In Jesus' day, wine was kept in skins made of leather. New wine keeps working and growing, so it needs a new skin that can stretch. Put it in an old, dry skin and the skin will burst.
In Part 3, the final part of our Overflow series, I open Luke 5:33–39 and ask one question: what if Jesus does not want to improve your old life, but give you a brand-new one? He did not come to patch up our old life. He came to give us a new one.
"No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins." Luke 5:38 (NIV)
Here are three things the new wine asks of us:
Make room: New wine needs a new wineskin. Familiar does not always mean faithful. "If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come" (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Stay full: You cannot live today on yesterday's wine. Stay connected to Jesus, the Vine (John 15:4–5), and keep being filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18).
Pour it out: The Spirit is given so that He flows out of us to others. "Rivers of living water will flow from within them" (John 7:38).
The woman at the well came for water and left with a testimony (John 4). And at the cross, Jesus poured out the new covenant in His blood (Luke 22:20). You do not have to make yourself new. Jesus does it.
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Are you trying to patch up your old life? Come to Jesus and let Him make you new.
Watch or listen to the full message below. Next Sunday we start a new series, Unoffended, with Week 1: Let It Drop.
