I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. This is part nine in the Mark series going verse by verse through the entire Gospel of Mark covering theology.

Apologetics, historical insights, simple verse by verse teaching and with an emphasis on application to our lives,

so that we have the whole gamut, hopefully,

of the kind of way that you can approach the Bible.

At least that's my heart and my hope behind it this week for a preview.

And you'll notice this as I teach especially since the content goes

online and the titles of videos don't let me really summarize what the study is about.

So the first moments in the message I like to tell you what I'm going to tell you.

So we're going to give you two different passages really in the Gospel of Mark and one of them involves a puzzling parable about wine skins and new wine and old wine and a piece of cloth and how it would shrink and tear from the

old and so this old and new parable or illustration of Jesus that I think is often abused and so I'm want to talk about that because the proper use not

of the parables of Jesus is kind of important so that we're not misusing the words of

Christ. But also in a real sense this first passage we're going to cover it deals with your

Christian worldview it's like a test tonight to see how biblical is your worldview

when it comes to this issue that we're going to be in right now.

Because this is one of the areas where Christianity says to the world, yeah, you're pretty

much all wrong on this topic and in coming to Christ this is one of the

renewal of your mind type things where it changes your mind about who we are and about how good people actually are.

This is a really big deal.

So first I'll just read through this first passage.

It's Mark Chapter 2, verse 13, we'll read through

verse 17, and then we're going to cover it in more detail after we get it just

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