Ungrateful Hearts
About this sermon
In “Ungrateful Hearts,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about gratitude, worship, prayer. Drawing especially from 1 Corinthians 14, Timothy 3, Matthew 12:33, Colossians 3:23, the teaching emphasizes that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience.
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Odle focuses on holiness while working through 1 Corinthians 14. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on biblical love while working through Timothy 3. The message argues that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. 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 seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the condition of the heart while working through Matthew 12:33, Philippians 22. The message argues that the inner life must be healed, guarded, and brought under the truth of God’s word. 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 the condition of the church while working through Isaiah 60. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. 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 remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on gratitude while working through 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Psalm 116:17. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. It connects this with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on worship while working through Revelation 7, Matthew 18:20, Psalm 22:3. 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 gratitude. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. 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 seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on gratitude. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. 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.
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I know that there are angels all around let us [Music] pray Jesus now we are are standing in his presence on ground this is Holy Ground we're standing on for the Lord is here and where he is is [Music] Holy this is Holy Ground we're standing on Holy Ground [Music] for the Lord is and he is is Holy we are standing on Holy Ground and I know that there are angels all around let us pray Jesus now Let Us Praise Let Us Praise Jesus now Let Us Praise let us pra Jesus [Music]
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for we are standing we are standing in his presence Ono yes Lord we worship you this morning we thank you Lord your word declares where two or three are together together in your name that you are in the midst Lord we sent you here today your presence in a special way Lord we ask you to bless and move in this service Lord as you will as you see fit Lord I Thank you for your protection your uh guidance and direction in our lives Lord we thank you for all that you are doing Lord I Thank you I ask you to touch everyone here today those who are watching and listening we pray the Holy Spirit touch them in the mighty name of Jesus and everybody said amen well I want to welcome everyone you may be seated this morning wow we were missing half of you last week now we got everybody here today that's good because y'all got a special treat coming um I want to say this before we get started this morning because uh you know we get the haters out there when I do this uh but let me just inform you that when the Bible is speaking in 1 Corinthians 14 about women are to keep silent in the church and he suffer not a w woman to speak that has nothing to do with women teaching and preaching that has to do with wives and husbands uh the word if you look up the words in the original Greek it's wives and husbands and it would not make any sense for the Lord to say that in the last days your sons and your daughters will prophesy and 1 Corinthians 14 says the gift of Prophecy is for the church right the edification of the church correct so uh we know there was Phoebe and andronica and Junia and there were many women that God used and you know some of these guys that want to say that women should not speak to men I find it interesting that the Lord picked women to be the first to witness the empty tomb and to go back and preach that to the disciples to the apostles h of course they didn't listen like most men don't but it was true um my wife long before I met her I believe from a child that the Lord put his hand on her to be a minister of the Gospel of Jesus and she has proven that to be true and the messages that she brings only when she feels like it is truly the Lord speaking to her which is is a prophetic word to you okay so um if
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you want to start that whole argument with me online today you will be banned all right because I'm just not tolerating it um it's just about nonsense whenever there's an apparent contradiction in the Bible you must figure out why it appears that way because it's usually something we don't understand and if you dig a little bit and study Show Yourself approved then you will figure it out and uh I've already figured it out so I don't need anybody that takes one passage out of its context and doesn't use all the verses because uh God does use women to minister to the church today so uh I'm going to invite my wife yes Pastor Nancy OD she is that but she is fully under my authority and she is a submissive wife and I just want to say that um there is no argument here about this amen amen yeah I got water so there I love my husband not just because of that um well and what he said is true I this is not something that I you know I'm not a big one to get up in front of everybody I'm usually the one behind the the scenes and I am so good with that I mean it doesn't bother me at all he doesn't even ever need to mention my name from here but um when the Lord says to to share something I'm G to share it how do I get this thing up um and this is what he's been putting on my heart the title of this is ungrateful Hearts um this has been going for a while but this past I guess it was this past Wednesday during prayer it really kind of Hit Me Harder and I started really looking into it and really praying about it in my own life every time I get up here I tell you this and I will tell you this from here on out everything that I bring to you is something that I'm applying or need to apply or have applied to my own life um and and this is this is one that we all have issues with if you say that you never have an issue with this and you also have an issue with lying probably um so ungrateful Hearts how many of you believe that we're living in the end times I do it looks like everybody all right well so what does the word say oh I didn't even do that look at that okay um what does what does the word say in second Timothy 3 1-5 about the end times if you want to turn there you can you can look at my slide um you can look at your phone as long as you're not texting or
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Facebooking says this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves Covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful which is also ungrateful Unholy without natural affection truce Breakers false accusers incontinent Fierce despisers of those that are good traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away you know there's a lot of really nasty things in this list I we can look at this and and go one by one and we know all of this is just ramped up in these These Days um you know just the the lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God I mean that's Christians that's us that's you know what are we doing when we're not worshiping God is it is it Facebook is it your TV is it your games your your um Sports is it friendships is it socializing what is it that you love that Pleasures you more than God but that's not even the one work disobedient to parents don't even get me on that one I mean that one is really the rebellion in our society is just unhinged just crazy but this this is what we're going to focus on the one that says unthankful ungrateful um one of the things that I think and I just mentioned it with the pleasures one of the things that I think that really um fuels this in our society I came across this article um and the title of of this article that this guy wrote was Envy addiction how using social media to make others jealous makes everyone miserable a't that the truth is't that the truth but it's not just you know it's coveting it's it's looking at other people's lives and thinking wow look at that I want that I'm you know I don't have enough my house isn't fancy enough do you see what they did with that Farmhouse theme I need a sliding barn door you know I mean it's just always wanting and wanting and wanting and I've used this before it's a Pinterest world you know you're always looking how can I improve my home how can I and oh my goodness now I don't know if it's because I order on Amazon but on Facebook the things that pop up from Amazon it's like oh wait I didn't even know I needed that but I'm pretty sure I do so let's click the link and oh add to cart all right it's there in three days
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