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See Matthew 9:17. But there came a serpent, and his craft spoiled it all. 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. It finds blight where once it sought for bliss, and finds bliss where once it found nothing but bitterness. Do you not agree with our prayers? There were three thousand new creations in one day when Peter preached the gospel under the influence of the Holy Spirit. No mercenary motive now stirs the new creature: "My God, I love thee not because I hope for heaven thereby, Nor yet because who love thee not Must burn eternally.". 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. JOHN was the beloved disciple, the choicest spirit of the twelve, the , Heaven Above, and Heaven Below Read full chapter. Oh! We love to be found within its walls, and we feel delighted to join in the praises of the Lord. and face of the church; but some apply it to the state of the church For which I thought he was a wise man: but yet I do not wonder if men who have tasted of the grace of God, and feel that the Lord has done great things for them, whereof they are glad, do feel like crying out for joy. God has breathed into them a new life. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Oh, I trust you may. A brother said to me some time ago, "Dear sir, I frequently grow very sleepy in my walk with God. "I make all things new." REVELATION CHAPTER 21 REVELATION 21:1 A new heaven and a new earth. Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort. 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. SAW. He can make your harsh and ungodly husband to become gentle and gracious. Since you feel this, I know you can say to-night that Jesus Christ, who sits on the throne, makes all things new. Peter tells us 2 Peter 3:13; Daniel 7:3; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 57:20; Isaiah 65:17; New [ ]. Let us have a little indulgence to-night. That is the right sort of faith. 1. In the great matter of truth and godliness, we may safely say, "There is nothing new under the sun." 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. ALL THINGS NEW: NEW HEAVENS; NEW EARTH; Revelation 21 - Sermon Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org 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. not diffi, And I saw So it runs, Revelation 19:11, Revelation 20:1, There shall be no death, nor sorrow nor crying, nor pain, nor trial of any kind; all shall be happiness for all shall be holiness. "Ah, my dear brother," I said, "that is because you do not know much about me." Our love to Christ ought to be every minute as if it were new-born. 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. John in Vision is led to see the New Jerusalem. We are both wrong. They Sang a New Song: Charles Spurgeon's Reflections on Rev. 5 - Blog It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. WE shall take these words as referring to heaven. Why should he call upon us to behold it? 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Behold I make all things new." He sees a new Renewal must begin with the heart. 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. You kept thinking about it, and Revelation 21:1. Amen. 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. We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. I wanted to shout badly on Sunday morning; but as everybody else was quiet, I held my tongue." You Why, himself. II. You must see him bound, scourged, spat upon, led to the accursed tree. 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. He hath no form nor comeliness, and when you shall see him there is no beauty in him that you should desire him. said I. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH In us also may men behold the marvels of thy renewing love. Turning to our second point, I want you to: He says, "Behold I make all things new." Revelation 22 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible 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. 16, 17. Revelation 21:1 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. But when the Lord himself sets up a light, and calls us to pause, and look, we cannot help beholding. We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." Toward a In fact, I dread everything." THERE are a great many things we should like to know about heaven. I said. Revelation 22 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. and all their followers; yea, and of all who resemble them in the Once, the Lord might have said, Behold, I make all things; but now he says, Behold, I make all things new. Glory be unto the great Creator! And all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. This is the clue of many a maze, the open sesame of many a mystery. That is a divine word. Sermons by Spurgeon - Bible Hub The apostle Peter has told us that this w. New fears are mighty within us, holy fears which once we should have ridiculed. We are at this moment specially ready for a new year. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a There was no more sea [ Behold him! 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! If you leave the fountain foul the streams cannot be pure. Yes, we shall come to this if we are believers. Some of you have heart-breakers at home: the Lord break their hearts. Revelation 21:19. How ingeniously they bring him in! It was there in the travail of his soul did you ever catch that idea, the travail of his soul? When they commence an epistle the , Commendation for the Steadfast "Behold, I make all things new." The greater the sinner, the greater the joy to loving believers when they see him saved. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. The Real New World Order Heaven is God's dwelling place. Dost thou not know, dear heart, that the Spirit of God has regenerated men and women quite as far gone as thou art? first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. I wish we had more time to enter fully into this part of the subject. Yes, and the glorified Church herself, because of this light, sheds such a bright light on all within her that all the saints rejoice in her light. Revelation 21:1 I should be very much surprised if some of you that come here, time after time, are not converted. away. I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, &C. _A new heaven and a new Not Peter only, but the whole of the twelve apostles shall have their names in the foundations of that holy city. Revelation 21 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible The ancient prophecy shall be fulfilled to the letter. He that sitteth on the throne saith, "Behold, I make all things new." 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. 