The eternal state is described as a new heaven and a new earth where God dwells with humanity, fulfilling His eternal purpose. This new creation, detailed in Revelation 21:1-8, replaces the old heaven and earth, which will pass away and be dissolved. Key features include the absence of death, sorrow, crying, and pain, with God making all things new. The New Jerusalem, representing the church, descends from God, signifying a perfect, eternal dwelling place for believers with God, where righteousness resides. This ultimate state is the culmination of God's redemptive work, offering eternal life and fellowship to those who overcome.
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Blessed Father, we lift our hearts together, united in heart, bound together in the bonds of love, our love that is in the Lord Jesus Christ and in the family of God. How we thank thee for that love. We thank thee when we get into the eternal glory, and love will be greater than the glory. And we thank thee if so, and it will ever be so. We never will be able to see that. The precious truth, that God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that which we never believed in Him, should not perish but have ever once in life.
We thank You for the bonds of love. We thank You. They are divine. The love of God shared abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. who has been given to us upon believing. Shall we not praise thee, worship and adore thee? Our time together, week by week, has been precious. We bless thee for the fellowship. We thank thee most of all for being able to pour over thy precious and holy words and receive its blessed truth. But oh, how we lift our hearts that until the Lord Jesus comes and takes his own to be with himself and to the Father's house above you remember us keep us faithful give us the joy of being faithful to the Lord in the midst of a world that is so different and so opposed to even the things of God and in the midst of this being as we pray for one another may the lessons that we have learned the truth that we have appreciated, build us up in our most holy faith to be faithful to
the Lord till Jesus comes. We thank you for one another. Once again we pray for our families. We pray for those who could not be with us. Some are away. Others have other circumstances hindering. Remember them where they are. Bless them too. Then we ask thee also for the unsaved of our love families. Those who may get beyond the Christ will thou not bring them to thyself. Then we pray for the many, the many that are sick, the afflicted and the tried. Oh, blessed Lord, our hearts so often grieved over the circumstances and the troubles and the trials, even thine own have happened through.
And yet, Lord, it makes thyself more precious to us. We confess readily it is the troubles of life and the trials and difficulties that press the heart to get closer to the Lord Jesus. So whatever may be the difficulties, the pain, the difficulties in trials thy saints are going through, draw the nearest of thyself. And in thy will do for them what will be best, whether for their encouragement or their healing. And then we ask it to you, Father. as we come to the closing part of thy precious words, that revelation of what is thy divine eternal purpose, what thou art seeking to accomplish, and what will be ultimately done for thy great glory and for the eternal blessing of thy people.
Open our eyes by the Holy Spirit to enter in to that blessed eternal scene which we shall study about. For we ask it in the name, and we ask it for the glory of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Revelation chapter twenty-one, the first five verses will be, or the first eight verses, I should say, will be the context of our study. And on your lesson sheet, if you have it, it's called the eternal state. And may we perhaps read the first opening paragraph If you do have your lesson, I just would like to read the introduction to it.
As we come to this portion of the Word of God, Revelation twenty-one, verse one through eight, this portion of God's Word describes the eternal condition more than any other portion. And it is the continuation of the preceding chapter as is self-evident. For the end of chapter twenty, if you may remember the end of chapter twenty, it is the scene of the great white throne judgment. And what a judgment when all the unsaved dead are brought before the Lord Jesus Christ for their eternal sentience. And it closes without a doubt.
Actually, if you have it on the lesson sheet, the first act in eternity, the judgment of the wicked world. And I remind you, We'll see it again in our lesson somewhat. It is when heaven and earth pass away, and when the destruction of the present universe takes place, the first action eternally is the sentence of all the wicked men from the beginning of the human race to the end. Now let me read the scripture. I'd like to read it through beginning at verse one. I'm going down through verse eight, if you please. And I saw in new heaven and in new earth, For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more she.
And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. It aired as a brighter dawn for a husband. 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 emphasized those two words. God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death. Neither sorrow nor crying.
