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[ Silence ] [MUSIC] I keep so busy praising my Jesus. Keep so busy praising my Jesus.

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Keep so busy praising my Jesus. Ain't got time to die. 'Cause when I'm healing the sick. I'm praising my Jesus.

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When I'm healing the sick. I'm praising my Jesus. When I'm healing the sick. I'm praising my Jesus.

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Ain't got time to die. ♪ 'Cause it takes all of my time ♪ ♪ All of my time ♪ ♪ Lord, it's mad old crazy ♪

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♪ The rocks going right up ♪ ♪ Glory and honor ♪ ♪ Glory and honor ♪ ♪ Ain't got time tonight ♪

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♪ Lord, I keep so busy working for the kingdom ♪ ♪ Keep so busy working for the kingdom ♪ ♪ I keep so busy working for the kingdom ♪ ♪ Ain't got time tonight ♪

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♪ 'Cause when I'm feeding the poor ♪ ♪ When I'm feeding the poor ♪ ♪ When I'm feeding the poor ♪ ♪ Ain't got time tonight ♪

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♪ 'Cause it takes all of my time ♪ ♪ All of my time ♪ ♪ Praise my lord and I don't praise him ♪ ♪ The rocks go to prodder ♪

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♪ Gloria, na, na ♪ ♪ Gloria, na, na ♪ ♪ Ain't got time to die ♪ ♪ Lord, I keep so busy serving my master ♪

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♪ Keep so busy serving my master ♪ ♪ Keep so busy serving my master ♪ ♪ Ain't got time to die ♪ ♪ 'Cause when I'm giving my all ♪

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♪ When I'm giving my all ♪ ♪ When I'm giving my all ♪ ♪ 'Cause it takes all of my time ♪ ♪ All of my time ♪

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♪ I want to get out of my way ♪ ♪ Get out of my way ♪ ♪ Glory, honor, praise Him ♪ ♪ God's glory, glory, glory and honor ♪

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♪ Glory and honor ♪ ♪ Ain't got time ♪ ♪ To die ♪ - President Bush,

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rather, made a statement after the incident in September the 11th in which he said we are fighting a new war, a war against terrorism, and a new day, a new order, a new challenge, and new people. I was teaching a class a number of years ago having to do with how to conduct a vacation Bible school. There was a dear

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lady in the class who came to me after informing me that she had had that class 25 years ago under the leadership of Dr. L.K. Williams. And each day, after each session, she reminded me of the fact that she had had that class under Dr. Williams. I never was able to convince her that we there was some things that had been

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involved in teaching Vacation Bible School after that time. She was still back to that time when she attended class under Dr. L.K. Williams' leadership. Because at that time she had not accepted any new ideas, no new interpretation, no new ventures in vacation Bible school work.

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All of this was somehow closed to her. This message which comes to us from one of the parables of Jesus has to do with clothes, And we'd like for our clothes to fit well. And it also has to do with repairs, placing a new patch on an old garment.

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The new shrinks and there is a tear in the garment. a shop or buys a larger garment in order to accommodate the shrinking as well as the opportunity for some expansion. The disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees engaged in fasting. They represented the old order. They were

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seeking to perpetuate the status quo. They wanted to keep things as they are. They criticized Jesus because he did not do as they did. They wanted him to follow them. They were the traditionalists. They stood pat on the past. They called Jesus into question. They wanted him to account to them for his conduct. Early in his

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ministry the opposition attempted to force Jesus to take the witness stand to explain and defend his position on not fasting. And Jesus answers with this parable concerning new patches and new wine. Evidently Jesus had many poor people in his audience because poor people are well acquainted with patching

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and matching. This is something in which we get a great deal of experience. A garment is torn and is patched. Jesus pitches a new patch on an old garment and it no longer fits as it should. No one puts new wine into old wine skins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins and this wine is lost and so are the skins.

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but the new wine is for new wineskins. So Jesus contrasts the old order and the new. They're separate, they're independent, they're not mixed or mismatched. There's There's an old rhyme concerning marriage which says, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe." The old order is not to be mixed

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with the new. It's like sewing a new patch on an old garment. It mars the beauty of the garment. The new stands out. It's not in harmony with the old. It is not practical because the garment shrinks. So often we find a great deal of tension between the new and the old. We like to avoid that tension. We have a saying, "Be not the

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first to start the new, for the last to lay the old aside. Avoid that tension. Well we can't do that, there's a radical difference here. It was to be done so the Pharisees thought according to legal requirements of the old order, and the legal requirements of the old order required fasting and Jesus didn't fast.

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And they said, "Explain to us, why is it that you don't fast like the disciples of John the Baptist did and the Pharisees? Why don't you fast?" And Jesus tells this story that you're not to mix the new with the old. Fasting represents the old old order.

