When God can bring us to that place, it is but a quick task for Him to give us the new wine, the life of Jesus, the divine nature, the pre-eminent blessing of the new covenant sealed through the blood of Jesus. Such has always been the experience of all who have seen the glory of the Lord! Their face is in the dust and their mouth is shut. When the Spirit-filled apostle John, after having walked with God for 65 years, saw Jesus on the isle of Patmos, he fell at His feet as a dead man (Revelation 1:17). Daniel says that when he saw the vision the Lord gave Him, that his strength left him. He said, "My doom is sealed, for I am a foul-mouthed sinner" (Isaiah 6:5). The same thing happened to the great prophet Isaiah when he saw God's glory. The same Moses, who once thought himself to be so capable (at the age of 40), when broken by the vision of God (40 years later) says, "Lord, I can't speak. This is what happens when God has finally broken us and given us a revelation of Himself. I lay my hand upon my mouth in silence.I had only heard about you (second-hand) before, but now I have seen you and I loathe myself and repent in dust and ashes'' (Job 40:4 42:5, 6). Finally Job reached that zero-point where lying on his face in the dust, he said, "Lord, I am nothing. If only we allow God to break us, if only we would humble ourselves and gladly accept death to our rights and reputation, how quickly He could lead us into life under the new covenant! All the trying circumstances, frustrations and disappointments, heartaches etc., that we go through are meant by God to bring the strength of our self down to zero. These and other similar attitudes show how strong self still is in us - the old wine has not yet run out and Jesus waits on the sidelines doing nothing for us. We can see the strength of self in the moments of temptation and provocation, when we react with bitter words, angry expressions, self-justification, criticism and judgment of others, unforgiving attitudes, a grabbing-love for material things, fighting for our rights and our reputation, seeking vengeance etc. All our failures and defeats are meant by God to bring us to the end, for He can manifest His power perfectly only in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). ![]() He is waiting now for our strength to come to an end. Jesus waited for the old wine to run out, at Cana, before He did His miracle. The chief work that God seeks to do in each of His children is to break down the strength of self totally. When we have tried and tried and tried to live in victory and failed repeatedly, this is the lesson that God is trying to teach us: "You cannot have victory in your own strength." As long as you are under the law, you will be ruled by sin. "For the Lord God says: Only in waiting for Me will you be saved.but you say, We will get our help from Egypt (human strength)! So you will be chased by your enemies.And the Lord is waiting for you (to come to an end of yourself) and to come to Him, so that He can show you His love He will conquer you to bless you.Blessed are all those who wait for Him to help them'' (Isaiah 30:15-18 - TLB). The old wine runs out and the Lord has to wait until it runs out before He can give us the new wine. This is a parable of life under the law - the old covenant. The old wine was made with human effort, over a period of many years - but it could not meet the need. The new wine is the life of Jesus and the new wineskin is the church that Jesus builds.Īt the marriage in Cana, where Jesus was present, the old wine ran out. Jesus spoke about new wine being put into new wineskins (Luke 5:37). (828 KB) Wineskin Winery 1.11 Z2t2 3.Zac Poonen : (New Wine In New Wineskins) 1. (741 KB) Free GzX 1.11 Wineskin Winery 2.7 Updated OS X High Sierra U8G_version_1.2_MacStars.app (835 KB) 1.4 Please consider making a donation to help support development. Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. finished ported software looks and works like a Mac application. Wineskin 2.6.2 wrappers are a way to turn a Windows program into a Mac program. ![]() Wineskin Winery is used to create the newly released Wineskin 2.6.2 wrappers! Also manages/downloads Wineskin Engines, Master Wrapper versions, and even custom building engines from Wine source. ![]() ![]() Description: Wineskin Winery / Urge Software / Libraries / 872 KB / Development
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