Let's turn in your Bible to Revelation chapter 21,
Revelation chapter 21. will read again, the Opening part of the
chapter. Let's hear the word of God were
reading. Of course, often emphasized from
the authorized version. Revelation 21 verse 1.
And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven.
And the first Earth were passed away.
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. And I heard a great voice out of
Heaven, saying behold, the Tabernacle of God is with man
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 Pian for the former things are passed away
and he that sat upon the throne said, behold I make all things
you and he said unto me. Write for these words are true
and faithful and he said unto me, it is done.
I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him. That is athirst of the Fountain
of the Water of Life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit
all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son, but the
fearful and unbelieving and the Abominable and murderers and
whoremongers and Sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall
have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone, which is the second death now, my text tonight has
taken from Revelation, 21, and verse 4, On my famous, the
topic. Nor crying.
This is the fourth message in the subject, the no mores of
heaven. And here's another thing that is
not find in heaven, not only is there no more sea but there's
also no more death There's no more sorrow but there's also No
More Tears. Whenever you read Revelation, 21
carefully, think of these words on God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes. John tells us that and then he
begins to add nor crying. Now you a number of years ago, I
preached a sermon, I think entitled it God's handkerchief.
I'm not going to repeat what I said they and but let me ask the
question. What is heaven like heaven is
also a plea as of No More Tears. This was one of the things about
having that was revealed to John, John could say and I saw
And he could answer that, and I heard on the end, if you look at
verse 5, he was given the command, right?
John could say, I wrote, here's John and able to see the new
heavens and the new Earth. He heard from the voice that
speaks to him. What it was like John's acting
as a faithful and true witness and he rooted down in the pic
for us and one of the things that he wrote Into the book for
us as this that Heaven is a place of No More Tears for the
only shall God. Wipe away all tears from their
eyes but Heaven is a please, where there's neither crying.
Remember what we read in Revelation chapter 1, and in the
verse 3, we're told they're blessed.
Is he that readeth? And they that hear the words of
this prophecy and keep those things hurt.
The written there, rang for the tame as it ha.
And one of the things that stood out to join, one of the things
that caught his attention and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, I believe that stood out to him.
I believe the definitely Crypt is heartening.
You contrast life on Earth is this life.
Not a veil of Tears. In fact, sometimes tears are
described as the language of life.
You know, what's a universal language?
We traveled to the United States of America.
If we visit Canada, save him, don't you?
Brazil and took a wee trip up the Amazon rainforest, and then
left the Amazon and went to the jungles of Africa.
And we traveled on down to Australia and even thought, you
know, what will take a, we kept the tassel and, and, and to
Tasmania, and then down to New Zealand and up from New Zealand
and to China and India, Japan, and the Philippines and end,
Shownu crean and then eventually traveled the whole of Europe on
the way back home to the United Kingdom and they eventually
commended us, we Province, we could see if we spoke to people
all over the world and their language, we would witness the
tears as definitely a universal language.
For the tears of the American. The African is the same as the
tears of an Ulster man. Now, I'm told that a happy cry
last forever. A two minutes.
That's maybe the Cry of a child. A sad cry last for about 7
minutes. But I want you to think of the
type of cry that John has in made.
When John says, neither crying, he's thinking of a particular
type of cry. This is a cry that can last for
ours, last for days. This is a wheel.
This is born out of a crooked, a broken spirit because this cry
that John refers to, in the Greek, New Testament is the cry
or the crook of a raven. Tears are a sign of deep strong
emotions. And yet we reach.
There's no more crying in heaven.
Why for God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Think with me carefully of the cause of Tears has been removed.
That that's why there's neither crying in heaven.
What causes tears. Tears of sorrow years ago in one
of the villages here in Northern Ireland, I dialed had been
murdered. I want you to think of a
grief-stricken widow, I want you to think of a young boy standing
by his ground, the Sate, their out, the kid the coffin has been
removed from the home. The villagers are packed.
There's hundreds literally lining the route and the court
age is making its way down from the house down to the gate to go
onto the road and the way boys asking ground.
The question as a whole is groundless hard.
He says grounder, why is everyone crying?
And of course, they're crying because their hearts are full of
Sorrow. I think of the sieve you're
asking Mary this question, John 2015, why we passed?
I am one of the reasons we weep is because we have been plunged
into intense, sorrow and intense Pian and you think of Mary.
And the garden Mary was full of Sorrow.
