New Year, New Wine

I do feel like I have a message from the Lord for us tonight and I would like to direct your attention to Luke chapter five and we'll begin at verse number 33. And I give honor to Bishop and Dr. Myers whom I love and appreciate very much. So thankful for them and give honor to my wife tonight. My son's here. This is the first time he's getting to hear me preach and I'm thankful for that. My daughter's at home with her grandma enjoying whatever chaos is happening behind the closed doors of my home. Who knows what those two when they get together. And this is also the last time you'll get to see me in this horrific boot and I am so ready to be out of this thing. Amen. Next Wednesday they're gonna let me take it off and I can't wait to have two pair of shoes on.

I'm wearing the right one out on all of my shoes so I'm gonna have to buy some new ones with that. But anyways, Luke chapter five verse number 33 if you have it say amen. We're gonna read down to verse number 39. And they said unto him, why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers and likewise as the disciples of the Pharisees but thine eat and drink. And he said unto them, can you make the children of the bright chamber fast while the bright groom is with them? The days will come when the bright groom shall be taken away from them and they shall fast in those days. And he also spoke a parable unto them. Notice that this parables foundation is him referring to a bridal party and it's important. No man put at the peace of a new garment upon an old

if otherwise then both the new maketh a rent and the peace that was taken out of the new agreeeth not with the old. No man put at the new wine into new bottles else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles and both are preserved. No man having drunk old wine straightway desireeth the new for he sayeth the old is better. A few weeks ago I preached a message on a Sunday night and I talked about the transition zone and I began to close that message out with this parable and tonight for the next little while not long I just want to expound on this parable just for a little bit and I wanna preach to you on this thought new year, new wine. Is anybody desiring for something new

to flow through you tonight? I believe this and I have found this in my personal prayer life that while we speak in tongues as the children of God the Bible talks about how with stammering lip and another tongue and then we speak in this edifying tongue and we begin to pray in tongues. We similarly often go into a familiar tongue that we usually speak in but I've noticed this is just in my prayer time that there are times where I'll enter into a different vein of the spirit and I'll begin to flow into a tongue that is unknown, it's not my usual, it's a different type of vein and it's this new wine, this new realm of the spirit that the Lord is allowing me to operate in and I feel sincerely that the Lord wants everybody here to tap into something new in the spirit tonight

and that God wants to open up not just breakthrough for 2026 but I really feel in the Holy Ghost that for this church that a year of 2026 is gonna be a year of dominion in this city. I feel like we have really broken some things in the atmosphere this past year and that there have been a lot of things broken but beyond that we're gonna step into a realm of dominion in 2026. I feel like that there's gonna be like the Bible says about David, he had peace all around and that's what I feel in the Holy Ghost that we're gonna step into a realm where there's peace and this church has dominion in this city, in the spirit realms. Anybody believe that? Do you believe God can do that for this church? If you're hungry, would you lift your hands and do the Lord right now

and would you just pray for the next few moments that God would speak to us? Lord, I love you. I thank you for your word. I thank you for your goodness and your mercies. Lord, as you have put your word in my heart, help me to deliver it to your people, God, as you have put it in. I loose the gifts of the spirit into this atmosphere that they would flow in through and by love and that God you would accomplish whatever the will of heaven is in this place tonight. I will give you all the glory and I ask that you anoint me from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. We take dominion over anything that would be a hindrance in the wonderful name of Jesus. Let everybody say in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seated in Jesus' name.

