Transformers
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Dean Odle warns that false teachers can transform their outward appearance while bringing another Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel into a church. His central test case is denial of eternal conscious punishment: he compares Jesus’ parallel language for eternal life and eternal punishment, cites Matthew 25, Luke 16, Jude, and Peter, and argues that discomfort with judgment cannot authorize changing Scripture.
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Opening prayer and testimony celebrate what God has provided through Jesus’ blood and Scripture for life and godliness. Odle then introduces correspondence with a teacher whose rejection of eternal punishment he regards as a dangerous false doctrine.
Matthew 25’s judgment of the sheep and goats supplies the main textual comparison: the same Greek term describes both everlasting punishment and life eternal. Odle argues that Jesus and the apostles taught punishment without end, so a Christian may not discard it because it feels severe.
He contrasts the destiny of believers with the judgment of unrepentant evildoers and repeats that ‘eternal’ cannot change meaning between the two halves of the verse. Examples of notorious rulers press his question about whether universal restoration would make biblical warnings meaningless.
Odle recalls a false teacher entering the congregation and urges repentance for idle words that wound others or cause them to stumble. Defining heresy as an opinion that departs from the true Christian faith, he treats doctrine as a life-and-salvation matter rather than harmless speculation.
First Timothy’s command to attend to oneself and doctrine and 2 John’s warning about losing reward are applied to teachers and hearers alike. Luke 16 and Christ’s teaching on conscious judgment remain his standard, while he also cautions churches not to neglect the Holy Spirit’s supernatural gifts.
John 1 identifies Jesus as the eternal Word made flesh, forming the boundary for evaluating rival portrayals of Christ. Odle says wolves, whether knowingly deceptive or themselves deceived, perform the same destructive work when they introduce another Jesus, gospel, or spirit.
Second Corinthians 11 supplies the sermon’s title: false apostles transform themselves as ministers of righteousness just as Satan appears as an angel of light. Jude and 2 Peter are used to show that hidden teachers corrupt churches from within and face the eternal judgment they deny.
Peter’s failures and restoration illustrate a disciple changed by continued life with Jesus rather than by a deceptive outward disguise. Odle’s stories of evangelism, prison ministry, and prompt obedience present Spirit-given boldness and compassion as evidence of authentic transformation.
Odle describes conversion as moving into Jesus’ house and willingly accepting its rules instead of demanding a gospel shaped around personal preference. He warns every hearer about eternal separation from God, celebrates the joy of seeing Christ, and insists that he has discharged his duty by telling the truth.
A closing prayer affirms judgment day, heaven, and hell and asks the Lord to glorify Jesus rather than the minister. The congregation prays for healing and for true signs to follow the preached Word, followed by brief event announcements.
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All right, now we're gonna do this one again cuz y'all didn't sing it like you meant it this morning Everybody come on now snap out of it. Wake it up. I know you're tired my bones and muscles are sore and tired Come on now. We're gonna Glorify the Lord this morning. I was working out Friday night and I stopped playing some old stuff I reached back into the 90s and got this one. Okay, we're gonna do it again And let's worship the Lord one more time. This a man. I want to hear you. Let me hear you this morning You church now You're that football game you'd be louder this the name above every name glorify your name through us Lord
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Glorify your name through your people or glorify your name through your word God through the truth through everything that you have provided for us through the blood of Jesus Lord salvation forgiveness of sins healing deliverance from demons Everything you provided for us Lord help us to walk in it to receive it by faith to experience it Lord, we want Christianity in our life is real not not just a creed but Lord real a born-again experience a healing experience a deliverance experience Lord you promised if we would Obey you if we would keep your words that you would Manifest yourself to us and we know God that you reveal yourself to your people by your spirit Lord Jesus you died on that cross and rose from the dead to give us everything we need to live this life in godliness and holiness and obedience and Even when we fall down even when we fail You are there. You said if we confess our sins you are faithful and just forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all in righteousness All we have to do is repent and say Lord I sinned. I'm sorry. Forgive me. I don't do that anymore I come to you and ask for the cleansing washing of your precious blood that is eternal and powerful Because this is the blood of God manifested in the flesh We worship you today Jesus name we pray everybody say amen. Amen. You may be seated. Oh My the Lord I want to say this the Lord has provided folks The Lord has provided everything we need in fact, that's in in Peter 1st Peter where he said everything we need for life and godliness, right? now Sometimes we got to learn some things that we don't know Sometimes we got to be willing to step out What we have not walked in before See, that's the difference between real Christianity and what I'll call dead religious Christianity See real Christianity just says Lord just like like like Peter in the boat If that's you out there on that water Even though it's a storm and even it's a little scary out there And even though I've never seen anybody walk on water except I'm seeing this but I'm thinking it's a spirit But Jesus said to him, you know, come on out here and Peter got up and stepped over that that boat out of that boat And walked on the water. That's real Christianity when you step out of the boat But see that's the place where the miracles are. That's the place where the supernatural
