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. Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. Oh, what a blessing it would be for some workers if God would make them strong! the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Christ makes new servants, new masters, new friends, new brothers, new sisters. The Lord's Presence, the You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 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. 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. Blessed be his name. When he says, "Let there be holiness, let there be love, let there be truth," the principalities and powers of evil withstand him, and say, "There shall not be holiness, there shall be sin; there shall not be love, there shall be hate; there shall not be truth, there shall be error; there shall not be the worship of God, there shall be the worship of stocks and stones; men shall bow down before idols which their own hands have made." . 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. INTRODUCTORY WORDS their substance, but in their qualities. revelation of the things beyond the end. The New Heaven and Earth. Another application of this truth will be this: "Oh," says one, "I do not know what to make of myself. Sorrow shalt cease, and tears shall be wiped away. This vision relates to a Meanwhile, there is no love lost, for the world thinks much the same of us, and therein we can sympathize with Paul when he said, "I am crucified unto the world." 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. Shut gates signify war; open gates mean peace. 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 "Behold, I make." Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Heaven is God's dwelling place. You know that the stones of which this holy city is built are living stones. Revelation 21:8 in all English translations. I thank God for keeping me near himself; but I am as weak, and stale, and unprofitable as any of you. It was there in the travail of his soul did you ever catch that idea, the travail of his soul? "Ah, my dear brother," I said, "that is because you do not know much about me." "Behold, I make all things new." 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w (_a)_ THE DISTANT VIEW OF THE CITY. old condition of things has passed away: cp. He that sitteth on the throne says in infinite condescension to you upon the dunghill, "Behold, I make all things new." CHAPTER XXI Our curiosity has been excited full often to ask a vast number of questions, but after being excited, it has never been gratified, for Gods word has told us little about , A Voice from Heaven 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. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Devils could not be worse than men when their passions are let loose. 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 beholds Christ upon Not Peter only, but the whole of the twelve apostles shall have their names in the foundations of that holy city. Come and lay yourself down at his feet, and ask him to make you new; I beseech you, do this at once! The regeneration of his people, their new birth, is a foretaste of what is yet to happen to this whole world of ours. He can make that next sermon of yours, my dear brother minister, quite new and interesting. ALL THINGS NEW: NEW HEAVENS; NEW EARTH; He has no soldiery, no book of laws, no new philosophy. holy c And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. Revelation 20:11. HEAVEN. This great work of Christ, this grand design of making this old world into a new one, shall be carried into effect. Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. persecutions of the end time are especially included in the former They shall not hunger nor , The Followers of the Lamb 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. The curse fell on him, as it is written, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." No mother's pangs, when she brought forth a man-child, were such as those of Christ when he brought forth the new creation. 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. 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. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. O anxious one, it can turn you! (Revelation 21:1) Th _aor. Ay!"] I will pray, "Lord, make my children new." And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah Oh, I trust you may. 2 And I saw the remember when you first saw it. INTRODUCTORY WORDS And he said unto me, It is done. 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." The Lord give us eyes to see it. 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. 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. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. It is coming. 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. With this verse begins the closing passage of the book of God: the revelation of the things beyond the end. observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the 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. The Holy Spirit, though the old nature is still there, has been pleased to put within them a new nature. We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." beholds, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY. We have the first-fruits of the Spirit, and we groan within ourselves while we wait for the fullness of that new creation. By making new men he makes a new society, which society he calls his "Church". 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! "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." THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. A new and higher motive sways us now; for we seek not self but God. This renewing work has been in our Lord's hands from of old. But equal if not greater glory must be ascribed to the great Regenerator, the New Creator, shall we not all sing together to his praise? The book of Revelation closes with solemn appeals of the Lord Jesus to men in general and to the believers especially. [A loud voice, "Ay! Revelation 21:1-27. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be They that are full of the joy of the Lord never find life grow weary. The mountains and the hills break forth before us into singing, and we cannot be dumb. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. What an alteration in Ellen!" If Jesus has not made us new already, let the new year cause us to think about the great and needful change of conversion; and if our Lord has begun to make us new, and we have somewhat entered into the new world wherein dwelleth righteousness, let us be persuaded by the season to press forward into the center of his new creation, that we may feel to the full all the power of his grace. I. Revelation 21:8 Sermons: But for the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." Bible > Revelation > Chapter 21 > Verse 8 Library Free Downloads eBibles Revelation 21:8 first earth are pass Strauss-' Comments 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. I rejoice in the fact that we are no longer bond-slaves but sons. You will not be at all tired of your godly work, but love it better than ever. You must see him bound, scourged, spat upon, led to the accursed tree. Now St. THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION The Lord who makes all things new can hear your prayers. Behold him! We have seen men become new husbands, and women become new wives. 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! Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. If you leave the fountain foul the streams cannot be pure. Let us gaze upon THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION. MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8 XXI. Revelation Revelation He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The ab. Used by Permission. 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. 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. earth were passed away (Revelation 21:1); That was all I was able to say just then. It will seem to be a dead lift to you; but it is within the power of that pierced hand to lift you right out of doubt, and fear, and despondency, and spiritual lethargy, and weakness, and just to make you now, from this day forward, "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." 4, 5. Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 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. In addition to the new covenant, Christ has been pleased to make us new men. We hope that this newborn year will not be worse than its predecessor, and we pray that it may be a great deal better. _ (G3708) , He has come to make the world new. Why should he call upon us to behold 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. 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. ", 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. Kansas City, Missouri 64118, 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. And unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers. 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. It finds blight where once it sought for bliss, and finds bliss where once it found nothing but bitterness. 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. And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! t _TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ How ingeniously they bring him in! See Matthew 9:17. It is written, "By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities"; and this scripture is fulfilled in all those who believe in the Lord Jesus unto eternal life. It is most glorious to God and safe to you: do not neglect so great salvation. He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. The life that we live in the flesh is no longer according to the lusts of the world, but we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. 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. You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. _ (G565) 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.