Neither shall there be any more pain. For the former sins are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Right, for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am also an omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is the thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things. I will be his God, and he shall be my son. The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderous, and all-mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth its iron-brimstone, which is the second death.
May God bless the reading of his word, and by his spirit, may our hearts and minds be illumined, to be able to take in, and may I suggest, It's incomprehensible. For if you read these words and study them, may I say, do you think of this? They describe what God's purposes are going toward and to be in the final fruition when all of its work of redemption has been done. Let me give you the thought. If you remember the chart, eternity to eternity, and you recall that it's the history or of the course of time.
from eternity past to eternity to come. Now what we are reading and studying today is the final confirmation of all God's purposes through the history of time. Sometimes I really wish I were in the place where time will be no more. And we will someday, say by his grace, but try to comprehend it in some little measure. What we have before us is the description of the final confirmation of God's eternal purpose in his work of redemption from the beginning to the end.
And may I remind you of it, beginning with Adam, continuing throughout all the ages of time, the centuries and the millennium. Until at last, he will have accomplished the hour of the scene that sin has ruined. his purpose of redemption, and bring in the new creation. Now as we look at our lesson, first one opens with the statement, John saying, I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the third heaven, and the third earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. Let's pause for just a moment and reflect, very carefully and prayerfully.
This great act, We read in Genesis chapter one in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And as we now know, the present creation had came from his own divine act of power and the creative act of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit. And thus we can recognize as we come to the end, and I would suggest to you have the book of Revelation complements the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis, which means the book of the beginning. And you can read of those beginnings, the early history of the human race and the creation. But the book of the Revelation complements it. The old creation, as we have read today, will have passed, literally, will have passed away.
And in that new creation, as John declares, that for seven and a third were passed away, there was no more seed. You know it on your lesson sheet. Proofy, let me emphasize it. It will be a definite act of divine creation. It will be definitely done by the Lord Jesus. And it will be the dissolution of the present heavens and the present earth. Let me speak for just a few moments regarding the fact of what God is going to do with the old creation. The present heavens, as we now know them, and the earth as it now is. Now, we mean this scripture that we have in reference on your lesson sheet, first of all, in Isaiah sixty-five and sixty-six.
Therein the great prophecy of Isaiah, and particularly in sixty-five and verse seventeen, words we may have mentioned before in our studies regarding the future of God's purposes, and particularly in relation with Israel and others, that in chapter sixty-five and verse seventeen, May I point out unto you that seven hundred and fifty years ago, before the Lord Jesus came to the earth, God through the prophet Isaiah, he even suggested, and when you read the context, may I suggest, when you read the context following this verse, you may recognize clearly there is a direct reference to the millennial kingdom, of which we have studied when the Lord Jesus will reign on over the earth one thousand years.
But also there is a double application to this truth, and that is the future, that God speaks regarding a new heavens and a new world. Note these words, how typical they are, in what we have read in Revelation twenty-one. For behold, I create new heavens and a new world, and a former shall not be remembered nor come into mind. And we can recognize that we shall see it in detail. We have read it in detail, even in the third verse of our chapter in Revelation twenty-one. And those words that are so frequently mentioned in that verse, no more, no more, no more.
God's revealing negatively, as it were, what it will not be like. And God oftentimes uses that description to tell us what things will not be like in relation to that creation that is yet to come. But here is a word that Isaiah was told. God's saying, I'm going to create a new heaven to a new earth. The problem will not be remembered nor brought to mind. Now let me give you a thought. And I think we need it. There are many things in life we'd like to forget. And may I suggest there'll be many things in life we will forget. One sure thing in the life of churches will have a good togethering.
In the right way. the power of a thing. He's going to wipe them out. And they are there. And yet one thing seems complex. I cannot help but think of the words of the Lord Jesus when he opened the unseen world in any story of Luke chapter sixteen, the rich man in Lazarus. He never said anything to Lazarus about remembering. He was covetous. Remember the man in hell in Hades? remember. And his memories were all regarding what he had been and what he had done.
