Matthew Week 38 Central Christian Podcast

Matthew week 38



 
Matthew 6:1 ESV

 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

 
 

 
Matthew 6:16-18 ESV

 
16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

 
 

 
1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV

 
5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

 
 

 
Matthew 9:14-15 ESV

 
14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

 
 

 
Luke 18:11-12 ESV

 
11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

 
 

 
Acts 13:2 ESV

 
2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

 
 

 
Matthew 16:24 ESV

 
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

 
 

 
Colossians 3:2 ESV

 
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

 
 

 
Isaiah 58:3-7 ESV

 
‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?

 
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’

 
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,

 
and oppress all your workers.

 
4 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight

 
and to hit with a wicked fist.

 
Fasting like yours this day

 
will not make your voice to be heard on high.

 
5 Is such the fast that I choose,

 
a day for a person to humble himself?

 
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,

 
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?

 
Will you call this a fast,

 
and a day acceptable to the Lord? (going through the motions)

 
6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:

 
to loose the bonds of wickedness,

 
to undo the straps of the yoke,

 
to let the oppressed go free,

 
and to break every yoke?

 
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry

 
and bring the homeless poor into your house;

 
when you see the naked, to cover him,

 
and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

 
 

 
Isaiah 58:8-10 ESV

 
Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,

 
and your healing shall spring up speedily;

 
your righteousness shall go before you;

 
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

 
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;

 
you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’

 
If you take away the yoke from your midst,

 
the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

 
10 if you pour yourself out for the hungry

 
and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,

 
then shall your light rise in the darkness

 
and your gloom be as the noonday.

 
 

 
Nehemiah 1:4-7 ESV

 
4 As so