New Wine In Old Wineskins

A fresh pliable wineskin can absorb such expansion and slowly age-with the wine until the fermentation process is complete.

New wine in old wineskins. Otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine will be destroyed--and the wineskins. The parables are told in response to a question about fasting. Luke 537-38 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins.

The comparison is a very apt one when we think of the properties of wine and wineskins. Here is a photograph by Ferrill Jenkins of a Bedouin skin for churning. If he does the wine will burst the skins and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.

He was here to do something completely new. New wine and old skins are incompatible and you cant incorporate Jesus new wine into our present system. Otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.

The old and the new. For a new work to happen in our lives the old needs to be removed. Otherwise the new wine will burst the skins.

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. These two parables illustrate the fact that you cant mix old religious rituals with new faith in Jesus. The parables follow the recruitment of Levi as a disciple of Jesus and appear to be part of a discussion at a banquet held by him.

If they do the new wine will burst the skins. We better prepare ourselves for Gods new wine. Jesus and the New Covenant which He delivered represented the new wine the religious authorites were representing a covenant the old covenant which was about to be swept away.