A TALE OF TWO WINESKINS
"No one pours new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the new wine will burst the old wineskins, and the wine will be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins. And no one, after drinking old wine, wants the new wine, saying, ‘The old is better!’" (Luke 5:37-39)
The modern-day church IS NOT what Christ intended the church to be ... there, I said it! Now let's discover why that is true.
When the 1st Century church was infiltrated with paganism, God's glory departed. After almost 300 years of VIRAL growth, the shift from the BIBLICAL "catholic" [universal] Church to the ROMAN Catholic (pagan) church resulted in the Spirit of God departing ... His supernatural power was lost and, to this day, we've still not fully recovered!
Because many remnants of paganism still remain in The Church, we've grown accustomed ... even accepting of them. Though much of The Church has rejected praying to "patron saints" and the pagan trappings that are associated, the fact remains that the way we "do church" still owes more to Constantine, than to the New Testament scriptures.
God will not waste His Glory in pagan temples! To use the analogy Jesus used ... He will not pour new wine into old wineskins.
I hear today's Church crying out for new wine ...
* "Lord, do it again!"
* "Lord, we want Your power!"
* "Lord, pour out Your Spirit!"
* "Lord, send revival!"
But I hear Him asking ... "Where is the wineskin to hold it?"
I believe that God WANTS TO pour out His Spirit upon His people, but He is demanding a new wineskin to contain it ... and He has given US the assignment to create it!
In next month's blog, we'll start addressing the question ... WHAT IS A WINESKIN?
The modern-day church IS NOT what Christ intended the church to be ... there, I said it! Now let's discover why that is true.
When the 1st Century church was infiltrated with paganism, God's glory departed. After almost 300 years of VIRAL growth, the shift from the BIBLICAL "catholic" [universal] Church to the ROMAN Catholic (pagan) church resulted in the Spirit of God departing ... His supernatural power was lost and, to this day, we've still not fully recovered!
Because many remnants of paganism still remain in The Church, we've grown accustomed ... even accepting of them. Though much of The Church has rejected praying to "patron saints" and the pagan trappings that are associated, the fact remains that the way we "do church" still owes more to Constantine, than to the New Testament scriptures.
God will not waste His Glory in pagan temples! To use the analogy Jesus used ... He will not pour new wine into old wineskins.
I hear today's Church crying out for new wine ...
* "Lord, do it again!"
* "Lord, we want Your power!"
* "Lord, pour out Your Spirit!"
* "Lord, send revival!"
But I hear Him asking ... "Where is the wineskin to hold it?"
I believe that God WANTS TO pour out His Spirit upon His people, but He is demanding a new wineskin to contain it ... and He has given US the assignment to create it!
In next month's blog, we'll start addressing the question ... WHAT IS A WINESKIN?
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