Matthew 9:14-17• Then the disciples of John came to Him,

saying, ’Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?’ And Jesus said to them, ‘Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:14-17• No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth

on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

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• A record of our Lord Jesus being questioned about not fasting and His response to them.• How He used wedding feast,

wineskins and old garment to teach the spiritual truth behind something so common to them.

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• This short conversation contains great spiritual truth that reveals new mindset is needed to understand God’s revelation and His word.

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• And how new mindset brings about accurate and dynamic application of spiritual truth in our daily living.

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1. Do not follow blindly without understanding.

a. Wedding banquet is a time of feasting and having merry.

* Matthew 9:15 ‘Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?’

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1. Do not follow blindly without understanding.

b. Fasting is about encountering God and Jesus is the answer.

* Matthew 9:14 ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?’

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1. Do not follow blindly without understanding.

c. New wineskin represents the need of new mindset or paradigm shift in our thinking and doing thing.

• Matthew 9:17 ‘But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.’

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2. To know the time and the season.a. A time to feast and a time to fast.• Matthew 9:15 ‘But the days will

come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.’

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2. To know the time and the season.

b. A time to seek and a time to listen.• Luke 8:18

Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given…..

New Wineskin2. To know the time and the season.c. A time to receive and a time to act.• Luke 19:41-44 Now as He drew near, He

saw the city and wept over it, saying, ‘If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes… because you did not know the time of your visitation.’

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3. To set our focus & priority right.

a. Wedding feast is about the bride and the groom.

* John 5:39 ‘ You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.

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3. To set our focus & priority right.b. Fasting without purpose and focus

serves nothing.• Isaiah 58:3 ‘Why have we fasted,

they say, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’

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3. To set our focus & priority right.c. The priority is to hear God’s voice

and ready to respond to it.• Zechariah 7:13 ‘Therefore it

happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen,’ says the LORD of hosts.

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• No more disciples of JTB around.• 2 Chronicles 7:14

‘If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

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• Matt 6:17 ‘But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face…….

• Fasting is an integral part of our relationship and ministry unto God.

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• Matthew 17:21 ‘However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.’

• Could it be fasting and praying the answer and solution to our situation?