She had just witnessed the horrible death and crucifixion
of Christ. I guarantee that shakhter to the
Core. I believe, also she was full of
shock and disappointment when she came to the tomb or not
Resurrection morning, she came early to finish and bombing
Christ's body. And what did she discover?
She was in shock, disappointment frustrated, have stolen the body
and she stood at the tomb weeping and then this voice
behind her asked her, why weepest?
I will come to that in a moment? But focus on the Weeping, she
was willing with a glitter wheel.
And he often our hearts and minds are full of Sorrow
stricken with grief. There's a real sense of loss and
Pian and what's deep down in, the soul has given van through a
geared, and we discover the tears are part of our DNA.
You know, we have the ability to laugh.
The Bible says, there's a time to laugh.
It also says, in Ecclesiastes, 3 is a time to weep We weep openly
some people can only weep secretly, no one to see them,
but God that they weep in their heart but the slave is a veal of
tears. And we as we journey through
life, we experience the contradiction of different
emotions laughter and sadness and it fills our heart and I'm
but were full of the depth of sorrow and we can know them and
fierce bitter disappointment, we can burst into tears.
We can even ask the question. Where is God when I need them?
Of course, the answer is on the throne, he's always on the
throne has never been vacated, but sometimes we just can't see
that. Sometimes we ask, well, why is
God not working in the way that I asked them or the way that I
think. Or the way that I want,
sometimes we doubt his promises. We think to ourselves God
promises, can't be true. And even though we're in the
depths of sorrow and Van think it through tears.
Remember our thinking is wrong. Remember our speaking, his room
because we've got to learn to process life, from God's
perspective. Life is a veil of Tears.
Now, that was born of woman is a few years and full of trouble as
the Sparks Fly upward. But in this V, love tears that
were going through. We must learn to process life
from the Lord's Viewpoint from the Lord's perspective.
In light of his loving. Kindness God is love in late of
us tender mercy. God is merciful, that's what the
Bible teaches. Us and they'd of us care.
We were singing. Does Jesus care and the answers?
Yes, I know he cares. How do we know that it's not
just because we've got this feeling inside as at this
because we think that so they can feel good.
No, we're standing on the rock of Holy Scripture, casting all
your care upon him for he first Peter five and seven says careth
for you. Sometimes we ask the question is
there anyone to help us and the answer is yes, listen to our him
and 424. Yes there's one and only one,
the Blessed blessed Jesus. He's the one when afflictions
press the soul and waves of trouble roll and you need a
friend to help you. He's the one General.
Why we sing that we can say that because the Bible teaches
Hebrews, 13 and 5, the Lord is my helper.
Oh, oh that we get SATA that Not only see that he loves us and he
has Mercy toward us and he cares for us.
But 11 later his Sovereign plan and Sovereign purpose.
So often we lose late of God's Aid of God's sovereignty.
And once we lose sight of that truth, then we can begin to
question and ask Where's God and what on Earth is God doing?
So here's one of the causes of Tears, it's been removed.
Why is there no crying in heaven?
Because the tears of Sorrow have been removed.
The think also very quickly, the tears of sin I'm thinking of the
Deeds of evil and wicked, man. I'm thinking if the presence and
power and pronouncement of wicked May, what happens when
evil or Wicked? Man try mm you think of Mary
weeping in the garden. And she's asked the question,
why weepest I and her? Does she answer?
This is what she answers to the one that she thinks is the
gardener that killed the Lord Jesus Christ.
I saw murdered. I saw that crucifixion.
I went there. I was there.
I went the student. And worse to come.
Tip, no stolen his body. And if you read John 20 and 2
and John 20 and 13, it emphasizes Mary says, I know not
what they have laid him. You see that there's Brokenness
in her voice that there's a lament in her voice and her
tears are Weeping as because of what evil Wicked hands of dumb
to the Lord Jesus. Those are tears, not only of
sorrow with tears of sin, what evil and wicked men have done.
You know, I read a story there, just a few days ago.
Younger, lovely young girl. Teenager 1819, she went to a
mile in California late, one evening, she was going to buy a
wedding present from a friend and she was invited to the
wedding. And there was few people there
and because it was late in the evening, she bought the gift.
And was returning to her car and tragedy stroke.
She was abducted. She was brutally raped.
She was murdered. She was from a Christian home.
