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old condition of things has passed away: cp. 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. Revelation 22 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. O Lord, we would rejoice and be glad for ever in that which thou dost create. Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. 16, 17. The ancient prophecy shall be fulfilled to the letter. C.H. Revelation 21:1 Can he do the same for me?" THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Revelation 21:8. _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._. I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. And idolaters, That is, all who love anyone or anything better than God, Revelation 21:8. You must be dead and buried with Christ, and risen again in him; and then all will be well, for he will have made all things new. 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. "Why?" It cannot be; his loving heart is too much bound up in his own adopted ones. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. INTRODUCTION In our heart there is a new heaven and a new earth. It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." The holy city appears. I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. Let every thief know that the dying thief entered heaven by faith in Jesus. In some matters "the old is better." 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. 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. heavenly. "A servant abideth not in the house for ever." _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. Dost thou not know, dear heart, that the Spirit of God has regenerated men and women quite as far gone as thou art? Oh for a bedewing of the Holy Spirit while entering upon this theme! That is, all who love anyone or anything better than God. 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 apostle Peter has told us that this w. ", 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. "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." Thus he gives power to the ministry. MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the The sea hath her dead which shall be given up. 4 Those who have suffered death for their loyalty during the great _ (G3708) , Revelation 20:11. 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. "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. but, brethren and sisters, we do not know; since the Lord saved us, there cannot be any limits as to what he can do. Our future is glorious; let not our present be gloomy. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 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. What though he pleases to take his time, and to use humble instrumentalities to effect his purposes, yet do it he will. He that rightly understands the difference between the two covenants has the foundation of sound theology laid in his mind. The curse fell on him, as it is written, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." This might naturally be understood as in Revelation Revelation 21:22. This is commendable resolving, but what will come of it? Revelation 21:21. "But why, my dear brother?" Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 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. 21:23. New - in the sense of being as _And I saw_ So it runs, Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:1; Revelation A. John now turns his attention in a new direction. 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. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." he now observes the resultant order. Revelation 21:5 . What songs would have ushered in the stillness of the night! It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. But we have tasted these precious things, and unto God we will lift up our loudest song for ever and for ever. 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. And he said unto me, It is done. Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White The Lord's Presence, the New hopes are in us, bright and sure, such as we did not even desire to know when we lived a mere carnal life. They that are full of the joy of the Lord never find life grow weary. We are crossing the line now. I strove hard and kicked against the pricks. Yet God could do even that; and so he can reverse the course of your fallen nature, and make you act as a new man. The sea that had prevented intimate Revelation 21:1. It is coming. 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 earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. (1) AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN The hope of CHAPTER XVII. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. The newness which Jesus brings is bright, clear, heavenly, enduring. So you would make a very good man by mending, if you had a new heart, and new life, and were made new all over, so that there was not a bit of the old stuff left. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; , The Throne of God and of the Lamb Revelation 21:14. And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the And now the eternal state comes into view. ind. Whatsoever the Lord doeth is full of wisdom, and the wise will search into it. 21. Who is the great I? I would that there might be some new creations tonight, that that divine heavenly Spirit would come into some of your souls, and drop there that vital spark of heavenly flame which shall never be quenched, but shall burn brightly in heaven for ever. Courage, my brethren and sisters. away. see what we have done." CHAPTER 21 Lord, let us enter into this new universe of thine. Revelation 21:26. 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.' The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. Everything seems to have gone wrong with me. The ab. 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 man is new new in principles, and new in emotions. REVELATION And unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers. The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. Oh, I trust you may. 20:11, etc.). Revelation 21:5 . Now the veil lifts for the It sang with its sister-spheres the song of joy and reverence. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. 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. 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. Now John sees a new heaven Getting near to Christ, you will partake in his joy, and that joy shall be your strength, your freshness, the newness of your life. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 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. THE HOLY CITY Revelation 21:3. The title: Revelation 21:1 _a b_ = Revelation 20:11 _c_. 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! 20:4; Revelation 20:11, in a succession. They that walk in the light of his countenance can say of the Lord Jesus, "Thou hast the dew of thy youth"; and that dew falls upon those who dwell with him. There were three thousand new creations in one day when Peter preached the gospel under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah, glory be to our Redeemer's name. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first "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." But now we draw near to God and speak with our Father with delight. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." O dear hearts, there is no absolute necessity that you should always go downward in evil till you descend to hell. 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. trees, etc., since, as McCord notes, we will have spiritual bodies for We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. Revelation Revelation He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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 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. I cannot doubt of the possibility of your salvation, my dear friend, whenever I think of my own. He spends a life of weariness and sorrow amongst those who despise him, and if you want to know first and foremost how he makes all things new, you must see him sweating great drops of blood in the garden that is the blood of the new world which he is pouring forth! Amen. Revelation i. This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day. Why, it is because we get away from him who says, "Behold, I make all things new." The remaining two chapters describe the eternal and consummated 3. The regeneration of his people, their new birth, is a foretaste of what is yet to happen to this whole world of ours. 1. THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH The Book of Genesis is commonly It loves what once it hated; it hates what once it loved. said I. It was a fair world, full of everything that was lovely, beautiful, happy, holy. 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 Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:11, in a succession. You recollect how it was made at first pure and perfect. They are new men, "begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." There they are, perfect, and holy, and just, and good; but, alas, dear friends, you and I have broken the commandments. new state 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. 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. Toward a 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. . The house of God, how different it is from what it used to be! I am not going to say which is first, the new birth, or faith, or repentance. Revelation 21:2. