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Gehenna and Hades: Understanding Hell
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 28, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsTo understand what "hell" means in the New Testament, we have to look at the original Greek words, two of which are "Gehenna" and "Hades." "Gehenna" refers to a place of punishment and perpetual burning, while "Hades" refers to the unseen world, not innately a place of punishment. The place of ...
God Will Not Fill Us Up Until We Are Empty
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 27, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsContrary to man's traditional interpretations of the Beatitudes, they are not a list of works we can strive to do to make it into heaven: they are what God does in us. Christ methodically outlines the mindset and personality of the citizens of heaven who will inherit the future earth. They are ...
How the “Out-Called-Ones” Make It In
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 26, 2024 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIn Matthew 22, God likens His kingdom to a wedding celebration in honor of His son. The call to "come in" is extended to all, but only the “out-called-ones,” the ones who come in clothed with the blood of the Lamb, will make it in. VF-2223 Matthew 22:1-14 Watch, Listen and Learn 24x7 at Pastor...
The Sheep and the Goats: Christ Does the Separating
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 24, 2024 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsThe parable of the sheep and the goats has been caricatured by the proponents of the social gospel as a text that advocates works of charity as the way to heaven. Like the parable of the wheat and the tares, there are only two types of people, and Christ separates them into distinct and everlas...
The Wheat and the Tares: A Difference in Destiny
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 21, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIn the parable of the wheat and the tares, Jesus illustrates the fact that there are only two types of people, and there is a difference in destiny for each. This message is not meant to make us question whether we are wheat or tares, but rather to bring us hope that death is not the end. Someth...
The Parable of the Sower: Receiving the Word of God
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 20, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsTo begin understanding what the New Testament says about heaven and hell it is important to understand the Parable of the Sower. There are four types of hearts that react to the word of God: hard hearts that reject the word, shallow hearts with a superficial relationship, strangled hearts that ...
Insight Beyond the Grave
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 19, 2024 11:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsThe devil wants our minds to be blinded to the reality of heaven to keep us from entering in. But there is a clear picture in the prophecies of Daniel and others of what will happen in a future time and what occurs after death. God has an everlasting kingdom, and we will stand before His thron...
Examining the Doctrine of Purgatory
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 18, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIn our journey to understand what happens to us when we die, we must examine the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory. This message plants the seeds of questions we should be asking when we approach any form of doctrine at all. VF-2217 Watch, Listen and Learn 24x7 at PastorMelissaScott.com ...
The Hope We Have in Christ Eternally
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 17, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsThis message begins with teaching about the true time of Christ’s birth. It is not the birth of a child that makes us Christians, but the fact of His resurrection. This leads us into the prophetic Psalm 16. This psalm by David describes living in the presence of the Lord, the portion of the Lord...
Painting a Clearer Picture of Heaven
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 14, 2024 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsWe all die eventually, so we should want to know where we are going after death. Many people do not get excited about heaven because they do not have a picture in their mind of what it will look like, but the Bible does tell us what it will be like. The final chapters of Revelation describe new ...
Born in Adam, but Not Doomed
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 13, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsThe genesis of sin and the fall left an imprint on humanity for generations. We are still dying to this day. Although we bear the consequence of Adam’s sin, we are not doomed. Genesis 3-Romans 5. VF-2214 Watch, Listen and Learn 24x7 at PastorMelissaScott.com Pastor Melissa Scott teaches fr...
God’s Intent and Purpose In Creation
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 12, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsGod had a plan when He created Earth and when He created man. Heaven was already in view. His intent to have perfect fellowship with man was thwarted with the fall of our first parents. In love, God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden so they would not be forever out of fellowship and He laid...
Seek Diligently Those Things Which Are Above
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 11, 2024 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsLike sanctification, the subject of heaven and hell becomes clearer as you dig into it. If we are to rise with Christ, we must seek the things that are above. Hell is a place, and it is not homogenized. Similarly, heaven is a place where we will continue to learn directly from the Master in the ...
An Introduction to the Subject of Heaven and Hell
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 10, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsAs an introduction to the subject of heaven and hell, we must be careful about what we “think” we know. Some common misconceptions are addressed, and the question is answered, “What exactly does God require of us to make it in?” Luke 16:19-31 Watch, Listen and Learn 24x7 at PastorMelissaScott....
Seek First His Kingdom
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 07, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMatthew's gospel was written primarily to a Jewish audience, so he is careful in how he uses the name of God. He focuses on the kingdom of heaven, emphasizing who the king is, what His kingdom is about, and who will enter the kingdom. We are told to seek His kingdom and His righteousness first. ...