In life, nothing of his life will be wiped out of his memory. I'd hate to list forever in eternity like that. His own thing that our disciples of the people of God, that forever shall not be remembered. No, God, come on. We'll look at chapter fifty-six. Lovely words there in verse twenty-two, relative to Israel. Again repeating the fact, as you read verse twenty-two, for as the new heavens and the new earth reach, I will make. Please notice, they're back long before the Lord Jesus ever came. God by the Spirit through the prophets said, I will make a new heavens and the new earth.
And for I, the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me. Now there's one thing we can conclusively say, that new heavens and earth will remain forever. Hallelujah. That will never be destroyed. It will never be destroyed. And God says to Israel, So shall your seed and your name remain forever. Now let me give the thought. He may come back to us as we go on in our study in Revelation twenty-one again. But may I give you the thought. I do not believe that there will be the present relationship of nations one to another as we have it in the world today.
But may I remind you, who started the nations? And they never started until you get to Genesis chapter ten and eleven after the Tower of Babel. And the dispersion and the giving of many languages. The earth was a one-stage. I believe he's going to return to one-stage in the New Heavens and the New Earth. But Israel is going to be remembered forever. You'll have to say that. Some recognition. I do not see this a place that we shall see a prominent life of church.
We'll see that when we come to it. But there's no question of doubt. God will have forever a remembrance significantly in some manner of the seed of Israel and their name forever. God doesn't forget his covenant. He made his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and so on, but he made it forever. And through the blood of the everlasting covenant of our Lord Jesus Christ, even Israel will be remembered. Well, we'll see more of that as we go on. But I want you to know with me, second Peter, chapter three, where Peter describes the dissolution, dissolution of the heavens, the present heavens, and the earth.
Chapter three in second Peter, chapter thirteen, verse thirteen, rather. May I read it to you? Let me begin in verse ten. Let's get the context clear and conclude this. But the day of the Lord will come as the thief in the night. Now let me repeat again, and we've started it before. The expression, the day of the Lord, and I hope you can retain it in your memory, and in your heart and mind, covers that period when our Lord Jesus, real Paul, Ralph, as we read in the book of the Revelation, his judgment go over and upon the world, and then come to the earth to set up his kingdom, and that kingdom go on for one thousand years, until eternity is reached.
So the day of the Lord is in the embrace of a period where the Lord introduces his kingdom by judgment upon the earth and over the earth, setting up his own throne and reigning, and then fulfilling the purposes of God to bring in the new creation and new heavens and the new earth. And as Peter goes on to write, the day of the Lord will come as the thief in the night. Now please know what he declares. in the which the heaven shall pass away with a great noise, and the element shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Can I give you the solemn thought? Will you go with me to Colossians chapter one, I believe it is. It might be chapter two. The book of Colossians suggests among the three in chapter one. And in chapter one, You've got the great chapter here presenting the Lord Jesus in all of his creatorial power as the creator. Let me read verse sixteen and seventeen. For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created by him and for him. Now look the next words.
We, if we call all things, reminding you that it's pre-existent, and by Him. Now note these words. By Him all things consist. And the word really means, by Him all things in creation, held together. Now I'm sure many, if not all, of us must be familiar with the fact that this creation of ours, we can call it, a creation of atoms, held together by the atoms. everything we have your body and every substance whatever you touch there are atoms within it wholly together who holds it together let me give you a word on the book of jones i can't recall i think it's in chapter thirty eight he hangeth the earth over he hangeth the he hangeth the north over the empty space and he hangeth the earth upon what nothing That's really good, doesn't it?
You and I would call it gravity. He calls it nothing. Who holds it? The Lord Jesus. You've got it in Hebrews one three. He upholdeth all things by the word of his power. And there I say the present creation, when it's to be devout, as Peter is well written, it will pass away with a greatness. Let me give you a fact. I haven't heard an atomic bomb go after you. I think we know something about them. Well, I'll tell you very frankly. Early Adams of the present universe are going to go in one moment.
Explore it. Early has to do it. Let go it go. That's all. I'm so glad he's hanging on to me. But you recognize it. Early has to do it. Let the Adams go. And there'll be a consecration and an explosion of immense magnetism. And it's called Peter Wright. The element shall not with further peace. You know, it would be quite an explosion. And it would be a terrible peace. I remember reading right after World War II, the scientists developing and experimenting with the atomic bomb further in the Pacific.
