The Mysteries of God
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In “The Mysteries of God,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, the authority of Scripture, faith. Drawing especially from 1 Corinthians 4, 1 Peter 3, Genesis 6, John 6, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience.
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Odle focuses on the condition of the church. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 the condition of the church while working through 1 Peter 3. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the wisdom of God while working through Genesis 6. The message argues that God’s wisdom confronts human pride and teaches believers to judge life from an eternal perspective. 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 the soulish life while working through John 6. The message argues that natural emotion and self-directed reasoning must yield to the Holy Spirit and the mind of Christ. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 Matthew 10, Luke 10. 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 following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Luke 4. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Luke 4, Hebrews 13. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 the authority of Scripture while working through Matthew 13. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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.
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for the scriptures lord the lord you breathe life you move by your holy spirit lord and as we worship god as we read and study your word as we hear your word god you move in our lives lord as we fast and pray you move in our lives lord it's a real relationship that you want everyone in the world to have we know everyone won't have it because they don't want it but lord you want everyone to have it especially those who name jesus as their lord but still many lord they don't know what it is to have relationship that it's not just a faith to a creed but it's a knowing of god almighty so we we worship you lord let us draw near and you promised if we would draw near to you you would draw near to us and that your sheep would hear your voice and follow you the lord we believe that today in jesus name amen oh lord the lord just wants to say that he's calling out his people in the wilderness in these last times he wants you to follow with your whole heart he will not accept compromise amen amen andy shared a word he said the lord said he's calling his people out into the wilderness in these last days and what was the response follow him with with your whole heart because he will not accept uh compromise pretty strong amen that's true god calls his people apart he called them out of egypt their problem was that they left egypt but there was still too much of egypt in them they wanted to hang on to right and that's uh maybe even a little bit pertaining to what we're going to talk about today everybody got the problem at this point and if you joined us during praise and worship if you're listening out there we welcome you to fire and grace church those of you listening by internet radio by shoutcast.com or through our website we welcome you i'm pastor dean odle and we're here in alabama god's country amen my brother from delaware there's grinding at me this morning before you know last week i kind of dealt with something i guess that most don't it's kind of heavy you know the dealt with the vatican uh the coming alien deception and the vatican church and how they're involved in all this and there of course is part two in part three of this that you know uh of that subject that we need to cover and get into but um i think the lord wanted me to
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touch on this this morning because um you know there are some issues and there are some issues in in even in our church and some issues in the body of christ at large let me just tell you what it is it's amazing how many christians really don't want to know the whole truth they really don't want to know they don't want to know the deep things of god they don't want to know the secrets of god they don't want to know the mysteries of the kingdom they don't really want to have an answer for every man of the reason of the hope that's in them they want to continue to be babies they want pastors that'll give them milk and nothing too disturbing nothing too uh frightening nothing too um nothing too deep see listen there wouldn't be any such thing as what we call seeker sensitive churches purpose-driven churches there wouldn't be any such thing as joel osteen having the largest church in america if the people didn't want it you understand i'm talking about christian people i'm not about people that name jesus christ as their lord and savior want the cotton candy they're like little children if we if if we let faith she would eat nothing but candy and cake and sweets she loves it and it's okay once in a while it's once uh you know for a little treat you know i can understand you know wanting a little joel osteen fortune cookie uh word um to pep you up a little bit you know but too much of that will give you diabetes and diabetes has side effects right like blindness wounds that won't heal right and death right so you know little sugar here and there it's okay but the problem is is that christians today want a diet of sugar now i love steve hill from the brownsville revival the evangelist brother he preached not a few years ago he preached a message called you know give me some sugar and it was basically along these lines that you know the church today does not want sound doctrine they don't want uh to grow up to mature to move on into the deeper things of god and if a church or a pastor dares to try to go that way people run and what i guess what i'm amazed at is not just it's not just the new christians that run
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this is what's so sad it's not just the new christians that's right it's people that are spirit-filled people that should know better people that have been in the church a long time people that have been filled with the holy spirit speak in tongues that operated in the gifts of the holy spirit that should be growing up that should be mature but if you go too deep if you get too heavy [Music] they run for the doors i know i've experienced this for 26 years of ministry i can't tell you how many christians i've seen come to church for a while and tell me it's the greatest things they've ever heard until until it's something a little too heavy for them now mind you it needs to be biblical it needs to be bible truth it needs to be solid but i'm telling you that you can give them all the scripture in the world on certain things but they're like i don't want to hear that and i'm going to tell you right now the lukewarm churches the seeker sensitive churches the purpose driven rick warren watered down compromised joel osteen fortune cookie churches are all over the place now and they got most of them are growing and have thousands of people because religion has become in america and in europe and other places but religion has become um [Music] basically it's become a little drug i'll get my little fix so i'll be good i get my little fix and i'll be good for the week doesn't matter how i live or exactly what i believe or do i am i am i an example of jesus christ am i am i being an example am i giving people the truth am i giving an answer to every man am i being effective am i being a powerful witness am i winning people to the lord you know is my life am i being conformed more and more into the image of christ and and growing into a mature christian or or am i just floundering am i just floundering around and i go to church on sunday or i go to bible study or i go to a wednesday night prayer meeting or i go to church once in a while to make me feel better to make my conscience more at ease i did my good church deed for the week see there in christianity if you're truly born again you've truly been saved at some point and made jesus lord and repented of your sin and turned from your sin and had the witness of the holy spirit that you are a child of god you've been saved there is no option you either grow and mature and move on into the word of god into the deeper things of god or you get into a stalemate of lukewarmness and you backslide there's no way there's no in between
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and frankly most christians don't want to be told the truth that you're either growing and becoming more like jesus or you're backsliding and becoming more like the world they don't want to be told that it's very uncomfortable but can i say that being made uncomfortable is exactly what the holy spirit wants to do if if god wants you to move out of the place where you are to grow into in and get stronger and deeper he wants you to move spiritually do you think he's going to make you comfortable where you are it's kind of like the eagle when the eagle mama when she wants the babies out of the nest you know she she builds her nest with thorns and prickly things but then she coats it with her feathers in there right so she lays her eggs and she hatches out the little baby eaglets i guess that's what you call them and she hatches them out and as they grow but when it gets time for them to get out of the nest to learn to fly to get up on their own and become what what god created them to be she starts plucking out those feathers one by one to make the nest uncomfortable and can i say that the true job of a pastor the true job of a preacher is to keep plucking the feathers out from under you so that you will fly you see what i'm saying so that you will grow so that you become in jesus christ what you are supposed to become so part of my job is to make you uncomfortable to make you stretch to make you see things in the word that maybe you haven't studied or you haven't seen and to make you believe them right to get you to believe them and to get you to obey them and to get you to understand them like then the bible say we should increase in knowledge and understanding right we should grow in wisdom we should grow in love we should grow in boldness we should grow in faith we should grow right are you growing that's the question you gotta ask are you growing now i know some of you are because i'm going to be honest i may have my faults and i have my issues but one thing i try to do i've always tried to do is pray seek god and make sure that i feed the church or the ministry that god's given me that i feed the sheep that i feed the people god gives me in my care the things they need not exactly everything they want right and it's funny how i run into people all the time say amen that's good preaching again until it starts making them uncomfortable right but i want to show you something
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