Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Why Jesus chose common men

Why Jesus chose everyday Joes as his disciples and not the religious leaders of the time.

One of the lessons that Jesus taught in the Gospel has to do with putting new wine in new wine bags and not sewing new cloth on old garments. This goes far in my book and The Book on explaining why he chose men from everyday walks of life such as fishermen and laborers. Let's look at what it means for new wine to be put into new wine skins first.
Back in the day one common inexpensive way to store wine instead of having to pay for barrels or jars, which were also bulky, was to make wine bags or wine skins from the hides of animals, you know what they look like, booda bags. (Now more commonly used for smuggling booze into concerts) now the thing about these bags and new wine is well new wine as it ages tends to do a number on the wine skin. It weakens the skin but it is okay for the wine that is in there because it has aged and pretty much stopped reacting with the material and some volume is lost due to evaporation so there is less pressure on the wine skin. Now let's say you emptied your wine skin and decide to fill it up with new wine. Now you have the same process of the wine skin getting worked on by the wine plus the skin has lost its ability to stretch and so you fill it up and "bam" it bursts. (I guess they didn't need to have a nickel deposit for the return of the wine skin)
Now as for sewing new fabric on old garments. (We're talking cotton no synthetics back then. Only needed one setting on the ironing rock) if you ever washed a new pair of jeans you know they shrink a bit. (Shrink to fit wow marketing using a natural fabrics own properties like you invented it, way to go jean companies) now think of putting a new piece of cotton fabric cut to fit a particular hole on an old piece of clothing. First time you wash it it shrinks, stitches pull out and the next thing you know people are seeing parts of you they shouldn't.
Now, let's make these teachings fit (nice pun) my hypothesis. You see Jesus came not only to die for our sins but to bring the Word to the world. Now this Word was different than that was being taught by the leaders. Christ teaching was about forgiveness which different from what was being taught in the temple which equated to follow these laws to the letter because if you don't God will punish you. Now the old leaders and teachers of the law were set in their ways because it gave them control, riches, and power pretty much. Now I am not saying all were like this but the higher up were pretty much that way. Now Jesus came with this new forgiveness and teaching the true laws of God and there was no way the old teachers were going to accept this, if everybody could come to the Lord for forgiveness how could they make a living without the offerings? Now Jesus new this and he new the people needed this message so he went to them to teach them the Real Word of God knowing they would not be hindered by old ways. He knew that these new Vessels could accommodate his message without bursting at the seems and they in turn could feel other vessels. This would go on and on. A new teaching to feel the willing spirit, a message of Salvation.
I like to think that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit the message was past on as God intended but I know there were times in history people back slid and tried to control the message for their own gain. This was quite common in the Middle Ages until people with the guidance of the Holy Spirit got the message back on track. God's Mercy, Christ's Sacrifice is forgiveness for all who accept Him and no man should determine who should or should not receive it.

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