The Terrible Danger of Drinking Old Wine
From the Structure-It Destroys the Taste for Jesus’ New Wine

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“New wine must be put into new bottles, and both are preserved. No man also drunk old wine straightway desireth new; for he saith, The old is better.” Luke 5: 38,39.

Those who left Jesus after His sermon on the Bread of Life (John 6) had drunk the old wine of the Structure, and had no relish for the new wine that Jesus was offering them. Only new wineskins, not contaminated with the teaching of the Structure, could hold the new wine Jesus offered.

“The effort to unite the teachings of Jesus with the established religion would be in vain. The vital truth of God, like fermenting wine, would burst the old, decaying bottles of the Pharisaical tradition.” DA 279.

The Vital Breach Made By John, Jesus Was Not to Close Up

“Christ was not to close up the breach that had been made by the teachings of John. He would make more distinct the separation between the old and the new. Jesus further illustrated this fact, saying, “No man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.” The skin bottles that were used as vessels to contain the new wine, after a time became dry and brittle, and then were worthless to serve the same purpose again. In this familiar illustration Jesus presented the condition of the Jewish leaders.” DA 278.

The Old Wine From the Structure Caused Them to Twist Jesus’ Words Into Meaning the Opposite

The teaching they had heard all their lives in the synagogues caused them to twist the words of Jesus into a direct confession that He was not the Messiah. Trying to fit Jesus’ teaching into the framework of the theological view of the Structure and the Structure’s idea of the Christ, caused the New Wine of Jesus to be lost and Jesus Himself to be rejected.

In the same way you cannot fit the mighty power of the new wine of the everlasting gospel into the arcane, old bottles of the “New Theology,” Rome’s Celebration, Babylonian rock and rap, Jesuit Spiritual Formation, the gospel of self-esteem,” etc.

Better to drink no wine at all than drink the old wine that destroys appreciation for the new wine. Better to be like the Roman centurion of whom Jesus said, “Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

“And I say unto you, That many shall come from east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

“But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 8: 10-12.

Jesus’ Test Was Too Great For Those Soaked in the Structure

Back to the people who heard the sermon on the Bread of Life:

“The test was too great. The enthusiasm of those who had sought to take Him by force and make Him king grew cold. This discourse in the synagogue, they declared, had opened their eyes. Now they were undeceived. In their minds, His words were a direct confession that He was not the Messiah, and that no earthy rewards were to be realized from connection with Him…. The insincere, the selfish, who had sought Him, no longer desired Him. If He would not devote His power and influence to obtaining their freedom from the Romans, they would have nothing to do with Him.” DA 391.

So terrible was the hostility that “After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him.” John 7:1.

Who is Greater, Christ or the Structure?

“But I say unto you, That in this place is One greater than the temple.” Matthew 12:16.  

 

“Seek ye Me, and ye shall live. But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba:  For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught… “Seek the Lord, and ye shall live…. Seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion…” Amos 5: 5,6.  

Every great reformation-be it John the Baptist, Jesus, Wycliffe, Huss, Jerome, Luther, Calvin, Zwingle, Knox, Wesley, miller, or White, all advanced only because they put Christ above every ecclesiastical structure. 

 

Christ Infinitely Greater Than the Structure

Who is greater, Christ or the Structure? Christ is infinite. He, by His Word, created the heavens and the earth. He founded the Jewish economy and religion, which was hijacked by the very Structure that He set up, a Structure that had come under the control of Satan. That Structure stood on the eve of its destruction by the Romans for its rejection of the King of the universe.

Unless we love God in proportion to Who He is, that is, greater than all creation, we fail to make Him God in our heart. God must be loved as a Person, the individual that He is, God of gods, King of kings, Lord of lords. Jesus said, “He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.” Matthew 10:37.

Every Gospel constitutes An Eternal Warning About Putting An Ecclesiastical Structure Above Christ

Every one of the gospels constitutes an eternal warning about putting an ecclesiastical Structure above Christ. That is a major theme of each of the gospels. However, what happens? Many a Structurite would rather read other materials than the Bible, and only dares to accept the Structure’s interpretation of the Bible-the very principle of Rome-that the Magisterium alone is competent to interpret the Scriptures.

 

Christ Has the Greatest Claim On Our Soul

Should not Christ claim our allegiance above any Structure? He created us, died for us, redeemed us, guides us, nourishes us, fills us, and is coming soon to take us to heaven. Should He not have our first allegiance?   

