From Exile to Glory: The Call to Leave Babylon Behind [Zechariah 2:6-13]

February 16, 2025

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Date: 02/16/2025

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Zechariah

Key Text: Zechariah 2:6-13

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Where is your true home? Have you settled too comfortably in a world that is passing away? Or are you living as a citizen of Zion, rejoicing in the presence of your King?

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Zechariah where we see God call His people to flee Babylon—the symbol of the world’s fleeting security and rebellion against Him. Instead, He invites them to Zion, the city of His presence, where He promises protection, joy, and eternal belonging.

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Because you see, in a world that lures us with comfort, distraction, and false hope, God calls us to something greater: to build our lives on His unshakable kingdom.

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Redeeming the Ruthless [Isaiah 25:1-9; Ephesians 2:1-10]

April 12, 2020


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Date: 04/12/2020, Easter Sunday

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: CoronaVirus

Key Text: Isaiah 25:1-9; Ephesians 2:1-10

Description: The prophet Isaiah painted a picture of the rebellion in the nations: a place of idolatry, injustice, and insurrection; a place where God is ignored and His followers mocked, as man sits in his citadels of strength.

…That is, until God brings man’s city to ruin and his citadels to rubble.

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao virtually delivers a Resurrection Sunday Service to our church body as we watch from the safety of our homes during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 and reminds us that during these times when God brings people low, we rejoice.

We rejoice because God does it to rescue the afflicted and to vindicate His people. But there’s another reason we rejoice…a scandalous reason.  SBC logo 204x204

God brings people low to make the proud humble and remove the strength of the mighty and bring the ruthless to their knees.

And most shockingly, He redeems the ruthless so that they too worship Him.

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