I want to speak on Mark chapter 2 verses 18 to 22 with the sermon title of The Old Has Gone and the New Has Come. I'll just read those verses again. And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast. And they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days. No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment, else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the bridegroom. from the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred, but new wine must be put into new bottles.' Well today our text It is the third in a series of five stories that involve controversies or disputes between Jesus and religious people during the early stage of his Galilean ministry. We've already looked at three of these. We've looked at the conflict over Jesus' claim to forgive sins in relation to the healing of the man sick of the palsy. And the controversy over Christ's association with tax collectors and sinners in Levi's home. But the dispute today centers around the question of fasting. The Pharisees and the disciples of John, of course, fasted regularly as a sign of devotion and piety. And they questioned Jesus, why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples Fast not? That's the question. And Jesus responds to this question with three analogies concerning weddings, concerning garments, and concerning wineskins. And the central message of his response to the Pharisees and to John's disciples is that his arrival as Messiah has inaugurated a radical new transforming religion of the heart. This is the point he makes, the Lord Jesus makes. And this new religion of the heart is incompatible with the prevailing Judaism of the day, which was a workspace religion. And Christ's response to this group teaches us today that true religion, true Christianity, is all about the presence, it's all about the person of Jesus Christ. And it also teaches us that Christianity is exclusive, unique, and distinctive, and it cannot be mixed with any other belief system. Even if it's modern day Judaism or Islam or any work based system of religion, even if it calls itself Christian, Christianity is Christ. I'm not the first one to say that, but that is true. Christianity is Christ and he makes all things new. And he makes things like fasting, new as we'll go on to see. He doesn't discard fasting, but he transforms fasting. Indeed, our whole lives are transformed, redefined and remade in the light of his glory and of his grace. The Apostle Paul described a true Christian in these terms. In 2 Corinthians 5.17, therefore if any man be in Christ, He is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. And this, I think, is the key, the interpretive key, which unlocks Mark's gospel. As I've said many times already, Jesus is inaugurating the new age, the kingdom of God, which in its consummate form and its final form is the new heavens and the new earth. And therefore the kingdom of God is fundamentally incompatible with the old structures of dead religion. Mark records in chapter 114, after John the Baptist was put in prison, came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and saying, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent ye and believe the gospel. You see, the presence of Jesus changes everything. And because Jesus makes everything new that was old and is old, the old has become incompatible with the new. This is the essential message of these three analogies or metaphors that Jesus uses. Fasting is incompatible with a wedding, he says first. A new patch is incompatible with an old garment. and new wine is incompatible with an old wineskin. And we will look at these three analogies which are particularly relevant to today. Because often today, people are trying to mix the old with the new and it doesn't work. We live in a pagan society. I think we have to accept that now. We live in a pagan society. where diversity of belief is privileged. Individuality is exalted and all religious truth is personalized, it's subjective and universalized. And this is true even within parts of the church where In some circles, great emphasis is put on interfaith relations and all this sort of thing. And then there's a much wider problem of professing Christians simply not understanding, simply not experiencing the radical transformation of the heart that Jesus has come to bring. makes all things new. And I pray that as we study this text today, the Holy Spirit will illuminate our hearts to see something of the new life that the Lord Jesus Christ brings in his Gospel. And you may have been a Christian, you may have named yourself as a Christian for many, many years. but have never really come in to the newness of life that the Lord Jesus Christ offers you. You're still stuck in some way in the old external ways of dead religion. But you see, the heart of what this text is saying today is that everything has become new in Christ and you cannot mix the old with the new. Paul wrote in Romans 7 verse 6, which I noticed when our brother Mr. Pallister was speaking on Tuesday, this verse, Romans 7 verse 6, he says, but now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Newness and oldness, we've got to be clear. about this. So let's come then to the response Jesus made to this criticism, this implied criticism of his disciples not fasting in the way the Pharisees and the followers of John the Baptist did. Mark 2, 18 and 20, and the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast, and they come and say unto him, why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, can the children of the bride chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days." So there are two sets of people here in this group that come up to Jesus with this question about fasting. There are the Pharisees which is an unusual thing to talk about the disciples of the Pharisees, because the Pharisees didn't really have disciples. You're either a Pharisee or you weren't. So it's probably young Pharisees who are following a particular rabbi. And we've spoken about the Pharisees already quite a few times. They were this religious stroke political party who followed an extreme form of separation