Though He Slay Me, I Will Hope in Him [Job 11-14]

June 22, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 06/22/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 11-14

Description:  Zophar is the third friend to speak.  His speech ends cycle one in the dialogue portion and in the end he adds nothing new to the views of Job’s other two friends.  Zophar is insulting in his attack as he basically calls Job a windbag and a scoffer.

Job continues to declare his innocence and calls for a trial before God.  In the end he continues to trust in God and says, “though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.”

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Chasing Chariots [Acts 8:30]

June 15, 2014

Keith Barker 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 06/15/2014

Preacher: Keith Barker, elder

Key Text: Acts 8:30

Description: There are a surprising number of men in the Bible that are remembered as running. In today’s message we find Philip on a collision path with a power man in a chariot. This encounter was very much of the Lord and resulted in that man’s salvation.

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Are you He who is to come? [Matthew 11:1-30]

June 8, 2014

Keith Barker 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 06/08/2014

Preacher: Keith Barker, elder

Key Text: Matthew 11

Description: While in prison John the Baptist struggled with assurance as to who Jesus actually was and why He was not conducting Himself the way John thought He should.

We often have the same struggle when God seemingly doesn’t work things out in our lives the way we think He should.  Our message today will look in depth at this persepetive.

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The Gospel in Calamity [Job 8-10]

June 1, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 06/01/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 8-10

Description:  We’ve come to the second of Job’s friends, Bildad. Bildad doesn’t have the diplomatic skills of the older Eliphaz, instead he councils Job in his blunt cruelty.

Job is brought so low in his struggle that he cries aloud for a mediator, one who could stand between him and God. Job’s calamity and pain point out a desire that could only be fulfilled by Christ.

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Miserable Comforters [Job 4-7]

May 25, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 05/25/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 4-7

Description:  In chapter 4 the first of Job’s friends, Eliphaz, breaks the silence and provides council to Job.  It is miserable council.  Eliphaz believes that calamity only follows sin and so has already concluded that Job is in sin and calls for his repentance.

Job is discouraged by his friend and eventually turns his plead to God.  In fact, Job is so discouraged that he requests God turn His gaze away from him and let him die in peace.

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Why? [Job 2:11–3:26]

May 18, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 05/18/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 2:11–3:26

Description:  We are introduced in the text to Job’s three friends.  They meant well but they bring to mind the cliché, “with friends like these who needs enemies?”  Several months have transpired since Job’s tribulation started, and he is now at that point where death looks sweet and Job curses the day of his birth — always the unanswerable question of…”Why?”

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Skin for Skin! [Job 2:1-10]

May 11, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 05/11/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 2:1-10

Description:  Chapter 2 or Job is the start of a new round of attacks from the Devil.  God “lengthens his leash” and allows Satan to put forth his hand against Job’s own body. We will look closely at this new attach and Job’s response.

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Morning Devotions [1 Peter 2:2-3]

May 4, 2014

Keith Barker 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 05/04/2014

Preacher: Keith Barker, elder

Key Text: 1 Peter 2:2-3

Description: It’s way too easy, with all the demands on our time, to hurry out of the house in the morning and, in effect, leave God behind. This message on morning devotions will strive to establish the absolute need to form the habit of meeting God in the morning.

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The Results of the Resurrection [Acts 26:1-32]

April 27, 2014

Keith Barker 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 04/27/2014

Preacher: Keith Barker, elder

Key Text: Acts 26

Description: One of the most exciting truths in Christianity is the proclamation that Jesus is resurrected as the “first fruit”, the first in a long line of those who accept Christ and will themselves be resurrected from death to life.

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Your Sorrow Will Be Turned into Joy! [John 16:16-22; 20:1-31]

April 20, 2014

Sermon Notes

Date: 04/20/2014, Easter Sunday

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Key Text: John 16:16-22; 20:1-31

Description:  In this sermon, we look at the promise Jesus made to His disciples in John chapter 16.  He told them that they would be filled with sorrow even as the world rejoices, but that He would turn their sorrow into Joy. Then we look at John chapter 20, to see the fulfillment of that promise and the benediction of peace that Christ pronounced upon His church on that first Easter Sunday and continues to pronounce upon His people today.

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Sunrise Service 2014: Christ is Coming Again! [Mark 16:1-11]

April 20, 2014

Easter Sunrise Service

SBC sunrise 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 04/20/2014, Easter Sunday

Preacher: Louie Bond, brother in Christ

Key Text: Mark 16:1-11

Description: Join us for our Resurrection Sunday Sunrise Service with brother in Christ, Louie Bond.

