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Now breathe a silent prayer, dear brother, dear sister, to him who makes all things new. "In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies"? Amen." Revelation xxii. (1) Now follows the second part of the history prophetic of the future _New, by their form and qualities, but not by their substance. If he will but work upon us by his grace, we cannot tell what he will make of us before he places us in the position he has appointed for us in the glorious city that rests upon these twelve precious foundations. He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. This is the second death.". THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. But when the Lord himself sets up a light, and calls us to pause, and look, we cannot help beholding. He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. Revelation 21:8New International Version. You will not be at all tired of your godly work, but love it better than ever. And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. which passed away at the general judgment, ch. See the Saviour then, in groans and pangs which cannot be described, bearing the curse of God, for he made him to be sin for us, though he knew no sin. Our future is glorious; let not our present be gloomy. Revelation 21:6. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. Aug. omits . "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." By him man's side of the covenant was undertaken and fulfilled, and now no condition remains; it is solely made up of promises which are unconditional and sure to all the seed. To do this you must be new yourself; for as the man is, so his life will be. Ver. 'A New Creation' and 'Sermon for New Year's-Day', A Sermon Published on Thursday, July 15th, 1915. REVELATION 21:1 TO REVELATION 22:5. 2 And I saw the And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. In us also may men behold the marvels of thy renewing love. Let every one that has been a great transgressor remember how Manasseh received a new heart, and repented of his evil deeds. You young people, as soon as ever you know the Lord, I exhort you to study well that word "covenant." It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. Oh, what a blessing it would be for some workers if God would make them strong! What a change in our joys! I know I am not only and solely what I was by my first birth; I feel within myself another life a second and a higher vitality which has often to contend with my lower self, and by that very contention makes me conscious of its existence. Happy discovery for us; it was the kindling of new life in us. Oh, it is wonderful how different a thing becomes when it is taken to God. "He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new." said I. As for myself, my consciousness of being a new man in Christ Jesus is often as sharp and crisp as my consciousness of being in existence. earth_ succeed in the room of the _first heaven and first earth,_ When we are made sons do we work for wages? It cannot be; his loving heart is too much bound up in his own adopted ones. and all their followers; yea, and of all who resemble them in the He sees a new Hallelujah, glory be to our Redeemer's name. God grant us to drink of the eternal founts, that we may for ever overflow. Of Jesus the demand was made and he met it. "God never wearies of the precious blood," Spurgeon says, "nor will His people who know where their salvation lies." The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine. Heaven is God's dwelling place. Certain persons attend this Tabernacle I do not see them to-night but I can say of them that I never enter this pulpit without looking to their pews to see whether they are there, and breathing my heart to God for them. NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, "Behold, I make all things new." Rev 21:1-8 We have here a more general account of the happiness of the church of God in the future state, by which it seems most safe to understand the heavenly state. Men hate God without the slightest reason for doing so, and God loves men without the slightest reason; there was every reason why men should love God, and not hate him; yet they have hated him without a cause, and there is every reason why God should hate man and not love him, yet he loves him so much that he gave his only-begotten Son to die, that whosoever believeth in him may live for ever. he 1-8 The new heaven and the new earth will not be separate from each he replied, "if they were not they would all get up and shout 'Hallelujah' when you are preaching such a glorious gospel. There they are, perfect, and holy, and just, and good; but, alas, dear friends, you and I have broken the commandments. The remaining two chapters describe the eternal and consummated But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no prophesies, to the consummation of all things. A new world now opens to our view ( v. 1 ): I saw a new heaven and a new earth; that is, a new universe; for we suppose the world to be made up of heaven and earth. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Faith has brought us into the possession of an indefeasible salvation; and now for the love we bear our Savior, we must obey him and become "zealous for good works." Revelation 21:1. "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love.". How it can turn us! Yet God could do even that; and so he can reverse the course of your fallen nature, and make you act as a new man. 5, 6. It is not now "Do and live," but "Live and do;" we think not of merit and reward, but of free grace producing holy practice as the result of gratitude. 1. Our love to Christ ought to be every minute as if it were new-born. they might properly be called new; such transformations, and such _And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea._. It is a key-word opening the treasures of revelation. You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. Sorrow shalt cease, and tears shall be wiped away. I am going to talk to-night for a little upon the great transformation spoken of in the text, "I make all things new;" and then upon the earnest call in the text to consider that transformation: "He that sat upon the throne said, 'Behold': attend, consider, look to it!" "I make all things." 21. But now, beloved, farther than this. Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. Revelation 21:1. Let us gaze upon THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION. I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. We are at this moment specially ready for a new year. