All Things New
“What comes to mind when we think about GOD is the most important thing about us.”
- A.W. Tozer
1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.
Revelation 21:1-5, 11-12, 22-27 NIV
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”...It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates... I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
On That Day...
1. We’ll get a NEW HOME
Revelation 21:1 NIV
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Revelation 21:2 NIV
I saw the Holy CITY, the new Jerusalem, coming DOWN out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
“Wherever God dwells with his people and sits on His throne is called HEAVEN!”
-Randy Alcorn
On That Day...
1. We’ll get a NEW HOME
2. We’ll get a NEW BODY
Philippians 3:20-21 NLT
We are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into GLORIOUS BODIES like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
“We have become “bent” (sinful) versions of what God intended. Your deceitfulness, laziness, lust, deafness, disability and disease are not the real you. They are the temporary perversions that will be eliminated. They’re the cancer that the Great Physician will surgically remove. His redemptive work is such that never again will they return. When you’re on the NEW EARTH, for the first time you’ll be the person God created you to be.”
-C.S. Lewis
“I still can hardly believe it. I, with shriveled, bent fingers, atrophied muscles, gnarled knees, and no feeling from the shoulders down, will one day have a new body, light, bright, and clothed in righteousness - powerful and dazzling. Can you imagine the hope this gives someone spinal-cord injured like me? Or someone who is cerebral palsied, brain-injured, or who has multiple sclerosis? Imagine the hope this gives someone who is manic-depressive. No other religion, no other philosophy, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.”
-Joni Eareckson Tada
On That Day...
1. We’ll get a NEW HOME
2. We’ll get a NEW BODY
3. We’ll get a NEW LIFE
Revelation 21:4-5 NIV
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”
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