LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Anthony Lim
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 57
Responsive Reading: 40. Isaiah 58 40. 以赛亚书 58
Prayer by Elder Anthony Lim
Scripture Reading: Exod 34:29-35 出埃及记 34:29-35
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir Hymn 442 – Saviour, like a Shepherd lead us 恳求导我前行
Sermon by Pastor Samuel Kim The light on Moses’ face 摩西脸上的光
Hymn 488
Offering Prayer by Elder Anthony Lim
Offering song: Move Your Heart 触动祢心 (Sharon Praise Leaders)
Announcements by Elder Anthony Lim
*Hymn 6
Benediction by Pastor Samuel Kim*

*Congregation Standing

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Let us continue to pray for the growth and revival of our church and for the work of evangelism and missions.
Let us continue to pray for God’s protection of all nations in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic situation.
Please refer to the following for our service times:
- Lord’s Day (Sunday) service @ 10:45am*
- Lord’s Day Bible study at 1:45 pm
- Wednesday service @ 7:40pm*
- Saturday Dawn service @ 6am
*Also broadcasted live on YouTube: http://live.zionchurch.sg
Let us support the 2 conferences in prayer and pray for God’s grace to be with the event preparations:

• 2022 Pyungkang Summer Conference will take place from 1-3 Aug and the Bible Study Program from 3-6 Aug.

– Theme: The Blessing of All the People Gathering as One to Understand the Word of Redemptive History (Neh 8:1, 5-6, 12)
– The Summer Conference lectures will be broadcasted live on YouTube (Pyungkang Cheil Church). Let us all participate and receive much blessings and grace!

• Proclaim 2022, a global conference for pastors and Christian leaders worldwide, will be held online this year from 15-17 Sept as follows:

– Theme: God’s Word to the next generation (4th book in History of Redemption series)
– Date and time: 15-17 Sept @ 6:30-9:00 pm SGT
– Speakers: Rev. Philip Lee, Rev. James Park, Rev. Samuel Kim, Rev. Andrew Pak

*Please register to attend at https://www.proclaim2022.com
*Our church members are encouraged to register (Deadline is 31 Aug). Register by 15 Aug to receive T-shirt by mail.
Pastor Sam will be lecturing at Tung Ling Bible School from 10-12 Aug (Wed-Fri).

– Theme: “Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament”
– Time: 9:30am-1:00pm (10 & 12 Aug), 10:00am-1:00pm (11 Aug)

Please pray for the grace of God to be upon the lectures and the students receiving the lectures.
Please make your Lord’s Day lunch order and payment (via PayNow) http://lunch.zionchurch.sg latest by every Wed .
As part of our missions work to proclaim God’s Word and to support the publication of the 6th book in the series, “The Eternal High Priest of the Covenantal Oath,” Zion Church will be doing a BOOK DRIVE .

Your missions offering given for BOOK DRIVE will be used to purchase History of Redemption Series books and Bibles (where needed) to be sent to schools, institutions, and individuals who otherwise cannot buy them to read.

You may participate by indicating “book drive” on the offering envelopes or sending direct bank transfers to:
HORA Ministries – DBS Bank Account 072-037508-4.
Account Type: Corporate Multi Currency Account.
Let us continue to give thanks to God in celebration through our lunch fellowship today!
We will continue with the feast of the Word throughout this week and the fellowship of celebration will continue until next week (Lord’s Day 19 June) lunch and dinner. There will be a BBQ dinner at Nordcom 2 Tower 1 Level 10 pavilion (TLBS side) at 6:00 pm. It will the be last dinner for all members with the evangelists.

All Zion members and Tung Ling Deans & staff are invited, but please register ASAP @

UPCOMING PRAYER DUTIES

Wednesday VOD 3 Aug: 2022 Summer Conference Closing Service
Lord’s Day 7 Aug: Elder Steve Yoon

OFFERING & TITHE

Via Internet Banking

You can give an offering electronically by transferring to the following account:

Please make sure to indicate your name, type of offering and the date info under the memo/remarks sections when initiating the transfer. Please indicate your offerings’ purpose especially for TITHES (to be listed as TH).
Note: Any online offerings without indications of whether for tithing, thanksgiving, building, mission, etc will be recorded as regular offerings.
Thank you for your assistance.

1. For regular, tithes, thanksgiving, special, and missions offerings ONLY
OCBC Bank Account: ZION CHURCH
Account#: 621835867001
PayNow UEN#: T00SS0141D

NOTE: Please specify Name, Purpose and Date (ddmmmyy) of the offering in the MEMO or Bill Reference Number section. See Example 1.