Some of them went, and they had some experiments out there in the islands of the Pacific. And from their long-range telescope, as the bomb exploded in the air, they could see the tremendous heat of that explosion, just like your refrigerator, made some blocks of ice. Some of them, two hundred to three hundred pounds in weight. Now, if man can do that, what do you think God can do? And you can imagine that. the convulsion and the explosion that will be in that. And the elements melt with firm and ye. And the earth, as you read on, the earth also has the works that are there which shall be burned up.
If you'll ever please let me say, that literally, sometimes we make the mistake of calling other events, but that's literally the end of the world. Now read on, if you will, please. Let me go to verse read right on verse eleven, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of persons ought she to be in all holy conversation and godliness should have a sound effect on our living? Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God. Now may I point out again, in verse ten, the only word said the day of the Lord. This verse says the day of God. His eternal things. His eternity.
For in eternity it's going to be the day of God, and every God's day of celebration, forever, never-ending, when he has his redeemed and glorified creation, restored to his satisfaction and his joy, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with further deep. And out of the ruins. Let me give you the thought. I don't believe. I think it's proper to say you cannot annihilate and destroy matter. But may I give you the thought.
Out of that old creation that he burns up, he brings out the new creation. Let me give you a thought. What did he do with you and me? If any man be in Christ, new creation. All things are passed away. All things are become new. And out of the ruin of your own heart and life, God gave you a new life. And out of the ruin of your own creation. And it's evolving. He's going to bring you a new one. Look at what Peter says. I like it. Nevertheless, we according to his promise, look for new heavens and anew. And please know, wherein dwelleth, and that means abider, never failing, It stays forever righteous.
Now let me say this. Righteousness doesn't dwell on the earth in the millennium. It rains. And it doesn't dwell. It's not permanent, as you well know from the study of this scripture. So when the eternal sea comes, there are new heavens and the new earth, righteousness will dwell. Dwell there forever. What a scene. Now go back to our chapter in verse, in twenty-one of Revelation. And note the second thing, John says in that first verse, And there was no more sea. That symbolic sea, symbolic of the restlessness and the separation, the element of nature.
So what does the sea do? It divides continents. It divides people. It divides many. But in that day, I tell some of my friends, if you want fishing, better do it now. You like that. But nevertheless, no more seats are part of separation. Her beloved, no separation in that new creation, from God or from others. Forever dwelling there, and no separation, it will not exist in the new earth. Very symbolic. It's going to, of course, use the words of Isaiah fifty-seven, back at the end, twenty-and-twenty-one. So we could arise off the restless sea like the sea we cannot rest, whose waters pass up continually by a remnant.
So there is no peace in my God that there is. And that symbolic fact that the sea represents separation as well as restlessness of its condition never exists in that new creation. I'm blessed to realize that. Now let's go on. We come to verse two. And this is important to realize. that in that new creation I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And as you have it on your left hand, see here you have the holy city. And know what it is called, new Jerusalem. Let me say very frankly, that old Jerusalem will have gone.
That old Jerusalem on the earth will be passed. New Jerusalem. New Jerusalem. And as John sees it coming down from God, that holy city, what is it? Nothing but the church. Please let me say this. I believe it with all my soul. God will be in the earthly capital, such as Jerusalem and the earth, for the people of God. And the church, which is divine, as John C.C.C. coming down out of heaven. Do you get the thought? The origin of it?
Heavenly. The character of it? Heavenly. It becomes, if I may say, it becomes compatible. But it comes out of heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for a husband. Let me point out, from the obvious fact, from the context, the millennium is over. For if after the millennium, you have the great life-long judgment, and the great white-owned judgment. Because God, by the last, declares, we have so many pieces of thought. You know, in John one twenty-nine, John the Baptist said, Behold, the Lamb of God will take away the sin of the world.
