Saul's Last Supper | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored in part by friends and partners of jensen franklin media ministries thank you for joining us on the broadcast today i believe if you'll give me the next 25 minutes of your life god is going to speak to you but before we go into today's message i can't say thank you enough for all of you who have responded with generous gifts gifts of all sizes but they all combined together to meet a tremendous need in haiti from the devastating earthquake that recently hit that nation the work is still continuing pastor jensen tomorrow all the food will go to a big area the people who lost their houses they're living under good parking spotting they're just under tarps and terrible places under trees and tomorrow much of the food will be distributed there every day at different locations thank you and may god bless your partners hallelujah i feel the spirit of god many times over thank you god bless you pastor jensen we've been sending 270 000 meals a month to haiti for over a decade now we plan to continue to show the love of jesus to all of the people of haiti in every tangible way that we can they need our help i believe god will bless whatever you can do to help haiti and these precious people well i'm excited also today about this message i believe it's going to touch your heart let's go right into the auditorium it was preached right here from free chapel in gainesville open your heart open your bible right there where you're watching and let god's word speak to you if you have your bibles i'd like for you to open them with me to first samuel chapter 28. in verse 3 samuel dies and the bible said saul had put out the mediums and the spiritualists out of the land he put out the witches the spiritualists the mediums the fortune tellers he put them out of the land but in verse 5 watch saul saw the army of the philistines and he was afraid and his heart his heart trembled greatly notice notice the driving theme of saul's life changes here fear fear his heart trembled he inquired of the lord verse 6 and the lord did not answer either by dreams by europe i'll explain that in a moment or by prophets then saul said to his servants find me a woman who is a medium that i may go to her and inquire and his servant said to him in fact there is a woman who is a medium in endor she's a the king james says a witch saul disguised himself put on clothes he took two men with him they came to the woman by night and he said please conduct a seance for me and bring up for me one that i shall name to you this is interesting i'm going to keep reading it because i want to and the word of the and the woman said to him look you know what saul has done she didn't really know who he was yet he disguised himself how he has cut off mediums and spiritualists from the land when and why do do you lay a snare for me to cause me to die she's saying this is a sting operation i'm expecting the fbi to bust through the walls and arrest me because what i'm doing is illegal and he swore to her by the lord he took the name of the lord in vain right here and he swore to her by the lord as the lord lives no punishment will come upon you and then the woman said whom shall i bring up from the dead for you bring up for me samuel from the dead the woman saw samuel and she cried out with a loud voice she saw something she wasn't ready for she saw something she she had done this many times and she knew what it was to deal with with spirits and deal in the dark world with spirit guides and channelers and and and and forces that would appear in that cave she understood she had seen them come in hoods and and and and demonic powers to lead and guide and tell there are people who have super who have been empowered supernaturally by demonic spirits it's not a game he said to her what is his form and she said it's an old man coming up and he's covered in a mantle can i preach right there the mantle was the prayer shawl it was samuel god is hijacking a seance you think the devil's in control because they got their blood of chickens and doing voodoo and this god says nothing can keep me out if i want to come i can come i can hijack a seance i'm preaching my whole sermon i got to calm down what is his form it's an old man coming and instantly she pre saul perceived it was samuel he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed down to samuel said why have you disturbed me from bringing me up saul answered i'm deeply distressed here it is again fear the philistines war against me listen to these words god has departed from me and does not answer me anymore by prophets or by dreams go with me to the valley of jezreel there is a mountain called mount gilboa the philistines have cornered king saul his boys his sons including jonathan are with him his own flesh and blood heir to the throne the army of israel is backed in a corner they are completely surrounded in a valley by the philistines and there's no escape and here this tall handsome young man named saul who was the first king of israel i can see him as he stands in the moonlight and he looks out and from a distance and he is he is wrapped in that garment of gloom he is riveted with fear as he sees the campfires from a distance and the torches of the philistines and he hears the laughter and the mocking knowing that there's no escape and in the morning that more powerful and strong army is about to meet him and his army and he is tormented with the fact that god has departed from me and he hears me no more and in a moment of desperation the fear of death the dread of life after death in the condition that he is in he says is there not a medium