I never get tired of that song.
I never get tired of it. Turn with me, if you would, to
Revelation chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21. Verse 5 says, And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. I make all things new. Do you ever go back over your
past in your mind? You ever do that? Think about the different stages
of your life. Think about the different things
that you did, the things that you said, and wish with every fiber of
your being that you could undo it. Do you have things that haunt
you? Are there things that you have
done that prove to you you are as vile as this word says you
are? Do you ever wonder if somehow
they will resurface? Somehow it'll be brought up again. Somehow it'll be brought out
into the open again. I'll have to relive that again. If you do, would you like to
hear the greatest news you'll ever hear in your life? Verse 5 says, And he that sat
upon the throne, who is that? Jesus Christ. And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. I make all things new. I am undoing
every bit of it. I'm going to make it so that
you never did any of it. You never did any of it. Now let's see if God will let
us put off the old man and put on the new man for just a minute.
Sunday night we looked at putting off the old man and putting on
the new man. That old man of unbelief and
the new man of faith. The new man that believes God.
Let's see if the Lord will let us put him on for just a second.
I want to show you two scriptures. And if the Lord has created a
new man in us, we will believe both of these scriptures. The
first one is in Romans 3. Romans chapter 3, he's answering a question in
verse 4 by saying, God forbid, he's answering a question. And
then he says, yea, let God be true, but every man a liar. Whatever God says is true. And whatever any man says is
a lie. Do we believe that? Do we believe
that? Alright, then this is what God
said. Turn with me to Jeremiah chapter 50. Jeremiah chapter 50. Verse 20 says, In those days and in that time,
saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for,
and there shall be none. For spiritual Israel, for God's
chosen people, He said, Behold, I'm going to remove every single
sin from your record. Every single sin. Not only am
I going to pay the price for them. Not only am I going to
suffer the punishment for them. I'm going to actually remove
them from your record. I am going to remove them from
your mind. I'm going to remove them for
you. Every time I've ever read that verse of scripture, I've
looked at that verse of scripture in light of God the judge searching
for our sins. And he will, and there shall
be none. But it does not say who all will
do the searching. And when we go searching, Go searching into our mind. He
said, I'm going to make it so that when you or when anybody
else tries to go back into your mind or tries to go back into
your heart or whatever place you might think that sin could
be, after deep searching for it,
you'll never find it. You will never find it, because
it won't be there. It will not be there. He said
in verse 20, In those days and in that time, saith the Lord,
the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall
be none. And the sins of Judah, and they
shall not be found, for I will pardon them whom I reserve. Now here's why I said, let's
see if we can put on the new man. If you are Christ's, those sins that haunt you are
not there. There is nothing on your record
for you to carry guilt over. There's nothing on your record.
Now the old man is going to say, That is not so. This is what
the old man, we have an old man and a new man. And the old man
is gonna say, that's not so. No, I can't believe that. There's
no way I could believe that. Not with all of this guilt that
I feel. Not with all this sorrow that's
bringing me down. All the shame. I just don't believe
that. That's what the old man says.
The new man says, if that's what God said, let
God be true and let me be a liar. If God said, in Christ it's gone,
then it's gone. If God said, behold, I make all
things new, then it's new. If God said, I have chosen to
lay hold of you and lay hold of your sin and lay hold of the
guilt and the sorrow of the shame. I've chosen to lay hold of all
of it. And I've chosen to take it all
and wash it in my blood. And that blood has washed you.
And that blood has blotted out your entire record. And that
blood has removed all the guilt of your shame. If God says that
we are chaste virgins in Him, then we are chaste virgins in
Him. If God says we're holy, and if
God says we're spotless, And if God says we're pure, then
we are holy. We are spotless. We are pure. Turn with me to Acts chapter
10. Acts chapter 10. Verse 9 says, On the morrow,
as they went on their journey and drew nigh unto the city,
Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour.
And he became very hungry and would have eaten, but while they
made ready, he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a
certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet
knit at the four corners and let down to the earth, wherein
were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild
beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there
came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill, and eat. But Peter said,
Not so, Lord. For I have never eaten anything
that is common or unclean." Now there were certain animals that
the Jews, by law, were not allowed to eat because they were considered
unclean. They were considered filthy.
They were considered sinful. It was a sin to eat these certain
animals. Those animals represent us. In this vision, everything that
came down in this sheet, by nature, in its own flesh, was filthy. It was unclean. And that's what
we are by nature. But God told Peter, I want you
to eat those animals. I want you to receive those animals
to yourself. Verse 14, But Peter said, Not
so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him
again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not
thou common. If I have cleansed it, do not
call it unclean. If I say there is no sin in it,
then there is no sin in it. Now David said in Psalm 51, I
acknowledge my transgressions. My sin is ever before me. But he also said, If you purge
me with hyssop, I shall be clean. I'll be clean. Lord, if you come
to this earth, and if you take this sin from me, I acknowledge
my transgressions, my sin is ever before me, but if you come
take it from me, if you take this sin to your
cross, And if you pay the wages of my sin, which is death, if
you wash me in your great work of remission, this is what he
said. He said, if you do that, I shall
be whiter than snow. Snow is pretty white. It is pretty
white. He said, I shall be whiter than
snow, not just out of trouble, whiter than snow. That's exactly
what Christ did for his people. He made them whiter than snow,
chaste virgins to himself. Now turn with me back to Revelation
21. Revelation 21. Verse 1 says, And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw
the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Oh, Lord! Wait a minute. This is who you're
going to take to yourself? This is who you've betrothed
yourself to? This is who you've joined yourself
to in holy matrimony? But they're such sinners. They're
all such sinners. No, they're not. Check their
record. But Lord, I know they are. All
they've ever done is sin against you. That's all they've ever
done. No, they haven't. Check their
record. But Lord, they even say it with
their own mouth. They all cry, I'm just a sinner. All I am is a sinner before you. That's what I say. I'm a sinner. Well, God says they're not. God
says in Christ they are not. Let God be true. Check the record. Check the record. Well, Lord, where do I find it?