The beginning of this parable starts talking about a garment. To us, garments are clothes that we put on. However, in biblical thinking and then, especially the times of scripture, they represented a whole lot more than just clothes that we would wear, but they represented identity. And so when the Lord comes with this parable and he's talking about these garments, he's not just talking about what they're wearing, he's saying, I'm trying to bring a new identity to you. I'm trying to change your identity from where you're at to where I'm trying to take you. I found oftentimes that when we get in altar calls and we get in wonderful moments with the Lord that we get the garment of calling, as I like to call it. And that looks like Joseph's coat of many colors. It's shiny and it looks good and we got that fresh word at Wynn's conference

or somebody spoke something over us and we're on fire and it feels good. And then life just has a way of beating you down just a little bit. However, if you don't allow God to take you from the coat of calling and to put the coat of fulfillment, which with Joseph was the garment of a ruler over Egypt, second only to Pharaoh. And so as he is having this coat of calling and this coat of fulfillment in between there, like we talked about a few weeks ago, was some garments of transition. He had to wear the garment of slavery. He had to wear the garment of imprisonment. And as he was wearing these garments, had he not have submitted himself to these transitionary garments, he would not have had the identity shift that was really taking place beyond the garments that was preparing him to be able to handle

where God was taking him to. And so these garment of transition are necessary because they are shaping us and our identity. In fact, you will find that Hannah, which was the mother of Samuel, the Bible says that she would bring him a new coat every single year when she would come to the temple. She would bring that boy a new coat and it was happening all through his adolescent years as he was growing, as he was maturing. He had to get something new every year. His identity was changing. His, he was maturing in his natural man. And so as he grew upwards and outwards, his mother would design him a coat yearly to handle his growth. I think we can put that over us here tonight into the things of the spirit and realize, I hope we're not wearing the same garment at the end of this year as we were

at the beginning of this year, but I hope that all of us have matured somewhere in our walk this year, that all of us are talking a little different and walking a little different and our walk with God is deeper than it was and it's wider than it was. And we have allowed God to produce in us what he's trying to produce in us. Maybe that's what Paul was talking about when he was saying you are to change from glory to glory. I'm trying to take you out of this natural realm and I'm trying to bring you to the place of maturity. And I think that we are always, no matter our age, no matter how long we've been in this, are submitting ourselves to the garment of transition and we are shifting identities until we get to the garment found in the book of Revelation

and we are finally changed into his image. I cannot wait for the day when I get called up into that number and my image is changed and I will be like him and I will be with him. It's interesting that in Matthew 22 that there is a peculiar parable and I've got to admit it has puzzled me all day long as you begin to read about a king whose son is getting married and he begins to invite all of these people to this bridal party so to speak and he's bringing them in and as he's sending out the invitations, all of the sons are rejecting him and in fact the Bible says one group even kill the servants which represents Israel killing the prophets of the Lord and he says all right, he says if they won't accept me then this is what I'm gonna do here.

I am going to send the word out into the highways and into the byways and I'm going to invite everybody I can invite. He says this, whether they are good or they are bad I just want them in the house with me. Here's what's so beautiful. When they got in the house they all had to have a wedding garment on even if they were good or bad it didn't matter which demographic they came from it didn't matter which walk of life they came from it didn't matter where they were rich or poor educated or uneducated it didn't matter what color their skin was when they got into the king's house they had to put the garment that was required to be in his house on and when they get in the house and they all got their garments on the king is looking around and he sees somebody that doesn't have

the proper apparel on and he says because you didn't submit to the transition I was trying to bring you can't stay here and he cast him in the outer darkness friend can I tell you it's important that as we are growing in the Lord that we don't get so complacent where we are at that we don't allow God to put new things on to us can I tell you let God shape you into what he wants to shape you into it's not always comfortable when God wants to shape us and transition us and put new garments on us but if you will allow him to do it I'm telling you you're being conformed into the image of Christ and there is no greater image on this earth I don't care about any image on any hundred dollar bill 50 dollar bill 20 dollar bill the greatest image that we will ever conform to

is the stature of the Lord Jesus Christ and so it's this transitionary garment that he brings us into and it's so important and he's talking to the Jews and he's looking at them these Pharisees and he's tell them he's saying I'm trying to bring you something new but instead of you allowing me to bring something new into your life you're just trying to sew a new patch into an old garment and you have to understand that these two things do not agree they are not in agreement with one another how you used to do things or how you want to do things it's not in agreement with what I want to do in your life can I tell you there is a reason that he said that he that loses his life shall find it we've got to get lost in Jesus in 2026 we got to quit trying