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. You young people, as soon as ever you know the Lord, I exhort you to study well that word "covenant." "I make all things new," begins with the bringing in of a better hope by virtue of a better covenant. 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." And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. You must see him bound, scourged, spat upon, led to the accursed tree. You say to him, "There are your wages: go." Charles Haddon Spurgeon : Numbers 21:8: A Song At the Well-Head: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 21:16-20: The End of the Righteous Desired: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 23:10: The Star of Jacob: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 24:17-19: The Census of Israel: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 26:63-65: Can I not do the same again? Shut gates signify war; open gates mean peace. Revelation 21:1. John had already caught a glimpse of the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven; and now this angelic messenger bids him come nearer, and look more closely into this mysterious and glorious city prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. 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. , We used to think it a wise world once, but how foolish we think it now! 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. The words he speaks to us to-night are truly divine. We repent because we believe, and believe while we repent. Why, either you and I are turned upside down in nature, or the world is. We love to be found within its walls, and we feel delighted to join in the praises of the Lord. Thus far I have said that the object of Christ was to make a new world, and he began by making a new covenant. 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. Oh! THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. To make a world is something wonderful, but to make a world new is something more wonderful still. Blessed be his name. A brother said to me some time ago, "Dear sir, I frequently grow very sleepy in my walk with God. Not Peter only, but the whole of the twelve apostles shall have their names in the foundations of that holy city. Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. (wpe), The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies With Him. Now the veil lifts for the last time, and we behold the new universe. 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." It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not 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. 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w (_a)_ THE DISTANT VIEW OF THE CITY. The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. Ay!"] From the empty tomb, as he rises, I hear it come in silvery notes, "Behold I make all things new." But when Jesus Christ comes to make a new world, there is everything opposed to him. There is a hand that can give you a gravitation in the opposite direction. "Lord, make thy poor, spiritually sick child to be strong in spiritual health." HEAVEN, &C. See Isaiah 51:16 (plant, &c); Rev 65:17. REVELATION 21:1 Yes, that we shall if we are numbered among the all things that he makes new. 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. 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. Then another with great tenderness prayed for his children. 20:1 _c_ = Revelation 20:13 _a_. A better thing still is never to leave him, but to stand for ever at the cross-foot delighting yourself in his all-sufficient sacrifice. This our Lord Jesus Christ has done upon the greatest scale. How pleased we are with that which is new! The Lord answer our prayer now, for Jesus' sake, for we seek the salvation of every hearer and every reader of this sermon. Are we to be praying for you, and you not praying for yourselves? You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. 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! You 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. God grant you may! 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. SECTION 69 THE FINAL REGENERATION. 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. When we are made sons do we work for wages? Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. Revelation xxii. Make my circumstances new"? Come and lay yourself down at his feet, and ask him to make you new; I beseech you, do this at once! 22). From the throne where sits the once crucified but now glorified Saviour, there comes a whisper of hope to each and every soul who would be made new, and would begin life anew. (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 Revelation 21:8. 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. No, that is not the right word, it is the cowardly, for there are many who are full of fear who are nevertheless most sincere and right in God's sight: Revelation 21:8. He that sitteth on the throne says in infinite condescension to you upon the dunghill, "Behold, I make all things new." 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! The Lord give us eyes to see it. 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 _The wretched state of the ungodly_, 8. You, too, will be driven out of your religious profession and your period of probation, and where will you go? It is most glorious to God and safe to you: do not neglect so great salvation. _ (G565) THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION And he is considered a clever man, a patriot, a benefactor of his own nation, who, by dint of genius, can discover some new way of destroying his fellow creatures. God grant us to drink of the eternal founts, that we may for ever overflow. It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy. 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. It rejoices in hopes which once seemed idle as dreams. 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. 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. To be "justified" means being made really just: though we were guilty in ourselves we are regarded as just by virtue of what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us. NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, Our path to eternal glory is the road of faith, "The just shall live by faith." The Lord can work a radical change in you. None can enter int (1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and 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. One weeps over the past and the lost. I do not know that I admire brethren for calling out in the service as our friends did just now; but I certainly do not blame them. I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. What a change in our joys! Revelation 21:1. That is a divine word. I suppose the best of men must do so at times. And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. 2 And I saw the "Behold," says Christ I do like that word "Behold it! 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. He will never drive us from his house. ver . "Behold, I make all things new." friends in both places. 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. 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. before God. When God spake and said, "Let there be light," it was a fiat which showed him to be divine. Revelation 21:1 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." Looking at the text in this light, I think it speaks to everyone here present Would you begin anew, lo, there is one who can help you to do so! A has t _TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ Oh that they could get up to the high mountains, and be strong! radically changed. From the moment that we trusted in Jesus, a new life darted into our spirit. "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." 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. MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. Ver. Revelation 21:8New International Version. Peculiarities The expressions for Christ in the Revelation are as follows: The Lamb (28 x) 5:6.8.12.13; 6:1.16; 7:9.10.14.17; 12:11; 13:8; 14:1.4 (2 x).10; 15:3; 17:14 (2 x); 19:7.9; 21:9.14.22.23.27; 22:1.3. 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. All the church would be the better because of the way in which the Lord would help them to do their work. Many Christians are of the sickly-valley breed. Our Lord Jesus Christ shall put a new heart into earth's kings, and then he shall come himself to take their thrones and their crowns, and to be himself our Universal King, and in his day shall the righteous flourish. I asked about his brother's conversion, and I said, "I suppose you were surprised to see him converted." 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. "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love.". 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. Let us rejoice in this: "Thou art no more a servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." Compare Isaiah 65:17. temper of the EXPOSITION Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? Dogs would scarce tear each other as men do. "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight"; but we are "justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a The book of Revelation closes with solemn appeals of the Lord Jesus to men in general and to the believers especially. persecutions of the end time are especially included in the former He has come to make the world new. 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. We are conscious of having been quickened, for we were dead once, and we know it; but now we have passed from death into life, and we know it quite as certainly.
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