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With striking clarity, life without God is exposed in its unbridled corruption and decay. Pastor Chuck Swindoll explains that, no matter how dark these scenes are, believers need not live in fear or dread.

Pastor Chuck Swindoll explains how things go from bad to worse as people move further away from the true source of life. Nevertheless, God’s plan for the future will run its course and will lead to His grand finale—just as He ordained.

Teaching from Revelation 15:1–8, Pastor Chuck Swindoll explains how God’s wrath is poured out at long last to judge sin and remove evil. In contrast, God’s blessing is upon those who overcome political, religious, and economic oppression to resist the end-times beast and worship God only.

Listen as Pastor Chuck Swindoll highlights the majestic King and righteous Judge of Revelation 14:14–20.

Discover the depth of God’s love and mercy as well as three truths about believers who trust in our faithful God!

While the New Testament does not include direct commands that God's people tithe, it is worth noting that we are never commanded to not tithe. We could even assume that tithing was so ingrained in the New Testament believers' lifestyles, nothing more needed to be written regarding it—though, under grace, giving a tithe was no longer an obligation but an appropriate starting point for all who wished to cultivate the habit of joyful generosity.

When grace fuels us to forgive someone who has offended us, we abundantly release every hint of any offence. When grace is cultivated in our relationship with a friend, an abundance of bountiful freedom marks our friendship. The same bountiful abundance occurs when grace is the motivating factor prompting our giving. In other words, living by faith includes giving by grace.

Whether we are single or married, younger or older, wear a hard hat or a top hat, are self-employed or climbing the corporate ladder or retired from that pressured, stressful world, God's Word provides wisdom found nowhere else in literature…and not just wisdom but inspired wisdom. Expressed in ways that are easily understood, some of the most helpful counsel has to do with managing our money wisely.

Becoming a faithful and generous follower of Christ does not depend on our accumulation of money as much as it does on our attitude toward money. (Pause and reread that statement.) As we will discover in this lesson, the less we depend on material things to make us happy, the more likely we are to model generosity.

For too long, Christians have regarded serving Christ as a heavy burden. Because that attitude is so widespread, Christians often put on grim, gloomy, whipped, and weather-beaten faces when a pastor mentions the word serve.