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Have You Considered My Servant Job? [Job 1:6-12]

April 13, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 04/13/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 1:6-12

Description:  In our passage today, we see a glimpse into the heavenly throne room.  Satan obeys the summons to appear, and he comes as the accuser of God’s people.  God tells Satan to state for the record where he has been and Satan states that he has been going “to and fro on the earth.”  And then God asks Satan a question that challenges Satan: “Have you considered my servant Job?”

Satan accepts this challenge from God by saying that if God allows him to take away Job’s blessings that Job would curse God to His face.  Job would then be proved a fake and God would be guilty of nothing more than cosmic bribery.

The gauntlet has been thrown down…and it is God’s idea.

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A Man Called Job (part 2) [Job 1:1-5; 13-22]

April 6, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 04/06/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 1:1-5; 13-22

Description: In this sermon (part 2 of 2) we follow the man Job as he encounters calamity.  We only look at the parts of the story that happened directly to Job.  We see it from his perspective and skip the section of the happenings between God and Satan in the heavenly throne room (which we will cover in the next sermon).

We look at Job’s response and in it we see an example of a man who must look to a Redeemer in the midst of his trials.

We end by looking at Christ who in many ways is the anti-type of Job and is the greater sufferer and who accomplished the ultimate defeat of all of Job’s enemies.  (Listen to Part 1)

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Beware of Religion [Genesis 4:1-26]

March 30, 2014

Keith Barker 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 03/30/2014

Preacher: Keith Barker, elder

Key Text: Genesis 4

Description: The difference between having religion and having salvation is clearly pictured in the story of Cain and Abel. The story centers around the sacrifices presented by these two boys. God accepted one and rejected the other.

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A Man Called Job (part 1) [Job 1:1-5]

March 23, 2014

Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 03/23/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: Job

Key Text: Job 1:1-5

Description: This sermon (part 1 of 2) serves as an introduction to our series in book of Job — the aim of which is to see the Gospel and Christ even in the midst of an ancient book about the suffering of a man called Job. (Listen to Part 2)

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Guard Yourselves From Idols [1 John 5:21]

March 16, 2014

Sermon Notes

Date: 03/16/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: 1 John

Key Text: 1 John 5:21

Description: John ends his letter with a warning to all Christians that we should guard ourselves from idols.  We will consider this warning while noting four things this text teaches us:

  1. The Great Enemy
  2. The Great Contrast
  3. The Great Defense
  4. The Great Gospel

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Assurance in the Gospel — part 2 [1 John 5:18-20]

March 9, 2014

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Date: 03/09/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: 1 John

Key Text: 1 John 5:18-20

Description: John declares that all those who believe in Christ can be assured of five things:

  1. Assurance of Eternal Life (13)
  2. Assurance of Answered Prayer (14-17)
  3. Assurance of Victory over Sin (18)
  4. Assurance of Belonging to God (19)
  5. Assurance of Abiding in Christ (20-21)

This message covers the last three of these assurances.

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Why Jesus Hates Religion [Matthew 1:21-23]

March 2, 2014

Sermon Notes

Date: 03/02/2014

Preacher: Keith Barker, elder

Key Text: Matthew 1:21-23

Description: Humanity loves its religions, but we see from the Book of Matthew that Jesus has just the opposite position. Too often we read God’s Holy Word with the thought that it’s all about us… all about how we can find God.  In today’s message, we will see that the Bible is not about us: It’s all about God.

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Assurance in the Gospel — part 1 [1 John 5:13-16]

February 23, 2014

Sermon Notes

Date: 02/23/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: 1 John

Key Text: 1 John 5:13-16

Description: John declares that all those who believe in Christ can be assured of five things:

  1. Assurance of Eternal Life (13)
  2. Assurance of Answered Prayer (14-17)
  3. Assurance of Victory over Sin (18)
  4. Assurance of Belonging to God (19)
  5. Assurance of Abiding in Christ (20-21)

This message covers the first two assurances.

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The Testimony of the Son [1 John 5:6-12]

February 16, 2014

Sermon Notes

Date: 02/16/2014

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: 1 John

Key Text: 1 John 5:6-12

Description: John declares at the start of this epistle that he and the other Apostles were eye witnesses to the person and work of Christ. Although human testimony is important, John now calls forth the star witness…none other than God Himself.  God has declared Jesus to be the Christ and the only way of salvation for sinners. To reject the testimony of God is to call God a liar.

Notes:

  1. The Object of the Testimony
  2. The Source of the Testimony
  3. The Results of the Testimony

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