Luke chapter 5. I'm going to read verses 29, sorry,
verses 27 through the end of the chapter. Luke chapter 5,
verse 27. After these things, he went forth
and saw a publican named Levi sitting at the receipt of custom.
And he said unto him, Follow me. This is the Lord Jesus Christ
speaking. And Levi left all, rose up, and
followed him. And Levi made him a great feast
in his own house. And there was a great company
of publicans and of others that sat down with them. But their
scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying,
Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus
answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance. And they said unto him, why do
the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise
the disciples of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink? And
he said unto them, can ye make the children of the bride chamber
fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will
come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and
then shall they fast in those days. And he spake also a parable
unto them. No man putteth a piece of a new
garment upon an old. If otherwise, then both the new
maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new
agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth new wine into
old bottles, else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be
spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be
put into new bottles, and both are preserved. No man also, having
drunk old wine, straightway desireth new, for he saith, The old is
better. Now, this is the account of Levi
being called by the Lord. This is the account of his conversion
by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he continues to be
converted, continues to be taught of the Lord as soon as he's called
here in everything that takes place. Levi, you know, he was
a publican. He was a tax collector. He was
a sinner. A great sinner. But he was chosen
of God. And he was righteous in Christ,
his surety. And therefore, Christ came to
him. came to where he was and Christ
called him. It says here, after these things
he went forth, Christ did, and he saw a publican named Levi
sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said unto him, follow
me. And with that one command, follow me. With that one command,
the Lord Jesus gave to Levi spiritual life where there was no life.
If God ever commands you to do anything, He's going to provide
that which He's commanded. He said, come forth, follow me. And He gave him spiritual life
with that command. He gave him faith where there
was no faith. Levi saw the glory of God in
the face of Christ Jesus when He spoke in his heart. And in
that one command He gave him, Through faith, that faith that
lay in that instant that saw the Redeemer and believed on
Him, the Lord gave Levi forgiveness of sin. Levi beheld his sins
forgiven in this one. And the Lord gave him repentance
with this command. He was turned by the Lord by
this command, follow me. And because he was turned by
the Lord, he turned and he followed the Lord. Have you been called
by the Master's voice? Have you heard the Master's voice?
Have you heard Him say, follow me? Turn from unbelief to faith. Turn from rebellion to surrender. Turn from hatred to love. Turn from your sin to Him who
is your Savior. Turn from your self-righteousness
to the Lord. our righteousness. Have you heard
that? This is what happens when you hear it. Verse 28, And he
left all, and rose up, and followed him. For the first time, some
of you have experienced this power. You have experienced this
call. You've heard Christ speak to
you in your heart. And you've confessed that all
you are is sin. and you confess that all your
hope is Christ. And when you're baptized, this
is what you're going to be confessing publicly. You're going to be
confessing that you have left all. Everything that you are
in yourself, everything you ever hoped in in yourself, and everything
of this world, you have left all. that you have risen up in
Christ the Lord, and that you're now following Him. That's what
you'll be confessing. I want to look at tonight, feasting
with a new believer. Feasting with a new believer.
And I want to give you four words to encourage you, to warn you,
and for you to follow. First of all, always be concerned
for the souls of others. Verse 29 says, Levi made him
a great feast in his own house, and there was a great company
of publicans and of others that sat down with them. We can relate
to the joy that Levi had, can't we? Levi had met his Savior. He met God Almighty. He met the
Lord. And he wanted everybody he knew,
all his former companions and everybody he loved and he cared
about, he wanted them to meet him. He wanted them to know him.
And so he made this feast in his house. Levi had some wealth,
and he probably had this wealth, got it through being a tax collector,
Sinful ways we don't know that for sure, but he had a lot he
had enough to and have this big feast in his house And he used
what he had that he was getting for himself before now he used
it To try to introduce sinners to the Savior. That's what he
was using it for And you know what he felt like don't you?
Some of you here now who have experienced this joy, this rejoicing,
you want others to know what you know. You want them to behold
Him and rejoice in Him. Always desire that. Never lose
it. Always have that preeminent in
your heart that you might have others don't. You notice here
before he was a tax collector, he was taken from people. for
Rome and for himself. Now he's a giver. Now he's wanting to give what
he's been given. He's wanting to show his Savior
to people. Leave out and spare any expense.