Whenever they local police arrived at the home and inform
the parents. You can just imagine how broken
cut up they were, could you hear their Hiles and their dials?
And you see I understand that because there's homes in this
province and I remember hearing of Howells and girls of loved
ones who have been murdered by the IRA during the 40 Years of
troubles. And also I suspect and I had the
other homes would have been highly and growling who had
loved ones murdered by so-called loyalist terrorists.
Those who are shot dead, those who have been blown to pieces
and that create cry goes up and goes up to the ears of God and
Heaven. Under not later.
Such atrocities. You can hear that hole and guile
and you can understand the strong tears that their tears
because of what sin has done an enemy of doneness.
And how do you overcome that? Well, you only overcome that I
can suggest is connected to God's Great sovereignty.
That's the answer. I'm Christ's resurrection power.
Let me take you to the first home tonight.
The first home was an Eden. I want you to think of the
family, they're out of and Eve Cain and Abel.
Two brothers. Can you picture the home?
It's at supper time. The table is sat Eve's watching
and waiting for her boys to return.
Maybe she was looking out the window, where is he able?
Perhaps there's a problem with the sheep and the fate of
remember he's a shepherd and she's getting the mail rally and
as he says to Adam, Adam, have you seen the evil?
And he say, I don't worry, there's probably a difficulty,
maybe a lion, maybe a bear, maybe a wolf on these protecting
the flock. Remember, in those days, there's
no phones and she's looking at the window watching for the
shepherd's light, the lamp to come.
Hope he's okay and then they asked him you just picture it
qian. Do you know where your brother
as an amazingly snaps out? Am I My Brother's Keeper?
And of course he will never come home evil had been brutally
murdered his body had been buried in the dust.
The blood Cried unto God for vengeance from the soil into the
years of the old Mighty inhabit. The first family had tasted the
sorrow of death and not first home.
I'm there was the tears shed because of sin because of the
horrible Act of murder. I also think of the day that
Peter denied the Lord with olives and cursings.
Remember he boasted Lord, you can kind and me I'll not deny
the Lord. I will be faithful Lord, I'm
gonna die for you. And the Lord tells him before
the cock crows. You will deny me three times
Peter you read, Luke, 22, you get the story.
It says in verse 62, that that Peter wept bitterly, see think
of him before that he's denied with those and cursing.
And I'm not, I'm not one of his disciples.
He denied, I don't know them. I'm not one of his and then the
Lord Jesus come up from the house of Caiaphas of the steps,
from the the jailhouse and below the house and to the courtyard
and he just looked at Peter. And the Bible says, Peter weapon
early. See, that's the tears of sin
Peter in you and those tears. I've sinned against the Lord,
I've since against one who, loved me, when he come to bleed
and die for me against the one who calls me, his own tears of
sin, Think about the tiers of service over there and Jeremiah
I'm not going to develop this. I'm just going to read the text
over there in Jeremiah chapter 9 and verse 1.
Jeremiah the prophet said oh that my head were Waters and
nine eyes of Fountain of tears. I made week day and night for
the slaying of the daughter of my people.
He said in verse 10, for the mountains will I take up a
weeping and wailing and for the in habitations of Wilderness
alimentation because they are burned up so that none can pass
through them. Either can man hear the voice of
the cattle. Both the files of the Heaven,
and the bases are flared. They are gone.
He said, in chapter 10 verse 9 and 10.
Silver, spread into plates is brought from Tarsus and gold
from new files, the work of the work and of the hands of the
founder blue and purple is their clothing.
They are all the work of cunning man.
Man, but the Lord is the true God.
He is the Living God and an everlasting King and his wrath,
the Earth shall tremble. And the nation should not be
able to abide his indignation. The tiers of service.
What about the tears of sickness Hezekiah?
Chapter 38 of Isaiah says, in verse 3, has a Kya web sword, he
experienced. Thank God.
Death bed, recovering. He was sick on the death and on
the day, when he was boosted to high God, give him extended 15
years because the Lord is Jehovah roofie.
He can't hear and answer prayer. As far as bodily healing is
concerned. He did for Hezekiah.
Did the CM for epaphroditus? What The tears of sympathy.
Three times. The Savior wept.
Where did he weep? He wept at the tomb of Lazarus.
The village of Bethany. John 11:35 Jesus wept was not
heartbreaking, that word wept as connected to the word, crying in
Revelation, 21 and 4. Oh should I suggest that we as
God's people must never get hard-hearted.
