Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 33 | 13 August 2023 Lord's Day

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Steve Yoon
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 57
Responsive Reading:
28. Psalm 127
28. 诗篇 127
Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Scripture Reading:
Rev 5:1-5
启示录 5:1-5
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir
Down to the river to pray
下去河畔那儿
Sermon by Pastor Samuel Kim
Apostle John’s Tears
使徒约翰的眼泪
Hymn 268
Offering Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Offering Song:
Hymn 483 – Go, Carry thy Burden to Jesus
(向主倾诉)

(Sharon Choir)
Announcements by Elder Steve Yoon
*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.
  • Please refer to the following for our service times:

    • Lord’s Day (Sunday) service @ 10:45 am*
    • Lord’s Day Bible study at 1:30 pm
    • Wednesday service @ 7:40 pm*
    • Saturday Dawn service @ 6:00 am

    *Also broadcasted live on YouTube for Lord’s Day & Wed Services: http://live.zionchurch.sg

    *也在 YouTube 上直播主日和周三礼拜: http://live.zionchurch.sg

  • The Precept for 2023: “A Church that strives toward the Consummation of Redemptive History by following the path of Abraham’s faith” (Gen 18:18-19; 26:5; Gal 3:7-9; Col 1:25; Tit 2:14)

    “一个跟随亚伯拉罕信心的道路,努力完成救赎历史的教会”
    (创 18:18-19;26:5;加 3:7-9;西 1:25;多 2:14)

  • Our newcomers ministry has collaborated with our youth and young adult ministries distribute foldable shopping bags around the neighbourhood on 19 Aug (Sat).

    This is part of our effort to do an evangelism outreach and to contribute back to society to reduce the use of plastic bags. We will gather at church at 4pm. If you are interestedto join, please inform Evg. Nick or Eld. Joyce. Fellowship contributions are also welcome.

  • Rev. Eugene Tan Yew Keng (Senior Pastor of EN Community Church) will be sharing as a special guest speaker at Zion Church on 20 Aug (Lord’s Day). Let us pray for showers of blessing!
  • Please pray for Pastor Sam who will be guest speaking at Tung Ling Bible School’s Modular Lectures from 21-23 Aug (Mon-Wed), 9:30am – 1pm.
  • There will be a “Faith & Work” Workshop series conducted by Mr Poh Yu Khing over 3 Saturdays: 16, 23 & 30 Sep at 5pm in Zion Church. All are welcome to join.

    The workshop is all about connecting with youths and young adults and helping make biblical principles practical and relevant to their daily lives. Yu Khing has worked as a consultant in both government and private sector for more than 20 years. His mission is to inspire and equip Christians to live out their Kingdom calling in the marketplace.

  • Zion Church Retreat 2023 will take place on 21-23 Nov (Tue-Thu), at Sand & Sandals Resort, Desaru. We encourage all members to be a part of it.

    Please register @ retreat2023.zionchurch.sg for you & your family latest by this LD, 13 Aug as we need to provide the total headcount & room reservation details to the resort the soonest.

    Please contact D. Leh Tieng or our office staff if you have any questions.

  • There will be a brief Women’s Ministry meeting in the sanctuary at 1pm today.

SERVICE DUTIES

Prayer (Wed 16 Aug) Deacon Sean Tang
Presider (Sun 20 Aug) Pastor Samuel Kim, Prayers by Elder William Ng
Basket Bearers (Sun 20 Aug) Elder Anthony Lim, 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 Number: 621835867001
PayNow UEN #: T00SS0141D
Swift: OCBCSGSGXXX
Bank Address: CHULIA STREET, 63, OCBC CENTRE, FLOOR 10, SINGAPORE

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.

3. Offering toward Missions Offering or Book Drive to support broadcasts of the History of Redemption Series globally, can be made in the following ways to HORA Ministries:

1) Direct bank transfer to:

DBS (Development Bank of Singapore)
Account Holder: LI JIA TSUEY or CAI XIAO FEN ERICA
Account Number: 271-310151-9 (Account Type: Multi Currency Account)
Currency Type: All currencies accepted (US$, S$, etc)
Address of Beneficiary Bank: 12 Marina Boulevard, DBS Asia Central, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982
Country: Singapore
SWIFT Address/Code: DBSSSGSG

2) PayNow to HORA Ministries via NRIC S7638942Z

3) Indicating “Book Drive” or “Missions” on the offering envelopes.

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
No Lie Was Found In Their Mouth

Scripture: Revelation 14:3-5

We studied that the first fruits of the last harvest are the 144,000. We read their description in today’s passage. We pray that we will become the spiritual 144,000 in the end times, so we pray that these descriptions are about us.

