For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters. Revelation vii. 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. He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. Revelation 21:5. Blessed be his name. Briefly, then, here is one of the grandest truths that ever fell even from the lips of Jesus: "Behold, I make all things new." I labored to win heaven by self-righteousness, and this is as real a rebellion as open sin. Revelation 21:1 There was no more sea [ Let this be a pattern to all of you who are preachers or teachers, no matter what your subject may be, a gospel promise or invitation is always in place and in season. Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. CONTENTS Revelation 21:15. This great work of Christ, this grand design of making this old world into a new one, shall be carried into effect. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. How ingeniously they bring him in! 1. _The new heaven and the new earth_, 1. Till We Meet Again "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." But when Jesus Christ comes to make a new world, there is everything opposed to him. Though often disappointed, they are still ready to be caught by the same bait, and, like the Athenians of Mars Hill, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. "Behold, I make all things new." Our future is glorious; let not our present be gloomy. 'A New Creation' and 'Sermon for New Year's-Day', A Sermon Published on Thursday, July 15th, 1915. What songs would have ushered in the stillness of the night! And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. Ay, and angels, hovering over this fair world, would oft have heard the strain of joy breaking the silence of midnight, as glad and pure hearts beheld the eyes of the Creator beaming down upon them from the stars which stud the vault of heaven. Who is the great I? It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. But now, in the text there is AN EARNEST CALL for us to consider this work of our Lord. sea. What a range of creating power is here! prophesies, to the consummation of all things. Oh that you would yield on this first night of the year to him who can make new creatures of you. 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." away. Devils could not be worse than men when their passions are let loose. known as the Book of beginnings. Every healthy boy and girl in many countries loves the ocean. Oh that you may not be left to wander with Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman! 1. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. 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. first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Revelation 21 Commentary - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible The Spurgeon Library | Scriptures | Revelation Revelation 21:2. Furthermore, you will say to me, "I desire to lead a new life." In the great matter of truth and godliness, we may safely say, "There is nothing new under the sun." 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.. but the second has still to be unfolded. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from , The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies With Him The Lord's Presence, the 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. But now, beloved, farther than this. We used to think it a brave gay world that showed us real happiness, but we are no longer deceived, we have seen Madame Bubble's painted face in its true deformity. And unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers. He can make that next sermon of yours, my dear brother minister, quite new and interesting. You young people, as soon as ever you know the Lord, I exhort you to study well that word "covenant." Renewal must begin with the heart. But when the Lord himself sets up a light, and calls us to pause, and look, we cannot help beholding. Revelation 21:1. Everything seems to have gone wrong with me. Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? resurrection. ALL THINGS NEW: NEW HEAVENS; NEW EARTH; new state O Lord, we would rejoice and be glad for ever in that which thou dost create. 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. 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. That is the right sort of faith. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." 1. JOHN was the beloved disciple, the choicest spirit of the twelve, the , Heaven Above, and Heaven Below 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. All his works deserve study: "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein." One weeps over the past and the lost. Dear friend, the Lord Jesus Christ is able to make your life entirely new. 5, 6. The Book of Genesis is commonly None but a Savior on the throne could accomplish it; and therefore let him have the glory of it. WHATEVER the saints are , "The Marriage of the Lamb" Friends have said in wonder, "What a change in John! 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 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. ", "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. Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. The Oh that they could get up to the high mountains, and be strong! There shall be a new heaven and a new earth, so says the first verse of this chapter; and therefore there will be nothing to weep over concerning the Fall and its consequent miseries. 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. The process which we have roughly described as taking place in ourselves is in other forms going on in the world. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a Our spiritual life is a new-born thing, the creation of the Spirit of life. 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." I knew it came from an aching heart. ]. glory! "Yes," says a husband here, "I have prayed for my wife o many times, that I do feel tempted to give it up; it is not likely that I shall ever live to see her saved." Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:11, in a succession. This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day. It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not Revelation 21:8. The sea that had prevented intimate Revelation 21:8 | GOOD NEWS for Everyone! The ab. 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. 1. You will break your resolutions, and be nothing bettered by your attempts at reform. 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." THE SEVENTH VISION: OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. he replied, "if they were not they would all get up and shout 'Hallelujah' when you are preaching such a glorious gospel. The new earth is not one of rocks, The day shall come when this world shall be as fair as it was at the primeval Sabbath; when there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, wherein shall dwell righteousness. NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH Revelation 21:14. "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love.". I asked about his brother's conversion, and I said, "I suppose you were surprised to see him converted." THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Behold I make all things new." Why, now we love the very things we once despised, and our heart flies as with wings after that which once it detested. The Real New World Order He has come to make the world new. 