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Introduction
“I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW!”
What a bold statement is it not?
What hope does a young wife and mother, a believer, in Pakistan who has lost her husband through martyrdom, have to keep her going?
Or what hope does a young Muslim man have who, after becoming a believer in Christ, is threatened to be killed by his uncle and is forced out of his parents home to live on the streets under constant threat?
What hope does he have to keep enduring such hardship when all he has to do is to go back to Islam?
Or what hope do you have to keep going when life is harder as a believer for you?
I know one of you gave up a marriage because you turned to Christ and your ex wouldn’t accept that.
Or what hope do you have who is struggling to live for Jesus and it just seems like it would be easier to lay that aside and not have the hardships that come with being a Christian.
What hope is there for you?
In a broken marriage the offender wants to come back and he or she promises _ “Things will be different from here on out.” “I am a brand new person.”
An alcoholic or an addict pleads to be given another chance making similar claims.
“I won’t do it again.”
But what basis does the offended have to be confident that things in fact will be better?
Really none is there.
What should keep them going?
What would make them want to give the person another chance?
But this is not just some man or woman making this assertion.
It is God.
He is all about making all things new.
I was reminded of a song “things are different now” written by Stanton W. Gavitt who died in 1985.
Interestingly he also wrote “I’m so happy and here’s the reason why” and “Jesus set the joy-bells ringing in my soul.”
Things are different now,
Something happened to me
when I gave my heart to Jesus;
Things are different now
I was changed it must be
When I gave my heart to Him.
Things I loved before have passed away,
Things I love far more have come to stay;
Things are different now,
Something happened to me
when I gave my heart to Him.
When you became a believer something did become different didn’t it?
I know it did in my life.
That event in my life revolutionized my life.
Suddenly I had purpose.
I knew what I needed to do right then.
I knew there was a distinct change in me.
People around me saw it.
Nevertheless, life hasn’t been easy.
John writes these words to a persecuted, life on the run, church.
His design, by Divine inspiration is to help believers in the conditions I just described to faithfully endure to the end.
What confidence does he offer to his readers, you and me, that it will be worth it all?
It is wrapped up in the statement, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW!
Clearly this comes from the prophecy in
There Isaiah speaks about that time in the end when in contrast to those who rejected Christ, those who did receive Christ, whom he calls ‘my servants’ they will receive what God had offered Israel.
He will make all things new in that time.
There Isaiah speaks about that time in the end when in contrast to those who rejected Christ, those who did receive Christ, whom he calls ‘my servants’ they will receive what God had offered Israel.
He will make all things new in that time.
this would give great hope to the believers in John’s day who were suffering immensely for their faith in Christ.
this is a promise of certain hope.
God is even now in that process of making us new as we see in .
A similar thought is carried out in other passages
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This making all things new is what we are aiming for now, are we not?
It is what we are hoping for.
I mean, think of what Paul tells us in where Paul speaks of putting off the old man, which we want to get rid of; by being renewed in the spirit of our mind and putting on the new man.
Is that not a making all things new in our thinking and actions?
Of course it is.
This making all things new is what we are aiming for now are we not?
I mean think of what Paul tells us in is that not a making all things new in our thinking and actions.
But what makes this statement something we can be confident is really going to happen.
What makes it not just ‘pie in the sky, oh my?’
That is what I think we need to see.
Because we all agree that things need to be different.
We all agree that the passage clearly states that it is going to be different.
It is going to be brand new.
But what makes it a belief to die for.
Or for that matter to give up your job, or move to another place, or endure a loss of income or lose a friend for?
That’s what I think this passage is doing for us.
Not just telling us what is in our future, but what is the basis for this future.
Or rather, who is the basis and what has He said.
So lets answer the question of confidence.
Why should we be confident in this statement and what difference does that make for us today?
We are confident in God’s Word, and this is God’s Word, because
I. God is the Sovereign One, v.5
He is the One who made this declaration to John to give to us.
And He that sat upon the throne said
The one who sits upon the throne is the one who clearly is in charge.
He is the one who rules.
WE know from v.6 that it is Jesus who is sitting on the throne and doing the speaking here.
I don’t want to bandy this about because we have spoken of this in sermons past.
But just a reminder is in order.
You will remember this was the appearance of Christ in 1:8, 11.
We can look to Isaiah’s awesome vision in where the seraphim cried “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts: the whole is full of His glory.”
And he responded with “Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King , the Lord of hosts.”(v.5).
John tells us in that Isaiah said these things “when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.”
He was speaking of Jesus.
So the one who is on the throne is none other than Jesus and he is called “Holy, Holy, Holy.’
That is triadic statement emphasizing there is none holier than Him.
In that case, We can take his Statement to be the truth because the one who said it is the Holiest One of All.
We can be confident that in the end He makes all things new because He is God who makes that statement and He is holy.
He cannot lie.
“it is impossible for God to lie.”
“God, who never lies,”
Therefore if God never lies, then we can conclude that His words are always true.
Which leads us to the next reason we can be confident in this statement.
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The testimony of Scripture,
“These words are faithful and true”
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