New Wine for New Wineskins
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Good Evening, its good to see everybody tonight. Turn with me in your Bibles tonight to . I am going to start by giving a little backround by backing up to verse 18. The title of the message is New Wine for New Wineskins.
Do you believe that?
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
Mark 2:19
But the time will come when the groom 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 new patch pulls away from the old cloth, and a worse tear is made.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
Now what in the world is this all about? New wine for New wineskins. Jesus was Jewish, and when Jesus came to this Earth He was the Jewish MEssiah, He was the Christ which literally means the anointed one. Jewish people have been looking for the Messiah for centuries and now even to this day many still are looking for the Messiah.
As Christians we know Jesus is the MEssiah thus the Messiah has already come. the Jewish people of Jesus’ day had a hard time believing He was the Messiah, because they believed that the Messiah would lead them in a big military revival. At the time when Jesus came Rome was the undisputed ruler of the world.
So for the Jews of the first century there was so much uproar and hatred for the Romans because they were opressing the Jews and they had not been free for a very long time. So they were praying Oh God send the Messiah so that we can have this yoke of Roman authority off of us.
So when Jesus comes in He doesnt say anything about throwing the Roman yoke off of them, rather He talks about getting the yoke of sin off of their lives. He talked about the fact “you guys are so religious but you dont have a relationship with God. Then He said you can only have a relationship with God through me.
Well that blew their minds because they were skilled and educated in the Torah and the law the first 5 books of the OT they thought they knew everything thee was to know about God. Yet when the Son of God, the Messiah, the very Messiah they said they had been looking for came and stood right in front of them, they not only did not believe it but most of them rejected Him as a heretic.
So here they come to Him and they say hey listen you claim to be the Messiah but you never fast, or do these religous things, you dont keep the Sabbath the way we think you ought to keep the Sabbath, He was always in trouble with the religious leaders but Jesus always found a hearing with the common people.
Do you see the contrast?
So here He is He is trying to give them some examples, He says hey guys theres gonna be plenty of time for fasting when I am gone. Im the bridegroom and I am with you and you have no need to fast, but when I am gone yes you will fast. Then He gives 2 illustrations, 2 common sense stories.
Jesus constantly just gives common sense ideas and pictures. Now I dont think preachers ought to preach with alot of big words I dont think we need to preach way up here down to people. I think we ought to just use plain language because the smartest person who ever lived was Jesus and He used simple language that even children could understand.
Jesus is constantly asking questions, He is constantly giving illustrations and He is using both as teaching tools. He says hey guys let me tell you something, when you have an old garment and its got a whole in it, you dont attach or sew on a new peice of fabric, because when you go to wash it and being stretching it that new peice of garment is gonna pull a bigger whole in the garment your trying to mend.
Thats just common sense you dont do that. You dont put the new and attatch it to the old, you got that?
Then He says let me give you another illustration, you dont put new wine into old wineskins. Now I am not totally versed on all that there was to know but the general idea is this. In the first century they would put wine into a bag made of leather or skin. It was a brand new bag, and the reason you put new wine into new wineskins, is because as the wine ferments gasses would be emmitted and it would cause the skins to stretch.
You say I dont understand that, sure you do everytime you drink a big diet coke your belly is bigger when you finish than when you started drinking it. Because it has alot of bubbles in it. So now you understand whats going on.
So Jesus says you dont put new wine into old wineskins, because if you do that, the elasticity, the flexible nature of the skin is gone and whats going to happen is as this new wine begins to ferment and it expands the skins are gonna burst and the new wine is gonna spill and everything is ruined.
You dont put new wine into old wineskins...
Now what in the world was He saying with these 2 illustrations?
Judaism is the backdrop of Christianity but Christianity did not come to fit in with Judaism. Christianity is a NEw covenant, so what He is saying is I am doing a new thing. Christianity comes out of Judaism but I am not coming to spread Judaism I am coming with a fresh Word with NEw wine and NEw life and if you want life you have to come to me, you dont go to the OT law to find life, you dont find life in the law you find it in me.
