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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Revelation 21:5-7

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"THE NEW AGE."
Intro: There is currently a New Age Movement. This latest movement hopes to bring the utopian society by expanding man's conscious levels of awareness.
I. THROUGHOUT HISTORY MAN HAS CONSTANTLY SOUGHT FOR A NEW AGE.
A. Each movement has sought to define the reasons for the problems with the world then present their solution.
1. Roosevelt promised a new deal.
2. Hitler promised a new super race.
3. Stalin was promising a new equality.
B. Why would man seek a new age?
1. Recognition of the inequities of the current system.
2. Hope to free man from suffering and pain.
3. There is an awareness that the current system is not adequate. Too many problems still exist.
a. You must lock your doors.
b. Paint your windows white.
4. Man thirsts for a better life, there's got to be a better way.
C. Why hasn't man, after thousands of years of trying, found the answers?
1. Failure to define or acknowledge the true problem.
2. We have observed the symptoms and sought to treat or relieve them.
a. Ignorance.
b. Slavery.
c. Poverty.
d. You can never cure a brain tumor by taking aspirin to relieve the headache.
3. What is the true problem? Sin.
a. Not following God's laws.
b. Rebelling against God.
II. GOD'S PROMISE OF A NEW AGE.
A. A new earth and a new heaven.
1. Man has so badly abused and polluted this one that God is going to start afresh.
a. No need for the sun to light it. Thus no cosmic ray bombardment causing breakdown, thus ultimate mutations of the cells. Perpetual youth.
b. The shekinah glory of God will light it.
B. God will dwell with His people.
1. Then shall His name be Immanuel "God with us."
2. "Blessed are the pure in heart."
C. "God shall wipe away all tears."
1. No weeping for the dead. No death.
2. No more sorrow.
3. No more pain.
III. WHO WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE?
A. We are told who are excluded.
1. Unbelieving.
2. Abominable.
3. Murderers.
4. Whoremongers.
5. Drug abusers.
6. Idolaters.
7. Liars.
B. Those who satisfy their thirst from the mountain of life, even Jesus;
"If any man thirsts..."
IV. HOW CAN I BE SURE? VS. 5
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