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. REVELATION NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH Revelation 21:10. The wilderness of destruction lies before you. Commentary on Revelation 21 by Matthew Henry - Blue Letter Bible chronological course of the prophecy. He had come to make the world new, and to do this he has brought with him what? 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. 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.. 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! 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. Ver. When they commence an epistle the Revelation:22:21 Revelation but, brethren and sisters, we do not know; since the Lord saved us, there cannot be any limits as to what he can do. But I have to bid you, "Lay your deadly doing down, down at Jesus' feet; Stand in him, in him alone, gloriously complete.". other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be This is the second death.". Nay, it is a world fit for angels, naturally; but it is a horrible world morally. When God looks at it, I wonder he does not stamp it out, just as you and I do a spark of coal that flies upon our carpet from the fire. This new nature is moved by new principles. 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. My family cause me great anxiety. 2 This renewing work has been in our Lord's hands from of old. Those who are participants in that covenant cannot invalidate it, for it never did depend upon them, but only upon him who was and is their federal head and representative before God. Numbers of Christians seem to live in the marshes always. The Lord who makes all things new can hear your prayers. Oh that they could get up to the high mountains, and be strong! "Behold, I make all things new." We died in Adam as to spiritual life, and our death revealed itself in an inward tendency to evil which reigned in our members. There is a hand that can give you a gravitation in the opposite direction. _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. The fearful are those who, through cowardice, have not overcome (cf. It rejoices in hopes which once seemed idle as dreams. Friends have said in wonder, "What a change in John! 4 Those who have suffered death for their loyalty during the great 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. I would that our fleece might now be so wet as never to become dry throughout the whole year. 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. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. Ask those that have had to live with converted people whether the transformation has not been marvellous. Revelation 20:11. That near and dear relationship which is manifested in adoption and regeneration, binds the child of God to the great Father's heart in such a way that he will never cast him off, nor suffer him to perish. HEAVEN, &C. See Isaiah 51:16 (plant, &c); Rev 65:17. The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. He beholds Christ upon Read full chapter. iv. It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. But what changes will have to be wrought in us before we are fit to be put among these precious jewels! Observe the text speaks of: "I make." 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. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. What an alteration in Ellen!" 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. What a change in our joys! Revelation 21:8King James Version. I strove hard and kicked against the pricks. Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? Can I not do the same again? Revelation 21:8. This might naturally be understood as in Revelation Oh you who are now children, you were servants a little while ago! Revelation 21:1. Revelation 21:26. Then another with great tenderness prayed for his children. BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW We must view his purpose. 10. Who but the eternal Son of God? (1) AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN The hope of CHAPTER XVII. The man is new new in principles, and new in emotions. _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. See on Matthew 26:29. 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." It is A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH that the Seer And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and _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._. 7. In our heart there is a new heaven and a new earth. Revelation 21 Commentary - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible And I John saw the hol _REVELATION 21:1_. We are now come, in the course of these And yet, for all that, Jesus Christ, coming in the form of a man, revealing himself as the Son of God, determines to make all things new; and be assured, brethren and sisters, he will do it. 20:1 _c_ = Revelation 20:13 _a_. Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. 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. Probably John did not expect to hear that sweet gospel message just then. Revelation 21:8 NIV - But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the - Bible And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. Revelation xxii. But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no The ab. Revelation 21:5 . He saith, and he performs the saying, "Behold, I make all things new." the first earth had passed away. Revelation 21:1. holy c And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ WHATEVER the saints are , "The Marriage of the Lamb" That is the death that never dies, the death which is far more to be dreaded than the death of the body. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. 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. This our Lord Jesus Christ has done upon the greatest scale. Revelation 8 - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Bible I cannot doubt of the possibility of your salvation, my dear friend, whenever I think of my own. 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. The Lord can work a radical change in you. 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. Chap. 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. You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. We are bound to have you in the church confessing your faith in Jesus. Here is a vision of the new creation. The newness which Jesus brings is bright, clear, heavenly, enduring. Yes, that we shall if we are numbered among the all things that he makes new. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." 