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• #Wineskin in the bible Patch

I keep hearing about the old wineskin in the context of “structures.” In a prophetic sense, we can reach further afield from the metaphor, I suppose, but we cannot do at the expense of the meaning of Jesus. In with the new!” Then, we throw a pizza party. Jesus says, “The old will not be destroyed by the new but brought to its fullness.” We usually ignore the old garment and new cloth metaphor as if it doesn’t exist because the “old wineskin” metaphor is more attractive or popular. We think the old represents something to be trashed, not something to be preserved. Well, we certainly got that point backward, didn’t we? We are always speaking of new wine and old wineskins at the expense of the former. The new cannot be introduced at the expense of the existing, Jesus says.

It is the maturing of the new that destroys the old. The second point of the metaphor concerns preserving the new while it matures.

#Wineskin in the bible Patch

He is not looking to patch things up but to introduce something fundamentally different from the existing processes and structures while preserving the old and new while doing so. He concerns Himself with preserving the old as much as He concerns Himself with avoiding the loss or waste of the new. He points to the need to restore the old before involving it with the new. He says both the old wineskin and the old garment will be destroyed by the introduction of new wine or new cloth. We've got to trust and follow His word by faith.What is wine? What is the wineskin? What is the vineyard? What is the result of this metaphoric reference when coupled with putting new cloth into an old garment? We've got to throw away all the limited perceptions that we have about God and what He can do. We've got to let go of the boxes of familiarity and comfort we've stuffed ourselves in. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." (Isaiah 43:18-19) "Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. If we want to be a new wineskin, we've got to forget the former. "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (see Luke 9:62) We've got to stop looking back and comparing the former with the new: "And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new for he says, 'The old is better.'" (Luke 5:39)

The Lord Jesus Himself said that old wineskins stay that way because they can't embrace the new wine: They aren't willing to trade what they find comfortable and trustworthy for something that can only be done through faith. People remain old wineskins because they still enjoy old wine. New wineskins equals a readiness for the new things of God.ĭo you want to be a new wineskin? If you do, here's something that you should do: If we want to be able to receive and embrace new revelation from God's word, we've got to become new wineskins. If we want to be able to receive Jesus' teachings, we've got to become new wineskins. The disciples, unlearned as they are, simply took Jesus at His word. The Pharisees had a set of rules so rigid that if anyone wouldn't align with their interpretation of Scripture, these people are wrong. How were they able to? It's because they were new wineskins. The disciples, however, were able to receive His teachings. However, they were the ones who found Jesus' teachings absurd, offensive, and even unbelievable. They read Scripture, studied God's law, and taught it to people. The Pharisees were religious leaders during Jesus' time. This means that old mindsets, even if based on Godly principles, still won't be able to handle new and creative ideas fresh out of a revelation from God's word. The Lord Jesus said that old wineskins will burst when new wine is poured on them. In fact, we will even suffer from these new things if we aren't ready for them. The thing is, we can't experience them fully and benefit from them the way we are intended to if we aren't ready for them. God is always doing a new thing in our lives. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved." - Matthew 9:16-17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. "No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. We better prepare ourselves for God's new wine.