New Wine

NEW WINE

Matthew Chapter Nine

Matthew 9:15-17

15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

In this discourse, our Lord reminded those present of common sense practices of every day occurrences. We do not take a piece of rough woolen cloth, which had never been prepared and join stitch to an old damaged garment. They will not join well with the together. The old garment will not bare the heavy strain and the new garment in all its streetlight will pull and tear bigger the rent in the old. The rent would then be worse than before the attempt to repair.

Jesus continued to illustrate His lesson. Nor would men put new wine into old leather bodie bags made from goat’s bladders. Old and firmly set to shape and form and reluctant to change the old weakening bag would be liable to burst from the fermenting of the new wine. However, pouring of the new wine into strong, new, skin bottles, would preserve them both.

Great caution and prudence are necessary today, as always, in shielding young converts so that they not receive gloomy and forbidding ideas of serving our Lord; but duties are to be urged as they are able to bear them.

All this seems so simple and easy to understand in its literal form. Jesus had little to do with literal things except as examples of far greater concepts and realities. The wine and the new cloth refers to the new covenant of Grace. The old cloth and the dried out skin bottle represents the physical condition of flesh under previous covenants. Together they represent the old state of humans after the fall and the need for a newness of body and soul capable of receiving and maintaining the newness of the, soon to arrive, Holy Spirit. That has not changed. The concept is solid.

Before the walkers of this world and its decaying condition can receive and contain the Holy Spirit, they must experience a change; be reconditioned. Some believe that they can come and ask God into their body when the mind and body is not properly prepared to receive His Spirit. God will call, the Holy Spirit will knock and the old is prepared to accept the new. That same spirit that raised Jesus up from the grave not only makes us a new man but also enters into our body to forever dwell.

Having become a new creature capable of containing the Holy Spirit, new Christians begin a growth process. Little by little, precept by precept they grow on the word. Cram too much new wine into the new container too fast and it will swell and seek comfort back in the shade tree of the world. Worse are they than before coming to God.

2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollution of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

Weakened by fear, confusion and doubt they are fruit for Satan’s picking. He hands them the old ragged coat and, unless God’s warriors rescue him, he will dawn the old way and grow worse and worse. Disillusioned and resentful, he rejoices in the deadly poison of the devil.

Matthew 12:45

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Lets make sure only new vessels receive the newness of Christ Jesus and when accomplished nurture them into solid children of God. Know God, know peace. Amen. 12-03-2019 BLL

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Mark 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

Luke 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. Luke 5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.