When you put new wine in new wineskins (bottles), the fermentation process of the wine causes the wineskin to stretch and expand. An old wineskin has lost the ability to stretch, so it would burst, ruining the wineskin, and spilling the wine.
“And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.” [Luke 5:37-38 KJV] (See also Matthew 9:17 and Mark 2:22)
Are we stretchable wineskins? Are we ready for new wine… ready to grow and expand? Ready for a new, fresh fill-up of Holy Ghost power and anointing?
Or are we old wineskins… only fit for old wine? Have we stretched all we’re ever going to stretch? Comfortable, complacent, dry, inflexible, unwilling to change and move with the Spirit?
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