INTRODUCTORY WORDS The title: Revelation 21:1 _a b_ = Revelation 20:11 _c_. Read full chapter. 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. Renewal must begin with the heart. 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. There shall be no injustice towards the poor; there shall be no envying of the rich; there shall be no law to make men slaves; there shall be no power to oppress, because there shall be no will to do it. Stand and look at it! Revelation None but a Savior on the throne could accomplish it; and therefore let him have the glory of it. Verse 8. One weeps over the past and the lost. From the moment that we trusted in Jesus, a new life darted into our spirit. 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. "Behold I make all things new" is a mysterious voice from the broken heart of a dying Saviour. his Throne. 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? BEHOLD AND TO BELIEVE. iv. 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: 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. You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. First, if the Lord Jesus makes all things new, then a new birth is possible to you, dear friend, though you have come here to-night in a wrong state of heart, with your sins upon you, binding you fast. Every healthy boy and girl in many countries loves the ocean. lead to the renewal of the entire created order. Revelation 21:1. I earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. And I John saw the hol _REVELATION 21:1_. We are now come, in the course of these He beholds Christ upon (Isaiah 65:17 ). A brother said to me some time ago, "Dear sir, I frequently grow very sleepy in my walk with God. kingdom __ Nay, it is a world fit for angels, naturally; but it is a horrible world morally. Getting near to Christ, you will partake in his joy, and that joy shall be your strength, your freshness, the newness of your life. My family cause me great anxiety. They are new men, "begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." We are bound to have you in the church confessing your faith in Jesus. 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. The book of Revelation closes with solemn appeals of the Lord Jesus to men in general and to the believers especially. ALL THINGS NEW: NEW HEAVENS; NEW EARTH; Why, it is because we get away from him who says, "Behold, I make all things new." We dare not say that we have kept the ten commands from our youth up; on the contrary, we are compelled by our consciences to confess that in spirit and in heart, if not in act, we have continually broken the law of God; and we are therefore under sin and condemnation, and there is no hope for us by the works of the law. 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. Gratitude is its mainspring: "We love him because he first loved us." You have grievous trouble because you hear the dearest that you have blaspheming the God you love. 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. 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." He has come to make the world new. Revelation 22 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ You shall be: blessed be God. 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. But now we draw near to God and speak with our Father with delight. 20:13. What law could not do, grace has accomplished. We will never let you go, neither will we cease from our importunate prayers until we get an answer from the throne, and see you saved. He sees a new THE NEW JERUSALEM "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." It loves what once it hated; it hates what once it loved. It seems at first to be astounding that the height of a city should be equal to the length and the breadth of it; but if you have traveled in Italy, you must have seen many a city, perched upon a hill, which seemed to be even higher than it was broad or long, if you included the wall of the city, and the houses one above another right up to the loftiest minaret or tower. 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. 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.". 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. Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White When he saith, "Let there be light," darkness saith, "There shall not be light." Well, now, dear friends, why do you and I ever get stale and flat? t _TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ January 1, 1885 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). But I have to bid you, "Lay your deadly doing down, down at Jesus' feet; Stand in him, in him alone, gloriously complete.". . 2 With no bit or bridle, but with a blessed suavity of tenderness, it turns us according to its pleasure. And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. Truly, truly, this seems to me to be a glorious purpose. MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. Revelation 21:3. This our Lord Jesus Christ has done upon the greatest scale. old condition of things has passed away: cp. This is the second death." What a transformation grace makes in all things within our little world! In 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. resurrection. By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. Revelation 20:11. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. He shall be my son, not my servant, but my son. God give us the faith to rise to this more than royal dignity! All these. 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! For this reason the gospel sets before us another way, and says, "It is of faith, that it might be by grace." We have not, and, therefore, we must leave it, but may you and I have a part in this new creation! 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy. Why, now we love the very things we once despised, and our heart flies as with wings after that which once it detested. It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. "Behold, I make all things new." C.H. In fact, I dread everything." Here is a vision of the new creation. And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. You CHAPTER 21 But what changes will have to be wrought in us before we are fit to be put among these precious jewels! 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. Thus far I have said that the object of Christ was to make a new world, and he began by making a new covenant. Oh! Revelation 21:1 . The foundation being made new, the Lord Jesus Christ has set before us a new way of life, which grows out of that covenant. Listen, "Behold, I make." Why, himself. 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. which passed away at the general judgment, ch. Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort. We are crossing the line now. I am persuaded that the most of us are beggars when we might be millionaires in spiritual things. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. 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. And the apostle John tells us that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. We ought never to forget this bottom of everything, this making of all things new by the fashioning of a new covenant, so that we have come out from under the bondage of the law and the ruin of the fall, and we have entered upon the liberty of Christ, into acceptance with God, and into the boundless joy of being saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, so that we "shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end."
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