everlasting Glory of the Place. You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. Come, there is one more application, and that is that the Lord can convert those dear friends about whose souls you have been so anxious. How many might see if it were not for the gold which blinds them, and hides the truth from them! The man is new new in principles, and new in emotions. Blessed be his name. He can make your harsh and ungodly husband to become gentle and gracious. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Yes, that we shall if we are numbered among the all things that he makes new. Used by Permission. It is written, "By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities"; and this scripture is fulfilled in all those who believe in the Lord Jesus unto eternal life. 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. Listen! He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. In The most of men have grown weary with the old cry of depression of trade and hard times; we are glad to escape from what has been to many a twelve-months of great trial. The Lord can work a radical change in you. There is nothing so old that he cannot make it new nothing so fixed and habitual that he cannot change it. He has no soldiery, no book of laws, no new philosophy. Oh, I trust you may. New principles stir the new nature which God has given. 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. 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 THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. But we have tasted these precious things, and unto God we will lift up our loudest song for ever and for ever. Those who are participants in that covenant cannot invalidate it, for it never did depend upon them, but only upon him who was and is their federal head and representative before God. Numbers of Christians seem to live in the marshes always. not diffi, And I saw So it runs, Revelation 19:11, Revelation 20:1, "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." Make my circumstances new"? 1. Revelation 21:1 Revelation 21:5 . Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. New hopes are in us, bright and sure, such as we did not even desire to know when we lived a mere carnal life. Let us now, at the portal of the new year, sing a hymn to Jesus, as we hear these encouraging words which he speaks from his throne. I am sure those of us who are not the best, feel often constrained to pour out some such a lamentation as this: "Much of our time has run to waste; Our sins, how great the sum! Why should some of you be living at a penny a day and starving yourselves, when your Father would give you to live like princes of the blood royal if you would but trust him? REVELATION CHAPTER 21 REVELATION 21:1 A new heaven and a new earth. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. new state We hope that this newborn year will not be worse than its predecessor, and we pray that it may be a great deal better. 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. 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. As the world's poet says, "All with one consent praise new-born gawds. It is coming. Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. You, too, will be driven out of your religious profession and your period of probation, and where will you go? And it is also by the giving of the Holy Ghost, as the result of the ascension of Christ on high, that the world is made new. Lord, let us enter into this new universe of thine. That Church he sends into the world to act upon the rest of mankind. I liked what a brother said at the church-meeting on Monday night, when his brother was introduced to the church. is to be _set free from its slavery to decay_ (Romans 8:21). NO MORE SEA Genesis and Revelation contrasted. "Behold I make all things new" is a mysterious voice from the broken heart of a dying Saviour. Revelation 21:19. He will never drive us from his house. heavenly. Behold him! The words he speaks to us to-night are truly divine. trees, etc., since, as McCord notes, we will have spiritual bodies for When God spake and said, "Let there be light," it was a fiat which showed him to be divine. Revelation 21:2. 7. He had come to make the world new, and to do this he has brought with him what? That is the right sort of faith. THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8 XXI. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. it is a horrible world, appalling to think of. . 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." Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. O dear hearts, there is no absolute necessity that you should always go downward in evil till you descend to hell. Thus he gives power to the ministry. , DISCOURSE: 2529 O anxious one, it can turn you! The remaining two chapters describe the eternal and consummated _aor. _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ Why, either you and I are turned upside down in nature, or the world is. Ver. Amen. Why, himself. You say to him, "There are your wages: go." John had already said that the city was pure gold like unto clear glass; and now he says that the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. We do not always get such a combination as this here below, gold, precious and pure, yet unstained with blood, and undimmed with the oppression of the poor, diaphanous gold, as it were transparent glass.. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' Sermons by Spurgeon - Bible Hub Charles Haddon Spurgeon : Numbers 21:8: A Song At the Well-Head: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 21:16-20: The End of the Righteous Desired: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 23:10: The Star of Jacob: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 24:17-19: The Census of Israel: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 26:63-65: Revelation 21:10. And I John saw the hol _REVELATION 21:1_. We are now come, in the course of these observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. There was no more sea [ - 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. