“Old/New”

June 10, 2017

“Old/New”

Blessings folk!

People rarely understand liberty and freedom in the Lord.

The Religionists never will - too much power to be had.

Jesus was showing that life in the Kingdom was a bit different than life in religion.

We have seen where He said that a time for fasting would come, but not when the Bridegroom was present.

Now, give close attention to the garment/wine skins…

Mar 2:18-22

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him,
“Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

“But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast in that day.

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment;
otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

“No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”


Jesus is clear.

Old wineskins will not hold new wine - they will burst.
New garment material (unshrunk) can not be sown on an old garment - it will tear away.

The Kingdom can not be “poured in” nor “attached” to the old.

Something must happen.

Fresh wineskins are required.

Matthew gives additional insight.

Mat 9:16-17
“But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment;
for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

“Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins;
otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined;
but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

With fresh wineskins both are preserved.

It is simple.

One must be born again to receive the new.

John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him,
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Are you?

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