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

April 12, 2020

Sermon Notes

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.

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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God, Our Refuge and Strength [Psalm 46:1-11]

April 5, 2020

Sermon Notes

Date: 04/05/2020, Palm Sunday

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: CoronaVirus

Key Text: Psalm 46

Description: Imagine that The Plague has come to your city. People are sick and needing help… and yet, the only response from civil authorities is to tell everyone to run!

What would YOU do?

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues his virtual preaching to our church body as we “stay home and stay healthy” during the Coronavirus Pandemic and asks us to ponder the described scenario: What WOULD you do?

Would you run? Would you stay to help?

Because, you see, how you answer these questions truly depends on WHAT, or WHO, you believe keeps you safe.

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Links to Suggested Hymns:

God, Our Help in Ages Past (video)(lyrics)
Be Still My Soul (video) (lyrics)
A Mighty Fortress is Our God (video) (lyrics)

SBC Good Friday Service 2018

Psalm 46 — an SBC corporate “virtual cell phone reading”

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STAY PUT and Walk in the Light [Romans 13:11-14]

March 29, 2020

Sermon Notes

Date: 03/29/2020

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: CoronaVirus

Key Text: Romans 13:11-14

Description:

How are we to live during a crisis?

How are we to walk when told to stay put?

How are we to represent God’s kingdom — a kingdom of hope —when chaos is all around us?

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast as Pastor Monty Simao continues his virtual preaching to our church body while we obey stay-at-home governmental mandates during the COVID-19 Pandemic, he shows us that Romans 13 gives us the answers to these questions.

Not only does it provide us the way to walk during crisis, but, perhaps more importantly, it provides us a way to live with the end in sight…and how, ultimately, the return of our Lord affects the way we live in the here and now.

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Links to Suggested Hymns:

Here is Love (video)(lyrics)
How Firm a Foundation (video) (lyrics)
It is Well with My Soul (video) (lyrics)
- Bonus “It is Well with My Soul” (Nashville Virtual Cell Phone Choir)

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The CoronaVirus, the Gathering Ban, and the Introvert’s Dream Come True [Romans 13:1-10]

March 22, 2020

Sermon Notes

Date: 03/22/2020

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: CoronaVirus

Key Text: Romans 13:1-10

Description: One of the most basic commands of the Christian life is the command to gather together with other believers… But how is this even possible in the midst of a global pandemic where civil authorities have mandated social distancing, gathering-caps, and quarantines?

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao makes a mark in our little country church’s 91 year history as he preaches an unprecedented, church-at-home, virtual sermon during an unprecedented time in our nation’s history.

But how are we as Christians are to respond to mandates of isolation during a crisis such as COVID-19?

After all, the whole context of the New Testament is the assembly of the saints. The epistles were written to local bodies, the book of Acts was the preaching of the Gospel and the establishment of local assemblies.

But is there ever a time when the church simply cannot meet? What circumstances would need to take place for such a time to present itself? And how would God want us to meet with Him during this time?