Put on The New Man
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Welcome to 2023! We look for new, our whole life revolves around the new. new year new me.
This is the time the gym memberships sky rockets
Diets start no more food lion, welcome trader joes.
This is the time when you drop relationships.
Even changing how we do worship church our relationship with God. We aren’t looking for reformation be we are looking for deconstruction.
We not looking for God we are looking for reputation.
New cars and career goals ambition ambition ambition.
Gods new is not like the worlds new.
27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
The new that God gives is connected with the eternal.
Its new because its sources in the Eternal.
But the new that the worlds gives its sourced in the temporal.
During the fall time when you ride down the east coast coming from New York you see these beautiful leaves turning brown. Its magnificent.
But allot of people don’t understand the colors. They get the colors mixed up. They think the color is changing from green to brown. No, the real color of the leaves is brown, not green. The reason why brown leaves become green is that chlorophyll begins to reproduce on brown leaves during the spring and the summer, turning their natural brown color and camouflaging it so that what you see is green. The real deal is brown. So in the fall, when the green chlorophyll begins to die, it unveils whats really there.
A lot of us have covered up the Spirit, so that we don’t see our true identity. We walk around projecting a fake identity. Many of us are fake Christians, trying to look like real Christians, when God wants to cut away the fake, so that the real deal shows up.
33 Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.
37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.
38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”
So John disciples and the Pharisees came to Jesus and questioned why does His disciples not fast like the Pharisees and Johns disciples.
In other words why is Jesus doing the complete opposite of the Pharisees.
They are fasting and Jesus and His disciples are feasting.
Jesus wasn’t oppose to fasting in principle. Jesus said Luke 5:35 “35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.””
In the first 3 years of Jesus ascension Luke describes the deprivations, hardships, and opposition faced by early Christians after the ascension of Jesus, and the role that fasting played in sustaining the early church.
So Jesus isn’t oppose to fasting.
He’s saying theres no need to fast. The bride groom is here.
But why the “bridegroom” is present, the “wedding” supersedes and suspends the principle of fasting.
These things don’t go together
Fasting and feasting
A piece of a new garment attached to the old garment
New wine into old wineskin.
They don’t go together one will cancel out the other.
The new life with the old.
10 My beloved spoke, and said to me: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away.
11 For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
12 The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree puts forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grapes Give a good smell. Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away!
Song of Solomon is a very romantic book about a women and her lover which is Solomon.
Its an Allegory of Christ and His church.
Solomon is describing the beauty of the setting being spring. But also describing the beauty of his relationship with his lover.
Winter
1. The word for winter refers to the cloudy season of March and April with the “latter” rains.
The cloudiness of our past.
The Darkness of our history maybe what last year has brought
2. Flowers appear in the spring, adding delightful colors to the landscape, cause people to sing for joy.
Psalm 16:11 “11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Php 4:4 “4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”
3. The Doves coo, “announcing” springs arrival.
Reminds be of the Spirit of God announcing and guiding our life.
Instructing our life and building us up in Christ.
Filling us and comforting us in 2023
4. Fig trees put forth their early fruit. Fig trees more then likely where those that remained unripened until spring came.
The fruit that comes with a life lived with Christ.
A fruit that the Father cultivates and prunes
(5) Grape vines blossom, giving off their fragrance just before the grapes appear. Blossoming translates semāḏar which occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:15 (“in bloom”). So spring stimulates the senses of sight, sound, taste, and smell.
The totality of your life is enhanced when we are walking and thinking with Christ.
Our perception about life changes how we view life how we view people.
How we relate to people even if they don’t think like me look like me. Have the same politics as I do.
We no longer use our member's for unrighteousness but for righteousness
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.