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. (wpe), The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies With Him. I thank God for keeping me near himself; but I am as weak, and stale, and unprofitable as any of you. He is certainly able to turn your captivity as he turns the sun when it has reached the southern tropic. "Behold, I make all things." The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 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. the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. We are bound to have you in the church confessing your faith in Jesus. _The new Jerusalem_, 2. The old nature needed to be awed with threatenings, or bribed with rewards; the new nature feels the impulse of love. , first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. This great work of Christ, this grand design of making this old world into a new one, shall be carried into effect. to, as here, in . You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. which passed away at the general judgment, ch. With no bit or bridle, but with a blessed suavity of tenderness, it turns us according to its pleasure. 2 And I saw the _ (G3708) , Revelation 21:24. II. Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The ancient prophecy shall be fulfilled to the letter. Not in vain did John write, "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. . There has also been wrought in us by the work of the Holy Spirit a new life, with all the new feelings, and new desires, and new works which go therewith. The Book of Genesis is commonly You must be dead and buried with Christ, and risen again in him; and then all will be well, for he will have made all things new. Revelation 20. Hope springs up at the first sound of such words as these from the lips of our risen and reigning Lord: "Behold, I make all things new." I seem to lose the freshness of it; and especially by about Saturday I get I hardly know where; but," he added, "as for you, whenever I hear you, you seem to be all alive and full of fresh energy." Ask those that have had to live with converted people whether the transformation has not been marvellous. At any rate, it is new, and we are encouraged to couple with it the idea of happiness, as we say one to another, "I wish you a happy New Year. But when Jesus Christ comes to make a new world, there is everything opposed to him. Revelation 21:4. This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day. 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. But when the Lord himself sets up a light, and calls us to pause, and look, we cannot help beholding. radically changed. I have known the Lord on a sudden to turn darkness into light, and take away the sackcloth and the ashes from his dear children, for "he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." _a new heaven and a new earth_ Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22; referred It sang with its sister-spheres the song of joy and reverence. he replied, "if they were not they would all get up and shout 'Hallelujah' when you are preaching such a glorious gospel. There were three thousand new creations in one day when Peter preached the gospel under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White 2 We ought never to forget this bottom of everything, this making of all things new by the fashioning of a new covenant, so that we have come out from under the bondage of the law and the ruin of the fall, and we have entered upon the liberty of Christ, into acceptance with God, and into the boundless joy of being saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, so that we "shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end." His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; , The Throne of God and of the Lamb 10. To be "justified" means being made really just: though we were guilty in ourselves we are regarded as just by virtue of what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us. That dolorous pain, then, of the Master was the world's new- making. We will not entertain any more doubt about Christ's power to save. You ought to be thankful to God that he has not yet recompensed you that he has not dealt with you after your sins, nor rewarded you according to your iniquities. ", "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. CONTENTS 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. "Behold, I make all things new." 21. heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more "He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new." And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. If you leave the fountain foul the streams cannot be pure. beholds, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY. glory! Now, you that feel that you must cry aloud for joy, join with me and cry "Hallelujah" [A great number of voices cried, "Hallelujah!"] The house of God, how different it is from what it used to be! Read full chapter. known as the Book of beginnings. I am glad that I have not to stand here and say, "My dear hearers, do this and do that, and you will be saved": because you would not do as you were commanded; for your nature is weak and wicked. Revelation 21:1. Jerusalem, temple, light, Paradise (Chap. city of God men had looked through long generations. How it can turn us! John saw, in vision, the glorified Church of God coming to dwell on the new earth, descending for a while from heaven to be the very glory of the newly-created world. Whatsoever the Lord doeth is full of wisdom, and the wise will search into it. We cannot demand the servile wage because we have already all that our Father possesses. In the great matter of truth and godliness, we may safely say, "There is nothing new under the sun." It was then and there that the world was born again. 