This is “The Power of the Lord’s Table.” More than a wafer and wine, taking the body and blood of Jesus in Holy Communion is our covenant of deliverance. Discover in this message with Jentezen Franklin the relevance of the New Testament Last Supper. Miracles, healing, protection and the presence of the Lord are at His table.
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connection I know one need to calm down
I know I need to but I just feel like
shouting I still am thankful that my
name is written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life
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if you have your Bibles you can open
them with me to Psalms chapter 23 is
where I want to start let’s all read it
together we’re gonna take a moment read
it’s a very short chapter with six
verses the Lord is my shepherd I shall
not want he makes me to lie down in
green pastures he leads me beside still
waters he restores my soul he leads me
in the paths of righteousness for his
name’s sake yea though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death I will
fear no evil for you are with me your
rod and your staff they comfort me you
prepare a table before me in the
presence of my enemies you anoint my
head with oil my cup runs over
surely goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my life and I will
dwell in the house of the Lord forever I
want you to notice particularly because
that’s what I’m preaching on this
morning verse five you prepare a table
before me that table that he prepares is
the Lord’s table Holy Communion and all
that is in holy communion is contained
in the twenty-third Psalm the 23rd Psalm
is the same table as the Lord’s table
and I want to share with you today the
power of the Lord’s table the power of
communion when I come to the Lord’s
table I need to approach it with a fresh
appreciation it must never become common
this table that is before me today the
Lord’s table the fruit of the vine the
bread the Last Supper that Jesus had
with his disciples is so significant to
our faith that I
think if we’re not careful we will
approach it in a common manner and it
should not ever be approached without
full revelation of what is involved in
this meal now I want to show you the
power of the Lord’s meal today because
this communion meal that we celebrate
under the New Testament is the same in
the Old Testament as the Passover meal
you remember the story when they were
coming out of Egypt and God said I want
you to take a lamb and prepare a meal
and he told them what to do and he told
him how to eat that and he said that
that would cause deliverance to come to
your family it would cause deliverance
from bondage and deliverance from
sickness and disease miracles happen at
the Passover meal under the Old Covenant
and Jesus on the day of Passover in the
New Testament entered into the communion
meal and he instituted the Lord’s Supper
which was the Old Testament Passover
meal and if the Old Testament had that
kind of power in it when they ate the
meal how much more does the one that we
have today when I think about the fact
that the 23rd psalm is centered around a
shepherd the Lord is my shepherd and
then of course in the 23rd psalm is
implied sheep if you have a shepherd and
the sheep are gonna lie down in green
pastures their sheep and when I think of
the Lord’s table when he said thou
prepare us the table before my enemies
there’s a shepherd the great shepherd
Jesus who is always attracted to this
table this table cannot be protego nob
without the Shepherd’s appearance as a
matter of fact when they took the
Passover meal your Bible said that God
moved down from through the mountains to
the camp of Israel there is something
about the Lord’s table that requires a
bringing of a close presence of God
that’s why sometimes you feel something
when you do communion and it’s not just
any
Oshin there is a guaranteed presence of
God I know God is everywhere but he does
not manifest his presence everywhere but
he said anywhere this is entered into
with full knowledge of what you’re doing
my presence the presence of the shepherd
is there the presence of the sheep are
at the 23rd psalm and they’re at this
table because you and either are the
Sheep of his pasture notice that in the
23rd psalm thou anointest my head with
all and that has a reference to healing
and there is an anointing at this table
for healing in the Passover meal the
Bible said after they ate the meal there
was not a sick or feeble one among them
when they left Egyptian bondage
something that they ate in the meal it
became the meal that heals and when we
enter into this meal there is an abiding
healing anointing on this meal not only
that but in Psalms 23 there is a cup my
cup runneth over and we have the cut of
the wine of the New Testament and not
only was there a cup but there is
restoration he restores my soul in
Psalms 23 and this is a meal where God
says I restore things this is the meal
of restoration and then he said goodness
and mercy in Psalms 23 will follow me
and at this table is the goodness and
the mercy of God and here’s the point
when you put take of this meal with
faith it activates that’s a big word it
activates all of the promises of God
there were seven blessings that God told
Israel he would put on them after they
per took of the Passover meal for
example he said things like you’ll have
own life he said I’ll send my angel
before you
he said I’ll cause healing to come to
you he said prosperity would come on you
and you will become fruitful he said if
the enemies come at you one way they
will flee another because seven ways
because you will be under my
protection that was under the Passover
meal but Jesus on the day of Passover
purposely had the last supper with his
disciples so he could Institute this
meal the Lord’s table and all of those
blessings are activated when we partake
of this meal in faith I want you to
think about what I’m saying the Passover
meal came about and you remember what
