It is a dreadful world. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. We love to be found within its walls, and we feel delighted to join in the praises of the Lord. 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! Child as I was, and under holy restraint as I was, so as to be kept from gross outward sin, I had a powerful inner nature which would not brook control. THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 "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." Oh that you may not be left to wander with Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman! Well, now, dear friends, why do you and I ever get stale and flat? The Lord give us eyes to see it. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the The Lord who makes all things new can hear your prayers. people do not die without hope. What law could not do, grace has accomplished. What a prospect does all this open up to the believer! Genesis and Revelation contrasted. 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. heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more You may put it among the most golden sentences like a precious stone in a setting of pure gold, and it will never be out of order come when it may. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 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. Revelation 20:11. Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. "Behold, I make." beholds, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY. It was then and there that the world was born again. THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, 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. He has given us himself and his all-sufficiency for our everlasting portion; what more can we desire? _ (G3708) , I should be very much surprised if some of you that come here, time after time, are not converted. You, too, will be driven out of your religious profession and your period of probation, and where will you go? Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Newington. The moment the divine life comes into the heart we believe: the moment we believe the eternal life is there. friends in both places. It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not 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. 8 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. That is, all who love anyone or anything better than God. Since you feel this, I know you can say to-night that Jesus Christ, who sits on the throne, makes all things new. We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." January 1, 1885 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). The ancient prophecy shall be fulfilled to the letter. Getting near to Christ, you will partake in his joy, and that joy shall be your strength, your freshness, the newness of your life. Revelation Revelation He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Anything new has at least one attraction. 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." 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. With this verse begins the closing passage of the book of God: the What a range of creating power is here! a spiritual existence. "But why, my dear brother?" 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. We are bound to have you in the church confessing your faith in Jesus. BEHOLD AND TO BELIEVE. chronological course of the prophecy. What do you yourself do with a bad servant? Numbers of Christians seem to live in the marshes always. Some of you, my hearers, are servants now, and as servants I would bid you expect your wages. How many might see if it were not for the gold which blinds them, and hides the truth from them! Ver. to, as here, in . And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Dost thou not know, dear heart, that the Spirit of God has regenerated men and women quite as far gone as thou art? The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the "Ye must be born again." separation, nor part of the world not brought into an ordered earth Oh that they could get up to the high mountains, and be strong! 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. In praise we will vie with angels and archangels, for they are not so indebted to grace as we are. Revelation 21:8. Chapters Available - Revelation - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the "Why!" other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be 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. (Ah, there he sits.) It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. 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.
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