The Tale of Two Crosses
About this sermon
In “The Tale of Two Crosses,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about biblical love, family discipleship, the cross and Christ’s blood. Drawing especially from Jeremiah 5, Luke 13, Luke 9, Luke 14, the teaching emphasizes that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example.
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Odle focuses on worship. The message argues that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Jeremiah 5. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. 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 faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on costly discipleship while working through Luke 13, Luke 9, Luke 14. The message argues that following Christ requires self-denial, obedience, and perseverance rather than passive association with religion. It connects this with the conviction that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on a biblical foundation. The message argues that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. 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 biblical love while working through John 8. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that angelic activity is examined within the biblical passage and its prophetic sequence. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on biblical love. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. It connects this with the conviction that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on a biblical foundation. The message argues that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. 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 seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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we worship you this morning we worship you we thank you for the blood of jesus shed on the cross for us we thank you for the power of that blood to wash away sin god to bring deliverance from satan the powers of darkness lord to even bring healing to our bodies the blood of jesus gives access lord to the holy of holies to your presence the blood of jesus leads to everlasting life in heaven the resurrection of the dead we thank you for the power of the blood of jesus the thing that terrifies the devil that's defeated the devil lord i thank you the day is coming when all enemies will be put under your feet when you return again lord we praise your name we praise your name for that victory on the cross and your resurrection lord the power of your sinless blood lord it is holy it is precious it is amazing it is powerful it is eternal it is ever living the powerful precious blood of jesus we are grateful we are grateful for that thank you father thank you jesus praise you lord thank you lord just keep your head bowed your eyes closed for a minute just worship the lord and pray praises to you lord praise this to you lord say today for i am the lord god i am the one the true light for time is now time is coming times of the present get your house in order
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it is time thus saith the lord as i have spoken i will judge america but i have heard the cries of my people and i have heard their prayers and i will not make a full in says the lord for i will bring forth a revival in the dark days for i say to you it will be the best of times and the worst of times for i will move among you i will move among my people i will heal i will deliver i will save but many shall be destroyed many shall fall but i will be with you praise you lord glory to your name praise the lord although you may be seated this morning wow amen the time has come you know this is kind of not i don't know kind of not part of the message this morning but i will share this i shared it on facebook the past few days but the other night nancy had a dream and i guess it was on the morning of the 20th or the 21st early that morning anyway i'm gonna go into all the details of the dream but in the dream um she walked out our front door and in our yard there were five bears big bears and they were chained and um basically she saw me and some other people trying to deal with them um as she put it but anyway she still felt they were extremely dangerous even though they were chained and being basically being held back and um you know i knew when she shared the dream that it was prophetic i didn't understand what the five bears meant i knew what the bears represented because bears in the bible if you go to the book
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of amos uh chapter 5 if you look in second kings with elisha when the the the evil teenagers decided to mock the prophet and he called he cursed them and the bears came out of the woods and killed them represent judgment and particularly in time judgment um it's interesting that in our world today we have two things represented by bears one is a bad economy or a bad stock market they call a bear market and the other one is that that nasty russian bear that's keeps stirring itself but so i knew that the bear represented judgment and of course i've shared this many times that back in 2008 i had the dream of the two bears a baby bear and a mama bear big mama bear and in the dream basically i was trying to get everyone to safety again in the same i was trying to deal with the problem and i was trying to get everyone in safety from mama bear as much as i could because i knew that when mama bear figured out that the people were between her and her baby bear that she was going to tear some folks apart of course as many of you know the lord spoke to me very clearly after that dream and that was during the 2008 beginning of 2009 economic crash in america really the global economy was affected and the lord spoke to me very clearly and he said that the 2008 crash was baby bear but mama bear was coming what's interesting i didn't know i just posted it on facebook shared it with some people and said you know i know that it's a good thing i told her i said it's not a good thing that there were bears in our yard but it's a good thing that they were chained amen that was a good thing i said and then it dawned on me that they were being held back but i didn't under still didn't understand why five then after i posted it my brother alan odle who lives over in mcdonough georgia he said i came across this article he said i think i understand you know i think what the five meant so he sent me an article posted the same day now remember nancy had the dream in the early morning hours later that day cnn money posted an article about how we have been five years now in a bull market now bull market is good it means when the market is pressing forward and and and going up the stock market's going up and everything looks hunky-dory it says we've been five uh years in a bull market that means the bear market has been held back for five years okay but the article went on to say that the
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wealthy people in america don't see and these are people who operate in the stock market day in and day out most of their lives they said they just don't see how it can continue the bull market can continue much longer so basically what they were saying is we don't even see how much longer the bears can be held back okay then i had a gentleman that you know i have many acquaintances now through the internet all over the world and i had a good brother uh who's down in um he's in in houston texas and he was in new orleans preaching on the street this past week and he shared that a brother in a ministry down there had a dream and a vision where he saw uh basically a bunch of people on a cruise ship and he saw a bunch of people on this cruise ship and he knew it was christians and frankly i think that's where american christians we we think christianity is a cruise ship and uh god's about to sink that ship but um god never called us to be on a cruise ship we're about supposed to be on a battleship okay that's what the church is supposed to be fighting the gates of hell and the powers of hell in this world but we're on a cruise ship having a good time and partying instead right but anyway he said that he saw these people gasp and i don't remember the exact details but anyway they went around to this island and they saw these eagles dying now an eagle is a symbol of the united states and as they turned around and started heading back he saw a bear in the water swimming toward america and he knew that wasn't good and folks i want to tell you right now that bear is two things it's both the economic collapse that's coming and the russians that are coming and the russians are also involved right now in a currency war against the u.s dollar in retaliation for things that obama is doing uh in the world um and i can't blame i honestly have to say this i can't blame vladimir putin for being angry at some of the things that obama is doing like he did with trying to help the syrian rebels who are the syrian rebels are now this al qaeda isis group we trained them we funded them and we have equipped them with weapons these are the people cutting people's heads off and crucifying and killing christians throughout the middle east these are the people that obama secretly was funding through the libya cia office that they called an embassy in benghazi and this is why we were we were funneling money and weapons through
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