He Is Risen: Why I Am a Christian
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 06, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsTake the challenge to read and listen to Bible teaching, examining whether or not the things that Jesus foretold of Himself were manipulated or true before throwing away the hope of life eternal. John 11:23-26 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 VF-1970 Watch, Listen and Learn 24x7 at PastorMelissaScott.co...
The Battle for Your Soul and the Concept of Commitment
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 05, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsThere is a battle for your soul, and it is dangerous to fail to understand the enemy is always there. A target is on your back when you open your mouth and make a commitment. When our committedness or our attitude towards our commitment changes, we open up the door for the devil to pick us off. ...
What Brings On the Wrath of God?
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 04, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsGod loves His children, but His wrath is provoked when people, in rebellion, fail to acknowledge Him. There are consequences to sin. We were all children of disobedience, but Christ bore the wrath that was due us, and we are covered when we put our trust in Him. The outpouring of God's wrath le...
The Biblical Concept of Forgiveness
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - June 03, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIt is difficult to forgive others if we fail to understand how much God has forgiven us. Unwillingness to forgive others drives a wedge between us and God and begins to close off the channel of communication with Him. We must completely let go of the wrongs that were done against us, just as Ch...
Christ in the Atonement: More Than a Covering
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 31, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsYom Kippur, known in the English as the Day of Atonement was an Old Testament system that provided covering for the people’s sin for the past year. This system failed because people need more than a covering. The good news is when we study this set time through the eyes of Christ, we can see t...
Onesimus: From Runaway Slave to Fellow Laborer in the Lord
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 30, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsOnesimus put distance between his master, Philemon, and himself. This disobedience created a debt that he had no way of repaying. Through contact with Paul, Onesimus finally went back and became a fellow laborer. The hardest thing to do sometimes is to go back to the place where you failed and s...
Job: Faith Fortified in Adversity
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 29, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsWhen Job was tested by God, he suffered great pain and loss. God was trying to teach him, but he failed to understand the lesson, so God had to set him straight. We do not know everything that God knows; there is a purpose for what happens to us. God is greater than our circumstances and our ...
You Are Strangers and Pilgrims; The Land is Mine
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 28, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsWhen God led His people into the Promised Land, He told them to drive out the enemies that dwelt there; but they failed to do so. The enemies turned God's people away from Him, and God did to His people what He had planned to do to their enemies. Some tribes were greatly diminished even before...
The True Intercessor Is Jesus Christ
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 27, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsCatholic tradition presents Mary as an intercessor, but the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is our true intercessor. Christ intercedes for us as we come against the unseen enemy of Satan. The devil's point of attack is the center of our faith, but we have Jesus as an advocate in our corner pra...
The High Priest's Breastplate: We Are Written on God's Heart
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 24, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIn a beautiful picture of grace from the Old Testament, we see God’s thought of His children in the stones of the breastplate of judgment. Combining the value of the stones with the meaning of each family name engraved on them, we see that God is not looking at our past mistakes and failures. ...
Who Is Satan? Peter's Failure - The Way Back
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 23, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsA strong tactic of satan is self-centeredness, this tactic is used most often when we fail; whether actual or perceived. As Peter, we start following afar off, and at that point the devil's tactic is to get us to move farther away from God's presence. We are admonished to press in closer. VF-172...
Our Failure, God's Success
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 22, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsThe world's view of failure contrasted with God’s view. Jesus does not publicly humiliate, He does not berate, He just reconciles. VF-1773 John 18:15-18 Watch, Listen and Learn 24x7 at PastorMelissaScott.com Pastor Melissa Scott teaches from Faith Center in Glendale. Call 1-800-338-3030 24x...
What Christ Does With Failures
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 21, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsPastor Scott's 400th Message: Before the message, VF-166 "Peter's Failure and Restoration" is referenced. Then, after reading an excerpt from John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and an overview of Peter's failures throughout the scriptures, all of us are instructed to put flesh and blood on the...
Refinement through Failure
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 20, 2024 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsFailure is part of every Christian’s journey, but if we keep our focus on the Lord He will use it to refine our love for Him. VF-1949 John 21:15-19 Pastor Melissa Scott teaches from Faith Center in Glendale. Call 1-800-338-3030 24x7 to leave a message for Pastor Scott. You may make reservatio...
The Eyes of the LORD Are Always upon You
Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. - May 14, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsFor the children of Israel, God promised to always keep His eyes upon the Promised Land. For us this promise is personal, reminding us that no matter where we are, no matter what our failures, God cares for us and His eyes are always upon us. VF-2009 Deuteronomy 11:10-12 Watch, Listen and Lear...
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