How is your Wineskin? – Be the change - [LIFE] - Brent Phillips - Encounter Houston

Matthew 9:14-17 “One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast like we do and the Pharisees do?” Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests mourn while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. “Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before. “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the old skins would burst from the pressure, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine is stored in new wineskins so that both are preserved.”

Have you ever heard the phrase change or die?

This is an entrepreneurialism motto when it comes to business. In many places in our lives and throughout the global church we have applied this motto to our lives and our styles. And Jesus is saying that if we aren’t willing to get a new wineskin in order to receive the new wine that He wants to put in our lives, then our old wineskins are going to be put under pressure and burst and it is going to become offensive. We must be willing to be the change.

How is your wineskin?

Sure, your experiences in the past with God were genuine and amazing in that moment and we are to remember those moments, but it doesn’t mean that we are suppose to stay in that moment forever. We must be willing to change and do some things differently in our live in order to see the new thing that God is wanting to doing in our life. Are you willing to change by getting a new wineskin?

Psalm 96:1 says; “Sing a new song to the Lord!”

Why does it say for us to sing a new song? Because if not we will get so comfortable in the old songs and they will begin to lose its meaning and and just become a ritual in our lives. Don't let your worship become a ritual that you forget why you were singing in the first place. It is time to sing a new song!

Matthew 13:53-57 “When Jesus had finished telling these stories and illustrations, he left that part of the country. He returned to Nazareth, his hometown. When he taught there in the synagogue, everyone was amazed and said, “Where does he get this wisdom and the power to do miracles?” Then they scoffed, “He’s just the carpenter’s son, and we know Mary, his mother, and his brothers—James, Joseph,[a] Simon, and Judas. All his sisters live right here among us. Where did he learn all these things?” And they were deeply offended and refused to believe in him. Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.”

Jesus is never going to come packaged the way that you want Him or looking the way that you think He should. Why? Because He wants us to lie down our man made traditions and embrace Him in faith and believe in Him once again.

Don’t let rituals and traditions keep you from seeing what God is doing in your life. Be the change you have wanted to see and put on a new wineskin and allow God to do something new in your life

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