Don't spare any. Take what you have. It doesn't
matter how much you have. Take what you have and use it.
Whatever you have, however you can, use it for the furtherance
of the gospel. Invite everybody you can to come
hear the gospel. Just like that Samaritan woman.
She said, I've met somebody that told me everything I ever did.
And she said, is this not the Christ? She said, come and see
Him. This is what Philip said to Nathaniel. We found him. Come. Come and
see. Come and see. Secondly, be aware. Always aware that as you walk
with Christ and you walk with the brethren, folks are going
to look down on you. Poor, pitiful you. Poor, pitiful
you. Verse 30. But their scribes and
Pharisees murmured against his disciples saying, why do you
eat and drink with publicans and sinners? Those who don't
want anything to do with religion and those who are religious,
both together, will criticize you. They'll criticize you, both
those who are wise in this world, philosophers and Greeks and think
they know everything there is to know. And they just in their
heads come up with how they think things are and why the world
exists. They're going to look down on you. And those who are
self-made, self-made righteous men, self-made holy men, they're
going to look down on you too. They're going to look down on
you and they're going to look down on your brethren. And they're
going to say, all you've done is sin. I know what you've done
before. I know what you've done now.
I know what a sinner you still are. And I know that all those
people you worship with, they're nothing but sinners. Why in the
world do you want to associate yourself with folks like that?
Why do you want to buy into this? And why do you want to say that
you're a sinner before folks? Listen to what the Lord answered.
This is why you can expect it, and this is why men will say
it. Verse 31, Jesus answering said unto them, They that are
whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Sinners think
they're whole by nature. Sinners think they're righteous
by nature. And well people don't go to a
doctor. And people that aren't sinners, and
people that aren't unrighteous. They don't come to the great
position and they don't come to Christ our righteousness. They don't come looking for healing
of him who alone can heal because they got no need of healing. Are you sick? Is there anybody
here who's sick? Anybody here who's sick in and
of themselves, absolutely destitute of any kind of healing? not able
to give it to yourself and absolutely in need of healing? Or are you
whole? Are you in yourself whole, fine,
just right and you don't have need of anybody to heal you? Are you completely, totally,
in and of yourself unrighteous without any goodness in you whatsoever? Or are you righteous and you
don't have any need of Christ the righteous? It's either one
or the other. It's either one or the other. This is what he said, verse 32,
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. If
anybody asks you and they say, why in the world do you sit and
you eat with sinners? Why do you sit and you eat with
sinners? You know this, you can say this,
all I am, in and of myself is sin. All I am in and of myself
is absolute unrighteousness. All I am in and of myself is
absolutely unholy, imperfect. But my Savior My Lord came to
call sinners just like me. He came to call the worst of
the worst just like I am. And He called me to His table. And He sat down with me at His
table. And He feeds me at His table. And I delight to be fed of Him. That's why I eat with Him. And that's why He eats with me.
Alright, thirdly, be on guard and be aware that Satan will
use anything to turn your minds from the simplicity of Christ. Look at verse 33, And they said
unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make
prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees, but thine eat
and drink? You see, the man who's carnally
minded, the man who has his mind, his affection set on the flesh,
which is what all unregenerate men do, all men who are born
into this world have their mind and their affection set on this
world. And all men who are that way
by nature, even if they take religion, even if they decide
now they're going to be religious, they still have their minds and
their affections set on the flesh. And when they have their minds
set on the flesh, they're going to use those things that they
think fleshly in an outward way makes them to differ. They're
going to use those things to try to sidetrack you and move
you away from Christ and point you away from Christ to things
that do not matter at all. They don't matter at all. They
tried to divide here based on who it was That was the preacher
who was doing the discipling. Look what they said. They divided
it here into three. They said, why do the disciples
of John? And then they said, the disciples
of the Pharisees? And they said, of the Lord's
disciples. But then there's your disciples. This was a carnal distinction
that the Pharisees made. The Lord never made this distinction. And His people aren't making
this distinction. This is a distinction of those
who are carnal, those who are looking on the flesh. Christ
Jesus is the prophet sent of God. John the Baptist was Christ's
messenger sent before Him to declare His coming, sent of God. And all those who are sent of
God, who preach the gospel of Christ and shut centers up to
salvation of the Lord alone, those sent of God, they're declaring
the truth. And whether you're called of
Christ Himself, or whether you're called of John the Baptist, or
whether you're called of another man, If you've been called, you've
been called by the Spirit of God, and you're one in Christ,
and you're Christ's disciple. It doesn't matter who it was
that was used to call you. The preacher doesn't matter.
