Continue to work out your salvation
...and other things we tend to ignore • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 51:48
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5,000 people fed
AD 30 estimated population
300,000,000
0.0017%
2025 world population 8,200,000,000
136,000 in today’s numbers
The Beatitudes
Being Salt and Light
About the Law
Anger
Lust
Divorce
Taking Vows ( or rather not to make them)
Revenge
Loving our enemies
Giving to the needy
Prayer
Fasting
Money
Worry
Judging Others
Asking, Seeking, and Knocking
The way to heaven
The fruit of people’s lives
Building a firm foundation
But what about fasting?
But what about fasting?
Matthew 6:16–18 (NIV)
“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
“Many people who are believers want to go though life accomplishing the least amount they can, just to get by. This kind of cheap grace isn’t the kind of life I want to live. Christ gave up everything, including his life for me, He paid a high price. Though I could never match that gift, I feel it is my duty as a believer, notice I said believer not pastor, to do everything I can to get closer to Him and to bring others close to him as well.” - Detrick Bonhoeffer
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar). Its message was true and it concerned a great war. The understanding of the message came to him in a vision.
At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.
Some people came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of the Dead Sea. It is already in Hazezon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi). Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah. The people of Judah came together to seek help from the Lord; indeed, they came from every town in Judah to seek him.
This is what the Lord Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.”
Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
