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Abuses of fasting: 1. Any attempt to earn God’s blessing through fasting is clearly in contradiction to the scriptural teaching that Jesus’ death and resurrection is the ground for every spiritual blessing. Fasting is the humble response that puts us in a place to receive the life and victory Jesus has won for us. 2. One should never view fasting as a substitute for repentance and obedience. To do so turns fasting into a form of penance (cf. Isaiah 59:1-22). 3. To use [fasting as a means] to impress others. This is clearly what Jesus forbids in Matthew 6:18. The question is not so much whether others know about our fast but rather why we want them to know about it. The Scriptures make reference to corporate fasts, and thus fasting is not always a private matter. 4. [When we use fasting] to belittle the kind gifts of God. While on the one hand we can fall in love with the gift of food and not the Giver, on the other hand we can fail to enjoy the food with the taste buds that He provided and glory in our will power.

Bill Thrasher

[James 4:3-5] pictures the church as the wife of God. God has made us for Himself and has given Himself to us for our enjoyment. Therefore it is adultery when we try to be “friends” with the world. If we seek from the world the pleasures we should seek in God, we are unfaithful to our marriage vows. And, what’s worse, when we go to our Heavenly Husband and actually pray for the resources with which to commit adultery with the world, it is a very wicked thing. It is as though we should ask our husband for money to hire male prostitutes to provide the pleasure we don’t find in Him!

John Piper

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Ayam Bumbu Rojak (Chicken with Spicy Sauce)

January 22, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains	Indo	Poultry, Indonesian, Main dish	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Broiler or fryer
		Chicken with skin 450g
1	lg	Onion, finely chopped
2		Cloves garlic, chopped
		Finely
3	tb	Oil
1	ts	Brown sugar
1		Red chilli, crushed
2		Candlenuts, grated
1/4		Roll shrimp paste
1	ts	Sweet soy sauce
2	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut chicken into serving portions
Fry onion and garlic in oil until golden brown. Add brown sugar, chilli,
candlenuts and shrimp paste and stir. Add chicken to this spicy mixture.
Then add tamarind juice, soy sauce, 1 cup water and salt. Cover tightly and
cook slowly until liquid is completely absorbed by chicken. Serve with
rice.
Compiled by Imran C. Gold Coast-'Oz
Posted to EAT-L Digest 28 October 96
Date:    Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:58:21 +1000
From:    "I. Chaudhary" <imranc@ONTHENET.COM.AU>

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