I bring you new life!�

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I bring you new life!�

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Posted on: 1st May 2015

Matthew 9:17 (AMP) ScreenHunter_09 Aug. 06 17.29.gifScreenHunter_08 Aug. 06 17.28.gif

17 Neither is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.



Reflections:


When we think of wineskins we typically picture the nice sleek looking type pictured above. But in actuality many a wineskin was an animal that was skinned and it�s openings tied off. A nice fresh skin like this was very pliable; able to take the expansion of the new fermenting wine. Not very attractive, but very effective.



Obviously over time, and use, the skin began to dry out and crack on the outside losing its elasticity. If one was to put new fermenting wine in this old brittle wineskin it would burst and both it and the wine would be ruined.



It was the disciples of John the Baptist that led Jesus to speak our verse today. They were apparently trying to figure out the difference between Jesus radical new message and the Jewish religion they had adhered to all their lives. Jesus� answer was that there was no comparison.



Allow me to attempt to paraphrase Jesus� comment: �You cannot put what I bring to you in a traditional, religious, old, worn out, lifeless container. It simply cannot contain what I am offering to you. I bring you new life!�



�What I bring is not made up of adherence to all those laws, rules, regulations, ceremonies and vain religious repetitions that your sinful hearts have never been able keep anyway. What I bring is new container � a new heart; one capable of containing all that I have for you.�



�In addition to your new heart, I am giving you new wine; the power of the Holy Spirit to ferment and expand inside this new heart so that so that both your new wineskin, and My new wine will endure throughout all of eternity.�


Whew! �


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