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Fasting

 

Fasting

Spirit of, explained - Isa 58:6,7

Not to be made a subject of display - Mt 6:16-18

Should be to God - Zec 7:5; Mt 6:18

For the chastening of the soul - Ps 69:10

For the humbling of the soul - Ps 35:13

OBSERVED ON OCCASIONS OF

• Judgments of God
- Joe 1:14; 2:12
• Public calamities
- 2Sa 1:12
• Afflictions of the Church
- Lu 5:33-35
• Afflictions of others
- Ps 35:13; Da 6:18
• Private afflictions
- 2Sa 12:16
• Approaching danger
- Es 4:16
• Ordination of ministers
- Ac 13:3; 14:23

ACCOMPANIED BY

• Prayer
- Ezr 8:23; Da 9:3
• Confession of sin
- 1Sa 7:6; Ne 9:1,2
• Mourning
- Joe 2:12
• Humiliation
- De 9:18; Ne 9:1

Promises connected with - Isa 58:8-12; Mt 6:18

OF HYPOCRITES

• Described
- Isa 58:4,5
• Ostentatious
- Mt 6:16
• Boasted of, before God
- Lu 18:12
• Rejected
- Isa 58:3; Jer 14:12

Extraordinary Exemplified

• Our Lord
- Mt 4:2
• Moses
- Ex 34:28; De 9:9,18
• Elijah
- 1Ki 19:8

National Exemplified

• Israel
- Jud 20:26; Ezr 8:21; Es 4:3,16; Jer 36:9
• Men of Jabesh-gilead
- 1Sa 31:13
• Ninevites
- Jon 3:5-8

Of Saints Exemplified

• David
- 2Sa 12:16; Ps 109:24
• Nehemiah
- Ne 1:4
• Esther
- Es 4:16
• Daniel
- Da 9:3
• Disciples of John
- Mt 9:14
• Anna
- Lu 2:37
• Cornelius
- Ac 10:30
• Christians
- Ac 13:2
• Apostles
- 2Co 6:5
• Paul
- 2Co 11:27

Of the wicked-Exemplified

• Elders of Jezreel
- 1Ki 21:12
• Ahab
- 1Ki 21:27
• Pharisees
- Mr 2:18; Lu 18:12
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