Revelation 7:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Bible Comments

Revelation 7:16

"No More" and "More.".

There are four things asserted here:

I. All need is supplied: "They shall hunger no more, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them." (1) Look at the source of the supply. This is sixfold: (a) love which passeth knowledge; (b) power to which nothing is hard; (c) wisdom Divine and infinite; (d) providence minute and universal; (e) oneness of feeling without check; (f) closeness of relationship. (2) Mark the character of the supply. This is in harmony with the source. The source is love, and the supply is generous. It is well sustained, suitable, varied, acceptable, and grateful to the recipient.

II. All desire gratified. There are four qualities clothing this gratification of desire. (1) It is pure, unselfish; (2) it is full, nothing left to be given; (3) it is wholesome and invigorating; (4) it is Divine, of a godly sort.

III. All trouble prevented. It is impossible for trouble to befall us when God places Himself between us and grief.

IV. All sadness taken away and kept away. Then (1) weep not for the dead who have died in the Lord; (2) shrink not from a rapid approach to immortality; (3) make not heaven your god, or going to heaven your goal and your end, but remember, nevertheless, that God has heaven prepared for you; (4) praise your Saviour, to whom you owe heaven and every good.

S. Martin, Comfort in Trouble,p. 224.

References: Revelation 7:16; Revelation 7:17. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xxx., No. 1800. Revelation 7:17. Ibid.,vol. xi., No. 643; Talmage, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xii., p. 233.

Revelation 7:16

16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.