(Lesson 2521)(11-14-18) Luke 5:33-39
    “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 quote, by employing a parable, Jesus established that the old Jewish law of perfection and the new law of grace could not be intermingled and that His apostles could not be bound by both the old and new law.
    That lesson was taught with the understanding that the old laws of the Jews required complete abstenance from sin and adherence to a required list of rituals or, in case a sin was committed, a specific sacrificial atonement was to be made for each sin that was committed; Whereas, the new law of grace requires only that a lost soul has faith in Jesus and accepts His sacrifice as the perfect intercessor for sin.
    One of the major problems with most of today’s so-called Christian religions is that they wrongfully co-mingle elements of the old laws of the Jews with Christianity completely destroying the effectiveness of either.~