Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 29 | 21 July 2024
Lord's Day

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Anthony Lim
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 48
Responsive Reading:
15. Psalm 51
15. 诗篇 51
Prayer by Elder Anthony Lim
Scripture Reading:
Ephesians 6:4
以弗所书 6:4
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir
I will be with you
我与你同在
Sermon by Pastor Samuel Kim
Education: How should we bring up our children?
教育:我们应该怎样抚养我们的孩子?
Hymn 442
Offering Prayer by Elder Anthony Lim
Offering Song:
Hymn 500 – I Need Thee Every hour 我时刻需要主 (Sharon Choir)
Announcements by Elder Anthony Lim
*Hymn 6
*Benediction: Ps. 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 2024: “A Church that Arises to Rebuild the Foundation of Faith and Is Devoted to Spreading the Word of Redemptive History. “ (Neh 2:18; Isa 58:12; Matt 24:14; 1 Tim 4:15; 2 Tim 4:2)

    “一个兴起重建信心基础和致力传播救赎史话语的教会”
    (尼希米记 2:18; 以赛亚书 58:12; 马太福音 24:14; 提摩太前书 4:15;提摩太后书 4:2)

  • Let us continue to pray for God’s grace and wisdom in preparation of the upcoming 2024 Summer Conference:

    Theme: “Rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.” (Nehemiah 4:20) 
    Where: Yeoju Retreat Center, Korea
    When: 29 July-1 August 2024 (Mon-Thu)

  • Zion Church’s Vacation Bible School (VBS) for this year will be held on 31 August (Sat) from 9am – 1pm.

    Theme: “Make me and Mould me” (Isaiah 64:8) 
    Where: Zion Church
    Register by scanning the QR code

    If you would like to serve in this event, do inform your ministry leaders or any of the Sunday School teachers.

  • There will be a leaders’ meeting next Lord’s Day (28 Jul) at 1:30 pm, followed by a brief Bible Academy Teachers’ meeting.

  • There will be Lord’s Day Bible Study today at 1:30pm in Zion Sanctuary.

SERVICE DUTIES

Wednesday Service (24 July)
Prayer Dcn. Sean Tang
Lord’s Day Service (28 July)
Presider Eld. Tan Pau Soon
Basket Bearers Dcn. Louis Loy, Dcn. Andrew Cheong

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. 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. Singapore 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

Food for the End Time

Scripture: Joshua 5:10-12

1. Concept of food and eating in the Bible

In the Bible, food and eating are very important. In the Garden of Eden, God’s first command to Adam and Eve was not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but they could eat from all the other trees, including the Tree of Life. However, they ate the wrong fruit, causing mankind’s fall.

Later, in the wilderness, God provided the Israelites with the heavenly food, manna, and trained them to observe the Sabbath. In the New Testament, Jesus said, “I am the food from above; unless you eat My flesh and drink My blood, you have no life in you.” Jesus also provided bread and wine to His followers.

In Revelation, another strong angel gave a little book to the apostle John and instructed him to eat it. The Bible is about eating the right things from start to end. May we be able to eat the right food and eventually eat from the Tree of Life and receive eternal life.

In today’s passage, two important events took place after crossing the Jordan River: Circumcision and the Passover. After Passover comes the Feast of Unleavened Bread, where God told them to eat unleavened cakes and parched grain from the produce of the land. After they ate from the produce, the manna stopped.

2. God’s command of food

The Israelites saw their enemies all around in Canaan, and God commanded them to be circumcised. After circumcision, you are paralyzed for 3-7 days and cannot fight at all. Would you be able to obey knowing you have to go to war?

God will fight and win the battle for His people who are sanctified. When we think we have to fight ourselves, we get anxious and cannot obey to be circumcised. For us to win our battles in the end times, we need to be spiritually circumcised and sanctified.

(i) Changes in the food that the Israelites ate
Food is very important in our lives, spiritually too. In order to win against the forces of Satan, we need to eat the right food. Manna was special food God prepared for the wilderness journey; they didn’t have to farm or prepare it, God gave it freely as grace. After crossing the Jordan River, food was no longer provided for them. The Israelites had to fight the Canaanites and also farm in order to harvest food to eat.

