remember when you first saw it. See the Saviour then, in groans and pangs which cannot be described, bearing the curse of God, for he made him to be sin for us, though he knew no sin. - 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; but for the fearful, etc.The construction is changed in the middle of the verse. 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. 2 And I saw the ]. Peter 3:7. Furthermore, you will say to me, "I desire to lead a new life." Thus we fell into condemnation through another, and we rise into justification through another. Lit., as Rev., the sea is no more. Stand and look at it! New desires are felt to which we were strangers in our former state. 1. but the second has still to be unfolded. He is a man dressed in the common garments of the poor! And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." Whatsoever the Lord doeth is full of wisdom, and the wise will search into it. That is the death that never dies, the death which is far more to be dreaded than the death of the body. He will never drive us from his house. at what Christ has done for them. iv. a spiritual existence. He makes all things new." I am going to talk to-night for a little upon the great transformation spoken of in the text, "I make all things new;" and then upon the earnest call in the text to consider that transformation: "He that sat upon the throne said, 'Behold': attend, consider, look to it!" I earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is of the angel. THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION (wpe), The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies With Him. the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 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 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. 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. Let us be new-created with the "all things." first heaven and first earth was passed away: being changed, not as to Happy discovery for us; it was the kindling of new life in us. 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. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Our wretched, formal prayers, if we did offer them what a mockery they were! Never has our great Father disowned one of his sons. Revelation 21:14. Revelation 21:4. Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS ver . holy c And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the The newness which Jesus brings is bright, clear, heavenly, enduring. By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. . There is enough of light in your soul for you to know that you are in darkness; and you are saying to yourself, "Oh, that I could reach to better things! Are we to be praying for you, and you not praying for yourselves? This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. How it can turn us! We have sailed into the year of grace 1885; therefore, let us keep a feast unto the Lord. You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. REVELATION It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not 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. We love to be found within its walls, and we feel delighted to join in the praises of the Lord. The sea now cannot rest nor be quiet, but all shall be calm and tranquil in the new heaven and the new earth. Revelation 21 Commentary - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible "Why!" All these. Revelation 21:24. Revelation 21:1. 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. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. 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. 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. 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Rev 66:22. They are the same persons, and yet not the same. Revelation 21:8New International Version. 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. It is only in imagination that there is any close of one year and beginning of another; and yet it has most fitly all the force of a great fact. It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. He can make that next sermon of yours, my dear brother minister, quite new and interesting. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." The fearful are those who, through cowardice, have not overcome (cf. Revelation 21:1. 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. 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? 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. It is coming. As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.. act. is to be _set free from its slavery to decay_ (Romans 8:21). NO MORE SEA He beholds Christ upon What a transformation grace makes in all things within our little world! Alas, your service has been no service, but a rebellion; and if you get no more wages than you deserve you will be cast away for ever. INTRODUCTORY WORDS But what changes will have to be wrought in us before we are fit to be put among these precious jewels! A has Verse 8. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). How pleased we are with that which is new! Toward a glorious state of the church, not in the times of the apostles, or 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." I have had a weary time of late. It is A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH that the Seer Sometimes all this worry is mere discontent; and when the child of God gets right himself these imaginary troubles vanish like the mist of the morning; but when they are real troubles, God can as easily change your condition, dear child of God, as he can turn his hand. O dear hearts, there is no absolute necessity that you should always go downward in evil till you descend to hell. And there was no more sea. Thus far I have said that the object of Christ was to make a new world, and he began by making a new covenant. 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. last time, and we behold the new universe. 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. And now the eternal state comes into view. Also there was no more sea._ first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ radically changed. 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. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. The holy city appears. 