Put on Your Stretchy Pants

Joe Stewart
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Out with the Old
Sunday Morning

Put On Your Stretchy Pants

A flip of the calendar isn't a magic wand, but it provides time to reset, refocus, to prayerfully reflect and recenter on Christ.While the new year is typically about adding new things—new goals, new habits, and new routines—this series challenges us to let go. To let go of things that weigh us down, regrets that hold us back, and destructive mindsets that are grounded in lies instead of in God’s truth

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First Baptist Church Seminole Tx

202 SW Ave B, Seminole, TX 79360, USA

Sunday 5:00 AM

New Wine

New Wine

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Luke 5:27-39 NLT

Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him.So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them.But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with such scum?”Jesus answered them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”One day some people said to Jesus, “John the Baptist’s disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking?”Jesus responded, “Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not.But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”Then Jesus gave them this illustration: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t even match the old garment.“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins.New wine must be stored in new wineskins.But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. ‘The old is just fine,’ they say.”

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1. JESUS SEES WHAT WE DON'T SEE
Whom the world rejected is specifically who God called, and God’s grace is extended to those who the world writes off.

Matthew wanted to:
1) Honor Jesus out of appreciation
2) Celebrate his new life
3) Introduce his friends to Jesus
Mark 1:40-45 NLT

A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said.Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!”Instantly the leprosy disappeared, and the man was healed.Then Jesus sent him on his way with a stern warning“Don’t tell anyone about this. Instead, go to the priest and let him examine you. Take along the offering required in the law of Moses for those who have been healed of leprosy. This will be a public testimony that you have been cleansed.”But the man went and spread the word, proclaiming to everyone what had happened. As a result, large crowds soon surrounded Jesus, and he couldn’t publicly enter a town anywhere. He had to stay out in the secluded places, but people from everywhere kept coming to him.

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1. JESUS SEES WHAT WE CAN'T SEE
2. JESUS GOES WHERE WE DON'T ALWAYS WANT TO GO
The Church shouldn't be a country club, but a HOSPITAL
“I have come to call not those who THINK they are righteous, but those who KNOW they are sinners and need to repent.

1) JESUS SEES WHAT WE CAN'T SEE
2) JESUS GOES WHERE WE MAY NOT WANT TO GO
3) JESUS IS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

The Great Physician

The Great Physician

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JESUS COMES TO US IN OUR NEED, PROVIDES THE COMPLETE DIAGNOSIS, GIVES THE CURE, AND PAYS THE BILL!!

“The first link between my soul and Christ is, not my goodness, but my badness; not my merit, but my misery; not my standing, but my falling; not my riches, but my need.”
C.H. Spurgeon

1) JESUS SEES WHAT WE CAN'T SEE
2) JESUS GOES WHERE WE MAY NOT WANT TO GO
3) JESUS IS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN
4) JESUS WANTS TO STRETCH US
Luke 5:33-39 NLT

One day some people said to Jesus, “John the Baptist’s disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking?”Jesus responded, “Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not.But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”Then Jesus gave them this illustration: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t even match the old garment.“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins.New wine must be stored in new wineskins.But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. ‘The old is just fine,’ they say.”

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Jesus is telling the Pharisees and He is telling us today: He didn’t come to patch the old way of life, he came to give us the NEW. He wasn’t and isn’t a bandaid on spiritual condition the world is in, he is the CURE.

Discussion Questions

1) How does Matthew's response to GET UP, LEAVE EVERYTHING, and FOLLOW JESUS speak to you?

2) When has HE asked you to FOLLOW HIM? Share a time when you said YES, but maybe also a time when you said NO.

3) Is the church more like a hospital or a country club in your opinion? How should it be and how could it help it become that?

4) What does the passage about patching a garment and new wineskins mean to you?

5) In what ways are Jesus asking you to put on your STRETCHY PANTS?

Scripture: Luke 5:27-39