And then there are these disciples of John the Baptist. It's ironic, because the Pharisees didn't actually like the disciples of John, and they were normally enemies. But when it comes to having a go against Jesus, it's funny who makes friends, isn't it? It's often mistakenly believed that because John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, that all of John's disciples would automatically move over from him to Jesus. But in fact, this didn't seem to have happened. We know, of course, that Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist, and he then became a disciple and later an apostle. and that he brought Cephas, Peter, to Jesus. But not all of John's disciples became Christians or followed Jesus. In fact, as late as Acts 19, which was a long time later, Paul met some disciples who had never heard of the Holy Spirit in Acts 19, and who had only known John's baptism. And they hadn't even been baptized into the name of Jesus Christ. We know that John the Baptist's disciples were eager to get ready for the Messiah, but not all of them accepted that the Lord Jesus was the Messiah. But the point here is that, like the Pharisees, they used fasting as part of their religious zeal and tradition. And they come to Jesus and they ask this loaded question. We've all experienced this, haven't we? Somebody asking us a question. What they're really doing is tearing a strip off us. They're criticizing us, but they put it in the form of a question. And this is what happens here. We fast. Why don't your disciples fast? The Pharisees made fasting a duty twice a week. And John the Baptist, of course, was an ascetic, and his disciples followed in that way. In Luke's account, he states, the disciples of John fast often and make prayers. And likewise, the Pharisees but dine, eat, and drink. So they fasted often. In stark contrast to the disciples of John and the Pharisees, the Lord Jesus and his disciples are celebrating. They're joyful. They're feasting while these others are fasting. Now we must understand from the outset that the Pharisees were completely wrong. to make regular fasting a religious duty. The Pharisees made it a duty to fast from sunset to sunrise every Monday and Thursday. Do you remember the self-righteous prayer of the Pharisee in the parable in the temple? He said, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust adulterers, or even as this publican, I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I possess. You see, there's that biweekly fasting. And in the Old Testament, while there is a lot, there is much voluntary fasting, the Mosaic law had established only one compulsory fast day each year during Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. In the so-called post-exilic period, Zechariah 7.5 indicates that there were fasts in the fourth, fifth, and seventh months of the Jewish year. And in Esther, there's a fifth fast established with the festival of Purim. But even allowing for all of that, This bi-weekly requirement to fast went way beyond all scriptural requirements. And just like prayer, and just like almsgiving, the Pharisees fasted ostentatiously. They wanted everyone to see. They loved to make a fair show in the flesh, to borrow a phrase from Galatians. Jesus describes the proud Pharisee in Matthew 6, 16. Moreover, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. And so it's important to say and I'm going to be very positive about fasting as we go on, but I want to begin by saying that fasting in a religious spirit does more harm than good. And if it's done to impress God, or more likely to impress man, it will result in judgment rather than in blessing. The prophet Isaiah in chapter 59.3 following It's quite amusing when you read it. It says, wherefore, this is the people speaking, wherefore have we fasted, say they? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors. I could paraphrase that by saying, we're fasting, Lord. Please notice and be impressed with us. But God says, it's a waste of time. if your lives are not right with me. Verse six there, is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh. Well this was very similar to the Pharisees who Jesus rebuked for performing religious rituals without the spiritual reality behind it. And in answer to their thinly veiled criticism in their question, Jesus in verse 19 says, can the children of the bride chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. Now, Jesus is brilliant here. He's always brilliant, of course. But he's brilliant here because even the Pharisees suspended the fasting rules during weddings. Weddings in that culture, and I think it's probably the same today, went on for days. They were week-long events. And everyone knew that a wedding, a Jewish wedding, was no time for fasting. It was a time for feasting. Why can't the wedding guests fast, Jesus says? Because the bridegroom is with them. They cannot fast. And of course he's talking about himself. We don't have time to go into the connotations of that word bridegroom, but if you read the Old Testament, it's another claim to divinity by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Messiah has come and I am here with you. And in my presence there is fullness of joy. It's a time of celebration. The long-awaited Messiah has come. It's not a time for fasting, it's a time for feasting. And everything is new now. And your old external Work-based system of religion is obsolete. Now is not a time for fasting. I am the bridegroom, and I've come for my bride. And my disciples cannot fast because I'm with them. It is appropriate, and I've got this reputation of not being particularly sociable at parties and things, but even I know that it's important to distinguish between a wedding and a funeral. you have to act differently. And just imagine the offence you would cause at a wedding reception if every time the serving staff come round with the wine and with the food, all especially planned months in advance, normally by the bride of course, and every time you were offered something you said, no thanks, I'm on a fast. You see, it would mix. It would be incompatible. You don't fast at a wedding. It's a