Thank you Robin. As you know,
Fannie Crosby was born blind and someone once said to her, Aren't you so sad that you're
never able to see things in this life? The blue sky and the sunshine. She had a good imagination, didn't
she? She wrote about the rosy sky. But she never saw those things. Somebody said, aren't you so
sad that you've never seen any of these things? She said, no,
not at all. Because the first thing I will
see is His face, like that blind man in John 9. And she wrote that hymn. Revelation 7, the revelation,
because it's not revelations, but the revelation of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's another gospel book. I hope we'll see that here. It
begins, verse 1, after these things. After these things. And another chapter division
that possibly, maybe shouldn't be there, but it is. And after
what thing? In chapter 6, verse 12, it says,
An angel opened the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake
and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and moon became as blood. Stars of heaven fell to the earth
and verse 14, heaven departed as a scroll. We sing that hymn,
it is well with my soul and the heavens roll back as a scroll. This is what's being described
here and it says, In verse 16, the people on the earth shall
say to the mountains, cry unto the mountains and the rock, fall
on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne
from the wrath of the Lamb. And I sing that song when I hear
the wicked call on the rocks and hills to fall. Then, Lord,
shall I know, shall we know. And not till then. how much we
owe to the sovereign elect in mercy and grace of our God. Verse
17, for the great day of His wrath is come, and who shall
be able to stand? After these things, it says.
After these things, who shall be able to stand? I'll tell you
who is going to stand. Those who stand on the rock,
Christ Jesus. Those who, like these he begins
to talk about, have been sealed, having the seal of God. Those who have been numbered
and chosen by the Lord. The foundation of God standeth
sure having this seal. That's the sovereign electing
mercy and grace of God, having this seal. The Lord knoweth them
that are His. He gives a number, and I believe
it's symbolic. I don't believe it's necessarily
exact literal number of each tribe of Israel, but it's symbolic
showing that like Paul said in Romans 11, though the children
of Israel be as the sand of the seashore, yet there is a remnant
according to the election of grace. And that's what these
numbers are talking about, that out of every tribe of Israel,
And those that are numbered, those that are sealed, the seal
is His sovereign election. Having this seal, the Lord knoweth
them that are here. That seal is the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ, like Noah and his family. They were in
that ark. The Lord shut the door, and then
what did He do? Pitched it. Sealed it up. They're sealed. Those are under the blood. And
then the seal is the Spirit of God. Ephesians 1 says that in whom
you believed and at that you were sealed with the Holy Spirit
of promise and faith. Faith is that seal given to all
of God's people. Sealed, those in white robes.
It talks about there being in white robes washed in the blood
of the Lamb. So why do I bring this up, all
this destruction and all that? Because
you can't appreciate the gospel. If you don't appreciate, don't
remember the pit from which you were digging. If you don't understand
something of the goodness and severity of the Lord. That's
what Paul said. Behold both the goodness and
the severity of the Lord. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of it. Now everybody wants to go to
heaven, not everybody. You wouldn't find anybody that
didn't want to go to heaven. You wouldn't find anybody that
didn't want to be done with death. We're going to talk about no
more death. We're going to talk about no more sorrow. We're going
to talk about no more tears. Who doesn't want to be done with
that? The world wants to be done with that. No more death? So
that they can continue their doing what they love to do now. Everybody. wants to be done with
sorrow and tears and all that. So this can't just be a sentimental
message, an emotional message of, oh, God's going to wipe away
all tears. It's got to have something to
do with the gospel. That's the difference. Everybody wants to
be done with sorrows and troubles and trials. But this is for those
who worship the Lord and rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ. We're
going to see their testimony here. Now, let's look at it.
Look at it. Look at verse 9. And after this,
after he gave the number and talked about the seal, after
this, and by the way, being sealed in the forehead, we've devoted
a whole message to that. What's that? You think there's
actually going to be a tattoo on your head? Oh, no. Oh, no. And it's not going to
be a 666 on anybody's head either. That would be easy to spot. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 1,
he said, we have the mind of Christ. To be carnally minded is death,
Romans 8. But to be spiritually minded
is life and peace. And he went on to say, we have
the mind of Christ. That is God's people. As a front
lip between their eyes. have this faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ. They believe on Him. Let this mind be in you. The
mind of Christ, sealed in the forehead. You cut open the mind,
the heart of God's people, and their testimony is Christ is
up. Christ is up. That's the seal
in the forehead. Alright, look at verse 9. After
this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could
number. Our Lord said, They will be as
the sands of the sea and the stars of the sky. But He has
even them numbered, doesn't He? The stars. He telleth the stars,
the Scripture says. He calleth them by name. Well,
how much more does He have His people known? Known unto God
are all His works from the beginning of the world. He has chosen His
people before the foundation of the world and put their names
in the Lamb's book of life." The Lord's merciful, full of
mercy, delights to show mercy, full of compassion, gracious,
delights to pardon, and has pardoned millions and trillions before
us and will continue to do so. He's good to save one in it.
But oh, He's so merciful, and He's chosen a number which no
Man can number, but He has them numbered, because He was numbered
with them. He was numbered with the transgressors.
He has them numbered. Now, shouldn't this make everyone
in here think, why not me? Why not me? Why not me? Because none of them
were chosen because they were worthy. They're sinners. Why not me? Look at verse 9,
it says, "...a multitude which no man could number of all nations."
When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, and that whole
story is a type, a symbol of God's people coming out of this
world. It says they were a great, a
vast, mixed multitude. A mixed multitude. My, my. people of all nations, and kindreds. That's family. That's every family. Every family. Imagine that. That's
how merciful the Lord is. Every single family. Someone
in their family leading. Every family. And people. And tongues. But there's going
to be one tongue in Gloria. There are many different languages
now. all over the earth and God's
people that are found in Africa and Mexico and Russia and China. He has people everywhere. Most
of whom we don't know. We know brethren in Mexico, don't
we? And some of you have been there.
They speak a different language, don't they? A ton. But the gospel
is not different. The gospel is not different.
It's the same gospel. And someday we'll all be speaking
the same language. What language is that? Well,
it's a heavenly language. I don't know. But anyway, they're
of one tongue. And they stood before the throne
and before the Lamb. They stood before the throne
and before the Lamb. We just read in the last verse
of the previous chapter who should be able to stand. Well, these
are. These are standing. When I stand before His throne
dressed in beauty, not my own, then Lord shall I know how much
I owe. And they stand before the throne,
verse 9, before the Lamb. Who's on the throne? The Lamb,
as it had been slain. Every man has a Lamb on earth
and that's who we'll see. Notice something if you go through
the book of the Revelation. Chapter 5 begins, before it mentions
the Lamb, it mentions Christ as the Lion. The Lion. Before you know Him as your Savior
and Redeemer, you know Him as your King, as your Lord. He's
called the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. But after He's beheld
as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, then from then on He's called
The Lamb. The Lamb. Though we stand before
the Lamb clothed with white robes. Clothed with white robes. What are these robes? Huh? Sir, thou knowest. Surely you
do. Look at chapter 6 verse 11. And
white robes were given unto every one of them. White robes were
given unto every one of them. Look over quickly at chapter
19. Revelation 19, look at this. White robe. What are these robes? What are they? Look at verse
5. Revelation 19, 5. A voice came
out of the throne saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants,
and ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard, as it
were, the voice of a great multitude, as the voice of many waters,
as the voice, all with one voice, one mind, one heart, of mighty
thundering, saying, hallelujah, praise the Lord, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice and
give honor to him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his
wife hath made herself ready, and to her was granted that she
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. What is that? Well, the fine linen is the righteousness
of saints. It's not their righteousness
which they produced, but the king's daughters, all glorious,
brought to him in robes of his making, his righteousness. When
the prodigal son came home, when the father brought him home,
what's the first thing that the father cried out for? The first
thing, huh? Bring the best robe and not offer
it to him. Put it on him. Put it on him. That's righteousness imputed. That's the covering. Like Adam
and Eve in the garden. First mention of someone being
clothed was Adam and Eve who were naked and frayed before
God, guilty, ashamed, fearful of being killed because of their
sin. But God, but Christ, killed a
lamb right before their eyes, shed its blood, and took the
skins of that lamb, and clothed those two sinners. What are these
robes? Sir, thou knowest. If you know
how blessed you are, and how blessed you are if you wear one,
that's the righteousness that is in Christ. He's made unto
us righteousness. Go back to our text now. So they
are clothed, you see. They didn't put these robes on,
they were put on them with white robes. Now, how these robes get
white? Down in verse 14, it says, they
washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Now, how can you put a robe in blood and it come out white?
