The Mothership
About this sermon
In “The Mothership,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about spiritual deception, faith, biblical love. Drawing especially from John 17, Matthew 24, Zechariah 5, John 16:2, the teaching emphasizes that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. 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 gratitude. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. 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 spiritual deception while working through John 17, Matthew 24. The message argues that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. 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 believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Zechariah 5. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on biblical creation while working through John 16:2. The message argues that the creation account is defended as foundational to biblical authority and the meaning of the created order. 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 bitterness and forgiveness while working through Psalm 119. The message argues that unresolved offense can become bitterness, while forgiveness releases judgment to God and protects the heart. It connects this with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Matthew 18. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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 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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My soul [singing] a fire light a fire that the world can burn out and the flame till nothing [music] between us remains. My life is an alter [singing and music] to you. Breathe again and breathe again on the embers that burn in my heart. [singing] A [music] love taken back to the star. My life is [singing and music] an alter. Tell them again. God, I'm [singing] sorry. Please forgive [music] me [singing] for when I grow cold. [singing] Yes, Jesus. Lord, I [singing] need you. How I need you, Jesus. How [singing] I need you to wake in [singing] my soul. Jesus. Thank you. Holy Spirit, we invite you here to fill us, Lord. As [music] the spirit [singing] come over us, come rest on [singing] us. Come rest on us as the moving [singing and music] over the spirit come move over us. [music] Come [singing] rest on us. Come rest on [singing] us. So [music] come down. [singing] When you move, you make my heart when you fill [music] the room. You're here and I know that you're moving. [singing] I'm here and I know you will feel me. So
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calm [singing] down, spirit, when you move, you make my heart pound. When you feel the room, you're here and [singing] I know that you're [music] moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. [singing] I know you will feel [singing] me [music] as the [music] spirit [singing] was moving over the water. Spirit come move over us. Come [singing and music] rest on us. Come rest on us. As the [music] spirit [singing] was moving over the spirit come move over us. Come rest on [singing] us. Come rest on us. [singing] Holy Spirit come move [singing] on us. We love you, Jesus. And thank you. Thank you for your presence, Lord. [singing and music] Thank you for your presence, Lord. Fire and wind. Fire [singing] and wind. Come and do it again. Open up the gates. [singing and music] Let heaven on in. Come rest on us. Come and rest [music and singing] on us. Fire and wind, come and do it again. [singing and music] Oh, open up the gates of heaven on rest on [singing] us. Come rest on us. So come, so come down, spirit, when you move, you make my heart [singing] pound. When you fill the room, you're here and I know that you're moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. So calm down. Spirit, when you move, you make [music and singing] my heart pound. When you feel the room, you're here and [singing] I know that you're [music] moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. I know you [singing] will feel me. I know you will feel me [singing] and fill us. We love you. Holy Spirit. Holy [singing and music] Spirit, come rest on [singing and music] us.
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You're all we want. You're all we [singing] want. Holy Spirit, come [singing and music] rest on us. You're all we want. You're all we [music and singing] want. Holy Spirit, [singing] come [music] rest on us. You're all [singing] we want. You're [music] all we want. So, Holy Spirit, [singing] come rest on us. You're all we [music and singing] want. You're all we want. Holy [singing] Spirit, come [music] rest on us. You're all we want. [singing and music] You're all we want, Lord. You're all we want. [singing] Oh, rest on us. Thank you, Lord Jesus. So come down. So come down, spirit. When you move, you make my heart pound. When you [music] fill the room, you're here and I know that you're moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. So calm down, spirit, when you move, you make my heart [music] when you fill the room. You're here and I know that [singing] you're moving. I'm here and I know you will feel me. [singing] I know you will feel me. [singing] As the [music] spirit was moving, as the spirit [singing] was moving over the spirit, come [music] move over us. Yes, Lord, come rest on [singing] us. Come rest on us [music] as [singing] come move over us. Come rest [singing] on us. Come rest on [singing] us.
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Amen. Lord, we just come this morning. We thank you, Lord, that no matter what we're going through, we can trust when we pray and ask for your Holy Spirit to come upon us, to help us, to lead us and guide us into all truth, to anoint us, to share our testimony or be a witness for Jesus Christ. Lord, that you truly anoint us whether we feel it or not, Lord. Sometimes we feel inadequate or like we failed, but you work through us. Lord, you said even when we are weak, we are strong when we have you. And we thank you that we have you. And greater is he, the Lord Jesus Christ, who's in us, than he that's in the world. We thank you for this, Lord. And it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. You may be seated this morning. Welcome everyone to Fire and Grace Church. Happy Mother's Day to all our mothers here and out there. We're missing a few today. We've got sickness running through and people traveling and all kinds of stuff going on. But thank you Johnny and Julie. That was great. Um, everybody have their Bibles out. I'm going to um I don't do most of you know I don't do holiday messages. So, um, this one will get close because we're going to talk about the mothership. So, just a little bit. Uh, so I guess that counts, doesn't it? All right. Uh, let's get your Bibles out and let's go to second Thessalonians. Uh, I've preached this passage many times over the 38 years. And uh, it's amazing to me how many times the Lord brings it back to me and shows me different things about it. Um, but we're going to go to chapter two. And the first part of this chapter talks about the rapture won't come until the falling away or the apostasy comes first and the man of sin is revealed which is antichrist. Um, Bible never taught that, you know, there was a secret uh catching away or rapture of the church. That's just made up again doctrines of men. But we're going to go down a little further in chapter 2 and he talks about uh we're going to go to verse eight when he talks about then. What does then mean? I've taught y'all what then means, right? Then is a time word. It means after that, right? So he's talking about after the falling away comes, this man of sin, the antichrist is going to be revealed. He says, "Then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, even him whose coming is after
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