New Wine or Spiritual Vinegar?
I have been having some contrasting meetings of late, physical meetings with religious Christians where there is no real connection in heart, and this then contrasted with some rather intense meetings in Spirit and Truth and Love, the latter of these happening today with myself and a former drug dealer named Kevin. The former of these happened today too, but I won't get into that here. I will say this though...
"Moab has been at ease from his youth and he has SETTLED ON HIS LEES, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him and his scent has not changed." (Jer. 48:11)
Now, the figure "settled on his lees" here depicts that of vinegar which was supposed to be made into wine but had settled for too long on the lees. This describes the same spiritual state as "resting at ease in Zion," which is a condition that thousands upon thousands of Christians are in today ... and don't even realize it.
"Lees" in the church today bespeaks of the dregs of religion from which we must be siphoned or risk becoming the spiritual equivalent of wine vinegar. Lees are dead yeast. Jesus warned the disciples to "beware of the yeast of the Pharisees," and that was speaking about the dead traditions and dead heart attitudes of men, even of the hypocrisy of speaking and teaching about one way of spiritual life (perhaps of loving your neighbor as yourself) but living in quite another way.
Maybe I'll share more on this later...
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