Who Can Dwell With God? [Psalm 15:1-5]

November 30, 2025

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Monty Simao 2014Sermon Notes

Date: 11/30/2025

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Wisdom and Worship: Walking Through Psalms and Proverbs

Key Text: Psalm 15

Description:

What kind of person is truly worthy to live in the presence of God?
No one.
Unless… he is perfectly righteous.

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao takes us to the fifteenth psalm in our Wisdom and Worship study, in which David asks this very question:

“O Lord, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill?”

The answer:

Only the one whose life is blameless…
whose heart is pure…
whose actions are flawless…
whose words are faithful…
and whose love is unwavering.

In other words — no one but Jesus.

This portrait of holiness stands not as a ladder for the proud to climb, but as a mirror for the humble to see their need.

Jesus Christ is the only Man who ever walked this earth with perfect integrity, perfect truth, and perfect love.
He alone is worthy to dwell on God’s holy hill.

But by His grace, His righteousness becomes ours—
and we too, amazingly, will one day dwell on the holy hill with the Lord God Almighty.
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Because in the end, Psalm 15 is not about us meeting the standard…
but about the One who already has.

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God Alone Is My Refuge [Psalm 62:1-12]

November 9, 2025

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Date: 11/09/2025

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Wisdom and Worship: Walking Through Psalms and Proverbs

Key Text: Psalm 62

Description:

When life feels like it’s slipping out from under us…
we all run somewhere.

To people.
To accomplishments.
To distraction.
To whatever promises to hold us up when we feel like we’re falling.

But what happens when those refuges give way?

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues our Wisdom and Worship study with Psalm 62 — where David declares that every refuge in this world is fragile and false… but God alone is strong, faithful, and near.

This psalm doesn’t simply call us to believe about God —
but to rest in Him.
To entrust our weary souls to the One who never shifts, never fades, and never fails.

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Because the question is not whether you will seek refuge.

The question is whether the refuge you will seek… will save.

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The Need for Discernment [1 John 4:1-6]

December 15, 2013

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Date: 12/15/2013

Preacher: Monty Simao, elder

Series: 1 John

Key Text: 1 John 4:1-6

Description: John provides believers three tests so that they can discern between false teachers and true teachers and between truth and error.

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