can I pause here for just a moment and say some of the reasons some of you are so frustrated in your walk with God is because you're not walking with God you're trying to walk by your own merit and by your own strength and you're wondering why nothing's working out can I tell you why it's not working out you've got to submit to the Lord and say thy kingdom come thy will be done in my life and so he's trying to teach them I'm trying to bring you something new but you're trying to put me into how you're wanting it to look and how you're wanting it to operate and you're gonna miss what I'm trying to do in your life I know I talked about this a few weeks ago but the book of Romans makes it very clear that if he spared not the natural branches

why would he spare us he told him he said if I didn't spare the natural branches take heed lest I spare not thee behold therefore the goodness and the severity of God on them which fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou shalt be cut off can I tell you you've got to continue in the goodness of the Lord even when it's uncomfortable it's still the goodness of the Lord even when it doesn't agree with what we wanna do it's still the goodness of the Lord I'll never forget I'll never forget seeing my wife come down that center aisle on our wedding day I didn't cry but man I choked up I was clenching my jaws I was bouncing my knees I'm like if they lock I'm going down but I remember seeing her come down that aisle with that white dress on representing purity

how she had kept herself for that wedding day and can I tell you how much joy it brought my soul to see a bride coming down the altar prepared for her groom that's what the Lord wants from us he wants to see a bride that's prepared for him can I tell you I wanna be prepared for him do whatever you gotta do in me in 2026 Lord I wanna get my I'm telling you the coming of the Lord is sooner than it has ever been and we must prepare ourselves for the bridegroom but when Jesus showed up he showed up to a bride that had a bunch of rips and tattered dresses and they're over here just trying to show so this new patch onto this old ripped up dress that's not working they had missed the fact that the law was supposed to point to him

and they missed who he was he's standing here saying I am everything you've been waiting on and they're missing it because they're trying to put him into their little paradigm our paradigm is not gonna work if we wanna have what God wants us to have next year and so we see he's trying to transition them I'm trying to bring you into newness I'm trying to cover you in something you have never been covered in I'm telling you if you will allow yourself to be covered in the Lord Jesus Christ I know it's a little bit humorous but you know what he said in the Lord's Prayer he said enter into your closet to pray and then in the book of Romans he says put on the Lord Jesus Christ the NIV says wear him like a garment you wanna know what he was really trying to get us

to understand get in that closet of prayer and pray until you put me on like a garment and don't come out until you're walking talking and living like me and I'm telling you if we'll do that in 2026 we'll see a harvest like we've never seen you'll see blessing and favor and dominion like you have never seen in your life then he goes on to this next thing and it's what I wanna focus on and it's this new wine he's saying that for you to handle new wine you have to have new wine skin for you to handle what I am trying to release from within you you've got to change the outer shell and so he begins to talk to them about this about how these old bottles if you try to put new wine into old bottles that they had lost their elasticity

their ability to handle the fermentation process of the grape juice and as those chemicals are released within there and the fermentation process is taking place it begins to stretch that skin out and by the time it's all said and done that skin can no longer handle the fermentation process of grape juice he said you've gone as far as you could go in the current container that you are in oh help us holy ghost I'm telling some of you you've gone as far as you can go in the current container that you're trying to hold the blessing in the favor of God in but if you'll allow God to bring what he's wanting to bring tonight I'm telling you God can lengthen and God can strengthen your borders so that you can hold more than you've ever held so that you can contain more than you've ever contained

there's a new wine that's trying to flow in this new year and so I begin to study what are wine skins typically made out of most wine skins were made of goat and sheep it's interesting because that means that as the grape harvest was being prepared as this representation of the spirit of God was being prepared you have to see this as the grapes were ripening on the vine as the spirit of God was saying I'm about to be poured out I'm about to be poured out as those grapes are ripening on the vine that means somewhere somebody had to sacrifice a goat or a sheep something had to die for something to be released something had to be consecrated for something to flow and so these lambs and these goats they had to find a place of death so that the grape juice could flow and be contained in them