Sir, thou knowest. Isaiah 1 says, come now, let
us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet. be as white
as snow. Though they be like crimson,
they'll be like wool. How? The blood of the Lamb. Now,
only God's people understand that. It's the blood that washes
away. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanseth us from all iniquity, all unrighteousness. Wash thy
robe. And they have palms in their hand, palms of victory.
There's an old song, and Brother Donnie Bell and the folks down
there sing, the palms of victory. crowns of glory, palms of victory
I shall wear. Symbolic of that feast of the
tabernacle, but palms in their hand. And they cried. Now here's
who they are. Here's their testimony then and
now. Verse 10. They cried with a loud
voice. You see, they all have one voice.
They all have one mind. They all have one heart. One
Lord. One faith. One hope. One salvation. One
faith. What is it? Salvation to our
God. That's what they all cry in it.
Salvation to our God. When Jonah was in the belly of
the whale. This is the watchword, I believe, of all believers in
it. Salvation is of the Lord. Jonah cried that. Salvation is
of the Lord. Moses, when all of Israel was
standing before that impassable Red Sea, that great gulf fixed
between them and the Promised Land, what did Moses say? Stand
still. and seek the salvation of the
Lord. He didn't say, let's all try
the best we can. Let's start swimming, boys. Stand still and seek. Don't do
anything. Like the young preacher said
to Jehoshaphat and all the children of Israel standing with the enemy
surrounding them, he said, the battle is not yours, it's the
Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation belongs to our God.
Habakkuk cried, I will rejoice in the Lord and joy in the God
of my salvation. Let such as love thy salvation
say, the Lord be magnified. That's what they say then and
that's what they say now. Salvation to our God. Salvation
is of the Lord, which sitteth upon the throne, sovereign and
unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round
about the throne, and about the elders, and the four beasts,
and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God."
See what they're doing? You see, this is what they did
while they were on this earth. I've been quoting that tonight,
Philippians 3.3. This is the true circumcision,
three marks of the true people of God, number one. They worship
God in spirit. They worship God. They meet together
to worship God. They don't meet to be entertained.
They don't meet to see the choir, to socialize. No, no. They worship
God. They come to worship God in spirit
and truth. Christ said, the Father seeketh
such to worship Him. And He'll find them because He
chose them. That's what He gave them, this
spirit of worship. They rejoice in Christ Jesus.
They rejoice in the lamb. They rejoice in the Lord. They
rejoice in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why
they come. And they have no confidence in
the flesh. No trappings, no earthly, no fleshly gimmicks and trappings. The flesh have nothing to do
with the flesh. God's not worshipped with our
hands. He's worshipped in spirit and in truth. The truth as it
is in the Lord Jesus Christ, the gospel. This is how you worship
God. They worship Him. They fall before Him and worship
Him on their faces. Saying, verse 12, Amen. I love that word. Let the Amen
sound from His people again. Gladly for ever, for everything. We adore Him. Amen means that's
the way it is. Amen means so be it. Amen means
it's true. And I like it. Amen. That's what they say. Amen. And
here's what they attribute to the Lord. Blessing? All blessing. Ephesians 1, 4. According to this, He has blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Where are
they? In Christ Jesus. Just as Paul didn't mention one
earthly thing in Ephesians 1. He's talking about the blessings
of God. It's not mentioned here. The blessing. The blessing. It's the blessing of the gospel.
