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But I have to bid you, "Lay your deadly doing down, down at Jesus' feet; Stand in him, in him alone, gloriously complete.". INTRODUCTORY WORDS (Revelation 21:1) Th _aor. 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. Now the veil lifts for the And it will sometimes happen that we leave so much anxiety, adversity, and chastisement behind us, that it is a relief to hope that the tide has turned, and that a course of comfort, prosperity, and mercy lies before us. Why not leave that off, and in humble prayer take the matter to the Lord, and say, "Lord, appear for me, for thou hast said, 'I make all things new.' 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. 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. Revelation 21:5. 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. Royal Homage The remaining two chapters describe the eternal and consummated It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." , It was there in the travail of his soul did you ever catch that idea, the travail of his soul? 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." Behold him! By the new heaven and the new earth here, all understand. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. 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." Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. WE shall take these words as referring to heaven. The Lord answer our prayer now, for Jesus' sake, for we seek the salvation of every hearer and every reader of this sermon. Let every one that has been a great transgressor remember how Manasseh received a new heart, and repented of his evil deeds. He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. (Isaiah 65:17 ). THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. For this reason the gospel sets before us another way, and says, "It is of faith, that it might be by grace." Furthermore, you will say to me, "I desire to lead a new life." The Lord Jesus Christ was speaking of lofty themes, of worlds newly made, and yet in the very middle of it all he puts this gracious promise. 3. 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." 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. 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. God grant us to drink of the eternal founts, that we may for ever overflow. 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. The Lord can work a radical change in you. Never has our great Father disowned one of his sons. "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. Oh! And, further, dear friends, there may be some dear child of God here who is conscious that he lives on a very low platform of spiritual life, and he knows that the Lord can raise him to a new condition. 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. Oh you who are now children, you were servants a little while ago! Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. The mercy-seat, what a different place it is now! This great work of Christ, this grand design of making this old world into a new one, shall be carried into effect. From the empty tomb, as he rises, I hear it come in silvery notes, "Behold I make all things new." Revelation 21:10. 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. 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 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. t _TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. The book of Revelation closes with solemn appeals of the Lord Jesus to men in general and to the believers especially. And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." This renewing work has been in our Lord's hands from of old. 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." 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! I. Thus far I have said that the object of Christ was to make a new world, and he began by making a new covenant. 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. , DISCOURSE: 2529 He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. "Ay, but it is not," says one; and I am sorry I cannot contradict him. He will never drive us from his house. Why, now we love the very things we once despised, and our heart flies as with wings after that which once it detested. We have the first-fruits of the Spirit, and we groan within ourselves while we wait for the fullness of that new creation. heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more NEW JERUSALEM (Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:5). Behold I make all things new." We are at this moment specially ready for a new year. old condition of things has passed away: cp. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. Heaven is God's dwelling place. 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. I strove hard and kicked against the pricks. "He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new." When they commence an epistle the Revelation:22:21 friends in both places. It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. This our Lord Jesus Christ has done upon the greatest scale. Anything new has at least one attraction. BEHOLD AND TO BELIEVE. We cannot demand the servile wage because we have already all that our Father possesses. Look there and see the dying thief upon the cross, black with a thousand crimes: I washed him and took him to Paradise the same day; what can I not do? and face of the church; but some apply it to the state of the church It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. What a splendor of almighty goodness shines out upon our souls! Nay, it is a world fit for angels, naturally; but it is a horrible world morally. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. ", We 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. All his works deserve study: "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein." They have been as deeply sunken in sin, and as hardened by habit as ever thou canst be, and they thought themselves given up to despair, as thou thinkest thyself to be; yet the Spirit of God carried out the will of the Lord Christ, and made them new. "A servant abideth not in the house for ever." The last year had become wheezy, croaking, and decrepit, in its old age; and we lay it asleep with a psalm of judgment and mercy. Amen. Revelation i. Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. SECTION 69 Revelation 22 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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." observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the The newness which Jesus brings is bright, clear, heavenly, enduring. Then, through his Spirit, he goes on to make new men under the new covenant, and you will see that by this means he makes a new society. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a Let me just say a few words to those of you who love the Lord. And here is our strength for rising to a nobler state of mind, "Behold I make all things new." He has given us himself and his all-sufficiency for our everlasting portion; what more can we desire? not diffi, And I saw So it runs, Revelation 19:11, Revelation 20:1, That, also, is divine. It is coming. Rather, by God's grace, may we henceforth believe more in him, and, according to our faith, so shall it be done unto us. Numbers of Christians seem to live in the marshes always. Revelation 21:15. as _And I saw_ So it runs, Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:1; Revelation 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. Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. 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. It sang with its sister-spheres the song of joy and reverence. What a range of creating power is here! The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and And now the eternal state comes into view. 