Everyone loves a good story and a good storyteller.

But there is no storyteller like the Lord Jesus, and there are no greater stories told than the ones Jesus shared.

In this study, spiritual stories, we consider the parables Jesus told

and their application to us. These are truly the greatest stories ever told, and the Lord

has something He wants to say to you through them. Let's join Scott Pauli now. There's something wonderful about things when they are brand new, when they are fresh and they work properly.

They're not old and run down and cracked and torn and worn.

May I just say to you that we serve a God who makes all things new?

This is the great lesson we come to today in the parable of Jesus in Matthew chapter 9.

In fact, there are two verses here

each of them gives us a picture and the two pictures form the one parable let me read it to you

Matthew chapter 9 verse 16 Jesus said no man puteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment

for that which is put in to fill it up, takeeth from the garment, and the rent is made

worse.

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out,

and the bottles perish, but they put new wine into new bottles and both are

preserved. Now, these two verses, Matthew 9, verse 16 and 17, are paralleled in Mark chapter 2 and in

Luke chapter 5. You can read these exact same thoughts recorded by three different gospel writers and compare

scripture with scripture.

But what's the point?

What is Jesus saying in this parable?

He's talking to us about when the old becomes new.

Now, in our world with men, new things become old.

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