Ep 33| The New Reformation Is Here (And It's Not What You Think)

The church is experiencing a reformation. Not in buildings or denominations, but in the hearts of people who are leaving organized religion and finding a direct relationship with Jesus.

This is the new wine being poured out in 2026.

• Matthew 9:14-17: What Jesus meant by "new wine"
• How Constantine corrupted the church—and why nobody talks about it
• The Anabaptists, Reformation, and why the real movement was suppressed
• Why church hurt is real, deconstruction is valid, and Jesus is still calling you
• The age of information is changing everything (and it's not a coincidence)

If you've left the church or been hurt by it, this episode is for you.

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All right, guys, welcome to another episode of the Christian Business Podcast. My name is Josiah, and I am the host. I am so excited for today's episode. What we are going to be talking about is the new wine of the 2000s that God is pouring his spirit upon the church. And the reason I want to share this with you guys is because I have been doing an incredible amount of research. I have a new project. We'll talk about that in a moment. Um, this is an exciting episode. Promise you guys, you're gonna want to hear this one. So before we even do anything, let's kick it off with a little bit of prayer and then I'll jump into it. So, Father God, thank you for this day. Lord, I am excited for this one. I cannot wait to share it. And Lord, I'm so thankful for your Holy Spirit pouring upon us during these times. It is such a special time to be alive. It's such a special time that you've created all of us that we can be here right here, right now, to witness the beautiful things that your Holy Spirit is doing. I thank you, Lord, that you've called me to be a part of this movement. I thank you, Lord, that you're doing this movement. And Father, I just love you so much. Jesus, we pray these things in your wonderful and precious name. Amen. All right, I am going to start by talking about what the heck is new wine? What are you talking about, your Holy Spirit being, you know, God's Holy Spirit being poured out upon us in these times and all this kind of stuff. Let's read in context. Let's read. What the heck am I talking about? Okay, so this comes from Matthew and it's chapter nine, particularly verses 14 through 17, okay? So it's only three verses. Um, and it's also in some of the other gospels and some of this kind of stuff, but I like the Matthew. It's just uh it gets the point and it's easy to explain. Um, but anyhow, so I'm gonna read it, we'll talk about it, and then we're going to talk about how it relates to our times right now, because I think something very special is happening, okay? I really do. Now, I have to preface this, that's my opinion, but I don't know that any of us as believers can we deny, at least here in America right now, you know, on June 20th, 2026, can any of us deny that the Holy Spirit is doing something incredible in our nation right now? I don't think we can. So we're gonna talk about what I think's going on. Okay, that's that's it. And and it's a wonderful thing. So let's start off with our verses from Matthew 9, starting at verse 14. Then John's disciples came and asked him, How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast? Jesus answered, How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast. Then he goes on to say in verse 16, No one sows a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst. The wine will run out of the wineskins and it will be ruined. No, instead, people they so here's what he says. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. All right. What in the world is this guy talking about? Okay, this can be really, really, really confusing. Well, let's talk about this in context, and I'll try to keep it uh short and sweet for you guys. I love this kind of stuff. John the Baptist, I'm pretty sure he was in jail at this point. So he sent his disciples when he was in jail and unable to go see Jesus, and he told his disciples to ask Jesus, How is it? Because remember, this was a system of rabbis, people would follow their rabbis, right? And John the Baptist was a prophet. He had students who were called disciples. This is the cultural kind of way that they they passed on things and in spiritual practice of the model that was laid out. And so, anyhow, so John the Baptist, his disciples went to Jesus and they said, Man, how come you're not fasting more often? You know, like how come you're not doing that? Uh, you guys don't seem to fast at all. And Jesus answered them. And by the way, fasting is uh it's actually a really, really cool practice, but basically, fasting, if you guys are unfamiliar, it's where you the best way I'll just layman's terms keep it keep it nice, nice and easy. It's where you take something and you decide to grow closer to God during that time. Okay. So some people, you know, maybe you don't eat. That's a very traditional way of fasting. And every time that you get hungry, you think about God or whatever it is that you're trying to get closer to him and really understand that your reliance on is on him, it's not on the things of this world. Okay. So they're asking him, how come you guys aren't fasting? Jesus answered, this is an amazing thing. He he admits that he's the Messiah by saying this. He says, How can the guest of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? So think of it just this way, okay? The groom, guy who's gonna get married, right? How can the guest of the groom mourn while he's still with them? There's nothing to cry about. He's he's there, all right? This it's party time, is what Jesus is saying, okay? Let's be real. It's