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Feasting and Fasting in the OT - Board
Regular Rituals
Impromptu Celebrations
Both are responses to and celebrations of God’s Grace
Fasting - Inside and Outside humbling
Not eating for a set period of time.
I was suprised to find...
Fasting is just about always a response to an encounter with God or event of a serious or grievous nature.
There are 3 major kinds
Crossroads
Esther - resolves to talk to the king on behalf of the Jewish people, knowing that she will likely be killed for speaking up.
Before her meeting she calls for a fast in the Jewish community
16 “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.”
Esther 4:16
Tragedy
23 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
Psalm 35:13
Conviction of Sin
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How do you Return/repent? - Fasting is a part of it
12 “Even now,” declares the LORD,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
ALL are A response to a Serious/Grave encounter with God.
Encounter/Experience/Event - Feeling - Response
Feasting 2 kinds - Somewhat Open Tables
Regular Rituals - Like thanksgiving
23 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
Impromptu Celebrations - Like getting a new job
17 In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating.
And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them.
Both are responses to and celebrations of God’s Grace
Encounter/Experience/Event - Feeling - Response
NOTE the order of operations!
Left to Right.
Feasting and Fasting in Jesus Day - The problem - Board
In Jesus day, and some of the worst expressions of Fasting/Feasting Today .
They turn everything upside down.
The order of operations is right to left.
They Feast privately in order to Get a feeling and GET RESULTS - Social Status + Religious Purity
One reason we know this is b/c religious people are always criticizing Jesu for who he eats with.
They Fast Publically to produce a feeling and GET RESULTS - Spiritual Signaling
We know this because of Jesus harsh words on fasting
One of the reasons Fasting and Feasting have dissapeared today I think is because people were practicing like this.
So what do we do?
Give it up?
Dont worry about eating?
Disconnect food from faith?
What Jesus Does
when it comes to feasting and fasting Jesus resets the table.
ReSets Fasting
ReSets Feasting
To the point that when the “CHURCH” is born in acts they are marked by 4 things
Apostle’s Teaching
Fellowship
Breaking Bread
Prayer
Central to christian worship is BREAKING BREAD
Jesus RESETS the table - Do this in remembrance of me - leads to
Jesus breaks all the rules.
He eats on the wrong days
He gets criticized for not fasting enough - He calls for secret fasting
He eats with the wrong people (CONSTANTLY) at an OPEN TABLE in public
Everywhere he goes he brings feasting, bread, fish, water to wine, and the celebration that come around the table.
His eating habits so enrage the religious gatekeepers they are one of the key factors that lead to his crucifixion.
Do this in remeberance of Me.
Jesus after spending all of his time around the wrong tables,
brings that practice into the center of Chrisitian life.
He institutes a new kind of FEAST for his followers.
Check out Lord’s supper- Read it.
You see that, that is why the disciples in acts 2 devote themselves to the breaking of bread.
JESUS says whenever Christians gather around the table to eat and drink they ought to REMEMBER they are keeping a feast.
To REMEMBER his sacrifice.
AND just like at passover the people eat the sacrificial lamb that is slain for them.
JESUS says this BREAD is my BODY and this WINE my BLOOD.
Therfore Chrisitans when they “keep the feast” at the Lords table eat the sacrifice.
REMEMBERING that it is Jesus and his deah/ressureciton that sustains us in eternal life.
In eating that meal at that OPEN and PUBLIC feast, and in eating our meals togehtr in that WAY we PROCLAIM with our bodies, mouths, and even bellies the death and resureciton until he comes again!
He makes FEASTING and the TABLE the place of Christian worship, celebration, rememberance, and sustinance.
ANd when we fast in Jesus name, but especially when we eat.
Jesus Resets the table of our lives.
- The basics of Christian Assembly
If you asked the early church what was the most important thing in our church, the thing that you couldn't follow Jesus without.
They would not choose the musical instrument.
The building, The pastor, the pews, the stage the hymns, the announcments, or even the Bible itself.
They would say it is the TABLE the FEAST.
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Trans: We need to let Jesus ReSet our tables
He is Risen, throw a party
Open your table
CELEBRATE the RESSURECTION around them
Party like the WORLD has been saved, becaue we belive it has
Reclaim Fasting
I wanted to tell you to try fasting
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