Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Current culture pushes demonic and occult themes in entertainment.

But Christians must be aware of the very real dangers.

Today's podcast addresses these issues with a look at King Saul's attempt at talking with the dead.

Would you turn please to 1 Samuel, 1st, 1 1 Samuel 28, and here is an incident where

the Bible says that Saul, by the means of a medium, called up Samuel, who was already dead,

for a message to Saul. And I want us to look at that passage to see what really happened here

because there are lots of questions about it. And let's begin in verse three of 1st Samuel 28.

Now Samuel was dead and all Israel had lamented him and buried him and Rehma even in his own city.

And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits and the wizards or witches out of the

land. So that the person to whom he's going to, later on in this chapter, was one of those

persons whom he'd been responsible for annihilating all the land,

all the witches and all the mediums carrying on seances and so forth.

Let me just stop right here to say something,

and I want you to remember this if you forget everything else I'm going to say

because it may be the most important thing.

When you and I are right with God,

the thing oftentimes we are against with the greatest intensity is the one thing Satan will hit you with when you start backsliding.

You just remember that. The thing that you are so

absolutely and adamantly opposed to when you begin the downward slide in your backsliding

condition, watch out. It may be the very thing Satan trips you up with. And that's exactly what happened here

to Saul. Here he was running them out of the land. And what happens? He ends up going to one.

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