The Soulish Christian (Part 2: Revelation vs Information)
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In “The Soulish Christian (Part 2 - Revelation vs Information),” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, the authority of Scripture, holiness. Drawing especially from 1 Thessalonians 5, Romans 2, Acts 16, Acts 27, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. 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 holiness. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. 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 worship while working through Romans 2, Acts 16, Acts 27. The message argues that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily 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 practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on faith while working through John 4, Matthew 16, Acts 8. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. 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 trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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 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. Throughout the section, the appeal remains directed toward a consistent life in which belief, worship, and conduct agree.
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 seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Ephesians 1. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that God’s wisdom confronts human pride and teaches believers to judge life from an eternal perspective. 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 Ephesians 3, Timothy 6, John 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on the authority of Scripture while working through John 6, Hebrews 4, Psalm 51. The message argues that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. It connects this with the conviction that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that objects and practices tied to idolatry are treated as spiritual compromises that should be renounced. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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how to be sensitive to the holy spirit how to strengthen our spirit and to walk the christian life through the spirit and not the soul or the body that we may have intimacy with you that may we may have truly a spiritual life father we love you today we praise you today while i'm praying over everybody here today everybody listening through internet radio today blog talk or shout cast i just pray that everybody today god that you would give them ears to hear and hearts to understand god what's being said what's being taught from the word today i pray god that you give each one each of us lord the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened so that we would know the hope of your calling and what you want in our lives lord i pray this today in jesus name amen and amen praise you lord you may be seated welcome those of you listening my internet today's fire and grace church we're going to revisit something that we looked at in february i think it was february january of 2013 over the next two weeks we're going to take it a little deeper some of you will remember that i taught a message or preached a word whatever you want to say but i taught on the soulish christian and even though many of you heard that and you think you got it and you think you understood it we're going to revisit this and we're going to revisit it in a lot more depth in the next two weeks um but we have to kind of refresh but today i'm going to try to kind of focus in on the difference between having revelation versus having information but before i do that let me just revisit some of this because um i know that a lot of you though you may have heard the message you probably don't remember much of it i'm never going to assume that people get truth and really assimilate it after hearing it just one time but if you're taking notes you want to turn in your bibles we're going to start in first thessalonians 5 verse 23 [Music] and just to lay a quick foundation this is a review this message is on line it's on itunes
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the soulish christian so you can always go back and listen to this and get the basic uh foundation of this message but we we basically need to delve deeper into the difference between living the christian life out of your soul versus living the christian life out of your spirit there is a huge difference massive difference between living the christian life out of your spirit man versus living it out of your soul now of course a lot of people in the in christian a lot of people in the world think that the spirit and the soul are the same thing they really do you'll hear people use the term almost interchangeably they think spirit and soul is the same thing but god's word bears it out that there is a difference now let me just say very clearly well let's just read first thessalonians 5 23 says this it says in the very god of peace sanctify you wholly or completely and i pray god your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our lord jesus christ so here is a prayer inspired by the holy spirit through the apostle paul god breathed word of the living god as he's praying what the holy spirit wants him to pray and he says i pray god will sanctify that means to cleanse to purify to set apart your whole spirit which means your spirit has parts your whole soul and your whole body will be preserved blameless unto the coming of our lord jesus christ so god is is revealing to us that the human being that each human being is made of three parts of three primary parts yet one person we have a spirit we have a soul and we have a body we are three in one in that interesting because god is three in one and we were created in the image of god so just like god is he made his children he made us like him and this is the way i like to reveal it if you want to understand the trinity a little better the oneness of god yet how um there is three parts you just look at yourself you have a spirit
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you have a soul and you have a body now let me define those real quick your spirit is the part of you that actually has a form like a body paul said that your spirit has a form like a body it has eyes it has ears it has a mouth has a nose has legs and and arms literally if my spirit stepped out to the side of me and you could see my spirit man you would see an outline or a form of me you would see through me but you would see me okay the soul is different the soul is your consciousness the soul is your intellect your mind your will your emotions okay the spirit man contains your conscience your intuition and the place of deep worship and communion with god so i'm gonna go back through this and of course it's obvious what the body is everybody knows what the body is our physical body the five senses now it's very important to understand the difference because god wants the christian to live the christian life out of their spirit man primarily and not out of their soul now it's very important you understand this i'm going to say this again so you'll understand the difference between the two the spirit man the spirit part of you is the part of you when you're born again when you become a christian is the part that god regenerates it is the part of you that is resurrected from the dead it is the part of you that is made alive to god it is the part of you that the holy ghost comes in and makes into a new creature i mean all of us know that our mind doesn't instantly change our soul we all know that the body doesn't change we know that day is coming at the at the resurrection and the coming of jesus so what happens what's this supernatural born-again experience about well that's when you believe the gospel and you you believe what jesus did for you on the cross and and you believe he rose from the dead and you turn from your sin and you have a revelation by the holy spirit you're convinced in your spirit and god comes into you he breathes into you the breath of life and your spirit that was dead to god and alienated from the life of god has the zoe the greek word zoe is the word for life of god god breathes back into you because you were dead in trespasses and sins it doesn't just mean physical death remember you're walking around but before you became a christian the bible says you were dead
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in trespasses and sins alienated from the life of god the book of ephesians said enemies in your minds in your soul by wicked works all right that's why the unbeliever is is viewed in the scripture as the enemy of god because their mind their soul their intellect their mind emotions is against the things of god and only desires to fulfill the lust and the evil desires of the body and the spirit man in you though the spirit man is in you as a christian i mean before you're a christian you have a spirit and and it is real or you would be dead because the body without the spirit is dead you have a spirit but it is dead to the presence of god to the life of god it is separate from god okay so when you believe in jesus and you have a true born-again experience and the holy spirit comes in you your spirit is changed it is made alive the bible calls it being regenerated born again it is a supernatural experience literally your spirit is reconnected with the creator the way it was supposed to be and the way it was for adam and eve in the garden of eden your spirit is reconnected now when god does this in a christian we're still we may be born again we may be spiritually alive our spirit may be regenerated but it doesn't mean that we're strong spiritually it doesn't mean that we're mature spiritually and it doesn't mean that we yet know how to live the life of a christian through our spirit okay and that's where while we we have the term babes you know the bible uses the term babes in christ and we have young men and children terms for spiritual growth and then we have fathers or mature believers now i don't want to get too far into back into this i guess this morning but what i talked about in the message the soul is christian is how instead of living in our spirit now our conscience let's look at our spirit real quick our spirit contains our conscience our conscience is the supernatural ability that god has given us to discern right and wrong that's where we get from romans 2 that god has written his law in the heart of every man matter of fact let's look at that verse let's just break down what this is real
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