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The Clash of Kingdoms: Surrendering Our Rights [Matthew 5:38-42]

July 19, 2026

Sermon Notes

Date: 07/19/2026

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Matthew

Key Text: Matthew 5:32-42

Description:

An eye for an eye,
and a tooth for a tooth.

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study
in the Gospel of Matthew —

as Jesus confronts
the desire for personal vengeance.

God gave this law
to restrain retaliation
and uphold justice.

But the scribes and Pharisees
turned it into permission
to get even.

Christ calls the citizens
of His kingdom
to another way:

turn the other cheek,
walk the second mile,
and willingly surrender
what you have every right to claim.

Not because justice
doesn’t matter,

but because vengeance
belongs to God.

And because the King Himself
surrendered His rights,
and bore the judgment we deserved…

and freed us
from the burden
of getting even.

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The Gravity of Our Words: The Law, the Lie, and the Lord of Truth [Matthew 5:33-37, 48]

July 12, 2026

Sermon Notes

Date: 07/12/2026

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Matthew

Key Text: Matthew 5:33-37, 48

Description:

“Let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’;
anything beyond these is of evil.”

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study
in the Gospel of Matthew —

as Jesus confronts
the promises we make,
the words we manipulate,
and the loopholes we use
to excuse deception.

The Pharisees had built
a system of oaths
that sounded righteous

while leaving room
to lie.

And their loopholes expose
the same impulse in us —

to shape the truth
to serve ourselves.

But every word is spoken
before the sovereign God.

The Law leaves us
without excuse

and drives us
to the Lord of Truth —

the One whose perfect obedience
is counted as ours,

and whose every word
was true —

and remains
forever true.

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The Adulterous Heart and the Covenantal Home [Matthew 5:27-32]

July 5, 2026

Sermon Notes

Date: 07/05/2026

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Matthew

Key Text: Matthew 5:27-32

Description:

The greatest threat
to your marriage
and your soul

is not the enemy
outside the door —

it’s the one inside.

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study
in the Gospel of Matthew —

as Jesus exposes where adultery truly begins:
not with the body, but in the heart.

The King presses the seventh commandment
beyond outward restraint
and into the hidden life
of desire —

confronting lust
as adultery of the heart
to be put to death,

and bringing the careless breaking
of the marriage covenant

under the holy authority
of the One who made it.

Because in Christ’s kingdom,
purity is not a mask we wear.

It is a grace we need —

given by the faithful Husband
who forgives,
cleanses,
and restores.

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The Law Intensified & The Kingdom Inaugurated [Matthew 5:21-26]

June 28, 2026

Sermon Notes

Date: 06/28/2026

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Matthew

Key Text: Matthew 5:21-26

Description:

“You shall not murder.”

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study
in the Gospel of Matthew —

as Jesus takes up a commandment
everyone thought they understood —

murder.

But Jesus shows us that murder
is more than an outward act.

He reveals where it really lives —

in the heart,

where we find anger,
contempt,
and the careless words
we use to dismiss others.

And suddenly,
murder is not something
safely outside us.

Because apart from Christ,
it lives within us.

Our problem is deeper
than behavior to be managed.
It is a heart
that needs to be made clean.

And no amount of external righteousness
can do that.

Because before the King,
the Law exposes our need,
and drives us to Christ —

the One who yielded His rights,
stood in our place,
and paid our debt…
to the last penny.

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Covenant of Works [Genesis 2:4-17]

April 17, 2016

Sermon Notes

Date: 04/17/2016

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Genesis

Key Text: Genesis 2:4-17

Description: God placed Adam in a garden with all the benefits therein but commanded him not to eat from one particular tree. This was a covenant of works. Adam could continue in the paradise garden as long as he was obedient to God’s one command. Adam failed this test of obedience, and in Adam we all failed as well.

But God would send a Second Adam – a better Adam – Jesus Christ: One who would obey all the law perfectly, as well as pay the punishment for the sins of Adam’s fallen race, thereby purchasing salvation for His people.