New Wine Must Be Put Into New Bottles

Luke 5

37 And no man puts new wine into old bottles (wineskins); else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish (to try to attach the New Covenant to the Old would destroy both Covenants).

38 But new wine (New Covenant) must be put into new bottles (new skins); and both are preserved (the “new wine” is the New Covenant; the “new bottles” constitute the Church; this means that Judaism will have no place whatsoever in Christianity, even though the roots of Christianity are definitely in Judaism).

39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway (immediately) desires new: for he says, The old is better (the Old Covenant had to be done away with completely, or else the New would not have been accepted; Why? “Works” are always more appealing to men than “Faith”; Why? “Works” appeals to pride, while “Faith” appeals to the Cross).

 

Swaggart, J. (2005). The Expositor’s Study Bible (p. 1772). Baton Rouge, LA: Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.