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NEW WINE, NEW BOTTLES
MATTHEW 9:1-17
MARK 2:1-22
LUKE 5:17-39
Glad to have you join us again for more
of our study of the Gospels. In our last story, we learned about Jesus
healing a man who was possessed by demons. After that, Jesus crossed
back over the sea of Galilee to Capernaum once again and word got
around that He was there. Immediately many people gathered together
and the house that He was in couldn't hold any more people. He
preached the Word of God there and some people brought a man to Him
who was paralyzed. They couldn't get near Jesus because the crowd was
so thick, so they uncovered the roof of the house and let down the bed
that the man was lying on.
When Jesus saw their faith, He said, Son, be of good cheer; your sins
are forgiven. There were some religious leaders there and they thought
to themselves, This man is a blasphemer. Who can forgive sins except
God? Jesus immediately knew in His Spirit that they were questioning
Him in their minds and He said to them, Why do you think evil in your
hearts? Is it easier to say, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Get up
and walk? Just so you know that the Son of man has power on earth to
forgive sins, (then Jesus said to the paralyzed man) I say get up,
take your bed and go home. The man got up, took up the bed and left as
the people watched. It amazed everyone. They had never seen anything
like it!
Jesus went back to the sea side, the crowds followed Him and He taught
them more. As He passed by, He saw Levi (Matthew) sitting at the
receipt of custom (where taxes are collected) and Jesus said to him,
Follow me. Matthew got up and followed Him. Jesus went to Matthew's
house and many followed. There were a lot of publicans (tax
collectors) and sinners there who sat down with Jesus and His
disciples and ate. When the Pharisees saw it, they asked the
disciples, Why does your Master eat with publicans and sinners? Jesus
heard, and answered them, People who are well don't need a doctor, but
the sick do. But you go and figure out what this means: I will have
mercy, and not sacrifice, because I came to call sinners to
repentance, not the righteous.
Then the disciples of John the Baptist asked Jesus,
Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't? Jesus
answered them in a parable. Can the children of the bridechamber fast
as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the
bridegroom will be taken from them, then they'll fast. No man sews a
piece of new cloth on an old garment, or the patch will shrink and the
tear will be worse.
Neither do men put
new wine into old bottles or the bottles break and the wine runs out
and the bottles are ruined, but they put new wine into new bottles,
and both are saved.
What was Jesus saying? Well, He was teaching the New
Testament. You can't have a new game with the same old rules or you'll
just have . . . the same old game. He was showing them, He IS the Son
of God, You CAN be healed by your faith in Him, and sacrifice is being
replaced by mercy now with the new rules. Jesus couldn't give His
disciples a copy of the Ten Commandments (the old garment and the old
bottles) and expect them to teach the world about grace (the new cloth
and the new wine). What Jesus was saying was, God is putting a new
promise into new hearts and both are saved.
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Jeremiah 31:31-34
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt;
which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them,
saith the LORD:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel;
After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward
parts,
and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be
my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD:
for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest
of them,
saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more.
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Jesus had such a great way of speaking in parables,
and there's a lot more to come.
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