Now, let me say something. I hope you understand it. All sin has been taken away now. I guess you'll agree with that. You've got to look around, Charlotte. When the white throne judgment is finished, sin will have been banished forever by the fire. He's a devil, his angel, and all the unsaid dead. It will have vanished forever. For may I ask, please take that text and see it through. It not only includes that he took your sins away in mind, but the day comes when out of the universe, sin will be removed from it.
thing will be removed for them. And what a joy to read, they know that. And coming down your door to take its place in that eternal truth, you have a bride, a daughter, a maid. She will be a bride after a thousand years. She will have a child, yes. Still having a good age. I thought you were ready to be married. How long did you keep your Bible beauty? I'll forgive you for it. It will never grow old. And how true that will be. Well, let me give you this law. You got it in Psalm one hundred and two. Thou hast the due of eternal youth. Spoken it will all do.
And when he saved you and me, he gave us eternal youth. I know you don't hear it now, but don't worry, it's coming. Eternal youth and the joy of knowing it, surprised throughout the millennium has never changed our beauty or glory. Just the same forever. A side door. Coming down as a ride a door for a husband. Now I'm going to be glad to have the Lord Jesus the husband. I know you women appreciate that. And all of us will. The Lord Jesus the husband. The church is well. And thus to enjoy together the beauty of his faith as well as the greatness of his heart of love.
And also to have him appreciate us. Now, please note, verse three particularly brings us to the thought. I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with me. I want you to emphasize one thing. The expression is tabernacle. The tabernacle of God is with me. I believe in this theme, the church, the bride, is the tabernacle. The tabernacle of God is with me. And I say this, in that new creation, I believe as Juchaman is on your sheet, his dwelling place in eternity will be the holy city that serves in the midst of life.
And I say humblest, so grateful, the other side should take it in battle, and have an effective result in my heart, to realize that we who are the bride of Christ is first. We're going to be the dwelling place that's gone throughout all eternity. Beloved, please let me say, what you've got, you've got the strength of that new eternity here. The tabernacle. So, darling, how in that tabernacle? Friends, did you know what the tabernacle of old was? Well, let me look with you. I've got some scriptures there. I want you to follow me quickly.
It will be the eternal fulfillment of God's longing heart. Look back with me in Exodus twenty-five. Exodus twenty-five and verse eight. Here are some Old Testament scriptures that reveal the heart of God, the longing of his heart, even in relation to Israel and his people. For chapter twenty-five and verse eight, let me read these words. In verse eight, when Moses was commanded to build a sanctuary that happened, I believe in those words. Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Please, let me help you. I hope I can and see it myself. God's heart wants to dwell with his people, abide with them, and join them.
Some of you may have studied the peace of Jehovah in Leviticus chapter twenty-three. I'm in that whole chapter. You've got seven great feasts of Jehovah. Why did he institute them that the people of Israel could enjoy him and that he could enjoy them? He never got what he did, what he deserved, and what he should have had. But you can see the longing of his heart. He said, well, with his people and they're fine with them. Go and read Leviticus chapter twenty-six. The next book, Leviticus chapter twenty-six. Let me read with you verses eleven and twelve. And I'll stretch you to realize even near the end of the book. of this Levitical book of Moses, you have God saying again, verses eleven and twelve, as we read them, and saying through Moses and through Moses and through his people, I will set my tabernacle, did you know that?
I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you, and I will walk among you, and you will be your God, and ye shall be my people. Please let me say this. The most sacred part of that tabernacle was by holiest of all, where God set his plan. And I was, he said to you, I'll set my tabernacle among you. And may I remind you, I run that tabernacle to find what is your plan? God was in me. You see the longing of his heart. You may enjoy his kingdom. And may I say slightly, he's never done his fuller yet. But he will in that eternal.
But go further with me. Ezekiel chapter thirty-seven. And you can see even later in the prophecy of Ezekiel. Even when the children of Israel were far from God. And God gives the message in this chapter of their coming restoration. And you'll find in verse twenty-seven and twenty-eight similar words. My tabernacle also shall be with them. Yea, I will be there, God, and they shall be my people, and the heathen shall know that I, the Lord, do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore. Now, that points to the millennium, without question of doubt, but it reveals the heart of God. I want to enjoy my people. Well, somebody once said, God must have, and we must have poor people.