The blessing. Our Lord said to His disciples
one day, they came back rejoicing over the name... the devils were
subjected. And He said, don't rejoice in
that. Rejoice in this. Your names are written in heaven. You're one of the chosen. That's
the blessing. Blessing. It's His. It's blessing
belongeth unto the Lord. Thy blessing, Psalm 3 says, Thy
blessing is upon Thy people. Blessing and glory. What's this
all about? His glory. His glory. It's all about His glory. And
wisdom. Wisdom. We quote so often. Could you quote it right now
if I asked you to stand up and quote it? 1 Corinthians 1.30.
Of Him, Of God are we in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us. First thing, wisdom. Christ is
the power of God and the wisdom of God. We see the wisdom of
God, don't we? Not with worldly wisdom, but
the wisdom of God and God making Christ to be flesh and dwell
among us. The lawgiver was made unto the
law, made a curse for us, made a blessing for us. What wisdom
the gospel is. Wisdom. It's all in Christ. And
Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. Amen. All Thanksgiving. Paul said this over and over
again. We're bound to give thanks always to God. For everything. For everyone. For everything.
Because what do we have that we have not received? And if you know that, then you
won't glory in anything or anyone save in your God. and in the cross of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He won't share the glory. God
won't share His glory with anyone. And neither will you. Glory. All glory unto Him. Look at verse
12. Glory, thanksgiving, and honor,
and power, and might be unto our God forever. Wisdom, thanksgiving,
and honor, and power. All power. How powerful is our God. You
know many say that, don't you? They have it on their bumper
sticker. If they knew God, they wouldn't put His name on their
bumper sticker. His name is to be exalted. Make mention, David
said, that His name is to be exalted, not down among the carbon
monoxide. How powerful is our God? They
say God is greater than everything. God is greater than all my troubles. Our God reigneth. Our God ruleth. Our God, the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth. Our God reigns over everything.
Not only creation, but salvation. God's people know that. He reigns
over everything. That Jesus Christ reigns and
rules and controls everything. All flesh. As thou hast given
him power over all flesh. And God's people like it that
way. Glory and honor and power and might be unto our God forever
and ever. What do you say to that? Amen.
That's the way I like it. Amen means, amen means, that's
the way I like it. That's the way I would have it
to be. One of the elders said unto me, what are these which
are arrayed in white robes, and whence came they? Now once again,
most perversions of translations pervert this and say, who are
they? The King James says, What are
they? And it's written well, because
it's not important who they are. The names aren't given, huh?
They're not given a name. What's more important is what
they are. You know what they are? A bunch of sinners saved
by grace. Who they are? They're not the
who's who. Oh no, you see your calling, brethren. Not many wise
men at the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. God
has chosen the weak thing. God has chosen the foolish thing.
God has chosen the things that are not, the nobody. John, what's
your name? I'm not, it's not who I am, it's
what I am. I'm just a boy. What about you? Who are you? I'm a nobody. What
am I? A sinner saved by grace. What
are these? Isn't that a better translation? And whence came they? Or that
is whence, not important where you come from, where you come
from, it's when you come. When? Whence? It's an old English
word. Whence means when and where.
Came they? Whence came they? How'd they
come here? How'd they get to be here? They didn't come of
their own free will. They were brought. All that the
Father gave him, gave Christ, shall come to him. Brought by
the Spirit of God. That's when they came, come,
and that's from where. And I said unto him, Sir, thou
knowest, and he said to me, These are they which came out of great
tribulation." People wrongly interpret our Lord's words in
Matthew 24, days of tribulation, as being
a future time period. God's people have always been
in tribulation. Didn't our Lord say that? That you must. through much tribulation, enter
the kingdom of heaven." You mean to tell me that Abel didn't go
through tribulation? Why, he was killed for the truth.
