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0:00Getting into a boat, Jesus crossed over
0:02the sea and [music] came to his own
0:04city.
0:06So, he's just left the city of the
0:08Gatherines where he's performed the most
0:11powerful, shocking miracle.
0:14Demon-possessed [music] guys who lived
0:17among the tombs and everyone avoided
0:20have just been completely restored to
0:22their right mind. And the town does not
0:24come out with a bouquet or ask him to
0:26preach on Sunday. They beg him to leave
0:31because people are more afraid of the
0:34power and authority of God and his word
0:37[music] than they are the demons that
0:40live in their town.
0:43Getting into a boat, Jesus crossed over
0:45the sea and came to his own city.
0:49And they brought to him a paralytic
0:51[music] lying on a bed.
0:53Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the
0:56paralytic, "Take courage, son. Your sins
1:00are forgiven."
1:02And some of the scribes said to
1:04themselves,
1:06"This fellow blasphemes."
1:09And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said,
1:11"Why are you thinking evil in your
1:13hearts?"
1:15Which is easier, to say, "Your sins are
1:18forgiven," or to say, "Get up and walk."
1:21but so that you may know that the Son of
1:23Man has authority on earth to forgive
1:25sins.
1:27Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up,
1:30pick up your bed, and go home." And he
1:33got up and went home. But when the crowd
1:35saw this, they were aruck and glorified
1:38God who had given such authority to men.
1:43So let's think about what's what we just
1:45read.
1:46Jesus encounters a man
1:49and he shows us that the purpose of the
1:51miracle is to reveal who he is.
1:56And the scribes say that he's committed
1:59blasphemy when he says your sins are
2:01forgiven because they say only God can
2:04forgive sins. Is that true? Yes, that is
2:06true. But what they can't get their
2:09minds around is that they are
2:11encountering God. that this is God in
2:13the flesh. And the miracle is not for
2:17its own sake. It is so that they may
2:20know that the son of man has power to
2:23forgive sins. So that they may know that
2:26the son of man has authority on earth to
2:30unbind people from the spiritual bondage
2:34that is oppressing them. Whether it's a
2:36demon possession as in the previous
2:38chapter or it's sin. Jesus looked at
2:42this man on the pallet and he was more
2:45concerned about the bondage of his soul
2:48in sin than the bondage of his body in
2:51paralysis.
2:53But the beauty is Jesus calls him son.
2:59We love to think of Jesus as son because
3:02he was God's son but he was also as a
3:06father and he had 12 disciples like
3:11Israel had 12 sons
3:14and he was looking for a relationship to
3:17father people in the grace of God. And
3:20so when he saw this paralytic, he says
3:24something that this paralytic gets to
3:26hear from his ears that we don't see
3:28almost anywhere else in scripture. He
3:30calls the man son. This next section
3:33we're going to hear where Matthew talks
3:36about himself. Okay? But listen to how
3:39little ego Matthew weaves into the
3:43story.
3:45As Jesus went on from there, he saw a
3:48man called Matthew
3:51sitting in the tax collector's booth.
3:54And he said to him, [clears throat]
3:55"Follow me."
3:58And he got up and followed him.
4:03Now, that is the entirety of Matthew's
4:06comment on himself.
4:10He doesn't paint some vivid drama.
4:13He just says, "God saw me when nobody
4:17else did." And he spoke two words to me
4:21that changed my life forever.
4:24Then it happened that as Jesus was
4:25reclining at the table in the house,
4:28behold, many tax collectors and sinners
4:30came and were dining with Jesus and his
4:34disciples.
4:35And when the Pharisees saw this, they
4:37said to the disciples, "Why is your
4:40teacher eating with tax collectors and
4:42sinners?" But when Jesus heard this, he
4:46said, "It is not those who are healthy
4:49who need a physician, but those who are
4:53sick. But go and learn what this means.
4:57I desire compassion,
5:00not sacrifice.
5:02for I did not come to call the righteous
5:05but sinners.
5:07So here's Matthew's unspoken narrative.
5:11He starts this section by saying, "I was
5:14a tax collector and he called me." And
5:17then he tells a story about how they had
5:20dinner that night and people were
5:22offended that he Matthew was the was
5:25there with Jesus and a one of the kinds
5:28of people Jesus was hanging out with.
5:31And he remembers what Jesus said to
5:34those who protested to this grace that
5:37God came to call sinners to say to the
5:42broken, to say to the needy, "Follow
5:44me." and to see them actually do it.