time to rejoice. It's a time to feast. It's a time for joy. And here again, we see the essential difference, don't we, between true and false religion. False religion is about external forms and rituals. True religion is about the presence of the bridegroom. It's about the presence of Jesus. It's about the presence of Christ as a reality in your life. It's about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As your bridegroom, you're married to him. You're in a personal, vital, living relationship with Jesus Christ. And without that, you don't have the real thing. You've got something, but it's not the Christianity that Jesus brings. Now, of course, Jesus refers here in the first place to his physical presence with his disciples in the earthly days of his ministry. And he says in verse 20 that the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them. and then shall they fast in those days. Now this is a most astonishing prediction of his death. Jesus says there's going to come a day when this wedding celebration, during which fasting is inappropriate, will come to an end because the bridegroom will be taken away. And he will be taken away, not politely escorted away, but violently taken away. The word implies a forceful, violent taking away of the bridegroom. And of course this echoes, this is a prediction of the cross, of his death. It's an echo of Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah 53, 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment. And who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. And Mark records later in his gospel how Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was put through a sham trial, and he was crucified on a Roman cross. And the scriptures teach us that this was Christ dying for us in our place and in our stead. He died for us so that our sins could be forgiven if we turn to him in repentance and faith. When the bridegroom is taken away, then shall they fast in those days, says Jesus. Why? Because the bridegroom is not present. You see, fasting out of grief and mourning is appropriate then. When you're in deep grief and mourning, you don't eat, do you? You're off your food. And no doubt John the Baptist's disciples, who were really more noble than the Pharisees in my opinion anyway, they were in mourning over the loss of John. He was in prison. Later he would be martyred. And the disciples of Jesus also, we can tell, were cast down with grief and despair. Two of them, Luke records, went to Emmaus from Jerusalem. And Jesus, incognito, joined them. In Luke, we read, we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel. And beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. And at the end of the day, Jesus stayed with them. And their eyes were opened and they knew him. And he vanished out of their sight. But you see, everything for the disciples was different now. Joy had returned because the bridegroom who had been taken away had returned. He rose again. Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way and while he opened to us the scriptures And likewise, when Jesus appeared to his disciples in the upper room, Luke records Jesus himself standing in the midst of them. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. You see, his presence is the critical difference. And what does Jesus do in the home? With the two disciples, the first thing he does is feeds them. Gives them something to eat. He breaks the fast. What did he do in the upper room? He says, is there anything to eat? He breaks the fast. What's the critical difference? His presence. He's there with them. Have ye any meat? And they gave him a piece of broiled fish and of a honeycomb. And he took it and did eat before them. He was with them again. Well, I expect you're all thinking, what does Rod think about fasting now? Well, what about fasting now? Because Jesus, of course, went back to heaven, didn't he? His immediate physical presence left the disciples. They witnessed Jesus being taken up and the glory cloud received him out of their sight. But you see this time they were not in despair like after the cross. This time all hope had not gone. They gathered together in hope waiting for the promised Holy Spirit And all glory to God, Jesus' promise to send another Comforter came true. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. Jesus said, I will never leave you, never forsake you. In many ways, Christ is more present with us than he was with the disciples. After Pentecost, in a way, he's more present with us than the days of his earthly ministry. Paul speaks of Christ not just being with us, but being in us. And as soon as a person becomes a Christian, believes, he is united to Christ. That very moment Christ becomes your head, and you're in a vital union with him. We're baptized. This is what baptism in or with the Holy Spirit really means. It's not some weird and wonderful experience you have later on. It's an initial baptism of the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ, where you're made one in union with Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 12, 13, for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body. The moment you believe, that very second, you are baptized in the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ. And so the Christian, by definition, is someone who is in the presence of Christ. We're in union with him. We're in a vital relationship with him. And this changes everything. He makes everything new. And for the Christian, this includes fasting. So given that Christ is with us and in us, should we fast? Well, we can certainly say that Christians should not fast as the Pharisees fasted. There is no obligatory fasting. and all show of religion is forbidden. Neither should Christians fast out of mourning and grief for the loss of their leader, as John's disciples did and as Jesus' disciples did for a while. That is inappropriate. Fasting out of hopelessness and grief is not compatible with Christianity. But we know from Scripture that fasting was part of the New Testament's church life and piety. Fasting was a prominent factor in one of the most significant events in mission