Sermon NotesDate: 07/12/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 9
Description: Gideon’s legacy is a sad one. It involves idolatry, civil unrest, fratricide, deceit, retribution, and a large mill stone. God will not allow evil to go unpunished and Gideon’s son Abimelech meets his demise ultimately from the hand of God who punishes him for the wrong he has done to the house of his father.
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Sermon NotesDate: 07/05/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 8:1-35
Description: Gideon goes from doing things in the Lord’s strength to doing things in his own strength and in that decline we see the rise of sinful leadership and wicked idolatry. It’s a journey from godly legacy to idolatrous tyrant that leaves us checking our own hearts and thanking God for the final Judge sent for the deliverance of God’s people, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Sermon NotesDate: 06/28/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 7:1-25
Description: Sometimes God sends a trial into our lives to loosen our grasp on something that we were holding on to tighter than Christ. In the case of the Israelites, they saw strength in their numbers as they prepared to battle the Midianites and Amalekites. In order to prevent them from glorifying themselves, God drastically shrinks their numbers until their victory is impossible and that’s exactly where God wants them.
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Sermon Notes
Date: 06/21/2015
Preacher: Keith Barker, elder
Key Text: Ephesians 1
Description: Many Christians don’t mature because they have never been taught to recognize their righteousness in Christ. Secondly they need to also learn to rely on their resources. This message from the Book of Ephesians will help to clarify our understanding of these essential truths.
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Sermon NotesDate: 06/14/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 6:33-40
Description: Gideon doesn’t know if the Lord can be trusted so in an effort to test the Lord’s trustworthiness, Gideon tests the Lord twice by the use of a fleece that he lays out before the Lord.
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Sermon NotesDate: 06/07/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 6:11-32
Description: God raises up a reluctant Judge named Gideon who is hiding in a wine press. Gideon is not only fearful but His first task is to tear down the community alter to Baal that just happens to be in his own backyard.
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Date: 05/31/2015
Preacher: Keith Barker, elder
Key Text: Joshua 2
Description: There is a red road that connects the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation. Anyone who reads the Bible and is unaware of this pathway cannot grasp the most basic and most important aspect of the Bible narrative.
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Sermon NotesDate: 05/24/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 6:1-10
Description: God prepares the hearts of His people for rescue by sending a prophet with a message of grace.
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Sermon NotesDate: 05/17/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 4-5
Description: The story of Deborah and Barak and God’s deliverance through the hand of the woman Jael may be one of the most disturbing accounts of treachery recorded in the Bible and yet God delivers His people through these shocking events. In this account God calls an unfaithful general, Sisera, through the prophetess, Deborah, who ruled the people. Because of his unfaithfulness, God delivers their enemy to the hands of a foreign (and pagan) woman named Jael who brutally murders the enemy general by smashing a tent spike through his head with a hammer. The Bible celebrates her deed.
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Sermon NotesDate: 05/10/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 3:31
Description: Shamgar is the judge of obscurity. By all accounts he is an ordinary farmer whom God uses in an extraordinary way. No one celebrates the normal and the ordinary but the Bible is full of ordinary folks living an ordinary life. God calls us to serve in our normal callings and nowhere is this seen more clearly than in the callings of wife and mother.
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Sermon NotesDate: 05/03/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 3:12-30
Description: Ehud, from the tribe of Benjamin, is the second Judge God raises up to deliver His people from the hand of Eglon, King of Moab. Ehud assassinates Eglon in His throne room by plunging a self-made sword into his abdomen and killing Eglon before making a great escape. He gathers the Israelites and leads them to a decisive victory by the strength of the Lord and the land is restored to peace, which lasts for two generations.
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Sermon NotesDate: 04/26/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 3:7-11
Description: Othniel is mentioned as the first Judge of Israel. His story is not spectacular, it’s simple, straight-forward… even boring. But Othniel is not the hero of the story. God is. God is always the rescuer of His people and receives all the glory.
