Sermon Notes
Date: 10/04/2026
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Matthew
Key Text: Matthew 6:16-18
Description:
Are you too full
to hunger for God?
For we live in a world
where almost every appetite
can be satisfied on demand.
We eat when we’re not hungry.
We consume without thinking.
And yet, somehow —
we’re never quite satisfied.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study
in the Gospel of Matthew —
as Jesus turns our attention
to the often-neglected discipline
of fasting.
But fasting is not about
earning favor with God.
For Christ has already accomplished
what our self-denial never could.
And so, fasting becomes
not a means of proving our righteousness,
but an expression of our longing —
for the Bridegroom who has come,
and the heavenly banquet
that is yet to come.
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