party time, is what Jesus is saying. The time will come when the groom is taken from them and then they will fast. All right. But for now, hey, it's not time to fast. It's time to enjoy the presence of God with us, the Messiah. That was his name, God with us, Emmanuel. Come on, guys, this is amazing stuff. Then he goes on to say, Jesus, he says, No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making it tear worse. All right. This is some ancient stuff. None of us sew our clothes these days. We don't know about different fabrics and all these kinds of things. But in a nutshell, if you have a tear in your jacket and you try it's an old jacket, you know, the leather is uh, let's say it's a leather jacket, you know, the leather has been distressed and worn in a certain way, and it gets tear. If you try to put a new patch of different new leather or whatever onto this garment, it's gonna make it worse. It's going to tear because it's it's not expanded. As it expands and as it changes due to temperature, water, all sorts of things, it'll actually make the tear worse. Okay, so he's saying nobody does that. All right. So first off, he says, All right, guys, great question. And he says, Why don't we fast? Because it's party time. But there will be a time when it's not time to party. Okay, breaking down in English. Then he goes on to say, Nobody wastes their time by doing something that's going to make a problem worse. All right. That's that's the easiest way I can explain this. In verse 17, now here's where the new wine comes from, and it's wonderful. He says, Neither, so he's adding an additional point beyond the garment here, beyond the jacket, he's adding an additional point. He's saying it another way to think of it is like this neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out, and the wineskins will be ruined. Okay, so let's think about this. Again, this is some ancient timey stuff. Well, essentially the way that they would put wine into wineskins, they were actually, and I don't understand it completely. Okay, it's kind of ancient stuff, but essentially they had leather bags. You can look this up on YouTube, it's very, very interesting. They used animal skins to hold the wine. And similarly, if you put wine into a wineskin, essentially, as it ferments, as the sugars break down, and as the acid breaks down, um the wine interacts with that wineskin in a way where basically once you put the wine into that wineskin, it's done. Okay, you only get basically one drink out of this thing. All right. Um, and it's not just one, but for all intents and purposes, that's basically how it works. You can only use it more or less one time. That's one way to think of it. Then what he goes on to say is that if you put new wine into that wineskin, it's gonna be so acidic that essentially the bag is just gonna burst, and anybody who was alive at this time obviously would have known these things, okay? You don't do that. You can't put new wine into the wineskins, it will be ruined. You can only put aged wine into the wineskins, okay? That's kind of it's not so much that it's only a one-time thing. I'm just trying to explain this simply. So, anyhow, long story short, he's telling us neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. All right, it doesn't make sense. You're doing something that doesn't make sense. Here's what he's saying, though, you guys. When we read this in context, what Jesus is saying is number one, yes, I am the bridegroom. I am the groom, I am the messiah. It's time to party because God is with you. Okay, God is with us. That's what he's saying. Then he's saying, Hey, by the way, I'm gonna shake some things up because now that the Messiah is here, if you know your scriptures, all right, if you know what the prophets testified about the Messiah, you would know that a new covenant was coming. This relates directly to Jeremiah 31, starting at 31, about the new covenant. And then there's some other prophets that also taught actually all the prophets testified to the Messiah. Um, if I'm not mistaken. But long story short, you guys, that's what's going on here. Okay. So Jesus is saying that when the Messiah comes, and he's here right now, the church is going to change pretty massively. Pretty massively. Okay, now I want to tell you guys about a little project that I'm working on. And if you are on Substacked, you can look me up. It's just on Substack. Um, it's called just look up Josiah Ryan. That's J-O-S-I-A-H, last name Ryan, R-Y-A-N. That's my Substack. Um, and I'll have a link wherever this is. I'll have a link to the Substack here. I am working on a lifetime project right now, you guys. All right, a lifetime project. The name of the project is called Reclaiming the Living Word. And it is all about how we as a church have drifted from the teachings of Jesus. I'm being honest with you guys. Now, look, a lot of people, if you are a religious fanatic, particularly, I hate to say this, but uh, if you subscribe to the model of church fathers, it's gonna be a little bit difficult to hear. Here's why Jesus told us to not have any fathers, to not have any rabbis, and to not have any teachers. Okay, that's only one verse. I make this case much stronger, much, much, much, much stronger on the Substack uh, you know, project that I'm working on here. But that's just one thing that Jesus taught us of not having any church fathers, not or I'm sorry, not having any fathers, not having any rabbis, not having any teachers. And he tells us that because we have the Messiah, we have him, and we also have our Father in heaven. This is Jesus' direct words. Now, here's why I am bringing this up, because this project is all about drifting from God, drifting from the teachings of God. And what