The Parables of Christ no. 42
New
Cloth on old Garment and New Wine in Old skins
Rev. Brian Kocourek
This evening I would like to continue with our study
on the parables of Christ and we shall continue with this study of the Parable
of the new Cloth as we found in Matthew 9, Mark 2, and Luke chapter 5.
MATTHEW
MARK
LUKE
5:36 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. 37 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. 38 But new wine
must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. 39 No man also having
drunk old [wine] straightway desireth new: for he
saith, The old is better.
Now, in order to understand what this parable means in this hour, we must
first understand what some of these symbols that are represented in this
parable.
As you can see from the parable that there are actually two parables
Christ tells us in these three scriptural references, and yet he is driving
home the same point in each of them. So let’s just read the first part of each
parable so we can focus on that part and then the second part, and finally
bring them together to see how they tie together.
MATTHEW
MARK
LUKE 5:36 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.
Now, as we have read this parable from three sources, Matthew Mark and
Luke, and in
the mouth of three witnesses let all things be established. So we see then, that in each of the parables,
we are told that no man would put a new cloth on an old garment. So we have two
things here, a new piece of cloth, and an old garment.
Now, the key to understanding this parable is that we must know what
these two things symbolize.
Therefore, we ask ourselves, what do these two symbols represent?
1)
What does this new piece of cloth represent? And secondly,
2)
What does the old garment represent?
Now, a garment is something that you wear that has been made from a piece
of cloth that has been cut and sown together and fashioned into something that
you wear.
So we are looking at a parable that speaks of a garment which is old and
worn and a pice of cloth that is new and fresh. And
the comment that Jesus makes is no man would place a new piece of cloth upon an
old garment lest they not agree or not fit, and the one would rend or cause to
rip the other.
In other words, if you have a new piece of cloth that has not yet been
washed, it still has room for shrinkage. But the old garment has already been
worn and has already gone through its shrinking cycles, and if you place a new
piece that can shrink on an old piece that can not shrink, then when you wash
the garment it will rip.
And this is what Jesus is warning us about through this parable, because
the garment new or old must be washed by the washing of water by the word.
EPHESIANS
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might
present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any
such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Now to find our answer, and to be sure that they are correct, we must go to our
vindicated source, and read for ours selves. And so from the Paradox, we hear
brother Branham say…
Paradox
a 65-0117 P:22 Now, we find Joshua
representing grace, or some propitiation, that it could not exist in the same
time that law was in existence. Neither
does any message, that forwards the people on, ever
coincide with a past message. It will not do it. That's where you have
trouble today. Jesus said, "Does
any person take a new piece of garment and put it into an old, or put the new
wine into old bottles? They perish. It bursts them open." They can't
stand it. And Joshua could not at all become into his ministry until after
Moses was gone. So you see the very first verse here, "Moses My servant is
dead; now arise and take this people to the promised land."
Moses, representing the law, had served its time. It's, the law had served its
time.
Notice that Brother Branham is talking about forwarding the people. That means that God does not want the people
to ever stop in their forward progress. Because if you are
not going forward, you are going backward.
ANOINTED
ONES AT END TIME 65-0725M 233 You think that
Life would ever go back after that old shucks dried up, ever go back and live
in it again? It never does. "For it is impossible for those which were
once enlightened and didn't move on with the Word as it come
to pass..." They're dead, gone. "And the thorns and thistles
which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned...".
GOD IN SIMPLICITY 63-0317M 20-3
{113} It is
strange to think how that God does such a thing as that. God will hide Himself
in something so simple that'll cause the wise to miss it a million miles and
then turn right back around in that, some simple thing in the simplicity of His
way of working and reveal Hisself right out again. I
thought it made a text that we might study this before we go into the great
teachings of the Seven Seals. Many miss Him by the way He reveals Himself.
Now, man has their own ideas of what God ought to be and what God is going to
do; and as I have made the old statement many times that man still remains man.
Man is always giving God praise for what He did do, and always looking
forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He's doing. See, see? 20-5 {114} That's the way they miss it. They look back
and see what a great thing He done, but they fail to see what a simple thing He
used to do it with. See? And then they look forward and see a great thing
coming that's going to happen, and nine times out of ten, it's already
happening right around them, and it's so simple that they don't know it. See?
