“And no one pours
new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both
the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.
No, they pour new wine into
new wineskins.”
Mark 2:22
Do you have a ‘pet’ doctrine?
Most would answer an emphatic ‘No!’ to that question
and yet most of us do.
We hold a ‘doctrine’ we are willing to die for.
Saul of Tarsus did.
Only, he wasn’t the one dying!
Saul was so convinced those that others called
Christians were spreading heresy that it took God knocking him off his high
horse and blinding him for him to see (pun intended) the error of what he held so dearly.
Does that mean truth is relative?
Absolutely
not! (pun
intended)
But our understanding of the truth may change as we
grow in Christ.
Jesus spoke of not putting new wine in old wineskins
or they would burst.
The old wineskins lacked the ability to ‘grow’ with
the new wine.
The New Testament is filled with new wine experiences,
whether it was a Messiah who suffered died and rose again or (heaven forbid!) a
Gentile being saved and on and on...
There must have been old wineskin fragments littering
the countryside!
How about you?
Can God pour new wine into you?
Are you teachable or do you have all the answers you
need?
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