Tradition – Traditionalism

Luke 5:27-39

Traditions = are valuable that keep us from feeling awash in a world of .

 So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.
2 Thess. 2:15

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.
2 Thess. 3:6

There is a great deal of difference between tradition and .

Traditionalism = an attitude that resists , , or .

It is substituting a system for the and freshness of the Spirit.

When traditionalism rules – you can expect nothing but .

There are plenty of people around who feel it is their calling to “ you into their .”

These people are not like the Apostle because they are like the and never get out of the .

• Traditionalism is not !

In Jesus’ day, it reared its head and was called .

The Pharisees it, it, it.

When others Jesus, they .

• A good example is or .

After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him. And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.
Luke 5:27-29

All were having a time but when the religious folk heard the party noise – they began taking at Jesus and His man.

The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” 5:30

You can’t have types in your midst – and surely not if you are about God.

And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.”
Luke 5:31

“I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5:32

If you think that took care of the situation – again.

And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”
Luke 5:33

Look at Jesus’ !

And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”
Luke 5:34-35

And then Jesus’ – .

And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.
Luke 5:36

And then:

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”
Luke 5:37-39

The Pharisee’s attempt to Jesus into their .

Oh, how the Pharisees loved their .

• They preferred it to the of .

He is not to honor his father or his mother.’ And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Matthew 15:6

• They were too to accept the new Jesus was .
• It is easy to become so to the past that we can’t be set for the .