Luke 5:36-39
36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”
The religious leaders wanted the status quo way of doing things; Jesus told them it was to be beyond rituals and to be matters of the heart that pleased God. So here He showed how old worn out patches of rote religious rituals cannot contain the real heart of God's intent in our serving and living for Him and others. But many are stuck on the old, believing it better, and so miss what the gospel of the New Covenant brings...
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