One weeps over the past and the lost. What a change in our joys! I asked about his brother's conversion, and I said, "I suppose you were surprised to see him converted." How it can turn us! Oh! Revelation 21:8. REVELATION 21:1 20:1 _c_ = Revelation 20:13 _a_. And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." INTRODUCTION (1) Now follows the second part of the history prophetic of the future _New, by their form and qualities, but not by their substance. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH He has put a new song into our mouths, and we must sing it. 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. _And I saw a new heaven_] New for form and state, but the same "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." 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. That is the death that never dies, the death which is far more to be dreaded than the death of the body. 1. Revelation 21:2. Bibliographical Information Spurgeon, Charle Haddon. The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. The Holy Spirit, though the old nature is still there, has been pleased to put within them a new nature. What a range of creating power is here! Child as I was, and under holy restraint as I was, so as to be kept from gross outward sin, I had a powerful inner nature which would not brook control. _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. _An angel shows J AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - Such a heaven and earth that Revelation 21:1 The Lord's Presence, the Revelation 21:24. old condition of things has passed away: cp. It would be a wonderful thing if Niagara when it is in its full descent should be made to leap upwards, and the St. Lawrence and the sea should begin to climb backward to the lakes. 21. Who but the eternal Son of God? Praise is our ever new delight; let us baptize the new year into a sea of it. 2 Revelation 21:9. Another application of this truth will be this: "Oh," says one, "I do not know what to make of myself. Aug. omits . The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. Revelation xxii. App-133. C.H. A new and higher motive sways us now; for we seek not self but God. separation, nor part of the world not brought into an ordered earth Revelation 21:1 _The new heaven and the new earth_, 1. Royal Homage and all their followers; yea, and of all who resemble them in the 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! THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH (REVELATION 21:1). Revelation 21:1 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. III. Our future is glorious; let not our present be gloomy. That, also, is divine. "But why, my dear brother?" Added to Bible Bulletin Board's "Spurgeon Collection" by: Tony Capoccia Bible Bulletin Board Box 119 Columbus, New Jersey, USA, 08022 Our websites: and Email: Online since 1986, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Behold him! In trying to bring out the thoughts contained in this exclamation from the throne, from the Emperor of the Universe, from the court of the King of Kings, we shall first speak, very briefly, of the new creation; secondly, we should bid you adore the great Regenerator; and, in the third place, we shall ask you to behold with attention the fact before you, with a view of receiving benefit from it. Revelation 21:7-8. holy c And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the You say to him, "There are your wages: go." Revelation 21:17. We have seen many transformed into new parents and new children. A. John now turns his attention in a new direction. Oh that you would yield on this first night of the year to him who can make new creatures of you. 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. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. 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. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. , DISCOURSE: 2529 THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH. In this respect, we are all children, for we eagerly demand the news of the day, and are all too apt to rush after the "many inventions" of the hour. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. But now, beloved, farther than this. Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. I. The apostle Peter has told us that this world also will be destroyed by fire, but it will afterwards be renewed, and a new sky and a new earth will appear after the first firmament and the first earth shall have become extinct. as _And I saw_ So it runs, Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:1; Revelation He whispered into the ears of a mother Eve; she fell, and we fell with her, and what a world this now is! Courage, my brethren and sisters. The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. trees, etc., since, as McCord notes, we will have spiritual bodies for _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ "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. The new earth is not one of rocks, John in Vision is led to see the New Jerusalem. 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. 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. chronological course of the prophecy. Genesis 1:1; _Revelation 21:1_ 2 And I saw the With no bit or bridle, but with a blessed suavity of tenderness, it turns us according to its pleasure. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." That same Spirit of God who taught us that we were ruined in our old estate, led us gently by the hand till we came to the New Covenant promise and looked to Jesus, and saw in him the full atonement for sin. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. 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. "He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new." But come! The whole creation is travailing, all time is groaning, providence is working, grace is striving, and all for one end, the bringing forth of the new and better age. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; , The Throne of God and of the Lamb It is A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH that the Seer Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. A Description of the Holy City. The Book of Genesis is commonly It will be easier, a great deal, depend upon it, even for God to make you new, than to mend you; for the fact is that "the carnal mind is enmity against God," and is not reconciled to God, neither, indeed, can be; so that mending will not answer; you must be made anew. We have, of course, that natural life which is sustained by food, and evidenced by our breath; but there is another life within which is not seen of men, nor fed by the provisions of earth. 20:4; Revelation 20:11, in a succession. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. beholds, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY. people do not die without hope. And there was no more sea. We have sailed into the year of grace 1885; therefore, let us keep a feast unto the Lord. The Lord who makes all things new can hear your prayers. 