Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 41 | 10 Oct 2021 Lord's Day

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

ANNOUNCER: Elder Steve Yoon
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 57
Responsive Reading:
7. Psalm 16 (7. 诗篇 16)
Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Scripture Reading:
Ecclesiastes 11:1-2
(传道书 11:1-2)
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir
(pre-recorded):
The Lord is my Shepherd
(耶和华是我的牧者)
Sermon by Pastor Samuel Kim
Cast your bread on the waters
(将你的粮食撒在水面)
Hymn 268
Offering Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Offering Song:
I Lift my hands
(我高举起双手)

(Sharon Praise)
Announcements
*Hymn 6
*Benediction by Pastor Samuel Kim

*Congregation Standing

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Let us continue to pray for the growth of our church and for the work of evangelism.
  • Let us continue to pray for God’s protection of all nations in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic situation and for the situation to improve and be well-managed.
  • Please refer to the following for our online service times and locations:

    • Wed service @ 7:40pm – *On YouTube
    • Saturday Dawn prayer service @ 6am – Special study series *On Zoom
    • Lord’s Day service @ 10:45am – *On YouTube
    • Lord’s Day bible study @ 4pm – *On Zoom

    *YouTube link: http://live.zionchurch.sg
    *Zoom link: http://zoom.zionchurch.sg

  • There will be a departmental leaders and cell group leaders’ meeting today, 10 Oct via Zoom after the Bible study.
  • Our 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on 7 Nov, Lord’s day at 4pm via Zoom. There will be no Bible study on that day. Please pray for Father’s will and guidance for 2022 as we prepare and pray for our AGM and 2022.
  • 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.

UPCOMING PRAYER DUTY

Wednesday 13 Oct: Deacon Sean Tang

Lord’s Day 17 Oct: Elder William Ng

OFFERING & TITHE

Via Internet Banking

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

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
    Power of the Beasts

    Scripture: Revelation 13:16, 11-14

    COVID-19 has allowed us to think about the end-time. One of the prominent signs is the influence and widespread philosophies and beliefs of the beast in Revelation. The beast received authority from the dragon, which symbolizes Satan, and will be favoured and worshipped by people.
    This beast’s influence is not something new, it had caused people to perish and fall away from the heavenly order from the beginning until now, this eventually led to God’s judgment.

    1. The influences of the Anti-Christ

    – Beasts that come up out of the sea and land
    – Authority of the dragon

    2. Ideas that led people to destruction/judgment

    (1) Adam
    – He wanted autonomy; “I can be like God; I don’t need God; I don’t want to be under God”.

    (2) Cain
    – He desired equality, meaning the same result and treatment, even when he did not put in the same; this is dishonesty and self-deception.

    (3) Tower of Babel
    – This is humankind’s own effort to be established without God’s intercession/interruption.

    (4) Sodom & Gomorrah
    – They sinned through unrestricted/unguided sexualism.

    (5) Worshipping of the golden calf
    – They relied on the traditions of the gentile world; creating and following something that will replace God.

    (6) Plains of Moab
    – The eating of foods sacrificed to idols led them to idolatry and sexual immorality. They crave fleshly satisfaction due to their greed.

    (7) Babylonian captivity
    – They placed importance on the economy and personal gain before worship; to them, money comes before faith.

    Judgment is the absence of God and His protection; it is the undoing of the heavenly and godly order. Mankind rejected God’s love and protection and fell back to chaos, formlessness, void, and darkness.
    The main idea that supports the BEAST is ATHEISM. The ideologies above wanted to negate God from man’s life. (Ephesians 5:6–12)

    The philosophies that condone such ways of thinking and living:
    – Marxism, Socialism, Communism / Fascism / Nazism
    These philosophies destroyed many people’s lives and many countries in history. It coincides with the ways of Satan described in the Bible.

    3. How do these atheistic beliefs influence people?

    (1) Communism puts jealousy in man’s heart rather than satisfaction.
    It says wealth will be distributed equally, but the ruling members take all the wealth.

    (2) Materialism
    Atheism and communism claim that all things that exist are matter and thus denies the existence of the spiritual world. The Bible tells us that all things are created by God, but these beliefs deny the existence of God.

    4. The problem with materialism

    (1) It views people as worthless matter for it argues that even mind and heart come from matter and denies the existence of spirit.
    Friedrich Engels said, “…mind is a by-product of matters,” and thus argued that there is no sanctity in man. He also said, “In the beginning, man created God.” Mankind was considered a means or a tool used for the communist party. The founders of communism, Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), killed 63 million people, Stalin killed 45 million, and Kim Il-Sung killed 7 million.

    (2) It claims that religion is the “opiate of the people”.
    Atheists deny God’s existence. Communists are not atheists, but they seek to destroy God. They both claim that God is made up of the imagination of people. Communism and religion cannot co-exist.
    Socialism causes atheism. Socialism replaces Christian eschatology with a secular narrative. It erodes both the believer’s religion and society’s liberty.

    (3) Challenges God
    In the world of atheism – what God said in the Bible doesn’t hold authority and His Word does not become a basis of argument; they want to look at things from the human perspective; they are only sympathetic to humanism.
    Their eventual goal is to make humans (mankind) into their god/s.

    – It sows the seed of grumbling into the hearts of the people by making them believe that they are victims of an unequal society. It was the same in the wilderness.
    – It causes people to do things for themselves and seek their own gain only. People become more and more selfish. Eve took the tree for her own gain and benefits.
    – It caused people to challenge God and sin against God.
    2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one in any way deceived you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

    Conclusion

    Colossians 2:6–8 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

    We must seek God’s righteousness and His Kingdom first. – Make sure you can enter into heaven first! (Matthew 24:15)
    We can claim to believe and follow different things and beliefs for different reasons, but will you be in heaven if your world is to come to an end? Whether you believe in God or not, whether you like it or not, there is heaven and there is hell.
    We need young people who can look ahead into the future and stand up for the Word. What do you think society will look like and the church’s role will be in the near future?

    In technology and industry, we have many famous people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates… etc. Who do we have for church?
    Many people expected Jesus to give political liberation and social justice in His days, but Jesus declared spiritual liberation is more important than physical. Who are the ones who will lead the next generation of churches? We have to be the ones who can stand up and take the lead in these end times!

    AMEN.

    Pastor Samuel Kim

    2021-10-09T18:17:11+00:00
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