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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Friday, February 25th, 2020. So we've spent all week talking about fasting, about how fasting is saying no to ourselves so that we can have a better connection

with the people in the world that are suffering, that are hungry, so that we can have a better connection with the people in the world that are suffering,

that are hungry, so that we become masters of ourselves and we are just slaves to food and

entertainment so that we can demonstrate our obedience to the church, which requires us to

fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, but encourages us to fast every Friday,

not only of Lent, but of the whole year. And yesterday we talked about how fasting is an act

of worship, how every act of sacrifice that we do in the name of Jesus Christ is an act of worship.

And how when we fast for a day, that whole day becomes a day of worship.

For I'm telling Jesus, you are more important than my comfort in this moment.

And so that brings us to reason number five,

why fasting is so good for us.

And it is this.

When we fast, when we take on any level of suffering,

when we choose it, it doesn't just happen to us,

but we choose it, we become co-redeemers with Jesus Christ.

Co-redeemers.

So let's talk about that word.

Co-redeemers.

We believe that Jesus Christ offered himself up willingly as a sacrifice on the cross

to pay the price for our sins, for the sins of the

whole world, so that we might be saved, so that we might be redeemed, forgiven from all of the

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