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. You kept thinking about it, and He will never drive us from his house. Revelation 22 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. We dare not say that we have kept the ten commands from our youth up; on the contrary, we are compelled by our consciences to confess that in spirit and in heart, if not in act, we have continually broken the law of God; and we are therefore under sin and condemnation, and there is no hope for us by the works of the law. Listen, "Behold, I make." By the new heaven and the new earth here, all understand. He can make your harsh and ungodly husband to become gentle and gracious. What a transformation grace makes in all things within our little world! MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. When God spake and said, "Let there be light," it was a fiat which showed him to be divine. (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 I labored to win heaven by self-righteousness, and this is as real a rebellion as open sin. _a new heaven and a new earth_ Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22; referred This vision relates to a To do this you must be new yourself; for as the man is, so his life will be. 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 has no soldiery, no book of laws, no new philosophy. (1) AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN The hope of CHAPTER XVII. A brother said to me some time ago, "Dear sir, I frequently grow very sleepy in my walk with God. I earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. 4, 5. 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. Verily the day will come whether it shall be at his second advent or before his second advent, I do not know the day when from the east to the west, and from the north to the south, there shall be a new world as far as men are concerned. The man is new new in principles, and new in emotions. He beholds Christ upon first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. Why, either you and I are turned upside down in nature, or the world is. fellowship in the presence of God is no more. He hath no form nor comeliness, and when you shall see him there is no beauty in him that you should desire him. CONTENTS He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. How ingeniously they bring him in! It is coming. NEW. 21:23. Gratitude is its mainspring: "We love him because he first loved 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. Revelation 21:3. By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. Friends have said in wonder, "What a change in John! wanting REVELATIONNOTE ON REVELATION 21:1 The destruction of death will Sorrow shalt cease, and tears shall be wiped away. You must see him bound, scourged, spat upon, led to the accursed tree. We cannot demand the servile wage because we have already all that our Father possesses. God shall dwell among men, peace shall be domiciled on earth, and glory shall be ascribed to God in the highest. 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. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. When they commence an epistle the , Commendation for the Steadfast _IAN MACKERVOY_ Revelation 21:21. glorious state of the church, not in the times of the apostles, or are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. 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. It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy. Our path to eternal glory is the road of faith, "The just shall live by faith." 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 wanted to shout badly on Sunday morning; but as everybody else was quiet, I held my tongue." Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Ask those that have had to live with converted people whether the transformation has not been marvellous. Revelation 21:1. In If a man walks about in it with his eyes open, he will see it to be a horrible sphere. I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. ind. Nobody can tell which spoke of a wheel moves first; it moves as a whole. The straight way to a perpetual newness and freshness of holy youth is to go to Christ again, just as we did at the first. The Lord give us eyes to see it. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. CHAPTER 21 We have the first-fruits of the Spirit, and we groan within ourselves while we wait for the fullness of that new creation. Sometimes all this worry is mere discontent; and when the child of God gets right himself these imaginary troubles vanish like the mist of the morning; but when they are real troubles, God can as easily change your condition, dear child of God, as he can turn his hand. The sea now cannot rest nor be quiet, but all shall be calm and tranquil in the new heaven and the new earth. Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. heavenly. first heaven and first earth was passed away: being changed, not as to Dear friend, the Lord Jesus Christ is able to make your life entirely new. His saints are "new creatures in Christ Jesus." Everything seems to have gone wrong with me. 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. REVELATION 21:2 The new Jerusalem. And that blessed Spirit of God is here tonight. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. In praise we will vie with angels and archangels, for they are not so indebted to grace as we are. Some of you have heart-breakers at home: the Lord break their hearts. ", "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. If we can only trust him for those of our friends whose faults seem to us few and light, our little trust will reap little reward; but if we can go with strong faith in a great God, and bring great sinners in our arms, and put them down before this mighty Regenerator of men, and say, "Lord, if thou wilt thou canst make them new"; and if we will never cease the pleading till we get the blessing, then we shall see ever-accumulating illustrations of the fact that Jesus makes all things new; and calling up the witnesses of his redeeming power, we shall cry in the ears of a drowsy Church and an incredulous world, "Behold, behold, behold! The substance of the old covenant was on this wise, "If thou wilt keep my command thou shalt live, and thy posterity shall live; but if thou shalt eat of the tree which I have forbidden thee, dying, thou shalt die, and all thy posterity in thee." glory! He is certainly able to turn your captivity as he turns the sun when it has reached the southern tropic. THE NEW JERUSALEM CHAPTER XXI. Revelation 21:26. God's Church glorified lieth open to all quarters of the infinitude of space, it is no prison-house of souls that dare not go beyond its borders, but a many-gated city, so that the blessed spirits there can fly whithersoever they will. "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." By making new men he makes a new society, which society he calls his "Church". Rather, by God's grace, may we henceforth believe more in him, and, according to our faith, so shall it be done unto us. Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ The remaining two chapters describe the eternal and consummated _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._. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. "No, no," says the old father, "I used to pray for my boy; he broke my heart; he brought his mother's grey hairs with sorrow to the grave; but he has gone away, and I have not heard of him for years, and I am almost afraid to wish I ever may hear of him again, for he did seem so reckless, that my only comfort is in trying to forget him." 