<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 Jesus taught the same thing in Luke when He said you cannot put new wine into old bottles. That was sometimes hard for me to understand before I became a--a missionary, to see what bottles and so forth. I thought, "Well, the bottle, what we call a bottle, it just wouldn't get old." But in the Palestinian country, and during this time especially, the--the bottle was an animal skin that had been tanned and sewed up and tied up in places, and the skin contained the--the liquids and so forth they put in it: water, wine, and oils, and what they carried in the skin.
Now, when the skin became old, well, it was dry. And then when Jesus was speaking, "Put new wine into old bottles," they would both perish; you'd lose your wine and lose your bottle.
Now, you might be able to put water into an old bottle, but you can't put wine into an old bottle, because water is the ashes of hydrogen and oxygen which remains, and if anything, dwindles away. It shrinks. It's substance has no life, but it is the ashes made from hydrogen and, or, the ox... Hydrogen and oxygen is the--is ashes.
So... But wine has a life in it. And wine, new wine especially, it's fermenting yet, and it--it might spread out a little. And if it goes to pushing in the old bottle, in the old dry hide will burst and fly open. Now, that's... And then the hide is ruined and also the bottle is. The bottle is ruined and the wine is spilled.
Now, that's about the picture we have before us today. You can't come to an old formal bunch of intellectuals and your ideas and try to adopt God's program into your intellectual program. It just won't work. That old dry cowhide will blow up. It just can't take it.

L-15 Now, a new bottle is a new tanned hide, and the new tanned hide has still the animal oil in the hide. And then when the new wine goes into a new bottle, then when the new wine begins to swell the new bottle gives, pushes out, because it's got oil in it. And if there ever was a time that the church needs a oiling, it's today: a Holy Spirit oiling: new wine.
Now, when the Bible says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever," His healing power's just as great today as it ever was. The old intellectuals will blow up. "No such a thing, Dr. Jones said the days of miracles is passed. That settles it."
But when the new wine is put into a new bottle and then when the--begins to ferment, the life begins to work in from the old outside theology that we used to study, and see the Word of God in its Divine promises and said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever," the new wine will say, "Hallelujah!" And the old bottle will say, "Glory to God," spread out and give it room. That's what we get.

L-16 It's not the... Put the new wine in the old bottle. You say, "Now, our school teaches different, our denomination..." That old dry cowhide... You... "Our teachers, our pastors said these things are finished."
But if it's a new hide and it's got new life, it's flexible and it gives to the Word, and the Word supports the Spirit, or the Spirit supports the Word, and when they come into the new bottle and they say, "Someone got healed of a cancer last evening," the old hide says, "Let me see what the doctor says. Let me see in a year from now. I just can't believe it."
But the new hide says, "Hallelujah to the Lamb," spreads out. Then both wine and bottle is kept. You can't put new wine in old bottles.


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