The message of God’s grace, mercy, justice, and love in Jesus challenges us to new ways of living in each generation. The Holy Spirit should override any other voice in our lives otherwise we have limited God’s voice only to what is acceptable to us or those around us.Jesus proclaimed the new wine of the kingdom of God, adding that new wine requires new wineskins. We need to focus on God’s move and work in the body of Christ. – Staying free from tradition and fear of man. Getting fresh insight and revelation from the Lord is a necessity to staying fresh as a new wineskin. – Continuing to receive revelation through the word of God and His spirit. He can do what He wants to, and He is not bound by our experiences to operate in a certain way. – Not being afraid of something new because we haven’t seen or experienced it before. To be right with God is more important than to be right in our stance. We are willing to shift our mindset about things. The teaching doesn’t have to come from a certain people to be valid and good. Some of the characteristics of fresh or new wineskins are: As result we are offended by anything that challenges our thinking or mindset. ![]() Attending church for a long time, can make us think we are more mature than we really are. We have a certain reputation that we enjoy among people, and we don’t want anything to affect that perception. – Pride creates a mindset that we only want to receive from certain people, but others don’t have much to offer us. ![]() – Tradition makes us be so comfortable to doing things a certain way, that we are not open to change. – Fear will cause us to avoid change and try to control things instead of trusting God. What are the areas that cause us to operate as an old wineskin? The longer we have walked with God, the greater challenge we have in not remaining as an old wineskin but to stay new, fresh, and flexible with the work of God in and around us. This will allow us to continue to grow up and not stay stuck in how we saw ourselves or how others perceived us in the past. They worked fine for a season, but it’s time to let them go and take on the new things God desires for us. Some of the things we hold on to spiritually are just like the shirt in the above example. It’s time to let it go and have a respectable funeral for that shirt and start wearing your appropriate size outfit!” Your Mom tries to tell you that it doesn’t look good on you anymore, but you still envision yourself looking great and getting complements wearing that shirt. The shirt is short, and it doesn’t even cover your waistline anymore, but you are adamant in wearing it. The sleeves are short and look 3/4 length of what they were previously. The arms are tight and you can hardly put it on. One must put the new wine into the new wineskins because the new wineskins have the potential for growth and expansion.ĭo you remember when you were a child and you had that favorite shirt that you didn’t want to let go of? Your Mom bought it for you when you were 5 years old, and now you are 8 years old and still want to wear it. Jesus likened our relationship with Him to pouring wine into wineskins.
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