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Sermon NotesDate: 04/19/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 2:11-3:6
Description: In this section of the book of Judges, the author introduces the cycles of unfaithfulness on the part of the people and the deliverance from the hand of God.
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Sermon NotesDate: 04/12/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 2:6-11
Description: Israel was given two battles: the first – a battle within the home for the hearts of the next generation; the second – a battle outside the home to possess the land. Failure in either would ultimately lead to failure in both. The book of Judges begins with generational unfaithfulness and leads to covenantal unfaithfulness.
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Date: 04/05/2015, Easter Sunday
Preacher: Keith Barker, elder
Key Text: Mark 8:35-37
Description: Easter morning typically is filled with sermons speaking about Christ’s resurrection from the grave. In this Easter sermon we move our focus onto those who are without a saving relationship to our resurrected Lord Jesus. The things of the world, and our own security in the world, tend to capture those who are unsaved. Our text reflects the very words of Jesus on this matter.
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Sermon NotesDate: 04/05/2015, Easter Sunday
Preacher: Louie Bond, brother in Christ
Key Text: John 19:30
Description: Join us for our Resurrection Sunday Sunrise Service with brother in Christ, Louie Bond.
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Sermon NotesDate: 03/29/2015, Palm Sunday
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 1:1-2:5
Description: Israel fails to take the land and this sets off 350 years of rapid decline. It’s a downward spiral of depravity as things go from bad to worse. God hears the cries of His people and over and over He sends a judge to rescue them. But when the judge dies, the people fall back into idolatry and rebellion…and so the cycle continues.
The anticipation is for a judge that will rule righteously and not die. And whose righteous rule will bring a time of peace and the possession of the land. That anticipation has been met in Christ who is the only righteous king and who alone obeyed the covenant for the prospering of His people.
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Sermon NotesDate: 03/22/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Judges
Key Text: Judges 1:1
Description: Israel fails to take the land and this sets off 350 years of rapid decline. It’s a downward spiral of depravity as things go from bad to worse. God hears the cries of His people and over and over He sends a judge to rescue them, but when the judge dies, the people fall back into idolatry and rebellion…and so the cycle continues.
The anticipation is for a judge that will rule righteously and not die, and whose righteous rule will bring a time of peace and possession of the land. That anticipation has been met in Christ who is the only righteous King and who alone obeyed the covenant for the prospering of His people.
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Sermon NotesDate: 03/15/2015
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: Luke 15
Description: Our children are much the same way. We tend to have the Prodigals or the Pharisees. We tend to think of the Prodigals as hard to parent and we are always telling them the rules and the things that God requires. While the Pharisees actually seem to get either praised or largely ignored. After all, since they follow the rules, they require so much less…don’t they?
The truth of the matter is that our children can fall into both categories on any given day. Sometimes our rebellious children follow the rules for a while and it seems that we are making so much progress. And sometimes our rule-following children go through seasons of rebellion. The categories are not hard and fast but rather designed to be descriptive.
What we fail to remember is that the Gospel is not about following the rules to get saved. The Gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ obeyed the law perfectly for us. In other words, both our rebels and our rule-followers need the same thing. They need a Savior who has pleased God in all things and who has purchased their forgiveness by His death on the cross.
The ironic thing is that we fail to give either child the Gospel. The Prodigal just gets scolding and punishment. We tell them over and over what is expected…we tell them the rules. Our Pharisees get praised for doing the right thing.
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Sermon Notes
Date: 03/08/2015
Preacher: Keith Barker, elder
Key Text: Acts 16; Philippians 1
Description: Every true gathering of Christians is a supernatural work of God. The church at Philippi was a joy to Paul and can be an encouragement to you and me. It’s a great adventure to follow Paul on his second missionary journey and learn about the Lord’s leading and blessing.
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We’re in the process of digging through the colossal SBC Sermon Archive Library to bring forth the rich and timeless Biblical Truths found within the hundreds and hundreds of sermon cassettes from yesteryear, in our Tape to Podcast Project.
Currently on the workbench:
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