Look under the name Jesus Christ. His record is their record. Verse 3 says, I heard a great
voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God
is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be
his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes. And there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Why? Because there's no more
sin. It's not on the record. It's
not in the mind. It's not there. Verse 4 says, The former things
are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne
said, behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, write,
for these words are true and faithful. Now this is what I'd
like for us to get a hold of. And I pray this will be a great
help to us. I mean a great, great help for
the rest of our days on this earth. I pray this will be a
great help. When the Lord Jesus Christ took
our sin from us, the sin that his father gave to him, all the
people that his father gave to him and laid that sin on him,
when he took that sin, he bore all of it. Everything that goes
with it, he bore the sin itself. He bore the sentence that went
with it, the penalty and the execution of judgment on it.
But not only that, he bore the guilt, he bore the sorrow, he
bore the shame that went with it. In Psalm 40, he said, mine
iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look
up. This is what he said. Father,
I can't even look you in the face for the shame that I feel over
this sin. I can't even look up. Isaiah 53 says the Lord laid
on Him the iniquity of us all. God the Father laid the actual
sins that we have committed on Christ His Son. And Christ not
only bore our sin, He bore our griefs. He carried our sorrows. Our sins haunted Him. They haunted Him. He thought
about the things we did. Oh, He had to think about the
things that we said. He had to think about every idle
word that came out of this mouth. All of those things resurfaced. They were all brought out in
the open again on him. As he stood there in the eyes
of his father, there he is, his father looking at him, watching
him, and he stands in the eyes of his father. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer,
so opened he not his mouth. He couldn't. He couldn't. The guilt was too great, he just
couldn't. In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. And he said to his disciples,
my soul is so sorrowful right now, I feel like it could kill
me. I feel like I could die from
a broken heart. My soul is exceeding sorrowful,
even unto death. And he did die. He gave up his
own ghost. And in His death, not only did
He put away the sin, and not only did He put away the sentence
that went with it, the penalty and the execution of judgment
on it. In His death, He also put away that guilt, put away
that sorrow, and He put away all the shame. If Christ is your
only hope before God, If Christ is your only hope before God,
the next time you feel yourself starting to carry the weight
of the guilt and the sorrow and the shame that's attached to
your sin, just remember, not only has Christ also borne the
sin for me, and not only has Christ also borne the punishment
for me, Christ has already borne this guilt for me. He's already
borne the sorrow. He's already borne the shame.
Verse 5 here in Revelation 21 says, And he that sat upon the
throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Now, this right here,
I'm going to close with this. This is a real blessing to me.
John writing in verse 1, I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
That's coming from Isaiah 65. Hold your place right here and
turn over to Isaiah 65. Isaiah 65, he said in verse 17,
For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. This is what
I'm going to do. I'm going to create new heavens
and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered nor come
into mind. For all eternity, the only mind
that my people are going to go back into. The only mind that
my people are going to reminisce, think on, dwell on, search, is
the mind of Christ. That's the only mind they're
going to go back into. It says in verse 18, but be ye glad and
rejoice forever in that which I create. For behold, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy. And I will rejoice
in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall
be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall
be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath
not filled his days, for the child shall die a hundred years
old." The young person is going to be the same as the man who's
a hundred years old. He's going to know all things.
But the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
If a man lives on this earth a hundred years old, it won't
make a bit of difference. And they shall build houses and inhabit
them. What does that mean? No idea. And they shall plant vineyards
and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another
inhabit. They shall not plant, and another
eat. For as the days of a tree are
the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work
of their hands." They're going to be there forever. It's not
like on this earth where somebody comes in and takes over where
one of us leaves off. I'm living in a house that I
didn't build. Another man built my house and lived in it first.
And now he's gone and now I've moved in. The Lord said, it's
not so with my people. They're going to be there forever.
Verse 22, they shall not build in another inhabit, they shall
not plant in another eat. For as the days of a tree are
the days of my people, And mine elect shall long enjoy the work
of their hands. They shall not labor in vain,
nor bring forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the
blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them. Thank the
Lord. And it shall come to pass that
before they call, I will answer. And while they are yet speaking,
I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock, and
dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy. In all my holy mountain, saith
the Lord." He said, that's what I'm gonna do. That's what I'm
going to create. A brand new creation. He said, I promise. I promise. That's what I'm gonna do. John
said, I saw it. He did it. I saw a brand new heaven. The
Lord said, I'm gonna create a brand new heaven and a brand new earth.
John said, I saw a brand new heaven. I saw a brand new earth. I saw a people with a brand new
heart, a brand new spirit, a brand new name, a brand new song. He said, behold, God made all
things new. He made all things new. Now flip
back and look at the end of verse five. He said unto me, write. And this word says unto me, preach. Tell my people this. Tell my
people this. For these words are true and
faithful. This is the truth. All right,
let's all stand together.