14 Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast. 16 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” (Matthew 9:9-13)
Here we see that the disciples of John the Baptist asked the Lord Jesus why they and the Pharisees often fasted, but His disciples did not fast. The Lord Jesus answered and said: “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins.” What does it mean? Fasting is like a new cloth, garment and wineskins represent life. no one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. This means that the Lord Jesus did not come to repair or improve the old life, but to bring people new life. New wine represents the Holy Spirit, and pouring new wine into new wineskins means filling the new man, not the old man with the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
When a person believes in the Lord, is baptized, is born again and saved, he receives the Holy Spirit, he becomes a new person, a new creation, living a new life, like pouring new wine into a new wineskin.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)
The Lord Jesus came so that the sheep, his disciples may have life, abundant life, life filled with the Holy Spirit, a new life with the Lord’s presence.
May God bless you and your family! 🙏😊
