What a transformation grace makes in all things within our little world! Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. He can make your harsh and ungodly husband to become gentle and gracious. 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. It is the purpose and intention of the Lord Jesus to make this world entirely new. 2 And I saw the Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. Revelation xxii. And sorcerers, Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort, 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. It is conscious now of living in a new element, breathing a fresh air, partaking of new food, drinking out of new wells not digged by men or filled from the earth. Revelation 21:8. We are not what we were: we are new, and have begun a new career. 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. "In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies"? THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Commentary on Revelation 21 by Matthew Henry - Blue Letter Bible See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. REVELATION 21:2 The new Jerusalem. I would that our fleece might now be so wet as never to become dry throughout the whole year. ver . What a blessing it is for you and for me that Jesus has made all things new in that respect! 20:11, etc.). the first earth had passed away. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8 XXI. Chap. You shall be: blessed be God. 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. glorious state of the church, not in the times of the apostles, or CHAPTER 21 1. WE shall take these words as referring to heaven. 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 last year had become wheezy, croaking, and decrepit, in its old age; and we lay it asleep with a psalm of judgment and mercy. Jerusalem, temple, light, Paradise (Chap. CONTENTS "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 regeneration of his people, their new birth, is a foretaste of what is yet to happen to this whole world of ours. 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." 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! With no bit or bridle, but with a blessed suavity of tenderness, it turns us according to its pleasure. Revelation 21:8 | GOOD NEWS for Everyone! It is coming. We hope that this newborn year will not be worse than its predecessor, and we pray that it may be a great deal better. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. Revelation xiv. Revelation 21:8 Sermons: But for the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Revelation 21:1. observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB 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! 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! 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. This is the world of weeping, but it passes away. Verse 8. In fact, I dread everything." Thus far I have said that the object of Christ was to make a new world, and he began by making a new covenant. Revelation 21:8. Can he do the same for me?" SECTION 69 There was no more sea [ Nay, it is a world fit for angels, naturally; but it is a horrible world morally. You godly wives, who have ungodly husbands, you shall pray, "Lord, make our husbands new." , , . 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. We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. He has no soldiery, no book of laws, no new philosophy. He can stay the tide of your raging passion; he can make you, who were like a devil, become as an angel of God; for thus he speaks from the throne of his eternal majesty, "Behold, I make all things new." But what changes will have to be wrought in us before we are fit to be put among these precious jewels! 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. Revelation 21 - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Bible The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. 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.". Yes, that we shall if we are numbered among the all things that he makes new. it is a horrible world, appalling to think of. Renewal must begin with the heart. Revelation Many Christians are of the sickly-valley breed. "Lord, make thy poor, spiritually sick child to be strong in spiritual health." Kansas City, Missouri 64118, 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. It is coming. The apostle Peter has told us that this world also will be destroyed by fire, but it will afterwards be renewed, and a new sky and a new earth will appear after the first firmament and the first earth shall have become extinct. 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 Another application of this truth will be this: "Oh," says one, "I do not know what to make of myself. And the apostle John tells us that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 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." 21. Revelation 22 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. God grant us to drink of the eternal founts, that we may for ever overflow. Revelation 21:8. Revelation 21:26. I forget a great many of you who are saved; but I always pray for them. THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. January 1, 1885 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 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. In the things of God the old is ever new, and if any man brings forward that which seems to be new doctrine and new truth, it is soon perceived that the new dogma is only worn-out heresy dexterously repaired, and the discovery in theology is the digging up of a carcass of error which had better have been left to rot in oblivion. 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.. Another hand grasps the tiller and steers our ship in a new course. A has This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Revelation 21:7-8. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Revelation 21:15. How pleased we are with that which is new! MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. t _TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a Why should he not make thee new? And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. What a change in our joys! Nothing stands outside of that all-surrounding circle. The former troubles are forgotten, and are hid from our eyes because of thine ancient promise, "Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." NEW JERUSALEM (Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:5). Can I not do the same again? And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. He can make that prayer-meeting no longer a dreary affair, but quite a new thing to you and all the people. But now we draw near to God and speak with our Father with delight. What a prospect does all this open up to the believer! Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. "A servant abideth not in the house for ever." Oh for a bedewing of the Holy Spirit while entering upon this theme! You know that the stones of which this holy city is built are living stones. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more You will not be at all tired of your godly work, but love it better than ever. You say to him, "There are your wages: go." All these. It sang with its sister-spheres the song of joy and reverence. 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. it was there that the new world was born! From the empty tomb, as he rises, I hear it come in silvery notes, "Behold I make all things new." Behold I make all things new." THE HEAVENLY GLORY And this new nature is conscious of new emotions. When God spake and said, "Let there be light," it was a fiat which showed him to be divine. This is the second death.". Yes, we shall come to this if we are believers. Genesis 1:1; _Revelation 21:1_ 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.' 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. I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. Bible Gateway passage: Revelation 21:8 - King James Version 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. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. We have seen many transformed into new parents and new children. heavenly. . III. [Several voices, "Amen."] Why, either you and I are turned upside down in nature, or the world is. 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. 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. NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH 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. There they are, perfect, and holy, and just, and good; but, alas, dear friends, you and I have broken the commandments. The ab. Amen. Revelation xxii. New fears are mighty within us, holy fears which once we should have ridiculed. 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. 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! 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." see what we have done." We love to be found within its walls, and we feel delighted to join in the praises of the Lord. A Description of the Holy City. Are we to be praying for you, and you not praying for yourselves? 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. [A loud voice, "Ay! "Behold, I make all things." SAW. Our future is glorious; let not our present be gloomy. What an alteration in Ellen!" He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 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. Revelation 21 - Sermon Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org This renewing work has been in our Lord's hands from of old. AND I SAW. Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White Hence we read of being "justified by faith," and being made acceptable to God by faith. 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! He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. Let every one who has left the paths of purity remember how the woman that was a sinner loved much, because much had been forgiven her. 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. Let us gaze upon THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION. 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. _An angel shows J AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - Such a heaven and earth that The moment the divine life comes into the heart we believe: the moment we believe the eternal life is there. Certain persons attend this Tabernacle I do not see them to-night but I can say of them that I never enter this pulpit without looking to their pews to see whether they are there, and breathing my heart to God for them. Hope springs up at the first sound of such words as these from the lips of our risen and reigning Lord: "Behold, I make all things new." Behold him! _ (G3708) , Who is the great I? When they commence an epistle the Revelation:22:21 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w (_a)_ THE DISTANT VIEW OF THE CITY. In "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." The title: Revelation 21:1 _a b_ = Revelation 20:11 _c_. Stand and look at it! 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. act. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' The sea that had prevented intimate 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." 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. He is certainly able to turn your captivity as he turns the sun when it has reached the southern tropic. My business is a thorny maze. How many might see if it were not for the gold which blinds them, and hides the truth from them! 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. Revelation 21:8 in all English translations. Bibliographical Information Spurgeon, Charle Haddon. And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! Whatsoever the Lord doeth is full of wisdom, and the wise will search into it. 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. 20:1 _c_ = Revelation 20:13 _a_. Not in vain did John write, "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. Never has our great Father disowned one of his sons. temper of the EXPOSITION A new and higher motive sways us now; for we seek not self but God. And I John saw the hol _REVELATION 21:1_. We are now come, in the course of these We are both wrong. 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. 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. This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day. INTRODUCTORY WORDS He sees a new A brother said to me some time ago, "Dear sir, I frequently grow very sleepy in my walk with God. It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 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.