Numbers 19 & 20, Luke 5: 33-39, Luke 6: 1-11, Psalm 50: 16-23
Luke 5: 36-38 (ESV)
“He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a
new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new,
and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine
into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will
be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into
fresh wineskins.”
In verses 36 through 38 from Luke 5, many Biblical scholars
have interpreted these lines to mean that Jesus did not come to begin a reform
movement within the Jewish faith. Jesus came to form a new church that brings
the Jewish people and the Gentiles together. God will also sometimes use new vessels/people
to contain his work. Some Biblical scholars took these verses to also mean that
religious establishment at any time can become not pleasing to God, and sometimes
resist his work and works in direct opposition to his new teachings. I think we
can take metaphor of an old garment or old wineskins and apply it to ourselves
as well. We have to look at our thoughts and actions and examine them if they
are still pleasing to God, and anything new he is trying to teach us. If it is
not, we need to remember what Paul said in Romans about giving up our old selves
every morning so we can be born again in Jesus Christ. It might be hard because
change is never easy, but if we ask for help from the Holy Spirit then we can
be guided to what we need to do give up old selves and be born again anew in Jesus
Christ.
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