Fashion, Wine, and Fasting...

 

~~~ Colossians 1:15-20 ~~~ Psalm 100 ~~~ Luke 5:33-39 ~~~

 

What is the real issue here?

Is it fasting, torn cloaks, or old wineskins?

Are these all examples of repentance?

Limiting food consumption...wearing tattered clothing...drinking old wine...

 

Can you make the wedding guests fast
while the bridegroom is with them?

No one would fast while attending the wedding feast.

No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one.

No one would wear their mended cloak to the wedding feast.

...no one pours new wine into old wineskins.

The finest wine would surely be served at the wedding feast.

 

Jesus is the bridegroom...Jesus is the new cloak...
Jesus is the new wineskin.

 

 

The scribes and the Pharisees are always stuck in the past.

They are always influenced by the letter of the law.

 

Jesus consistently makes them walk away scratching their heads,

wondering about just what he meant.

 

...all things were created through him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things hold together.

 

Jesus had a new message to deliver, it could not
be patched on to a new cloak.

It was too different, it would never match.

 

This new message Jesus came to proclaim was the new wine.

This new wine was too wonderful to even consider

putting it into the old wineskins.

The old laws were not capable of safely holding this new message.

 It was beyond the reaches of the local laws.

 

There was a proper time and reason to fast

not just because it had always been practiced.

Fasting is not about starving yourself. Fasting is more about
 the intention of your heart.
Fasting can be viewed as a spiritual cleansing...a method
to remove that which is not of true importance.
Fasting requires you to place your mind over your body.
Fasting done with intention can result in a deeper relationship with God.

Paul says in his letter to the Colossians 

...all things were created through him and for him. 

He reconciles all things to himself and in him all things are held together.

Come with joy into the presence of the Lord. 

He is the bridegroom and we are the invited guests.
Come and be glad today;
there is a time for joy and a time for fasting. 

 

Blessings are bestowed upon us because
He makes all things new....
 ...in him all fullness dwells.