That's the tribulation he's talking about. Chiefly, persecution,
affliction for the truth's sake, tribulation. He said, you must,
through much tribulation, enter the kingdom of heaven. You should
be persecuted for my name's sake. This is a tribulation, principally.
What he's talking about, the first time, tribulation. who stand up for the truth, who
bear his testimony, go through this tribulation. They go through
it. John began this whole letter to the churches by saying, I,
John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation
and in the kingdom and patience, so that is waiting on the Lord
Jesus Christ. So all of God's people go through
tribulation. If you don't, you're not one
of God's people. And it says, they have washed
their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore,
are they before the throne of God. That's why. Why are they
there? They have a Lamb. Every man a Lamb. Every man must
have a Lamb. And we do. Christ is the Lamb
of God that was slain for the remission of our sin. We stand,
we'll be before the throne of God because we have a land. And
they serve Him. You see that? They serve Him
day and night. Though there is no night. But
day and night in His temple. And He that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them. Who's that? That's Christ. Job. I love this. The root of
the matter was in Job. They sat around debated and argued
and talked about many things, didn't he? Job and his three
friends, and some right, some wrong. Elihu rebuked them all. But Job said this, he said, I
know this much, that my words were written in a book. They
are, Job. He said, I know my Redeemer liveth,
and He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And after
my skin, after worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall
I see God." Who? God. I'm going to see God. He said, I shall see for myself,
mine eyes shall behold, and not another. But Job, don't you know
that no man hath seen God, nor can see God, nor hath seen at
any time, nor can see God. Job said, I'm going to. Well, He must be in a body, mustn't
He? We must be able to see Him. That's
what Fanny Crosby said, I shall see Him face to face. What's
His name? Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty
God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. His name
is Jesus Christ. As Thomas said, He's my Lord
and my God. You're going to see Him. You're
going to see Him. He'll dwell with us. Oh my, what
will that be like? To actually see Him. Dwell with
Him. Dwell among them. Look at verse
16. And they shall hunger no more.
They shall hunger no more. Neither thirst any more. Didn't
our Lord say, blessed are they that hunger and thirst. They
shall be filled. You know, we look forward to
a time when there'll be no more tears. Don't we? No more tears. But I'm looking into the faces
of people right now, I don't see any tears. Since I've been
talking about Christ, hasn't this cheered you up, son?
Hasn't this wiped your tears just for a little while? We need
cheering right now. Our Lord, though He was a man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief, the sorrows He bore were
our sorrow. He, for the joy set before Him,
endured the cross. He was not a man that walked
around in a melancholy, morose, downcast. To be downcast and
down in the mouth and always morose is dishonoring to our
God. It means you find fault with
His sovereignty, find fault with His providence, to always be
down. Our Lord was not that way. He is that blessed man of Psalm
1 speaks of. Blessed means happy. He was always
cheering up the disciples, wasn't He? He was always saying, be
of good cheer. You know He was smiling when
He said that. He said, I've come to bring joy for sadness, oil
of gladness for mourning. He is going to bear our sorrows
and our grief on the cross. But until then, for joy, He was
joyful and blessed. He says He rejoiced in spirit.
No matter what came His way, He knew it was the Father's will.
And one time when they all were against him and they didn't believe
him and they were plotting his death, it says, he rejoiced in
spirit and he said, I thank you, Father, that you've hid these
things from the wise and the prudent and revealed them unto
me. They need to be a happy people now, don't they? They need to
be a joyful people. Did you hear what the Lord Jesus said to me?
They're all taken away. Your sins are pardoned and you
are free. They're all taken away. Rejoice. And again I said, Rejoice. And Paul wrote that while he
was in prison. You remember the story of Paul and Silas? When
they went to Philippi and were put in jail? In a dark dungeon,
dark cell? What did they do? Paul said to
Silas, he said, Brother Silas, the Lord's put us here on purpose.