Look over at 1 Corinthians 1 and verse 12. You're going to have
this, and you bear this in mind. When you ask somebody to come
here, you're not trying to Don't ever say, put your preacher over
their preacher. That's not the purpose. Let men do that. That's not the
purpose. Come to hear Christ. Come to
hear Christ. Look here, 1 Corinthians 1. Now
this I say, that every one of you sayeth
I'm of Paul and I of Apollos and I of Cephas and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified
for you or were you baptized in the name of Paul? Look over
at chapter three and verse four. For while one sayeth I'm of Paul
and another I'm of Apollos, are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul? Who's Apollos? But ministers
by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man. I've planted Apollos' water,
but God gave the increase. So then, neither is he that planteth
anything, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase. That's who you're called by.
So it's not, this was a carnal distinction. A carnal distinction.
But now look here at the next thing. They were trying to divide
based on fasting and prayer. Ceremonies of fasting and ceremony
of prayer. They were looking at things,
these outward observances. And notice how that they sought
to gain common ground with John's disciples. Because they saw something
in John's disciples that they were doing that resembled something
that they thought resembled something they were doing. And so look
what they said. They said unto him, why do the
disciples of John fast often and make prayers? And likewise,
just like them, the disciples of the Pharisees do too. But,
they said, Christ and his disciples, they eat and drink. Do you see
how they're making this distinction? They're trying to divide based
on these outward observances. Now a fast, let me say this,
is the afflicting of the soul. I said this to you before the
message, it symbolized spiritual humility. There was a lot of
people who just came and observed the fast on the Day of Atonement.
That's where the main instruction of the fast is. On that day the
Lord said, abstain from every, stop all working, don't work
at all. And He said, and afflict your
soul. So that when they stopped working and they stopped eating
and trying to live off of fleshly things, all eyes were on the
high priest and on the sacrifice he was making. And this is the
spiritual significance. When we behold Christ, brethren,
we stop all our working. All our works of righteousness
are done. They're over. We're humbled in
the heart, afflicted in the soul, so that we mourn our sin, we
behold our sin, but we're brought to Christ. And all eyes focused
on Him, all hope on Him, all faith cast into His hand, so
that now we're trusting Him alone to save us. And this is what
the fast pictured. Let me show you over in Joel
2. Joel 2. And prayer. Prayer. I mean, what is prayer? Think
about prayer. What is prayer? Prayer is you casting everything
into God's hand in prayer. And this was what this was showing,
the total, complete mourning and humiliation of our flesh. No goodness in it, no usefulness
in it, and the casting of all into the arms of God. Now watch
what the Lord says. Joel 2, verse 12. Therefore also
now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me, with all your heart
and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. You see all
of these words here are telling us what a true fast is. It's turning with all your heart,
weeping, mourning, rend your heart, not your garments. and
turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil."
Now that's what the spiritual significance of this fast was,
and I don't have any doubt, no doubt whatsoever, that John the
Baptist, being sent of the Lord, I have no doubt that John the
Baptist taught his disciples the significance of a fast and
of prayer. And I have no doubt that what
they did when they fasted and when they prayed, it was not
at all the spirit of what the Pharisees were doing. The Pharisees
were doing what they did to be seen of men, to make people see
and acknowledge and look at how holy and humble they were. And all it was, was pride and
rebellion. All it was, was them feasting
on their own fleshly works and their own fleshly so-called holiness. That's all it was. It was not
a fast and mourning. and rejoicing in Christ at all.
