The old nature needed to be awed with threatenings, or bribed with rewards; the new nature feels the impulse of love. A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. Renewal must begin with the heart. It's good news for the sky above and the Earth below. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. 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. Oh! While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. "Lord, make thy poor, spiritually sick child to be strong in spiritual health." 16, 17. I hear how these people of God cry 'Hallelujah!' wanting REVELATIONNOTE ON REVELATION 21:1 The destruction of death will [A loud voice, "Ay! Our path to eternal glory is the road of faith, "The just shall live by faith." The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. 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. "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." he 1-8 The new heaven and the new earth will not be separate from each Revelation 21:15. The house of God, how different it is from what it used to be! My business is a thorny maze. Getting near to Christ, you will partake in his joy, and that joy shall be your strength, your freshness, the newness of your life. He had come to make the world new, and to do this he has brought with him what? - 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. THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION We will. 3. 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. Revelation 22 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. NEW. Revelation Why should he not make thee new? "Behold, I make all things new," says Jesus, and then he makes his people into sons. Lord, give us pardon for the past, And strength for days to come.". The Lord answer our prayer now, for Jesus' sake, for we seek the salvation of every hearer and every reader of this sermon. Revelation 21:5. THE NEW JERUSALEM Now, you that feel that you must cry aloud for joy, join with me and cry "Hallelujah" [A great number of voices cried, "Hallelujah!"] I do not know that I admire brethren for calling out in the service as our friends did just now; but I certainly do not blame them. And here is our strength for rising to a nobler state of mind, "Behold I make all things new." And he said unto me, It is done. II. Behold him! How ingeniously they bring him in! WE shall take these words as referring to heaven. 2 Oh that they could get up to the high mountains, and be strong! The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. Text Revelation 21:1-27 You shall be: blessed be God. We used to think it a brave gay world that showed us real happiness, but we are no longer deceived, we have seen Madame Bubble's painted face in its true deformity. It rejoices in hopes which once seemed idle as dreams. I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. Read full chapter. Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Till We Meet Again "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. When there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, and the Church shall be in her new and glorified condition, then there will be no need for all those purifying forces which have been so active here below. You must see him bound, scourged, spat upon, led to the accursed tree. "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love.". Why, it is because we get away from him who says, "Behold, I make all things new." Why, now we love the very things we once despised, and our heart flies as with wings after that which once it detested. and a new earth, and the earth had _ 1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and Genesis 1:1; _Revelation 21:1_ We have no desire for any present payment, for our Father says to us, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine"; and, moreover, we have the inheritance in reversion, entailed by the covenant. He is a man dressed in the common garments of the poor! Listen! He can make that prayer-meeting no longer a dreary affair, but quite a new thing to you and all the people. See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. Revelation 21:10. The Athenians, who spent their time in telling and hearing some new thing, were by no means singular persons: novelty still fascinates the crowd. "In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies"? 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. "I make all things." We are not what we shall be, but assuredly we are not what we used to be. This is where we were found, broken in pieces, sore wounded, and even slain by the tremendous fall which destroyed both our Paradise and ourselves. We are both wrong. resurrection. 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. Well, now, dear friends, why do you and I ever get stale and flat? And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. act. 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. The Lord can so change us that we shall scarcely know ourselves: I mean he can thus change you who now despair of yourselves. 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. 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.' 8:2; _WONDERFUL FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD REVELATION 21:1-7:_ God's faithful 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 city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs. MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH "Behold, I make all things." They are the same persons, and yet not the same. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. "Why?" _God dwells with men; the happy state of his followers_, 3-7. Revelation 21:2. 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. what a blessed world it would have been! Ver. THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8 XXI. The New Heaven and Earth. The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and Thus we fell into condemnation through another, and we rise into justification through another. Oh, it is wonderful how different a thing becomes when it is taken to God. Truly, truly, this seems to me to be a glorious purpose. 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. And I saw Leaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Revelation 20:11. Revelation 21:2. "Immortal joys come streaming down, Joys, like his griefs, immense, unknown;". 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." 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. , DISCOURSE: 2529 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. In addition to the new covenant, Christ has been pleased to make us new men. I am not going to say which is first, the new birth, or faith, or repentance. 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. 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. "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." I knew it came from an aching heart. 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. If our calendar suggests some dismal memories in the past, our calculation forestalls some happier prospects in the future. last time, and we behold the new universe. "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." 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. Revelation 21:1 Another hand grasps the tiller and steers our ship in a new course. At any rate, it is new, and we are encouraged to couple with it the idea of happiness, as we say one to another, "I wish you a happy New Year. "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." Royal Homage 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. That was all I was able to say just then. 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. 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! New hopes are in us, bright and sure, such as we did not even desire to know when we lived a mere carnal life. Who is the great I? "Behold, I make all things new." I should be very much surprised if some of you that come here, time after time, are not converted. changes in their appearance, that they seemed to be just created CHAPTER 21 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 why, my dear brother?" There is a hand that can give you a gravitation in the opposite direction. If a man walks about in it with his eyes open, he will see it to be a horrible sphere. He makes all things new." BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW There has also been wrought in us by the work of the Holy Spirit a new life, with all the new feelings, and new desires, and new works which go therewith. Oh that you may not be left to wander with Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman! You recollect how it was made at first pure and perfect. 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.. From the moment that we trusted in Jesus, a new life darted into our spirit. the first earth had passed away. 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. 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. And if we might be permitted to dream for a moment of what it would have been if it had continued as God created it, one might fancy what a blessed world it would be at this moment. "Behold I make all things new" is a mysterious voice from the broken heart of a dying Saviour. _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._. In us also may men behold the marvels of thy renewing love. It finds blight where once it sought for bliss, and finds bliss where once it found nothing but bitterness. It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy. THE FINAL REGENERATION. see what we have done." observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the 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." They have a new nature. We will not entertain any more doubt about Christ's power to save. But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no When we are made sons do we work for wages? 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. But now, in the text there is AN EARNEST CALL for us to consider this work of our Lord. A new and higher motive sways us now; for we seek not self but God. chronological course of the prophecy. And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! But there came a serpent, and his craft spoiled it all. 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. I feel this within me: do not you? first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. We cannot demand the servile wage because we have already all that our Father possesses. I pray God to bless these feeble words of mine for the helping of some of his chosen out of the darkness of their fears. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. 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." 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. In praise we will vie with angels and archangels, for they are not so indebted to grace as we are. 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. It loves what once it hated; it hates what once it loved. 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. His saints are "new creatures in Christ Jesus." Courage, my brethren and sisters. He has come to make the world new. Revelation 21:24. 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. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. 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." And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. Oh, I trust you may. Revelation 21:1-27. John in Vision is led to see the New Jerusalem. known as the Book of beginnings. Oh you who are now children, you were servants a little while ago! earth were passed away (Revelation 21:1); 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. REVELATION CHAPTER 21 REVELATION 21:1 A new heaven and a new earth. What an alteration in Ellen!" This is the second death." O anxious one, it can turn you! Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. Our wretched, formal prayers, if we did offer them what a mockery they were! And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
