Sermon 177 Behold I Make All Things New.
What a wonderful season it is to celebrate the birth of the savior of the world Jesus Christ.
I hope that each of you received a gift from the heart of someone that loves you and desires to see you happy and content.
New things are a great gift aren’t they?
Rev 21:1-8
It seems that now mankind believes they have it all figured out.
We live in the information age, anything that you desire to know man seems to have an educated guess about the truth of the question.
There is always someone willing to say “I know the answer to that” with bold pride.
The first words in the Bible describe our beginning and the last words tell us of our ending.
In the middle we find knowledge and description of everything that God desires us to know.
In the beginning, ending and the in-between my natural life follows the pattern that God has fore-ordained.
When I was a child I didn’t know anything.
Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
1Co 4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
1Co 8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Jesus was and still is a new thing also
Prophecy
Isa 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isa 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Isa 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
Jer 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Fulfillment
Mar 1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
Mat 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
2Co 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Heb 8:8-13
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
2Co 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.
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Isa 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Life without Christ and new things.
2Ti 3:1-7
Life with Christ and new things.
1Jn 5:1-5
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.