Date: April 23, 2023

Bible Text: Revelation 21:1-8 |

Series:

We’re not always that great at discerning our own motives. Why do I do a certain thing? Why do I like this rather than that? Why are my priorities arranged as they are? It’s not easy to admit, but God is far better at knowing these things about me than I am. He is, after all, the Creator. We are made in his image. And he is untainted by sin and its corrupting influence. I say that as the foundation for saying this, whether I realize it or not, the deepest longing of my heart is to be with God. Every pursuit in my life is, in the end, an attempt to feel fulfilled. No matter what I pursue, though, it comes up empty because the true longing of my heart is to be with God. He alone satisfies. And I instinctively feel that every time I turn to Revelation 21:1-8. I don’t think any other passage of Scripture evokes as much emotion for me as this one. And it is because, when I read it, I know that God is right. This is my longing…to be with him. And nothing this life offers comes close. Join us Sunday as we look at message 30 in our series, Great and Amazing, in the Book of the Revelation.

Series: Great & Amazing—Revelation (Part 2)
Todd Dugard
Message: 30 – He will dwell with them
Harvest Bible Chapel
Text: Revelation 21:1-8
April 23, 2023

Whether I realize it or not, the deepest longing of my heart is to be with God, exchanging…

…the old for the new (v. 1)

2 Corinthians 5:17

…estrangement for intimacy (v. 2-3)

Direct, unmarred fellowship between God and his people is the goal of all redemption.
George Eldon Ladd

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
Jonathan Edwards

…brokenness for wholeness (v. 4)

“Is everything sad going to come untrue?”

…despair for hope (v. 5)

Isaiah 53:5

Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry was one of giving back to undeserving sinners their humanity. We tend to think of the miracles of the Gospels as interruptions in the natural order. Yet …miracles are not an interruption of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. We are so used to a fallen world that sickness, disease, pain, and death seem natural. In fact, they are the interruption.
Dane Ortlund, “Gentle and Lowly” (citing Jürgen Moltmann)

…want for satisfaction (v. 6)

…confusion for identity (v. 7)

…sin and death for life (v. 8)

 

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