Behold I Make All Things New

No laws of physics, no ecological system, NOTHING.

And God made (not by evolution – but created from NOTHING

in a moment – in an instant – by the power of His word.

Genesis 1:31, “And God saw everything that he had made,

and, behold, it was very good…..”

All that God created, was perfect, good, very good.

GOD MADE SOMETHING NEW OUT OF WHAT IS PUTRID

Galatians 6: 15, “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth

anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.”

ONLY a new creature is IN Christ Jesus (spiritually alive)

II Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ,

he is a new creature: old things are passed away;

behold, all things are become new.”

GOD MAKES EVERYTHING PERFECT

Revelation 21 gives us a stunning portrayal of what heaven will be like,

and we read in Revelation 21:3-5:

“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 shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”

Let’s notice - Revelation says this is a NEW heaven and a NEW earth.

God is gonna give us something that was never available before.

It will all be new!!! It will all be perfect!!!

And what I find interesting about our text this morning

is that it tells us what IS going to be IN heaven…

and it tells us what is NOT going to be IN heaven.

First, I want to focus on what is NOT going to be IN heaven.

Revelation 21 tell us He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,

and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning,

nor crying, nor pain anymore.

There’s an Old Gospel hymn:

“This world is not my HOME, I’m just passing through,

my treasures are laid up, somewhere beyond the blue.

The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door.

And I don’t feel at HOME in this world anymore.”

There are times when we think to ourselves – I think I want to go home now.

We may like this world well enough…

but there’s a lot of terrible things going on here.

But Heaven will be a place where there’s no more tears

or death or mourning or crying or pain.

Someone began keeping a list of things that won’t be in Heaven.

In heaven “there’ll be no more cancer. No more divorce.

No more rejection or loneliness.

No more depression.

No more wheelchairs or pacemakers.

No more radiation or chemotherapy.

No more crosses along the side of the road.

No more child abuse.

No more rape.

No more drugs.

No more abortions.

No more funeral homes or orphanages or nursing homes.

No more treatment centers.

No more Pink slips from work or foreclosures from the Bank.

No more quarantines or face masks and no more social distancing.”

No more lying politicians.

No more charlatans preaching a false gospel on TV.

And the list goes on and on and on…… feel free to add…….