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. 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. Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort. 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. HEAVEN. what a blessed world it would have been! A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH Let us be new-created with the "all things." "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." But there came a serpent, and his craft spoiled it all. Every healthy boy and girl in many countries loves the ocean. We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. As the world's poet says, "All with one consent praise new-born gawds. 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the 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. 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." "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love.". but these joys only come from him. If our calendar suggests some dismal memories in the past, our calculation forestalls some happier prospects in the future. holy c And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. "I make all things new," begins with the bringing in of a better hope by virtue of a better covenant. The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. 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. You kept thinking about it, and Getting near to Christ, you will partake in his joy, and that joy shall be your strength, your freshness, the newness of your life. . 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. And as for ourselves, dear friends, mournfully as we sometimes think of the flight of time, we are wont cheerfully to look out upon the new epochs as they begin to dawn upon us. Temple Section-The Former Resurrection 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? Why, himself. _aor. Happy discovery for us; it was the kindling of new life in us. Since you feel this, I know you can say to-night that Jesus Christ, who sits on the throne, makes all things new. 8:2; _WONDERFUL FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD REVELATION 21:1-7:_ God's faithful wanting REVELATIONNOTE ON REVELATION 21:1 The destruction of death will "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." 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! You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. You say to him, "There are your wages: go." With this verse begins the closing passage of the book of God: the I pray God to bless these feeble words of mine for the helping of some of his chosen out of the darkness of their fears. And I John saw the hol _REVELATION 21:1_. We are now come, in the course of these I trust you will accept this most gracious and suitable way of salvation. "Ah, my dear brother," I said, "that is because you do not know much about me." All the church would be the better because of the way in which the Lord would help them to do their work. The greater the sinner, the greater the joy to loving believers when they see him saved. Amen. You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. Revelation 21:19. sea. C.H. It is a key-word opening the treasures of revelation. You have grievous trouble because you hear the dearest that you have blaspheming the God you love. The Blue Letter Bible team has added a wide selection of . The Lord can so change us that we shall scarcely know ourselves: I mean he can thus change you who now despair of yourselves. welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. A has The ab. "In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies"? In Revelation 21:1 (AV). Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. Now St. II. Nobody can tell which spoke of a wheel moves first; it moves as a whole. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. There were three thousand new creations in one day when Peter preached the gospel under the influence of the Holy Spirit. 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. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. _The new Jerusalem_, 2. REVELATION _And I saw a new heaven_] New for form and state, but the same 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. "Immortal joys come streaming down, Joys, like his griefs, immense, unknown;". I am not going to say which is first, the new birth, or faith, or repentance. 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's good news for the sky above and the Earth below. Oh, what a blessing it would be for some workers if God would make them strong! III. Our love to Christ ought to be every minute as if it were new-born. The moment the divine life comes into the heart we believe: the moment we believe the eternal life is there. A new world now opens to our view ( v. 1 ): I saw a new heaven and a new earth; that is, a new universe; for we suppose the world to be made up of heaven and earth. what a great comfort they are; just as much so as they formerly were a sorrow. This is the second death." known as the Book of beginnings. He beholds Christ upon He makes all things new." Revelation 21:21. 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. Praise is our ever new delight; let us baptize the new year into a sea of it. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' The sea now cannot rest nor be quiet, but all shall be calm and tranquil in the new heaven and the new earth. 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 4, 5. THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. You will break your resolutions, and be nothing bettered by your attempts at reform. THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Our gold is dull, opaque; light is blocked out by it. first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. If a man walks about in it with his eyes open, he will see it to be a horrible sphere. He shall be my son, not my servant, but my son. God give us the faith to rise to this more than royal dignity! We died in Adam as to spiritual life, and our death revealed itself in an inward tendency to evil which reigned in our members. Why should he call upon us to behold it? It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy. THE SEVENTH VISION: OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. We have seen men become new husbands, and women become new wives. This is commendable resolving, but what will come of it? 20:13. persecutions of the end time are especially included in the former The sea that had prevented intimate And there was no more sea. There are certain things which are already so truly new, that to change them for anything else would be to lose old gold for new dross. Another hand grasps the tiller and steers our ship in a new course. 16, 17. 22). And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs. Let us have a little indulgence to-night. You Used by Permission. 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. Subterranean fires A more determined, obstinate rebel than I could scarce have been. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. I labored to win heaven by self-righteousness, and this is as real a rebellion as open sin. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 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! And this new nature is conscious of new emotions. There shall be no more fear of war, no Gog and Magog to gather together to battle, no Armageddon to be dreaded by the glorified Church of Christ, which shall be in perfect peace for ever. Why, it is because we get away from him who says, "Behold, I make all things new." REVELATION 21:1 Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples,

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