“That is the way we have always done it.” How many times have you heard that throughout your life? I am all for doing things that work and keeping it simple but I must not be resistant to change especially due to FATHER providing me with new and fresh revelation. When HE unlocks mysteries, we need to embrace them. Jesus spoke a parable in Luke chapter 5:
36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.
37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.
38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
39 And no one, having drunk old wine,immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”
Each generation has difficulty in adapting to change and this has been true throughout history. My childhood seemed simple but I now know that my parents shielded me from the complexities of the world. That parental protection continues to abound today as well. Our grandchildren are not dealing with major issues and thus they embrace new ideas and methods without reservation. They have no reluctance to try something new. We must consider our current revelation to only be a stepping stone to the next higher level FATHER desires for us to occupy with HIM.
Are you satisfied with your current Spiritual state? If so, I would suggest you are drinking from the old wineskin. The Pharisees could not recognize the Son of GOD in their midst because they could not go beyond their traditions. Little did they realize what worked in the past may not work in the future.
Over the years FATHER has busted many of my doctrines and I am thankful for that. As I matured, HE would share new revelation the dispelled my previous beliefs and assumptions. HE would show me the correct reality rather than one mixed with man’s additions, manipulations, and interpretations. Knowing that HE has busted doctrines in the past, I must be sensitive to any that need busting now. I suspect I am not alone in that situation.
Let’s take a well known Scripture concerning the destruction of Jerusalem in Jeremiah chapter 9:
10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,
And for the dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation,
Because they are burned up,
So that no one can pass through;
Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle.
Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled;
They are gone.
11 “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”
At first glance it would appear that FATHER will wipe out the current city of Jerusalem. Consider this. What if every man saw that the physical city of Jerusalem was no longer of any importance whatsoever to mankind? What if mankind received the full revelation that we are the Temple of GOD and HE now will only dwell in us and through us and will never inhabit Jerusalem again? With that revelation, Jerusalem would lose its significance all together. It would be no different than the building on Azusa Street in LA where the revelation of the baptism of the Holy Spirit spread throughout the earth in 1907. I have no desire to make a special trip to Azusa street, enshrine it, and worship there.
We must each consider that FATHER may have not given us the full revelation of what is coming forth in the near future. We must not assume we know the full plot to the story and continue to ascend up toward HIM in the Spirit and in our thinking, understanding, and reasoning. As we take on HIS Divine nature, we will see things differently and we will want to drink from the new wineskins. We will let the old wineskins go.