we've seen all throughout church history is that there's been periods where the church has been changed and reformed over the years. So when the Messiah came and he fulfilled the law, by the way, this will be a fun one, but Jesus fulfilled all 613 commandments of the Old Testament law. In fulfilling that law, the covenant has now been completed. And now we have the new covenant that was promised again in Jeremiah 31, 31. Look it up, guys. It's an amazing thing. And uh, anyhow, so here we go. You know, the new covenant. So, so the church that when when the Messiah came and he fulfilled the law and he went to the cross and he ransomed himself for many, and his direct words that Jesus taught. The Son of Man must ransom himself for many. When Jesus did this, all right, he opened the door for a direct relationship with the Father, direct relationship with God. All of us can now interact with God. That was when the church was born. That was the true church of the Messiah. That's when the church was born that day, basically. It was the day that Jesus came back from the I was it the day he went on the cross or the day he came back from the dead. I don't know. I we can argue about that all day. It was in his completion, though. I would say it doesn't matter what Jesus did overall. It was all about what he did. That his completion and the fulfillment of the law bringing us into the new covenant sparked a new church. Now that church did its thing, they actually met in houses for the first, you know, about 100, 200 years, somewhere around there. And most of us have been taught that the reason they did that was because of persecution. But when we actually read the writings during that time, they met in the houses because it was a choice. They vehemently, very early church fathers who we don't even listen to because Jesus told us, hey, you know, I'm your your father in heaven is what you need. But people who were around at that time who believed in Jesus and were doing the best with the tools and resources that they had very vehemently um argue against that it was just persecution. And they argue that they did it on purpose because we are now the living temple as Jesus taught, as it was being taught by um, you know, the the apostles and disciples and everybody else. And so they didn't have buildings and all this other stuff. Anyhow, fast forward to around 300, and Constantine. Oh Lord, you guys, our our church history is so screwed up, but Constantine essentially he was the uh he was the emperor of Rome. He saw this symbol that was a combination of two Greek letters in the sky, and it basically um he took that to be a divine revelation. It was called the Chyro. And over church history, we have that's actually where we get our modern cross from, is from the Chyro. Uh, it's an evolution of a symbol. The cross actually didn't even exist the way that we think it did. Long story short, guys, there's so much stuff that goes into all of this. But what I'm getting at is around 300, Constantine essentially bribed the church by giving them a bunch of buildings, stopping the persecution that was happening, but that it was kind of like this weird kind of the you get picked off when you get picked off kind of thing. And um, but that didn't stop the Christians from doing what the Holy Spirit was doing in their lives. And long story short, Constantine made a bunch of uh bribes to the church so that he could control the church, so that you know these Christians were growing too fast. The only way to beat them is to join them. And if we do that, then we can actually influence them by infiltrating them, by throwing a bunch of pagan things into their religion. If you don't believe me on this, there's a wonderful book. It's called Pegan Christianity. It will teach you all about the history, it's very well documented and researched. Um, I highly recommend this for anybody if you want the truth. If you want to feel comfortable, please don't read that by all means. And actually, maybe stop listening to this podcast if you don't like the truth. Um, or if you if you don't deal well with, you know, uh cognitive dissonance, this probably ain't the place for you. But long story short, that's what happened. Constantine bribed the church, he gave him a bunch of old basilicas. Uh, he basically implemented a model where we have uh an authority model. This was the beginning of what was called the Roman Catholic, aka Universal Church. Thank you, Constantine. Um, we can go on from that. Then what happened fast forward to the 1600s, and there was an absolute reformation. Um, this is a very fascinating thing, but you know, we have all been taught as Protestants that the Reformation basically was a way to grow back to um the original teachings of Jesus because the Catholic Church was so infiltrated by so many pagan influences and all these things. What most people don't know, and what nobody probably, I mean, honestly, your pastor's probably never going to tell you this, is that there was actually a step that went beyond even the Reformation. If I'm being very candid with you guys, uh, I don't have any label, I'm just a Christ follower. But um, if I had to have some sort of a label for myself, the closest one would probably be uh what's referred to as an Anabaptist. All right. Now, I don't even want to get into that, and I don't want you guys like pinning that label on me because I don't agree with everything that they do. But here's what I do agree with, okay? And and also we have to understand that there's a lot of European culture, I'll just put it that way, that was uh kind of carried with the Anabaptists, so they get a bad name because they're very closely related to the Amish and some of these types of things. But essentially, they really