The One World Church
About this sermon
In “The One World Church,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, Bible prophecy, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Ephesians 5, Revelation 17, Revelation 6, Revelation 20, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone.
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Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Ephesians 5. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation. 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 Revelation 17. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that the gospel announces Christ’s saving work and calls every hearer to repent, believe, and obey. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Revelation 6, Revelation 20. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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 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 idolatry and occult influence. The message argues that objects and practices tied to idolatry are treated as spiritual compromises that should be renounced. 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 God’s commandments while working through Luke 11. The message argues that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. 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 Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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[Music] yes lord we love you lord we love you jesus we praise your name this morning god we ask you lord to open our eyes that we may see god we ask you to give us discernment in an hour of deception and delusion we ask you lord to help us draw near to you so that you will draw near to us we pray lord again for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened that we would not walk in darkness that we would not be deceived by the wolves in sheep's clothing that we would not be led astray even by our own mind and demons lord awaken us i pray awaken the body of christ particularly in america lord throughout the world that's just asleep and deceived by so many things father we pray this in jesus name amen man you know i've come to a conclusion that most of the church world actually loves their delusions not to just they believe them not just that they lean toward them but they love them i am just blown away and this is really nothing of consequence up here just people making pancakes that look like the beetles more ridiculousness in the world i tell you that's what we need right a pancake artist that can do the beatles faces right but i want you to turn to this passage of scripture this morning because it will not leave my mind it's in jeremiah chapter 5. i've been up since 3 30 this morning i guess the lord's just had me awake and praying so many things going on but this passage of scripture just came to me and i looked it up [Music] and really i want to read from verse 20 and we'll go down it's the last two verses but this is jeremiah chapter five we're going to start at verse 20 and we're going to read through verse 31
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now this is of course the prophet jeremiah speaking to the children of israel to jerusalem to the people of god the lord is speaking very clearly but this could not be more uh pertinent for the church of today than when jeremiah wrote it for the children of israel let's read this he said declare this in the house of jacob and publish it in judah saying hear now this o foolish people and without understanding which have eyes and see not and which have ears and hear not fear ye not me saith the lord will you not tremble at my presence which i have placed which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it and though the waves thereof tossed themselves they cannot prevail though they roar they cannot pass over it but this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart they are revolted and gone neither say they in their heart let us now fear the lord our god that giveth reign both the former and the latter in his season and has reserved unto us the appointed weeks of harvest he says your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholding good things from you for among my people are found wicked men they lay weight as he that set it snares and they set a trap and they catch men as a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of deceit therefore they are become great who the deceivers they have become great they've waxed and rich they are waxing fat they shine yea and they overpass the deeds of the wicked they judge not the cause the cause of the fatherless yet they prosper and the right of the needy do they not judge shall i not visit for these things or judge bring judgment is what that means when the lord says shall i not visit he means shall i not bring judgment for these things shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this and then he says a wonderful and this means a ruinous desolation and a horrible thing is committed in the land the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their own human what this means their own human power by their own means and my people love to have it so and what will you do in the end thereof and it's interesting that the word end in hebrew means last days what will you do
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my people the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their own means and my people love to have it so i have never seen a time in my 46 years that the church in america loves the deceivers they love them more than any other time i have ever seen and i'm talking about spirit-filled charismatic pentecostal churches evangelical churches churches it used to be solid in the bible would stick to the bible that the word of god was first place the final authority the final judge on every matter and now they will follow anybody who talks about jesus once in a while or maybe even has a miracle or a prophecy come to pass and they will follow them and they will defend them and they will justify them and it blows my mind that that we are at this place you can you can show people i'm talking about christians i'm talking about i can show christians a group of prophets that operate in false prophecy that give hundreds of false prophecies that don't come to pass when they say they're going to come to pass i can show them they practice pagan occultism and these christians will attack me and defend the false prophets it happened this week more than once oh they can blow it they can have women come in their office to get in and have to uh get naked to get a word from the lord but that's who they defend bob jones that was the late bob jones prophet did that one and yet to this day he is defended as a true prophet of god sorry i don't recall i don't recall reading in the bible any prophet that said hey ladies i'll give you a prophecy if you'll come in my office and strip down and that was just one of his mild offenses but this was rick joyner's right-hand man for years and mike bickle's right-hand man for years this is the guy who prophesied that the rapture and the in the end times is like
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generations away from us before he died i'm just blown away and can i just pause on this rock for a moment okay and i'm just gonna say it ephesians chapter five makes this very clear have no fellowship wait a minute did it say have some fellowship no no well let's just turn there guys let's go to ephesians chapter five i guess we ought to read it i'm going to get on the don't hurt somebody's feelings today probably not in here but i'll get the hate mail from it the electronic hatemail now of course is what it is where'd i tell you the term that's right y'all paid attention this morning i like that somebody got some sleep in here just not me ephesians 5 i thought it was verse 11 but let's let's let's read this well let's let's back up and read a little bit here we'll start from verse one be therefore followers of god as dear children and walk in love as christ also has loved us and has given himself for us an offering it a sacrifice to god for sweet smelling savor but fornication fornication premarital sex and all forms of sexual immorality all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named among you as become a saints neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jestings which are not convenient but rather the giving of thanks for this you know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of god of christ and of god let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of god upon the children of disobedience now look at verse 7 be not ye therefore partakers with them for you were sometimes darkness but now you are light in the lord walk as children of the light for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth proving what is acceptable to the lord this is an abomination to most christians to prove what is acceptable to the lord and what's not acceptable this is an abomination now this is hated but he says proving what is acceptable
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