2. For Building Offerings ONLY
DBS Bank Account: ZION CHURCH
Account#: 047-903777-2

NOTE: Please specify Name, Purpose and Date (ddmmmyy) of the offering in the MEMO or Bill Reference Number section. See Example 2.

Use the following acronyms to indicate Purpose (offering type):

- RO = Regular Offering
- TH = Tithes
- TG = Thanksgiving
- SP = Special Offering
- MO = Missions Offering
- BO = Building Offering

Example 1:
JohnDoe TH 05APR20
SamMiller TG 05Mar20
JaneSmith RO 03May20

Example 2:
JohnDoe BO 05APR20

By Mail

You may mail your offering cheques to Zion Church to below address:
“Finance Department”.
2 Gambas Crescent, Nordcom 2 Tower 2 #10-13. Siangapore 757044.

By ATM

You may transfer via ATM:
BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO SPECIFY TYPE OF OFFERING if you use this option.
Please inform any Finance Team member if want your offering to be recorded.

Eldress May Ling
Deaconess Leh Tieng
Elder Steve

Living Manna

Sermon Summary
Troubled Heart

Scripture: Psalms 13:1-6

Every time our hearts are troubled, there is always loss. We live in difficult times and deal with a lot of troubling things that trouble our lives together. We are going to look at the life of David.

The Psalm of David is set in song and expresses what could not be expressed in words. David used the Psalm as a mirror of our soul, reflecting our hearts rather than our minds. God reaches into the deepest places of our hearts and gives us comfort, strength and peace.

In Psalm 13:1 – 2, there is a poetical arrangement. We see “how long” 4 times but in this poem, we see parallelism, and it increases in intensity, there is a process intensifying, internal pain, great anguish of heart, intense desire for deliverance.

1. How long will You forget me, Of Lord? Forever?
Forgotten by God – David was tested and tried. If only he knew when it would stop. It would be 10 years of running as a fugitive in the Palestinian area chased by Saul. But David didn’t know it was for 10 years. Moses didn’t know it was for 40 years in the desert of Midian. When we too are tested and tried, we only wished we knew when it would stop. It seems like forever, and no end to it.

2. How long would You hide Your face from me?
Forsaken by God – When God hides His face, we will be lonely. Loneliness is the first problem. Like being in an isolation chamber, intolerable. The absence of God’s favour is not disfavouring. Feelings are given by God but we cannot be ruled by feelings. Bad feelings will give us false reality.

We may think we are forsaken by God, but God does not forget. God reminds us in Isaiah 49:15 – 16.

God has set a hedge around you, God restrains the forces of evil in our lives (Job 1:10, Psalm 76:10) Jesus has been there. (Hebrews 4:15 – 16)

3. How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?
Inner frustration – David was frustrated. The self-talk comes in. Looking inside myself, frustrated. Looking outside, distressed. Thank God we can look at Him and be blessed. The Bible reminds us that God will keep us in perfect peace when our minds are stayed upon the Lord.

4. How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Failure – You and I have to fight battles with Satan. Resist the devil. The world wants to subdue us. we need to die daily – white funeral, yield to God and yield to the Holy Spirit.
God is ever present, all present, God is our refuge and strength, ever-present help in time of trouble. This is our wonderful Lord with His covenant and promises. God takes care of the birds in the sky, and flowers in the field and knows the number of hairs on our heads, He will take care of us.

I am God’s interest. Whose am I? I belong to God. God belongs to me. We look at that and have new self-awareness, we are a new creation of infinite worth, deeply loved by Him, complete in Him, one of a kind, nobody is just like me and you.

Let’s see the journey of David. He protested, petitioned and is now praised. It is a transition.

Psalm 13:5-6 (ESV) But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 6 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

1. “But” – emphatic transition, clear contrast, internal exchange
All things energise together for our good. It may seem not to fit, not to work, but God says, it will fit, and I will bring things to pass.
2. I have trusted in Your mercy – perfect tense. “Having trusted and am still trusting”
Faith must overshadow my feelings, my security. Faith is not the absence of fear or grief but the presence of God in our lives, trusting without reservation. We focus on God, waiting for God to prove Himself.
3. My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation – is and still shall rejoice with confidence. Right trust directs right feelings.
We will be filled with the fullness of God. The objective is greater intimacy with the Lord.
4. I will sing unto the Lord – exhorting “Let me sing” expressing and increasing joy.
5. Because He had dealt bountifully with me – perfect certainty.

Conclusion

Greater and better (ahead of us)
• new possibility
• new journey
• new relationship
• new life of sacrifice and service
See the example of Jesus Christ how up on Calvary He cried out: Eli Eli Lama Sabacthani! It is finished!

Sin has been paid for. You and I can be free. Our Saviour is not at the right hand of God’s throne. Revelation 7 tells us this.
Jesus Christ sure can!

AMEN.