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DOCTRINE AND DISCERNMENT SERMONS

Biblical doctrine, theological testing, apologetics, and spiritual discernment.

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January 3, 2024Pastor Dean Odle

Corrupted from Simplicity

“Corrupted from Simplicity” is Pastor Dean Odle’s appeal for single-minded devotion to Jesus Christ amid increasing religious deception. From Paul’s warning in Second Corinthians 11, Odle argues that Satan’s subtle strategy is to move believers away from the sufficiency of Christ—his incarnation, cross, resurrection, forgiveness, righteousness, and New Covenant—toward complicated systems, speculative research, or religious practices that diminish joy in the gospel.

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December 31, 2023Pastor Troy Towns

Placed, Planted & Positioned

In “Placed, Planted & Positioned,” Pastor Troy Towns develops a Scripture-centered message moving through why has god put me here?, placement for immediate purpose, joseph and daniel in foreign ground, planted for long-term fruit. The sermon follows the speaker’s argument chronologically, grounding its principal appeals in biblical passages and practical ministry examples.

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December 30, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

Contentions & Strivings about the Law

In “Contentions & Strivings about the Law,” Pastor Dean Odle responds to controversy surrounding his criticism of Hebrew Roots and Torah-observant teaching. He acknowledges the volume of last-days deception and distinguishes his position from antinomianism: Christians are called to holiness and obedience, but Odle argues that they are governed by the New Covenant rather than commanded to adopt Israel’s complete Mosaic code, ritual calendar, food laws, or identifying customs.

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December 29, 2023Dean Odle

Ebionites, Rob Skiba & the Law

Pastor Dean Odle argues that requiring Christians to keep the Sinai covenant undermines justification by faith and revives ideas associated with the ancient Ebionites. Using Galatians, Acts 15, and Paul’s contrast between bondage and freedom, he responds to teachings associated with Rob Skiba and the modern Torah-observant movement. Odle’s principal concern is not voluntary cultural practice but making Mosaic observance a measure of righteousness, salvation, or spiritual legitimacy.

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December 28, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

Cerinthus, the Ebionites & Sophia Heresies

Pastor Dean Odle warns that ancient Christological and Gnostic errors are resurfacing in modern Christian movements. Beginning with Paul’s prediction that people would turn from sound doctrine to fables, he identifies teachings associated with Cerinthus, the Ebionites, and “Sophia” traditions: denying Christ’s full deity, separating the heavenly Christ from the man Jesus, treating the Holy Spirit as a feminine goddess, or requiring Mosaic-law observance for salvation and standing with God. He also criticizes celebrity loyalty that excuses serious doctrinal error.

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December 27, 2023Dean Odle

I Don't Hate Torah Observers

Dean Odle responds to claims that his criticism of Torah-observance teaching reflects hatred toward its adherents. Drawing on his own time in Messianic fellowship, he says his concern is doctrinal and pastoral: requiring Mosaic observance for salvation or covenant standing obscures the sufficiency of Jesus Christ and the change of priesthood and covenant described in Hebrews.

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December 22, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

Abraham Was Not a Torah Follower: Walking by Faith

Pastor Dean Odle contrasts New Covenant faith in Jesus Christ with efforts to place Christians under the Mosaic covenant. Beginning in Romans 3 and answering an appeal to James 2, he argues that believers are justified apart from the deeds of the law, while genuine faith still produces obedient action. James’s examples of Abraham and Rahab, in his reading, describe works that respond to God’s present command—not Sabbath, feast, dietary, circumcision, or other covenant observances.

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December 21, 2023Dean Odle

The Torah, the Trinity & the Power of the Holy Spirit

Dean Odle and Kevin Wilkerson answer Hebrew Roots and Torah-observance arguments by distinguishing the Mosaic covenant from the law of Christ. From Titus, Galatians, Romans, Hebrews, and Acts 15, they argue that justification is by grace through faith, that Jesus fulfilled the sacrificial and priestly order, and that Gentile believers were not commanded to keep the law of Moses, while the new covenant still demands holiness and freedom from habitual works of the flesh.

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December 20, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

The Schoolmaster, The Bondwoman & The Dead Husband

Dean Odle argues that New Covenant believers are justified by faith in Jesus Christ apart from the works of the Mosaic law. Through Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, Acts 15, and three governing images—the schoolmaster, bondwoman, and dead husband—he opposes Torah-observant teaching that makes Sabbaths, feasts, circumcision, or dietary rules measures of righteousness.

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