Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with new wine skin as we've given Luke chapter 5 verse 36.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

Then he spake a parable unto them.

No man puts a piece of a new garment on an old.

If otherwise, then both the new makes a tear, and the piece that was taken out of the new

does not agree with the old. They didn't have sanferized shrunk in those days. And so if you take a

new patch and sew it into an old garment, the first time you washed it, the new patch, not being

pre-shrunk, would shrink. Of course, the garment had already been washed enough that all of the

shrinkage was out of it. But you put a new cloth into an old garment, the new cloth as soon as you

wash it would shrink and it just make the tear worse.

So Jesus said you just don't put a new patch on an old garment.

It's only going to rip it up more.

And also, he said, no man puts new wine into old bottles.

Now when they poured the new wine into the wine skins, there was a chemical reaction that created a gas.

So if you would pour the new wine into the old wine skins, it would cause it to immediately ferment,

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