The Oracles of God
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In “The Oracles of God,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, and Bible prophecy. Drawing especially from Mark 8, Romans 10, and Galatians 4, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 the authority of Scripture while working through Mark 8. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 faith while working through Mark 8 and Romans 10. The sermon also emphasizes the Bible's sixty-six-book canon. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Galatians 4, John 3, Matthew 10. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that leaders are accountable to teach faithfully, serve the flock, and model the character they proclaim. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Romans 4, Psalm 119, Romans 3. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on faith while working through John 8, Psalm 12. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through Matthew 4, John 21. 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 John 16. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. 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 faith while working through John 17. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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father we worship you today we worship because you are worthy of worship we exalt you Great and Mighty God creator of Heaven and Earth God is your presence that we still need your manifest presence in our lives your anointing that destroys the Yokes of the enemy your power God your eyes are upon the truth you will look toward those who are walking the truth who long for the truth in fact Lord your spirit you call the spirit of Truth Jesus you are the way the truth and the life and there is no other we exalt you today we ask you to speak to us today speak to those watching those listening prepare us to be a light for you in a dark world to speak your word to not be ashamed of your word it's in Jesus name we pray amen and amen you may be seated this morning we welcome those of you here to find Grace Church those of you watching by Periscope those listening By blogtalk Radio we welcome you this morning um I have a lot to share with you this morning of course um I must say it was I feel really good really refreshed it was nice to take uh Sunday off and the radio show off I know some of you missed that I apologize but I need a little break and it was good uh and needful but I do feel something burning in my heart this morning because of you know things that have transpired this week but I really felt the Lord lay upon my heart again that um we need to look at what what attitude I guess the attitude and the belief that we as Christians particularly Christians are supposed to have toward the Bible the scriptures and I'm afraid that my experiences and some of my conversations over several days have not encouraged me in the sense that there are just many Christians I believe who don't really hold the Bible in high esteem as they ought to now they would say they do but you know there's I was looking at many Barna and Gallup polls research stuff as we were driving home Nancy was driving so I was just looking up some stuff but one of the recent articles I saw and I think it was in the Christian Post and I think it was in the AP so it kind of was across the media Spectrum but one of the uh exit polls during this primary season this election season has
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been toward evangelicals and those who claim to be Evangelical Christians and this poll stated in these exit polls uh that 39 of those who were voting in this election in this primary season 39 of them who claim to be Evangelical Christians now 39 percent did not believe the Bible was the inspired word of God now that's almost 40 percent that's about 4 and 10. Christians people who claim to be Evangelical Christians and also what I'm discovering is that within what we call and and folks if that number is that high among people who claim to be Evangelical Christians can you imagine what the number is just generally across the board because you know this is this this particular Poe was only people who um who were voting it could be much higher I mean we could be in the 50 plus percent range of people who claim to be now remember many many claim to be Christian and they'll admit some of them will admit if they're liberal or conservative but most people say I'm an Evangelical Christian are saying that I am a conservative bible-believing Christian I mean that's what you would think but um folks I just want to let you know the public education system the liberal media uh watered down pastors who went to seminaries and Bible schools that have been infiltrated by Jesuits and atheists and Communists and everything else I mean folks what I would like to see is an accurate and accurate poll on how many Pastors in America actually believe that the entire Bible is the inspired infallible word of God I would dare say that that number is much higher than any of us would care to even imagine and the proof of that comes out in what they preach the proof of that comes out in their approach to Ministry I mean folks let me just tell you this if you're ashamed of any part of God's word you have a deep seated foundational problem in your life I mean Jesus stated it in fact in in uh and I want to start there let's just go look at math I mean in Mark chapter eight we'll start there and today's message we're calling the Oracles of God
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and we'll explain that in a minute the word Oracle just for those of you who want to know if you look it up in the Greek dictionary the reason I'm calling this the Oracles of God is because this is a term in the Bible used okay that's becoming distracting that's I almost just have to say that now but the Oracles of God is a term called about the utterances of God and this term the Oracles of God is used for it's another it's another definition it's another term used for the scriptures I'll show you that in a second so here what I'm saying before we go any further did I and I know I told you go to mark 8. but the Bible declares itself and when I say the Bible we're talking about the Apostle John we're talking about the Apostle Peter we're talking about the Apostle Paul we're talking about men who are historical figures there's no doubt that they live that they existed that they were men of Godly character that they changed the course of history that they established Christianity and the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the world this is these are historical facts and these men wrote down what they believed about the nature of the scriptures both the Old Testament and the New Testament and one of the terms that they use is called the Oracles of God the utterances of God I'm going to go to some other passages but we need to think about that most people today in America and in the Western World in Europe most people today do not believe the Bible is truly The Inspired utterances of almighty God the Creator the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ they don't believe that they believe some believe uh that it's a book of stories that was the number one phrase when Millennials were pulled the number one phrase was a book of stories the other one was a book of myths cultural mythology that it was just written by men that it there's no Divine guidance or inspiration to the Bible even though some who would say that would say even though they didn't believe it was divinely inspired by God they said oh it's a good it's it's a book that can give you some good morals but now here's a scary statistic in all this there was about 40 something I take it back it's about 50 I think it was 56 percent of Millennials now 56 percent of millennials basically said that the Bible was either negative or dangerous when you combine the two so as you can see the devil Satan
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and his propaganda war against Christianity and against the word of God both in the public school system yes both through atheistic systems of Communism and socialism through the media I mean you go back in the 60s and 70s it began in TV that the Christians were always mocked the Bible was always mocked the order of the family was always mocked I mean this has been going on for some time right but what we don't understand is all you have to do is look at these numbers at these poll numbers these statistics and you can see that Satan when it comes to influencing society influence and even influencing the Christian world has been succeeding and this is what we have got to stand up and we've got to do our part to stop it okay one of the the Bedrock of Christianity the Bedrock of faith in God Almighty the true God is this book right here the Old Testament Genesis the Malachi the New Testament Matthew to Revelation 66 books and what we believe about this book what we believe about the words in this book will determine what we do what we say and will ultimately determine our Eternal home our Eternal destiny now I know I've said this before I've said it many times the Bible is very clear that Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Romans 10 17. so there's no true Faith unless you actually get to hear what the word of God says to do right or what the word of God says about a matter right faith there is no doctrinal beliefs without the word of God you can't establish anything as absolute truth without the word of God right but we actually have a bunch of people in the world right now that believe that you can have a relationship with God and you don't really have to know the Bible you don't really have to base things on scripture you don't really have to know it you don't have to really have to study it you don't have to believe it you can believe what parts you like what parts you don't like but that's just Where We Are right the Bible said there would be a great Falling Away I'm falling away from what what is the word falling away from apostasy or apostasia means a departure
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