If you put this parable into historical context. It would be talking about either wine skins or earthen vessels. We are both vessels of skin and earthen vessels. Bottles is a technology that involves glass which did not come onto the scene for centuries. However the idea is the same. New wine is alive and fermenting while old wine is settled and aging. This parable speaks of believers and unbelievers. You cannot make an unbeliever believe nor can you make a believer into an unbeliever. Mixing old and new is not a good idea. They will ruin each other and probably ruin the vessel too. Religion tries to make a mixture of both. The original lot drawn before the beginning of times and the new doctrines of demons which cannot be mixed with pure truth. Not a bad mixture in the case of port wine but in the kingdom the two are separated by the truth. What you have just read is the wisdom of ages.
This parable is very important to the true believer. It will however when explained be devastating to those who are unbelievers but have done all the things that would make them appear as a believer. The true believer and the false believer are what is spoken of here. The old garment is the lot we were born with, our true spiritual DNA. On earth there are a mixed lot . The children of God and the children of the devil. At the end of times I speak and separate the lots. Those who can believe me are true believers those who cannot are unbelievers disguised as believers with religion and the traditions of men. My words separate the lots , tearing apart the new garment (religion) from the old (the lots). It is the same for the old and the new wine skins. If you have read these words you already know where you belong. If my words comfort you or deeply disturb you it is to late if you read them.
There are many unbelievers who fast eating only once a day. But there is a difference between a Buddhist monk and a starving poor person yet their behavior is the same.One sacrifices and the other starves. I would know for I fasted for six years and now am poor. All things are vanity. God does not desire sacrifice but obedience. I speak these words out of obedience knowing full well the difference.
Remember this, only the believer can have faith. Them that sought him did have faith because they were believers. Many were not believers so Jesus knew that when he healed someone it was because they had faith. In other words they were believers. Unbelievers sought him only to accuse him of being the father of lies. I have experienced this personally so I have become a worker in the harvest field. I have friends who are unbelievers but I condemn them not knowing that there is nothing that can convert an unbeliever into a believer. If you believe what I have just said you are a believer, if you do not I condemn you not.
I am a sinner saved by grace, My father took the 2, and 20,21 verses home to my heart he showed me from his word that all my sins had been forgiven......b4 the Lord saves any sinner he brings you to the place where you cannot call upon no one but him, asking him for repentance acknowledging b4 him you are a lost doom damm sinner heading to hell then asking him for mercy.....and he will have mercy on you, I thank him everyday , every moments second hour of the day b/c I need him to keep me in his glory I can't keep myself ....none of us can....we are unable to do one thing apart from the will of God Amen
In Matthew 9;24 Jesus said a dead maid was asleep because the language of the Kingdom Calls those things that be not as though they were.He never focused on death because anything you focus on,you empower, anything you focus on grows on you.
v.13 watch and learn... that we should be like the LORD-"forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors..." too many times (and me too) that we want our enemies to fall in a hole,and seemingly that would be our sacrifice from that person.
That we should be "conformed to the image of Christ" and how can we do this? I answer, by the new commandment to " love one another "
Herein is the crux of the whole matter-"...o man, what is good: and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with GOD?
Right on brother, in the Old Testament you had to earn your salvation, in the New Testament you are saved by grace. That�s the difference between the New and Old convention and had a revelation on it last night. God bless all.
Verses 16 and 17 are examples of old nature under the law and the new nature under grace by Jesus Christ. Also trying to place the new birth under grace inside an old container under the law. The new birth takes a different preparation than Old Testament salvation.
God work with the level of our faith. great faith command great miracle. Our lord Jesus want us to have total confidence in him only,so that perfect his work in our life
in this chapter i find that if you are obedient to the word that you have developed the faith in our Savior that allows him to move in your life in a way that he expects us to require of him.but not forgetting that as Christians we should apply everything we read to our lives and make it our worship to spread the benefits of walking in faith
In verse 20, the woman with the issue of blood. This is an issue not of contaminated blood. An issue of her having a menustral cycle for 12 years. She was considered unclean, therefore she was cast out of the village. She spent all her money to be healed & never was. She took a chance of being stoned to come into the multitude. To touch the hem of Jesus garment. Her faith was so strong Jesus felt her touch him. He turned & told her "Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole!" FAITH!!! People believe Christ he is the solution 4 any situation. THANK YOU JESUS!!!!!
i think matthew didnt write matthew. eg, 9 verse 9.And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him...if matthew wrote, and as jesus passed forth from thence,he saw me sitting at the receipt of custom and said to me follow and i arose and follow him.
I believe its a powerful statement and once you understand what it says you will have peace within.The is a srcipture in Genesis goes like "AM WHO I AM" God was telling Moses that he can be whatever the Isralites what HIM to be.So when i read both these statements it gives me so much hope and make me realise how much God loves me.I personally believe that whatever circumtances you face and difficulties, if you can only have faith(Touch his cloth) in God he will deliver(be made well) you. Let us continue to fight the good fight of faith.
"The harvest truly [is] plenteous, but the labourers [are] few;
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest".What does this mean? we should pull all our efforts to preach the word of God by letting people know who God is and jesus in their lives.We are the labourers pipo! lets make our havests its the season(generation)
In vs20 where the woman with the contamin8ed blood touches Jesus's garment, it'd seem that she has covered with the pure blood of Jesus which made her whole by "doing away with her blood disorder." She received a blood transfusion by being covered in the pure blood of Jesus. Praise be 2 Him!
WE ALL HAVE BEEN AROUND CHRISTIANS WHO SHUN NON-BELIVERS. THIS IS WHAT THE PHARISEES DID WHEN JESUS SAT WITH THE PUBLICANS & SINNERS. YEARS AGO WE HAD A MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY DIE OF CANCER. ANOTHER PERSON IN THE FAMILY SAID TO LET HIM DIE THAT OUR PATIENT WAS OF NO USE TO ANYONE BECAUSE HE WAS NOT SAVED. THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE WHO ACT LIKE THE PHARISEES DID. OUR DIEING FAMILY MEMBER GOT SAVED ON THIS DEATH BED. PRAISE GOD!!!! I'LL SEE MY DADDY IN HEAVEN SOME DAY.
REMEMBER V.29B "ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU"
It is always an awesome blessing to read of the wonderful works of our Lord and Savior...what caught my attention is when Jesus in his infinite goodness saw his people reaching out to receive salvation and made such a profound statement... "the harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers are few"...we need to be mindful that it's great to read and meditate on His works...but we must remember to do His works, remember that Faith without works is dead...the Lord needs laborers in his vineyard...lets start right now
That we should be "conformed to the image of Christ" and how can we do this? I answer, by the new commandment to " love one another "
Herein is the crux of the whole matter-"...o man, what is good: and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with GOD?
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest".What does this mean? we should pull all our efforts to preach the word of God by letting people know who God is and jesus in their lives.We are the labourers pipo! lets make our havests its the season(generation)
REMEMBER V.29B "ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU"