Posts Tagged ‘fast’
6.18.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 135.
“Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.’” – Matthew 9:17 Jesus is presenting three illustrations to answer one question: Why don’t your disciples fast, as did the Pharisees and…
Read More6.15.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 133. Honor.
Matthew 9:14 starts out this next section on fasting like this: “Then the disciples of John *came to Him, asking, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” A little background here that I found kind of important in the cultural context of all of this. Pharisees have challenged Jesus’…
Read More3.23.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 53. Sincerity.
Matthew 6:17 says this: “But when you fast, comb your hair and wash your face.” Seems pretty basic. Pretty standard, right? Wash your face, comb your hair. Look presentable. But, let’s dig a little deeper into the meaning behind this. Jesus has again called out some of Israel’s religious leaders as hypocrites. Many of their…
Read More3.22.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 51. Fasting.
I’m hungry already just seeing the topic of this devotion…. Matthew 6:16 says this: “‘Now whenever you fast, do not make a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they distort their faces so that they will be noticed by people when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.” Jesus…
Read More2.10.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on Matthew. Part 15. Patience.
As we begin Chapter 4 we are presented with this account of the “testing” or “tribulation” of Jesus in the wilderness. Afterward, the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the lonely wilderness in order to reveal his strength against the accuser by going through the ordeal of testing. And after fasting for forty days, Jesus was…
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