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Follow-Part 4: New Wineskins
They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.” - Luke 5:33 (NIV)
Why Fast?
Seek wisdom
Signify sorrow
Strengthen prayer
Sway God
Satisfy obligation
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?” - Mark 2:18
Why aren’t you doing what everyone else is?
Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.” - Luke 5:34–35 (NIV)
The old can’t be patched
He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. - Luke 5:36 (NIV)
The old can’t be filled
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. - Luke 5:37–38 (NIV)
The old can’t be left
And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’ ” - Luke 5:39 (NIV)
Follow-Part 4: Faith Fiesta
After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth.
Levi knew what he’d done
Betrayed his people
Betrayed his namesake
Levi knew what he deserved
“Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. - Luke 5:27–28 (NIV)
The most unlikely thing about Jesus’ is that His followers were so unlike Him
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. - Luke 5:29 (NIV)
1) Curry favor from Jesus
2) Correct his past mis-deeds
3) He did it so that his Oikos would get to meet Jesus (Found people find people)
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” - Luke 5:30 (NIV) h
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” - Luke 5:31–32 (NIV)
1) Doctor
2) Diagnosis
3) Direction