“New Wine Old Wineskins”

Matthew 9:14-17

“Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

“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 9:14–17

INTRO

Last Week

“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:12–13

Religious Leaders and the Corruption of their Hearts

• Accusations: Blasphemy
• Questions: To Trap
• Corrupt Hearts: Critical Spirits, Legalism, Antagonism and Animosity

1. A Reasonable Question

“Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

                                                                                                Matthew 9:14

A Reasonable Question

1. It’s OK to ask: Asking Jesus Directly
2. From a heart of inquiry
3. From a heart of repentance

• From a heart for God

1. John’s Disciples/Jesus’ Disciples: The Nature of Discipleship
2. Discipleship: Becoming Like the Master
3. John’s: Preaching Repentance, Declaring the Coming Kingdom

• Jesus’: Following the one who is Greater

1. Hadn’t got the memo

1. Fasting and the reasons why
2. Act of Contrition
3. Worship

• Remembrance: Reminder of What He Has Done, Reminder of What He Gives and you normally have

1. Discipline

2. Then They Will Fast

“Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

                                                                                                Matthew 9:15

1. A Parable of a Wedding
2. The Bridegroom
   1. The reason for the day
   2. The Guests should be happy in his presence
   3. Celebrate when the times call for it, because other times will come
   4. Then they will fast

3. Unshrunk Cloth

“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.

                                                                                                Matthew 9:16

1. Unshrunk Cloth: Something New
2. Old Garments: Shrunken and do not flex with the patch
3. It Tears What It is Attached To
4. Jesus is Something New: If They Tried to Apply the Same Rules to Him, It would Destroy What Came Before

4. New Wine and Old Wineskins

“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 9:17

1. New Wine and Old Wineskins
2. Something New
3. The Old Will Burst

• Covenant, Jesus’ Presence, The Holy Spirit

1. The Wine Will Run Out: The benefit will be lost, and the container broken
2. New Wine In New Wineskins
3. Renewal Requires a New Container
4. Lets it breathe