"And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better."
In today's lesson, Jesus demonstrated that He had relieved His apostles from the restrictions of the old law because He had given them the special authority and power to bring about and put into effect, a new law, His new law of eternal salvation by grace, through faith in the virgin borne life, death, resurrection and ascension of the Son of God, the perfect sacrifice.
In the last part of today's quote, Jesus demonstrated that His new law of faith should not, and could not, be intermingled with the old Hebrew law.
As we continue these lessons, we will establish that even some of the apostles tried to mingle parts of the old traditions of the Law of Moses into the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the true doctrine of that governs true Christianity still today.
The apostle Paul was, on several occasions, at odds with Peter and some of the others on several issues concerning such things as circumcision etc.
Even today many of the traditions of the old Hebrew law such as baptism and the Passover meal, are very much a part of some so-called Christian doctrines.
In today's lesson Jesus made it very clear that elements of the old law were not to be mixed with his new of faith because the old law required works, whereas His new law is based on faith alone.~
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