Sermon Outlines

By Frederick F. Schwindt, Evangelist

THE CITY WITHOUT TEARS

1. The reading of this secret forecast of the New Jerusalem and its environment seem so far removed from our present experience:
   1. Tears of deep anguish and sorrow mark every home, every church, and every city today
   2. Our cities have become the scenes of crime and violent deaths unheard of before
   3. The voice of weeping seems to have replace the voice of joy
2. Our text is in truth:
   1. Ointment for the wounded heart; hope for all who sit in darkness - the day- star of the Christian hope
   2. One will do well to commit it to memory and rest in its promise when sorrow overtakes us B. THE CITY WITHOUT TEARS
3. The cause of tears - our text enumerates a number of causes for the shedding of tears:
   1. Pain - physical pain - heart-pain caused by bitter disappointment
   2. Sorrow caused by the loss of a loved one through death
   3. Death is in truth the main cause of tears that will invade every life, every home, and every city - no mortal is exempt
4. New Jerusalem - the mother of us all - Gal. 4:26 is the city without tears:
   1. The cause of tears will have been removed
   2. Death will have been abolished - sin the root cause of death will have banished from the universe
   3. Complete harmony in the universe will have been restored
   4. The curse will have been removed from the earth
   5. The former things, sickness, sorrow, and death, will not even come into the memory of the redeemed "For the former things have passed away"
   6. Our finite mind has difficulty to comprehend this glorious truth C. THE NEW JERUSALEM - THE CITY WITHOUT TEARS
5. Represent, in truth, the Paradise of God - the original garden of Eden:
   1. The original home of man - the Garden of Eden was removed from this earth after the fall of our first parents
   2. Paul saw it in the third heaven - 2 Cor. 12:1-3
6. It is significant:
   1. That the tree of life is not mentioned after the fall until we come to the book of Revelation - Rev. 2:7-8
   2. The tree of life was originally in the Garden of Eden and is seen in the Paradise of God after all things have been made new - Rev. 22:1-6
7. Also - the throne of God spoken of as the tabernacle of God:
   1. Will have been moved from the third heaven to the earth made new - Rev. 22
   2. The redeemed will come to worship in the New Jerusalem every Sabbath day - Is. 66:22-23
   3. There will be no night there - nor will it need the light of the sun, for the Lord of glory is in the midst of it
8. Who will not be in the city without tears?
   1. Nothing that defiles will be there - Rev. 21:27
   2. "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie" - Rev. 22:15
   3. Dear friend, will it be your privilege to be in the city without tears? Where the sorrows of earth will not even come into memory anymore?