July 30, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/30/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 28:10-22
Description: The story of Jacob’s ladder has captured the attention of generations of people far and wide, as we hear in popular music and in church Sunday Schools across America…. yet the real meaning and significance of Jacob’s vision has largely remained unknown. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and shows us that in the New Testament, Jesus, Himself, tells us that He is the promise of Jacob’s Ladder and the only gate to heaven… And the only one who makes God to dwell with man.
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July 23, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/23/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 28:1-9
Description: Even with all of his deception, Jacob gets sent off by his father, Isaac, with the blessing of Abraham and the promises of the Covenant-Keeping God. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and shows us that, in addition, from this very deceiver God would name Israel. Because the story of the Patriarchs is not a story of sinlessness, but a story of grace…and it’s our story as well.
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July 16, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/16/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 27:30-46
Description: God’s will cannot be thwarted. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and shows us that when the patriarch Isaac attempts to do just that… the result leaves him trembling in fear.
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July 9, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/09/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 27:1-29
Description: What is the spiritual atmosphere in your home? Sure, if you have children, you likely teach them about who God is and what He requires… with your words.
How often, though, do your ACTIONS teach for you things that you’d never say out loud?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis in which we’ll see that even in the midst of our failings, God is able to bring about His purposes; and that His grace is always evident as He providentially carries out His decrees.
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July 2, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/02/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 26:18-35
Description: Imagine, you live in the desert. Water is precious, difficult to come by. Your family and livestock depend on its very presence for life. The Lord has blessed you though, for you have a well dug a generation before that generously supplies this need. Your neighbor, however, is stirred with envy by your abundance and by what your well represents… so much so that he wishes you didn’t have it — so he takes it away, filling your well to the brim with dirt.
How do you respond? What’s your tendency in situations like this?
Do you fight? …or do you “lay down your arms?”
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis in which we see this very scenario play out the in the life of Isaac… and it is through this narrative that we see that whether we choose to be fighters or pacifists is not really the issue… the issue is the attitude of our hearts, our understanding of the Gospel, and whether or not we really trust God.
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June 25, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 06/25/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 26:1-18
Description: Are the sins of a father doomed to be repeated in the life of his child? Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis where we watch Isaac follow in the sinfulness of his father, and yet, in spite of Isaac’s failings, God remains faithful.
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June 11, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 06/11/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 25:19-34
Description: The doctrine of Election… Perhaps no where in the Bible is it seen more clearly than in Genesis Chapter 25 and Apostle Paul’s explanation of it in Romans Chapter 9. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the Book of Genesis and shares with us that the doctrine of Election is not some philosophical ethereal kind of “shelf doctrine,” but rather the picture of God’s sovereignty in the affairs of men and the way of salvation.
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June 4, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 06/04/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 25:1-18
Description: One wedding and two funerals… It would seem, using simple math, that the bad would outweigh the good. But not in this case.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and shows us that in the first half of chapter 25 these very ceremonies are recorded. But instead of an overwhelm of despair, we see the baton of God’s promise pass to a new generation, and we see the hope of God’s people – which extends beyond the grave.
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The three wives of Abraham and his sons: Sarah and Isaac (center); Hagar and Ishmael (left); and Keturah and her children (right) – Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
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May 28, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 05/28/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 24:28-67
Description:
Why pray if God already knows what’s going to happen before it happens?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and points out that most Christians will readily agree that God is sovereign… but how many have actually stopped to examine what that really means – and then to understand how God’s providence and decrees fit in within all that? Well Genesis 27, among other things, gives us a beautiful picture of the relationship between God’s eternal decrees and His providential means of carrying those decrees out. …And then you’ll know why you should pray.
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May 21, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 05/21/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 24:10-27
Description: When do you pray? For most of us, we pray only when we are in trouble and desperate. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and explains that we do this because our “default setting” is self-reliance instead of trusting God. In today’s passage we see a proper perspective of prayer:… a perspective that shows us that we shouldn’t pray when we are desperate – rather we should realize just how desperate we always are.
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May 14, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 05/14/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 24:1-9
Description: Chapter 24: it’s the longest chapter in the book of Genesis. But instead of it being a great theological treatise, what we find is a love story. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and shows us that unlike the love stories we may be accustomed to, this one doesn’t start with “boy meets girl;” rather, this love story begins with faithful Abraham commanding his servant Eliezer to put his hand under his thigh… vowing before the Lord.
