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THE FINAL REGENERATION. God means that this planet should continue to exist after it has had a new creation, and renewed its youth. 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. Till We Meet Again "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Can I not do the same again? last time, and we behold the new universe. Genesis 1:1; _Revelation 21:1_ And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Who but the eternal Son of God? 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." 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. John sees in a vision the blissful glory of FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME radically changed. I forget a great many of you who are saved; but I always pray for them. 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. By the new heaven and the new earth here, all understand. 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. BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW act. 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! And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first Let us be new-created with the "all things." We have seen men become new husbands, and women become new wives. After a few months a vigorous young Christian will begin to cool down; and those who have been long in the ways of God find that final perseverance must be a miracle if ever it is to be accomplished, for naturally they tire and faint. 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. is to be _set free from its slavery to decay_ (Romans 8:21). NO MORE SEA When they commence an epistle the , Commendation for the Steadfast He will never drive us from his house. . Another application of this truth will be this: "Oh," says one, "I do not know what to make of myself. Hence we read of being "justified by faith," and being made acceptable to God by faith. New hopes are in us, bright and sure, such as we did not even desire to know when we lived a mere carnal life. I wanted to shout badly on Sunday morning; but as everybody else was quiet, I held my tongue." He saith, and he performs the saying, "Behold, I make all things new." 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." and face of the church; but some apply it to the state of the church Revelation 21:1 The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. . And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.' But now, beloved, farther than this. We are bound to have you in the church confessing your faith in Jesus. THERE are a great many things we should like to know about heaven. as _And I saw_ So it runs, Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:1; Revelation Rev 21:1-8 We have here a more general account of the happiness of the church of God in the future state, by which it seems most safe to understand the heavenly state. Aug. omits . 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. I think that the Lord Jesus Christ especially calls us to consider this, that we may, according to our condition, derive profit from it. 5, 6. To do this you must be new yourself; for as the man is, so his life will be. _The wretched state of the ungodly_, 8. I rejoice in the fact that we are no longer bond-slaves but sons. Revelation It is A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH that the Seer I cannot doubt of the possibility of your salvation, my dear friend, whenever I think of my own. 7. The sea hath her dead which shall be given up. 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. I love thee, O my Saviour, because on the cross thou didst bear shame, and spitting, and manifold disgrace for me. While God's wrath for sin is yet unspent, the world cannot be new; but when that wrath on account of sin is all poured upon the head of the great Substitute, then the world stands in a new relation to God, and it can be a new world. This our Lord Jesus Christ has done upon the greatest scale. 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. 4, 5. I strove hard and kicked against the pricks. Revelation 21:1 . ver . 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. The Judgment is over. 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.". I wish we had more time to enter fully into this part of the subject. Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. 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." 16, 17. (Isaiah 65:17 ). 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. Revelation 21:1 (AV). It is fit that things so outworn and defiled should be laid aside, and better things fill their places. As for myself, my consciousness of being a new man in Christ Jesus is often as sharp and crisp as my consciousness of being in existence. _ (G3708) , 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. 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! 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. It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." How ingeniously they bring him in! REVELATION welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. The old way of life was, "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." 3. Revelation 21:1-27. a spiritual existence. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarsthey will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. January 1, 1885 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). That is the right sort of faith. Our wretched, formal prayers, if we did offer them what a mockery they were! he 1-8 The new heaven and the new earth will not be separate from each ", We ought not, as men in Christ Jesus, to be carried away by a childish love of novelty, for we worship a God who is ever the same, and of whose years there is no end. Let us gaze upon THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION. "Behold, I make all things new." And they will be brought in, I feel assured; but, oh, that it may be this year! Oh! The Lord give us eyes to see it. Revelation 21:1. Rev 66:22. He can bring your children to bow at the family altar, and to rejoice with you in Christ. Revelation 21:10. New - in the sense of being That is the death that never dies, the death which is far more to be dreaded than the death of the body. 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. The mountains and the hills break forth before us into singing, and we cannot be dumb. are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on THEN I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. And he is considered a clever man, a patriot, a benefactor of his own nation, who, by dint of genius, can discover some new way of destroying his fellow creatures. Toward a he replied, "if they were not they would all get up and shout 'Hallelujah' when you are preaching such a glorious gospel. Revelation 20:11. It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. I knew it came from an aching heart. Rather, by God's grace, may we henceforth believe more in him, and, according to our faith, so shall it be done unto us. This great work of Christ, this grand design of making this old world into a new one, shall be carried into effect. He is certainly able to turn your captivity as he turns the sun when it has reached the southern tropic. I know I am not only and solely what I was by my first birth; I feel within myself another life a second and a higher vitality which has often to contend with my lower self, and by that very contention makes me conscious of its existence. 