This is no accident. Men didn't do this. The Lord
did this. We're the Lord's prisoners. Brother
Silas, let's thank Him for being here. What do you say? Let's
pray unto Him and let's sing. And they started singing. Well,
what happened? The gates flew open. And through their joy,
and their singing, happy are the people. Let's be a thankful
people. Be a happy people. The gospel should dry our tears
right now. Right now. Read on. It says, They shall
hunger and thirst no more. We hunger and thirst, but Christ
said, Blessed are they that hunger and thirst shall be filled. Listen to this, Psalm 25. In
this mountain, talking about Mount Zion, talking about the
church where the Gospels pray. In this mountain shall the Lord
of hosts make unto all people, that is a people from every tribe,
nation, kindred, tongue, people, shall the Lord make a feast of
fat things, Feast of wine on the leaves and fat things full
of merit of wine on the leaves well refined He'll destroy in
the face of the covering cast over the people the veil Like
Paul spoke of that veils done away and cry He'll swallow up
death and victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears from
off all faces. That's when the Gospels pray
Christ said God said comfort you comfort you my people Comfort
you, my people. Speak comfortably unto them.
Say unto them, first thing, that warfare is accomplished. Second
thing, their iniquity is pardoned. Third thing, they've received
of the Lord's hand double for all their iniquity. That dry
your tears? Brother Joseph read Psalm 38
tonight in the study. Oh my, my loins are filled with
the loaves of disease. They're more than I can number,
more than the hairs on my head. Save me, oh God, I'm going down.
Like Peter, look unto the Lord. Save me Lord, I pray. And he
pulled him out. Don't you know he rejoiced when
he got back in that boat? He'll destroy, he'll swallow
up death and victory. The Lord God will wipe away our
tears from all faces. The gospel should wipe away our
tears for a time. And this hunger and thirst, we
don't hunger and thirst like most people who feed on husks.
Like that prodigal son who was in the hog pen, when he came
home, what was the second thing the father said? Kill the padded
calf. Oh, that's the gospel of Christ.
Alright, read on. It says in verse 16, neither
shall the sun light on them nor any heat. And over in chapter
22 it says that there's no need, chapter 21, the city had no need
of the Son, because the glory of God did lighten it. The Lamb
is the light thereof, and the nations of them which are saved
shall walk in the light of it." The kings of the earth, glory
and honor in it. The light of the knowledge of
the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Son of righteousness arisen
with healing in His wing. And this Son that we toil under,
no more toil. Verse 17. For the lamb which
is in the midst of the throng shall feed them, shall feed them."
Though this is a future prophecy, it's a present reality. The Lord,
our God, the Lamb, the Lord, our Shepherd, makes us to lie
down in green pasture. He feeds us and leads us under
living fountains of water. He makes us to lie down beside
still waters. What's that you're looking at? You're reading it. You should
be resting in it, the blessed promises of our Lord. And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes. Whose eyes? Their eyes. Not all eyes, not all tears from
all eyes, but their eyes. Whose eyes? The sealed. The washed. Sealed. Those that
have the robes. Those that are called. Those
that are justified. Those that are glorified. That's whose eyes
He wipes away all tears from. Now this is good. There's another
mention of it in Revelation 19. Go over there and we'll close
with it. Revelation 19, of how our God wipes away all tears. Now this speaks of that future
glory, future state. And Isaiah 65 speaks of it too,
doesn't it? Those of you who know that, love
it so well. He said, Behold, I create new
heavens and a new earth. The former shall not be remembered
nor come into mind. He said, Be glad and rejoice
forever in that which I create. Behold, I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing, and her people a joy, and I will rejoice in Jerusalem. That's his church. And joy in
my people, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her,
nor the voice of crying. So they'll be all like youth.