And so we see that men always try to take the new patch or New Message
that God brings and they try to make it fit with their old theology or
denominational thinking and it just will not match up. And then what happens?
The new patch causes a rift in the old garment, and begins to tear way from it,
and causes a big rift to take place, and then they want to blame the new patch?
Why not blame their stupidity.
I like the way the NIV translates Isaiah 28: 8
All the tables are covered with vomit and
there is not a spot without filth. And what is vomit but the food
from another day. So all the pulpits are covered with yesterdays food. That is why in
the wilderness they were commanded to burn what was left after eating, because
they were not to carry over any food to the next day.
9 “Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he
explaining his Message? Oh, I like that because to explain His Message means he is giving the right
understanding of it. And this Scripture tells us He has come in this hour to do just that but
they do not want it. To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from
the breast?
10 For it is (what is? His Message to them is ) Do and do, do and
do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there."
11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
God will speak to this people, Notice it tells us God will speak to this people using
foreign lips, not Jewish, but gentile lips,
12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let
the weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose"—(Notice the place of my repose,
the place of my presence) but they would not listen.
13 So then, (so then what? So then because they would not listen) the word of the
LORD to them will become: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a
little here, a little there-- so that they will go and fall backward, be injured and snared and captured.
Notice because they would not enter into His presence, which is His rest,
the message will become to them rule on rule rule on
rule, and do and do, and do and do. In other words, they will go backwards and
fall back into legalism. so that
they will go and fall backward,(notice if you are not going forward you must be going
back wards, for you can not stand still when the Pillar of Fire is Moving on.
And then what will happen? They will be ) be injured and
snared and captured.
That’s why it is so important for us to recognize what God is doing now.
Not looking back 20 years ago or 40 years ago, or 50 years ago. We know what
has happened, but that is not how they miss Him. They miss Him by not seeing
Him as He is, not as He was.
And that is why Jesus also likened this to new wine in old skins.
MATTHEW
MARK
And that is the problem with so many that follow
this message. They have tried to add it to their Pentecostal understanding, and
it won’t mix.
REVELATION
BOOK OF SYMBOLS 56-0617
25 And, oh, my, I love to see God heal His
children, certainly. Don't get me wrong. But one reason I been noticing, if you
notice lately, I been trying everywhere I go, when I get an invitation, is
press in to preach just a little bit. I've let down on my preaching, and
it's putting too much on just the anointing and working on the eternal part of
the supernatural, rather, that, when, to see visions. And they're wonderful,
and I thank God for it; but yet the preaching of the Word is a million miles
beyond that, when I see the lame walk, and the blind see.
WE
WOULD SEE JESUS 58-0501
E-9 But let me say this: Christianity goes a
million miles beyond that. Christianity is presenting a living and a present
day Jesus, just the same as He was then, or the Scriptures are wrong. We
must face the fact that Christ said these things.
WHY ARE
WE NOT A DENOMINATION? 58-0927 59 Why, here's a far greater gift right here. Which would
be the best, the gift of the Holy Ghost of wisdom to put the Word of God
together and to show the church where we're standing, than just to get somebody
healed? We all want to be well; but I'd rather have my soul well, than my body
well anytime.
LUKE
5:37 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. 38 But new wine must be put into new
bottles; and both are preserved. 39 No man also having drunk old [wine]
straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
As the new wine begins to ferment, it expands and if it has been placed
into old skins, it will cause them to burst. New skins are flexible and able to
expand with the new wine, but the old skins have been stretched out as far as
they will stretch and when the new wine ferments and expands, its just too much
for the old skins and they can not take it and they burst open. And since wine represents the stimulation of
revelation, it shows the old established wine holder, the church, can not take
new revelation. They are too entrenched in their old thinking and can not take
new teaching. And so they just fall
apart when presented with new light.
Anointed ones at end time
65-0725M P:169 Notice, the Scripture now.
Teaching a historical God (See?), just like they're trying to live in the past,
like, "Well, Wesley said so-and-so; So-and-so said so-and-so," refusing the promised Word of the day,
the Manna that's clearly identified of the day. They try to put their old Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal wines in our
new bottles. It don't work. And our new wine in their old bottles won't work. If they try to put this new wine in the
denomination, their folly is made manifest. They can't do it; it blows her up.
