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MARK’S GOSPEL THE SIMPLICITY AND POWER OF JESUS

The New Wine of the Kingdom Mark 2:18-22

Review 1.Jesus came into the region of the Sea of Galilee preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. 2.He has been preaching and ministering in God’s authority and power. 3.Jesus has returned to Capernaum.

Geographical Setting

Mark 2:18–22 (ESV) Old Wine or New? Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

Old Wine Skins & The Old Wine Old Testament Law List of Do’s & Don'ts Jewish Torah Highly Detailed List The Old Testament Temple Access God via High Priest Special Days Special Festivals

Old Wine Replaced: The New Wine is Here ! Old Testament Law List of Do’s & Don'ts “New” - The Law of Love Luke 10:27 (NIV) …“ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” John 13:34 (NIV) “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Old Wine Replaced: The New Wine is Here ! Jewish Torah Highly Detailed List Holy Spirit Present John 14:26 (NKJV) But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Colossians 1:27 (NKJV) …God willed to make known … this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Old Wine Replaced: The New Wine is Here ! The Old Testament Temple Believers are the Temple Colossians 1:27 (NKJV) …God willed to make known … this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 2 Corinthians 4:7 (NKJV) … we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

Old Wine Replaced: The New Wine is Here ! Access God via High Priest Jesus came to Sinners Mark 2:17 (ESV) - And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Old Wine Replaced: The New Wine is Here ! Special Days Mark 2:24; (NKJV) And the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” … And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

Old Wine Replaced ! The New Wine is Here ! Special Festivals A Special Meal – With Jesus Matthew 26:26–28 (NKJV) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

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And the Lord God says, “I told you so…” Isaiah 43:15–19 (NLT): I am the LORD, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator and King. I am the LORD, who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses. I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick. “But forget all that — it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

In Jesus Christ Everything can become “New Wine” Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)

But Wait … There’s More… 2 Corinthians 5:18–20a (NKJV): Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ …

There is More… The Lord is Doing Something New… The Question is this: Will we choose to be part of what He is doing?

APPLICATION 1.What does it mean for us to live as His New creation? 2.What does it look like for us to each live out the ministry of reconciliation? 3.In what ways do we need to bust through the barriers that keep those around us from feeling included, loved, welcome, at home? 4.How can we prepare ourselves to perceive and receive whatever new thing God wants to do in our midst and any new wine He wants to pour out on us?

The New Wine of the Kingdom Mark 2:18-22

… to be continued …

Committed to passionately... Live like Jesus lived, Do what Jesus did, and Advance His Kingdom together.