Holiness | Fasting E2
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
How can we overcome sin when our willpower isn't enough? John Mark talks about how fasting is one way to help us grow in self-control, and the ripple effect that can have throughout our whole lives.
Key Scripture Passage: Romans 7v15-8v1
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer |
| 0:04.8 | teachings podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman your host and part of the teaching team |
| 0:09.0 | here at practicing the way. Each week here on the show we share a teaching from John Mark or other |
| 0:14.7 | trusted voices in the formation space and it's great to have you with us. In today's |
| 0:21.4 | teaching John Mark explores fasting as the pathway to Kedesh, to holiness, to our |
| 0:27.8 | set apartness. He explores the tension between our willpower and Holy Spirit empowerment and how the the As you may like to ask yourself the question, |
| 0:44.0 | do I live primarily for comfort or in pursuit of God? |
| 0:49.0 | Here's John Mack. back. It's great to be with you. |
| 0:56.0 | Please turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 7 as we continue our teaching series on the practice of fasting. |
| 1:03.2 | We are fasting on Wednesdays as a community. |
| 1:06.7 | That was your first week for many of you, I'm sure, |
| 1:09.6 | how was that? |
| 1:10.4 | How did that, I don't know how you answer a question like how was your day of fasting? |
| 1:14.0 | Okay on the spectrum zero to ten like eight to ten you were caught up in the |
| 1:18.1 | heaven leaves you saw Moses and Elijah anybody? Okay zero to, you're not sure you're a Christian anymore or want to be. |
| 1:28.0 | Okay, that's what I would imagine. |
| 1:30.0 | Most of us are right in the middle there. So welcome to that. |
| 1:33.3 | And whatever your day was like |
| 1:35.7 | or whether you did or did not participate, |
| 1:37.5 | remember there's no success or failure, |
| 1:40.1 | there's certainly no such performance-oriented culture, right? |
| 1:43.4 | Where there's certainly none of that nonsense. |
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