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Fasting

Fasting in OT Mourning- Cultural Supplication- Personal and Corporate 1 Sam 31:12-13 Esther 4:1-3 Supplication- Personal and Corporate 2 Sam 12:16 2 Chron 20:2-4 Repentance- Personal and Corporate Neh 1:4 Neh 9:1

Fasting in NT Mourning Important Events Devotion Matt 9:14 Matt 4:2 Acts 14:23 Devotion Luke 2:37

True Fasting - What Fasting is Not Not a replacement for true obedience to God Isaiah 58 Not to be seen by men Matt 6:16 Not a checklist Luke 18:12

True Fasting - What Fasting Is Time of Prayer and Reflection Ezra 9:4-6 Neh 1:4 Depriving oneself for a time 1 Cor 7:4-5 Psalm 35:13 Act of Humility Ezra 8:21

True Fasting - An Opportunity to Grow Spiritually Common Theme in Examples Grow Closer to God Comes from a pure heart Similar to all acts of worship/service/obedience If this is the not the reason, we are just like those in Isaiah 29:13 - Our hearts are far from him.

Fasting and Repentance King Ahab 1 Kings 21:25-29 Judgment is real and imminent Call for repentance and humility Joel 2:12- Rend our hearts