argued just uh a very logical and simple argument that I don't know how you can really refute it, but they basically said this was during the Reformation, but they basically said to the reformers like Martin Luther and some of these guys, they essentially told them, hey, you know what? This is great that you guys are doing a reformation. But the issue with this is that, you know, you're you're basically just replacing the word priest for pastor, guys like Calvin and some of this kind of stuff. You're really just replacing the word priest for pastor. You know, you're getting rid of a few things here and there, but you're not at all doing what Jesus actually taught. And so they wanted to push for an actual reformation beyond that. And the problem with this is that you will never hear this in a Protestant church today because your Protestant church is built on Calvinism. Calvin, John Calvin, basically won the narrative during this time of the reformation of the church, the quote unquote reformation of the church of the 1600s. And nobody, you know, comes to find out anything about the Anabaptists or the Quakers or really why these guys were escaping religious persecution. Well, the fact is that the people who wanted to truly reform the church, all the way to the way that Jesus explained it in his exact words, okay, he did give us a model, you guys. The reason why these guys were experiencing persecution is because they were experiencing persecution from the Catholics and they were also experiencing persecution from the Protestants. They had nowhere to go because, as Jesus told us, blessed are you when people persecute you and call you all sorts of false names for my sake. Rejoice and be very glad. Okay, that was the teaching of Jesus. These people really argued, hey, you know what? Reformation is good and all that kind of stuff, but you guys are missing the boat. We need to go a step further and we really need to actually do this the way that God commanded. Okay. There's a whole interesting thing about this, too. If you guys understand anything about like Jewish history, what you'll understand is the law of oral tradition, essentially, that was basically a bunch of pastors, uh, you know, rabbis who, you know, added their personal commentary to the scriptures over the course of hundreds of years. All right. Uh, the Pharisees, essentially, over the course of hundreds and maybe even thousands of years of this law of oral tradition, well, what ended up happening is people started screwing up. They didn't, they, they didn't, they started conflating the teaching of men with the teachings of God from his Torah and from the Bible and in the Old Testament, right? And the law of the prophets and all this stuff, right? And so as a result, people started to not even know the difference between God's law and man's rules. All right. They couldn't conflate it. Uh, they didn't understand the difference there. And so then what ended up happening as a result of that, people were led astray. And Jesus constantly called out the religious leaders at this time because they were teaching a doctrine that was not based on God, it was based on men. All right. So, what I'm getting at is during the Reformation, the Anabaptists and some of these kinds of people who wanted to take it a step further argued these exact points that I'm sharing with you guys today. And they were persecuted mercilessly by both the Catholics and the Christians and whatever governments were going on where they lived at that time, they had nowhere to go. So, you know what they did? They hopped on a boat. This is so crazy. They hopped on a boat. I actually, this is a crazy thing, but I uh I'm related to a guy his name is William Bradford. He came over on the Mayflower, and uh he was like one of the earliest people that did this. But long story short, man, they hopped on a boat, took their lives and their families' lives into their own hands, prayed to God, and hoped that they could make it across the ocean, get to the new world of the United States at that time. That would have just been America. And uh they went to That's that's where they landed, you know, and then the the rest is literally history, and uh that's how they had to escape the religious persecution. Okay, what is what okay, Josiah? What the heck does that have to do with a podcast? It's 2026. What the heck are you talking about, man? Well, let me show you with you what I'm talking about. You guys, in the age of information, in the age of truth, we have the internet, we have AI, we have information more available to us than what anybody through all of human history ever could have imagined. Okay, it was around 1995, right around 2000, when the internet became a thing. I don't think that's a coincidence. I don't know. I think we're living in some crazy times, you guys. But anyhow, around the 2000s, of in in this age of information, anyone can study anything, everything is available to everyone, especially now in the age of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can read like a thousand books in like two minutes. So, and not even, all right. Fact-check everything. It does hallucinate. I catch it hallucinating fairly often. Um, but you have to just, you know, fact-check things when you're doing your research. But here's the fact of the matter, it's about 95, 98% accurate. Um, but just because it is so accurate, it's that five to you know, about that five percent that can get you in trouble. So just make sure that you're doing your your due diligence there. But here's what I'm saying we have information, all this stuff, guys. All this stuff that I'm sharing with you is because I have access to the internet. I can research things, I can study things, I can read books, literal