A NEW WINESKIN
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
When Jesus came to us His objective was to establish a New Covenant that would wipe away all of the corruption brought about by The Scribes and Pharisees and their treatment of the law of Moses. As much as anything else this was reason enough for the leaders of the synagogues to want Jesus silenced.
Although Jesus was Jewish and lived as a Jew, He was bent on taking the real soul of man deeper into a relationship with God than had ever been experienced before. Mark 2:21-22 offers some insight into that train of thought when He refers to new wine being placed in old wine skins. The new wine would continue to expand beyond the old wine skin's ability to contain it , thus it would burst the old wine skin. New wine skins were necessary to hold new wine for that reason. Jesus used this comparison to show us the reason that the old form of worship and life for God could not contain what was being made by the giving of a New covenant. Many people have tried to contain a new Christian life and new growth inside old traditions of worship, and yet they have found that for new life to breathed into the church there must be a continuance of new bodies of believers made to care the freshness of the Gospel. It could not be contained within the Jewish faith because of the determination of the church leadership to reject Christ's message from the Father.
The message that Jesus gave us is still very fresh and very new in that we are still uncovering it's real meaning for us. We learn something new each and every day about how this message affects us and our relationship with one another. That cannot be contained in the obedience to doctrines of any day or time slot because these things that are written by men to control men are not what God is concerned with. The only things we should be doing is bringing our lives closer to Him, and more in unity with one another.
A NEW WINE SKIN sounds very good to me...fill me up and let me expand to hold all that God has for my life, and don't let me try to cheat myself by using the old man that I have always been to hold what you have for me. If we come back to the real basics of Christ alone we will find that we all can be renewed and refilled to fit the needs that we have for God in this life as well as the needs this world has as they watch us expand and produce more. The old man that we have always lived with cannot contain the new Spirit that is poured into us from God therefore all that we think we are is useless to use and to God if we are going to continue to be filled with a new and refreshed Spirit. This isn't rocket science to understand why Jesus continues to call for us to imitate how the seed reacts to being planted in the soil...it first has to give up it's life before it can begin to regenerate and grow a new plant. I pray that we will be able to understand that process more clearly as we continue to look more closely at these parables. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
When Jesus came to us His objective was to establish a New Covenant that would wipe away all of the corruption brought about by The Scribes and Pharisees and their treatment of the law of Moses. As much as anything else this was reason enough for the leaders of the synagogues to want Jesus silenced.
Although Jesus was Jewish and lived as a Jew, He was bent on taking the real soul of man deeper into a relationship with God than had ever been experienced before. Mark 2:21-22 offers some insight into that train of thought when He refers to new wine being placed in old wine skins. The new wine would continue to expand beyond the old wine skin's ability to contain it , thus it would burst the old wine skin. New wine skins were necessary to hold new wine for that reason. Jesus used this comparison to show us the reason that the old form of worship and life for God could not contain what was being made by the giving of a New covenant. Many people have tried to contain a new Christian life and new growth inside old traditions of worship, and yet they have found that for new life to breathed into the church there must be a continuance of new bodies of believers made to care the freshness of the Gospel. It could not be contained within the Jewish faith because of the determination of the church leadership to reject Christ's message from the Father.
The message that Jesus gave us is still very fresh and very new in that we are still uncovering it's real meaning for us. We learn something new each and every day about how this message affects us and our relationship with one another. That cannot be contained in the obedience to doctrines of any day or time slot because these things that are written by men to control men are not what God is concerned with. The only things we should be doing is bringing our lives closer to Him, and more in unity with one another.
A NEW WINE SKIN sounds very good to me...fill me up and let me expand to hold all that God has for my life, and don't let me try to cheat myself by using the old man that I have always been to hold what you have for me. If we come back to the real basics of Christ alone we will find that we all can be renewed and refilled to fit the needs that we have for God in this life as well as the needs this world has as they watch us expand and produce more. The old man that we have always lived with cannot contain the new Spirit that is poured into us from God therefore all that we think we are is useless to use and to God if we are going to continue to be filled with a new and refreshed Spirit. This isn't rocket science to understand why Jesus continues to call for us to imitate how the seed reacts to being planted in the soil...it first has to give up it's life before it can begin to regenerate and grow a new plant. I pray that we will be able to understand that process more clearly as we continue to look more closely at these parables. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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