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Luke 5:39 John MacArthur

Berean Wife — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:00:10 +0000

John MacArthur is one who feels Believers should desire the New Wine and not just be content with the Old Wine. I must say I agree with him because I’ve seen how hard is is to take the religion out of people and give them the gospel. The whole sermon is worth reading or listening to but this is just the portion that covers the Wine

The Uniqueness of the Gospel by John MacArthur

Jesus then gave a third and final illustration, it’s really sad. Verse 39, “And no one after drinking old wine wishes for new, or he says the old is good enough.” That’s just a simple little example. Take somebody whose been drinking the same kind of wine for years and years and years and you come along and say, “Ah, I’ve got a brand new kind here for you.”

“Nah, no, I’ll stick with my old favorite. I don’t want to…”

“Well the new one promises…it’s got new technique, new flavor…”

“No, no, I’m happy with my old.”

Jesus looked at those Pharisees and said, “You’ve been drinking that old wine of Judaism so long, you have absolutely no interest in the gospel.”

It’s really true. People who have been in religions for a long time are very comfortable. They cultivate their taste for that tradition. They cultivate their taste for that experience. And Judaism had become mellowed and settled by centuries of experience and mounting, increasing tradition until it was so much a part of the fabric of their life they couldn’t even see themselves in any other way. They were Pharisees and scribes to the death. They were self-satisfied. They had grown comfortable with their heresy, like old men who have been drinking a certain wine all their life and were not at all interested in a new one no matter what it may have promised by way of delight and pleasure. … Continue reading

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Acts 17:11 "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." NIV

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New Wine / Old Wine Skins

Berean Wife — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:00:09 +0000

Luke 5:37-39 (ESV)

37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’ ”

The first sign Jesus did involved wine at the wedding at Cana.

John 2:11 (ESV) This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

Then at the end of His earthly life Jesus again returns to the theme of wine.

Luke 22:20 (ESV) And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Strange though how there is no agreement between theologians as to whether we should desire the new wine or desire the old wine. Notice below Matthew Henry says the new wine is the better thing, yet he admits that Calvin said the old wine was better.

Luke 5:27-39

It was a wonder of his grace that he proportioned their exercises to their strength. He would not put new cloth upon an old garment (v. 36), nor new wine into old bottles (v. 37,38); he would not, as soon as ever he had called them out of the world, put them upon the strictnesses and austerities of discipleship, lest they should be tempted to fly off. When God brought Israel out of Egypt, he would not bring them by the way of the Philistines, lest they should repent, when they saw war, and return to Egypt, Exodus 13:17. So Christ would train up his followers gradually to the discipline of his family; for no man, having drank old wine, will of a sudden, straightway, desire new, or relish it, but will say, The old is better, because he has been used to it, v. 39. The disciples will be tempted to think their old way of living better, till they are by degrees trained up to this way whereunto they are called. Or, turn it the other way: “Let them be accustomed awhile to religious exercises, and then they will abound in them as much as you do: but we must not be too hasty with them.” Calvin takes it as an admonition to the Pharisees not to boast of their fasting, and the noise and show they made with it, nor to despise his disciples because they did not in like manner signalize themselves; for the profession the Pharisees made was indeed pompous and gay, like new wine that is brisk and sparkling, whereas all wise men say, The old is better; for, though it does not give its colour so well in the cup, yet it is more warming in the stomach and more wholesome. Christ’s disciples, though they had not so much of the form of godliness, had more of the power of it.
(from Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible, PC Study Bible Formatted Electronic Database Copyright © 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All Rights reserved.)

Or how about Agustus Toplady?

Having tasted the good old wine of distinguishing grace, you will no longer have any relish for the new scheme of grace without a plan, and of a random salvation; for you will both know and acknowledge that the old is better.

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Augustus Toplady

HT: Life & Letters

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Bad Hymns / Gospel Songs – Have A Little Talk With Jesus

Berean Wife — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:15:08 +0000

Can’t be anything wrong with this song, I mean Elvis Presley sang it. {sarcasm}

Have A Little Talk With Jesus

I once was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
Well then a little light from heaven healed my soul
Well, he bathed my heart in love, and wrote my name above
Well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right

We’ll just have a little talk with Jesus
Were gonna tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our fainted cry
He will answer by and by
Oh well, when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
And you will know a little fire is burnin’
You will find a little talk with Jesus makes it right

You may have doubts and fears
Your eye be filled with tears
Oh well my Jesus is a friend who watches day and night
Well he wrote my name above, and he bathed my heart in love
Oh well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right

Let us have a little talk with my Jesus
Please let us tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our faintest cry
He will answer by and by
Now when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
You’ll know just a little fire is burnin’
And have a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right

Well you may have doubts and fears
Your eye be filled with tears
Oh well now my Jesus is a friend who watches day and night
Well you go to him in prayer
He answers my every prayer
Oh well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right
Now let us have a little talk with my Jesus
Tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our faintest cry
And I know hes gonna answer by and by
Now when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
You’ll know a little fire is burnin’
And have a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right
Make it right

There is so much wrong with this song but here is something most people don’t notice.

“when you feel a little prayer wheel turning”

Do you know what that is talking about?

“You’ll know a little fire is burnin’”

I’m amazed that people don’t wonder about those phrases.

The concept of the prayer wheel is a physical manifestation of the phrase “turning the wheel of Dharma,” which describes the way in which the Buddha taught….

Fire Prayer Wheel - This wheel is turned by the heat of a candle or electric light. The light emitted from the prayer wheel then purifies the negative karmas of the living beings it touches.

Prayer Wheel

Think there is a problem here !?!

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