Annie’s Ink-Lings
This Week's Scripture Focus: Matthew 9:16-17
16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on
an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and the tear is made
worse.
17 Nor do they put new wine into old
wine skins or else the wine skins break, the wine is spilled and the wine skins
are ruined. But they put new into new wine skins, and both are preserved.”
We all understand about
patching – new cloth to new cloth and old cloth to old cloth or it won’t
work. The parable in these verses is
that Jesus is saying that the Pharisees and their old system is the old
wine skin and that what Jesus teaches is the new wine skin.
Jesus is saying that there is
no way that what He teaches can fit into the system of the Pharisees, because the
message He is giving is of an internal holiness, of a real repentance, of a
heart attitude that can never fit in the ritualistic system, because the Pharisaical
system couldn’t contain it or hold the truth.
The Pharasees’ Judaistic,
traditional, legalistic, formal, self-righteous externalism was in no way able
to either mesh with the ministry of Christ nor was that system able to contain
the ministry of Christ.
Based on a sermon by John
MacArthur.
Isn't it wonderful that just by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, we become like a new wine skin! And that is the only way we can be filled with His new wine.
Blessings,
Annie
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