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New Wine in New Wineskins

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[Matthew 9:17]

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst,
the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”.

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On the way, Jesus called Matthew the tax collector who was sitting at the customs office.
When Matthew was called by Jesus, he immediately decided to leave what he was doing and follow Jesus. Matthew welcomed Jesus into his home with his joyful heart.

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He prepared a meal for Jesus and invited many people to the event. At the meal Matthew prepared, other tax collectors and those who were called sinners in the society ate with Jesus.

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The Jews at that time had many special laws that they set and obeyed. Some of them included not eating with tax collectors or sinners.
They strictly forbade eating with sinners, as they considered it an offense to their holiness.

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When they saw Jesus, who was a Jew, having a meal with tax collectors and sinners,
they questioned Jesus' disciples.
“Why does your teacher dine with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus heard everything they were saying to his disciples.

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Jesus answered their question this way. “The healthy do not need a doctor, the sick need a doctor. What God really wants is mercy. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
He taught people that the faith to serve God rightly is not to keep away from tax collectors and sinners, but rather to have compassion on them and be with them.

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While the story was being told, there were people who came to Jesus to ask questions about fasting. At that time, Jews who considered themselves to be godly religious fasted twice a week, Monday and Thursday.
They expressed their love for God by not eating, which is one of the most important things for human beings. They viewed this behavior as a sign of good faith.

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But Jesus did not tell his disciples to fast. So, unlike them, Jesus' disciples did not fast at all.
The disciples of John the Baptist thought this was strange and came to ask Jesus a question.
“We and the Pharisees fast often, so why don’t your disciples fast at all?”

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Jesus answered them in a completely different way. “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”

Jesus referred to himself as the bridegroom. What Jesus said is that even the Jews did not fast and enjoyed the wedding ceremony with the groom when the wedding ceremony coincided with the fasting day they had set.

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The reason Jesus' disciples do not have to fast is because they are with Jesus, the Messiah.
When Jesus came to this earth as the Messiah, a new world was opened.
However, not only the Jews, but also the disciples of John the Baptist made the mistake of judging the disciples of Jesus because they were bound by the law before the Messiah came.

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Jesus explained to them so that they could easily understand how their actions were wrong.
“No one sews a new piece of fabric over an old garment.
If you do, the new piece of cloth will pull on the old garment and tear it even worse.”

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David went out in the name of God to fight Goliath, who used God's name in vain.
God helped David as he went to fight in the name of God. David threw a slingshot that accurately hit the head of the Philistine general Goliath.
David was victorious by killing Goliath, who spoke the name of God in vain.

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Jesus gave another example. “New wine is not put in old wineskins.
If you do, the old skins will burst, spilling wine, and the skins will be ruined.
New wine must be put in new wineskins. So both can be preserved.”

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When new wine is put into old wineskins, the new wine ferments and expands, and the old wineskins cannot withstand it and burst.
However, new wineskins can hold the wine well by withstanding the expansion of the new wine as it ferments.
He told them that new wine should be put in new wineskins.

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The Jews did not believe in Jesus even though they saw the Messiah before their eyes.
They did not try to develop the right faith by learning the new words Jesus was teaching.
Before Jesus came, they were bound by the old teachings and criticized Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners. They criticized Jesus' disciples for not fasting.

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We are people who believe in Jesus, the Messiah, and have received eternal life.
The saved children of God must act according to the new laws that Jesus taught.
We should all be zealous in learning the law.
We must act faithfully according to the law. Even when the teachings of Jesus conflict with others, only when we act according to the new laws that Jesus taught us, we become people who glorify God.

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