The City John Saw.

Revelation 21:1-6 “In This City”

1. In this city that John saw it is not like cities we think of

• Cities are full of busyness, noise, chaos and crime.

• Isn’t the city the place where we assume humanity is at its worst?

• In our cities we lock our doors with multiple locks. We may not even lock our doors here, but in cities bars are up in windows, alarms are present.

2. The city John saw

• It’s a city filled with No more tears. No more death.

• No more pain. Comforting words for the grieving and tested.

• In the city’s we think of here, is just the opposite of what John saw

3. This city John saw is a City one may call Paradise

• Jesus called this place Paradise he told the thief o “this day you shall be with me in paradise “

• The city John writes about It’s holy (v. 2). This city replaces violence, greed, captivity, death

• This city is the dwelling of God See, the home of God is among mortals.

He will dwell with them;(v. 3)

• This city It radiates with shekinah as the temple used to (v. 11). . 11 It has the glory of God and radiance like a very rare jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal.

• The City has Twelve gates (v. 12) are named for the 12 tribes but entered by God’s new people (v. 7).

4. In this city John saw it is built not on rock an roll (the song “we built this city on Rock and Roll)

• In this City The New Jerusalem it is built of peace, generosity, freedom and life replace the old vices of violence, greed, captivity and death.

• This New City is built out of precious metals, gems, sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of the gates is a single pearl, and the street of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass.

• In this city, the voice of God speaks from the throne, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them” (v. 3).

• God is making clear that he chooses to live among us, his people, in a restored and renewed paradise on earth.

• This city is God built, not Ford Built by and God will wipe away every tear from our eyes. “Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away” (v. 4).

• In this City God says, “To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life” (v. 6).

5. I want to go to this city it is the home of the righteous, city of mansions, the Kingdom of Christ, It a Haven of rest, it’s a place of Glory, its everlasting it’s a land where we will never grow old.

• I have heard of this place called Heaven How beautiful heaven must be

• The Cities noise will be of joyful praise because no sickness, no pain, no diseases, no crime,

• In this city is stuff never seen And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, 6 Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.

• I will get to this city by the blood of the lamb