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Fasting has to do with the legalism involved with atonement for sin and the mourning that occurs, fasting, mourning, old order. But Jesus comes not representing mourning here, he comes representing a new order, not Fasting but feasting.

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Not a funeral, some people when they go to church they act like it's a funeral. They think that when they're gonna worship that they've got to look with some sour face.

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But that's not what Jesus is saying to them. He's saying that life with me is like a wedding. It's feasting, there's joy. We make merry, that's what Jesus is saying.

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The old order is mourning, the new order is fasting. So we have old patches for old garments, new patches for new garments. I remember a fellow that stayed in the dormitory with me

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when I was in college, he made a pair of trousers that was made up out of samples, you know the little samples that you get for suits and other clothing.

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He took each one of those samples and sewed them together and made a pair of pants. And I don't need to tell you how much attention that attracted whenever he walked anywhere.

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Because we don't expect that kind of matching. We don't expect it. So Jesus is talking about how to match your life. Sometimes we mar our lives by trying to match something

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that didn't go with that. I'm always having trouble at home trying to match. I have to report from time to time because this doesn't match.

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And if we're honest with ourselves, most of us who left home this morning, we spent a great deal of time looking to see whether or not this matches.

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And Jesus wants us to have a life with him that matches. Don't take something out of that old water that should have been discarded long ago and put it on this new era, this new life

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that you promised God through Jesus Christ that you're trying to live. That's what he's saying to us through this parable. The traditions of the Pharisees are rigid, redded.

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Jesus wants us to put the new with the new and discard the old with the old. If a man is in Christ, or a woman, that person is a new creature, a new being. All things are passed away, and all things are new.

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So don't patch your garment with the wrong material. The new will not match the old. You will not achieve your goal. So the new has to do also with the inner life.

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So the garments have to do with that which is outer. And all of us want to look good on the outside. We want to look good. We spend a great deal of time trying to look our best.

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We want the garment to fit well. We want to wear our garments in such a way that they're attractive to others. That's the outside. But the scripture says God looks at the inside. Man looks at

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the outside. God looks at the inside. So Jesus talks about the inside. Wine, merriment, joy having to do with the inner life. You know we can look good on the outside and feel terrible on the inside. But Jesus is concerned not only with how we look on the outside like the Pharisees, but he's concerned about how

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we are on the inside. So whine, that inner life, to have that inner joy. So sometimes you may not have the beautiful garments that someone else may have, but you have an inner joy. You have a sense of satisfaction, and that accounts for the good life far more than how the outside may appear to someone else. Wine ferments,

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and as it ferments there must be room for expansion. Wine has to expand when it's new and it ferments. You have to have room in your life to expand. Don't be so rigid that you set in your ways and you cannot change. That's why they never accepted Jesus. Some of those scribes and Pharisees, no matter what he did,

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he opened the eyes of the blind, healed those who were sick, raised the dead, and still they did not accept him. They were so rigid in their ways. We've never had a man like this in our circle, so we won't accept him. So God forbids that we would try to fit the old with the new. They're radically different. So there is a

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radical break between the two. And if you want a garment that looks good and will not shrink, this is the garment that Jesus Christ must make for us in having new wine for new bottles, or new wine skins, and to have old for the old. So why, why, why the disciples of John want to know? Why the disciples of the

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Pharisees want to know? Why, why? And the answer is this parable of matching the The new with the new and the old with the old. And that is the life of the new being. To be new, to be new.

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New. In a new created world, to be a new person in Jesus Christ. Say I'm new. New, yes, my eyes are new.

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In him I get a different view of life. Eyes are new and my feet are too, because he governs what I do and where I go. I'm a new creature in him.

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Hands are new and my tongue is too. A new way of talking as well as a new way of walking. I've got a new name, a new name. Jesus gives to those he calls a new name.

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Simon, you've been known as Simon Peter, but from henceforth you shall be named Cephas, a new name. Abraham, Abraham, a new name. A new name in him.

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A new being, a new name. A new identity. In other words, you understand yourself in a different way when you meet Jesus Christ.

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It's new self understanding that you have with Jesus Christ. Somebody else may understand you in a different way, but you know who you are in him, a new being, because you know you have a new destiny.

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You have a new home. You're not headed in the direction that you were before you met him, you've turned around and you're headed in a different direction,

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you're on a different road. I have a new home, a new destiny, and that new patch is symbolic of that newness that Jesus Christ gives to his people.

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A new understanding, not only of yourself, But you have a new understanding of God. You understand God as your friend, not as your enemy, but as a friend

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who conducts you on your path. That's a wonderful thing that has happened. Oh, what a wonderful change in my life has been wrought since Jesus came into my heart.