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. 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." Now breathe a silent prayer, dear brother, dear sister, to him who makes all things new. AND I SAW. It leaps at the sound which was once dull to its ears the name of a precious Christ. But you want to make it all new yourself; and you fret and you worry, and you tease, and you trouble, and you make a burden of yourself. Ver. Here as in Revelation REVELATION CHAPTER 21 REVELATION 21:1 A new heaven and a new earth. 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.. Revelation 21:1 (AV). 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. _An angel shows J AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - Such a heaven and earth that Now, you that feel that you must cry aloud for joy, join with me and cry "Hallelujah" [A great number of voices cried, "Hallelujah!"] people do not die without hope. The house of God, how different it is from what it used to be! The Lord can so change us that we shall scarcely know ourselves: I mean he can thus change you who now despair of yourselves. Read full chapter. He will never drive us from his house. other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be This our Lord Jesus Christ has done upon the greatest scale. Yet it is not necessary to think of an entirely new creation, as i A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH 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." It is conscious now of living in a new element, breathing a fresh air, partaking of new food, drinking out of new wells not digged by men or filled from the earth. Revelation 21:1. When God spake and said, "Let there be light," it was a fiat which showed him to be divine. It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. 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? I am not going to say which is first, the new birth, or faith, or repentance. Amen. 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Revelation 21:7-8. 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. I want, then, to drop into your ear and may the Spirit of God drop into your heart this word, you may be born again. Revelation 8 - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Bible _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and at what Christ has done for them. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. I should be very much surprised if some of you that come here, time after time, are not converted. Whatsoever the Lord doeth is full of wisdom, and the wise will search into it. Hence we read of being "justified by faith," and being made acceptable to God by faith. "I make all things new," begins with the bringing in of a better hope by virtue of a better covenant. When our friends are made new, oh! We are crossing the line now. Charles Haddon Spurgeon July 31, 1864 Scripture: Revelation 21:23 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 10 The Lamb- The Light "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."Rev. Amen. Revelation i. 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! his Throne. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. Revelation 21:7-8 Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. Revelation 21:4. "Well, I am going to mend myself," says one: "I have taken the pledge, and I am going to be honest, and chaste, and religious." He is a man dressed in the common garments of the poor! How ingeniously they bring him in! To do this you must be new yourself; for as the man is, so his life will be. He whispered into the ears of a mother Eve; she fell, and we fell with her, and what a world this now is! welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. 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. It is like a gibbeted criminal hung up to die. That dolorous pain, then, of the Master was the world's new- making. "Behold, I make all things new," says Jesus, and then he makes his people into sons. Men of intellect sit down, and put their fingers to their foreheads, racking their brains to find out new ways of using gunpowder, and shot, and shell, so as to be able to blow twenty thousand souls into eternity as easily as twenty might be massacred by present appliances. 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." THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. How it can turn us! THE NEW JERUSALEM This might naturally be understood as in Revelation He shall be my son, not my servant, but my son. God give us the faith to rise to this more than royal dignity! 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! And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. 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. Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. 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! 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. as _And I saw_ So it runs, Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:1; Revelation Numbers of Christians seem to live in the marshes always. ( ). Peter tells us 2 Peter 3:13; Daniel 7:3; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 57:20; Isaiah 65:17; New [ ]. I am persuaded that the most of us are beggars when we might be millionaires in spiritual things. Revelation 21:1 Chapters Available - Revelation - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the 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. Peter 3:7. He had come to make the world new, and to do this he has brought with him what? Why should he call upon us to behold it? a spiritual existence. 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. but, brethren and sisters, we do not know; since the Lord saved us, there cannot be any limits as to what he can do. INTRODUCTORY WORDS For this reason the gospel sets before us another way, and says, "It is of faith, that it might be by grace." 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. 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." --- The Revelation 20. WE shall take these words as referring to heaven. No mother's pangs, when she brought forth a man-child, were such as those of Christ when he brought forth the new creation. 22). "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." _a new heaven and a new earth_ Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22; referred That, also, is divine. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. changes in their appearance, that they seemed to be just created CHAPTER 21 When they commence an epistle the , Commendation for the Steadfast Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. Revelation 21:10. 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! In addition to the new covenant, Christ has been pleased to make us new men. We have sailed into the year of grace 1885; therefore, let us keep a feast unto the Lord. I cannot doubt of the possibility of your salvation, my dear friend, whenever I think of my own. 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. My own health is precarious. Why, himself. 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.
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