IV.The Parable of the New Garment & the New Bottles – The Gospel Message! (21-22, MT 9:16-17, Luke 5:36-39) A.Old garments vs. New garments – Works  Any sewers or seamstresses in the crowd? B.Old bottles vs. New bottles (skins of animals, leathery, mildewed and grew brittle, would burst with the fermentation of new wine and thus in need of new wine skins) - Vessels C.Lesson –  Grace and legalism are incompatible; rebuke to the self-R Scribes & Pharisees (educators of the law)  It was no use for John’s disciples and the Pharisees to put the Lord’s followers under the bondage of sorrowful fasting, as it had been practiced. D.What is NOT represented in the parable?  Christianity is not a patch-up / patchwork for Judaism but a whole new revelation of God  Replacement Theology heresy/error where the Church takes the place of Israel in His Eternal Plan Mike Roche – 1/3/2016 “The Conversion and Call of Levi”

Old Garment (cloth)New Garment (cloth)Old Wine Skins (bottles)New Wine Skins (bottles) New patch of cloth that has not been shrunk would tear the old worn & weak cloth Need to transfer our old stained garments for new clean garments The old leather wine skins lost their power to stretch. The pressure buildup of new wine would cause it to burst (limited warranty) New wine needs new wine skins But new wine must be put into new wine bottles; and both are preserved (Luke 5:38) (eternal life guarantee) Legal system – old meritorious system God demands righteousness from man and the law demands the blessings be earned (Ex 19:5, Deut. 28:1-6, John 1:17 note) Grace Age – based on Divine Perfection God bestows righteousness by faith (Rom. 1:16-17; 2 Cor. 5:21) Mosaic Law – Old Covenant Old types/forms and sacrifices could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:4) Need Substitute – Equal to condemned person (Hebrews 10:5, 2:17) Christ the Mediator of a Better Covenant For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Matthew 26:28, Hebrews 12:24) God Himself is our Substitute (2 Cor. 5:21) Man’s Works are NO goodGod’s Works are PERFECT (Deut. 32:4) Man Himself is NOT good (Rom. 3:10 & 12) Man Must be a New Creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17) with a New Heart (Ezek. 36:26-27) But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6) For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe or righteousness. (Isaiah 61:10) Convicts man of sin – for by the law is the knowledge of sin (Rom 3:30b) Law is our schoolmaster to lead us to Christ (Gal 3:24) A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. Old Nature shrinks away from the New (Luke 5:39) - Natural reluctance of man to abandon the old traditions for the new Christians Perfect Standing based on the merits of God’s Own Son (Titus 3:5, Eph. 2:8-9) Obedience based on keeping the whole law blameless New Heart must expand with the New Life of indwelling Holy Spirit Expands with fermentation – speaks of believers transformation takes place over time A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away – (Hebrews 8:13) Acceptance in the Beloved – made something new (Eph. 1:6-7) Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. (Hebrews 10:9) New Heart is NOT constrained by the rigidity of the law New Life of Exuberance and joy – overflows to others