Podcast Summary: "Get Up" | Jentezen Franklin at Free Chapel

Host: Jentezen Franklin
Date: November 16, 2025

Episode Overview

In this powerful and passionate sermon titled "Get Up," Jentezen Franklin encourages listeners to rise above setbacks, defeat, and despair by drawing from Scripture and personal experiences. The message is centered around the biblical truth that falling is not a permanent state for the believer—God calls His people to stand again, regardless of how many times they've been knocked down. Franklin uses the stories of Micah, Samson, and Benaiah to illustrate how defeat is never final for those who trust in the Lord. The call to action is clear: no matter the darkness or coldness of your situation, it’s time to get up and move forward in faith.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Foundational Scripture: Micah 7:8 – The Promise to Rise Again

• Franklin begins by sharing his "go-to" verse during challenging times:
  “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.” (00:32)
• He emphasizes that falling or being down is not a disgrace or failure, but staying down is dangerous for a child of God (02:00).
• Memorable Quote:

  “It is totally unacceptable for the child of God... to stay down. You can get down, but you can’t stay down because you have this verse.”
  – Jentezen Franklin (02:50)

2. Temporary Defeat vs. Permanent Destiny

• Franklin relates being "down" to times of personal loss, depression, and feeling knocked out emotionally or spiritually.
• He provided a humorous anecdote about people being “under the circumstances”—challenging that Christians belong above, not beneath (04:00).

3. The Role of the Shepherd – Removing Entanglements

• Uses the biblical metaphor of sheep whose excessive wool causes them to tip over, requiring the shepherd to shear them (06:30).
• Key Insight: Sometimes we need to "shear off" relationships, habits, and bondages that keep us down.
• Memorable Quote:

  “Today I didn’t just come to bless you. I came to shear you... You have to cut off some entanglements with people and things and situations and bondages in your life.”
  – Jentezen Franklin (08:45)

4. Urgency to Get Back Up

• Franklin compares his preaching style to a “747”—slow takeoff but determined to reach his destination (08:00).
• Draws a parallel between pastors and nurses: just as nurses don’t let patients lay down after surgery, spiritual leaders cannot let their flock stay spiritually down (09:30).
• Memorable Moment:

  “Well, Pastor, I have a right to be depressed. No, you don’t. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. That’s what I’m preaching today.”
  (12:40)

5. Samson: The High Cost of Staying Down

• Retells Samson’s downfall—how he was first bound, then blinded, then bewildered, and made to serve his enemies (13:00).
• Franklin warns that Satan seeks to bind, blind, and bewilder us when we stay down too long.
• Hope Through God’s Grace:

  “Samson refused to die. He refused to go down in defeat. Something in him said, ‘God, if you’ll touch me one more time...’ That’s what I love about God.”
  (18:00)

6. The God of Another Chance

• Franklin stresses God’s infinite mercy:

  “He’s the God of another chance and another chance and another chance. And I don’t care how many times you failed. He’ll give you another chance.”
  (19:30)

• Uses Proverbs: “The righteous man falls seven times a day, but he keeps getting back up.”
  (20:00)

7. The Power of Generational Partnership

• The story of Samson’s final act, aided by a young boy, symbolizes the revival possible when generations unite (22:00).
• Calls for young people to step forward in leadership and fire for God, with older believers guiding and supporting them.
• Notable Quote:

  “It was the older guy joining with the younger guy... the young boy told him where to put his hands and he tore the pillars down. The Bible said the roof fell and killed their entire leadership of the Philistine army...”
  (23:30)

8. Setting a New Generation on Fire

• Relates the account of Samson catching 300 foxes—catching, tying, and setting them on fire—as a metaphor for inspiring and releasing youth (25:00).
• Emphasizes the need to capture young people with vision, tie them to biblical fundamentals, and send them into the world with Holy Spirit fire.

9. Benaiah – Overcoming in the Coldest and Lowest Times

• Shares the story from 1 Chronicles 11:22 about Benaiah, who fought a lion in a pit on a snowy day (26:45).
• Highlights that God enables victory even in our lowest, coldest moments.
• Memorable Quote:

  “I believe God sent me to tell you this morning that in your lowest and in your coldest days, this man Benaiah said, through God’s help, I can still slay this lion.”
  (27:15)

10. Final Urgency – God Responds When You Get Up

• Franklin urges listeners to literally “stand up” in faith, trusting that God’s grace and mercy will meet them (28:50).
• Final call:

  “The moment that you get your faith feet under you and say, I’m not staying down, I’m getting up, God will come running.”
  (29:10)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The devil has fallen and he can’t get back up... but if you’ve fallen... you can get back up.”
  (04:50)
• “Don’t pop the cork on your champagne bottle too early, devil... When I fall, I’ll get back up.”
  (06:00)
• “The main job of a shepherd is to keep the sheep on his feet, because if he doesn’t... the wolf can get to it.”
  (07:45)
• “If you lay there, I’m your nurse coming in your room and I’m saying, you gotta get up. I know the pain was real, but it’s not the end.”
  (28:15)

Important Timestamps

• 00:32 — Introduction of main verse and theme
• 02:00 — Importance of not staying down
• 04:50 — Comparison between devil’s fall and our ability to rise
• 06:00 — Warning to the enemy not to celebrate too soon
• 09:30 — Illustration comparing pastors and nurses urging people to get up
• 13:00 — Samson: Bound, blinded, bewildered
• 18:00 — God of another chance
• 22:00 — Generational partnership in revival
• 25:00 — Catching, tying, firing, and releasing the youth
• 26:45 — Benaiah slays a lion in a pit on a snowy day
• 28:50 — Call to stand in faith and get up

Conclusion

Jentezen Franklin’s message “Get Up” is a stirring exhortation not to accept defeat, discouragement, or despair as permanent places. He draws deep scriptural roots and practical life metaphors to encourage listeners that—no matter how many times they fall—they are called, equipped, and enabled by God to get up and fulfill their purpose. Everyone, especially the “down, distressed, depressed, and discouraged,” is reminded: your destiny is not the pit, but the purpose-filled life God has for you.