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Introduction
Over the course of the last few weeks we have been speaking about the end times in terms of the Millennial kingdom, the defeat of Satan and his being cast into the Lake of fire.
We have also seen, however briefly, the fate of unbelievers as they are also cast into the lake of fire.
Now we turn our attention in these last two chapters to heaven.
I think John is revealing this to the believers of his day because as MacArthur declares “heaven on your mind changes the way you live.” (GTY).
“John Bunyan writing . . .
Pilgrim's Progress . . .
a conversation between two pilgrims who are on their way to the celestial city, which, of course, is heaven.
One of the two pilgrims says to the other, "When do you find yourself in the most wholesome and most vigorous spiritual state?"
To which the other pilgrim says, "When I think of the place to which I am going."
Bunyan understood that. . .
.. The living in a joyous anticipation of the presence of God changes everything.
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How often do you think about heaven?
Surely, you have heard the phrase, “he is so heavenly minded he is no earthly good.”
Usually that is used to decry someone who has his head in the clouds.
But I think Bunyan and MacArthur are right.
If we are thinking about heaven it helps us to be better here.
It helps us to face hardships here.
In my P90x exercise tapes, Tony Horton is always saying you can do anything for 30 seconds, because alot of the movements are only for 30 seconds, but man that is a long 30 seconds.
I think a similar thought could be said about this.
When you set your mind on things above and not on earth () you can do anything, or endure anything.
Anyway, John is writing to people who are hard pressed for living life in a nice easy chair.
It is hard, they are being pursued, dogged, dragged into prison and the stadiums.
Life for a Christian in John’s day was not a walk in the park.
It was more akin to putting your life on the line, losing everything you have worked for in order to follow Christ.
These words in our text would help them to look to Heaven.
To help them to see that what they are going through now is nothing compared to eternity.
But i think that is the issue for us.
We don’t think enough about heaven.
We Christians today are more about instant gratification now.
We don’t want to suffer, we don’t want to have to give up our niceties.
We put more into our lives for here than we do getting ready for then.
Our focus should be on the other side.
Solomon wrote in “The day of our death is better than the day of our birth.”
Paul said “to die is gain.”
but we don’t think of it that way.
We look for ways to make our life longer here, to make it better here, more comfortable here.
But in doing so we don’t get the smell of heaven.
We are so focused on the here and now that we have closed our eyes to beyond the vail.
I think of Noah and the flood.
He and his family were the only ones preparing for the other side of the flood.
God destroyed the old world they knew and they floated into the new world.
Everything was new to them as far as the landscape of the world in which they lived.
Of course, evil, sin was still present, but it was kind of a precursor to what we have here.
Our life now might be filled with pain mixed with pleasure, but looking toward heaven can help us endure any trial here because our hope is in heaven.
MacArthur mentioned that Heaven is mentioned over 550x in the Bible, 54x in don’t know, I didn’t count them, but when I looked up heaven there were a lot of verses.
It is clear from scripture that it is a real physical place.
Remember Jesus had a body when he returned, Paul speaks of it as a real place in .
It wouldn’t make sense if heaven was just a spiritual place.
It is going to be just as real and physical as this world is today.
Otherwise, why make all things new.
You’ll remember Enoch and Elijah both in their bodies were in heaven.
I think of Moses and Elijah in their bodies speaking with Jesus in His body.
Heaven is a place where we will have bodies.
This earth and heaven and sea as we know it will be destroyed.
And a new one will be created.
And that brings me to this truth in this title.
I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW!
It is what John is pointing at in our text.
Paul even pointed this out to the Corinthian believers in
This is what is coming into sight in our text.
All things become new.
What was started way before creation and is seen in our lives when we trust Christ as Savior is now in full reveal.
This is what we are looking and hoping for, the new heaven and new earth where everything is going to be set right.
So let us look into our text and see how far we get.
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A New Creation, vss.
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A. A New realm,
I saw a new heaven and a new earth
Now the reason he sees the new is because, as he explains it the first is passed away.
Notice, he doesn’t say ‘old’ but ‘first’.
This gives us a bit of clarity as to what he means.
John sees only the new heaven and new earth because the old is gone.
The former world which he knew was nonexistent.
All vestiges of this old sinful world are gone.
We have an explanatory gar the targets the support for that statement being that the first heaven and first earth are passed away.
The Scripture has told us this would happen:
The reason he only sees the new is because the old/first is gone.
All vestiges of this old sinful world are gone.
This is not something new to John but this is an explanation, a revealing of the fulfillment of these things.
Now the word New =kainos- new qualitatively, not in time, the new in time would be the word neos.
thus, it is qualitatively better than the old., it is different than the old.
It is new and distinctive, better than the old, superior in value or attraction, It is the wholly different and miraculous.
Let me explain it this way.
When You became a believer you were made a new creation.
That’s our word.
It wasn’t that your bodily characteristics were changed.
you still look like you.
However, you are a changed person, a new person.
You have a new way of thinking, a new value set, a new focus and purpose of life.
However, someone might notice a different you.
Your countenance changes, you might have a spring in your step, a change in your vocabulary, or your desires.
When a friend or family member sees you that might notice the change and ask, ‘what happened to you?” you are different somehow.
That is what is meant here.
in the same way the old heaven and earth is gone.
You won’t recognize the place.
All is made new.
New =kainos- new qualitatively, not in time, the new in time would be teh word neos.
thus, it is qualitatively better than the old., it is different than the old.
It is new and distinctive, better than the old, superior in value or attraction
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