So he's done that a lot of them. That may be true indeed. But, here's the thought. He wants to enjoy them for himself. Now let's go back to our chapel in Revelation then. For those scriptures we have read, they foreshadow the eternal saints in our flesh in the dump. Now please note verse three again. Behold the tabernacle of God is with them. And let me repeat again. Remember in chapter twenty one go to down this chapel. Let me go down that chapel. I want you to know something. Go to verse twenty three. Verse thirty three. I saw no temple therein in that city for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb of the temple.
Please can I say this lovingly and earnestly and truthfully I believe. The bride, the landline, the city, the new Jerusalem will be the center of that new creation, from which the blessings of God and the fellowship of God will be known by all who are in that new creation. Think of it. Please let me put it this way. Back in the Old Testament only once a year could the priest, the high priest, go into the holiest of all. Please let me say this, as we studied that portion in Revelation We who are the church will be in the immediate presence of God.
The immediate presence of the evil temple is revealed as we start from the prayer of the Lord Jesus in John chapter. Oh, beloved, what is going to be all? The presence of the Christ, the honor, the bride, to the Lord Jesus, the bridegroom, the beloved husband, and the curse she will have in the new creation of God in that eternal season. Now please know, as you go to verse three in the same verse, you've got men all around in that new creation. The tabernacle is God is with men, and he will dwell with them, feel applied with them.
They shall be his people, and God himself shall be there, God, be with them, and be their God. Can I emphasize those words regarding stuff? Let me give you a song. I wonder if you could help me. Could you tell me how God spoke to Adam? Could you tell me how he spoke to Cain? Could you tell me how he spoke to Enoch? How he spoke to Noah? It was personal. You can't show me here any other way. All of us. They go early days with the human history. And in the garden with Adam and Eve. From what? Prison! Half prison!
That's what he wanted to do all the time. You should enjoy him and you should enjoy that. My, what a day we'll be when God himself will have that moment. And I want to give you a report. You will please notice. I hope you do. There's no mention of the land here. The only man can hear is the God. And I want you to remember that it reveals the whole God world. Let me give you the thought going back to First Corinthians fifteen quickly. First Corinthians chapter fifteen. I want you to note the order of the resurrection. If I may begin reading in chapter fifteen at verse twenty-three.
Well, let me go down the chapter. Go to verse twenty-seven for gravity's sake. And verse twenty-six, you have the last enemy that shall be destroyed is there. And there you've got the great white throne just when death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. For he has put all things under his feet. That is under the feet of Christ. But when except all things are put under him, when Christ has fulfilled all the purposes of God and redemption, it is manifest that he is accepted, which did put all things under him. And then all things shall be subdued unto him. Now please know. Then shall the Son also.
Him shall be subject unto him that put all things unto him. Why? That God may do all in all. I don't want you to think of it. I believe that our learners know. It's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the United Godhead, that will be manifested in that eternity. Let me put it in the way of a question. One time they ever gave us associated from God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit in any time. Not at all. All the fullness of the God, they will be on this earth. One dear little chap said he didn't know much about the Godhead.
All he knew is that one and three and one and one and three, and the one in the middle, he died for me. Well, I knew enough. But you can imagine, I don't know. That God is Maybe all... Can I say this? I can't come to you. I have some distance to so many people. One day, the lady, one time, and the other, she said, as we sat at the table and came out of Christmas, she said, Mr. Mammoth, will I see God? Will we see God? Some of the fellows that knew more than I did, but they said no. I said, Sister, I'm sure you will. I can't tell you how, but I'm sure.
Blessed are the few men have. They shall see God. John said, no one destroyed his party. Yet I know that in my place I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself. And you'll not be a stranger. I don't know if too many suggest to you, but to show your realignment, the reality can't comprehend it. I can only say what Paul wrote in verse thirty and two. I have not seen. You have not heard. Neither have it. And there's all the man, the things which God has prepared for them, the loving. But God has revealed unto us by his spirit. And what a joy to realize that in that coming day, what a fullness it will be for God himself.