5:49Then the disciples of John came to him
5:51asking,
5:53"Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but
5:57your disciples do not fast?" And Jesus
6:00said to them, "The attendants of the
6:04bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the
6:07bridegroom is with them, can they?"
6:10But the days will come when the
6:12bridegroom is taken away from them,
6:14[clears throat]
6:15and then they will fast.
6:19But no one puts a patch of unshrunk
6:21cloth on an old garment, for the patch
6:26pulls away from the garment, and a worse
6:29tear results.
6:32Nor do people put new wine into old wine
6:36skins. Otherwise, the wine skins burst
6:39and the wine pours out and the wine
6:41skins are ruined.
6:43But they put new wine into fresh wine
6:46skins and both are preserved.
6:50So in this section,
6:53John's disciples are asking Jesus,
6:57why don't your disciples behave in an
7:01expected religious way?
7:05And Jesus is saying that expected
7:08religious way
7:10is an old way. It's an old garment
7:16and I am a new thing and I am not a
7:20patch that you can stitch onto your old
7:22garment.
7:24I am a whole new thing. And it's not
7:28going to work to cut pieces of my
7:31teaching and ways out and glue them onto
7:34your old thinking and traditions and
7:37rituals. You're going to have to throw
7:39away the whole garment and acknowledge,
7:42behold, God is doing something new. And
7:46then he gives the analogy of the wine
7:47skins.
7:50New wine is far more turbulent
7:56and it swells and it's got much more gas
7:59in it still. So if you put it in an old
8:02wine skin, it's going to burst.
8:05But the old wine skin is for wine that
8:07is old, that doesn't have that power,
8:10that intensity in it. And Jesus is
8:13saying, "The power and intensity of what
8:16I'm bringing will burst
8:18the container of your traditional
8:21religion.
8:22So, you're going to have to get a new
8:24container if you're going to receive
8:26what I'm bringing." Now, he's given this
8:29idea of this new way, this new
8:31container. And then Matthew starts the
8:34next the next section of his chapter
8:37with these words. While he was saying
8:40these things to them, something begins
8:45to happen. Now, I want you to understand
8:48that Matthew wants us to understand that
8:52there is a connection with the miracles
8:55that are about to be described and this
8:58new attitude that Jesus is just
9:00describing
9:02about the wine, skin, and the garment.
9:05Okay? Jesus is saying to religious
9:10people,
9:11you're not coming at my preaching and
9:14message the right way. You're coming at
9:17it wrong. You've got to come with a new
9:20mindset.
9:22You've got to come with a new faith. And
9:25while he's saying this,
9:28there's someone in his audience who is
9:31the ruler of the synagogue.
9:34And that person, he doesn't wait until
9:37the sermon ends to obey. He gets a new
9:40wine skinin right on the spot. And he
9:44interrupts Jesus with a request that is
9:48as new and turbulent as the the wine
9:51that Jesus is pouring out. So this
9:55exchange is an example of what he has
9:58just instructed.
10:01That's what the Bible wants us to get
10:02when it says while he was still saying
10:05these things to them. Okay. So, you're
10:09thinking, "What would a new wine skin
10:11look like in my life?" The next stories
10:13are going to tell you what new wine skin
10:15looks like. Old wine skin looks like
10:17sitting back and waiting and watching
10:19and asking very intelligent questions.
10:22That's what the scribes and religious
10:24have done so far. It's words. It's
10:27questions. new wine skin looks like
10:30stepping forward with a commitment of
10:33faith that acknowledges God can do what
10:36I need him to do and I'm I'm accepting
10:38it. I'm ready for it. So, here's the new
10:40wine skin. While he was saying these
10:45things to them, a synagogue official
10:50came and bowed down before him. Does
10:54that feel like a new way?
10:58And he said, "My daughter has just died,
11:04but come and lay your hand on her and
11:08she will live."
11:12That's not a question.
11:15That's not a testing.
11:17That's not a panic. That is a new wine
11:20skin.
11:22And Jesus got up and began to follow
11:26him. [clears throat]
11:27And so did his disciples.
11:31This new wine skin puts Jesus in action
11:34immediately. He's not cutting Jesus out
11:37as a piece of cloth on his old garment
11:40and he's not using an old skin. He's
11:42coming with a whole new way. He commits
11:44himself to the course of faith. Here's
11:47my problem. I'm humbling [clears throat]
11:49myself by bowing first. I'm
11:51acknowledging my problem and then I'm
11:54committing that I know my daughter will
11:57live if you come into this situation.