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May 7, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 05/07/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 23
Description: Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and takes us to chapter 23 – a chapter which, admittedly, following Abraham binding his son Isaac to the alter as as a sacrificial offering to the Lord in the previous chapter…may seem a bit anti-climatic. In chapter 23, we see that Abraham’s wife, Sarah, has died… But instead of focusing on her death, Abraham enters into a land negotiation.
Why is this all here, and what is God showing us through it? …The answer may surprise you.
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Notes:
- Review of Genesis 22 and Covenant Promises
- Transition to Isaac
- Stranger and Sojourner
- Purchase of Cave of Machpelah
- Living and Dying in Faith
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April 23, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 04/23/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 22
Description: It’s a living parable of substitutionary sacrifice with extraordinary theological and historical significance. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis, where we find ourselves starting in chapter 22 with a test of Abraham, but concluding in the pages of the New Testament with a picture of redemption… redemption found only in Jesus Christ.
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April 16, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 04/16/2017, Easter Sunday
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: 1 Corinthians 15
Description: The Gospel is the central message of the church and the central figure of the message is Jesus Christ. Yet many in the church can’t define what this message is. Sometimes they even define it in ways that are the opposite to what the Scriptures reveal…ways that don’t lead sinners to salvation but leave them condemned with no good news.
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April 2, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 04/02/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 21:22-34
Description: It’s a Bible passage that commentaries and sermon series often skip over. Today on Scandia Bible Church podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues our verse-by-verse preaching through the book of Genesis… and doesn’t skip any of them – including Genesis 21:22-34… a cluster of verses that may, at first, seem “mundane,” hidden between the birth of Isaac, sending Ishmael away, and God’s testing of Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah. But what we’ll find is that this often skipped passage has much to teach us about God’s faithfulness to fulfill all His promises.
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March 19, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 03/19/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 21:1-21
Description:
A life of waiting.
…Such is much of the life of a Christian. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis in which he teaches that we can either wait in frustration for the passing – temporal – things, or we can wait in anticipation for God bringing about His purposes and how they will work themselves out in our lives. Either way, waiting teaches us life lessons that can’t be learned anywhere else … as we learn to endure with faith and patience.
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March 12, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 03/12/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 20
Description:
“The fairest marbles have their flaws, and, while there are spots in the sun, we must not expect anything spotless under it.”
— the great Puritan Commentator, Matthew Henry, concerning Genesis Chapter 20.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and points out that no truer words than those penned by Henry were spoken about Abraham… or about us, for that matter. Because you see, Genesis Chapter 20 is not a chapter recorded to Abraham’s honor, but it is recorded to God’s grace.
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Notes:
- the Pathetic Repeat (1-2)
- the Pathetic Repeat (1-2)
- the Prophet Rescued (3-7)
- the Patriarch Rebuked (8-13)
- the Prayer Required (14-18)
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March 5, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 03/05/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 19:30-38
Description: Sometimes there are places in the Bible that a pastor doesn’t want to preach on – or for that matter, touch with a 10-foot pole! Our passage this morning is just such a passage. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis verse by verse, to show us that even in the midst of heinous sin, we see the amazing abundance of God’s grace towards the sinner…God’s grace, towards us.
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Notes:
- Lot’s Family’s CIRCUMSTANCE
- Lot’s Family’s CORRUPTION
- Lot’s Family’s CONCLUSION
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February 26, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 02/26/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 19:1-29
Description: Catastrophic judgment. That’s how we often view the account of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible… and in many ways it is. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis to show us that when we view Sodom and Gomorrah as “catastrophic judgement,” we skip over – in the midst of this judgment – God’s compassion and mercy that come to all who trust in Him. Because you see, from Genesis to Revelation, judgement and mercy are always coupled together… and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is no different.
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Notes:
- God’s CASE against Sodom
- God’s CARE of Lot
- God’s COMPASSION in Judgement
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February 12, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 02/12/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Genesis
Key Text: Genesis 18:16-33
Description:
He was described as the “Friend of God.”
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Genesis and shows us that this “friend” was Abraham. And one of the ways this friendship was manifest was when God took him into intimate council before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah – an act in which we not only see God’s reassurance to Abraham of His justice, but we also see a glimpse into an intimacy that foreshadowed, if even in a small way, the intimacy that Christ purchased for us.
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Notes:
- The Perspective of GOD’S FRIENDSHIP
- The Perfection of GOD’S JUSTICE
- The Promise of GOD FULFILLED
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