I couldn't help but begin to think about the butler and the baker when you begin to read about the butler and the baker in the story of Joseph you have to understand that Jesus said that my body it is the bread which is broken for you so when I see that baker I can't help but think about Jesus his flesh that is in the prison and then when you see the baker and the butler that butler was handling wine and the baker was handling baked goods and you'll find that the baker had to die so that the butler could be released that the flesh had to die so the handler of the wine could flow and until the flesh died the handler of the wine couldn't flow isn't it interesting that the baker was putting the baked goods on his head while the butler was serving the wine to the king

can I tell you the posture of flow the posture of anointing the posture of the one that stands before kings will never be self elevation it will always be servanthood and when you get in the realm of servanthood he can't help but sin the wine I want to commend this church because this is a serving church and the reason that the blessing of God is on this church is because this church doesn't just serve self but you serve the community you reach out and when you reach out God pours in when you put your hands outside of the four walls God says watch what I do and it's the posture of servanthood that we have taken that has loosed the wine and so you find that you have both of them in the prison but once the baker dies the butler can be released and so I begin to ask myself the next question

what happens to old wineskins so we know what happens to get to the new wineskins we know that they have to go and they have to sacrifice the new wineskins but what happens to the old wineskins when you begin to look at that you will find that old wineskins were turned into water carriers now I know that doesn't seem very revelatory right now but you have to realize that water carriers carriers of water with no flow carriers of water with no current little stagnant water carriers because they weren't willing to submit to new wine they became carriers of water with no flow and I need you to hear me tonight in the fear of the Lord we cannot become satisfied with being water carriers in 2026 it's not enough for us to come to church and get our little vessel filled with enough water just to make it to Wednesday

God never intended for us to be carriers of stagnant water you want to know what he wants from us rivers of living water he wants you to be a vessel that is not carrying water with no flow he wants you to be a conduit of constant new flow this is what the Lord rebuked the people through the prophet Jeremiah, for he said, for my people have committed two evils the first thing that they did they forsook me the fountain of living waters the second thing is they hewed out cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no water don't miss that he said they hewed out cisterns they make these little water carriers these little water holders instead of trusting the fountain of living water can I tell you there's a fountain that's flowing I said there's a fountain that's flowing and it's free and it's saying whosoever will

get to this water it's free and it's flowing get to the water don't be satisfied with being a conduit of water with no flow I want you to have rivers and so when you begin to look that these were flowing God intended for us to be flowing water flowing something that has newness always bursting forth out of it and you begin to research that they would take these these new wine skins and why was it new wine skins why couldn't they use the old ones or just make the old ones workable again it wasn't that they couldn't make them workable again they just couldn't stretch anymore because when they killed that lamb or they killed that sheep you have to hear this there was an oil released in the skin at death that makes them pliable for the new wine you can't miss that there is oil that is only

released at the point of death of our will that is why when Jesus was in that house and the woman comes and she anoints his feet he says this she has anointed me for my burial and he begins to talk about how precious this anointing oil was watch and the disciples are talking this was wasteful and you want to know what it does it sends Judas to the priest to betray him because only people that know how to die can understand how important the oil of death really is but when you found an altar and you have died out to yourself there is a fresh oil that is flowing over you that prepares you to be a conduit of the release of a new wine my lord I know what I'm preaching is not convenient but I'm here today to tell you 2026 God wants to send a new wine

he wants to send something out of you that you have never experienced before he wants to let something flow from you that has never flowed before but the only way you're going to be able to handle it is from a place of consecration now watch Judas sees that anointing and he runs to the priesthood to betray Jesus don't be frustrated when God puts a fresh oil on your life to handle what he's sending your way don't be frustrated when people walk out on you they'll never understand what you've had to sacrifice to have what you have my lord I feel the Holy Ghost right now you'll never be able to get them to understand why you do the things you do why you sacrifice like you sacrifice it'll drive them away can I tell you there are some things that the world will never understand

about an anointed man or woman of God quit trying to hold Judas at the table and let him go because what Judas is really doing is he's bringing you to the place of fulfillment I'm telling somebody you can't hold on to Judas you've got to let him go because he's going to release something in you so that you can minister to others that you couldn't minister to so that you can do things that you could not do without the place of death that he'll send you to my my my I feel the Holy Ghost moving right now I'm telling somebody in the Holy Ghost you need to let those people go you need to quit holding on to the bitterness that they've caused you and say had it not been for them they were agents of my crucifix and had they not put me on the cross