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. A more determined, obstinate rebel than I could scarce have been. When we are made sons do we work for wages? I know I am not only and solely what I was by my first birth; I feel within myself another life a second and a higher vitality which has often to contend with my lower self, and by that very contention makes me conscious of its existence. Tears Shall Cease - January 28, 2023 - Devotional by Charles Spurgeon We will give him no rest until he hears us. His saints are "new creatures in Christ Jesus." The holy city appears. Revelation 21 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary - BibliaPlus Revelation 20. We hope that this newborn year will not be worse than its predecessor, and we pray that it may be a great deal better. Who is the great I? 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? Thus we fell into condemnation through another, and we rise into justification through another. And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. Now, you that feel that you must cry aloud for joy, join with me and cry "Hallelujah" [A great number of voices cried, "Hallelujah!"] If our calendar suggests some dismal memories in the past, our calculation forestalls some happier prospects in the future. 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 From the empty tomb, as he rises, I hear it come in silvery notes, "Behold I make all things new." Why, upon cutting each other's throats, upon tearing out each other's bleeding hearts, and wading up to their knees in each other's gore, till the ditches be full of blood, horses and men all mingled, and left to be food for dogs and for carrion crows. I trust you will accept this most gracious and suitable way of salvation. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. What a splendor of almighty goodness shines out upon our souls! Revelation 21 - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Bible A. John now turns his attention in a new direction. I rejoice in the fact that we are no longer bond-slaves but sons. Revelation 21:2. Our wretched, formal prayers, if we did offer them what a mockery they were! I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 21:1. 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. 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. THE HEAVENLY GLORY heavenly. he replied, "if they were not they would all get up and shout 'Hallelujah' when you are preaching such a glorious gospel. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. The Athenians, who spent their time in telling and hearing some new thing, were by no means singular persons: novelty still fascinates the crowd. 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? It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. We are not what we shall be, but assuredly we are not what we used to be. We are crossing the line now. 22). Till We Meet Again "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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 God means that this planet should continue to exist after it has had a new creation, and renewed its youth. The sea now cannot rest nor be quiet, but all shall be calm and tranquil in the new heaven and the new earth. 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. 4, 5. Now the veil lifts for the last time, and we behold the new universe. 1. The words he speaks to us to-night are truly divine. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. That was all I was able to say just then. ", 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. And this new nature is conscious of new emotions. 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. Bible Text Commentaries by C. H. Spurgeon - Blue Letter Bible You godly wives, who have ungodly husbands, you shall pray, "Lord, make our husbands new." And that blessed Spirit of God is here tonight. To make a world is something wonderful, but to make a world new is something more wonderful still. 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. THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love.". 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.. You say to him, "There are your wages: go." "Behold I make all things new." What a prospect does all this open up to the believer! Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. 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. t _TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. And there was no more sea. I do not mean that its rivers, its lakes, its valleys, its mountains are repulsive. Compare Isaiah 65:17. Our gold is dull, opaque; light is blocked out by it. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. , 5001 North Oak Trafficway 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. Dogs would scarce tear each other as men do. Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and Listen! 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." Amen. Verse 8. Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. C.H. They are new men, "begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 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. "Because I asked the Lord to convert him, and I kept on praying that he might be converted; and I should have been very much surprised if he had not been." What law could not do, grace has accomplished. MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. The Holy Spirit, though the old nature is still there, has been pleased to put within them a new nature. "But why, my dear brother?" 'A New Creation' and 'Sermon for New Year's-Day', A Sermon Published on Thursday, July 15th, 1915. first earth are pass Strauss-' Comments act. Revelation 21:1. You, too, will be driven out of your religious profession and your period of probation, and where will you go? earth were passed away (Revelation 21:1); If you go through the valleys of Switzerland, you will find yourself get feverish and heavy in spirit, and you will see many idiots, persons with the goitre, and people greatly afflicted. It will be easier, a great deal, depend upon it, even for God to make you new, than to mend you; for the fact is that "the carnal mind is enmity against God," and is not reconciled to God, neither, indeed, can be; so that mending will not answer; you must be made anew. Stand and look at it! Now the veil lifts for the 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. Let every one that has been a great transgressor remember how Manasseh received a new heart, and repented of his evil deeds. I. 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. And they will be brought in, I feel assured; but, oh, that it may be this year! I. 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." Did not the morning stars sing together for joy when he made the world? These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. I say this with very great shame shame for myself, and shame for the brother who led me to make the confession.

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