WineSkin

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom do I fear? The Lord is my life's refuge; of whom am I afraid? Psalm 27:1

ARE YOU A NEW WINESKIN?

And no man puts new wine into old wineskins; else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins shall perish. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. No man also, having drunk old wine, straightway desireth new; for he saith, the old is better. LUKE 5:37-39

WINESKIN: sewed up animal skins used as we use beverage bottles

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN OLD WINESKIN
A. In the natural
    1. No elasticity or flexibility
    2. New wine splits old wineskins because the violence of the fermentation Bursts 
        the wineskin open.
B. In the spiritual
1. Bound up in religious tradition of men rather than weighing out what the Bible scripture says (Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered, and many such things you do. Mark 7:13) Jesus was crucified because he preached against religious tradition.
2. Refuses to receive present truth (You are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it. John 8:44)
3. Resists new move of God (And they watched Him, whether He would heal Him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse Him. Mark 3:2)
4. Represents Law (But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
Commandments of men. Matthew 15:9)

CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEW WINESKIN
A. In the natural
    1. Flexible
    2. Able to hold new wine
B. In the spiritual
1. Not bound by religious tradition (For in Him [not in religious tradition]we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28)
2. Open to present truth (Wherefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. 2nd Peter 1:12)
3.Open to the Holy Spirit (If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask for Him? Luke 11:13)

4. Represents Grace, New Life and Freedom (And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. 2nd Corinthians 9:8) Old wine skins to hold wine must be soaked in water to soften them. Then they must be greased with oil to prevent leaking and evaporation. They are often boiled in hot water and pounded to add flexibility and sterilized by adding sulphuric acid.

Wine=The Holy Spirit; fullness of joy (Is. 65:8, Jer. 31:12, Hos 2:22, Judges 9:13, Psalm 104:15, Eph. 5:18, Matt. 9:17)
Wineskin=individual believer or the local church (Matt 9:17)
Water=Holy Spirit(John 7:37-39) & Cleansing (Eph 5:26, Isaiah 4:4)

How do we become New Wineskins able to hold New Wine or present day truth and revelation and fullness of joy?

1. Walk a Wilderness Experience: Luke 4:1-14 -Jesus went into the wilderness full of the Holy Spirit led by the Holy Spirit to be tempted by the devil. He returned from this 40 days of fasting in the power of the Spirit. Hosea writes, “I did know you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.” Hosea 13:5

2. Count it all joy! Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings that, when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. 1st Peter 4:12-13 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience. James 1:2 Though he were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered, and being made perfect, He became author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him. Heb.5:9 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him but also to suffer for His sake. Philippians 1:29 yea, and all that will live godly lives in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2nd Timothy 3:12

3. Push through. …Occupy till I come. Luke 19:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14 for consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your mind. Hebrews 13:3-4

4. Recognize that without Him you are NOTHING! I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye sees you. Wherefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. Job 42:5-6 “Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Isaiah 6:5 Therefore, I was left alone and saw this great vision, and there remains no
strength in me, for my attractiveness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. Daniel 10:8 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, “Fear not; I am the first and the last; I am He that lives, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death.” Revelation 1:17

5. Love not the things of the world. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1st John 2:15 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1st Thess. 22: Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:2
 

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