Monday, January 16, 2017
11:10 AM

Then they said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?" And He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?  But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days." Then He spoke a parable to them: "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.  But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.  And no one, having drunk old wine,  immediately desires new; for he says, 'The old is better.' " 

Luke 5:33‭-‬39 NKJV

Before God wants to do new thing, the vessel needs to change first.

Traditions get in the way of Kingdom of God, get rid of them!

God is not against old.

Rigidity against flexibility

Old covenant is a great covenant. It was superseded by new covenant.

God withholds what He wants to do because we are not ready. We are not adjusted to what God wants to do in Cornerstone.

See greater power and glory of God.

Prepare to change 

Enlarge and stretch me!

June 1995 started Cornerstone

20 years ago was new now no longer new

Be recipient of new wine

Structure stretchable

Church that has wine skin that can contain what God wants to do.

Luke 5 - NO ONE 

Jesus said 3x

If no one, what make us think He will do what He wants to do in this church

Church full of lives cannot come under the covering of dead denomination. Not confine under denomination

We must be prepare for the new wine

God takes the responsibility to give us bigger space. Revival

Greek

New - neos - quantitively new

Kainos - qualitatively new

Romans 5:17 - Kainos 

**Neos wine into Kainos wineskin

(HS is one but we want more)

We have to think differently.

New wineskins are flexible and stretchable 

Old are not. Rigid 

Fermentation will tear the old wineskins

Change is the only constant in life

Let God be the one satisfy me

Momentum to seek God

Do not stay at where you are too long

Life is a river that keep flowing

When the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change, we have to move on!

Discomfort is the signal that you need grow

Hermit crab - choose safety. Only exist

Other Crabs grow n become strong

God is going to do something tremendous

Isaiah 42:19

Jesus said Watch and pray

Operating system installed so that it can process the new information.

Right operating system to meet the need. 

Clear the old system from the hard drive

Upgrade our operating system

Hebrew chapter 1

Now God spoke to us through His Son

We don't have to go to a prophet

NT - all of us are called to be king and priest

Wales revival 

Whole nation of Wales was led by the Holy Ghost

Blue print of God what He has for Cornerstone

Cornerstone is unique

Every church is unique