10 DECEMBER (1876)

Christ the maker of all things new

‘Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.’ 2 Corinthians 5:17
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Revelation 21:1–7

‘Unto us a child is born’ who is the virgin’s son, in whom we rejoice because he comes into the world without taint of original sin, after a new fashion, as never man was born before. Coming thus into the old world, he publishes new doctrine, called gospel or good news. It is the freshest news that an anxious heart can hear, the most novel music by which a troubled breast can be soothed. Jesus Christ’s teaching is still the best news of these days, as it was centuries ago. Though the world has had nearly 1900 years of the glad tidings, the gospel has the dew of its youth upon it, and when men hear it they still ask, as the Greeks did of old, ‘what this new doctrine … is?’

Our Lord Jesus has come to set up, by the preaching of the gospel, a new kingdom having new laws, new customs, a new charter and new riches, a kingdom which is not of this world, a kingdom founded upon better principles and bringing infinitely better results to its subjects than any other dominion that has ever been. Into that kingdom he introduces new people, who are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, who therefore love his new commandment and serve him ‘in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter’.

Moreover, Christ has opened for us an entrance into the kingdom of heaven above, for now we come to God ‘by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh’. When in days to come we shall meet him again there will still be novelty, for he has said, ‘I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.’ Indeed, concerning our Lord and Master everything is new.

FOR MEDITATION: God makes ‘all things new’ (Revelation 21:5); ‘think on these things’: a new covenant (1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 9:15), a new communion with God (Hebrews 10:20), a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), a new comprehension of God (Lamentations 3:22–23), a new chorus (Psalm 40:3; 96:1–3; Revelation 5:9–10; 14:3), a new conduct (Romans 6:4; Ephesians 4:22–24), a new commandment (John 13:34–35) and a new cosmos (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1). Have you been renewed?


C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 355.
10 DECEMBER (1876) Christ the maker of all things new ‘Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.’ 2 Corinthians 5:17 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Revelation 21:1–7 ‘Unto us a child is born’ who is the virgin’s son, in whom we rejoice because he comes into the world without taint of original sin, after a new fashion, as never man was born before. Coming thus into the old world, he publishes new doctrine, called gospel or good news. It is the freshest news that an anxious heart can hear, the most novel music by which a troubled breast can be soothed. Jesus Christ’s teaching is still the best news of these days, as it was centuries ago. Though the world has had nearly 1900 years of the glad tidings, the gospel has the dew of its youth upon it, and when men hear it they still ask, as the Greeks did of old, ‘what this new doctrine … is?’ Our Lord Jesus has come to set up, by the preaching of the gospel, a new kingdom having new laws, new customs, a new charter and new riches, a kingdom which is not of this world, a kingdom founded upon better principles and bringing infinitely better results to its subjects than any other dominion that has ever been. Into that kingdom he introduces new people, who are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, who therefore love his new commandment and serve him ‘in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter’. Moreover, Christ has opened for us an entrance into the kingdom of heaven above, for now we come to God ‘by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh’. When in days to come we shall meet him again there will still be novelty, for he has said, ‘I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.’ Indeed, concerning our Lord and Master everything is new. FOR MEDITATION: God makes ‘all things new’ (Revelation 21:5); ‘think on these things’: a new covenant (1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 9:15), a new communion with God (Hebrews 10:20), a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), a new comprehension of God (Lamentations 3:22–23), a new chorus (Psalm 40:3; 96:1–3; Revelation 5:9–10; 14:3), a new conduct (Romans 6:4; Ephesians 4:22–24), a new commandment (John 13:34–35) and a new cosmos (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1). Have you been renewed? C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 355.
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