Here it is. Revelation 19 verse 5, And a
voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye
his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard, as it were, the
voice of a great multitude, as the voice, there it is again,
one voice, of many waters, many people, one voice, one testimony,
one faith, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia,
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice and
give honor to him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his
wife hath made herself ready, and to her was granted that she
be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. Look at chapter 21.
And I heard a great voice of heaven saying, chapter 21, verse
3, 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."
No more death. Why do we die? What's the cause
of death? Sin. That's what Christ came
to put away. Sin. Sin. He came to put away sin by the
sacrifice of Himself. There'll be no more death. My
dad was preaching someone's funeral for
the umpteenth time. It's always a sad time, yet a
joyful time if it's a believer. But if it's someone we love,
a believer, we're still greatly sorrow over their loss, don't
we? They're leaving us for a time.
We'll miss them. And we greatly sorrow. And walking
away from that grave for the hundredth time, he said to a
brother, I'll be glad when we all quit dying. We all quit dying. Because death is a separation.
Our Lord said, there'll be no more death. No more death because
no sin. Neither sorrow. No more sorrow.
We sorrow many things, don't we? Many reasons for our sorrow.
We sorrow over lost loved ones. That won't happen again. We're
not going to lose a loved one ever again. There'll be no separation
ever again. You'll quit dying. And none will
be lost. We sorrow over many things. He said, no more sorrow. No more
sorrow. Neither crying. All of God's
people have cried like David until they've watered their couch
with their tears. Haven't you? Over many times. Sin, sorrow, worries, fears,
troubles, temptations, guilt, shame, just keep going with it. Sorrow, we lay in bed and we
cry, weeping endures for a night, often many nights. And we watched
for the morning. We watched for the morning. Well,
he said, we'd be may and do it for the night. But joy cometh
in the morning. And the Lord said, he has his
people's tears in his bottle. Anything that touches you more
than the tears of your loved one, tears of a child or tears
of your spouse, does it touch you? It touches even the hardest
of heart does. How much more the tears of the
saints. Shall not God, Christ said, avenge
his very elect which cry unto him day and night? I said, I
say unto you, he'll avenge them speedily." He sees their tears
and it touches him. And it's one of these days there's
going to be no more crying. No more tears. Neither any more
pain. No more pain. Oh, physical pain,
emotional pain, spiritual pain, pain, pain, pain, no more pain
because no more sin for the former things are passed away. Verse five. And he that sat upon
the throne said, behold, I make all things new, all things brand
new. He said the former things will
never be remembered. There'll be no regrets. No death,
no sorrow, no pain, no shame, no guilt, no regrets, no sin. And you can write this down.
Write it down. Look at it. Verse 5. Write this
down. So you can read it over and over again. These words are
true and faithful. Because the one who said it is
true and cannot lie. And faithful. Faithful. He will perform all of this for
us. Stand with me. Our Lord and our God, thank You,
thank You, thank You for the blessed and precious promises
that You've given us from Your Word. By these we are made partakers
of the divine nature, escaped the corruption that's in the
world with all its lusts, all its troubles and trials, all
its pain and suffering, sorrow. These blessed promises give us
hope, give us peace, cheer us, comfort us. Oh Lord, Let these
sayings sink down deep in our ears. Write these on the tables
of our heart. Behold, I make all things new. Be of good cheer. I've overcome
the world, you said. Oh, Lord, let us remember these
things. When sadness fills our hearts and minds, oh, Lord, let
this rest assurance control that Christ hath regarded our helpless
sustain. It is well with our soul. Oh, Lord, take this word, your
word, and write it. on our hearts and let us, let
it spring up as a well spring in a desert land when we need
it. These blessed, blessed promises. No more tears, no more crying,
no more death, no more sorrow, no more pain, no more pain because
Christ died. Yea, rather is even risen again,
even at the right hand of the majesty on high and ever lives
to make intercession for. And He comes again. He cometh
with clouds. He cometh quickly. Oh Lord, let
us bear this testimony with a cheerful heart and mind before this untoward
generation, we pray. In Christ's name we pray and
give thanks. Amen. Alright.