All Things New

Introduction: Begin with the end in mind.

The purpose of New Year’s Resolutions (healthy | eat less, exercise more; financial well-being | spend less, save more)

Can’t think of any? Ask your spouse.

Make a resolution that will matter for eternity. What will life be like forever? Begin now with that end in mind.

What does “all things new” mean (5)?

A New Day (1, 4)

New creation

“New heaven & a new earth” ~ “the heavens & the earth” ().

“Passed away” literally “gone by; come and gone.”

Present Active Verb - “I am making all things new.” The newness will never wear off.

Illustration: Christmas morning every day.

Passing of the old.

No more pain; death will die.

Until then, pain is a part of our sin-cursed world.

Until then, pain is a part of our sin-cursed world.Physical pain: Among primary care appointments, 22% focus on pain management (National Library of Medicine).Relational painOccupational painGenesis 3:15 Blaise Pascal, the great mathematician and moralist, lived with pain in his 39 years: "From the day that I was eighteen I do not know that I have ever passed a single day without pain.“I haven't been happy one minute of my entire...life” (Arthur Fleck, Joker). Application 1: Prosper through joy.Manage your expectations.Application: Don’t get too attached.“Love not the world.”A New Relationship / Dynamic / Accord / System / Deal / God with man.New Jerusalem comes down.“Tabernacle of God is with men, & He will dwell with them...God Himself will be with them.”Fulfillment of Immanuel.Reversing the curse of Eden.God will give man what He most needs and desires...Himself.Application: Live with God every day.Spend time with God.A new holiness / devotion / No sin (8).You can’t have heaven without holiness (). Application: Be holy.

Physical pain: Among primary care appointments, 22% focus on pain management (National Library of Medicine).

Relational pain

Occupational pain ()

Blaise Pascal, the great mathematician and moralist, lived with pain in his 39 years: "From the day that I was eighteen I do not know that I have ever passed a single day without pain.“

I haven't been happy one minute of my entire...life” (Arthur Fleck, Joker). 

Application 1: Prosper through joy.

Manage your expectations.

“I don’t know why God lets me suffer.” What did you expect?

Don’t get too attached. “Love not the world.”

A New Dynamic

God with man.

New Jerusalem comes down.

God with man.New Jerusalem comes down.“Tabernacle of God is with men, & He will dwell with them...God Himself will be with them.”Fulfillment of Immanuel.Reversing the curse of Eden.God will give man what He most needs and desires...Himself.Application: Live with God every day.Spend time with God.A new holiness / devotion / No sin (8).You can’t have heaven without holiness (). Application: Be holy.

“Tabernacle of God is with men, & He will dwell with them...God Himself will be with them.”

Since Eden, man has needed a way to reach God. A priest, a sacrifice.

Reversing the curse of Eden.

Fulfillment of Immanuel.

Reversing the curse of Eden.

God will give man what He most needs and desires...Himself.

Application: Live with God every day. Spend time with God every day.

A new Devotion

Final sanctification (8).

You can’t have heaven without holiness ().

Another area of expectation management:

Jesus without justification.

God without being good.

Blessing without

At heaven's gate there stands an angel with charge to admit none but those who in their countenances bear the same features as the Lord of the place. Here comes a monarch with a crown upon his head. The angel pays him no respect, but reminds him that the diadems of earth have no value in heaven. A company of eminent men advance dressed in robes of state, and others adorned with the gowns of learning, but to these no deference is rendered, for their faces are very unlike the Crucified. A maiden comes forward, fair and comely, but the celestial watcher sees not in that sparkling eye and ruddy cheek the beauty for which he is looking. A man of renown cometh up heralded by fame, and preceded by the admiring clamour of mankind; but the angel saith, "Such applause may please the sons of men, but thou hast no right to enter here." But free admittance is always given to those who in holiness are made like their Lord. Poor they may have been; illiterate they may have been; but the angel as he looks at them smiles a welcome as he says, "It is Christ again; a transcript of the holy child Jesus. Come in, come in; eternal glory thou shalt win. Thou shalt sit in heaven with Christ, for thou art like Him."

Application: Be holy now.