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. He can make that next sermon of yours, my dear brother minister, quite new and interesting. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. There was no more sea [ 3. It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. Thus he gives power to the ministry. The first heaven is passed He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. 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. 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 As I walked the other day down the streets of Paris, and saw the soldiers with their pretty dresses, and the knives and forks which they carried with them to carve men and make a meal for death, I could not help thinking this is a pretty world, this is. The wilderness of destruction lies before you. Our love to Christ ought to be every minute as if it were new-born. After a few months a vigorous young Christian will begin to cool down; and those who have been long in the ways of God find that final perseverance must be a miracle if ever it is to be accomplished, for naturally they tire and faint. The Lord answer our prayer now, for Jesus' sake, for we seek the salvation of every hearer and every reader of this sermon. New desires are felt to which we were strangers in our former state. Many Christians are of the sickly-valley breed. Devils could not be worse than men when their passions are let loose. Rev 66:22. 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. everlasting Glory of the Place. Observe the text speaks of: "I make." I would that our fleece might now be so wet as never to become dry throughout the whole year. I trust you will accept this most gracious and suitable way of salvation. That near and dear relationship which is manifested in adoption and regeneration, binds the child of God to the great Father's heart in such a way that he will never cast him off, nor suffer him to perish. The Lord can so change us that we shall scarcely know ourselves: I mean he can thus change you who now despair of yourselves. 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. Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. Yes, like a priceless square casket made all of costly jewels is this wondrous city, equally glorious whichever way you look at it: The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.. It is otherwise with Christ. 21. For which I thought he was a wise man: but yet I do not wonder if men who have tasted of the grace of God, and feel that the Lord has done great things for them, whereof they are glad, do feel like crying out for joy. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first his Throne. The fearful are those who, through cowardice, have not overcome (cf. Now the veil lifts for the last time, and we behold the new universe. He has given us himself and his all-sufficiency for our everlasting portion; what more can we desire? When men "cross the line," they find no visible mark: the sea bears no trace of an equatorial belt; and yet mariners know whereabouts they are, and they take notice thereof, so that a man can hardly cross the line for the first time without remembering it to the day of his death. (wpe), The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies With Him. Hallelujah, glory be to our Redeemer's name. 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. 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. 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!" Revelation 21:6. "Behold, I make." 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w (_a)_ THE DISTANT VIEW OF THE CITY. And sorcerers, Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort, Revelation 21:8. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. The ab. Revelation Revelation 21:5. (Isaiah 65:17 ). How ingeniously they bring him in! "Behold, I make all things new." And the apostle John tells us that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. What law could not do, grace has accomplished. This great work of Christ, this grand design of making this old world into a new one, shall be carried into effect. The old way of life was, "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." what a blessed world it would have been! After you have believed unto life you will go and do all manner of holy deeds as the result of your new life; but do not attempt them with the view of earning life. It is coming. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. From the moment that we trusted in Jesus, a new life darted into our spirit. The ancient prophecy shall be fulfilled to the letter. Revelation 21:1. The life that we live in the flesh is no longer according to the lusts of the world, but we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be God grant us to drink of the eternal founts, that we may for ever overflow. It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not Do you not agree with our prayers? The words he speaks to us to-night are truly divine. THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8 XXI. I want to say to such, if you have been all your lifetime in bondage, you need not remain there any longer; for there is in Jesus the power to make all things new, and to lift you into new delights. WHATEVER the saints are , "The Marriage of the Lamb" Revelation 21:1 (AV). In his wondrous love our Lord Jesus put us under a new covenant, a covenant of which he became the second Adam, a covenant which ran on this wise, "If thou shalt render perfect obedience and vindicate my justice, then those who are in thee shall not perish, but they shall live because thou livest." Verse 8. 7. There they are, perfect, and holy, and just, and good; but, alas, dear friends, you and I have broken the commandments. We used to think it a wise world once, but how foolish we think it now! . A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Yet, as I have already said, there has been so much evil about ourselves and our old nature, so much sin about our life and the old past, so much mischief about our surroundings and the old temptations, that we are not distressed by the belief that old things are passing away. I hear how these people of God cry 'Hallelujah!' city of God men had looked through long generations. 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. 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. he replied, "if they were not they would all get up and shout 'Hallelujah' when you are preaching such a glorious gospel. Revelation 21:4. BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW Can I not do the same again? Text Revelation 21:1-27 Amen. Revelation i. Our zeal for God ought to be as fresh as if we had just begun to delight in him. Oh, I trust you may. How pleased we are with that which is new! I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have Heaven is God's dwelling place. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. What a blessing it is for you and for me that Jesus has made all things new in that respect!

Goodyear Police Department Mugshots, Nicole Apelian Husband, Primary And Secondary Air Tank Pressure, Articles R