12:03So Jesus gets up and he's moving.
12:06He's going somewhere. It's an urgent
12:08process. I mean, who would want to
12:11interrupt Jesus
12:13while he's on the way to raise a
12:15daughter from the dead?
12:17I wouldn't. But there was a woman
12:21who had heard that message about a new
12:23wine skinin. And she was afraid that the
12:26old wineskin would be waiting for a
12:28better time. So she grabbed her new wine
12:31skin. Listen to this. While he's walking
12:34toward the ruler's house, it says, "And
12:36a woman who had been suffering from a
12:40hemorrhage for 12 years came up behind
12:44him and [clears throat] touched the
12:46fringe of his cloak.
12:49For she was saying to herself,
12:54"If only I touch his garment, I will get
12:58well."
13:00These two people have the same
13:03definitive faith that the centurion had
13:06in the previous chapter. They are
13:09claiming it. They are confessing his
13:11power and they're saying it to themsel.
13:14This is the new wineskin. The new wine
13:17skin is faith, not testing. It's action,
13:21not waiting. It's now, not later.
13:27But Jesus turning and seeing her said,
13:30"Daughter,
13:32take courage. Your faith has made you
13:34well." At once the woman was made well.
13:40I think it took a lot of courage to get
13:42down on her knees and go touch him while
13:45he's moving to raise a girl from the
13:47dead.
13:49But she apparently had fear, too.
13:53Apparently, there was a war inside
13:55between courage and fear. And so, he
13:59looked behind her and said, "Take
14:01courage. You're healed."
14:05When Jesus came into the officials house
14:07and saw the flute players and the crowd
14:10in noisy disorder,
14:13he said, "Leave."
14:17That's what Jesus says to all of our old
14:21wine skins.
14:23Leave.
14:25Leave for the girl has not died, but is
14:29asleep. and they began laughing at him.
14:33And when the crowd had been sent out, he
14:35entered and took her by the hand, and
14:38the girl got up.
14:41The news spread throughout all the land.
14:44As Jesus went on from there, two blind
14:46men followed him, crying out, "Have
14:49mercy on us, son of David."
14:52When he entered the house, the blind men
14:54came up to him. And Jesus said to them,
14:57"Do you believe that I am able to do
15:00this?
15:01We need a new wine skin here. We need
15:04definitive faith. We don't just need
15:06please and questions."
15:09They said to him, "Yes, Lord." Then he
15:13touched their eyes, saying, "It shall be
15:16done to you according to your faith."
15:20and their eyes were opened and Jesus
15:23sternly warned them, "See that no one
15:27knows about this." This is the second
15:30time in two chapters when he's performed
15:32a notable miracle and he's warned them,
15:35"Do not tell people about this."
15:39But when they went out,
15:41but they went out and spread the news
15:45about him throughout all the land.
15:49As they were going out, a mute,
15:52demon-possessed man was brought to him.
15:55After the demon was cast out, the mute
15:57man spoke, and the crowds were amazed
15:59and were [music] saying, "Nothing like
16:02this has ever been seen in Israel."
16:06But the Pharisees were saying, now
16:08here's [music] some old wine skins, but
16:10the Pharisees were saying, "He casts
16:13[music] out the demons by the ruler of
16:16the demons."
16:18Jesus was going through all the cities
16:20and villages teaching in their
16:22synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of
16:26the kingdom
16:28and healing every kind of disease and
16:31every kind of [music] sickness.
16:33Seeing the people, he felt compassion
16:35for them
16:37because they were distressed
16:40and dispirited
16:42like sheep without a shepherd.
16:45Then he said to his disciples, "The
16:48harvest is plentiful, but the workers
16:50are few. Therefore, beseech the Lord of
16:54the harvest to send out workers into his
16:58[music] harvest."
17:00Now, this last section is so powerful
17:04because it tells us the mindset
17:08that Jesus had and the condition that he
17:12came to.
17:13It says that he had compassion for the
17:16people because they [music] were
17:18distressed
17:19and dispirited.
17:22That literally means they were harassed
17:26and thrown down.
17:30You picture someone being harassed and
17:32tossed to the ground. That was the
17:35condition of the church, of the people
17:37of God. And that was the environment the
17:40Messiah stepped into and began
17:43performing miracles in.
17:45And that's the environment God can still
17:47work in in our lives.
17:53[music]

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