books on the internet. I don't even have to go to the library. Okay, so here's what's happening, and this is what I think is happening right now. Jesus is calling people to him. He is pouring out his spirit of the new wine of the truth of who he is, and he's telling us, guys, the same mission that I came for 2,000 years ago to claim my people, to rescue you and save you, to break you from the yoke of religious tradition, to break you from the man-made rules that other people say, and they speak in my name as if they say this. I am going to break you guys of this, and I'm going to break you guys of this, and I will call my people to me, and I'm going to do it through a new movement of the church. I believe that this is what's happening, guys. I I can't deny it. All of us feel it, all of us know it. I think you guys that we are in the middle of a new revolution within the church, new reformation, sorry. Maybe it is a revolution, but I think what we're doing is making straight the paths for the way of the Lord. What does that mean? Well, John the Baptist before Jesus came, remember, John the Baptist had a ministry. He went into the wilderness, he went away from all the religious leaders, he called out all of the people, and he was a voice of one crying out in the wilderness as it's described. It's a prophecy about him. And he's saying, Make straight the way of the Lord. Well, the way that things work back in the day is that you would basically have uh, like if a king or somebody important would be traveling to a remote part of the country, well, he would send a messenger ahead of him and he would tell everybody, and he would say, uh, they would go to all the towns and they would say, Hey, the king is going to be traveling through here. Make your paths straight. Okay. Because what it was back in the day is they would have some windy paths through the hills, and there'd be all these roots and rocks and stumps and all this stuff. And so basically, it's kind of hilarious, but the way that it would work is you would get a messenger from the feds, okay? Think of it that way. The feds would come and they would say, Hey, the king's gonna be coming through. So you guys need to clean up your paths, make sure that your streets are good because uh, you know, uh, we need safe passage through this area. And then all the village people, all the poor people, all the slaves, all the stuff, they had to go out there and manually level these streets and make them ready for the way of the dignitary or the king or whoever it was, okay? Well, John the Baptist taught, make straight the paths for the way of the Lord. And what I'm proposing, and what I think is happening right now, is that there's not just one John the Baptist. I see too many people. I see too many people, I see so many people actually catching on into this fire of this new wine of the Holy Spirit being poured upon these people. And I see God doing the same thing that he did 2,000 years ago. I see Jesus doing the same thing that he did 2,000 years ago. You know, Jesus didn't come for the religious elites, he didn't come for the pious people who knew him more than everybody else or the scholars or any of this kind of stuff. He didn't come to become some sort of an earthly king or anything along these lines. He came to serve and he served the lowest people. You know that Jesus, because having meals for Jesus was a big deal, drinking wine during those meals, it was a big deal as well. And so his proponents and his uh, you know, the religious leaders accused him of being a drunkard because all he was ever doing was quote unquote eating and drinking when he was here. And that's part of what John's disciples were asking when they asked, How is it that the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast? So they're kind of like it's so fascinating when you start to study this stuff. But anyhow, so you know, Jesus was accused of being a drunkard and hanging out with sinners and tax collectors and all this kind of stuff. You know what that means? Jesus was hanging out with like your bar crowd. I'm gonna be real with you guys. He was hanging out with the rough, the bikers, dude. He was hanging out with the regular, everyday people and he ministered with them and he loved them. Oh, it's so beautiful. Well, you guys, guess what? I know that many of you have been hurt from your church. Okay, there's such a thing as church hurt. Some Christians sit here and say, well, you need to get over it. You know, that has nothing to do with Jesus. Uh, you know, people are always going to be people, just get over it. You know, that's on you. Other people say, I'm really sorry that happened to you. And, you know, I feel the same way, honestly. Or that's why I don't do anything with organized religion. And actually, they kind of make a point. What did Jesus teach, guys? Come on. For being real. But, you know, Jesus wasn't organized religion when Jesus walked the planet, right? He wasn't. Let's be real. He was not organized religion. Jesus was Jesus. And oh man, we we can get in that whole thing. Go check out my Substack. I trust all this kind of stuff, and I don't I don't want to get off test. But long story short, you guys, it's the same thing today. All right. A lot of us have come to the conclusion that we realize that the truth of the matter is that not everything is as black and white in this age of information that we're living in. Not everything is as black and white as what certain people who adhere to church fathers, and I don't even know if that's a thing. If you want to listen to church fathers and you want to make them your church father, go for it. I don't know. Jesus said not to, but that's fine. You can do whatever you want, but you're gonna be wrong