Know Your Enemy: Remedies Against the Flesh—How to & How Not To Fast (1) | Matthew 15:11-20

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Oct 6, 2024&nbsp; <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-7" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/self-denial-fasting">Self-Denial &amp; Fasting</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/fasting">Fasting</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Matt%206.16%E2%80%9318;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Matt 6.16&ndash;18" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Matthew 6:16&ndash;18</a></span></p> <p>^{Topics include Jesus' rebuke of hypocritical traditions of the Pharisees; man's first sin; taking care of ourselves; sexual sin in churches; how not to fast; fasting vs dieting; fasting as an end in itself; avoiding dangers before and after a fast, length of a fast; personal exceptions to and limitations of fasting; intermittent fasting.<br />}</p> <p>¹¹ &ldquo;<em>It is</em> not what enters into the mouth <em>that</em> defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.&rdquo; ¹² Then the disciples came and said to Him, &ldquo;Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?&rdquo; ¹³ But He answered and said, &ldquo;Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. ¹⁴ &ldquo;Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.&rdquo; ¹⁵ Now Peter answered and said to Him, &ldquo;Explain the parable to us.&rdquo; ¹⁶ And Jesus said, &ldquo;Are you still lacking in understanding also? ¹⁷ &ldquo;Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and goes into the sewer? ¹⁸ &ldquo;But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. ¹⁹ &ldquo;For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false witness, slanders. ²⁰ &ldquo;These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.&rdquo; Matthew 15:11-20</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB&reg;) Legacy Standard Bible&reg;, Copyright &copy; 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.&nbsp;<a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>