NEW WINE REQUIRES NEW WINE SKINS - NEW WINESKINS REQUIRE A FRESH SACRIFICE
We picture wine in bottles made of glass but when the Bible talks about new wine it says you cannot put new wine into old wineskins. Wineskins were made from animal skins. In order to make a wineskin, there must be a fresh sacrifice, an animal must die to provide the raw materials for the wineskin. Wineskins were typically made from goat skins.
“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. Matthew 9: 16-17
Old wineskins were fashioned from a sacrifice of the past it had the grace to bear the wine of that former season but it cannot house the 'alive' active wine of this new season without a fresh sacrifice. Every fresh sacrifice of our flesh God can fashion into a new wineskin.
In each season in Israel, the wineskin required a new sacrifice. Jesus said, if we would follow Him we would take up our cross daily and follow Him. A new sacrifice daily leads to new wine every day.
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. Luke 9:23-24
The new wineskin is not necessarily a replacement of the old wineskin but rather a renewal of the old wineskin. Renewing of the wineskin should be done daily to keep it 'new' flexible and stretchable. This is done in part by being filled continually with new wine, poured out, and then refilled with new wine. If this process does not happen if the wine is not poured out completely, the wineskin becomes dry, and once dried out then it must be renewed. The process requires being soaked in water (the word) to make it supple and then anointed (smeared) with oil (the Holy Spirit) and having that oil rubbed into the surface of the skin.
Various writings from the past
The Road Not Taken
At Home In MN
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