1. They have been purchased from the earth – From the earthly to the heavenly level.
2. The ones not defiled with women and kept themselves chaste. Have we been purified or defiled? These “women” refer to the harlot of Babylon, the defilement and sinfulness of this world.
3. Ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. This speaks of people with faith not only in their heads or lips, but their faith is in their feet.
4. Those purchased from among men as first fruits to God and the Lamb.
5. No lie was found in their mouth.
6. They are blameless

Among these attributes, we will think about the description “No lie was found in their mouth”. This might sound very basic and fundamental. This is from the 10 Commandments.

Exodus 20:16 (NKJ) “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
Matthew 24:4-5. People will bring false witnesses, and mislead and deceive many people in the end times. In Hebrew, this “false witness” or “lie” is sheker: which means lie, deception, falsehood or fraud. It is not just a simple lie, but using falsehood or a lie to deceive. Deception is when you use a lie with the purpose of leading somebody to believe or do the wrong thing. It is fraud. In Greek, it is pseudomai: which means to lie or deceive by lying. Lying is bad enough but using that lie to deceive is Pseudomai.
In Revelation, the end time’s final judgment, there are 2 categories of people, people whose names are written in the Book of Life and people whose names are not written in the Book of Life. The 144,000 are people with names written in the Book of Life, it says there was no lie found in their mouth. Revelation 21:27. What is one of the main qualifications for being written in the Book of Life? No lying. The symptom shown by mankind after eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was telling a lie. In Ecclesiastes 7:29, it says God made man upright. Romans 1:25, Apostle Paul explains this very simply.

1. Am I a liar?

(i) First, lying is speaking a non-truth
What causes us to lie? It comes down to me, to cover up my shame, for my selfishness, my pride, my image. Sometimes I lie because of a lack of ability, lack of willingness, lack of willpower.
Reverend Abraham Park once said that lying, as one of the commandments in the 10 Commandments, cannot be weighed less than other sins, such as murder, and adultery.
Even if we have committed a small or big sin, it doesn’t matter, we cannot go into the kingdom of heaven. Sins of sexual immorality and lying and idolatry are probably the most emphasized sins in the bible. James 3:6. The whole world of iniquity is in the tongue. It defiles the entire body. We need to pray for God to give us holy control over our tongues, and over what we say. Our whole life can be aflame because of my tongue, this is hellfire.
Psalm 101:7, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9

(ii) When my words don’t agree with my actions (not fulfilling what I said or promised)
Malachi 3:5. Those who promise falsely.
When I made a vow during my ordination time, am I keeping that? As elders, eldresses, and deacons, we all took the oath before God. Everyone baptized made a promise before God, are we keeping those promises?

(iii) Knowing the truth of God’s Word and not obeying it
As Christians, if we confess to being a Christian and not live the way Christians should, that is a lie.
Proverbs 12:22, Proverbs 13:5, Isaiah 59:13.
Knowing the truth and not following the truth, is a lie. A life of lying. Covering up the truth, not following it. Or standing against the truth. These are all considered a sin of lying.

The final enemy in the bible called the Anti-Christ in the end times, is foreshadowed by false prophets, and false witnesses. The common thing about them is falsehood. Prophets are like pastors, teachers of God’s Word, they are not secular leaders (beasts) of this world, they are religious leaders who teach falsehood and have false witnesses. In the end, according to Revelation, there will be religious leaders who are against Christ.

2. In order for us to have no lie in our mouths, we need God’s uprightness in us.

According to Psalm 25:8, uprightness is God’s attribute.
Psalm 25:8, Psalm 15:1-2, Psalm 112:1-4
The children of those who are upright and faithful will be greatly blessed. May our uprightness bless our children. In order for us to have God’s uprightness, what do we need? The righteousness and uprightness of God is His Word. Therefore in order for us to have uprightness in us, we need to have the Word of God in us.

The problem is that the false has many allies, my pride, my greed, my selfishness, and the world. A mixture of bible knowledge mixed with my selfishness, pride, and greed, is bad.
John 8:44
There are only two allies of truth, the conscience that God gave us and the Word of God. But even that conscience becomes dull. There are more allies on the side of false.
Hosea 14:9, Psalm 19:7-10, Psalm 33:4, Psalm 119:163

Conclusion

In order for us to have that uprightness, we need to pray like David. David prayed this prayer because he was honest. That integrity begins with being honest about who I am. Stop covering up myself, stop hiding from God.
Psalm 25:20-22 (NKJ) Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, Out of all their troubles!

AMEN!

Pastor Samuel Kim

2023-08-12T07:53:48+00:00
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