Taking The Land - CFM Sermon Podcast
Sep 23, 2026 · 39 min · 13 segments
Has your faith become comfortable - but stopped changing you?In this 1976 message, Pastor Wayman Mitchell explores Jesus’ teaching about new wine and old wineskins. His challenge is personal: are we…
An interesting observation when you begin to analyze and you begin to observe Christianity as its general scope and its general presentation.
You can take the music that is normally related or presented as Christian music.
Most of it is sweet and nostalgic.
You can take the mood that is generally presented in assemblies or among people or programs that are supposed to be Christian, and generally the mood that is presented is something of kind of a mellow and something kind of mild.
You can take the buildings that are presented as Christian buildings and representative Christianity and generally they are majestic and refined.
And so here we have a picture of Christianity as something that is sweet, mellow, refined, majestic, nostalgic.
But it's a completely different picture when you begin to look into the Word of God.
Think about that for a minute.
See, new wine is a particular imagery.
It means something that is in fermentation, in a state of expansion.
We could even use the words agitation, explosive, intense activity.
unrest, change, revolutionary.
This is the image of new wine.
New wine is wine that's in a state of fermentation.
New wine is wine that is in a constant state of expansion and agitation and motion and intense activity and burbling and gurgling all the time.
That's what new wine is.
And it's quite an opposite picture from what is generally presented as Christianity and as a general presentation of the Christian message and the Christian assembly and the Christian atmosphere and the Christian mood and the Christian scene.
It's revolutionary.
It's a revolutionary message.
There is nothing even remotely resembling Christianity.
Christianity says that 1,900 years ago some guy died on a cross and that all we have to do is simply believe and instantly God imputes to us a perfect righteousness that prepares us for heaven from that moment on.
An interesting observation when you begin to analyze and you begin to observe Christianity as its general scope and its general presentation.
You can take the music that is normally related or presented as Christian music.
Most of it is sweet and nostalgic.
You can take the mood that is generally presented in assemblies or among people or programs that are supposed to be Christian, and generally the mood that is presented is something of kind of a mellow and something kind of mild.
You can take the buildings that are presented as Christian buildings and representative Christianity and generally they are majestic and refined.
And so here we have a picture of Christianity as something that is sweet, mellow, refined, majestic, nostalgic.
But it's a completely different picture when you begin to look into the Word of God.
Think about that for a minute.
See, new wine is a particular imagery.
It means something that is in fermentation, in a state of expansion.
We could even use the words agitation, explosive, intense activity.
unrest, change, revolutionary.
This is the image of new wine.
New wine is wine that's in a state of fermentation.
New wine is wine that is in a constant state of expansion and agitation and motion and intense activity and burbling and gurgling all the time.
That's what new wine is.
And it's quite an opposite picture from what is generally presented as Christianity and as a general presentation of the Christian message and the Christian assembly and the Christian atmosphere and the Christian mood and the Christian scene.
It's revolutionary.
It's a revolutionary message.
There is nothing even remotely resembling Christianity.
Christianity says that 1,900 years ago some guy died on a cross and that all we have to do is simply believe and instantly God imputes to us a perfect righteousness that prepares us for heaven from that moment on.
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