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the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. The Blue Letter Bible team has added a wide selection of . Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. city of God men had looked through long generations. temper of the EXPOSITION The Spurgeon Library | Scriptures | Revelation before God. We cannot demand the servile wage because we have already all that our Father possesses. It will be easier, a great deal, depend upon it, even for God to make you new, than to mend you; for the fact is that "the carnal mind is enmity against God," and is not reconciled to God, neither, indeed, can be; so that mending will not answer; you must be made anew. We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. When God spake and said, "Let there be light," it was a fiat which showed him to be divine. "Behold I make all things new." 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. It seems at first to be astounding that the height of a city should be equal to the length and the breadth of it; but if you have traveled in Italy, you must have seen many a city, perched upon a hill, which seemed to be even higher than it was broad or long, if you included the wall of the city, and the houses one above another right up to the loftiest minaret or tower. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. The foundation being made new, the Lord Jesus Christ has set before us a new way of life, which grows out of that covenant. See Matthew 9:17. away. I rejoice in the fact that we are no longer bond-slaves but sons. Royal Homage they might properly be called new; such transformations, and such God means that this planet should continue to exist after it has had a new creation, and renewed its youth. I liked what a brother said at the church-meeting on Monday night, when his brother was introduced to the church. Listen, "Behold, I make." App-133. You may have some very bad children, or you have some relatives who are going on in sin from bad to worse. CHAPTER XXI. Why should we not lift up our voices in his praise? 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. And you, my dear brother, at the corner of the street where you are often interrupted, perhaps, with foul language, you will feel that you are pleased with your position of self-denial. He can cause your business to prosper; or, if he does not do that, he can strengthen your back to bear the burden of your daily cross. Revelation 21:8 NIV - But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the - Bible Another hand grasps the tiller and steers our ship in a new course. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. What though he pleases to take his time, and to use humble instrumentalities to effect his purposes, yet do it he will. He had come to make the world new, and to do this he has brought with him what? "In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies"? people do not die without hope. That is the right sort of faith. You will not be at all tired of your godly work, but love it better than ever. [A loud voice, "Ay! Certainly it is most true of the celestial city, as well as of the millennial city, that the throne of God and of the , Till We Meet Again A Description of the Holy City.