God told them to do he said you are to
slay a lamb for your house and he said
you are to take the blood of the Lamb
and you are to place it on the side post
of your door paint it with blood on the
side posts of the door and over the top
post of the door you are to have blood
so you would be covered in the blood you
would be surrounded by the blood but he
did not say put blood on the threshold
because the blood is never to be
trampled and here’s the power of this
and God said and when my angel the Death
Angel it was not a demon it was an angel
and the death angel when he sees the
blood on your doorpost he the Death
Angel will pass over your house in other
words when you put this meal on you and
in you there is an application of the
blood the most powerful Avenue of Prayer
listen carefully the most powerful
avenue of prayer that you can ever learn
to pray is when you approach heaven this
way father I come in the name of Jesus
and I plead the blood of the Lamb
there’s something about pleading the
blood of the Lamb and listen if a deaf
angel could not cross the blood line
then I know one thing for sure if an
angel couldn’t cross the blood line the
devil cannot cross the blood line and
there’s power
there’s supernatural power at the Lord
table I plead the blood he commanded
them he said I want you to eat the lamb
that Passover and he said eat all the
lamb in Exodus chapter 12 not bits and
pieces some acknowledged Jesus as Savior
but they have not made him Lord saviours
only found 33 times in the Bible but
Lord has found 400 times and there’s a
difference between Savior and Lord
Savior means I’ve got fire insurance I
know I’m not going to hell
but he’s not Lord of anything in my life
I do whatever I want to do and I still
have him as my insurance blanket or my
insurance clause but listen to me if you
want joy he said eat all of it I don’t
just want him as Savior
I want him Lord of my life I want the
open doors and I want the closed doors
I want the yeses and I want the nose I
want the people he brings and I want the
people he says are not good for me and
when you say Jesus this is not the
Savior’s table it’s called the Lord’s
table and it’s because he must be Lord
eat it all I don’t just want salvation I
see baptism in the Holy Ghost on that
table I see deliverance from every
addiction on that table I see purity and
integrity on that table I see prosperity
on that table I see freedom on that
table and don’t take bits and pieces of
it eat it all eat it all think about
this the Lord’s table the communion meal
is the only thing of faith that we’re
told to physically touch every other
thing in that Bible he says you won’t by
faith not by what you can see and touch
but when it comes to this table
God says there’s something different
about this table it’s the only place he
makes active faith visible I want you to
come and I want you to hold the bread
and touch the bread and it is a physical
thing that you are touching
that will activate these blessings when
you partake of it I want you to hold the
cup I want you to drink the fruit of the
vine and when you drink it I want you to
understand what you were touching and
what you are seen every other thing you
walk by faith but this is a moment when
your faith actually is to be connected
to physical things that you can see that
represent his blood in his body and
really what he’s saying is just as
though I was the word in the beginning
and the word became flesh blood and
flesh and dwelt among us when you take
this meal you are reor he is being
reincarnated in you through the blood
through the body and the only Jesus that
people see is the one who comes through
you and you are to expect when you eat
this bread which is my body and you
drink this wine which represents my
blood then you are Christ as being
reborn reincarnated I’m not afraid that
word because that’s really what he wants
the Bible said your epistles read of all
men your friends will never read this
book but they’re reading you and you’re
supposed to be projecting Jesus and he
said I want you to physically take me in
so that I will project out of you
wherever you go say man somebody
he said this dude told his disciples
this do in remembrance of me
so it’s supposed to invoke memories that
when I enter into this meal
I remember how lost I was I remember how
low I was I remember how messed up I was
without Jesus how blind I was how
conceited and arrogant but at the cross
at the cross where I first saw the light
and the burdens of my soul and you don’t
understand that line if you’ve never
felt the burdens of your soul you
couldn’t get out of the pit you couldn’t
get out of the darkness you couldn’t get
out of the night of your soul but
suddenly at the crawl set the cross
where I first saw the light and the
burdens of my soul the addictions the
bondage the shame the guilt listen to
the words were rode away it was there by
faith I received my sight and now I’m
happy and now I’m happy all the day is
anybody still happy about Jesus this is
a joyful meal
it’ll give joy to you if you let it be
not sorrowful the joy of the Lord is
your strength if you’re running out of
joy you’re running out of strength come
to this table it’s a joyful celebration
hallelujah I know I need to calm down I
know I need to but I just feel like
shouting I still am thankful that my
name is written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life
Oh
when jesus told his disciples in Matthew
26 he said I want you to own it says
these words just to point it out again
he said on the first day of the feast of
unleavened bread which is Passover the
disciples came to Jesus and said where
do you want us to have Passover and he
said you were to go to a certain City
and you’ll see a certain you’ll go to
Jerusalem you’d see a certain man on the
street he’ll be carrying a pitcher of
water on his head and had that amazing
he said you tell him I need his house
he’s got an upper room he’s gonna give
me that house and we’re gonna have
communion up there before he didn’t they