And they were so upset that everybody else was rejoicing in Christ
and celebrating Christ right here at this table that they
couldn't stand that people wasn't looking at them. Don't you think
it's Interesting that they said two things. They said, why does
he eat with sinners and publicans? And the second thing they said
is, why do you eat and drink at all? Why don't you fast and
pray? And all of this while the Lord was sitting at a table with
somebody He just called by His grace, who was just rejoicing
and just, just rejoicing in His Lord. But
by what they did, By what they said, by putting this question
forward, you know what they did? You know what they did? Some
of those disciples of John were turned aside. Not totally, not
completely, but they were turned to their flesh for a little while
and they came and Matthew tells us In chapter 9 verse 14 it says,
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and
the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples fast not? See,
if you start looking at this world's religion and listening
to the world, say, well now, me and you, we do this thing
alike. But now, you and I agree on this,
why do the rest of those folks down there not do this? You'll
start looking at those things that you might think are important,
that are fleshly, that you do that somebody else doesn't do,
or that you don't do that somebody else does, and you'll start saying,
well, why do I do these things and you don't do those things?
And you know what you've done? You've allowed Self-righteous
legal religion to turn you from Christ to yourself and it'll
cause a division Satan has won the day. He's gotten just what
he wanted you to look at you and away from Christ So look
over Colossians 2. Let's see what Paul says about
that Colossians 2 look at verse 8 Beware Colossians 2.8, Beware
lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit. That's what it's going to be.
It's going to be about philosophy and vain deceit. After the traditions
of men, after the rudiments or elements of this world, that's
what the Pharisees were getting them to look at, and not after
Christ. For in Christ dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily, and everything you need to dwell
with God you have in Christ. And ye are complete in Him, which
is the head of all principality and power. Look down there at
verse 16. Look at verse 14. He came, Christ
did, and by His own flesh He blotted out the handwriting of
ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, took
it out of the way, nailing it to His cross. And having spoiled
principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing
over them in it. So they wanted to make a show,
he made a show. He triumphed over all of that
himself. Let no man therefore judge you
in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new
moon, or of the Sabbath days, which are a shadow, that's all
they were, was a shadow of things to come. but the bodies of Christ. He's the image of those things.
He's the fulfillment of those things, of what they all pictured
and typified. So let no man beguile you, trick
you of your reward, in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels,
intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed
up by his fleshly mind, and not holding Christ to head, from
which all the body by joints and bands have nourishment, ministered
and knit together, and increased with the increase of God. Now
if you're dead, if you're really dead, if you died with Christ,
look at verse 20. If you're dead with Christ from
the rudiments of the world, why as though living in the world
are you subject to ordinances? Touch not, taste not, handle
not. All those things are going to perish with the using. They're
all after the commandments and doctrines of men. They have indeed
a show. Then that's what they're for.
Just men trying to show their wisdom. It's will worship. It's the humility of the flesh. It's a neglecting of the body. But it's not honoring or satisfying
at all of the flesh. None of it is. So don't be distracted. Don't be turned away. Now here's
the fourth thing. Set your affection on Christ
alone. Now Christ, Jesus, in our text gives us four reasons
not to turn, not to join with the vain licentiousness of this
world's religion. Here's what He tells us. Here's
the four reasons. Christ is with us. He's come. Here's the second reason. We're
robed in His righteousness. Here's the third reason. We've
been made new creatures in Him. And here's the fourth reason.
He's given us a taste for something that's far better. Let's see
it real quick. First of all, we have Christ.
Look at verse 34. Luke 5, 34. Can you make the
children of the bridegroom fast? Make them mourn while the bridegroom's
with them? We mourn and we weep at funerals,
don't we? But we celebrate and rejoice
at a wedding, don't we? He said, can you make the children
of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? Christ is the bridegroom and
His church is the bride and every elect individual child of God
who's been chosen and redeemed and called by the Spirit of God
is the children of the bride chamber. And he came to Levi
there, and he called him by his grace, and he made Levi leave
everything, and he made him come, and Levi now is sitting down
at a table with Christ. This is a marriage feast. This
is a time of rejoicing, isn't it? That's what it is when you've
come to Him. Now, look at verse 35. But the days will come when
the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then shall they
fast in those days when Christ went to the cross. He was taken
from His disciples, and He went to that cross, and He bore their
sins in His own body on the tree, and He put away their sins by
the sacrifice of Himself, and He brought in this everlasting
righteousness. And during that time when He
was crucified and He was put into that grave, they mourned. They mourned. But you know what
the first thing He did when He came to them? He sat down with
them at a table and he ate. He sat down and he ate with them.
