Awakening (Part 10 Notes)

• Generosity
• Praise
• Excellence

As a result of our ministry, you are living letters written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God—not carved onto stone tablets but on the tablets of tender hearts. 4 We carry this confidence in our hearts because of our union with Christ before God. 5 Yet we don’t see ourselves as capable enough to do anything in our own strength, for our true competence flows from God’s empowering presence. 6 He alone makes us adequate ministers who are focused on an entirely new covenant. Our ministry is not based on the letter of the law but through the power of the Spirit. The letter of the law kills, but the Spirit pours out life.

2 Corinthians 3:3-6 (TPT)

Esther 3-7

Feast of Purim this week
Haman tried to use the law to destroy Gods people

Christianity is not about finding more effective ways to use the law to kill what God delights in…people

Daniel 3

The on the inside must be hotter than the fire on the outside.
Draw near – let God burn away what isn’t able to stand heat

New wine/new wineskins – Matt. 9, Mark 2, Luke 5

“And who pours new wine into an old wineskin? If someone did, the old wineskin would burst and the new wine would be lost. 38 New wine must always be poured into new wineskins. 39 Yet you say, ‘The old ways are better,’ and you refuse to even taste the new that I bring.”

Luke 5:37-39 (TPT)

How is new wine created?  In the pressing.
Will you surrender to the pressing?
Will you allow Jesus to make you a new wineskin?
What needs needs to be taken to the furnace and burned up in order to make that happen?