And so I say again, put the whole pool of God in there. There's no distinction of the land, no distinction of the spirit. I believe you have to come to the oneness of the going home. And so after that, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. So that they each have their place in the work of redemption. And they each will have their place in the fulfillment. And God himself will be with them. And be their God. So there goes Muhammad. There goes Confucius. Oh, he is Confucius. And only who he might want to know. Wonderful. The breath of joy.
Now go further. Now here you have the joy of seeing the consolation, which I'm sure you can take in very quickly. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And one can recognize that a little girl said, mine must have an awful big hand to do. Well, he'll do it. He shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death, neither shall there be no pain, neither shall there be any more pain. The whole of things are passed away. and we can recognize very clearly. And let me read the paragraph I have. I like the thought in that first sentence on the paragraph four. These consolations will be ministered by God himself.
It is God who writes all tears away. The sorrows of death, trial, beating, pain, and all is true. Will be removed forever. This will be the final result of Christ's atoning death on Calvary. I would remind you, as the sentence follows, Sorrow began in Genesis chapter three.Sorrow ends in Revelation chapter twenty-one. So between the beginning and the ending of all sorrow we see the manless sorrows on the tree of Calvary crucified for our redemption. Isaiah fifty three verse three. And our preciousness is to realize that man of sorrow. He has that title. Man of sorrows acclaimed with grief. And our preciousness to realize through the atoning death of the Lord Jesus.
the new creation, all sorrows and grief wiped away. So now let's continue on. New verse five through seven. And I want you to know, hear the eternal blessing of the regime in that day. Verse five, he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. I make all things new. My, everything new, nothing old. that you feel like doing it. You may get some thoughts out of this book of the Revelation. I believe there's seven occasions. The word new is used. It's precious to treasure.
But here you have in that new creation, I made all things new. Now, what a joy to recognize. Nothing will grow. Nothing will save. Nothing will grow old. Everything. I will make all things new, new, new, new. And thank God. Remember what Peter wrote in first Peter chapter one, regarding the inheritance of the believer, and he went on to say, you know that inheritance, aren't defiled. Faith is not a way. Reserved in heaven for you. Incorruptible. Everything retained in its newness forever and ever.
Well, I don't believe I'll need any glasses, will you? I don't believe I'll need any glasses in those days. all of naming, wooden legs and anything. But, I mean, you just have to realize it. All things I'm used to it. Still never let me say, frankly. The longer I live in this old creation, I'm more likely to get that news to you. I'm free, let me say. Here's my heart sometimes. I'd sometimes turn on the radio. I'm trying to get from news. Oh, I've got a bunch of arguments about who did something out there. I'm going to be awake. Fine, I shut it up.
I'm telling you, I'll get rid of all that argument and John's in this old town. Say that. John will be in a new creation where everything will be needed. And I like the next word. He said underneath, right, for these words are true and faithful. I thank God for that. Please let me say something. What we have studied this morning... You never find an unbelieving scientist will ever swallow it in this way. It's out of the magnitude of human reasoning. If only by faith we can grasp the declaration of the word is wrong.
I will do it. And to say, well, read what follows in verse three. See, here it is as good as John. And it's done. Oh, if your lover want to be glad when everything's new, and it's done. And in that day. And then you've got those blessed titles belonging to God and belonging to the Lord Jesus, too. I'm Alpha, Omega, the beginning and the end. The old person, the last letter, the Greek Alpha there. I'm not saying, I'm the beginning and I'm the end. And all the time you've got God become, he's going to finish. And I think of the words of Deo Paul when he said in Philippians one said, He that hath begun a good work in you will finish me.
Complete it for a second until the day of Jesus Christ. Now, I want to tell you something. I'm not going to finish myself. He's going to finish me. He's sorrowful. He's got to finish it because I couldn't do it. And may I suggest to you salvation from the beginning to the end is God's word. From beginning to the end is God's word. It is not a work done by man on the behalf of God. It is a work done by God entirely on the behalf of man. And here what we're studying is the final fruition of salvation, the new creation of the new heavens and the new earth. And what a joyousness. And yet, as the Lord just says it, bless it, look at the great heart of his world, saying, I will give unto him that is the third.
