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. Let us rejoice in this: "Thou art no more a servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." They have a new nature. 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! Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. If our calendar suggests some dismal memories in the past, our calculation forestalls some happier prospects in the future. , 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. Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. militant here upon earth, and others to the state of the church Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary, College Press Bible Study Textbook Series, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch, G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly, John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Leslie M. 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The Lord's Presence, the 21:23. 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. But, oh, the grace of God, how it can tame us! It is coming. See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. 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! In the great matter of truth and godliness, we may safely say, "There is nothing new under the sun." ", 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. 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. 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. changes in their appearance, that they seemed to be just created CHAPTER 21 "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:8New International Version. A Description of the Holy City. THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8 XXI. Some of you, my hearers, are servants now, and as servants I would bid you expect your wages. What though he pleases to take his time, and to use humble instrumentalities to effect his purposes, yet do it he will. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. Oh that you would yield on this first night of the year to him who can make new creatures of you. It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. See Matthew 9:17. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. "Lord, make thy poor, spiritually sick child to be strong in spiritual health." He that sitteth on the throne can do for you what you cannot do for yourself; and, as he made you once, and you became marred by sin, he can new make you; for he saith. THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB 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. The Athenians, who spent their time in telling and hearing some new thing, were by no means singular persons: novelty still fascinates the crowd. wanting REVELATIONNOTE ON REVELATION 21:1 The destruction of death will "He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new." 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. You shall be: blessed be God. Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and CHAPTER XXI 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH. They are new men, "begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." And there was no more sea. It leaps at the sound which was once dull to its ears the name of a precious Christ. He will never drive us from his house. This is commendable resolving, but what will come of it? It sang with its sister-spheres the song of joy and reverence. 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. Sorrow shalt cease, and tears shall be wiped away. The foundation being made new, the Lord Jesus Christ has set before us a new way of life, which grows out of that covenant. Commentary on Revelation 21 by Matthew Henry - Blue Letter Bible _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. He has come to make the world new. It isn't just good news for usit's good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. 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. 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. I am persuaded that the most of us are beggars when we might be millionaires in spiritual things. The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. 3. They Sang a New Song: Charles Spurgeon's Reflections on Rev. 5 - Blog 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. which passed away at the general judgment, ch. "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." What a transformation grace makes in all things within our little world! REV. 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. 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w (_a)_ THE DISTANT VIEW OF THE CITY. Revelation 21:3. ind. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. C.H. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. Revelation 21:2. "In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies"? 5, 6. The process which we have roughly described as taking place in ourselves is in other forms going on in the world. people do not die without hope. The Holy Spirit, though the old nature is still there, has been pleased to put within them a new nature. 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. Oh for a bedewing of the Holy Spirit while entering upon this theme! Revelation 21:1. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' Verse 8. Well, now, dear friends, why do you and I ever get stale and flat? Revelation 21:1. You know that they are Sabbath-breakers, and utterly godless, and you tremble for their eternal fate. Let every thief know that the dying thief entered heaven by faith in Jesus. Thus far I have said that the object of Christ was to make a new world, and he began by making a new covenant. 1. It is coming. How ingeniously they bring him in! "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." The man is new new in principles, and new in emotions. It is otherwise with Christ. The wilderness of destruction lies before you. I said. 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. I wish we had more time to enter fully into this part of the subject. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Everything seems to have gone wrong with me. Rather, by God's grace, may we henceforth believe more in him, and, according to our faith, so shall it be done unto us. You who have dear friends who lie upon your bosom, as you anxiously think of them, pray the Lord Jesus to make them new. There they are, perfect, and holy, and just, and good; but, alas, dear friends, you and I have broken the commandments. see what we have done." CHAPTER XXI. he replied, "if they were not they would all get up and shout 'Hallelujah' when you are preaching such a glorious gospel. 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. THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. Revelation 21:19. "Behold, I make all things new." Now the veil lifts for the Why, it is because we get away from him who says, "Behold, I make all things new." By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. 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." 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. The remaining two chapters describe the eternal and consummated See on Matthew 26:29. Revelation 21:10. 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." The mercy-seat, what a different place it is now! Revelation 21:1. "Behold, I make all things." The first heaven is passed Toward a 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. Revelation 20:11. With this verse begins the closing passage of the book of God: the revelation of the things beyond the end. CONTENTS Compare Isaiah 65:17. Our Lord Jesus Christ shall put a new heart into earth's kings, and then he shall come himself to take their thrones and their crowns, and to be himself our Universal King, and in his day shall the righteous flourish. A new and higher motive sways us now; for we seek not self but God. holy c And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the 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. It was there in the travail of his soul did you ever catch that idea, the travail of his soul? We hope that this newborn year will not be worse than its predecessor, and we pray that it may be a great deal better. Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. 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.