that can give me direction i'm so desperate god won't answer me and i need to know god's plan for my life and in that moment they said there is a witch at indoor it's a cave and he at that moment decided to connect with the prince of darkness he at that moment by entering in where that medium was and this is so important because he knew the spirit of god because he knew the anointing of god he had had holy oil poured on him by the greatest prophet arguably of the old testament samuel he had been so affected by that oil that it turned him into another man and he had a heart the scripture said that had been touched by god he prophesied and the people even said is saul now among the prophets he was such a worshiper that he began to dance and sing with them now this man who had felt the presence experienced the anointing knew the joy of the lord knew the presence of god has now turned and connected with the prince of darkness turned a cave into a sanctuary of satanic worship and there he turns and he says god won't speak to me in dreams because of my disobedience because of my rebellion because of my constantly not listening to god time after time after time point number one of this little sermon is this if you do not listen to god if you repeatedly disobey and do not listen to god he may stop speaking to you that story teaches you simply that if you don't listen to god he may stop speaking to you notice point number two is this when you can't reach god god can still reach you and the theologians this is this is a hard one to understand this is a hard story to understand god clearly forbids people to participate in in in talking to the dead and consulting the dead in palm reading and fortune telling and astrology and and and fortune telling and reading of of of of poems and and and channeling and crystals and talking to rocks and praying to statues whether it be buddha statues or whatever and burning incense this is spiritual idolatry and it is extremely dangerous for especially someone who knows the living god someone who has experienced the presence of god someone who knows the word of god you're not in the same category this scripture teaches you you do not go and touch certain things you are in great danger to mental breakdown spiritual breakdown emotional torment fear and terrifying uh emotions can tormenting spirits can begin to take over your life i don't know how any way to sugarcoat this one i gotta tell the truth like i feel it today when i look at this story and i see it we think that witchcraft is something that that that only extreme and it's radical and it's out there but you know we this really doesn't affect our life and yet when paul wrote to the church at uh in galatians he said he said who has bewitched you to believe another gospel you've turned away from the cross and you've turned away from the truth and you've turned away from the holy living and you're believing another gospel and i want to know you need to understand the word bewitched means the evil eye you're under the influence of the evil eye he warned that witchcraft was a work of the flesh he names it right beside sins he says and now the works of the flesh are adultery and fornication and lying and drunkenness and right in the middle of it he puts witchcraft what is what is witchcraft rebellion is as of the scripture says this in samuel rebellion is as of the sin of witchcraft rebellion against what against spiritual authority there's righteous authority listen to me carefully there's righteous authority and there's unrighteous authority righteous authority is enforced by the holy spirit unrighteous authority is enforced by demonic powers and both are real and both have power and influence and and what you give yourself to you either are going to stay under the righteous authority of god's word or you do like saul and you step over into the dark side then you come under the authority that is unrighteous authority that is evil we see in this story that if you will not listen to god he may stop speaking to you i want to say this we see in this story number two that if you can't reach god god can still reach you because he hijacked a seance and came through it god can use demons he's in control devils are not in control he can he can he can hijack any circumstance he can while you smoking crack or shooting up or or whatever you're doing god can hijack that and cause you to have a dream or see something and show you who he is and what you need he can hijack anything he wants to if he can use a seance and a demon he can certainly use any kind of situation you're in to get a message to you he's using a preacher right now well you know pastor i'm just kind of i'm just kind of exploring christianity just doesn't quite do it for me anymore and i'm exploring new age and a little buddha helps me meditate and burn incense and crystals are bringing peace to me and yeah they're bringing something to you all right and i i really need you know it's nothing wrong i'm just playing i love jesus i love jesus jesus is all right with me but let me just check a little bit of this a little bit of the far east stuff and let me try this religion in that religion you do it to your own detriment he was desperate for the plan of god but not for god god is not bound he can reach you but you must open the door now let me show you where this story ends and i said all of that to get to this good part he falls to the ground he's just heard his death sentence it's in the middle of a cave of a witch he's in the dirt and he can't get up and she speaks and she in verse 23 the woman urged him to eat and he rose from the ground verse 24 he had not eaten and now the woman