S01 E41 - True Fasting

The Church of Eleven22

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey church family. It is Devo time. If you've got your Bible, we're going to be in Isaiah
0:09.3	chapter 58. Isaiah chapter 58. Last week as a church, we prayed and we fasted. And I reminded you
0:18.5	last week that we fast from and we fast for and that praying and fasting are not nothing.
0:25.6	It is the first step in gospel movement when we cry out to God and when we see injustices in our world and we ask God to move.
0:35.6	But it cannot stop at fasting and praying. Pastor Cam reminded
0:41.1	us last week that Nehemiah prayed and fasted and then he got to work and got to action. And so I'd like to
0:47.2	take it to Isaiah 58. If I would have had time to preach on fasting a couple weeks ago, I would have gone to this passage.
0:55.7	And so we'll deal with this and then maybe that'll be the last of fasting for a little while,
1:00.6	at least talking about it. Isaiah 58 says this, cry aloud, do not hold back, lift up your
1:06.5	voice like a trumpet, declare to my people their transgression to the house of Jacob, their sins.
1:13.0	Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did
1:19.8	righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God. They ask of me righteous judgment. They delight to draw near to God. This is this is God's
1:31.6	accusation against Israel. It says they have this appearance that they want to know God. They want to
1:38.1	be close to God, that they attend all the religious services, that they do all of the right
1:43.0	offerings and that sort of stuff,
1:45.1	they delight to draw near to God. Verse three, this is Israel's response. Why have we fasted,
1:52.9	and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves and you take no knowledge of it? Behold,
2:00.4	in the day of your fast, you seek your own
2:02.7	pleasure and oppress all your workers. Here's what they're saying. They're like, God, we have,
2:08.6	we've cried out to you, we prayed, we fasted, we humbled ourselves, we did our part. How come you
2:14.2	haven't done your part? He says, behold, in the day of your fast, you seek your own pleasure and oppress all your workers.
2:21.5	Behold, you fast only to quarrel and fight and to hit with a wicked fist.
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