Tag: Galatians 3:26-28

Matthew 9:17 ” Neither do men pour new wine into old wine-skins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wine-skins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wine-skins, and both are preserved.”

Old wine-skins were hard, rigid, stiff, and unyielding.  Does that sound like you or someone you know?  On the other hand, new wine-skins are flexible and malleable…able to receive the newly pressed wine.  They change as the fermentation process happens…they expand as the wine ferments…finally stopping when the wine is perfect inside.   As Believers we must never stop growing until the God-given purpose inside us is perfected.  At the wedding feast in Cana what did the Master of the Banquet tell the Bridegroom after tasting the water Jesus had turned into wine?  “You have saved the best for last!”   I originally wrote this back in 2008…but it still remains pertinent today.  Just as you don’t pour new wine into old wine-skins, you don’t sew a new patch on an old garment, (Mark 2:21)…or both will be destroyed.  The journey of a Christian is a pathway of newness…new covenant, new hearts, new minds, new selves…of the process of constantly putting off the old and putting on the new.   For when we stop growing in the Lord, we become stagnant and unusable.  The Lord is looking for new vessels to contain His new works.  The question is, are you willing to be that new wine-skin?

Galatians 3: 26-28 ” You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Jesus came to not only destroy the barrier…the dividing wall…the chasm between God and us, but He came to abolish in His flesh the Law with all its commandments and regulations. (Ephesians 2: 14-15)  So in the eyes of Jesus, there is no partiality, bias, or prejudice.  For Believers are all children of God and subject equally to His grace, mercy, and blessings…from the multi-millionaire follower of Jesus in Hollywood to the blue-collar laborer in fellowship with Christ in Detroit, Michigan.  We are all blessed in our faith of Jesus.