When we are made sons do we work for wages? Dear friend, the Lord Jesus Christ is able to make your life entirely new. We ought never to forget this bottom of everything, this making of all things new by the fashioning of a new covenant, so that we have come out from under the bondage of the law and the ruin of the fall, and we have entered upon the liberty of Christ, into acceptance with God, and into the boundless joy of being saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, so that we "shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end." And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Revelation 21 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. iv. One of the first prayers that I heard to-night in the prayer-meeting was by a dear brother that God would save his relatives. 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. I say this with very great shame shame for myself, and shame for the brother who led me to make the confession. Amen. What a prospect does all this open up to the believer! not diffi, And I saw So it runs, Revelation 19:11, Revelation 20:1, Chapters Available - Revelation - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the I feel this within me: do not you? I will pray, "Lord, make my children new." heavenly. The Athenians, who spent their time in telling and hearing some new thing, were by no means singular persons: novelty still fascinates the crowd. 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. Revelation 20:11. Revelation 21:1. Oh! The wilderness of destruction lies before you. It finds blight where once it sought for bliss, and finds bliss where once it found nothing but bitterness. Climb the sides of the hills, ascend into the Alps, and you will not meet with that kind of thing in the pure fresh air. people do not die without hope. We have seen many transformed into new parents and new children. To be "justified" means being made really just: though we were guilty in ourselves we are regarded as just by virtue of what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us. That, also, is divine. This new nature is moved by new principles. Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. 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.". Revelation 21:5. The ab. God shall dwell among men, peace shall be domiciled on earth, and glory shall be ascribed to God in the highest. The mountains and the hills break forth before us into singing, and we cannot be dumb. Our path to eternal glory is the road of faith, "The just shall live by faith." 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." How ingeniously they bring him in! old condition of things has passed away: cp. You know that the stones of which this holy city is built are living stones. , DISCOURSE: 2529 He that sitteth on the throne says in infinite condescension to you upon the dunghill, "Behold, I make all things new." Oh! O dear hearts, there is no absolute necessity that you should always go downward in evil till you descend to hell. I thank God for keeping me near himself; but I am as weak, and stale, and unprofitable as any of you. This is the world of weeping, but it passes away. That is, all who love anyone or anything better than God. _cf._ Isaiah 65:17. I said. THE NEW JERUSALEM. 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.
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