Sunday, November 20, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
New Wine in Old skins.
What did Jesus mean when he said in mark 2:22
No one pours new wine into old wineskin. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskin will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskin.”
The old wineskin represents the old covenant. The new wine represents Jesus' teachings (new covenant)
The old covenant is a performance-based salvation.
One is saved keeping up his/her performance level. The new is a salvation-based performance. One is saved through the forgiveness of sins, which requires only faith in Christ's death and resurrection ( atonement ) And having been saved, God restores that person, causing them to live a lifestyle consistent with that of a child of God.
The old covenant is made ineffective and void by man's innate sinful nature. And Israel's example also gives evidence of this. There are those who fail to keep God's requirements, but then think that Christ came simply to help them become better people so that they can be justified by their performance. This is putting a new patch on an old garment.
There are holes in their garments due to sin. Then they make a patch out of the gospel and try to attach it to a performance-based salvation concept.
This is particularly true of those of a "Hyper-Wesleyan" mindset. An example of this are those who say that salvation is obtained by faith as a free gift, but it must be maintained by one's performance or else lost. They will literally quote verses dealing with the old covenant and an apply them to the new, like:
"If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but then he trusts in his righteousness and does evil, none of the righteous things he has done will be remembered; he will die for the evil he has done."Ez 33:13
That is the old covenant concept, not the new convenant concept.
No one pours new wine into old wineskin. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskin will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskin.”
The old wineskin represents the old covenant. The new wine represents Jesus' teachings (new covenant)
The old covenant is a performance-based salvation.
One is saved keeping up his/her performance level. The new is a salvation-based performance. One is saved through the forgiveness of sins, which requires only faith in Christ's death and resurrection ( atonement ) And having been saved, God restores that person, causing them to live a lifestyle consistent with that of a child of God.
The old covenant is made ineffective and void by man's innate sinful nature. And Israel's example also gives evidence of this. There are those who fail to keep God's requirements, but then think that Christ came simply to help them become better people so that they can be justified by their performance. This is putting a new patch on an old garment.
There are holes in their garments due to sin. Then they make a patch out of the gospel and try to attach it to a performance-based salvation concept.
This is particularly true of those of a "Hyper-Wesleyan" mindset. An example of this are those who say that salvation is obtained by faith as a free gift, but it must be maintained by one's performance or else lost. They will literally quote verses dealing with the old covenant and an apply them to the new, like:
"If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but then he trusts in his righteousness and does evil, none of the righteous things he has done will be remembered; he will die for the evil he has done."Ez 33:13
That is the old covenant concept, not the new convenant concept.
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