New Wine for a New Wine Skin
1st Samuel 15:1-9 (NKJV)
Saul Spares King Agag
1 Samuel also said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord.
2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and attack[a] Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
4 So Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot-soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.
6 Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So, the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
8 He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
There is a lot to think about when it comes to the Anointing. Saul was King and the anointing was upon him. Just one problem with this story. Saul’s testimony was for sale. He had done what he wanted instead of following the voice of the Lord. Samuel never once had his anointing for sale, while Saul sold his in the marketplace. Saul literally walked out of the will of God, walked in his own counsel. He refused the Prophet of the Lord, a true Prophet, whose words never failed to come to pass. Why did the Prophet of the Lord’s words never fail? Because he was a Prophet who wouldn’t compromise with the world.
Tell your neighbor “My testimony isn’t for sale!!!”
There is a price for rebellion against God
You may think you’re just rebelling against the Pastor, against your leaders of the church. Or against those who have rule over you, but it’s God you’re rebelling against.
1st Samuel 15:17-23 (NIV)
17 Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. 18 And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.’ 19 Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?”
20 “But I did obey the Lord,” Saul said. “I went on the mission the Lord assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.
21 The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”
22 But Samuel replied:
“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the Lord?
To obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has rejected you as king.”
Tell your neighbor “My testimony isn’t for sale!!!”
Do what the prophet tells you, the word of the Lord is in him.
There is a word from the Lord. It is in the mouth of the Prophet.
Tell your neighbor “My testimony isn’t for sale!!!”
The devil is looking to cut a deal with the church. He wants the anointing in return for your bowing to him. You know the devil is a liar; he offers success, well, what looks like success. Masses will come to your church if you bow to the devil.
When leaders bow to the devil, when the Prophets bow to the devil, there is no anointing no power to turn from sin. I don’t mind bowing at that altar if I don’t have to change my life. The altar where there is no anointing requires no change.
Samuel was a prophet who lived under the Nazarite vow. He never bowed to the sex God, he never bowed to the wine God. Samuel never bowed to the money God. Samuel never bowed to the God of compromise. Samuel never bowed to the God of fame.
Samuel was a Prophet who never drank the wine, he never sold his anointing in the marketplace of the world.
John the Baptist was another who never drank the wine. He valued the anointing, and he valued the presence of God.
A prophet under the Nazarite vow never brought a shear to his hair. Why? It was the covenant of the Lord.
Samul and John remained faithful all the days of their lives, never compromising the word of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:14-15
14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory?…
To live under the Nazarite vow meant you humbled yourself to obey Gods word. This generation, the devil has romanced with music, money, drugs, alcohol, and sex.
Mark 2:22
“And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
I’m here to prophesy to you. There is new wine that is being poured. Into a new wineskin when you are born again, born of the Spirit. You are a new wine skin. You cannot pour new wine into that old wine skin. God said today in the day, repent and I will pour out my spirit.