 

The Track of Apostasy

As the years go by there are fewer and fewer young people with the moral power to break this stranglehold and find out the truth.  The young people go to Structure meetings, and what do they find? More rock, more rap, more punk rockers with green hair, and a leadership that condones it all. When they go to the structure university campus, they are confronted with pantheistic slogans, and surrounded by rappers, earrings, and the culture of nihilism. The apostasy deepens and deepens.

 

Niche Marketing of Slick Religious Entertainment

“Baby-boomers and their children are the target audience, the market niche, that the innovative, trend-setting churches are shooting for.” –Douglas D. Webster, Selling Jesus: What’s Wrong with Marketing the Church (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992), 59, quoted in Above All Earthy pow’rs, 289.

 

A Structure Domesticated to Accept Apostasy Without Resistance

Reports coming into the ministry from Structure Camp Meeting indicate that the Jesuit takeover is all but complete-the takeover planned by Jesuits such as the top Jesuit scholar Karl Rahner, who wrote about it in the 1980s in his book, Unity of the Churches: An Actual Possibility. The Structure has been domesticated to accept shocking apostasy for young and old alike. There is no apparent resistance left in the Structure to apostasy. The resisters were weeded out long ago. Hierarchical control in some areas has become ferocious.

Niche Marketing

Now the Structure has taken up niche marketing of religious entertainment—

The older generation at Camp Meeting goes to hear the Andrews University professor give them the New Theology-that it is impossible to achieve perfection, etc. etc. The older generation accept the rank apostasy of the youth-youth walking the camp grounds with hair dyed green, with tank top, miniskirts, short shorts, as the rock music ramps up for the evening youth meeting, and a carload of rappers arrives with the rap music belting out over the camp grounds as the rappers get out of their vehicle dressed in full-scale regalia.

The Strange Power Opposed to the Idea of Attaining the Perfection Christ Holds Out

“Beholding Christ for the purpose of becoming like Him, the seeker after truth sees the perfection of the principles of God’s law, and he becomes dissatisfied with everything but perfection.  Hiding his life in the life of Christ, he sees that the holiness of the divine law is revealed in the character of Christ, and more and more earnestly, he strives to be like him… The human agent sees what he has to contend with-a strange power opposed to the idea of attaining the perfection that Christ holds out. However, with Christ there is a saving power that will gain for him victory in the conflict. The Savior will strengthen and help him as he comes pleading for grace and efficiency (MS 89, 1903).” 6 BC 1098.

Layer upon layer of apostasy has wrapped a Structure in a horrible Babylonian confusion. Spiritual and theological confusion reigns in an idolatrous Structure that has substituted itself in the place where Christ alone should be. Causal conversation and observation of the meetings revealed everything from futurism to New Theology espoused in the minds of the people. It is a people robbed and spoiled, seemingly devoid of even common sense, and the ability to act on the most fundamental truths of the Bible. One of the most startling dimensions of the almost complete spiritual subjugation is the acceptance by the older generation of green-haired youth, rappers and rockers in the youth department.  

 

More and More Perfection of Character is the Salt of Christian Experience

“How hard is it for Christ to get the correct idea of the spiritual nature of his kingdom, into the minds of his disciples. How hard for them to realize the necessity of constant prayer, of sincere repentance, of attaining to more and more perfection of character, which is the salt of Christian experience, and the evidence of the operation of the Holy Spirit on the heart. The Holy Spirit is to enlighten, renew, and sanctify the soul.” GCB 10-1-96.

“But he answered them and said, Every plant which My heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

“Leave them alone: they are blind guides leading along the way the blind. And if the blind should lead them along the way the blind, both into the pit will fall.” Matthew 15: 13,14. (German Translation.)

“If the professed followers of Christ, even in part, act the same as the world, they may have their names on the church books, but when joined to the church they are not joined with Christ. Therefore, the same spirit has to a limited or large degree a controlling power upon the minds, heart, will, and temper. Their stand in the church is what Christ named hypocrites, a stone of stumbling to those who but for them would have an altogether higher idea, and a sanctified effect on the character.” GCDB 2-4-93.

 

Purity and Righteousness

“Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as He is pure.” Any hope aside and separate from purity and righteousness is the snare of Satan, sophistry, and fatal delusion.” TSB 135.

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