Fasting means hunger for God, not hunger for people's applause.

That's the meaning of fasting.

Therefore, if you put forward a fasting demeanor, it means to the world, I want God.

And if that's not what you want, you're a hypocrite.

Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kroover.

What does hunger say about our hearts?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens Matthew 6,

verses 16 to 18, to show that true fasting isn't about appearances, it's about hungering for God. This message was originally

preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on February 5, 1995. 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 our hearts burn within us when we heard the word open to us?

And he began to discover things that he had not practiced 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.

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