The Acceptable Christian Sin of Gluttony #36

Matthew 4:1-4 says, "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
 
Bill Thrasher said, "The abstinence of fasting is not to be an end in itself but rather for the purpose of being separated to the Lord and to concentrate on godliness. Fasting reduces the influence of our self-will and invites the Holy Spirit to do a more intense work in us."