We must wake with those that are weep.
We must unite and grief with those urinated and grief because
the Savior wept at the tomb of Lazarus that he not weep, the
city of Jerusalem. Matthew chapter 23 and verse 37,
o Jerusalem who Juris he was thinking of the desolation of
the Temple. You think of today's cities are
United Kingdom, the life of The Unborn been murdered almost
5,000. I and Northern Ireland.
Since the abortion law was changed.
You think of the confusion of the young people of their
identity, they don't know whether they're male or female
some agents will call them, or teaching that they're seventy
two genders. It's like California, you could
be a fairy, a leprechaun Stardust.
Did you ever hear such nonsense in your life?
But as poured into the hearts and minds of the young people,
even the children in the primary school, you think of the
godlessness and lawlessness of our political leaders, the lack
of substance in their life that I Out of character, the lack of
God. I was talking to Michael
Harrison, we were talking about Northern Ireland and you know,
what is absent from Northern Ireland, the fear of God and
that was absent from the great city of Jerusalem and today's
cities all over the world and towns and villages, we get out
into the mix, the drunkenness, the adultery, the fornication
homosexuality. Remember over there Paul
emphasizing to the church at Ephesus said in First
Corinthians. 6 and verse 9. He said these words, listen to
the word of God know. You not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Be not deceived. Neither.
Fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor
abusers of themselves. With mankind, nor thieves nor
Covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers nor extortioners, shall
inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you in
qarth. But year washed, but ye are
Sanctified. But ye are justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus. And by the spirit of God, Jesus
wept over the city of Jerusalem. I believe he's weeping over our
cities at least in his heart. You think of weeping before the
tree in the Garden of Gethsemane, the book of Hebrews
and Hebrews chapter 5 and verse 7, gives us this information who
in the days of his flesh, when he'd offered up prayers, and
supplication was strong crying. That's our word with.
I'm tears unto him. That was able to see if him from
death and was heard in that he feared It was interesting that
the psalmist talk to God in prayer and he said put my tears
in my bottle sound 57. Andy and What a wonderful thing
it is for God to be able to bottle our tears.
I wonder how many tears we have shared.
With wept with those you have wept and sympathy with wept over
the state of our cities and our nation.
We have wept over particular situations indeed. not only
think about the cause, Of Tears being removed, but think of the
cure for Tears has been revealed.
Here's another reason. Why there's no tears in heaven,
what is the cure for the veil of Tears?
In which we live. Remember I told you this word
crying has to do with a noisy wheel, it's a piercing cry, a
cry of Brokenness, The Cry Of The Reef and it's very
intrusive. And you think of the Ste at of
The Souls of man. Do we weep for the state of The
Souls of man? Think of the state of Northern
Ireland, the state of our United Kingdom.
Think of the state of the church and the Apostle Paul do
ministered in Ephesus ministered are With Many Tears was strong
tears. He said in Acts chapter 20 and
verse 21 a tremendous statement in Acts 20 and verse 21.
He, he told his they're testifying, both the Jews and
also to the Greeks repentance toward God and Faith toward our
Lord, Jesus Christ, and it's interesting.
He says, in verse 31, therefore watch, and remember that, by the
space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and
day with tears. He served the Lord, he prayed,
he preached, he laboured, he sought the wins souls and he was
the Apostle e where he was a picture of Jeremiah of
Jeremiah's. The property week Paul was the
prophet, they are partially wept.
And why did he weep? Because here the state of
Christ, He preached repentance toward God and Faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ. He seemed the crucified Christ
Christ and the cross substitute security sin Bearer.
Cinders one sacrificial, one saving one, do you see the
crucified Christ? Didn't you see him as the resin
Redeemer, was that there is a redeemer.
That was the cure for Mary, the savior's voice Mary.
And she cried out, right? Bone.
I and the savior's Victory, he told her the tomb was empty.
He told her I am risen from the dead.
Perfect daddy. Perfect Humanity to Nature's and
one body forever. See the ascended Christ.
Where is he tonight? And Laurie.
He's at the right hand of God. Remember he said the Mary touch
me. Not for I am not yet ascended to
my father and he was going there to present the virtue and value
of his once and for all sacrifice and the shed lat, see
the triumphant Christ is seated at God's right hand.
He's able to dispense grease and mercy to us and time of need
Christ is with us. Is he knew all these emotions he
experienced him? He is able to come into our
midst and say to us. Peace.
