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Heaven and hell are not abstract ideas. They are eternal realities revealed in the inerrant Word of God.

In this sobering message, Dr. Michael Youssef turns to Revelation 14, where Scripture draws a sharp line between those who belong to Jesus Christ and those who follow the beast into judgment. God’s warning is not cruel fiction—it is holy Truth.

Yet even in this passage of judgment, God extends mercy through the everlasting Gospel, calling people everywhere to repent, worship Him, and trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation.

This episode calls believers to:

• Take the reality of eternity seriously,
• Repent of spiritual compromise,
• Remain faithful to Jesus Christ,
• Intercede urgently for those who are lost,
• Proclaim the everlasting Gospel,
• Live ready for Christ’s return.

The verdict is eternal. The invitation of grace is still open. And now is the time to respond to Jesus Christ.

Scripture Focus: Revelation 14

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Our country has the strongest economy in the world. Is it the happiest country? No. It didn’t even make the top 10. It didn’t make the top 20! Money is not the key to happiness. So...what is? Well, Pastor Greg Laurie addresses that pressing question today on A NEW BEGINNING. The Bible isn’t silent on the subject . . . in fact, Jesus Himself addressed the issue in a memorable way. If happiness seems to be in short supply these days, you’ve tuned in for the right study.

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What if financial success isn’t the destination, but simply the foundation for something greater?

We spend a great deal of time thinking about how to earn, save, invest, and manage money wisely. Those things matter. Faithful stewardship requires care and wisdom with what God has entrusted to us.

But what happens when you’ve done many of those things well and still find yourself wondering, Is there something more?

Scott Highmark, President and Co-Founder of Mosaic Wealth, a Certified Kingdom Advisor®, and author of The Significance Pyramid: Climb Beyond Success to Find Lasting Significance, believes there is.

His “Significance Pyramid” offers a framework for moving beyond financial success toward a life increasingly shaped by purpose, generosity, service, and ultimately surrender to Christ.

Our culture often encourages us to keep moving “up and to the right”—more income, more achievement, more possessions, more recognition.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with achievement. The problem comes when we expect it to satisfy desires it was never designed to fulfill.

Highmark points out that even people who reach the top of their professions often discover that the fulfillment they expected doesn’t last. Accomplishment may bring genuine satisfaction for a season, but our appetites continually reach for something more.

Ultimately, the human heart's deepest longing cannot be satisfied by another financial milestone or professional achievement. We were created for God Himself.

That conviction is at the heart of the Significance Pyramid. Every life points somewhere. The question is whether ours ultimately points toward ourselves or toward something greater.

The pyramid's first level is stewardship.

Stewardship involves wisely managing all God has entrusted to us—not simply our money, but our time, abilities, opportunities, and relationships.

Financially, that means understanding what we have, knowing where it is going, and learning to live within our means. Practices such as budgeting can sometimes feel restrictive, but healthy financial boundaries can actually create freedom. When our finances are in order, we can spend and give more intentionally instead of constantly reacting to financial pressure.

But stewardship is only the foundation. Once money consumes less of our attention, we can begin asking deeper questions about what our resources are actually for.

As Highmark puts it, money can help fund our purpose, but it cannot help us find our purpose.

The second level is symmetry, or alignment.

Most of us can quickly name what matters most to us: faith, family, marriage, generosity, service, relationships. But would someone looking at our calendars and financial statements reach the same conclusion?

Symmetry means aligning the way we actually live with the things we say we value.

James 1 describes a person who looks at himself in a mirror, walks away, and immediately forgets what he looks like. In a similar way, we can profess certain priorities while organizing our lives around completely different ones.

Highmark tells the story of a successful executive who traveled more than 150 days a year. His children were nearin

This was not the plan. Not the diagnosis, not the heartbreak, not the prayer apparently sitting in God’s inbox. So what does trusting God in suffering actually look like? Grammy-winning artist Laura Story, author of Stand in Awe, joins FamilyLife Today guest host Cheryl Shumake to talk honestly about unwanted stories, unanswered prayers, and believing God is good when you’d really prefer some supporting evidence.

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• Laura Story’s book, Stand in Awe: How Reverence Transforms Our Worship and Our Lives.

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My friend, Scott, told me about a man he knows who has been a professional bus driver for years. The driver is actually from Australia, but he has driven bus tours in places across the world. And he says there is this one classic movie that his passengers seem to watch on just about every bus tour. In fact, it’s been shown on his bus so many times he literally knows the script of the movie by heart! But the funny thing is this: because he’s always driving, he’s never seen the movie that he knows all the words for!

I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You today about “Only Knowing the Words.”

It’s not enough to just know the words; especially when it comes to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The Bible describes people who are a little like that bus driver who knows all about the movie but has never really experienced it. These people know all the words about Jesus, but somehow they have never really seen Jesus, never really experienced Him as their personal Savior, their personal Lord. In fact, there’s probably someone like that listening right now. And Jesus is reaching out to you right now to become more than words to you.

In Mark 7:6, our word for today from the Word of God, the Lord may be describing you or someone you know. “…These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” In other words, they talk a good game, they talk a God-game, they sound like they know Him but they’re far away. And only God knows it because they sound so good.

This business of belonging to Jesus, of having eternal life, is so much more than something in your vocabulary or in your head or the meetings you go to. Romans 10:10 makes it clear that “…it is with your heart that you believe and are justified…” That means made right with God. It’s whether Jesus is in your heart that determines your destiny, not whether He’s in your words, or your head, or your beliefs, or your schedule. It’s possible to have Jesus all around you but not inside you. And if you’re missing Jesus, you’re going to miss heaven.

Could it be that for all your time and experience in the world of Jesus followers you’ve somehow never really committed yourself to the Man who died for you? In Matthew 7, Jesus describes people who will come to Him on Judgment Day saying all the right words, having all the right background, having done all the right things, and then some of the most chilling words in the Bible. He will say to them, “I never knew you.” They had Christianity, but they missed Christ.

Those who are in the deadliest danger zone may not be those who haven’t heard about Jesus, but those who have heard over and over again, and they’ve never responded. Could that be you? You’re risking a hardened heart that passes a spiritual point of no return.

This is the day for you to say words to Jesus, not just all those words about Jesus. Words from your heart to His heart that say, “Jesus, beginning today I want to really belong to You. I am totally trusting You as my Savior from my sin, which You paid for when You died on that cross.” He has been waiting a long time for that invitation to come in and to take over your life. Don’t risk hardening your heart. Don’t risk missing what could be your final opportunity.

If you want to be sure you belong to Him today; if you want to "cross over" as the Bible says from death to life and know Him in your heart, not just in your head, I think our website would be a great place for you to go next. It's ANewStory.com. And it will help you nail down your personal relationship with Jesus once and for all.

You’ve had the right words, you’ve had the right beliefs, but it’s never satisfied your soul, has it? Now, this is the day you can finally know the Savior that you’ve known about for so long.