Not quickly broken, broken part three. And I hope you'll come back next week for the conclusion and we'll really kind of unpack why we called this series not quickly broken. But Hebrews 12. I want to begin by reading this common passage, this

well-known passage in another translation, a fresh translation, it says, as for us, we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds.

So we must let go of every wound that has pierced us and the sin we so easily fall into.

Then we will be able to run life's marathon race with passion and determination.

For the path has already been marked out before us.

We look away from the natural realm and we fasten our gaze onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith's perfection.

You thankful for God's word.

Anybody, I just feel a great sense of gratitude for it.

I want to talk to you this weekend about fasting a key to spiritual quickness. Fasting. What is it? I believe among other things it's a key to spiritual quickness.

Jack B. Nimble. Jack B. We want to be spiritually quick. Why? Well because one of the most common

metaphors used in the New Testament to describe the Christian life is out of a race.

And if we're running a race, we want to be ready, set, well not slow. We want to go. We want to be quick,

we want to be fast, we want to run this race with passion and endurance.

And so we have a cloud of witnesses urging us on.

You run better when you're watched than when you're alone you you do differently

when you know someone's there to see you one of the most common refrains in our

house right now is dada dada what watchada, watch, Dad a look.

I don't know why he started calling me

Dad a all of a sudden, but I said Padre would be fine.

But, daada, watch,

watch, Dada, watch, Dada, watch, he wants me to see him.

We run faster when our parents are watching us.

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