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They said to Him, John's disciples often fast and pray and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking. Jesus answered, Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, in those days they will fast. He told them this parable: No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine MUST be poured into new wineskins so that both may be PRESERVED. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.' Luke5:33-39. The Pharisees asked Jesus why His disciples were not fasting often as they were. Jesus's response is very intresting. First he points out that they are operating on His presence and the anointing that is in Him. And onces He goes away (dies and resurrect from the grave), they will have the anointing in them too. Then they will qualify for fasting. He went on further to point out that taking things from the new dispensation (grace--new garment) and merging them with the old (law--old garment) will not work. His disciple were to put on the new garment but at that time there had to shed the old garment--all of it. Fasting and prayer was a way to put on the new garment. To fast then without removing the old would be to tear the new garment to patch the old. Why? Becouse you can never have the whole new garment without removing the whole of the old first. The disciples had to be renewed in their minds before they can fast and pray. The other problem of fasting without renewal of the mind is that you tear from the new, you dont get all of the new. Little knowledge is dangerous!! You also mix the old with the new. The new will be dominated by the
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