history, the launching of the first missionary journey in the history of the church. While Saul and Barnabas and Church in Antioch were worshipping the Lord and fasting. The Holy Spirit said, set apart from me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. They were worshipping the Lord and fasting. And the church, after this time of prayer and fasting, sent them off on a mission of evangelism and church planting. And then what happened? On their journey, Saul and Barnabas established churches and appointed, it says in Acts 14.20, appointed elders for them in every church. How did they do so? With prayer and fasting. So that is one concrete reason we can establish directly from the Bible for fasting. to seek the Holy Spirit's vision, guidance and empowerment in ministry. And there are a whole host of other reasons to fast. This is not a sermon on fasting and I can't go into it. But like everything else, and I want us to understand this, like everything else, fasting has to be defined in the context of the new life that Christ brings. He changes everything. In many ways, the purpose of fasting now is to assist with the feasting, if that makes sense to you. Either to assist with my appetite, my hunger and thirst for Christ, and to help me to eat and drink of him, or to assist in prayers for others that they may know the joy of salvation that I have received. We get a hint of this in the Lord Jesus' advice on how to fast in Matthew 6, 17. Disciples should not call attention to their fasting through their appearance, but they should look festive. They should wear good clothes and wash their face. You see, I believe the Christian life is essentially a feast. And fasting, the role of fasting is in assisting with the enjoyment of the feast. How does it do so? How does fasting help me feast? Well, it subdues the flesh, it humbles me before God, and it draws you and I nearer to God. True religion and heartfelt fasting are all centred on Christ and everything has to be focused on knowing Him, experiencing His presence, making Christ known to others. Fasting in that context as a joyful spiritual discipline is part of the Christian life. But our fasting, in contrast to the hypocrites, should be fasting from hearts hungry for Christ. If you haven't got that, I advise you to forget fasting because you'll just bring more condemnation on you. We fast to feast upon the bread of life. We sing and we joy in fasting and whether we fast or whether we drink or whether we eat, we do it all unto the Lord because he's made us new. That's the difference Jesus brings. It is the true religion of the heart. I asked you this morning, do you know anything of this joy, this new life in Christ? Becoming a Christian is being married to Christ and in a marriage there's great joy in feasting. And if, you know, Christian life is full of trials and even persecution and hardship, yes, but it's essentially a joyful feast, even in the midst of trial. So that's the first point, and we won't spend so long on the other two points. Fasting is incompatible with a wedding. Jesus then, in verse 21, basically says a new patch is incompatible with an old garment. No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment, else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. Well, we go from the scene of a wedding to the scene of a household. It borrows an image from a home where most people only had one set of clothes. They had to look after them. They had to be repaired. It's not like today when young people seem to buy new clothes every weekend. I blame Primark for that. But they had to look after their clothes, mend it. And their clothes were made out of natural fabrics, linen or wool and so on. And it was not pre-shrunk material or synthetic like ours today. So in a Jewish home in Jesus' day, if a little boy tears his clothes while playing, his mother would know that it would be useless to sew a new, unshrunk piece of cloth or patch and sew it onto our son's old clothes. Because as soon as it started raining, or as soon as it went to the washing machine, the equivalent, the new patch will pull away from the old garment. And the tear will be even worse than it was to begin with. You see, Jesus is saying the whole time, you cannot mix the old with the new. This second metaphor makes it clear that Jesus is saying something to this group that, in a way, goes well beyond fasting. He's saying to this group of religious people that their religion is no more than them trying to patch up their old lives. They're trying to cover up lives that need to be made completely new. It's a natural instinct. Adam and Eve tried that, didn't they? Soon as sin came into the world, what did they do? They tried to cover themselves with a fig leaf. Tried to patch it up. But it needed far more. Jesus is saying dead religion is a worn out garment. And you can't patch it up from the new. No, he's not talking about the Old Testament. because the New Testament is in continuity with the New Testament. He's talking about false religion. He's talking about Judaism and by implication all false religions which attempt to add things in an attempt to earn favour with God. No mixture of the gospel and other religions is possible. No mixture of grace and works as a means of salvation is possible. In fact, sometimes if you try and add things to your life, it makes it worse. The message of the gospel is that your old life needs more than patching up. You need to be made new. Your life, the Bible teaches, is like an unclean thing. and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Paul taught in Galatians that the true Christian is clothed with Christ himself. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. The call of the gospel is not a call to self-reform, it's a call It's not a call to add certain things to your life. It's not a call to perform certain religious duties. It's not a call to asceticism. It's not saying to you, you have to earn a ticket to heaven through a body of works which you'll present at the judgment day and say, I'm hoping this will get me through. That's what most religions are like. Neither is it about subtracting things from your life. It's not just about not doing this and not doing that, giving up this and giving up that. They're just patches on an old life which in the end will tear. You need more than a repair job, you need regeneration by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said you need to be born again, you must be born again and made a completely new person. That's the message of the gospel. And we who profess to be Christians must take a warning here too from this analogy. We can't mix the new life of Christ within us with the old life of sin. That life is gone. I mean it rears its ugly head from time to time but we must not go back to it. Our lives have to be radically different from the way they were before and radically different from the world. Paul contrasts the old ways of the sinful world with the new life of the Christian in Ephesians 5, 19. He says, who being past feeling, he's talking about the world here, who being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness. And with greediness, that's what we were like. But ye have not so learned Christ. If so be that ye have heard him. and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off concerning the former conversation, thus behavior, of the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. A Christian has to put off stuff and has to put on Christ. To put off the old man and put on the new man. The Christian can't mix the old clothes with the new clothes. The old man can't mix with the new man. That's the message that Jesus is saying here. And so as Christians this morning, are we living this radical new Christian life? Or are we trying, are we just patching ourselves up, thinking that we can live as we always used to? And then finally and very quickly, Jesus teaches that new wine is incompatible with an old wineskin. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, else the new wine doth burst the bottles. And the new wine is spilt, and the bottles will be marred, but new wine must be put into new bottles. To understand this metaphor we must not think of glass or plastic bottles, we have to be thinking of wineskins. Wine skins were normally made out of the hides of goats, which were made into pouches of fresh leather, and they were filled with new wine. The new wine would ferment within these new wine skins. And as the fermentation process took place, the wine skin would stretch because the receptacle for the new wine was new. It was a new wineskin. And the wine could grow together with the wineskin as it expanded. It could contain the living wine. And wine, in a way, is a life of its own, doesn't it? It ferments. It produces gases through fermentation. It's the living thing. And it needs to be in a new vessel Because Jesus is saying, if you go to the pile of old wineskins thrown up against the corner of the wall, and you pick up one of the old, cracked, dry, brittle wineskins, and you pour in new wine into that, then as the gases, through the fermentation process, expand, it'll just blow up. It'll blow up and split, and the wine will be wasted. The old is incompatible with the new. You can't pour the new wine of the gospel into old dead religion. Your lives have to be made new so that you can contain the new wine that Jesus brings. The new wine of the kingdom of God cannot be poured into Judaism, Islam, or any other religion. It cannot be poured into the old ways of sin either. Christ has to make you new and then he will give you the new life that he's come to bring. He has to make you into a new vessel into which he will fill the new wine of kingdom life, which is a life of joy, of spiritual feasting. Jesus said, I come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. Well, we close now. We've seen how Jesus responded to the criticism from the Pharisees and this group of John's disciples. Why do your disciples fast? Why do we fast and your disciples don't fast? Jesus showed them that they had no real understanding of what true religion is. I wonder today if you're someone who still thinks true religion is simply about doing this and doing that and not doing this and not doing that. In an attempt to patch up the tears in your life, you're just going to make things worse. Have you ever understood that because Jesus has come into the world and initiated the kingdom of God, everything and everyone has to change? Jesus has come to make you completely new from the inside out. This is the message of the Old Testament. This is the message of the New Testament. The Pharisees, you see, didn't understand their Bibles really, did they? And their Judaism didn't really represent the true Bible, nor does any works-based system of religion or living. Through the new birth, you can enter the kingdom of God, and only through the new birth. You have to be born again by the Holy Spirit and made new. Today you can be reborn, made new and receive the new life of Christ, but you have to come to Him. So I ask you, will you forsake the old? Will you cast away your attempts at self-reform and justifying yourself before God? How do I become a Christian, you say? Well, the Lord Jesus made it very clear, didn't he? Even in this gospel. We have to come to him. We have to believe in him alone as the only saviour of sinners. There's no mixture of him with other religious leaders or religion. It's the Lord Jesus Christ only. You believe he's the only saviour of your soul. And you repent of your sins. You turn away from the old and you embrace the new and you begin a new life of service and obedience to him in his kingdom. Although you will experience many trials and you'll experience perhaps even persecution, it's a life of feasting, it's a life of joy that nothing else in this world offers. Lord Jesus said, I repeat, I have come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. Have you got it? Do you know this abundant life, even in the midst of difficulty and trial, he offers you new life, new wine in him. Amen. Feel free to contact us at Sovereign Grace Church in Tiverton. Email us at grace2seekers at gmail.com. That's grace2seekers at gmail.com. Alternatively, you can visit our website at www.sovereigngracereformedchurch.co.uk. you