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Week No. 30 | 24 July 2022 Zion Church Lord's Day Service

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Reverend Samuel Kim
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 56
Responsive Reading:
39. Isaiah 55
39. 以赛亚书 55
Prayer by Elder Tan Pau Soon
Scripture Reading:
Psalm 13
诗篇 13
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir
Put peace into each other’s hands
把平安放彼此手中
Sermon by Reverend Goh Seng Fong
Troubled Heart
烦恼的心
Hymn 464
Offering Prayer by Elder Tan Pau Soon
Offering song:
One Thing Remains
因你的愛

(Olam Praise)
Announcements by Reverend Samuel Kim
*Hymn 6
*Benediction by Reverend Goh Seng Fong

*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:

    • 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
    Deadline is 31 Aug. Register by 15 Aug to receive T-shirt by mail.

    • 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)

  • 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 27 Jul: Elder Tan Pau Soon

Lord’s Day 31 Jul: Elder Anthony Lim

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
Result of Rebuilding the Temple and City Wall

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:9-12

Nehemiah 8:9-12 is about the holy day that the Israelites observed after the completion of the city wall. This was the Feast of the Trumpets, a high sabbath, foreshadowing the eternal sabbath that we will enjoy in the New Jerusalem when we also complete rebuilding our spiritual temple and city wall.

Why is the work of rebuilding Zerubbabel’s Temple and the city wall important?

It is important because this was the last temple in the Old Testament and rebuilding the City of Jerusalem is a type of New Jerusalem in the end. The city and the temple were rebuilt by the chosen people of God who came out of Babylon. This is a foreshadowing of the remnants that come out of the spiritual Babylon (the world of sin) who will be part of the New Jerusalem (Revelation 18:3-4). Lastly, Zerubbabel’s Temple was the temple where the Messiah would come.

1. Reason for rebuilding the temple and city wall

In the centre of redemptive history is the fulfilment of redemption or fulfilment of the Garden of Eden. The entire history of redemption began when Adam and Eve sinned and got kicked out from the Garden of Eden and their communication with God was severed. From then on, God promised to send the seed of the woman who will restore all things, and that is the history of redemption. Therefore, our purpose is to return to the Garden of Eden, which signifies the spiritual temple where we can communicate, walk and live with God and be called priests in that temple, like Adam.
God formed the Garden of Eden. Garden in the Hebrew language is “gan” meaning it was fenced. So the garden was protected and set apart, it was a blessed and holy place designated and distinguished by God.

Then God breathed into the nostrils of man who was made from the dust of the ground, and he became a living being. Then God put him in the garden and gave him tasks to fulfil. As a result of this man who had received the spirit of God fulfilling that task there was Sabbath (rest).
Genesis 2:15 tells us that there were two tasks that God gave to Adam when He put him in the Garden of Eden, and it was to cultivate and keep the garden.
• Cultivate – עָבַד (ʿābad): work, perform, serve, worship, carry out (fulfill), honour. This is a worship term.
• Keep – שָׁמַר (šāmar): watch, guard, revere (This word is used in “keeping the Sabbath Day holy”)

These two words were also used together in Numbers 3:7-8 describing the task and duties of the priests in the tabernacle or temple. Thus, Adam’s duty in the Garden of Eden was to serve/worship God and to maintain and keep the Garden Temple as the priests and Levites were to do in the temple.
The tasks given in both the Garden of Eden and the temple (church) were closely related to keeping the Sabbath.

In Genesis 2:1-3, God rested after completing His creation by creating man. But this sabbath was broken when man obeyed the words of the serpent and rejected God’s Word. We have learnt that the word ‘rest’ isn’t sleeping or relaxing according to the semitic concept of sabbath. This concept can be understood both through an analysis of the theology of rest in the Bible and through an analysis of divine rest in the ancient world.
When God tells the Israelites that he is going to give them rest from their enemies (Deuteronomy 12:10; Joshua 1:13; 21:44; 2 Samuel 7:1; 1 Kings 5:4), he is not talking about sleep, relaxation or leisure time. In the Old Testament, when God gave Israel rest, it refers to freedom from invasion and conflict so that they can live at peace and conduct their daily lives without interruption and achieve a state of order in society. Such rest is the goal of all the ordering activities that the Israelites are undertaking to secure their place in the land. True rest is possible when the king of peace reigns on the throne.

Adam was also given the task to multiply and subdue, meaning to enlarge and broaden the realm of this Sabbath (God’s reign). But because Adam did not fulfil his task, the border (fence) was breached/broken into. As a result, he ended up serving (abad) the serpent. In the end, the sabbath was broken.
Redemption/restoration is to reconstruct that broken wall/fence, restore the worshiper and the worship, and become the temple where God’s glory would return. The rebuilding of the city wall has a spiritual significance of re-establishing the fence in the Garden of Eden.
The restoration of the temple is abad. And the restoration of the city wall is samar.

2. Who is doing the work of rebuilding?

Through the three returns from Babylon God fulfilled the restoration of the temple and the city wall. In the centre of the rebuilding were the people (worshipers), the returnees.

Those who were fervent in doing God’s work faithfully participated, the priests became good examples by leading, and there were those who participated through material supply and with different talents they had. These are the people who made the work of rebuilding possible.

After the 1st return in 537 BC, 93 years had passed until the 3rd return in 444 BC. And that was when the rebuilding of the city wall began.

However, only 6 out of 34 families that returned from Babylon participated in the city wall rebuilding. This shows us that faith and covenant transmission did not take place in most of the families over the 93-year period after the return. But those who transmit and hold firm the covenant and will of God even after coming out of Babylon did this wall rebuilding work. These are the true remnants! (Isaiah 17:6, Romans 11:5)

Conclusion: The result of rebuilding the temple and city wall is eternal sabbath.

Our enemy Satan is afraid that we may actually rebuild the city wall. Why? He loses control over us when the city wall stands strong. In other words, Satan cannot attack us and will not be able to interfere when the spiritual city wall is reconstructed, and thus sabbath!

After they finished the city wall in 444BC, on the 25th day of Elul (6th month), the Sabbath year began in the month of Tishri, and they observed the Feast of the Trumpets on the 1st of Tishri (7th month). There was a movement of reading, revering and understanding the Word, which led to repentance of the people.

May we also be the remnants who will recover “abad” through the rebuilding of the temple and “shamar” through the rebuilding of the city wall. In order to do that, we need to be the restored worshipers, the spiritual priests.

AMEN.

Pastor Samuel Kim

2022-07-23T16:47:28+00:00
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