There’s a huge amount of talk and controversy in my circles these days about practices in God’s body that both I and others rightly call traditions of men. Jesus called them this too. There’s God’s traditions, the ‘thesis.’ Conflicting with God and His people are the ‘anti-thesis’ of man’s traditions developed and perpetrated on unsuspecting human beings made in God’s image.
Jesus said His new wine can’t survive in the old wineskin, the tradition of man. It may look safe for a season, but the old wineskin will burst. In our day, the old wineskin is too strong, too entrenched, too demonic, to fail. So, the new wine must leave and find new wineskins.
There they can grow together to full maturity, and neither perishes. If the new wine stays in the old wineskin tradition, it will never mature, and very well may spoil…and die. Jesus, our Master, speaks multiple warnings to deceived religious types to leave the traditions of men….repent or perish He clearly proclaims.
Some foolishly put new wine into old wineskins. Woe to them, Jesus says.
The status-quo, dear friends, is never the status quo, for its always moving to more disaster and evil. Its enmity toward God. If a living thing is not growing, it’s dying.
Our minds are growing and being renewed. Our hearts are becoming more bold and certain. Our physical bodies can be cared for in a healthy fashion, and to some extent are growing. But I can tell my body, now in its 7th decade, is aging a bit as I move toward physical death (if the Lord tarries), the final stage of life!
“Dear Lord, we beg and beseech You for discernment and wisdom to identify any demonic traditions we’ve housebroken. Then we take Your courage to quickly leave the familiar old wineskin for the new. And maybe even the close friends and family members who refuse to listen to Your Spirit, even promoting the devil’s tradition! A man’s enemies will be those of his own household.”
Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,
Marc
Saints, we’re one day closer to Home, and Him! Love Him wholeheartedly!
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FRIDAY FIRE: A few minutes to help kindle the SPIRITUAL FIRE in us all; by Marc White, Director, Walk Worthy, Central Florida, USA
Jesus said, “I have come to cast FIRE upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled! Luke 12:49
“…walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,” Eph. 4.1, Col. 1.10, 1 Thes. 2.12
Friday Fire, Copyright, a Walk Worthy ministry; “Walk in a manner worthy” of the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph.4.1, Col. 1.10, I Thes. 2.12); permission granted to repost in full.
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