“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”
Matthew 9:17 KJV
Who would pour fresh, new wine into an old wineskin? Eventually the wine will ferment and make the wineskin burst, losing everything—the wine is spilled and the wineskin ruined. Instead, new wine is always poured into a new wineskin so that both are preserved. Jesus’s teaching is new wine. What He taught cannot hold in the old religious system or contained in a wineskins of worn-out traditions. It is new, exhilarating and powerful. It must be poured into a heart made new. The new and the old cannot be together. Jesus makes all things new. He didn’t come to reform Judaism, but to form a twice-born company of people. Hallelujah!
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