Sunday, August 7, 2022 Lesson Text: Revelation 21:1-9; International Standard Sunday School Lesson. A New Home No more sorrow, no more pain! We have the promise of God to be with him forever in the holy city, the new Jerusalem as his children. Oh, what a day that will be! Hallelujah

Lesson Text: 9" class="scriptRef">Revelation 21:1-9; Time of Action: 96 A.D.; Place of Action: From Patmos While exiled on the isle of Patmos for witnessing for Jesus Christ (see Revelation 1:1, 9), the Apostle John received a revelation from God by the Holy Spirit concerning future events (see Revelation 1: 2, 10) that will culminate with the end of all history. Patmos is an island off the southwest coast of Asia Minor, what is now modern Turkey. Because it was desolate and barren, the Romans used it as a place to banish criminals, who were forced to work at hard labor in the mines and quarries there.

Golden Text: “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: for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 21:4).



PRACTICAL POINTS FOR DISCUSSION:
1. Don’t become too attached to this world, God will replace it with a completely new and different one (Revelation 21:1).
2. God will give His children the best and perfect dwelling place in the new heaven and new earth (Revelation 21:2).
3. If the Holy Spirit dwells within us now, just imagine how wonderful it will be to dwell personally with God one day in the new holy city (Revelation 21:3).
4. Only in the eternal future with God will there be no more death, suffering and pain (Revelation 21:4).
5. God has declared that He will make everything new and we can count on His Word, because He cannot lie (Revelation 21:5; Numbers 23:19; Hebrews 6:18).
6. Jesus Christ began the history of the earth and He will finish it (Revelation 21:6; John 1:3).

7. Believers are overcomers who will also inherit good things from God (Revelation 21:7).
8. Those who have not placed their faith in Christ will not enter the new order, but will forever suffer punishment for their sin and will never see the bride, the Lamb’s wife (Revelation 21:8-9).

There is nothing like a fresh new start! Most people have experienced the sadness that accompanies failure and the joy of a new beginning. The Christian life itself is a new beginning, a new birth. Old things are passed away. All things become new (see II Corinthians 5:17). This will be the case with the heaven and the earth. God’s purging of sin and death will one day be complete. In eternity we won’t have to live with a patched-up world—one still under the curse of sin. God’s new order will not be a remodeling job on the present universe. It will be totally new. Jesus, the Author of salvation and the Maker of our present heavens and earth will also make the new heaven and earth. For sure, God does not make an inferior product. Perfection is assured in God’s new creation. The final dwelling place of God’s redeemed will be the new heaven and new earth. Yes, all things will be new!

Ronald Jasmin Assistant Pastor of Corona Baptist Church in Mt Juliet, TN and Cornelius Hill Pastor of Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church Nashville, TN Christian Business Connection
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