told us in second thessalonians that before the the coming or revelation of the man of sin the antichrist the great wickedness he said there'll be a a falling away there's a great apostasy and we're seeing that happen right now in the church world i think more than ever before there's a falling away from truth a falling away from who jesus is there's a delving into all sorts of things like buddhism and hinduism and yoga and they're just trying to mix everything together and create this this this new age new world religion that mixes christianity with everything else um so we're in that season but what the what daniel 7 spells out what revelation 13 spells out is that the governments of the world will not become more and more christianized they will become more and more demon-possessed more and more antichrist more and more against righteousness against holiness and against jesus christ and his true church and of course against the jewish people and what amazes me is how these people christian people now who supposedly read the bible right can can say that the world is getting better and better there's even one guy and i'm gonna name his name i'm not afraid to do it um out of bethel uh church in redding california he's the associate pastor his name's chris volatin he actually gave a prophecy and gave a word that the world the state of the world is getting better and better this guy i hate to say is on drugs or something okay he is listening to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons because how blind do you have to be he even said china was going to turn and begin to be a giver and china read china he said that there won't be any war that all these nations that are getting ready for war they're going to stop they're just going to be god's going to stop them in their tracks there's going to be no war and i'm like have you read the bible one of the signs jesus said was there'll be wars and rumors of wars and i'm just like dude it's not hard to judge that false prophecy as you know as that prophecy is false right the world's not getting better and better i mean you have to be living in some fantasy land to think that the world's getting better and better but the governments of the world are being taken over daniel 7 and revelation 13 spells it out that the antichrist that there will be a world government and that there will be a man come up over that world government and they're going to try to stamp out christianity and stamp out the jewish state the jewish people and guess what it's happening right in front of our faces so you know it says there and this is what
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