because Jesus said it. So um, Jesus came so that we can have a direct relationship with him, with our father in heaven, with our creator. That is the message that he preached, and he preached it to the lowliest, regular, everyday folks. He came for them, he came for the sinner, of which I'm a huge one to this day, man. I'm so thankful for the grace of God. And I know that many of you guys listening agree. But there are a lot of people who have left the church because they either realize that it's full of man-made religious dogma, there's a lot of people who have left the church because they realize that the teachings that the church promotes are actually just the teachings of men and have nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus. There are many people who have sworn off organized religion because they realize that the authority structures that uh modern organized religion teaches have nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus. And as a result of this, a lot of people are quote unquote deconstructing in their faith and just walking away from all of it together. Many people are saying, you know what, this whole thing is a sham. I wish I had some like real true believers to hang out with, but for now I'm just gonna read my Bible and pray. You guys, I love you so much if that's you. Oh my gosh, I love you. I am here for you. That's why I started this podcast. I love you. God, do I love you? You're my brothers, you're my sisters. Oh man. Guess what? I got some good news for you if that's you. Jesus is pouring out his blood. He's pouring out his new wine. This is the new wine, you guys. Remember at the covenant. Remember, you guys. Come on. At the Last Supper, when Jesus took the wine and he says, Drink, this is my blood. This is the new covenant. Do you guys remember that? This is the new wine that Jesus is pouring out. We're in the age of information. There's there's no putting the cat back in the bag. Jesus is making himself available to any and all who call upon him. Jesus told us, he said, Call out to me you who thirst, and I will give you rest. Um he says, uh, call call out to me. I'm gonna mess it up, but essentially he says, Call out to me, you who thirst, and and rivers of living water will flow from you. I think that's what it was. Something like that. But it was for anybody. It's not just, you know, listen, the more screwed up that your life is, the more that Jesus came from you. I'm living proof of that, man. I've been a rehab, dude. I had a porn addiction, I had an alcohol addiction, I had all sorts of freaking issues before I met Jesus, man. And the worst part is that I thought I was a Christian at that time, and I probably was. I probably was a Christian in name only, right? But I wasn't following Christ. That's why I talk about following Christ these days. That's new wine, you guys. That's a new blood, that is the promise that is the Holy Spirit pouring upon us in these days, saving the sinners from certain destruction, of which I was headed. This is the game, you guys. This is the new wine. And as we find that wow, a lot of this church stuff is actually just man-made religion, an amazing thing happens, we figure out why we felt the way that we felt. We understand why everything seemed off before, and an amazing thing happens from here is that we grow deeper to Jesus because now look, all of his teachings. Imagine this, right? Imagine, you know, you're looking for a ball inside of a haystack, but it's just completely covered. You gotta peel all that hay, and you know what? Let's use rocks, okay? Imagine you're looking for a basketball in the middle of you know giant rock pile. You gotta pull off all of those rocks to get to the ball. All right, it's the same thing with Jesus. All of these man-made traditions, all these man-made rules, all this crap about like go to my Substack, go look it up. Josiah Ryan, okay, go read the series, Reclaiming the Living Word. All of these things are just rocks and dead weight that keep people from playing ball, from playing basketball, right? Like you're keeping people out of the game with this man-made freaking tradition stuff. That's what it is. And the new wine is God removing all of these boulders and all of these rocks and all this heavy stuff so that we can go play ball, so that we can have a relationship with God, be on his team. I love you guys, man. I hope that this resonated. I know that a lot of you are gonna be offended. I highly, highly, highly, highly recommend. Just go check out my substack, read this series. It's gonna change your life. I made it 100% free. I'm never gonna charge for that ever. Uh, I don't even know. Who cares? Dude, I want that in people's hands. Okay. I just want people to read this. That's all I got for you guys today. I love you so much. Man, do I love you guys? Just know that your father in heaven is doing something incredible in these times. Truly, the reason I even do this podcast is because this is part of the new wine that Jesus is pouring out upon all of us. And uh I want you guys to experience the fullness of our deep relationship directly with him in a wonderful and beautiful way. I love you guys. If this resonated with you, please share it with someone today. Um, send it on over to them. I would love, love, love if they could hear it. So if you feel like it helped you, think of one person, shoot it off to him, shoot them a text message and just say, hey, this is a really interesting thing. You got to check it out. Also, I'll have the link to the Substack wherever you see this. Uh, we'll make sure to have that link in the description. I love you guys. I'm so thankful for you. I'm so thankful for what Jesus is doing in these times. God bless you. Have a wonderful day. Bye-bye.