#88 – Fasting and Longing for the Bridegroom (Matthew 9:14–15)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 6 November 2017
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. |
| 0:05.8 | Matthew chapter 9 verses 14 through 15 talk about fasting so the disciples of |
| 0:12.0 | John came to Jesus saying why do we and the |
| 0:15.2 | Pharisees fast but your disciples do not fast and Jesus said to them can the |
| 0:21.0 | wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? |
| 0:25.8 | The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast. |
| 0:32.3 | No fasting is not something a lot of followers of Christ talk about today. |
| 0:37.0 | A lot of churches rarely talk about fasting, but it's pretty basic in the Bible. We see it all over the Bible even when Jesus |
| 0:46.2 | just a few chapters before this was talking about praying and giving he talked |
| 0:50.9 | about fasting in the same sections so just as basic as praying and |
| 0:56.1 | just as basic as giving is fasting and he even said when you fast do this and he gives instructions for fasting so it's not an if you |
| 1:05.3 | fast but a when you fast so first I would just ask is fasting a regular part of your |
| 1:12.4 | life is it a regular part of your life? |
| 1:13.5 | Is it a regular spiritual discipline |
| 1:15.7 | and your routine of life as a follower of Christ? |
| 1:19.8 | Because it's intended to be that. |
| 1:21.9 | We're intended to fast regularly. Now what that looks like, |
| 1:26.0 | the Bible doesn't specify this is how often this is exactly what it needs to look like |
| 1:30.0 | but listen to these verses from Matthew Chapter 9 when the disciples of John are actually asking Jesus why are your disciples not fasting and Jesus says can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? |
| 1:46.0 | The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast. |
| 1:50.8 | So fasting Jesus is teaching here is a picture of separation between the bride and the bridegroom. |
| 1:59.0 | So when the bride and bridegroom are together, there's no need to fast. |
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