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There is a new world coming. It's out with the old and in with the new.

Well, will eternity be like? Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie gives believers a sneak peek at what to expect.

No suffering, no separations, no accidents, no courts or prisons or divorces, or breakdowns or breakups.

No more heart attacks, no cancer, no more famines, no disasters, God makes all things new.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day of a moment again.

It's a challenge to think about the glory of heaven when we're confined to the stark realities of life on earth.

Life here just can't compare with life in the hereafter.

But today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out how earth has a role in our eternity.

Pastor Greg explains just what happens when the fullness of God's end times plan unfolds.

It's part of an enlightening series on those things every single believer should know.

A series called Essentials.

This is the day the day when life begins.

A casting meal or an amazing sunset or arriving at Disneyland, probably not. That's probably more for the kids, right?

Let's go now.

We wish that time we were having it was that ultimate vacation or that fantastic experience could last forever, but of course they don't.

We tend to think of heaven as some faraway place and earth as a place that we're on now and we will leave never to see again.

But here's the good news.

We're going to come back to this earth again. God still has a plan for planet earth.

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