He ate with them. The Lord, he said in Zechariah,
he said, when the Lord comes, all these fasts that you've been
observing, he said, they're all going to be a feast of rejoicing.
And that's exactly what they are. He's come now and He's put
away our sin. And we may mourn for a season,
we may have times when we sense His presence more than others,
but because He's risen and poured out the Holy Spirit and His Spirit
has come now and He dwells with you and He's with you, this is
what He says, brethren, I'll be with you always. I'll be with
you always. So we have great reason to rejoice,
great reason And this is the fact of the matter. Once a sinner
has been brought to Christ, you can't make him go back to those
days that pictured him. They got the real thing now.
They got him. Here's the second reason he gives. We don't worship as Pharisees
do. We don't join with them because we're robed in the robe of Christ's
righteousness. Look at verse 36. He spake also
a parable unto them, No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon
an old. If otherwise, if he does, then
both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out
of the new doesn't agree with the old. You get a hole in your
britches, and you're going to patch up your britches. Those
britches, they've shrunk all they're going to shrink. They've
been through the fuller. They've been to the fuller. They've
been through the washing machine, and they're not going to shrink
anymore. And you take a patch, a new piece of cloth, and you
put it on that new piece of cloth, and you stitch it in there real
good, real tight. Stitch it as tight as you can
stitch it. You know what's going to happen? That new garment's
going to shrink. And when it shrinks, it's going
to pull away, and it's going to rip that old garment and make
the rent the rip worse than it was. And there's going to be
no agreement between that new and that old. No agreement whatsoever. And what Christ is teaching us
here, we're not attempting as believers to piece together the
righteousness of Christ together with some righteousness of this
old garment of the flesh. We're not doing that. Why don't
you fast? Why don't you go through prayer
sessions with us? Why don't you observe the things
we observe? Because we're not trying to be
righteous. We are righteous. We're not trying
to add Christ's righteousness to our something we do. We've
been made the righteousness of God. We've been robed. That priest that went in had
a robe on that didn't have one stitch in it from top to bottom.
It was one solid piece. And that priest is a picture
of Christ and the garment that he's woven for his people is
perfect righteousness, complete justification, complete sanctification,
complete and total Righteousness which is needed to be accepted
of God and that is the robe with which he robes his people He's
taken all our fig leaves off us We're not coming to him with
something on and trying to bring in something of him He's taken
all our fig leaves off of us We come to him absolutely naked
and we come him absolutely trusting his righteousness alone He is
Christ our righteousness So we don't try to join in and try
to do things to be seen of men to appear righteous. Here's the
third thing. We don't imitate the world's
religion because we've been made new creatures and Christ abides
in us. Verse 37. No man putteth new
wine into old bottles, else the new wine will burst the bottles
and be spilled and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must
be put into new bottles and both are preserved. We're not trying
to appear holy because He's made us a new creature. He's made
us a new creation, created after God in righteousness and true
holiness. And Christ dwells in us. And
when He grows us, we grow. And when He moves, we move. When you put wine in an old wineskin
and it fermented, that wineskin is going to swell up. It's going
to move with the wine. But if you put it in a bottle
that's stretched tall, it's going to stretch. And when that wine
keeps on expanding, it's going to bust that bottle. And so Christ
doesn't come into and do something in our flesh. If He did, it'd
just bust. He makes something altogether
new. And He fills that inner man. He's in that inner man. He works in us both the will
and do of His good pleasure, and we move when He moves, and
we walk where He walks, and we're one with Him. And both are preserved. How are we preserved? Christ
is in you, the hope of glory. We're preserved by Him being
in us. Here's the fourth reason. We've been given a taste for
that which is better. Verse 39, no man also having
drunk old wine, straightway desireth new, for he saith the old is
better. It's better. Old wine's better
than new wine. It's good. Old wine's better
than new wine. The gospel is the old wine of
eternity. The Lord, look at this, Isaiah
25, 6. Isaiah 25, 6. The Lord said, in this mountain
shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat