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I have joy in my soul, which long I had sought since Jesus came into my heart. As we sing now the hymn of invitation, we extend the privilege of the church

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to accept Jesus Christ as Lord of your life. It's an open door he sets before us. Live a new life, a life that expands, provides room for others, a new life.

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♪ I've got a new home ♪ ♪ Over and glory ♪ ♪ And it's mine, mine ♪ ♪ Mine ♪

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♪ I've got a new home ♪ ♪ Over in Derry ♪ ♪ And it's mine, mine ♪ ♪ Mine ♪

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♪ I've got a new home ♪ ♪ Over in glory ♪ ♪ And it's mine ♪ ♪ Mine, mine ♪

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♪ I've got a new home ♪ ♪ Over in glory ♪ ♪ That is my, my, my ♪ ♪ Well I've got a new name ♪

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♪ Over and over again ♪ ♪ And it's my, my, my ♪ ♪ I've got a new name ♪ ♪ Over in glory ♪

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♪ That is my, my, my ♪ ♪ I've got a new song ♪ ♪ Over in glory ♪ ♪ That is my, my, my ♪

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♪ I've got a new song ♪ ♪ Over and done ♪ ♪ That is my, my, my ♪ Well, I've got a new walk over in glory

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And it's mine, mine, mine I've got a new walk over in glory ♪ And it's mine, mine, mine ♪ ♪ And I've got a new talk ♪

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♪ Over in Derry ♪ ♪ And it's mine, mine, mine ♪ I've got a new home, over in Dari. Oh, this is my, my, my.

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I've got a new home over in Dari. ♪ That is my, my, my ♪ ♪ I've got a new hope ♪ ♪ Over in glory ♪

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♪ That is my, my, my ♪ On the night when Jesus was betrayed, he observed this meal with his disciples. And as his followers, we gather from time to time to commune together, to celebrate this meal together, remembering what he has done for us, remembering our encounter with

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him. Let us bow as we ask God's blessings upon us. Lord, we thank you for the privilege to come to your table. We are all sinners.

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We all have our flaws. We come short of the mark that you have set for us. But you have fulfilled your promise in providing for us a table in the wilderness. So we thank you.

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In every condition and circumstance, you've been there to lift us over the hills and to guide us through the valleys. So we come now at this table to receive strength, to receive that strength that Jesus Christ provides, strength for our weaknesses.

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Bless this bread, bless this cup, representing his body and his blood, and bless us as we seek now to rededicate ourselves to your service. We ask for your leadership as we face the challenge of tomorrow and the days ahead. Be with us and use us all to your glory and grant that each one of us may have that love

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that runs from heart to heart and breast to breast, that agape love, that love that is lasting, that love that is the greatest possession for the people of God. We ask in Jesus' name, Amen. blessed it, break it, and gave to his disciples.

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Ministering in his name I give you this bread representing the broken body of our Lord. Take and divide it among yourselves. Likewise also he took the cup and gave to his disciples.

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Ministering in his name I give you this cup representing his shed blood. Drink ye all of it. (gentle music) ♪ I see my Savior with the crown on ♪

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♪ Wearing his cross for me ♪ (music) ♪ Bearing His cross for me ♪ ♪ Bearing His cross for me ♪

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♪ Wonderful Savior ♪ ♪ God and which He bore ♪ ♪ Bearing His cross for me ♪ I see him pass through the city gate, bearing his cross for me.

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Armed is the dark, the people's gate, bearing his cross for me. ♪ Bearing his cross for me ♪ ♪ Bearing his cross for me ♪ ♪ Wonderful Savior, what an anguish he bore ♪

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♪ Bearing his cross for me ♪ I see him burdened with this world's sin, bearing his cross for me. ♪ So for our hearts to be ♪ ♪ Bearing His cross for me ♪

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♪ Bearing His cross for me ♪ ♪ Bearing His cross for me ♪ (gentle music) There is someone who has been omitted who should be served.

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Would you raise your hand? ♪ Let us pray, pray together ♪ ♪ Our Lord and King ♪ ♪ Let us pray, pray together ♪

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♪ Our Lord and King ♪ ♪ When I call on Thee ♪ ♪ With my praise to Thee I'll be sure ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

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♪ Have mercy on me ♪ ♪ Let us play ♪ ♪ My together ♪ ♪ All our days ♪

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♪ Let us play ♪ ♪ My together ♪ ♪ All our days ♪ ♪ When I fall ♪

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♪ Almighty Lord, with my praise to Thee return ♪ ♪ O Lord, have mercy on me ♪ - Let us commune together. Amen.

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