New wine must be poured into new wineskins

 Luke 5:27-39

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”  Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”

He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.

Why?

Go into the sinners, because they need the doctor, they need the gospel. Jesus comes for the sinners to repentance, not for those who think he is righteous.

John is walked before Jesus, so John often fasts and prays. but Jesus is the Son of God, Misaiah, no laws or regulations restrict Jesus.

Jesus brought a new way to repent and give us a new way to eternal life. Jesus brings a new way of salvation.

Levi got up, and it was quickly decided, to discard his high income to follow Jesus. Can I do it like Levi?

Sometimes we may clothe honor and beautiful manner outside, but more important is how about our hearts and minds. Do we honor the Name of Jesus or just show it to others in our environment, like these Pharisees.

How?

May my mind and my heart more purer before the Lord and honor the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.