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 And that blessed Spirit of God is here tonight. There are children of God who need this text, "Behold, I make all things new," whose sigh is that they so soon grow dull and weary in the ways of God, and therefore they need daily renewing. By the new heaven and the new earth here, all understand. ALL THINGS NEW: NEW HEAVENS; NEW EARTH; Everything seems to have gone wrong with me. This new principle is, from day to day, gathering strength, and winning the victory. 7. 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? We have not, and, therefore, we must leave it, but may you and I have a part in this new creation! I should be very much surprised if some of you that come here, time after time, are not converted. See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." 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. sea. Do you not agree with our prayers? and face of the church; but some apply it to the state of the church MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah Praise is our ever new delight; let us baptize the new year into a sea of it. Revelation 21:9. Gratitude is its mainspring: "We love him because he first loved us." I do not mean that its rivers, its lakes, its valleys, its mountains are repulsive. 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. You young people, as soon as ever you know the Lord, I exhort you to study well that word "covenant." _The new heaven and the new earth_, 1. For this reason the gospel sets before us another way, and says, "It is of faith, that it might be by grace." A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH 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. I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first They shall not hunger nor , The Followers of the Lamb THE HOLY CITY Yes, like a priceless square casket made all of costly jewels is this wondrous city, equally glorious whichever way you look at it: The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.. JOHN was the beloved disciple, the choicest spirit of the twelve, the , Heaven Above, and Heaven Below 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. Revelation 21:1. heavenly. _IAN MACKERVOY_ Added to Bible Bulletin Board's "Spurgeon Collection" by: Tony Capoccia Bible Bulletin Board Box 119 Columbus, New Jersey, USA, 08022 Our websites: and Email: Online since 1986, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. but, brethren and sisters, we do not know; since the Lord saved us, there cannot be any limits as to what he can do. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. But Jesus Christ, who knew that we should never make this world much better, let us do what we would with it, designed from the very first to make a new world of it. Now the veil lifts for the last time, and we behold the new universe. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. Nobody can tell which spoke of a wheel moves first; it moves as a whole. New fears are mighty within us, holy fears which once we should have ridiculed. No mother's pangs, when she brought forth a man-child, were such as those of Christ when he brought forth the new creation. We are at this moment specially ready for a new year. He can cause your business to prosper; or, if he does not do that, he can strengthen your back to bear the burden of your daily cross. THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Revelation 21 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible He that sitteth on the throne saith, "Behold, I make all things new." Bible Gateway passage: Revelation 21:8 - King James Version New - in the sense of being Oh, it is wonderful how different a thing becomes when it is taken to God. Revelation 21:6. He has given us himself and his all-sufficiency for our everlasting portion; what more can we desire? We were like Ezekiel's deserted infant unswaddled and unwashed, left in our pollution to die; but the Son of God passed by and saw us in the greatness of our ruin. trees, etc., since, as McCord notes, we will have spiritual bodies for 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.". And sorcerers, Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort, Revelation 21:8. _The wretched state of the ungodly_, 8. Shut gates signify war; open gates mean peace. THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 This is the world of weeping, but it passes away. _An angel shows J AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - Such a heaven and earth that 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. Such gold as never was, nor is, nor ever shall be on this earth until that time when God shall have purified it. He whispered into the ears of a mother Eve; she fell, and we fell with her, and what a world this now is! "I make all things new," begins with the bringing in of a better hope by virtue of a better covenant. We are both wrong. John in Vision is led to see the New Jerusalem. 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. Revelation 21 - Sermon Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org Did not the morning stars sing together for joy when he made the world? Kansas City, Missouri 64118, 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Lord's Presence, the God has breathed into them a new life. I labored to win heaven by self-righteousness, and this is as real a rebellion as open sin. kingdom __ . Numbers of Christians seem to live in the marshes always. 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. Heaven is God's dwelling place. Let us have a little indulgence to-night. new state Revelation 21:10. What a blessing it is for you and for me that Jesus has made all things new in that respect! This is the second death.". "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." Amen. THE SEVENTH VISION: OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. The straight way to a perpetual newness and freshness of holy youth is to go to Christ again, just as we did at the first. CHAPTER 21 See on Matthew 26:29. I thank God for keeping me near himself; but I am as weak, and stale, and unprofitable as any of you. In us also may men behold the marvels of thy renewing love. "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." We are not what we were: we are new, and have begun a new career. We are crossing the line now. His saints are "new creatures in Christ Jesus." 