Such gold as never was, nor is, nor ever shall be on this earth until that time when God shall have purified it. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB 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. 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 enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. _IAN MACKERVOY_ He that rightly understands the difference between the two covenants has the foundation of sound theology laid in his mind. So men may launch their divers theories, and patent their social inventions, but after they have re-shaped the society of sinners, they will leave it a sinful society still. You have grievous trouble because you hear the dearest that you have blaspheming the God you love. first dispensation of the Gospel; when the old Jewish church sta And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the 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? 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. Stand and look at it! Who but the eternal Son of God? Verse 8. He is certainly able to turn your captivity as he turns the sun when it has reached the southern tropic. And I saw Leaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. ", 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. See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. Revelation 21:1 (AV). their substance, but in their qualities. THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 "Behold, I make all things." It is fit that things so outworn and defiled should be laid aside, and better things fill their places. You kept thinking about it, and 'A New Creation' and 'Sermon for New Year's-Day', A Sermon Published on Thursday, July 15th, 1915. 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. 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. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. This is the world of weeping, but it passes away. 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 wretched state of the ungodly_, 8. You recollect how it was made at first pure and perfect. I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. 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. 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. But, even if you do not, we shall pray for you; and we were sure that you opposed our intercessions, and were even angry with them, we should pray all the more, for we mean to have you won for Jesus, by the grace of God, and you may as well come soon as late. _And I saw a new heaven_] New for form and state, but the same Oh, I trust you may. _aor. _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. I wish we had more time to enter fully into this part of the subject. 1. 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. I trust you will accept this most gracious and suitable way of salvation. sea. I would that our fleece might now be so wet as never to become dry throughout the whole year. It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. trees, etc., since, as McCord notes, we will have spiritual bodies for The old nature needed to be awed with threatenings, or bribed with rewards; the new nature feels the impulse of love. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Sorrow shalt cease, and tears shall be wiped away. but these joys only come from him. Here as in Revelation THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. AND I SAW. The newness which Jesus brings is bright, clear, heavenly, enduring. 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 don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have II. [A loud voice, "Ay! I will pray, "Lord, make my children new." I love thee, O my Saviour, because on the cross thou didst bear shame, and spitting, and manifold disgrace for me. They are the same persons, and yet not the same. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. Revelation 20:11. We are not what we shall be, but assuredly we are not what we used to be. "Commentary on Revelation 8". Rather, by God's grace, may we henceforth believe more in him, and, according to our faith, so shall it be done unto us. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. Oh, it is wonderful how different a thing becomes when it is taken to God. 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. Here is a vision of the new creation. God shall dwell among men, peace shall be domiciled on earth, and glory shall be ascribed to God in the highest. 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." 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." And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." He beholds Christ upon Come and lay yourself down at his feet, and ask him to make you new; I beseech you, do this at once! The ab. Certainly it is most true of the celestial city, as well as of the millennial city, that the throne of God and of the , Till We Meet Again Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, 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.. Revelation 20. We were under the old covenant, and our first father and federal head, Adam, had broken that covenant, and we were ruined by his fatal breach. We died in Adam as to spiritual life, and our death revealed itself in an inward tendency to evil which reigned in our members. "Lord, make thy poor, spiritually sick child to be strong in spiritual health." NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH The Judgment is over. God has breathed into them a new life. Used by Permission. 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. What a change in our joys! Revelation 21:1 THERE are a great many things we should like to know about heaven. When he saith, "Let there be light," darkness saith, "There shall not be light." And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. I wanted to shout badly on Sunday morning; but as everybody else was quiet, I held my tongue." Yes, we shall come to this if we are believers. 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. "The world is crucified unto me," said Paul; and many of you can say the same. Every healthy boy and girl in many countries loves the ocean. I said. It is coming. . And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. "Behold I make all things new." Another hand grasps the tiller and steers our ship in a new course. 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." That Church he sends into the world to act upon the rest of mankind. Revelation 21:19. Are we to be praying for you, and you not praying for yourselves? What songs would have ushered in the stillness of the night! The apostle Peter has told us that this w. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 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. When we are made sons do we work for wages? 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. As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.. Make my circumstances new"? This is commendable resolving, but what will come of it? He sees a new It is 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. 3. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Nay, it is a world fit for angels, naturally; but it is a horrible world morally. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. 