Wine: fermented grape juice containing varying percentage of
alcohol together with ethers and esters that give it boquet and flavour.
Text:Mark 2:22 NKJV
“ And no man putteth new wine
into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is
spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new
bottles”.
Quick
Points
Old wine represents:
·
Human effort
·
Disappoints
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Runs out and embarrasses
at crucial moments
·
Displays inadequacies
·
Generational knowledge
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Connotes constant
struggle and strife
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Rigidity/Stagnation
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Containment
When taken in excess, makes you:
·
Drunk :power, control, lording it over the other
party, sex as a weapon, take undue advantage of your partner
·
Abusive: blinds you to reality, financial ,emotional,
psychological to prove a point and slight
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Destructive: anger, vendetta
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Self centred : me, myself and I
·
Warp concept and perception of what marriage
relationship really is.
New Wine- Goal of Harvest: your relationship
- Blessings: Judges 9:13, Is.65:8, Jn2:5-10
- Entertaining; rejoices, unifies, conversations,
- Faith: seeing, beyond the ordinary (your home shouldn’t be defined by what you see currently but on what you can call into existence based on your faith),
- Trust :key requirement to know if God has given you a man/woman he knows that he is right for you and will give you a glorious end
- Willingness/Openness: evolution, integration of new ideas,
- Flexibility: learning continually, gaining insight and freshness from different quarters.
New wine only thrives where you allow Jesus to pilot your
plane, you may not have all the answers but you are willing to go the long haul
with him. Do away with the old; culture of destruction and limitation. Allow
the new; progress, improvement and fulfilment. Jesus is Lord!
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