can’t be done. Why? It’s because the new wine will shred the old wineskins. The new wine will not go into old wineskins. The old wineskin cannot contain new wine. It can only hold old wine.
Jesus spoke in parables to conceal spiritual truths from worldly people. Parables are meant to conceal God’s truths from the hard-hearted.
In the same way new wine cannot be put into old wineskins, the new life in Christ cannot be put into the old man of the heart…the once born. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
We have to be born again in order to hold the new life in Christ. He will not be held in the once born heart. It is unclean.
I believe that maybe 90 percent of professed believers ( and I’m probably wrong and much too harsh)are trying to hold the new life in Christ that they have heard about, in their old man of the heart. The once born heart.
Just like new wine causes old wineskins to burst, in the same way, a person who has heard the gospel but has not repented of sin, in order to receive Jesus into the heart, will have a life that looks from all angles like a mess…like a thing that just bursts. It doesn’t grow or thrive or change. It just explodes.
If you have heard the good news, listen: You must come to Jesus as a sinner desiring forgiveness. If you will do that and it’s real, you will be born again. Now you can hold the new life of Jesus Christ within your heart. Unless you remain in rebellion, you will increasingly become more and more like Christ. Won’t you do that today? You know you are the walking dead if you don’t. God had to be very harsh in hopes of waking up these walking dead. He said a dog returns to its vomit and a pig returns to her slop. This is a repulsive thing really. Isn’t it as repulsive for a person to have heard the gospel and even agree with it, yet they remain once born? They remain unchanged. They love the old ways so much they will not abandon them.
The lost person cannot be anything but lost if he will not be born again of the Spirit. It’s your choice.
choose to be made new today.