*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Tue/03rd/May/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (90)*
_"No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloth, for the patch tears away from the cloth, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into new wineskins, and so both are preserved"_ (Matt 9:15-17). The patch of unshrunk cloth and the new wine represent the new reality that has come with Jesus - the Kingdom of God is here. The Messiah is in our midst. And that's not merely temporary. The Kingdom of God did not come in Jesus and then just vanish out of the world. Jesus died for our sins once for all. He rose from the dead once for all. The Spirit was sent into the world as the real presence of Jesus among us. The Kingdom is the reigning power of Christ in the world subduing hearts to the King and creating a people who believe Him and serve Him. The Spirit of the Bridegroom is gathering and purifying a bride for Christ. This is the new wine.
And Jesus says, "The old wineskins can't contain it." What is the old wineskins? Fasting was religiously inherited from the Old Testament and had been used as part of the Jewish system of relating to God. Now Jesus says, the old wineskins of Judaism can't contain the new wine (of the Kingdom of God). New wine demands new fasting. The new fasting is based on the mystery that the Bridegroom came, not just will come. The new wine of His presence calls far a new set of attitude associated with fasting. In coming He struck the decisive blow against sin, satan, and death. The great, central, decisive act of salvation for us today is past, not future. And on the basis of that past work of the Bridegroom, nothing can ever be the same again. The wine is new. The blood is shed. The Lamb is slain. The punishment of sin is executed. Death is defeated. The Bridegroom is risen. The Spirit is sent. And the old fasting mindset is simply not adequate.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_The Kingdom is the reigning power of Christ in the world subduing hearts to the King and creating a people who believe Him and serve Him._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
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