January 20, 2019
Sermon Notes
Date: 01/20/2019
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 6:9-17
Description: Last week on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, we saw the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse who were sent out at the bidding of Christ as He opened the first four of the seven seals.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, we come to seal number five and six as Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation.
With the opening of the fifth seal we witness the martyrs that have come out of this present evil age, crying for God to judge the evil doers and avenge them.
The sixth seal is God’s response… for with the opening of this seal, we get a glimpse of the final day of wrath, of de-creation, and the absolute terror the enemies of God will experience.
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January 13, 2019
Sermon Notes
Date: 01/13/2019
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 6:1-8
Description:
I watched while the Lamb ripped off the first of the seven seals. I heard one of the Animals roar, “Come out!” I looked—I saw a white horse. Its rider carried a bow and was given a victory garland. He rode off victorious, conquering right and left.
When the Lamb ripped off the second seal, I heard the second Animal cry, “Come out!” Another horse appeared, this one red. Its rider was off to take peace from the earth, setting people at each other’s throats, killing one another. He was given a huge sword.
When he ripped off the third seal, I heard the third Animal cry, “Come out!” I looked. A black horse this time. Its rider carried a set of scales in his hand. I heard a message (it seemed to issue from the Four Animals): “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, or three quarts of barley, but all the oil and wine you want.”
When he ripped off the fourth seal, I heard the fourth Animal cry, “Come out!” I looked. A colorless horse, sickly pale. Its rider was Death, and Hell was close on its heels. They were given power to destroy a fourth of the earth by war, famine, disease, and wild beasts.
(Rev 6:1-8, The MSG)
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation in which we are introduced to the four horsemen as we witness the opening of the scroll by the One who is worthy, King Jesus.
While the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are sure to capture our imagination, and the imaginations of pop culture, few even know where these images come from — and even fewer, what they mean. But in the midst of this confusion, Christ, the triumphant Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Lamb that was Slain, releases these horsemen to do His bidding as He brings judgment, warning, and trial upon the earth.
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January 6, 2019
Sermon Notes
Date: 01/06/2019
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 5
Description: “I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, ‘Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?’ And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it. Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it….”
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in book of Revelation and shows us that all of creation has waited to have the scroll of heaven open: the book containing judgment and salvation; the book that will set in motion the providential plans of God to bring every wrong and evil to an end and to reward God’s people with everlasting life.
But who is worthy to open the book? There is one!… The Lion of the Tribe of Judah. The Lamb who was slain. Christ is worthy!
“To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”
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December 23, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/23/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Advent
Key Text: Isaiah 40:1-11; Luke 3:1-6
Description:
Scandia Host: Quick. Name a famous road.
Average Guy: Hmmmmm… Route 66!
Scandia Host: Excellent choice… but the most famous road is not built by men….
Average Guy: Huh?
Scandia Host: It’s built by God.
Today on this Advent Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao shares with us that it is a highway that we must prepare for, and we are preparing for, the coming of the Lord…who travels this road with salvation and a message of comfort.
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December 16, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/16/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 4
Description: We’ve read the seven letters to the churches of Asia Minor… which when taken in totality are a letter to the church as a whole, as well.
…So if that’s the case, how do you get the eyes of the church off of their circumstances as they look to the Lord for strength in all their trials?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues are study in the book of Revelation and helps us answer that question by pointing us to God in His splendor and sovereignty.
You see, the bigger God is to us, the smaller are the assaults of this present evil age… not because they are insignificant, but rather because they are put into perspective next to the God of the universe who is worthy of all praise.
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December 9, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/09/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 3:14-22
Description: Of all the letters to the churches, it may be the most recognizable but least understood.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and shows us that the letter to the church in Laodicea is a letter of rebuke.
…And yet Christ offers a restoration so complete that it could only come from the Gospel.
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December 2, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/02/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 3:10-11
Description:
“Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.” – Revelation 3:10
Revelation 3:10 – one of the most contested verses in this book of the Bible.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation by taking a moment to unpack this particular verse.
Let’s face it, while everyone in the church agrees that Christ is coming again, not everyone agrees on how it plays out. And while there are multiple interpretive frameworks regarding the book of Revelation, how you interpret what it means for “God to keep us” reveals much about the framework you operate from.
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Missionary Update
Missionary David Hardin and his family stopped by to worship with us this Sunday. Many years ago, David grew up in our church, and now he is a Missionary to the Tarahumara people of the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico through Mexico Medical Missions. Though he did not preach today, he did give us an update, and with that an unexpected insight into something we all too easily take for granted.
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November 25, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 11/25/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 3:7-13
Description: What does it mean to be kept from the hour of testing? Is it to be removed from persecution or to be able to endure through it?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and shows us how the Lord strengthens us to endure what may come… even terrible things, and that He promises to keep our souls safe and trusting in His name.
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November 18, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 11/18/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 3:1-6
Description: The greatest danger to the church in America today is not persecution… BUT COMFORT.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and points out that we’re so relaxed that there is nothing to persecute, for there is no offense that the world sees.
Like the Sardians we need to wake up and be wary of the comfort that kills.