Not only give him a drink, I'll give him the whole fountain. in a night. You ever realize you've got the fountain in your sister? Well, you've got Christ. Didn't the Lord Jesus say to the woman at the well? Who's to ever drink of the big water in the well so fast again? Who's to ever dream of the water that I so give him? The water that I so give him a fountain of water that's bringing up. Can't you ever ask me that? Ah, how is he supposed to start bubbling a little? A fountain of water. A fountain. Ah, I'll tell you, Frank. I'll tell you, it just doesn't give you only a great... Come on, the whole town's there for you.
Oh, Christ, he is the fountain, the deep sweet well of love, the trees on earth I've tasted, more deep I've dreamed of, are you? And oh, the joy of me, I think. Here's the invitation, even after the revelation of it. Is anyone supposed to? Let him come unto me and pray. And I'll get him the whole house and... How not will he come? Really? real, not cheap. But the Lord Jesus himself, the price was great, but to receive it, too. Hallelujah. Say, by grace, truth, thanks, that none of yourselves is a gift of love, not of worth much any man should know.
And then you've got the joy of being in verse seven, he that overcomes, and you see the blessings going on. how in that day we shall... No, no, he shall inherit all this. And let me make you a good thought. You got the overcomer mentioned in chapter two and three of this book of Revelation in the seven letters of the seven verses. And who shall have... Well, go to me the first... Go to the... Go to the first the people of John. First the people of John. In chapter five. Let me show you who the overcomer is. Chapter five, and the first disciple of John's gospel. And verse four, note these words. Who is he that overcomes the world?
Let me go back to verse four. Get the both verses. What, whoever is born of God? Are you born of God? Overcomes the world. And who, and this is the victory that overcomes the world. What? Our faith. And then you go to the prayer, pride. Who is he that overcomes the Lord? God! He's that Believer said, Jesus is the Son of God. Many say, my dear beloved Believer, every Believer possesses the overcoming life. I didn't say the overcoming is his possession. And they take fun. And we're going to inherit all things. Sure you're going to overcome.
You told me the devil I would come to you. But to realize through him, as Paul said in Romans, verse thirty-seven, we are born and conquered through him that love us. I was born. But let me go to verse eight, please. Well, you know that at the end of verse seven, I'll go very affectionately, sir. I'll be it, God, and he shall be my son. But solemnly as we close, what a solemn opposite sentence, verse eight. The unscathed, fearful, unbelieving, dominable, murderous, hormones, adulterous, idolatrous, and all liars shall have their part in the latest burn of the Highland Bridge, for which is the second one. You can read this scripture, and may I be reminded with you of the commenters on the page of your lesson.
Death doesn't move per se. Please let me say, there are some even in our cities. Among professional Christians who believe in what they call annihilation, the destruction out of our memory, then they go to the lake of fire. No, I say in the words of the Lord Jesus, they'll remember. They'll remember. They'll remember. They'll follow me. You know I'm glad I'm saying. You know the first thing I thought of when the night of the Lord came out is, Johnny, I'm George, you're not going to die. And you and I can say this. Now we pray. Oh, Father, how we thank you for thy word.
The entrance of thy word giveth light. Spiritual illumination, Father. It giveth light to the center. And we thank thee we belong to the center. And we would learn, taking in thy precious word by faith and saying, Lord, I believe every word we say. And, oh, Father, and Lord Jesus, we long for that eternal day when we shall all be with thee and rightly, Lord Jesus. You can't comprehend it, but, dear Lord, it just does our ass with the believer. And you pray for one another, how facilities call this, and up with, looking for him to come, looking for our Lord Jesus, the coming of our Lord Jesus, our great Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
We ask for good and thanks to what thou has called us. May it refresh our hearts, strengthen our lives, and keep us looking forward to thee, and by such this name was you. Amen. Well, aren't you glad we're going to return again, right?