9:14-17 New Wineskins
It's at this point in His ministry that Jesus’ disciples were preaching in some of the same areas that John the Baptist's followers were. John's ministry we learned in the second lesson on Matthew was to point to Jesus as the Messiah and to preach the repentance of sins.
Perhaps the followers of John were jealous of the stance of the disciples of not fasting. John is awaiting his inevitable fate and sends some followers to question Jesus.
The interesting thing about Jesus's response is his use of an illustration to explain it. To have His presence amongst them is a cheerful celebration. But a day is coming when Jesus's followers will fast. When He is taken from them.
In Jesus's day, wineskins were made from the cleaned tanned hides of sheep or goats. New wineskins are elastic and pliable. They had to be because new wine ferments and expands as gasses are emitted. Old wineskins become brittle with age and cannot be used again.
Jesus is comparing the teaching of the old Covenant to wine stored in fragile containers. An attempt to teach Jesus's new teachings by adding them to the Law results in a disaster. The law led them to Christ, but can't save them. We cannot allow certain groups to begin requiring adherence to the old Covenant before accepting new believers and calling it ‘essential’.
The Gospel is our message. We are here to win souls to Christ, to preach repentance for the forgiveness of sins, and to encourage one another in faith. That's a message that cannot be contained in the Old Testament limitations.
Sadly, there are those whose background is so entrenched in religious ritual that the very thought there is something missing doesn't occur to them. Their adherence to ritual reflects this very problem. They attend religious services, they may even read Scripture, but if they believe that their physical descendency from Abraham will affect their salvation, they will find it means nothing.
In the same way, those who feel they are saved because they were born “in the church” and because they were sprinkled as an infant, their entire experience is encased in ritual. Breaking out of that means utterly destroying any faith they had in the ‘old’ wineskin of their ritual based salvation.
Knowing Jesus is entirely different from knowing He existed. True salvation is a relationship, not a one time accomplishment.
Matthew 9:14-17
[14] Then the disciples of John *came to Him, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” [15] And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. [16] But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. [17] Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
It's at this point in His ministry that Jesus’ disciples were preaching in some of the same areas that John the Baptist's followers were. John's ministry we learned in the second lesson on Matthew was to point to Jesus as the Messiah and to preach the repentance of sins.
Perhaps the followers of John were jealous of the stance of the disciples of not fasting. John is awaiting his inevitable fate and sends some followers to question Jesus.
The interesting thing about Jesus's response is his use of an illustration to explain it. To have His presence amongst them is a cheerful celebration. But a day is coming when Jesus's followers will fast. When He is taken from them.
In Jesus's day, wineskins were made from the cleaned tanned hides of sheep or goats. New wineskins are elastic and pliable. They had to be because new wine ferments and expands as gasses are emitted. Old wineskins become brittle with age and cannot be used again.
Jesus is comparing the teaching of the old Covenant to wine stored in fragile containers. An attempt to teach Jesus's new teachings by adding them to the Law results in a disaster. The law led them to Christ, but can't save them. We cannot allow certain groups to begin requiring adherence to the old Covenant before accepting new believers and calling it ‘essential’.
The Gospel is our message. We are here to win souls to Christ, to preach repentance for the forgiveness of sins, and to encourage one another in faith. That's a message that cannot be contained in the Old Testament limitations.
Sadly, there are those whose background is so entrenched in religious ritual that the very thought there is something missing doesn't occur to them. Their adherence to ritual reflects this very problem. They attend religious services, they may even read Scripture, but if they believe that their physical descendency from Abraham will affect their salvation, they will find it means nothing.
In the same way, those who feel they are saved because they were born “in the church” and because they were sprinkled as an infant, their entire experience is encased in ritual. Breaking out of that means utterly destroying any faith they had in the ‘old’ wineskin of their ritual based salvation.
Knowing Jesus is entirely different from knowing He existed. True salvation is a relationship, not a one time accomplishment.
Matthew 9:14-17
[14] Then the disciples of John *came to Him, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” [15] And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. [16] But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. [17] Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
9:14-17 New Wineskins
It's at this point in His ministry that Jesus’ disciples were preaching in some of the same areas that John the Baptist's followers were. John's ministry we learned in the second lesson on Matthew was to point to Jesus as the Messiah and to preach the repentance of sins.
Perhaps the followers of John were jealous of the stance of the disciples of not fasting. John is awaiting his inevitable fate and sends some followers to question Jesus.
The interesting thing about Jesus's response is his use of an illustration to explain it. To have His presence amongst them is a cheerful celebration. But a day is coming when Jesus's followers will fast. When He is taken from them.
In Jesus's day, wineskins were made from the cleaned tanned hides of sheep or goats. New wineskins are elastic and pliable. They had to be because new wine ferments and expands as gasses are emitted. Old wineskins become brittle with age and cannot be used again.
Jesus is comparing the teaching of the old Covenant to wine stored in fragile containers. An attempt to teach Jesus's new teachings by adding them to the Law results in a disaster. The law led them to Christ, but can't save them. We cannot allow certain groups to begin requiring adherence to the old Covenant before accepting new believers and calling it ‘essential’.
The Gospel is our message. We are here to win souls to Christ, to preach repentance for the forgiveness of sins, and to encourage one another in faith. That's a message that cannot be contained in the Old Testament limitations.
Sadly, there are those whose background is so entrenched in religious ritual that the very thought there is something missing doesn't occur to them. Their adherence to ritual reflects this very problem. They attend religious services, they may even read Scripture, but if they believe that their physical descendency from Abraham will affect their salvation, they will find it means nothing.
In the same way, those who feel they are saved because they were born “in the church” and because they were sprinkled as an infant, their entire experience is encased in ritual. Breaking out of that means utterly destroying any faith they had in the ‘old’ wineskin of their ritual based salvation.
Knowing Jesus is entirely different from knowing He existed. True salvation is a relationship, not a one time accomplishment.
Matthew 9:14-17
[14] Then the disciples of John *came to Him, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” [15] And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. [16] But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. [17] Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
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