FASTING: HUNGRY FOR GOD (5 OF 5)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Matthew 6:16-18
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Fasting: Hungry for God (5 of 5)
Series: Teach Us to Pray
Bob Ingle
Matthew 6:16-18
Open your bibles to Matthew 6. Would it be fair to say that Americans are pretty obsessed with food? Would that be an accurate statement? I got a few pictures to prove it (show). Hungry yet? I mean we love food don't we? We even name cities after food. There's Two Egg, Florida. There's Bacon, Delaware. There's a town called Pancake, Texas. There's Toast, North Carolina. There's even Jelly, California. You've got yourself breakfast right there. For most of us, food is our passion. It's our obsession. It's our fixation. We live to eat rather than eat to live. We spend countless hours every day thinking about food, shopping for food, cooking food, eating our food, complaining about our food, craving other food, and looking forward to the next time we get food.
And we eat a lot, don't we? Did you know the average American, if they live to be 70 years old, will eat about 150,000 pounds of food? Each of us eats about a ton of food a year. Is that insane or what? 150,000 pounds over 70 years? That's six-full-sized elephant's worth of food. That's 9 ½ Hummer H2's of food. When you think about it like that you're in pretty good shape. I bet most of us in here have already thought about where we're going to eat afterward church, and what we're going to have. Food is never far from our mind.
And that's exactly why what we're talking about is so important. In this gluttonous, denial-less, self-indulgent society nothing radically fights against our flesh like a fast. When you think of the word ''fast,'' what do you think about? Well, some of you think about the NASCAR race you're going to watch this afternoon. Those cars are going 200 miles an hour. When some of you think of the word ''fast,'' think of how fast your paycheck disappears after you receive it. Some of you think about how fast the weekend goes. But the one thing that doesn't come to your mind very quickly is a fast f ...
Series: Teach Us to Pray
Bob Ingle
Matthew 6:16-18
Open your bibles to Matthew 6. Would it be fair to say that Americans are pretty obsessed with food? Would that be an accurate statement? I got a few pictures to prove it (show). Hungry yet? I mean we love food don't we? We even name cities after food. There's Two Egg, Florida. There's Bacon, Delaware. There's a town called Pancake, Texas. There's Toast, North Carolina. There's even Jelly, California. You've got yourself breakfast right there. For most of us, food is our passion. It's our obsession. It's our fixation. We live to eat rather than eat to live. We spend countless hours every day thinking about food, shopping for food, cooking food, eating our food, complaining about our food, craving other food, and looking forward to the next time we get food.
And we eat a lot, don't we? Did you know the average American, if they live to be 70 years old, will eat about 150,000 pounds of food? Each of us eats about a ton of food a year. Is that insane or what? 150,000 pounds over 70 years? That's six-full-sized elephant's worth of food. That's 9 ½ Hummer H2's of food. When you think about it like that you're in pretty good shape. I bet most of us in here have already thought about where we're going to eat afterward church, and what we're going to have. Food is never far from our mind.
And that's exactly why what we're talking about is so important. In this gluttonous, denial-less, self-indulgent society nothing radically fights against our flesh like a fast. When you think of the word ''fast,'' what do you think about? Well, some of you think about the NASCAR race you're going to watch this afternoon. Those cars are going 200 miles an hour. When some of you think of the word ''fast,'' think of how fast your paycheck disappears after you receive it. Some of you think about how fast the weekend goes. But the one thing that doesn't come to your mind very quickly is a fast f ...
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