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Nobody can tell which spoke of a wheel moves first; it moves as a whole. When they commence an epistle the , Commendation for the Steadfast There shall be no injustice towards the poor; there shall be no envying of the rich; there shall be no law to make men slaves; there shall be no power to oppress, because there shall be no will to do it. Let us have a little indulgence to-night. _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. The Lord, in answer to believing prayer, and especially in answer to a full resignation to his will is able to make all providential surroundings new for you. Listen, "Behold, I make." How many might see if it were not for the gold which blinds them, and hides the truth from them! If a man walks about in it with his eyes open, he will see it to be a horrible sphere. The Blue Letter Bible team has added a wide selection of . NEW JERUSALEM (Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:5). You who have dear friends who lie upon your bosom, as you anxiously think of them, pray the Lord Jesus to make them new. He makes all things new." It is like a gibbeted criminal hung up to die. 1. Revelation 21:1 Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, &C. _A new heaven and a new It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah Then another with great tenderness prayed for his children. (1 Corinthians 15:44-50) God is a spiri And (1) I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and App-133. INTRODUCTORY WORDS 20:11, etc.). What an alteration in Ellen!" You have grievous trouble because you hear the dearest that you have blaspheming the God you love. Did not the morning stars sing together for joy when he made the world? it was there that the new world was born! Yes, that we shall if we are numbered among the all things that he makes new. When he says, "Let there be order," chaos says, "Nay, I will maintain confusion." Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. The curse fell on him, as it is written, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." Yes, and the glorified Church herself, because of this light, sheds such a bright light on all within her that all the saints rejoice in her light. It leaps at the sound which was once dull to its ears the name of a precious Christ. Revelation 21:8. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. Nay, it is a world fit for angels, naturally; but it is a horrible world morally. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. We have seen many transformed into new parents and new children. ind. separation, nor part of the world not brought into an ordered earth _An angel shows J AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - Such a heaven and earth that The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Oh, I am sure that if we kept up perpetual communion with him, we should keep up a perpetual stream of delights. You and I, if we are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, shall be there, living stones prepared by living grace to have a name and a place in this living city. My family cause me great anxiety. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him he glory and dominion for ever and ever. Looking at the text in this light, I think it speaks to everyone here present Would you begin anew, lo, there is one who can help you to do so! And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Our gold is dull, opaque; light is blocked out by it. The Athenians, who spent their time in telling and hearing some new thing, were by no means singular persons: novelty still fascinates the crowd. Now St. the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. January 1, 1885 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 4, 5. 20:13. Come and lay yourself down at his feet, and ask him to make you new; I beseech you, do this at once! We are crossing the line now. There are certain things which are already so truly new, that to change them for anything else would be to lose old gold for new dross. A better thing still is never to leave him, but to stand for ever at the cross-foot delighting yourself in his all-sufficient sacrifice. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 8:2; _WONDERFUL FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD REVELATION 21:1-7:_ God's faithful Truly, truly, this seems to me to be a glorious purpose. but the second has still to be unfolded. The old nature needed to be awed with threatenings, or bribed with rewards; the new nature feels the impulse of love. The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. That dolorous pain, then, of the Master was the world's new- making. We are equally ashamed of our hates and our prejudices: but these have vanished once for all. The holy city appears. This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day. Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. HEAVEN, &C. See Isaiah 51:16 (plant, &c); Rev 65:17. How ingeniously they bring him in! beholds, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY. And all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. The first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea, because the sea is the emblem of separation, and destruction, and unrest. Look at the text, "Behold I make all things new." resurrection. In fact, I dread everything." Not Peter only, but the whole of the twelve apostles shall have their names in the foundations of that holy city. I forget a great many of you who are saved; but I always pray for them. people do not die without hope. Another hand grasps the tiller and steers our ship in a new course. militant here upon earth, and others to the state of the church Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary, College Press Bible Study Textbook Series, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch, G. 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Koenig, Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith, Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set). THERE are a great many things we should like to know about heaven. [A loud voice, "Ay! The moment the divine life comes into the heart we believe: the moment we believe the eternal life is there. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. I said. 22). 2 The man is new new in principles, and new in emotions. All the church would be the better because of the way in which the Lord would help them to do their work. He spends a life of weariness and sorrow amongst those who despise him, and if you want to know first and foremost how he makes all things new, you must see him sweating great drops of blood in the garden that is the blood of the new world which he is pouring forth! It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. Thus he gives power to the ministry. city of God men had looked through long generations. He that sitteth on the throne says in infinite condescension to you upon the dunghill, "Behold, I make all things new." Whatsoever the Lord doeth is full of wisdom, and the wise will search into it. A Description of the Holy City. Devils could not be worse than men when their passions are let loose. is to be _set free from its slavery to decay_ (Romans 8:21). NO MORE SEA You may build a brick house, if you please; but, build it as you like, it will be a house of brick upon whatever principles of architecture it may be constructed; not until that brick shall be transformed to marble can you hope to "dwell in marble halls." And there was no more sea. JOHN was the beloved disciple, the choicest spirit of the twelve, the , Heaven Above, and Heaven Below When God looks at it, I wonder he does not stamp it out, just as you and I do a spark of coal that flies upon our carpet from the fire. Let us rejoice in this: "Thou art no more a servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." ", "Ring out the old, ring in the new; Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Revelation 21:8. It will seem to be a dead lift to you; but it is within the power of that pierced hand to lift you right out of doubt, and fear, and despondency, and spiritual lethargy, and weakness, and just to make you now, from this day forward, "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." This renewing work has been in our Lord's hands from of old. "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight"; but we are "justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." Let every thief know that the dying thief entered heaven by faith in Jesus. I love thee, O my Saviour, because on the cross thou didst bear shame, and spitting, and manifold disgrace for me. Dogs would scarce tear each other as men do. With this verse begins the closing passage of the book of God: the The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the The newness which Jesus brings is bright, clear, heavenly, enduring. THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Site by Mere. He beholds Christ upon chronological course of the prophecy. Why, himself. The Lord's Presence, the Our spiritual life is a new-born thing, the creation of the Spirit of life. Revelation 21:17. "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." What a prospect does all this open up to the believer! By the new heaven and the new earth here, all understand. THE HEAVENLY GLORY What a range of creating power is here! Meanwhile, there is no love lost, for the world thinks much the same of us, and therein we can sympathize with Paul when he said, "I am crucified unto the world." Our path to eternal glory is the road of faith, "The just shall live by faith." But Jesus Christ, who knew that we should never make this world much better, let us do what we would with it, designed from the very first to make a new world of it. CONTENTS first earth are pass Strauss-' Comments If Jesus has not made us new already, let the new year cause us to think about the great and needful change of conversion; and if our Lord has begun to make us new, and we have somewhat entered into the new world wherein dwelleth righteousness, let us be persuaded by the season to press forward into the center of his new creation, that we may feel to the full all the power of his grace. And as for ourselves, dear friends, mournfully as we sometimes think of the flight of time, we are wont cheerfully to look out upon the new epochs as they begin to dawn upon us. - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death; but for the fearful, etc.The construction is changed in the middle of the verse. He that sitteth on the throne can do for you what you cannot do for yourself; and, as he made you once, and you became marred by sin, he can new make you; for he saith. BEHOLD AND TO BELIEVE. From the moment that we trusted in Jesus, a new life darted into our spirit. "Immortal joys come streaming down, Joys, like his griefs, immense, unknown;". Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ Revelation 21:8 Sermons: But for the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." Bible > Revelation > Chapter 21 > Verse 8 Library Free Downloads eBibles Revelation 21:8 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarsthey will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The Lord give us eyes to see it. What songs would have hailed the rising of the sun the birds of paradise carolling on every hill and in every dale their Maker's praise! The former troubles are forgotten, and are hid from our eyes because of thine ancient promise, "Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: on the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. John sees in a vision the blissful glory of FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME He can make that prayer-meeting no longer a dreary affair, but quite a new thing to you and all the people. II. The wilderness of destruction lies before you. A world where every man would have been a priest, and every house a temple, and every garment a vestment, and every meal a sacrifice, and every place holiness to the Lord, for the tabernacle of God would have been among them, and God himself would have dwelt among them! It rejoices in hopes which once seemed idle as dreams. trees, etc., since, as McCord notes, we will have spiritual bodies for I wish we had more time to enter fully into this part of the subject. We will never let you go, neither will we cease from our importunate prayers until we get an answer from the throne, and see you saved. I have had a weary time of late. Yet there was nothing then to resist his will; he had no opponent; he could build as he pleased, and there was none to pluck down. None can enter int (1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and Revelation 21:21. 20:4; Revelation 20:11, in a succession. I pray God to bless these feeble words of mine for the helping of some of his chosen out of the darkness of their fears. and a new earth, and the earth had _ 1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. Our curiosity has been excited full often to ask a vast number of questions, but after being excited, it has never been gratified, for Gods word has told us little about , A Voice from Heaven I cannot doubt of the possibility of your salvation, my dear friend, whenever I think of my own. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. I will pray, "Lord, make my children new." Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. In our heart there is a new heaven and a new earth. Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, He has no soldiery, no book of laws, no new philosophy. I expect that if you go into the business of mending yourself, you will be like the man who had an old gun, and took it to the gunsmith, and the gunsmith said, "Well, this would make a very good gun if it had a new stock, and a new lock, and a new barrel." New principles stir the new nature which God has given. "Ah, my dear brother," I said, "that is because you do not know much about me." See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. The ab. A brother said to me some time ago, "Dear sir, I frequently grow very sleepy in my walk with God. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Though there is no real difference between it and any other day, yet in our mind and thought it is a marked period, which we regard as one of the milestones set up on the highway of our life. Here is a vision of the new creation. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." Friends have said in wonder, "What a change in John! I earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. I believe that Jesus Christ has in some of you not only made you new, but made everything new to you. There was no more sea [ The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald, the fifth, sardonyx, the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite, the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. Had it possessed a teeming population like its present one, and if, one by one, those godly ones had been caught away, like Elijah, without knowing death, to be succeeded by pious descendants oh! They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

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