The text of the morning begins at verse 16 of Matthew 6. If you didn't bring your own Bible, please reach for the one in the Purac, and you can turn to page 1,147 and follow along as I read verses 16 through 18 of Matthew

chapter 6. And whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect

their appearance in order to be seen fasting by men. Truly I say to you they have their

reward in full. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face so that you may not be seen fasting by men,

but by your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret, will repay you.

Carl Lundquist was the president of Bethel College and Seminary for almost 30 years.

He died about four years ago of complications with a terrible

skin cancer, some of you remember. In the latter years of his life, he devoted a lot of energy to promoting and studying the devotional life and the life of the disciplines of the Christian walk.

He began a little organization called

the evangelical order of the burning heart, based on that passage in Luke 24 where they said

did not

in us when we heard the word open to us. And he began to discover things that he had not practice much of his life.

And he, to his great credit, built them into his life in those latter years and taught them and wrote articles in our standard about them.

And in issue number 16 of the letter called the burning heart letter that he was sending out month

after month and I was getting them and benefiting from them as God was teaching him because

I had a great admiration for Carl Lundquist.

He wrote about his first beginnings of taking fasting seriously.

Let me read you a couple of paragraphs, so you'll hear how one man probably,

well it was 1980, I can't remember what age Carl Lundquist would have been in 1980, but you listened. My own serious consideration of fasting as a spiritual

discipline began as a result of a visit with Dr. Jun Gong Kim in Seoul, Korea.

Is it true, I asked him, that you spent 40 days in fasting prior to the Evangelism Crusade in 1980?

Yes, he responded, it is true.

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