📖 Mark 2:21–22 (KJV) New Cloth, New Wine

 

📖 Mark 2:21–22 (KJV):

“No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.”

“No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment”

  • A new piece of cloth shrinks when washed, tearing away from the old fabric.

  • Jesus is teaching that His gospel is not a patch to repair old religion.

📖 Galatians 2:21 (KJV):
“I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”

👉 Meaning: Christ doesn’t just fix the old ways — He brings a completely new covenant.

“And no man putteth new wine into old bottles”

  • In Jesus’ time, wine was stored in animal-skin wineskins.

  • As new wine fermented, it expanded. Old wineskins, already stretched, would burst.

  • The new life of the Spirit cannot be contained in rigid, old systems.

📖 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV):
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

👉 Meaning: The gospel requires new hearts and new vessels — transformed lives that can carry the Spirit.

“But new wine must be put into new bottles”

  • God gives us new wineskins — renewed minds, new hearts, new lives.

  • The Holy Spirit fills us, stretching and shaping us for His purposes.

📖 Ezekiel 36:26 (KJV):
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”

👉 Meaning: Only in newness of life can we hold the fullness of the Spirit’s work.

🙏 Reflective Prayer from Mark 2:21–22

Abba Father, in the name of Jesus,
I thank You that You make all things new. Lord Jesus, Your gospel is not a patch for my old ways — it is a new garment, a new life altogether. Forgive me when I try to cling to the old while desiring the new.

Pour Your Spirit into me as new wine, and make me into a vessel that can contain Your presence. Remove the old patterns, rigid mindsets, and hardened heart, and replace them with a new heart of flesh.

Teach me to walk in the freedom of the new covenant, rejoicing that old things are passed away, and all things are become new. May my life display the joy, power, and expansion of Your Spirit within me.

In Jesus Almighty name, Amen.

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