Christian Broadcasting Network | – Episode 4. Fasting: What’s the Point?


Ashley and Gordon tackle the spiritual discipline of fasting. What’s the purpose of it? What constitutes a fast? Is it relevant today? That and more on this episode of The Lesson. Referenced: Acts 13:2, Acts 14:23 & Isa. 58:6-9.

Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
0:34 – Welcome
0:53 – Congratulations & Updates at CBN
3:17 – CBN’s 60th Anniversary
4:10 – What is Fasting?
9:34 – Tame the Desires of Your Flesh
11:30 – Teaching on Acts 13:2
12:30 – Why Gordon Fasts
13:17 – Teaching on Acts 14:23
15:55 – Social Media Fast
18:40 – Facebook/Instagram Outage
20:00 – Avenues of Distraction
21:10 – Gordon’s Prayer Life Influenced by Hudson Taylor
24:00 – Ashley’s Dating Fast
27:43 – Ashley’s Fast Influenced by Mo Isom Aiken
29:00 – The Purpose of Fasting
31:56 – Ashley’s Daniel Fast
33:33 – Is God Mad When You Stop a Fast?
38:04 – When Fasting First Appeared in the Bible
39:24 – Daniel’s Other Fast
41:19 – Are You More Powerful by Fasting?
44:17 – Teaching on Isaiah 58:6
46:22 – Justice Fast
50:44 – Next Week…

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  1. The Lesson Fasting. Please Gordon Robertson's has such a soft voice that it can hardly be heard over the microphone 25:00 in the video and beyond can demonstrate this. Can someone do something to improve the audio volume of his microphone? Many thanks, God Bless!

  2. When the Holy Spirit calls a believer to a fast, than that believer must fast. Hebrews 5:8 says Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. When a believer fasts for the Lord, that believer is suffering in his flesh for the Lord and is learning obedience by this suffering. The believer is putting his appetites off in order to be obedient to suffer for the Lord by fasting. The next verse in Hebrews 5:9 says and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. So this means that if God calls you to a fast, one must obey. If a believer does not obey the fast over and over when the Holy Spirit is leading the person to fast, a hardness of heart comes into that person for refusing to obey. However if the believer is trying to fast there is mercy to start the fast over again. God will grant mercy to that believer to try to obey. But we need the grace and mercy of the Holy Spirit to grant us the strength and power to fast. We need to ask for his provision to enable us to fast. Then we will be successful. So after we receive Christ as Lord and Savior, salvation does depend on our obedience, Hebrews5:9 and also because faith without works is dead. Also the Greek meaning for the word fast means to abstain from food.

  3. Social media and Netflix fasting isn't fasting. If you feel you need to "fast" these things, they may be idols and you are in love with the things of the world and you are settling your affection on things below in this world and not above in Heaven where Christ dwells.

  4. SOS JESUS
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    Childs who harvest latex.
    If you verify the countries where childs work and countries where there is latex (collapsus of prices since three years, so no longer adults work in It), you have a good reason from Jesus to make tenderness and not mechanical "loves⛑️⛑️

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