If you want new life you need me. You are the wineskin, and when the wine of eternal life is poured into you that new wine in the new wineskin it will stretch and be perfect fit there. New wine has to go into new wineskins it cant go into judaism. Thats exactly what He is teaching theres no doubt about it.
So what do we learn from that?
Jesus Gives New Wine
Jesus Gives New Wine
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
Jesus uses the word wine here as a symbolic reference to new life. He spoke about new wine, Judaism is Jesus’ day was so legalistic so traditional, so not what it was origionally supposed to be it was dead. It had lost its life, it was just a bunch of rules and regulations it had a form of Godliness but denied its power.
Instead of worshipping God they worshipped there religious rituals, they were so maticulous about keeping every little jot and tittle of what they had made up to be religion that they had lost God in the process. Consequently most people even the Jewish people had turned away from really being involed in the synagogue in fact most people in the first century they were just frustrated with the religious leaders and the rabbis that they just turned away.
They were not going to church anymore, and you know its alot like America today. So Jesus comes into this old setting and there had not been a prophet for 400 years before JTB come on the scene to prepare the way of the Lord.
Malachi wrote and then for 400 years God was silent for 400 years. Can you imagine?
Nobody had a word from God, from right now to 400 years in the future, what would that be like? What kind of society would that bring?
But then JTB starts preaching in the wilderness and he says hey guys the Messiah is coming He is just about here I am pointing to Him and all of a sudden everyone is getting excited, Pharisees are coming out Sadduccees are coming out, Scribes are coming out, Scribes lawers all these people wanna know is this guy the real deal?
John the Baptist was ushering in the New wine and people started to get a little taste with him but Jesus would give them more than just a little taste He would give them New wine in New wineskins.
You know Jeremiah was one of Jesus’ favorite prophets to quote, and heres what Jeremiah said about the New Wine, this New Covenant
“Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Jeremiah
This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke even though I had married them” —the Lord’s declaration.
Do you see that?
Its not like the old law. Thats what Jeremiah was saying
“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.
No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them” —this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sin.”
Now Jeremiah wrote that and then another prophet named Ezekiel who was actually someone who went into slavery when the Baylonians ransacked Jerusalem said this:
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
Ezekiel
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
I will place My Spirit within you and cause you to follow My statutes and carefully observe My ordinances.
Im telling you this is New Testament theology nobody in the Ot had the Spirit of God in them the Spirit of God came on people but never in them. So He is proclaiming this New Covenant where god is going to put His very own Spirit within people.
Then you will live in the land that I gave your fathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
Thats exactly what Jesus was giving. New Wine a new heart, a new Spirit, a New Covenant with God. Not based on legalism or law, but on grace. Not based on ritual or tradition but based on a personal intimate relationship with God Himself.
Jesus was bringin New wine He was bringing New life and they had never seen it before. This NEw Wine is what grabbed my heart in the summer of 05. I was 21 years old knee deep in alcaholism, drugs and immorality, and I hated church, I didnt want anything to do wit it.
But God wasn trying to get me to attend church He was trying to give me New Life, and after that New Life was put in me I realized that I loved church I wanted to be there everytime the word was opened. He put a NEw SPirit within me not a SPirit of drunkenness but one of a sound mind. He put a new song in my heart and a new freedom in my soul and my life has never been the same since.
What kind of wine skin are you?
Are you an old wineskin full of religion that God cant put that new wine into because you got so many rules and preconcieved ideas about how church should be and how God should be that you cant even experience grace?
Or are you a New Wine Skin that He He can pour out HIs SPirit into and work through in mighty and miraculous ways? If God wanted to come into this room tonight and do something fresh, would your heart be a fit vessel for His work?
If JEsus was to pour that New Wine into you, the Bible says you would be a New creation, old things would pass away new things would come. Hey the last thing anyone needs to tell you to do is just dont sin, you been sinning a long time. You know how I know that?
You a human being.
