![]() "Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?" (3:3). This is what Paul meant when he asked if the Galatians could be perfected by the law, after they had begun by grace. It is trying to please God through keeping the law and trying to gain God’s favor through one’s own strength. It is going back to being a Galatian again after one has become a Christian, trying to accomplish what man cannot accomplish through the law. It is also the good works which we perform after we are saved. (The torn garment is the only thing that is torn.) The old wineskin is our natural, good behavior. The old wineskin is not sin, and it is not something torn. It is the aspects of our temper and good behavior which excelled above the temper and behavior of others. The old wineskin is the goodness we had before we believed in the Lord. In other words, one can boast before God. To fast means to boast it is saying that one is not like the publicans, that one fasts twice a week, and that one tithes. In other words, the old wineskin is related to the fasting mentioned above. Since the old garment refers to human righteousness in the previous verses, the old wineskin in the subsequent verse must refer to our natural conduct. It is impossible for the previous verses to refer to one thing and the following verses to refer to something else. If we are not the old garment, can we be the old wineskin? We should consider the context. What is the meaning of a wineskin? Why can new wine not be put in the old wineskin? Some have said that we are the old wineskin.
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