If the story of the fall reveals our own sin and guilt, it surely also reveals the amazing depths of God’s love and mercy. It was the Son of God who placed a sword at the entrance to the Garden of Eden. He did it not just to keep Adam out. He did it so that, at just the right time, he could walk through in our place, to satisfy God’s just wrath and make a way for us to enter back in, through the gate, to eat from the Tree of Life and live forever in the glorious presence of God.
Michael Lawrence

FASTING

FASTING

FASTING

  1. Spirit of, explained # Isa 58:6,7
  2. Not to be made a subject of display # Mt 6:16-18
  3. Should be to God # Zec 7:5 Mt 6:18
  4. For the chastening of the soul # Ps 69:10
  5. For the humbling of the soul # Ps 35:13
  6. OBSERVED ON OCCASIONS OF 6a) Judgments of God

    # Joe 1:14 2:12

6b) Public calamities # 2Sa 1:12 6c) Afflictions of the Church # Lu 5:33-35 6d) Afflictions of others # Ps 35:13 Da 6:18 6e) Private afflictions # 2Sa 12:16 6f) Approaching danger # Es 4:16 6g) Ordination of ministers # Ac 13:3 14:23 7) ACCOMPANIED BY 7a) Prayer # Ezr 8:23 Da 9:3 7b) Confession of sin # 1Sa 7:6 Ne 9:1,2 7c) Mourning # Joe 2:12 7d) Humiliation # De 9:18 Ne 9:1 8) Promises connected with # Isa 58:8-12 Mt 6:18 9) OF HYPOCRITES 9a) Described # Isa 58:4,5 9b) Ostentatious # Mt 6:16 9c) Boasted of, before God # Lu 18:12 9d) Rejected # Isa 58:3 Jer 14:12 10) Extraordinary Exemplified 10a) Our Lord # Mt 4:2 10b) Moses # Ex 34:28 De 9:9,18 10c) Elijah # 1Ki 19:8 11) National Exemplified 11a) Israel # Jud 20:26 Ezr 8:21 Es 4:3,16 Jer 36:9 11b) Men of Jabesh-gilead # 1Sa 31:13 11c) Ninevites # Jon 3:5-8 12) Of Saints Exemplified 12a) David # 2Sa 12:16 Ps 109:24 12b) Nehemiah # Ne 1:4 12c) Esther # Es 4:16 12d) Daniel # Da 9:3 12e) Disciples of John # Mt 9:14 12f) Anna # Lu 2:37 12g) Cornelius # Ac 10:30 12h) Christians # Ac 13:2 12i) Apostles # 2Co 6:5 12j) Paul # 2Co 11:27 13) Of the wicked-Exemplified 13a) Elders of Jezreel # 1Ki 21:12 13b) Ahab # 1Ki 21:27 13c) Pharisees # Mr 2:18 Lu 18:12