"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." All these. 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! 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. He can bring your children to bow at the family altar, and to rejoice with you in Christ. You know that the stones of which this holy city is built are living stones. In fact, I dread everything." "Ye must be born again." I believe that Jesus Christ has in some of you not only made you new, but made everything new to you. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. 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." Our wretched, formal prayers, if we did offer them what a mockery they were! But, oh, the grace of God, how it can tame us! "I make all things." 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. After you have believed unto life you will go and do all manner of holy deeds as the result of your new life; but do not attempt them with the view of earning life. 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: heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more Revelation 21:1. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. (Ah, there he sits.) CONTENTS There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. "No, no," says the old father, "I used to pray for my boy; he broke my heart; he brought his mother's grey hairs with sorrow to the grave; but he has gone away, and I have not heard of him for years, and I am almost afraid to wish I ever may hear of him again, for he did seem so reckless, that my only comfort is in trying to forget him." 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. 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Koenig, Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith, Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set). A brother said to me some time ago, "Dear sir, I frequently grow very sleepy in my walk with God. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. Revelation 21:3. they might properly be called new; such transformations, and such It needed the Lord himself to make such as we are new. There is nothing so old that he cannot make it new nothing so fixed and habitual that he cannot change it. "Behold I make all things new." 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. Let this be a pattern to all of you who are preachers or teachers, no matter what your subject may be, a gospel promise or invitation is always in place and in season. 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. Revelation 21:26. The remaining two chapters describe the eternal and consummated SECTION 69 It is A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH that the Seer Alas, your service has been no service, but a rebellion; and if you get no more wages than you deserve you will be cast away for ever. 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! Why, it is because we get away from him who says, "Behold, I make all things new." 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. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Then, through his Spirit, he goes on to make new men under the new covenant, and you will see that by this means he makes a new society. everlasting Glory of the Place. 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." Temple Section-The Former Resurrection Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. JOHN was the beloved disciple, the choicest spirit of the twelve, the , Heaven Above, and Heaven Below Rather, by God's grace, may we henceforth believe more in him, and, according to our faith, so shall it be done unto us. WHATEVER the saints are , "The Marriage of the Lamb" He beholds Christ upon Yet there was nothing then to resist his will; he had no opponent; he could build as he pleased, and there was none to pluck down. 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. Heaven is God's dwelling place. what a great comfort they are; just as much so as they formerly were a sorrow. sea. I want, then, to drop into your ear and may the Spirit of God drop into your heart this word, you may be born again. Revelation 21:24. Prompted no longer by the servile and selfish motive of saving yourself, but by gratitude for the fact that you are saved, you will rise to virtue and true holiness. To make a world is something wonderful, but to make a world new is something more wonderful still. 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." 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. We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." This is the clue of many a maze, the open sesame of many a mystery. Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the See on Matthew 26:29. Read full chapter. Ah, we blush to think what our joys used to be; but they are heavenly now. 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. See Matthew 9:17. Did not the morning stars sing together for joy when he made the world? 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. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. The Lord can work a radical change in you. He shall be my son, not my servant, but my son. God give us the faith to rise to this more than royal dignity! But we have tasted these precious things, and unto God we will lift up our loudest song for ever and for ever. I hear how these people of God cry 'Hallelujah!' but the second has still to be unfolded. 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.
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