I wouldn't have what I have at the end of this year I wouldn't be able to handle what I'm going to handle come next year thank God for the heartache thank God for the I'm preaching to somebody right now 2025 wasn't all rainbows and unicorns 2025 wasn't your best year but it was positioning you for the best year you've ever had it was putting you in alignment you feel that that's fresh oil you feel that that's the oil of the Lord saying I'm getting you ready for a new wine I'm getting you ready for a new anointing I feel the Holy Ghost lift our hands and call upon the name of the Lord right now no man put a new wine into an old bottle if they do the bottles will burst and the wine will be spilled watch what he says in Luke 5

37 and the bottles shall perish God doesn't just care about the wine he cares about you and not only does God not want to waste the wine but he doesn't want to waste you either because it's not the will of God that any should perish but that all should come unto everlasting life you want to know what the will of God for your life is that you would hear well done now good and faithful servant enter into the joy of the Lord and cannot tell you every trial was positioning you for a new level every my Lord have mercy every bit of hiccups that you've gone through that diagnosis that heartache that pain that trial that tribulation that gossip that lie that hurt that it was positioning you for oil six different places in the Old Testament six different places that new wine is mentioned

it is also mentioned with a corn harvest don't miss that when God says I get ready to give a new wine it's because I'm trying to get you ready to handle the harvest that's coming in Mark chapter two right after Jesus gets done with reading this quoting this exact parable that I read to you tonight but in Mark's account of it he leaves talking about this parable and they start walking through a corn field plucking corn off the vine why? I believe the way Jesus taught especially rabbis in that time is they would use their surroundings to bring spiritual principles to life for their people and so if he was standing in a corn field or near a vineyard or in between both he would have talked about a vineyard and he would have talked about a corn field and so I believed he was

standing in the middle of the harvest and he was showing them the spiritual application to what they were standing by he was saying when the new wine gets ready to flow it's always going to be coupled with a great harvest I'm telling you in the Holy Ghost I said in the beginning and I feel like I heard from God today that there is a dominion coming to this church for this area the new wine is about to release the harvest the new wine is about to release the harvest now new wine means fresh oil like we've already said because not only did they talk about in the Old Testament and I could go through it but it says in Joel 224 in the NLT the threshing floors will again be piled high with grain the presses will overflow with new wine and oil he said

it'll come with grain wine and oil not only am I going to send new wine but I'm going to send a fresh anointing with it my Lord not only am I going to send a fresh anointing with it I'm also going to send a harvest with it because when God gets ready to pour it out it's pressed down shaking together the new wine is also coming with fresh oil and the fresh oil is coming with a fresh harvest Jeremiah 31 12 in the NIV they will come and shout for joy on the heights of giants, Zion they will rejoice in the bounty of the Lord the grain, the new wine and the olive oil the grain, the new wine and the olive oil he said it doesn't just come with new wine I see Jesus standing in those harvest field when he's talking about the new wine

and he goes from there to pull in the corn I see him looking at Jeremiah and I see him looking at these prophets saying if they only knew what I was trying to bring them if they only knew what I was trying to bring them if they only knew what was on the other side of everything they've had to go through because on the other side wasn't just a fresh wine but it was also fresh oil and it wasn't just fresh oil but it's a harvest that'll burst out of the storehouse cannot tell you we have seen and we are going to continue to see the end time harvest of this church 704 I've been preaching for 28 minutes Pastor told me if I went to 730 I wouldn't be in trouble I won't go that long I'm sincerely closing with this Luke 539 no man having drunk old wine straight

