The Persecution of Jesus
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In “The Persecution of Jesus,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about demons and deliverance, the condition of the church, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Luke 24, John 14, Mark 5, Mark 3, the teaching emphasizes that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.
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Odle focuses on the anointing while working through Luke 24. The message argues that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through John 14. 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 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 demons and deliverance. 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 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 demons and deliverance while working through Mark 5. 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 the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 Mark 5, Mark 3, Mark 6. 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 trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on family discipleship while working through John 7, John 8, John 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 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 the condition of the church while working through John 10, John 11, John 16. 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 prayer while working through Peter 3, Romans 1. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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beating alabama last night i'm talking about the i feel the presence of the lord here amen and the anointing of god and the lord i'm telling you there's a lot of things going on i just i don't know why but i just feel like i ought to share this because to me this is amazing remember how i shared probably about a year ago that the lord spoke to me and told me that our church here fire and grace church we're small church i think we usually have stayed between 20 and 30 people um but i i and you know it's been uh january 11th will be uh our five year anniversary of that the beginning of this church but the lord told me it was probably a year ago a little over a year and i've shared this many times he told me in prayer one day he said that our church was like the five loaves and the two fish and that he would take our little our little offering here of a church and he'd multiply it and feed thousands now what we we we read the story you know where jesus fed the five thousand in the bible and we forget the part that it says jesus said that he fed 5 000 basically not just total but 5 000 men not really counting the women and the children there's actually no telling we don't know how many people were there right um so we we're talking about there could have been ten thousand people there there could have been fifteen thousand people there we don't know twenty thousand uh it's not unrealistic for a crowd together like that in the open air you go to africa and crowds can gather i think reinhardt bunkey had a crowd of somewhere around 1.5 2 million people it just out in the middle of nowhere so god god can gather the people but i just wanted to share this little thing with you that i wanted to encourage you about you know your prayers and your faithfulness to to this little church and to this pastor has made an impact all over the world i just was writing some things down and doing a little looking into like the podcast the facebook pages the website youtube over the last just three months we have touched the lives and ministered to somewhere around 20 000 people just what i could look at just what i could see that means that's no telling like if somebody watched a youtube video but they watched it with a group of people and i do know there's a little church up in in maryland that has watched uh the videos that we've put out uh they've got their whole little church group together so you have no really idea but what i could count through youtube podcast facebook and our websites
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20 plus thousand people i get emails from them i get phone calls from them i get uh facebook messages from them and i just want to say it's your your prayers are not in vain your faithfulness to enable us you know you guys you're giving your prayers you know kevin's hard work to make sure we can broadcast and record and and have podcasts and all that cost money and i just want to say thank you that god is using what he told me our little five loaves and two fish matter of fact what's interesting you know just the article that i wrote about the willow tree angels and the essential oils and the accursed objects thing you guys wouldn't believe that hundreds of people have read that i think it's i think it's probably over a thousand people looked at it on facebook i can't tell you how many people looked at it uh online but i'm talking about hundreds of people in australia for some reason uh the australians just love us and i i have to say i love australians as well i'd love to go to australia if i could go anywhere i'd love to go to australia for sure but anyway i got invited to preach there once but i wasn't able to go and then life changed and i couldn't go so but god is moving you guys and there is an anointing um there's an anointing for these last days and i i mean a grace an anointing a gift you know the word anointing and when the holy spirit comes to you is the term you know when jesus told the disciples in luke 24 he said you you know you're going to be endued with power from on high see this that this is what christians ought to be sold out for i mean just hungry for just seeking god for lord and do me with power from on high the power is not to sit in your house and sulk amen power is to speak power to be a witness power to cast out demons heal the sick be a light preach the gospel it's power from on how to do something power to overcome the enemy amen i thank god what jesus said when he was going to leave he said i did not leave you comfortless i'm not going to leave you alone i'm going to send the holy spirit and he's going to teach you and guide you and comfort you that's that's good news amen i just think we need to be reminded we are not alone sometimes we feel alone sometimes we feel discouraged sometimes we feel down and depressed but for the christian for the born-again christian for the christian that loves jesus loves god's word wants righteousness wants holiness wants to do the will of god god has promised that he
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will not leave you comfortless he will not leave you powerless he will not leave you alone and that's why you need to remind yourself again and again and again i have power in jesus name i have the holy spirit in me i have god with me and for me and that's why i it boggles my mind the christians who want to stop at a certain place when there's so much more that we can have amen listen i've operated in all the gifts of the spirit at one time or another i've seen mighty miracles and i've been able to prophesy and see things come to pass but i am still hungry to do it more to be to have more of his spirit more of his power more of his presence and i'm just going to share something with you i feel like the lord told me to tell you it felt like it he told me this morning when i was praying and and i felt like he told me while we were in worship that the next two weeks you need to spend you need to really set these next two weeks aside and pray more than you normally pray fast more than you normally fast and meditate and read the word more than you do now i'm talking about more than normal okay let me just say this if you want a fresh anointing a fresh endowment of power from the holy spirit those fresh times of anointing come also from times of sp taking special time to be with god amen we're all busy we all have lives and we have jobs and we have children and we have issues and we're tired a lot of the time i understand that i understand now more my parents were talking about i didn't understand when i was a kid and i'm tired why are you tired because i could just go go go because i was a kid no i'm 45 now i'm tired i understand being tired right but i just feel like the lord told me that you really and not not just for your own benefit but that the next two weeks is going to be what the next two weeks you need to spend time getting closer to god because you're gonna need it okay and i'm telling you but the anointing and the peace of god is what he wants to give you a greater anointing greater peace greater confidence a just a greater sense of his presence and grace with you to do some awesome things for him amen now i feel like the lord told me to go this direction as well this morning you know sometimes i you know seek god and he gives me a series of things to do
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and sometimes i just seek god week to week don't really know what he's going to do and it ends up kind of being a series and i didn't even plan it that way right but last week we talked about you know not being fearful of the things that are going to come upon us and the persecutions that we're going to face and the lord i was reading the bible last night and i read across something and we'll we might look there in just a second but i read across something and the lord just spoke to me as i stayed up for a while praying and reading and then i got up this morning but it was just very clear like you know what look at the persecution that jesus went through i know we've touched on some of them lately but you know a lot of us got to hang out with family during thanksgiving and some didn't i think some of you that didn't were probably more blessed than some of us that did at times it could be that way right now i'm not saying us we had a good visit hallelujah right but i'm just saying sometimes there's after some visits you wish you hadn't visited right and i understand that way every family has issues every family has problems but we as christians and especially as spirit-filled christians and christians trying to be more of what jesus wants us to be we face persecution from family members from friends from from religious people from church people and of course again we've talked about this but i think you need to see a little more if you're going to step out in these areas look at what jesus faced all right i don't think that we realize what kind of mess he went through before he ever even went to the cross the cross was just the final persecution of jesus the most severe but before he ever got there he got it from family friends and church folks i mean mean stuff stuff that we would sit back and cr some some of us would just cry over right so we're going to look at a few of those i want you to go let's just take our bibles first of all let's just look back where we left off last week i want you to go to matthew chapter 10. i even went old school this morning last night this morning and actually wrote it down on paper she wrote notes on paper when jesus said this let's look then this is why we should look at this
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