things, a feast of wines on the leaves, of fat things full of
marrow, of wines on the leaves well refined. You know what he
makes us to behold? Before the law, there was the
lawgiver. Before the shadow, there was
the image. And we don't concern ourselves
with touch not, and taste not, and handle not, because that
doesn't matter. That kingdom of God, kingdom
of righteousness is not eat and drink. But this is what unites
us. Now, we don't make an issue of
those things the Pharisees make an issue out of, but this is
what we do make an issue out of. And this is life. We make
an issue out of God choosing whom he would before the foundation
of the world. We make an issue out of Christ
coming and redeeming the particular, accomplishing the particular
redemption of every one of those elect children of God. We make
an issue of him coming and calling out his people by his power. by His grace through the Holy
Spirit. We make an issue of Him preserving
His people. This is that. How old is your
gospel? It's as old as God is. It's the
old wine of old eternity. It's as old as God is. And now,
I don't have a taste for all that has come about since the
fall. Everything that men have come
up with, everything that men have taken of God and try to
twist it and say, now this is how you come to God. That's all
new and worthless. What I delight in, what I have
a taste for, by God's grace, is that wine that's well refined,
that's old as God is. That's what I delight in. I delight
in that. When I was down there at Rocket
Mound, I talked to some folks and old folks, been around for
a long time in their 80s and what have you, been in the faith
for 40, 50 years, 60 years. And they said, they told me,
they said, this was the sum and substance of what they told me.
They said, we were in religion. We were going through all the
motions of religion and couldn't tell you why we were doing what
we were doing. We would sympathize and compromise
with every false way there was. And if anybody declared the true
and living God to us, we'd hate it and say, no, that is not God. And they said, when God called
us, this is said in different ways, but different ones. But
this is the summons of when God called me by his grace. I ceased loving every false way
and I began hating every false way. And I ceased hating God
and I fell in love with God. I started drinking the old wine. The old wine. And I don't have
a taste for anything else. So here's what I want you to
remember. Don't ever lose the joy you have right now of being
concerned for the souls of sinners. You want your dearest loved ones,
those you love and care about, you want them to know Christ,
don't lose it. This world is not about you.
This world's not about me. This world's about God and his
glory. Know that the self-righteous
will look down their nose on you and they'll pity you because
you're just a sinner and your master just eats with sinners. But you rejoice in it. You rejoice
in it because you're a sinner and you know it now and the only
way you'll be saved is Christ eating with sinners. And then
the third thing, be not turned aside to the flesh by carnal,
Christless religion. Know they're going to use everything,
as subtle as they can, to make a division. All these questions, all these
things they'll be asking, they're trying to find some common ground
to say, oh yeah, we're that way, we're the same. A man will fast
himself from the bread of heaven, from the bread of life, from
Christ himself, if you will not tell him that by something he's
done, he's more holy than he used to be. Well, they're not. They're not. Don't let anything turn you from
Christ. And the last thing, set your affection on Him. And know
this, Christ is with us. We're not trying to be righteous,
we're robed in His righteousness and it's complete. We're not
trying to be holy, we've been made new creatures in Him. And
circumcision avails nothing and uncircumcision avails nothing
but a new creature being made new in Him, Christ dwelling in
you. And know this, you've been given
a taste for something that is far, far better. So every now
and then, if you take another sip of that old, that new wine
of man, that new man of man's religion, spit it out. And keep on drinking the old
wine. The old wine. Well, this is how the Lord corrected
his, John's disciples. You know that? This is how he
corrected them. And I'll give you one last thing.
One last thing. Know that your brethren may turn.
Know that they may do the same thing that John's disciples did.
And you know how believers handle believers and sinners? You know
how we handle them? We don't handle them. Don't handle
them. Who did all the talking? Christ
did. Christ did. You just keep on
Speaking of Christ, and speaking of what he's done, what he's
accomplished, if Christ's going to correct anybody, he's going
to do the talking. And he'll do it in their heart,
and they'll be corrected. All right. Eric, let's see.