Isaiah 60:21 - Homilies By R. Tuck

The heaven of universal righteousness.

"Thy people also shall be all righteous." "There are no people on earth that are all righteous; there is a mixture of some bad in the best societies on this side of heaven; but there are no mixtures there. They shall be ' all righteous,' that is, they shall be entirely righteous; as there shall be none corrupt among them, so there shall be no corruption among them; the spirit of just men shall there be made perfect" (Matthew Henry). Universal righteousness includes the following things.

I. THAT EVERY MAN HAS WON HIS OWN WILL WHOLLY FOR GOD .

II. THAT EVERY MAN HAS WON HIS OWN LIFE AND CONDUCT FOR GOD .

III. THAT EVERY MAN — AS WON HIS OWN RELATIONSHIPS FOR GOD .

IV. THAT EVERY MAN HAS WON ALL HIS OWN SURROUNDINGS FOR GOD .

No picture of a material heaven can be so inspiring to us as this sublime picture of a moral state, in which everybody tries to do the right, and finds triumphant grace given to him for the doing.—R.T.