16, 17. There is a hand that can give you a gravitation in the opposite direction. 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. BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW Peter tells us 2 Peter 3:13; Daniel 7:3; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 57:20; Isaiah 65:17; New [ ]. "Behold, I make all things." And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and They have a new nature. "Behold," says Christ I do like that word "Behold it! By making new men he makes a new society, which society he calls his "Church". It rejoices in hopes which once seemed idle as dreams. You will break your resolutions, and be nothing bettered by your attempts at reform. The Lord answer our prayer now, for Jesus' sake, for we seek the salvation of every hearer and every reader of this sermon. You have grievous trouble because you hear the dearest that you have blaspheming the God you love. Come and lay yourself down at his feet, and ask him to make you new; I beseech you, do this at once! he now observes the resultant order. 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. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. 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 usual introduction to a new vision (cf. The title: Revelation 21:1 _a b_ = Revelation 20:11 _c_. It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy. The Lord who makes all things new can hear your prayers. It was a fair world, full of everything that was lovely, beautiful, happy, holy. NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love.". Text Revelation 21:1-27 And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a Revelation 22 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. The mountains and the hills break forth before us into singing, and we cannot be dumb. O anxious one, it can turn you! 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. 1. We will give him no rest until he hears us. Revelation 21:8King James Version. Then another with great tenderness prayed for his children. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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. I love thee, O my Saviour, because on the cross thou didst bear shame, and spitting, and manifold disgrace for me. THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. I cannot doubt of the possibility of your salvation, my dear friend, whenever I think of my own. They are new men, "begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 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. Revelation 21:17. Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. Probably John did not expect to hear that sweet gospel message just then. Oh that you may not be left to wander with Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman! away. He has no soldiery, no book of laws, no new philosophy. It leaps at the sound which was once dull to its ears the name of a precious Christ. (Isaiah 65:17 ). You shall pray, "Lord, make my wife new." 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. Blessed be his name. I liked what a brother said at the church-meeting on Monday night, when his brother was introduced to the church. Amen. Revelation xxii. He said, "I should have been very much surprised if he had not been." Revelation 21:22. 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. known as the Book of beginnings. t _TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ He hath no form nor comeliness, and when you shall see him there is no beauty in him that you should desire him. 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. 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. 4, 5. Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:11, in a succession. 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. Listen, "Behold, I make." And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. Hence we read of being "justified by faith," and being made acceptable to God by faith. Read full chapter. I hear how these people of God cry 'Hallelujah!' Amen. What a prospect does all this open up to the believer! "I make all things new." Our zeal for God ought to be as fresh as if we had just begun to delight in him. I feel this within me: do not you? Why should we not lift up our voices in his praise? You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. Revelation 21 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary - BibliaPlus It finds blight where once it sought for bliss, and finds bliss where once it found nothing but bitterness. O Lord, we would rejoice and be glad for ever in that which thou dost create. It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: on the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 22). I suppose the best of men must do so at times. . We repent because we believe, and believe while we repent. When they commence an epistle the , Commendation for the Steadfast they might properly be called new; such transformations, and such Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. You say to him, "There are your wages: go." What do you yourself do with a bad servant? New principles stir the new nature which God has given. It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." "In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies"? 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! (1) AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN The hope of CHAPTER XVII. The house of God, how different it is from what it used to be! _God dwells with men; the happy state of his followers_, 3-7. I forget a great many of you who are saved; but I always pray for them. Oh! If our calendar suggests some dismal memories in the past, our calculation forestalls some happier prospects in the future. Revelation 21:8 in all English translations. 20:11, etc.). Revelation 21:8 Sermons: But for the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable Every healthy boy and girl in many countries loves the ocean. Why, himself. Oh, I am sure that if we kept up perpetual communion with him, we should keep up a perpetual stream of delights. I dread this year. 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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