NEW WINE FOR NEW WINESKINS

 Luke 5:33-39 / Keywords 5:38

NEW WINE FOR NEW WINESKINS

 

1. Jesus is the bridegroom (33-35)

Jesus had attended a great banquet, and he and his disciples ate with everyone

else. This planted a question in the minds of the Pharisees and teachers of the

law. Everyone else’s disciples fasted? why not Jesus’ disciples? Jesus explained

that he is the bridegroom. He came to be bound to sinners, to bear their sins and

bear them to the kingdom of God. It is time to be joyful because of him. In the

same way Jesus would not be here long. He would be crucified at the hands of

those who now confronted him. He would be taken, and they would mourn and

fast with true sorrow.

 

2. A new garment and new wine (36-39)

Jesus taught them through a parable that new life had come. He did not come

to fix something old, or to patch up their religion. He came to give life and make

new. In order to accept the new teaching, we must receive new life. That can only

happen when we accept Jesus as our bridegroom and live as new garments and

new wineskins.

 

Prayer Lord, help me to receive Jesus as the bridegroom and the new life, given

for me.

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