had a fatted calf in the house she hastened to kill it she took flour needed it baked it bread unleavened so she brought it verse 25 so she brought it before saul to his servants listen and they ate they ate they ate and then they arose watched these words and went away into the night the story i feel like the lord showed me this i don't know how this came up except the lord and here it is the story ends interestingly with a meal the witch persuades saul before he leaves the cave to eat a meal we we could call this saul's last supper it's his final meal and it's interesting that the bible said after he ate it he went into the night he went into the darkness never to return he would the next day commit suicide by cutting himself to death by stabbing himself with a sword by by bleeding out then my mind i believe was inspired to go to the lord's supper the last supper that jesus would have with his disciples and satan was there too at that table because the bible said when judas ate that last meal after he had ate it the text said and satan entered him from that moment forward and he goes out of the last supper of jesus into the night the scripture said in the night into the darkness to never return he would sell jesus for 30 pieces of silver and ultimately become so despondent that he would tie a rope around his neck he was in such darkness like saul in that cave so afraid so terrified so mentally tormented by the powers that he had trafficked with and their messages that just like saul he took his own life and hung himself and then the lord really showed me something that blessed me and he said you want to know what the hope of the world is they don't have to enter into that dark night they don't have to take their life or cut themselves or bleed themselves or hang themselves or hate themselves because i entered into the darkness for them when did he do that pastor look at the story of the crucifixion and it was the sixth hour that's 12 noon jesus the savior the one who had never committed a sin he entered into the darkness he went through a midday midnight for you for three hours from 12 o'clock in the afternoon to three o'clock in the afternoon the earth went black it went pitch dark you it was like night time it was evening time it was darkness in the middle of the day it was a midday midnight and jesus entered in to that darkness what happened to saul when he went into the darkness he was separated from god forever what happened to judas he was separated from jesus forever what what else happened the sins overcame them they had to pay the price the penalty for their sins jesus entered into the darkness for you and what happened he was separated from the father so that you don't have to be and he cried why have you forsaken me and the cross hurts but it breaks me even more that i feel separated from you and jesus says i entered in to the darkness and i was separated from god for you so you don't have to be and i carried your shame and i carried your guilt and i carried your sin and i nailed it to the cross and i entered into a midday midnight for you he suffered the judgment from god and bore my sins jesus went into the night so i could go into the light he was separated from the father so i could be one called by his name so i'm at the end but if you have reached out to the occult or any other religious thing other than jesus christ in the word of god for guidance i just break the curse you came to the wrong service if you're a witch i'm glad you're here i'll put what i got up against anything you got i know there's power in the name of jesus i know there's no demon that can stand in the presence of the one who rose from the dead if he could conquer the grave he can conquer anything i break the curse of horoscopes i wrote him down and i can preach it like i want to i want to get it right i break the curse of any horoscope ouija boards tarot cards crystals witchcraft eastern religions palm readers i break it off of every person under the sound of my voice and the ramifications of that action i put it under the blood of the cross and we march out of that cave in of witchcraft into the light of the glorious gospel of jesus christ hallelujah somebody shout life song i heard the lord say to me if you will say this under my authority and in my anointing i will back this up this day and i wrote these words down yesterday i rebuked satan's attempt to destroy the home and the children and the children's children the power of satan is broken somebody needs to take authority somebody needs to quit playing with the name and the blood and the cross and understand the authority we have [Applause] let the home be filled with the glory of god again in the name of jesus i pray [Applause] [Music] i want to encourage you today if there's something that i've spoke that really touched your heart and ministered to you let us know we have a prayer team ready to agree with you in prayer they know how to touch the throne of god and if you don't know jesus as your lord and savior we're so thankful you joined us today i believe this is a divine appointment a kingdom connection and you can know christ today pray this prayer with me say these words lord jesus i give you my life i surrender to you i can't do this on my own i can't deal with all of life on my own i need a savior i need a comforter i need a healer i need you to help me and i'll give you the praise i surrender my life to you today jesus be lord of my life in your name i pray amen i believe the lord heard that prayer i know he did because he 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Length: 27min 4sec (1624 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021