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November 4, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 11/04/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 2:18-29
Description: You either are acceptable to God or you are acceptable to the world…you can’t be both.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and shares with us that perhaps the biggest problem facing the church in America today is the pressure to compromise.
For as the culture continues to decline morally, the pressure rises to succumb to the teachings of this world and become acceptable to those around us.
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October 28, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 10/28/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 2:12-17
Description: As Christians we all stand ready to bat down blatant error. We wouldn’t hesitate to spring into action if someone in the church rebuffed justification by faith alone or denied the deity of Christ. …But what if the error was more subtle? …a small compromise that was just enough to give a foothold to the Devil.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and shares with us that while we are all busy gearing for the full frontal attack, the truth is, we forget to guard our flanks.
And when we do, we fail to see the seduction from without, or perhaps more sadly, the false teaching from within — giving permission to those small compromises that we think probably won’t matter.
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October 14, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 10/14/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 2:8-11
Description: Some of the poorest people are actually the richest… and some of the richest are the poorest.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and shows us that just as the world is not always as it seems, the city of Smyrna was not always as it seemed: Christians were being tortured and killed, and yet they were victorious and obtained the victor’s crown while eternal judgment awaited those in power who were wreaking havoc upon the church.
As Christians we are not promised to be rescued from life’s trials, but rather to persevere through them… and that God always knows and sees all that we are going through because of Him. And with that, He promises to those that are faithful and complete the race and overcome, that the Crown of Life awaits.
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October 7, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 10/07/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: Acts 6:1-7; 1 Timothy 3:8-13
Description:
Scandia Host: Do you know what a deacon is?
Average Guy: Not really. I just checked the Internet, though, and it said it was someone who was a good friend – one that you could call a brother – and while he might be a pain at times, he’ll be there to help you out if, and when, life takes a turn for the worse.
Scandia Host: Not really what I was looking for… but it’s a start. You’d better listen up.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao takes a break from our study in Revelation to address a question that most Christians don’t have an answer for: What is a deacon?
And this is a question that is especially relevant for Scandia Bible Church, because today we just got another one.
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Gregg Salo, newly installed SBC deacon. (October 7, 2017)
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September 30, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/30/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 2:1-7
Description: The Ephesians were intolerant and haters… and for that, Jesus praised them.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and shares with us that in Christ’s letter to the church of Ephesus, He, indeed, did praise them for their intolerance to evil and hating the things He hates.
But most of us don’t consider intolerance a virtue, nor think that there would be something that Jesus actually hates… let alone, wants us to hate too. But that’s exactly what we read.
And in the midst of this, we are told to love.
Sound contradictory? Not at all.
Let’s love the things that God loves and hate the things that God hates… and in so doing, know what it is like to walk in Truth.
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September 23, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/23/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 1:10-20
Description: What do you think Christ looks like? …Like what you see in the movies? …or the illustrations in children’s Bibles?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and points out that while we all have a picture of Christ in our mind’s eye, the Apostle John gives us a picture of Christ and that is very different from the one we have in our imagination.
What we’ll find is that John is not interested in telling us what Christ looks like; his purpose is to show us what Christ IS LIKE!
And that’s a message that the church needs in every age.
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September 16, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/16/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 1:9-13a
Description: “And I [John] heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, saying, ‘Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches….’ I turned… [and] saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.”
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and shows us that it was not written by an academic with little practical experience or a lofty leader from an ivory tower: Rather the Lord Jesus gave the Revelation to John the apostle who was a fellow partaker in “the tribulation, kingdom, and perseverance, which are in Jesus.”
And like John, we too can persevere because Christ is in the midst of His church.
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September 9, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/09/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 1:7-8
Description: There’s no need to purchase Cliffs Notes for the book of Revelation, because the Bible already built it in… and you’ll find it contained in ONE verse.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Revelation and explains that after the weeks and weeks we’ll spend sifting through this great book, if all we remember is this one verse, we will probably know enough for whatever trials may come during our lives.
The verse: chapter 1, verse 7.
For what we’ll learn is that it is the keynote of the book, and it tells us that Jesus will return and will come to bring final redemption along with final judgment.
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September 2, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/02/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 1:4-6
Description: From the very first verses in the book of Revelation, the Apostle John – its author – draws a line in the sand.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in Revelation and shows us that even as early as John’s greeting in the opening verses, he’s quick to set God’s authority over that of every lesser authority and as the only Giver of grace and peace.
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August 26, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 08/26/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 1:1-3
Description: It may be the most encouraging book in the Bible – Revelation.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in this book and shares with us that the book of Revelation offers readers a behind the scenes picture of redemption and the picture is of Christ and His people victorious over all the enemies of God.
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August 5, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 08/05/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Revelation
Key Text: Revelation 1:1-3
Description: The book of Revelation is difficult to understand. Right? It’s cryptic and strange. Not so for the its first readers.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao takes us to the opening verses of the book of Revelation, as our study of this oft misunderstood last book of the Bible gets underway, and explains that to the first readers some 2000 years ago, this book was essentially what we would recognize today as a “New York Times Best Seller.”
How we approach this book matters greatly. And just as we would immediately understand that “Once upon a time…” begins a fairy tale, the first readers of Revelation immediately understood that they were reading apocalyptic literature… and in order for us to understand it, we must too.
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