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. In By making new men he makes a new society, which society he calls his "Church". But we have tasted these precious things, and unto God we will lift up our loudest song for ever and for ever. at what Christ has done for them. 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. Our spiritual life is a new-born thing, the creation of the Spirit of life. , DISCOURSE: 2529 Revelation 21:1. I asked about his brother's conversion, and I said, "I suppose you were surprised to see him converted." 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 "Ay, but it is not," says one; and I am sorry I cannot contradict him. A person shook hands with me one day this week who does not often hear me preach, and he expressed to me his unbounded delight in listening to the doctrine of the grace of God, and he added, "Surely your people must be made of stone." The Lord's Presence, the By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. Listen! 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.. Well, now, dear friends, why do you and I ever get stale and flat? A has You must see him bound, scourged, spat upon, led to the accursed tree. But now, beloved, farther than this. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. Revelation 21:26. his Throne. My family cause me great anxiety. iv. 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. He that sitteth on the throne saith, "Behold, I make all things new." The foundation being made new, the Lord Jesus Christ has set before us a new way of life, which grows out of that covenant. 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. 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. New desires are felt to which we were strangers in our former state. _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._. 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. Revelation 8 Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible Genesis Intro Revelation Genesis Intro Genesis Intro Revelation Genesis Intro Copyright Statement These files are public domain. What a different Bible we have now! Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day. (Revelation 21:1) Th _aor. glorious state of the church, not in the times of the apostles, or Many Christians are of the sickly-valley breed. And you, my dear brother, at the corner of the street where you are often interrupted, perhaps, with foul language, you will feel that you are pleased with your position of self-denial. Oh that you would yield on this first night of the year to him who can make new creatures of you. THE HOLY CITY 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. It is only in imagination that there is any close of one year and beginning of another; and yet it has most fitly all the force of a great fact. 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. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. I feel this within me: do not you? But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no 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. 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. Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? , Revelation BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW 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. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly, John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible, Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament, Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible, NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols), Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament, Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings, The Message from Patmos by David Scott Clark, The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, The Revelation of Jesus Christ Through the Ages by Donald A. Koenig, Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith, Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set). We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. The Lord who makes all things new can hear your prayers. You young people, as soon as ever you know the Lord, I exhort you to study well that word "covenant." Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. 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. glory! 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." Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. _God dwells with men; the happy state of his followers_, 3-7. A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH Let us be new-created with the "all things." Christ makes new servants, new masters, new friends, new brothers, new sisters. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. And the apostle John tells us that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. But I have to bid you, "Lay your deadly doing down, down at Jesus' feet; Stand in him, in him alone, gloriously complete.". Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. Revelation 21:8. John in Vision is led to see the New Jerusalem. We love to be found within its walls, and we feel delighted to join in the praises of the Lord. 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, if the Lord Jesus makes all things new, then a new birth is possible to you, dear friend, though you have come here to-night in a wrong state of heart, with your sins upon you, binding you fast. See Matthew 9:17. They that are full of the joy of the Lord never find life grow weary. They shall not hunger nor , The Followers of the Lamb A Description of the Holy City. Why should we not lift up our voices in his praise? He makes all things new." The book of Revelation closes with solemn appeals of the Lord Jesus to men in general and to the believers especially. It's good news for the sky above and the Earth below. 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. "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." Our children's eyes sparkle when we talk of giving them a toy or a book which is called new; for our short-lived human nature loves that which has lately come, and is therefore like our own fleeting selves. Aug. omits . 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. And here is our strength for rising to a nobler state of mind, "Behold I make all things new." The house of God, how different it is from what it used to be! It sang with its sister-spheres the song of joy and reverence. Wherever the gospel is preached, the Spirit is present in that gospel, and he gives faith to men, gives life to men, and so they are made new, and the new-making thus goes on. _An angel shows J AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - Such a heaven and earth that It was then and there that the world was born again. 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. With all our fresh springs in God, we ought to be always full of new life. he now observes the resultant order. Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. 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 the second has still to be unfolded. We hope that this newborn year will not be worse than its predecessor, and we pray that it may be a great deal better. Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. 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! 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!
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