Be still the word taste means. Be see if be satisfied me.
Sure, we can be in a right relationship with God.
My peace. I give unto you not as the
world. Giveth give, I unto you, let not
your heart, be troubled. Neither, Let It Be Afraid
member. He said that will keep him in.
Perfect. Peace to his eye of the Prophet
whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusts with Annie, do
you have peace with God tonight? Do you know, the peace of God?
Because you've seen the crucified resinous and the
triumphant Christ at God's right hand and you profess him as
Lord. And Savior, you see?
The cure for the vale of Tears is revealed and that curious
Christ assayed of Christ and I marry stopped her weeping when
she got the Sate of Christ and the sound of his voice.
Do you hear his voice tonight? Have you could say eight of
Christ. I want to tell you one final
thing, the crook of Tears has been redeemed.
You see, if you go back to our text that says and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes.
What is that? That's a wonderful declaration,
isn't it? But I'll also tell you something
else, that's not only a wonderful decoration, It's a
Wonderful anticipation because this is going to happen in the
new Heaven and the new Earth. He John adds nor crying.
As I've told you, one day in the new Heaven, and the new Earth
will be no tears to Shared. Why?
Because God has removed all the causes of Tears.
Every cause I'm the Cure is found in Christ because as
people are with Christ and there's not going to be that's
Kruk. Anymore.
No intense cry. As I told you that we're trying
has to do with the harsh crook of a raven.
If we translated from the Greek were translating, it literally
crying. We use your thing here and the
English called, automata Pia. If you don't know what that is,
don't worry about it. but you think of it, the sizzle of a
sausage, you think of the call of the cuckoo bird, That call is
like the crook of the Raven. It's a voice of hopeless
mastering and there's a day coming when that will never ever
be hurt again. Have you that Assurance tonight?
Are you see? After you're born again, are you
washed in the blood? Are you in Christ?
Are you looking forward in anticipation?
So that the Declaration is made that there's a day, that, that
cry, that intense, howling and growling will never be heard
again. Let me finish tonight.
I want you to think of a wave just home from hospital.
So struggling with cancer, This is how to surgery.
She is facing chemo. The day.
She comes home, there's a telephone call.
Telephone calls from Scotland. It's a relative to tell her.
Their dad is dead with a heart attack.
Could you just process that the impact of that you're just been
told, you've chance, sir, you've had the operation you're getting
chemo and then you come home and you're told your dad is stayed
on that woman. Give voice to what was in her
Sewell with howls and girls from not home.
And as she was processing, that a few hours leaders, he gets
another call. And this time, it's the place of
the door and the stains is given the news that our brother has
just been killed in a car crash. And I'll tell you if there was
one wheel, there's better wheels that Nate and not home.
Because life is hard so feel of tears and we can experience
we've after real trouble. Some of, you know, that you've
identified with that. But what I'm saying is this,
there's a day coming will not cry.
I will never ever be heard again.
On the crook of Tears has been redeemed forever.
Let me finish tonight. Have you heard of the boy called
a soul? Do you know what a saw dead?
Young people, Esau sold his Birthright.
He sold it for a mess of pottage.
And were told and the Bible. In verse 16 of Hebrews chapter
12 lest there. Be any fornicator or profane
person as Esau who for one morsel of meat, sold his
Birthright for you know, how that afterward when he would
have inherited the blessing, he was rejected for he found no
place of repentance though. He sought it carefully with
tears? Even though he cried.
Esau had sold his Birthright. He didn't inherit the blessing
of the firstborn and Esau died as he lived.
He died a lost soul. That's a not awful.
Place called hell tonight. Because he died with her to
repentance. Can you honestly say that you're
in Christ tonight? Can you personally testify to
that? Have you baigent Leigh common
repentance and fears to the bleeding and Windows 8?
If the Savior and you have Della gently made confession of him as
Lord and Redeemer. Because only through Christ
Christ Alone. That that weeping and wailing
from your mouth from your lips out of your heart.
Will never be heard in heaven. But if you die in your sin, the
lost and go to hell and what the Bible tells us.
But we have contrast, there's weeping and wailing.
And gnashing of teeth. That's what a Shaw's
experiencing. And I'm saying tonight.
Get, hold of Christ, come to him, profession know him as
Lord, and Redeemer last to be too late by the Lord.
Take these few thoughts and bless them to her heart's, the
sea.