“New wine is poured into fresh wineskins.” (Mark 2:22) “New wine” refers to the spirit of the New Testament. Unless we redeem ourselves by thoroughly changing, it will be difficult for the spirit of the New Testament to live within us. St Paul the Apostle has the following reflection about the “Old self” “Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires. And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness. For sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace. (Romans 6:12-14) “So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds; darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart, they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess. That is not how you learned Christ, assuming that you have heard of him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus, that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds.” (Ephesians 4:17-23) “So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. (2 Corinthians 5:17) Simply said, to achieve the state of a “new self”, we have to constantly contend with sin and constantly start over and over again. We do not need to be afraid, as Christ has already overcome this world.