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. Revelation 21:1-27. And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and fellowship in the presence of God is no more. This is commendable resolving, but what will come of it? What a blessing it is for you and for me that Jesus has made all things new in that respect! How ingeniously they bring him in! We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." It seems at first to be astounding that the height of a city should be equal to the length and the breadth of it; but if you have traveled in Italy, you must have seen many a city, perched upon a hill, which seemed to be even higher than it was broad or long, if you included the wall of the city, and the houses one above another right up to the loftiest minaret or tower. people do not die without hope. Why, upon cutting each other's throats, upon tearing out each other's bleeding hearts, and wading up to their knees in each other's gore, till the ditches be full of blood, horses and men all mingled, and left to be food for dogs and for carrion crows. New fears are mighty within us, holy fears which once we should have ridiculed. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. The fearful are those who, through cowardice, have not overcome (cf. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Who but the eternal Son of God? We have not, and, therefore, we must leave it, but may you and I have a part in this new creation! It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." ", I should not wonder, therefore, if the mere words of my text should sound like a pleasant song in your ears; but I am thankful that their deeper meaning is even more joyful. I trust you will accept this most gracious and suitable way of salvation. The Spurgeon Library | The LambThe Light before God. 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. His saints are "new creatures in Christ Jesus." Revelation 21:2. He can make that prayer-meeting no longer a dreary affair, but quite a new thing to you and all the people. "Ay, but it is not," says one; and I am sorry I cannot contradict him. And sorcerers, Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort, Revelation 21:8. What a splendor of almighty goodness shines out upon our souls! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Oh you who are now children, you were servants a little while ago! And they will be brought in, I feel assured; but, oh, that it may be this year! 20:4; Revelation 20:11, in a succession. A new and higher motive sways us now; for we seek not self but God. The greater the sinner, the greater the joy to loving believers when they see him saved. He can make that next sermon of yours, my dear brother minister, quite new and interesting. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. You godly wives, who have ungodly husbands, you shall pray, "Lord, make our husbands new." Revelation 21:8. 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. Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ Revelation 21:14. Oh for a horn of oil to be poured on the head of the young year, anointing it for the constant service of the Lord! _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ In our heart there is a new heaven and a new earth. He saith, and he performs the saying, "Behold, I make all things new." It is most glorious to God and safe to you: do not neglect so great salvation. 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. Toward a 1. All the church would be the better because of the way in which the Lord would help them to do their work. See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the , Loved and Laved Revelation 22 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible I rejoice in the fact that we are no longer bond-slaves but sons. How ingeniously they bring him in! The moment the divine life comes into the heart we believe: the moment we believe the eternal life is there. Some of you have heart-breakers at home: the Lord break their hearts. Prompted no longer by the servile and selfish motive of saving yourself, but by gratitude for the fact that you are saved, you will rise to virtue and true holiness. Dost thou not know, dear heart, that the Spirit of God has regenerated men and women quite as far gone as thou art? The mountains and the hills break forth before us into singing, and we cannot be dumb. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. You must trace the birth of the new creation up to the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the place where the cross stood, and where his body lay. I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. He has given us himself and his all-sufficiency for our everlasting portion; what more can we desire? Oh, what a blessing it would be for some workers if God would make them strong! Verse 8. You may put it among the most golden sentences like a precious stone in a setting of pure gold, and it will never be out of order come when it may. Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. Now, our Lord Jesus, our Surety and Covenant Head, has fulfilled his portion of the covenant engagement, and the compact stands as a bond of pure promise without condition or risk. When there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, and the Church shall be in her new and glorified condition, then there will be no need for all those purifying forces which have been so active here below. To-day believers are not under the covenant of "If thou doest this thou shalt live," but under that new covenant which says, "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." He can stay the tide of your raging passion; he can make you, who were like a devil, become as an angel of God; for thus he speaks from the throne of his eternal majesty, "Behold, I make all things new." (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 [A loud voice, "Ay! And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Can I not do the same again? 1. Our Lord Jesus Christ shall put a new heart into earth's kings, and then he shall come himself to take their thrones and their crowns, and to be himself our Universal King, and in his day shall the righteous flourish. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first iv. The new earth is not one of rocks, ALL THINGS NEW: NEW HEAVENS; NEW EARTH; CHAPTER XXI. ", We ought not, as men in Christ Jesus, to be carried away by a childish love of novelty, for we worship a God who is ever the same, and of whose years there is no end. Since you feel this, I know you can say to-night that Jesus Christ, who sits on the throne, makes all things new. Revelation 21:8 Sermons: But for the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable Here as in Revelation The Lord can so change us that we shall scarcely know ourselves: I mean he can thus change you who now despair of yourselves. One of the first prayers that I heard to-night in the prayer-meeting was by a dear brother that God would save his relatives. Some of you, my hearers, are servants now, and as servants I would bid you expect your wages. By the new heaven and the new earth here, all understand. Revelation 21:7-8 Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools Lit., as Rev., the sea is no more. We are like poor blocks of common-looking stone, but we do not know what we shall be like when we have been cut and polished on the great Lapidary's wheel. Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. The title: Revelation 21:1 _a b_ = Revelation 20:11 _c_. When he says, "Let there be holiness, let there be love, let there be truth," the principalities and powers of evil withstand him, and say, "There shall not be holiness, there shall be sin; there shall not be love, there shall be hate; there shall not be truth, there shall be error; there shall not be the worship of God, there shall be the worship of stocks and stones; men shall bow down before idols which their own hands have made." If a man walks about in it with his eyes open, he will see it to be a horrible sphere. My dear sister, next time you go to your class, you may feel as if you had only just begun teaching. 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. Our love to Christ ought to be every minute as if it were new-born. What do you yourself do with a bad servant? We shall be young if we keep with the ever young and fresh Beloved, whose locks are bushy and black as a raven. resurrection. 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 suppose the best of men must do so at times. Only let one man lift his finger, and a hundred thousand men are ready to meet a hundred thousand other men, all intent upon doing what? You shall be: blessed be God. I am persuaded that the most of us are beggars when we might be millionaires in spiritual things. THE HEAVENLY GLORY ind. They are new men, "begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." Climb the sides of the hills, ascend into the Alps, and you will not meet with that kind of thing in the pure fresh air. What a prospect does all this open up to the believer! And all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. Revelation 20:11. Revelation 21:21. We are not what we were: we are new, and have begun a new career. And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. (1) Now follows the second part of the history prophetic of the future _New, by their form and qualities, but not by their substance. Why, now we love the very things we once despised, and our heart flies as with wings after that which once it detested. Swelling words have been spoken and great attempts taken in hand to renovate society, but you can never renovate society till you have renovated the individual members who compose society. The Athenians, who spent their time in telling and hearing some new thing, were by no means singular persons: novelty still fascinates the crowd. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. _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._. 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. I earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. . Oh for a bedewing of the Holy Spirit while entering upon this theme! Did not the morning stars sing together for joy when he made the world? Let us gaze upon THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION. That, also, is divine. Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:11, in a succession. This is the clue of many a maze, the open sesame of many a mystery. REVELATION No mother's pangs, when she brought forth a man-child, were such as those of Christ when he brought forth the new creation. From the empty tomb, as he rises, I hear it come in silvery notes, "Behold I make all things new." This is where we were found, broken in pieces, sore wounded, and even slain by the tremendous fall which destroyed both our Paradise and ourselves. 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. Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. You may take a precious stone to a jeweler, and ask him what its value is, but he will say, I cannot tell what it is worth until it has been cut and polished. That is how the Lord will prove the value of his living stones.
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