However, the other way that the picture of ‘new wine’ is used, is to represent the work of the spirit.
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Obviously, we all know we are involved in a process of learning, changing, so Jesus will make us aware of where we need to change along the way-however, we need to guard against a pick & mix approach to our own salvation.We need to embrace the whole message of the kingdom and not self select….oooh, I like this stuff about loving each other and Jesus loving me, healing me, but I don’t like this bit about being obedient or making Jesus Lord of my life People knew not to put new wine in old wineskins or a new cloth patch on an old shirt.So, in the kingdom, there is a limit to mixing up old and new, in terms of the way we think about things and our behaviour patterns.Jesus is saying to his audience of Jewish people, that they can’t take some elements of his teaching and fit it into their current belief systems. His kingdom message is a radical one-think back to the things I spoke about the other week, in Matthew 5, where Jesus said “you have heard it was said….Would we cut out a patch from a new piece of clothing, to fix a hole in an old garment? So, why take that approach to what we believe?.this is about the impact of Jesus and the message of the kingdom, on the individual believer 'I was reading the Gospel of Mark and came across the parable of the patches and the wineskins and I dont think I understand what Jesus means.' The passage our writer is wondering about is found in Mark 2.21-22 and reads: 'No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.