The Taste Of New Wine
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When we go to Acts 2, we can "see" and "hear" the fireworks as the New Wine is coming in. All twelve of the apostles are "on fire" as they speak to thousands of people. The Holy Spirit rushes in as a terrible wind. The Apostles have made a Declaration of Independence from that which is old and Dependence upon Jesus Christ!
When our Founding Fathers were gathered in Independence Hall to draw up our Declaration of Independence from the King of England, the struggled for an expanded length of time to no avail. Finally, Benjamine Franklin stood and asked for a time of prayer that God would be the central figure in drawing up the Constitution. In hours the Declaration of Independence was complete. Who is the American who has not read these immortal words: "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them to another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to whidh the which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them. . . . . . "
Thus, we became ONE NATION UNDER GOD. Just as the Jews could have seen the handwriting on the wall, had they not been so blind and self absorbed, even so, the British King could have seen that he could not win. General George Washington was a praying man. In fact there is one incident when some British soldiers saw General Washington on his knees praying in the distance in the shade of some trees. They reported back that there was no way England could win, because General Washington was seen praying. The King did not listen. One patriote cried out when being executed by the British, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Then Paul Revere's midnight ride when he stirred the ranchers and farmers to arms, crying out, "The Redcoats are coming!" New Wine was about to be tasted.
Sweet victory was not to be enjoyed by the British King. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. . . ." Psalms 33:12.
This Fourth of July, let us not only remember our DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE from the British King, but, even more so, let us remember our "Declaration of Independence" from the Old Law, and our "Dependence on the Blood of Jesus Christ." |