But God can put New Wine into you where He will come and change you desires. Wouldnt you love to have a new beginning, arent you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Arent you tired of trying to make it through life on your own?
Jesus has new wine!
He wants to put it into a new wineskin.
Old Wineskins Cannot Handle New Wine
Old Wineskins Cannot Handle New Wine
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
Jesus said those rigid hardened wineskins, they are like you you religious people who dont know me and dont love me. You are rigid, you dont know me and you are not flexible to hear the truth of God. you cant handle the new wine whenever I try to pour it into you it just burst, you already have your mind made up, your so formal.
Your sooo convinced that you right, your so arrogant that no one can teach you anything. You are not in a learning mode, so your proud and you wont even listen to me and I am God in the flesh Jesus was saying. Yet you claim to worship my father you dont even know who my father is.
He literaly called them sons of the devil in one text. Thats pretty strong, he said your too hardened because of your traditions. Look do you know where the New wine could be poured into these new wineskins. Im talking about into prostitutes, Im talking about sinnners like tax collectors, all these aoutcast, these lepers and these blind people, that the religious people said God didnt want because they were that way.
Jesus said oh no I want them because they are new wineskins, they can recive my spirit. Jesus couldnt go anywhere without attracting masses of people. Listen to me there are people who are NEw Wineskins all over cottonwood who never darken the door of the church. They would make awesome new Christians if we would just take the new wine to them.
The main reason these people hated Jesus is because He claimed to be god in the flesh, they could not handle that.
Jesus said I cant give you the new wine, if I gave it you it would just burst the wineskin and it would ruin everything.
This is a good word tonight THE LORD WILL NOT GIVE A NEW SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT READY FOR A NEW WORK.
there are alot of churches in America today who no longer lift up salvation do you know what they are?
They are religious country clubs they are not really churches. They are Old Wineskins because they cant handle NEw Wine of the real gospel of Jesus Christ by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone They cant handle that the Bible is the word of God.
They cant handle that the Holy Spirit can transform you into a person who is regenerated, and God never does anything new in them
Let me tell you something about Jesus
HE ONLY GOES WHERE HE IS INVITED, HE ONLY STAYS WHERE HE IS WELCOME
If a church says no to Jesus He will simply walk away, and we know this to be true because in Revelation He is knocking on the door to a church trying to get back in. YEs we need God in our schools yes we need God back in our government, WE NEED GOD IN OUR CHURCHES
We need NEw Wine in New Wineskins.
New Wine Requires New Wineskins
New Wine Requires New Wineskins
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
JEsus said
He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.
But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,
“They say he ran a carnival
He used to come to town
until one spetember afternoon
He shut it down
They tell me something happened
some say he lost his mind
Now most september afternoons this is what youll find
an old man on the corner where he used to sell his show
no he shouts what sounds like foolishness
as the people come and go
“NEW LIVES FOR OLD
WARM HEARTS FOR COLD
HAVE I GOTTA DEAL FOR YOU TODAY
GET YOUR NEW LIVES FOR OLD
He puts it in the paper he goes from door to door
the people say he is such a fool to come back for more
most people stand there puzzled they dont know what to say
cause ever since that afternoon he has just been that way
its just like the old man died and someone came back and took his place
now he just stands out there bellowing with a great big smile on his wrinkled face
NEW LIVES FOR OLD WARM HEARTS FOR COLD
HAVE I GOTTA DEAL FOR YOU TODAY
STEP RIGHT UP THIS WAY
GET YOUR NEW LIVES FOR OLD
Remembering that story as I used to pas through town
I thought I ought to stop and see if he was still around
There was someone at that corner where he always used to stand
and that old man chuckled whenI asked where I could find that man
He said thank God that crazy fool finally died last spring
I said well I will pick up where he left off then because I am pushing the same thing
NEW LIVES FOR OLD
WARM HEARTS FOR COLD
HAVE I GOTTA DEAL FOR YOU TODAY
STEP RIGHT THIS WAY