GOD'S NEW WORLD

Isaiah 65:1

A. "FOR BEHOLD I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH; AND THE FORMER SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED NOR COME INTO MIND" 1. This is, in truth, the Magna Carta, for humanity:
  1. It pictures the new Divine order
  2. The ultimate of perfection
  • It is God's great incentive:
    1. For a new perspective
    2. And a new aim by men - 2 Pet. 3:13 B. THIS OLD WORLD
  • In its infancy:
    1. Held great promise to provide eternal security and happiness for humanity
    2. It provided all the elements of abundance and happiness - Gen. 2:1-25
    3. It was crowned by the constant fellowship between Creator and His creation - Ps. 8: 4-9
    4. "The morning stars sang together: - Job 38:7
    5. "The heavens declared the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork Ps. 19: 1-6
  • But it was marred by sin:
    1. Our first parents yielded to temptation by the serpent - Gen. 3:1-6
    2. They rebelled against the Divine order for humanity
    3. That broke the God planned and directed harmony between the Creator and this world
    4. The mark of guilt by man shadowed his surrounding - Gen. 7:22
    5. The earth, man's play ground became a battlefield between good and evil - Gen. 3:15
  • The beautiful earth:
    1. Became a cemetery; one must surmise today that the dust beneath us may be part of the bodies of our ancestors - who knows
    2. Man became and still is a vagabond in the land that was intended to be his eternal home - Gen. 47:9; Heb. 11: 12-16
    3. His life is brief, marked by disappointment, pain, sorrow and finally death - Gen. 3:16-19 C. GOD'S NEW WORLD
  • "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind" - Is. 65:17; 66:22; Rev. 21:1
    1. This plan by God has been the theme of the saints in all ages
    2. It has been the star of hope for all God's pilgrims - Heb. 11: 14-16
  • This promise by God is most reveling:
    1. It shows that God's original plan for the human family, though disrupted and delayed, has never been changed - Mal. 3:6
    2. It will, in due time, be carried out to the glory of God and to the eternal enjoyment of the redeemed
  • God's new world:
    1. Is the heart and substance embodied in over four thousand promises in the Bible
    2. It has been in past ages and still is the Magna Carta of the saints that explains their hope for a better world to live in
    3. It will be different - "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" - I Cor. 2:9
  • What we shall not find there:
    1. The alluring enemy that tempted and beguiled our first parents - Rev. 20:10
    2. The voice of weeping shall not be heard the cause for weeping has been removed forever
    3. There will be no funeral processions that because death will be abolished - Rev. 21:4
    4. The marks of the curse of sin will not be seen any more - Rev. 22:1-3
    5. The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable, and the murderers and the whoremongers and the sorcerers and the idolaters, and all liars will be excluded - Rev. 21:8
  • What will be there:
    1. The garden of Eden with the tree of life in the midst thereof - Rev. 22:1-3
    2. The tabernacle of God will be there - showing that the New Jerusalem will become the center of the universe - Rev. 21:3-5


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