"Now, brother, I seen the Word of God perfectly by the
Word...""Now, look here Doctor, .. We can't
have that." Ned, I think you've had some of that lately. "We just
can't have that here; now, I would rather that you maybe just go on..."
You know. See, it won't work. It blows up. You
don't put a new piece of garment in an old garment, 'cause you make it all a
rent. See? Didn't Jesus say that? You
can't put new wine in old bottles; it blows them up. The new wine's got life in
it. All right.
Now, the garment is the garment of His righteousness, and we know the
Bride has made herself ready and she is clothed in His Word. And you can not
take a new understanding and make it fit with an old understanding. If we are
dressed in robes of righteousness, then we are clothed in robes of right-wise-ness. And
right-wise-ness can not be patched onto an old way of thinking. Because in days
gone by their right-wise-ness was incomplete, and today we have the full word
and their full the full Righteousness or right-wise-ness of God. And that is
the Glory which is the Doxa of God. And we are to
receive the very mind of God. Then why would we want to place that cloth on an
old garment? On an old denominational garment?
Revelation Chapter 19 Verse 8 And to her was granted that
she should be arrayed in fine linen, (that’s
that new cloth,) clean
(new) and white(and
white stands for purity and virtue, and what is this linen? ): for the fine linen is the righteousness of
saints. 9 And he saith unto me,
Write, Blessed [are] they which are called unto the
marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These
are the true sayings of God.
Presuming
62-0117 P:92 I want to be covered with the garment of the
righteousness of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness. Sure. That's the garment we want. Yes, sir.
From the Message Ten Virgins, brother Branham tells us the garment she is
to wear is the garment of His Righteousness.
Ten
virgins 60-1211M P:147 He clothed me like the father with the
prodigal son, put a new garment upon me,
the garment, not of mine, His garment of
His righteousness He put upon me;
and a wedding ring upon my finger, that I'll be with the Bride that day.
And we know that His righteousness is His right-wise-ness. Then that
means we are to be clothes in the right-wise-ness of the Revelation of Christ. Notice,
right-wise=ness and revelation. Right-wise-ness is the new garment and the
stimulation of revelation is the new wine. See how these go together?
Birth
pains 65-0124 P:63 Now, watch, watch. The Bible
said His wife has made Herself ready at the end of the
age. How did She make Herself ready? To becoming His wife. And what did she...
What kind of garment she had on? His Own Word. She was dressed in His righteousness.
Mark of
the beast 54-0513 P:19 We found the Church standing
there in Its beauty, Christ just molded into It. And the Church had a white garment on. And you notice, It was a woman. Around the breast, it had the garment covering
over Her shame, and had a golden cord, though, pulled
around it that held it around the breast: White,
speaking of the righteousness of Christ; and the golden cord represented the Gospel. The preaching of the Gospel
brings the Holy Spirit over the Church, the
righteousness of Christ; holds it there, tied with the string, the girdle
string.
Sudden
secret going away of church 58-1012 P:39 So
they made themselves ready. So you see, there is a
ready to be made. You make yourself ready by joining church or something; that ain't all that's required. You've got to have Oil in your
lamp. See? Just your dressing, saying, "We'll
build a big church. We'll belong to a better denomination. We'll--we'll give
them a pipe organ to the Lord. We'll make plush seats. "That isn't what
God requires. Righteousness is what God requires, of His Son, Christ Jesus. That's the garments, for the Bible
said, "The white clothes which she
is adorned in is the righteousness of the saints."
REVELATION
Now this is a very
poor translation because the Greek does not even come close to this. Most translations
say, Blessed are they that wash their robes.
NIV Blessed are those who wash their robes…
New American STD
Blessed are thse who wash
their robes…
Amplified Blessed happy and to be envied
are those who cleanse their garments
And this is said in
the present tense, not the paste tense. So the correct understanding would be
blessed are they who are in the act of cleansing their robes. That is why Paul
said in Ephesians, that we are cleansed by the washing of water by the Word.