New Wine Skins, The New Things Of God...
This Article was done by a friend of mine Benjamin Sealey on his blog
Benjamin Sealey Blog
“And
no one pours new wine into old wine skins. Otherwise, the new wine will
burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wine skins will be
ruined.” (Luke 5:37.)
I have often spoken about a new work that God wants to do with His church. The Holy Spirit wants to work amongst His people like never before. He is preparing His bride into a people who will no longer chase man, religion or our own desires, but that will love Him, live in Him and walk in the reality of Him. This new movement is going to be the beginning of the end-time army, an army so beautiful, so unified, so selfless and so effective.
We will miss the new that He is doing unless we become new wine skins. The wineskin in the parable is us, and everything that makes us who we are. It is our beliefs, our way of doing things, it is how we operate and walk as a people. If we want the new that God wants to pour out, we cannot hold onto the old way of doing things.In practice, this means that we have to come back to God with no agenda, no preconceived way of doing things, and allow Him to teach, Him to change. We have to come back to being broken, of being empty vessels, allowing Him to fill us and mould us His way.
God is always looking to do more, but the what holds up this process is not Him, but us. He cannot pour the new into us when we have an old mentality of how we think and operate. We cannot add what God wants to do on top of our old way of thinking and operating. Trying to get the new whilst holding onto the old actually damages us.
We can continue in the old for the rest of our days, and it wouldn't be wrong as such, but it will mean that we miss the best. An old wineskin is still a wineskin that holds wine, an old wineskin Christian is still saved, and still has a certain level of depth with God, but without being prepared to be changed, that is the level will never get any deeper.
Humans tend to dislike change, we get comfortable in our surroundings. In Luke 5, Simon, James and John gave up everything in order to follow Jesus. Following Jesus does not require us to just give up physical things, but also the core of what we hold onto, our beliefs, our way of thinking and of working. It requires that we become empty vessels, with no agenda but Him.
It is only when we willingly lay down these old ways, our old wineskin, that He can fill us with the new, and we will walk in a deeper of reality of living in His kingdom
Benjamin Sealey
This Just reminded me of the scripture "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert", Isaiah 43:19. I Pray that we don't miss it at all and we grab ahold of the new things of the Lord and do them for his glory..
Benjamin Sealey Blog
“And
no one pours new wine into old wine skins. Otherwise, the new wine will
burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wine skins will be
ruined.” (Luke 5:37.)I have often spoken about a new work that God wants to do with His church. The Holy Spirit wants to work amongst His people like never before. He is preparing His bride into a people who will no longer chase man, religion or our own desires, but that will love Him, live in Him and walk in the reality of Him. This new movement is going to be the beginning of the end-time army, an army so beautiful, so unified, so selfless and so effective.
We will miss the new that He is doing unless we become new wine skins. The wineskin in the parable is us, and everything that makes us who we are. It is our beliefs, our way of doing things, it is how we operate and walk as a people. If we want the new that God wants to pour out, we cannot hold onto the old way of doing things.In practice, this means that we have to come back to God with no agenda, no preconceived way of doing things, and allow Him to teach, Him to change. We have to come back to being broken, of being empty vessels, allowing Him to fill us and mould us His way.
God is always looking to do more, but the what holds up this process is not Him, but us. He cannot pour the new into us when we have an old mentality of how we think and operate. We cannot add what God wants to do on top of our old way of thinking and operating. Trying to get the new whilst holding onto the old actually damages us.
We can continue in the old for the rest of our days, and it wouldn't be wrong as such, but it will mean that we miss the best. An old wineskin is still a wineskin that holds wine, an old wineskin Christian is still saved, and still has a certain level of depth with God, but without being prepared to be changed, that is the level will never get any deeper.
Humans tend to dislike change, we get comfortable in our surroundings. In Luke 5, Simon, James and John gave up everything in order to follow Jesus. Following Jesus does not require us to just give up physical things, but also the core of what we hold onto, our beliefs, our way of thinking and of working. It requires that we become empty vessels, with no agenda but Him.
It is only when we willingly lay down these old ways, our old wineskin, that He can fill us with the new, and we will walk in a deeper of reality of living in His kingdom
Benjamin Sealey
This Just reminded me of the scripture "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert", Isaiah 43:19. I Pray that we don't miss it at all and we grab ahold of the new things of the Lord and do them for his glory..
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