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Revelation of Jesus is and you got to have that there's that's why look like I said, I don't care how many atheist agnostics You name it try to talk me out of Jesus being real and the Bible being true. It's impossible You know why because I stepped out of the boat long time ago. I stepped out of the boat I've been walking with him in a real relationship hearing his voice seeing his miracles And you can never talk me out of it. There's no reasoning. There's no arguments you can bring. I've met him I know him I walk with him I am what the Bible calls a born-again Christian Filled with the Holy Spirit not perfect not sinless But not trying to live in sin not trying to indulge sin and trying My best to walk in the truth of God's Word sound doctrine And if you do those things the Lord promised and this is in fact, let's turn there. We're gonna start there we'll be in a lot of scripture this moment go to Go to John the gospel of John chapter 14 because this verse is just coming to me How important this is this morning as we get into this message? John 14 and of course all of John 14 is good And we're gonna go down. This is Jesus speaking to his disciples here and he says verse 21. Let's go down to verse 21 He said he that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that love is me and he that love is me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest myself to him and Judas sayeth unto him and this was not Judas Iscariot But Judas sayeth unto him Lord How is it that thou will manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world and Jesus answered and said unto him? If a man loved me, he will keep my words and my father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode With him he that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings and the word which you hear is not mine But the father which sent me So the Lord is very clear here and what's interesting go back to verse 21 when it says He that hath my commandments and he that keepeth them those two verbs hath and keepeth are In the Greek present tense Greek or verbs which a present tense Greek verb means ongoing Continuous action that's taking place in the present So Jesus saying those who continue to walk with me obey me keep my words and let me tell you what that means Keep my words means to keep his word in Context to keep his word in sound biblical doctrine because we're gonna talk about that how important that is But the Christian must have two things we must have the Holy Spirit leading us and guiding us into all truth
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Right and we must be willing to go there and the scriptures are vitally important how we see them how we understand them because there are many false brethren and False teachers and false prophets that are just I mean when when the Lord said many I Thought I knew what that meant over the last few years that has become So true and so real That it's almost wears me out having to deal with them all the time Because I find myself most of my time is having to deal with false brother and false teachers false prophets who are trying to teach And promote their false doctrine. We had one come in the last two weeks. I Just sent him out the door And told him not to come back and we're gonna I'm gonna show you some of the insanity He was trying to bring in here, but he came in as a sweet little brother Wanting to pray for people that were sick. Oh, he believed in healing and he oh He prophesied some things that were accurate and then come to find out He was here with some not just false doctrine, but extreme crazy false doctrine When I confronted him and said hey, we need to slow down You don't need to be laying hands on people yet. We don't know you enough. I need to get to know you a little better I kind of broke my rule a little bit, but I learned a lesson here again We got to learn the lesson that just because somebody claims to be a brother in Christ and because they seem to be sweet And even if they operate in a supernatural gift or revelation Does not mean that they are not a false brother or sister and this is why and how did I find out? Well, let me tell you I sent him a nice, you know, y'all think I mean sometimes But let me read. Let me read a nice little sweet email. I sent to him cuz I sent a nice sweet email Not email, but text message. Let me pull up. This is our For those of you that know little we'll just keep the first name Rob that came in here But here's what I sent him first. I said Rob. I Appreciate your heart wanting to do the will of God and for healing. That's what he was pretending to put out there to everybody I said, but we need to slow down a bit I said I have really broken my rule by allowing you to lay hands on our church members and pray that With for them before getting to know them better I see I let his little prophecy that he gave on a Wednesday night That was very accurate kind of disarmed me and I've kind of been distracted with some other things So here again, this is what I'm telling you. This is how deceitful some of these people can be But I said I said look, I'm not saying you're you're a bad person or an evil person But we're supposed to know those who labor among us, right? I Said and we don't know you well enough yet And me allowing this when I have always been more careful has not been a good example to our flock So please no more laying hands on our church members until we have had more time to get to know you and also that you
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