2022 Season One - Episode Two - New Wineskins

Jesus spoke of wineskins, and today many make what Jesus said to be about change they wish to bring about.

They say there’s a need for new wineskins in the sense that they wish to reorder and bring change to whatever is not working the way they desire.

They want to start something new instead. There can be merit to that at times. But think about this: it’s possible to use Scripture subjectively but doing so runs a risk of distracting from the original intent. The actual purpose of the truth can get lost in diluted versions of use for other reasons, no matter how valid those reasons may seem.

Using Jesus’ teaching on new wineskins to reinforce the idea that change is good is not sinful or bad, but it can and often does distract from the glorious nature of what Jesus was actually saying.

Jesus was not offering a formula for bringing change to things in our personal, business or other aspects of our natural lives simply for the sake of progress. He was unveiling a glorious reality that He was about put into effect at His death, resurrection and ascension. Christ is in you!

Luke 5:37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

Luke is using New Covenant language and New Covenant language comes with a glory unparalleled and unmatched by the Old Covenant. To misapply the intent of the truth spoken is to miss out on the glory and supernatural intent of that truth. The glory of God is fully invested in the New Covenant kingdom of Christ!

Jesus came preaching the gospel of the kingdom. In other words, Jesus went about preaching the good news of the kingdom of God in the New Covenant that was soon to be established. He was establishing what to expect from a kingdom where Jesus Himself would be Lord and supernaturally share His righteousness with those who are a part of it. He would supernaturally share all of who He is with you. Christ is in you!

Now, in the teaching on wineskins, more often than not, what Jesus said before He used the example of wineskins is largely ignored but just as important, if not more, to understanding what His intention was when it comes to Old Covenant as opposed to New Covenant.

Luke 5:36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.

Jesus said, “no one puts a new piece of cloth on an old garment otherwise the old garment will be torn where the new was attached.” He further demonstrates practically here that a new piece of cloth doesn’t match the old garment. This is akin to what we read in, Hebrews 8:13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

So you see my friends, when Jesus spoke about wineskins being new and it being necessary for them being new He is speaking about the New Covenant. What is coming in the glory of God according to His divine nature coming to us, through Jesus Christ in the way of the person of the Holy Spirit, is too glorious to be contained in an Old Covenant wineskin. It would burst because it was not made to handle such glory.

God intended to do it that way with purpose and when the fullness of time had come, Jesus came to earth and did all He needed to do to make it possible to put into force the New Covenant according to His blood.

Now we, as partakers in that covenant, citizens of His kingdom, are partakers of the Divine Nature.

We are recipients of the Glorious person of the Holy Spirit. We are new wine skins with new wine. We get to live according to the new wine.