didn’t know it but he was thinking
before I go to the cross and die sure
enough they found this guy notice that
he said this communion meal that I’m
about to to cut with you it’s gonna
happen in a house Jesus made communion
your house experience not just a church
house experience that whatever we do in
the church house he said it is not over
here but you’re carrying it back to your
house the victory the joy the peace the
goodness and mercy and all the anointing
and the cup that’s running over and the
blessings of this meal that are
activated it’s not just in this house
but it’s coming to your house this is
your house blessing it says in Exodus 12
that this is the beginning of the years
when they when they started and had the
Passover meal it begun it began a new
year this is the beginning of the year
this is the first month in other words
when we enter into communion in God on
God’s calendar he wipes everything out
and he says this is a brand new day this
is a brand new beginning
you cannot partake of this and it just
simply means that after you’ve had this
meal today is the first day of the rest
of your life the other stuff is over and
you can have whatever I
told you you can have and it starts here
and now the past does not control you
the ghost of guilt cannot haunt you
anymore this is a brand new beginning
clap your hands and praise God if you
believe in the power of the Lord’s table
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he said get full of the lamb this is
interesting and when they served them in
Exodus 12 the Passover meal I should
have put one out here
they had a side dish the Bible said if
the lamb is to be served under the Old
Covenant with bitter herbs bitter herbs
it was a side dish of bitter herbs and
that represents the bitter things of
life that whatever life sends you that
could stain you and leave you bitter the
rest of your life the sweetness of the
lamb is supposed to even out the
bitterness of life and notice the
bitterness is a side dish it was put in
a little side dish and they would put
salt water and certain herbs that they
would put in there and they would put it
in salt water representing the tears
that they that they cried in Egyptian
bondage and the point is this the
bitterness is of life are real and they
come to all of us the bitter things that
happen that that change everything in
your life but there just decide this and
the key to overcoming the side dish is
to eat the main meal which is the lamb
and the sweetness of the lamb will even
out the side dish of bitterness that
life serves you that whatever bitter
thing that could turn you mean and ugly
or just hard and cold instead you keep
eating all of the lamb you get full of
the lamb and the bitter things get even
doubt with the sweetness
of the lamb that’s the power of the
Lord’s table
he said now there’s gonna come
generations on down the road who weren’t
there at the Passover when you came out
of Egypt and the children are gonna ask
what does this meal mean and he said you
are to you are to take them back and
teach them how you were brought out at
this meal this is a generational meal
I want families to have this meal
together listen to this and Jesus said
that powerful thing right here as oft as
you do this you do this in remembrance
of me now watch this the opposite of the
word remember is dismember this member
means to be pulled apart so if there is
anything that has happened in a family
that was united and 1:1 together and
maybe a disagreement happened and there
is a dismembering when you come to this
table there is a supernatural power to
remember what has been dismembered
whatever disagreements whatever things
that have hit your family that are
tearing your marriage apart tearing your
family apart tearing your relationships
that you care so much apart he says when
you come to my table there is a
mysterious power on this meal that it
can take things that are dismembered it
can remember them
I’m talking to backsliders watching me
by television and all over this room and
at every campus who have been
dismembered you’ve fallen so far away
but if you will in humility approach
this table today God says I will
remember those who have been dismembered
by shame and guilt and sin
he says that all that they had in that
upper room with the disciples when Jesus
had the Last Supper all that we’re told
is bread and wine the fruit of the vine
that’s it no lamb Matthew Mark Luke and
John no lamb is mentioned there was no
lamb in the meal but the Passover had
lamb why where was the lamb the lamb was
not on the table the lamb was sitting at
the table but 24 hours from that moment
they would drag him out and hang him on
a cross and the lamb would be crucified
and any time we tell you the mystery of
this meal anytime you come to this table
you cannot approach it without the lamb
being on the table and at the table he
is here I know he’s everywhere but he
doesn’t manifest everywhere but wherever
you approach it with revelation of what
I’m sharing with you he is here not only
that there’s a mysterious recipe in the
in the wine because if you’ve ever
busted your nose and had it drip on a
white shirt there’s a crazy verse in
John that says if you confess your sins
he’s faithful and just to cleanse you of
all your sins the precious blood of
Jesus will cleanse you of all your
unrighteousness and take your stain of
sin away if you know anything about
blood if it drips on a white shirt that
doesn’t cleanse that shirt it stains
that blood stains that doesn’t cleanse
but the blood of Jesus is different
because it said in the book of
Revelation when everything’s over we’ll
be wearing white robes and he said these
are they whose garments are white
washed in the blood of the Lamb how do
you wash something in blood and it
becomes white and the stains are removed
there’s a mysterious ingredient in the
blood of Jesus Christ and it removes the
stains a sin and this is the power of
the Lord’s table
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