Are you still crying for God to spoon-feed you spiritual food? Or are you mature enough to get up and work for that food? Gideon threshed wheat in a winepress hiding from the Philistines, afraid that the enemies would take his food away. Satan grabs every opportunity to take the Word away from us while we are trying to eat the Word to gain strength to fight.

We shouldn’t let the Seed of the Word fall on the road. Satan tries to take it away, making us sleepy to lose our grace, distracted, angry, and forgetting the Word we received.

(ii) The food the Israelites ate after entering Canaan
First, they ate unleavened cake (bread without leaven). When we eat spiritual food, we must eat it without leaven. The teachings of the Pharisees are hypocrisy, which means having the knowledge of the Bible without action. And the teachings of the Sadducees are the knowledge of God mixed with secular worldly culture and thoughts (Matthew 16:11-12, 1 Corinthians 5:6-8).

We need to get rid of the leaven of malice (evil and sinfulness) and the leaven of wickedness (the false gospel). We must become the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, full of faithfulness, and only eat the pure truth of the Word of God. Jesus died on the cross to take away all the leaven from us.

Second, they ate parched or roasted grain (Leviticus 2:14). Grain is offered up to God in fire. Roasting the grain means you can eat the same food that God Himself is eating, at the Father’s table. Roasted grain represents Jesus’ death on the cross, the Word on the cross, and His resurrection. So this parched grain is the Word of training, suffering, and lamentations. Bread without leaven and parched grain is hard; that is solid food. We need to eat this grain to overcome and gain victory to the end.

3. Those who ate parched grain

What kind of faith do we need to have as people who have entered Canaan?

(i) Trained and tested faith
The Word that we come to understand through suffering allows us to withstand the tribulations in the last days. Without such a process, we cannot conquer the land of Canaan. Who will eat this parched grain? Those who really seek the spiritual food, those who are searching for strength to fight and gain victory, and those who become God’s family.

Here are three examples:

a) Ruth – A Moabite woman who is recorded in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1 (Ruth 2:21).

In Deuteronomy 23:3, God said Moabites cannot enter the assembly of God. Ruth was a Moabite, yet she became the great-great-great-grandmother of Jesus Christ (Ruth 2:14). Ruth represents you and me, and Boaz her husband represents Jesus Christ, the kinsman redeemer.

What kind of faith did Ruth have? Ruth had the faith to leave her country, relatives, and father’s house. She had faith like Abraham because Ruth met God through Naomi. It didn’t matter to Ruth that she would get persecuted as a Moabitess in Israel. She foresaw all her sufferings, but she didn’t care as long as she could be with God (Ruth 1:16). Secondly, Ruth confessed that only death could set her apart from Naomi (Ruth 1:17). Are we able to say this of our relationship with God and the Word of God? Even if I die, this Word and my relationship with God cannot be broken.

b) Abigail – one who became David’s wife (1 Samuel 25:32-35).

David symbolizes Jesus Christ. In Maon, there was a wealthy man, Nabal, and David sent men to him on a feast day. But Nabal, being a foolish man, replied, “Who is David? Why ought I provide for him?” Nabal represents people like the Pharisees during Jesus’ time; he didn’t recognize the person nor the time. Abigail’s name means “My Father delights.” She was an intelligent woman with a good understanding of God’s will, and she provided (1 Samuel 25:18). Abigail later became David’s wife and family.

c) Barzillai – A man who supported David and provided him with all he could during David’s flight from Absalom’s revolt (2 Samuel 17:28, 19:31-39).

Barzillai served David faithfully. David later instructed Barzillai and his children to take care of them (2 Samuel 17:27-29).

A common thing about these three people is they gave their hearts to become part of God’s work and God’s family. Parched grain appears in all three people’s offerings.

Conclusion:

Let us be the ones who will eat that parched grain. Let us be the ones who will become part of God’s family who will eat with Him. Let us eat the solid food of the end times (Hebrews 5:14). May Zion Church be mature enough to eat the solid food that will allow us to distinguish between good and evil, and allow us to overcome all the Canaanites and gain victory in the end times (1 Corinthians 3:1-2).

AMEN.

Pastor Samuel Kim

Summarized by Erica Cai

2024-08-04T02:35:10+00:00
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