Nevertheless, what lives in a person’s heart will be unable to be kept hidden and will be noticed by other people. In this sense the laws can be seen as a garment, which must hide man’s nakedness – the image of the sinful heart. However, a law can only prevent someone from acting in accordance with the wrong desires of his heart, so that whoever hates his brother is prevented from murdering him. The law was to supervise life and morals.
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So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. No-one is capable of putting the Bible’s teaching completely into practice, however. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. The law (the teaching) of God was intended to influence the meditations of the heart, as Moses expressed when he transmitted God’s words to the Israelites: (Leviticus 19:17)įor out of the heart come evil thoughts – murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. The law (the teaching) given by God via Moses after the exodus from Egypt was intended to be written in the heart and to transform man inwardly.ĭo not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,įor my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30) The old garment:
#New wine new wineskin full
When ‘the law’ is referred to in the text of the Bible, or when it is referred to as such in the studies on this website, its deeper meaning ‘instruction’, or ‘teaching’, should be taken to heart, if one wishes to experience the full life, which Jesus talks about when He says:Ĭome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. However, ‘law’ is the translation of the Hebrew ‘torah’, which means: It is usual to speak of the laws from the Old Testament, which are imposed and must be obeyed, with punishment for every transgression. The reason for this parable is the question posed by John’s disciples to Jesus as to why His disciples do not fastĬan 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)Īnd Jesus then tells the parable to indicate that He is shedding new light on the teaching of the Old Testament. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.Īnd no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’ Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
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#New wine new wineskin Patch
Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.Īnd no one pours new wine into old wineskins. No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. The Gospel of Luke gives the most complete text. The parable of the wineskins is to be found in three Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke.