Touch Not Thine Anointed
About this sermon
In “Touch Not Thine Anointed,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, divine judgment, biblical love. Drawing especially from Ephesians 4, Genesis 20, John 8, Matthew 24, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered.
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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 the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on divine judgment. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Genesis 20, John 8. 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 judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant while working through Genesis 20, Matthew 24. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that the believer must answer fear with trust in God, sober judgment, and faithful action. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on divine judgment. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. 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 Bible prophecy while working through Deuteronomy 13. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith. 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 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 prayer while working through 2 Timothy 4. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. 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.
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eyes are opened that you drew us with accords of of love and mercy that we responded to the offer of salvation through jesus through the cross through the blood he shall that cross through his resurrection that we have not resisted the holy spirit and rebelled god so many hear the gospel and they resist and rebel lord i just thank you for opening eyes and lord we just pray lord god for your kingdom to come and your will to be done in jesus name amen the battle is great but the war in victory has already won stand firm on the promises that i have given you for you are my children and you will not be defeated even though the gross darkness has covered the people the light of the gospel of jesus has covered you and you are victorious in my name stand firm stand firm stand firm and never waver from the truth that i have placed in your hearts you are my children and you are victorious never flee and never fail stand firm jesus jesus name hallelujah hallelujah anybody else feel a word from the lord this morning hallelujah [Music] praise this to the lord hallelujah thank you jesus [Music] thank you jesus hallelujah amen well i want to speak to you this morning a few minutes about something that i'll probably be criticized about but nevertheless it's bible doctrine and bible truth both in the old testament and the new testament and i think it's some things that we need to confront and just some things you need to know you know how we respond to god to his word and to his messengers will determine
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everything in our lives i mean granted i know there's a lot of false prophets and false teachers and deceived people in the world who think they are speaking for god or ministers of god or prophets of god or whatever you want to call them pastors evangelists prophets apostles they they're a lot of people claim to speak for god like the pope he claims to speak for god but he's clearly speaking the words of satan okay um he's really come out clear on that here recently right but see god always knew that there were going to be false people he warned about that in the old testament all the way back in deuteronomy when he gave the law to moses that there would be false prophets and god even said what's interesting in deuteronomy even said that he would let there be false prophets among the people to prove his people to test them to see whether they really loved him or not because god wants us to love him enough to stay in the word and stay close to the holy spirit so we discern the true from the false but here's another side of the coin not only is there a danger to be deceived by a false prophet or a false teacher there's also the danger of rejecting a true prophet or a true minister of god when god sends them to you it's a great danger there and this is something that you know you don't hear talked about too much or preached about especially because most of the churches now they don't even accept the ministry of a prophet though ephesians 4 is very clear that the bible says jesus gave some to be apostles some prophets some evangelists some pastors and some teachers for the edifying of the body of christ right till we all come into the unity of faith to the knowledge of the son of god now have we all come to the unity of the faith yet is the church unified no will the church ever be unified until jesus comes no right so what that tells us is that those ministries those five ministries apostles prophets evangelists pastors and teachers that five-fold ministry that would be in effect until jesus comes back okay if that wasn't the case if you know a lot of people argue about the ministry of an apostle but they argue about that saying well there was only the 12 well really well paul was number 13 right and then we have other people named in the bible actually there's there's about 22 or 23 people named in the new testament as apostles and then in 1895 when the apostle john wrote the book of revelation and god spoke to him jesus spoke to the church of ephesus so we're talking about you know jesus was crucified about a.d 32 so we're talking about you know 60 plus years into the ministry of the new testament church and what happens
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when he's speaking jesus gives a message through john to the church of ephesus and he says you have tried those which say they are apostles and are not and has found them liars now if the church had been taught that there was only going to be the 12 apostles and no more then anybody claiming to be an apostle would automatically be but he said no you've tested them you found them to be liars and you found their doctrine to be false and so the ministry of apostles the ministry of prophets the ministry of evangelists pastors and teachers it was to continue in the church now in the old covenant and in the new it's very dangerous and i'm gonna say this again it's very dangerous how you receive both god's word and the messengers god sent you i mean a lot of people don't like talk about that because you say well it sounds like you're exalting a man or a woman in the ministry no it's just a principle in the bible i didn't pick the way it's done i didn't write the book i don't call people to the ministry this is all god's work right and he's the one that calls certain people to preach and teach he calls people to have get different gifts and different positions in the body of christ and it's very dangerous as to how we how we hear remember jesus said something was interesting take heed how you hear take heed what you say take heed what you do you think about that it's one thing to be you know to be in just your own sin right it's another thing when you start doing evil to other people or start putting your mouth on it see i'm saying it's one thing if you want to hurt yourself right it's another thing if you want to start hurting other people oh what about what if you decide you're going to start tearing down god's messengers and god's people do you think actually do we think that god will sit back and do nothing oh no though the wrath he is not slack right now i'm going to read something to you we're going to turn to quite a few passages this morning but before we go to the old testament just look let's look at the new testament for a second there's some things that paul said because what i'm going to talk about today you know everybody you know in here has heard me talk about the judgment of god that's coming to america for our sins and rejection of his laws and rejection of the truth and rejecting just wanting to indulge in all kinds of evil and wickedness
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and god's going to judge our nation but what we need to understand is there are judgments of god in chastisement and correction that god brings into the lives of individuals as much as he will judge a nation he will judge a church he will judge a denomination he will judge and individuals he will judge right and this is something that we don't talk about because we want to take the one side of jesus the nice side the side that says love your enemies bless those that curse you do good to them that persecute you and all that and all that's true we're supposed to do those things i'm not saying that we don't but there is the other side of the coin where people who want to persecute believers who want to attack ministers of the gospel who want to try to destroy the ministry there is a point where god's patience lifts up off of that and i've seen it over and over again i could give you so many examples this morning of where i've seen people instead of receiving the message and receiving a prophetic word and humbling themselves and repenting of their sin and getting right with jesus i've seen people not want to hear the message that god had for them then they attacked the messenger that god sent them and then god has to judge them see there's there's no avenue once you reject god's word and god's message to you you have no other recourse if you don't accept mercy and you don't repent and change your ways and humble yourself then you will be judged personally god will either bring correction and chastisement in you or he may even judge you even to the point of sickness and death he will allow y'all think i'm making this up right i want you to turn with me let's just look at a few scriptures this morning before we before we go to the old testament go to first corinthians chapter 10 say preacher you're getting on something heavy this morning yeah because um the lord's about to deal with some people and it's not going to be pretty when he does it first corinthians chapter 11. we'll go there first let's look at this this is a new testament passage and this is something we we haven't had communion in a while we need to have communion around here but i don't do communion very much because it can get you killed okay but let's just read this passage in the new testament the apostle paul writing under the inspiration of the holy spirit talked about judgment god's judgment coming to who to people who call themselves christians who were in sin and wouldn't repent and
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