Text: Matt 9:14-17
Title: Out With Old, In With the New!
Theme: As Jesus begins his ministry and it doesn't seem to make sense to people, he uses the illustration of trying to put new wine into old skins - it doesn't work because the new isn't the same as the old. It's still wine, but to enjoy it, you need a new skin. We often try to confine our reception of God to our old lives or our current belief systems - when Jesus is inviting us into something completely new! Everything we are and do is reshaped by what he is bringing - it conforms to him, not the other way around. And this is most powerfully seen in how he bring salvation. It's not through all of the old ways we thought, but he's doing something new...