The Prophetic Church
About this sermon
In “The Prophetic Church,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, Bible prophecy, family discipleship. Drawing especially from Romans 10, Revelation 18, Ephesians 4, Psalm 92, 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 the condition of the church while working through Romans 10. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 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 faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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 demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
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’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on holiness. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. 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 holiness while working through Revelation 18. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Ephesians 4. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. 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 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 baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Psalm 92. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 while working through Revelation 22, Revelation 19. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that the biblical narrative is used to show God’s power to recover what has been lost and restore usefulness. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
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Lord we love your presence Lord we love when you manifest your presence in our lives and our church we thank you for your presence for your peace Lord you bring refreshing to our spirit God you strengthen Us by your presence and bring joy by your presence Lord we are grateful today that we can experience your presence Lord through the blood of Jesus shed on that cross we thank you that we can worship you in spirit and the truth we thank you that we can know you not just know about me but we can know you we can know your presence we can know your spirit within our spirit bearing Witness that we are children of God we're thankful for that today Lord nothing better than to know that you are with us you are in us that you have saved us by your own blood that you have come in to dwell in our hearts and our lives Lord I hope everyone that doesn't know that can come to know that we pray this today in Jesus name amen you may be seated this morning Hallelujah praise be to God Amen I just sense a tremendous peace Joy from the Lord today feel like the Lord's giving me some things to say this morning they may be may seem to be all over the place but we're going to talk about the prophetic church this morning I really want to talk about different types of churches now sometimes because I'm not only a pastor called to be a pastor and a teacher but I'm also called to be a prophet sometimes I come across harsh I know that but that's part of it um sometimes I could probably say things a little nicer but it's generally not in my nature and that's okay because the body of Christ we're not all called to be the hands we're not all called to be the foot we're not all called to be the eyes or the mouth there's different parts of the body and there's different types of churches some are good some are bad some of them have good aspects some of them have bad good and bad aspects it's important to understand though what type of church you're in and what type of person you are it's important to
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understand that um ultimately I tell people all the time um you don't get to pick where you go to church if you are a Christian you may think you need one type of church God may have another idea for you I mean when I remember when I was in my 20s I was uh fired up Street evangelist uh Holy Ghost Field tongue talking prophesying demon casting out maniac is that right Mike would it make sense would I ever in my own mind will her emotions desire to go to a dead Methodist Church no and when I say dead I'm being kind I'm we the nickname we had for the pastor was Darth Vader or Dr Death his favorite Sunday was Earth Day I'm not joking that's when he got fired up Earth Day he had to wonder was he a new Ager was he a Wiccan what happened to him in seminary I don't know but he didn't like the baptism of the Holy Spirit he didn't like anything that had to do with the Holy Spirit casting out demons tongues interpretation of tongues healing prophecy the second coming of Jesus Bible but none of that man no Earth Day we're fired up Earth Day but God made me go to that church that I didn't want to go to I had no desire to go to he made me go to it for two years not two weeks not two months two years and I am grateful to God to this day that I obeyed him and went where my emotions and my own choices and my own will didn't desire to go you understand what I'm saying the true Christian and that's what I'm getting the true Christians should seek to be led by the Holy Spirit and not their own mind or their own will or their own emotions that's the soulless Christian I preached that message we can be led by our own ideas we can be led by especially most Christians and even Pentecostals and charismatics that say they're led by the Holy Spirit most of them are really led by their emotions most people are led by their emotions this is how I feel you know we got song after song after song that says you know follow your heart follow your heart what they're talking about is your emotions how you feel about them what makes you feel good follow that
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but no a born-again Christian should be praying every day father not my will but thine be done not what I want to do not what makes me comfortable not what I desire but what do you want me to do and that should go with anything where you go to church it should be about what you do with your money it should be about how you raise your kids it should be about uh you know everything everything that you do should be submitted to the will of God to the word of God first and foremost if it's clear in the word you just don't do it right the word says you don't do it you don't do it but when it comes to guidance we have to seek God for God there's no where I've I've said this many times there was nowhere in the Bible that I can find where it says Dean odle go leave Washington D.C go to Auburn Alabama and start a church so I didn't have scripture for that right I had to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit and hear his voice to discern that it was him and not my own emotions not my own will not my own desire to fight through all of that and make sure it was God and then to obey when it was going to be difficult listen most of the time obedience is difficult you hear me usually God doesn't ask you to do anything that's tremendously easy because if it was easy you could do it in your own strength and you wouldn't need him and that's why a lot of times he asks you to do things go places say things um to do difficult things and then to ask him for the grace and the strength and the power to do it amen if you if you sit back and say you know what I can't do that I don't know if I can do that that's a pretty good place to be because then you have to ask for God's help um and this is a subject I guess within this church I've touched on a number of times because all churches are not going to be the same and that doesn't mean that they're bad I know sometimes I may give the impression that I'm trying to put down another church now some of them aren't bad they're horrible right but different is not always bad you know what I'm saying now we're going to talk about I'm going to get to the prophetic church here in a minute but the lord gave me a list and this is by no means exhaustive I I probably could write 50 of these but we don't have time for that today right well these are a few that I just felt we needed to address and you need to understand you're going to get tickled out of these things I've been in the church now since I was five years old I'm 47. going on 48. so it's been a long time
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I started out in the Pentecostal Assembly of God Church went to the Baptist Church spent time in the Methodist Church went back to the Assembly of God Church went to the charismatics and I've been around the block a few times been around big churches and small churches famous preachers nobodies Africa the Indian Ocean the Middle East so what I'm saying is what I'm about to tell you today has come from over 30 years of experience and observation all right so I'm not going to try I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings if I name your former denomination or your present denomination or truth because we have people listening to we have people that are Baptists listening to us and methodists and Presbyterian all over the world really um so if I offend you um good you probably need to be offended all right but I'm just going to tell the truth all right let me pull up my list here okay I don't mind this do you we're going to talk about something in a minute too you might want to look this up on Wikipedia to pull this up cognitive dissonance we're going to look that up in just a second because it's really a big problem in the church I know it's a psychological term but we'll Define it in just a minute all right let me I had to email it to myself so let me go ahead here we go all right different types of churches now we're going to get to the prophetic church at the end what a prophetic church is all right Apostolic prophetic Church um but let's go through a little list of churches here I've got 16 I think let's see yes 16. the prophetic church will be the 16th church so number one type of church out there I call the Salvation only that's all they know I mean that's all they preach I went to one of those I went to this little Baptist Church when I was 11 12 years old and that's that's all they knew I mean they could preach you must be born again they can preach that Jesus died on that cross while your sins rose from the dead but you have to confess him before men to be saved they had Romans 10 9 down pat that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus believe in your heart that God has raising from the dead you shall be saved and if you come down the aisle and pray this prayer and shake the preacher's hand you're saved once down forever I mean that's what they preach and they preach it every kind of different way they didn't preach on the baptism the Holy Spirit they didn't preach on the gifts of the Spirit they didn't preach on healing they didn't preach on uh much about the end times every now and then a little bit but that was always pre-trib raptured not to lie always but what I'm getting at was they did one thing pretty well I mean I got saved in that church when I was uh
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