way desireth new for he saith the old is better jump with me to John chapter 2 verse number 9 when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made now remember when I read our text today I said it's important that the foundation of the text is a bridal party so let's go to Jesus' first miracle when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not once it was but the servants there it is servants know how to handle the supernatural that drew the water they knew there's two types of people in every atmosphere servants who want to handle the supernatural and consumers that want to drink the supernatural and you got to figure out if you're going to be a consumer or a producer in every service the governor of the feast called the bridegroom and he saith unto him

every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine and when men have well drunk then that which is worse begins to come out but thou hast kept the good wine until now this is the beginning of miracles that Jesus did in Cana of Galilee in the natural the old wine is better but in the supernatural and in the church that we are part of the wine doesn't get worse as the party goes on the wine keeps getting better can I pause here for just a moment and say our best days are not behind us our greatest revivals are not behind us the greatest preachers that have ever preached are not in the past the greatest singers that have ever sung are not in the past the greatest Bible study preacher Lord that have ever taught they're not in the past the best drummer that's ever played

he's not I'm looking at the best the world has ever seen I'm looking at the greatest the world has ever laid eyes on why? because in God's kingdom it keeps getting better come on if you believe that stand to your feet and let it flow out of your belly like a river of living water shatayalabaha yalabah reyanda yalaboh shatayaha tayalaboh shekeyatalabaha telling every elder you ain't seen nothing yet come on young people let's quit hoping for the good old days that we've heard the stories about I'm telling you we ain't seen nothing yet I'm telling every young married couple you ain't seen nothing yet I'm telling every middle aged couple you ain't seen nothing yet I'm telling everybody under the sound of my voice you ain't seen nothing yet I said it keeps getting better I want us to close like this tonight if possible if you're not able I understand

but if you're able I want you to come to this altar just for a moment this is how I saw us closing it out today if you can I want you to come to this altar this is the last service of 2025 as we step into 2026 tayalaboh shekeyatalabah and there's a sweet unction of the Holy Ghost in this house right now atarakatayayandolobohsheyatalabah come on brother Derek you're going to pray more through next year than you've ever prayed through come on altar workers you're going to lead more to the baptismal tank than you've ever led to the baptismal tank come on deaf ministry you're going to reach for more than you've ever reached for in 2026 come on Sunday school ministry you're going to see more kids get the Holy Ghost next year than you've ever seen come on youth group you're going to see more of your friends

come to the Lord than you've ever seen come on worship team you're going to have a greater anointing than you've ever had come on ladies bible study you've grown exponentially You're going to grow even more this year. Come on, Joshua's men. You're going to go further in the Word than you've ever gone this year. Come on, Bible study teachers. You're going to teach more Bible studies than you've ever taught this year. It's appropriate. It's appropriate. I want you to join up with the person next to you. Nobody alone. I want us to close this year out in unity. Nobody alone. Take that person by the hand. This is what I want us to pray for. Pliability in 2026. Hear what I'm telling you. I feel this in the Holy Ghost. Pray for the elasticity to move when God says move. To go when God says go.

Harakatalabaha. If you've been stagnant, you need to find a place of death right now and let God fall fresh on you so that you can handle the new wine. Pray for the elasticity to move with the ebbs and the flow of what God is going to do in this upcoming year. Well, take that hand and lift it towards heaven right now and in one mind and in one accord. Come on, lift your hands towards heaven. One mind and one accord. Lift your voice. Fresh oil. Fall in this house. New wine. Fall in this house. Rotolobosakataha. Iyarakataya. Iyesharataya. Iorokotorose. Out of your belly, let it flow. Out of your belly, let it flow. Reandelabahasekayataha. Come on, that's it. Lord, change the way I think. Change the way I operate. Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, Lord. Never receive the Holy Ghost. You can receive it right now.

Lift your hands out of your belly and it will flow like a river of living water. You've never been baptized in Jesus' name. We can baptize you tonight. Come on, flow in the Holy Ghost now. Do what you feel. Flow in the Holy Ghost. Let the elasticity of the Spirit begin to move you right now. You feel like praying for somebody. Pray for them. Do what you feel in the Holy Ghost.