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. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Anything new has at least one attraction. Anything new has at least one attraction. REV. We are not what we were: we are new, and have begun a new career. HEAVEN. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. Revelation 21:2. 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.. Shut gates signify war; open gates mean peace. There shall be no injustice towards the poor; there shall be no envying of the rich; there shall be no law to make men slaves; there shall be no power to oppress, because there shall be no will to do it. iv. Used by Permission. The fearful are those who, through cowardice, have not overcome (cf. It was a fair world, full of everything that was lovely, beautiful, happy, holy. The book of Revelation closes with solemn appeals of the Lord Jesus to men in general and to the believers especially. What is wanted is that you should be made a new creature in Christ Jesus. 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. In us also may men behold the marvels of thy renewing love. The Blue Letter Bible team has added a wide selection of . INTRODUCTION 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. Our future is glorious; let not our present be gloomy. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." which passed away at the general judgment, ch. When God spake and said, "Let there be light," it was a fiat which showed him to be divine. _God dwells with men; the happy state of his followers_, 3-7. But when Jesus Christ comes to make a new world, there is everything opposed to him. I thank God for keeping me near himself; but I am as weak, and stale, and unprofitable as any of you. Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Who can make but God, the Maker of heaven and earth? The first heaven is passed And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! Why, now we love the very things we once despised, and our heart flies as with wings after that which once it detested. Swelling words have been spoken and great attempts taken in hand to renovate society, but you can never renovate society till you have renovated the individual members who compose society. We cannot demand the servile wage because we have already all that our Father possesses. "A servant abideth not in the house for ever." We must view his purpose. My own health is precarious. 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. Let every thief know that the dying thief entered heaven by faith in Jesus. Amen. 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 saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a I feel this within me: do not you? And I John saw the hol _REVELATION 21:1_. We are now come, in the course of these Come, there is one more application, and that is that the Lord can convert those dear friends about whose souls you have been so anxious. 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." I am not going to say which is first, the new birth, or faith, or repentance. He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. That is a divine word. And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. The Lord can work a radical change in you. 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. He who in the beginning created the heaven and the earth now reveals to the gaze of faith His second and final world. 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. Listen, "Behold, I make." This is the first day of a new year, and therefore a solemnly joyous day. 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. Dogs would scarce tear each other as men do. A has old condition of things has passed away: cp. Ver. We have seen many transformed into new parents and new children. Devils could not be worse than men when their passions are let loose. Charles Haddon Spurgeon : Numbers 21:8: A Song At the Well-Head: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 21:16-20: The End of the Righteous Desired: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 23:10: The Star of Jacob: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 24:17-19: The Census of Israel: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Numbers 26:63-65: Let me just say a few words to those of you who love the Lord. Revelation 21:24. HEAVEN, &C. See Isaiah 51:16 (plant, &c); Rev 65:17. (Ah, there he sits.) 1. 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." 1. and a new earth, and the earth had _ 1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and The New Heaven and Earth. What a wonderful word is that! 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. it is a horrible world, appalling to think of. You may take a precious stone to a jeweler, and ask him what its value is, but he will say, I cannot tell what it is worth until it has been cut and polished. That is how the Lord will prove the value of his living stones. A new and higher motive sways us now; for we seek not self but God. Compare Isaiah 65:17. 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. Revelation 21:1. "I make all things." And all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. What do you yourself do with a bad servant? How ingeniously they bring him in! THE HEAVENLY GLORY The And then, as God dwelt of old among his people in the wilderness, and as Jesus Christ, the Word, was made flesh, and tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory, so in that new world shall God reveal himself to his people by a special indwelling and a peculiar nearness. John had already caught a glimpse of the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven; and now this angelic messenger bids him come nearer, and look more closely into this mysterious and glorious city prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. first heaven and first earth was passed away: being changed, not as to 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. 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 ancient prophecy shall be fulfilled to the letter. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 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. THE NEW JERUSALEM And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from , The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies With Him Praise is our ever new delight; let us baptize the new year into a sea of it. I will pray, "Lord, make my children new." They that walk in the light of his countenance can say of the Lord Jesus, "Thou hast the dew of thy youth"; and that dew falls upon those who dwell with him.
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