Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 35 | 28 Aug 2022 Zion Church Lord's Day Service

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Anthony Lim
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 57
Responsive Reading:
43. Matthew 6
43. 马太福音 6
Prayer by Elder Anthony Lim
Scripture Reading:
Lev 25:1-5
利未记 25:1-5
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir
Just a closer walk with Thee
让我靠近祢同行
Pre-recorded Sermon by Pastor Samuel Kim
Sabbath year and Jesus
安息年和耶稣
Hymn 210
Offering Prayer by Elder Anthony Lim
Offering song:
I Stand in Awe
歌名我站立敬畏你

(Olam Praise)
Announcements by Elder Anthony Lim
*Hymn 6
*The Lord’s Prayer

*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 pray for the ongoing and upcoming History of Redemption seminars and conferences:

    • Europe History of Redemption Seminar (Brussels, Belgium)

    – Theme: Genesis Genealogies
    – Date & Time: 26-28 Aug
    – Speakers: Rev. Andrew Pak, Rev. Samuel Kim, Evg. Joanna Pae

    • Proclaim 2022

    – 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

    *Registration https://www.proclaim2022.com (Deadline is 31 Aug).

  • Rev. Dr. Albert Isaac will be sharing as a special guest speaker at Zion Church on 11 Sep (Lord’s Day). Let us pray for showers of blessings!
  • 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.

UPCOMING PRAYER DUTIES

Wednesday 31 Aug: Elder Steve Yoon

Lord’s Day 4 Sep: 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
The Blessings of Sabbath

Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3

The history of the Sabbath


On the 7th day God finished His creation, and rested. Creation was brought to completion on the 7th day and the phrase “there was evening and morning..” does not appear, it’s like a day with no end. The idea is that this Sabbath is not limited, and it does not expire after one day, it continues eternally. On the 7th day, God’s presence fills His creation, the land provides for all God’s creation including humans who are appointed to rule over God’s creation and creature.

But the humans are deceived by satan and they forfeited the rest, the eternal Sabbath. It’s like they are exiled into Egypt. When God put the Israelites under slavery in Egypt, they are looking for rest, for release, for liberation. In other words, they are seeking for Sabbath. So God brings them out into the Wilderness, the Wilderness represents the fallen state of our hearts. But even in that Wilderness, God creates a circumstance where the Israelites can experience the Sabbath of God. God provided the tabernacle representing His presence, God provided the pillars of fire and cloud, God provided water and manna. They experienced God’s blessing and grace in the Wilderness, they experienced prosperity, and protection. And through the law and the manna, God trained them to keep the Sabbath on the 7th day. God said they may collect the manna for 6 days but on 7th day, God says they shall not collect and they shall rest. Even before giving them the ten commandments, God put them in training and had them rest and worshipped God on the 7th day.

For us also, although we are not yet there in the Eternal land of Sabbath, the promised land, the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of heaven, God already has us practice experiencing the blessing of Sabbath here every Lord’s Day.

God blessed the seventh day and God sanctified this day (Gen 2:3), what does that mean?

1. God blessed the Seventh day (Exod 20:8-11)


It’s the 4th commandment; God wants us to keep this day holy (Exod 20:8). And at the end it says therefore God blessed the 7th day and made it holy (Exod 20:11).

God has put His blessing into this day, into this realm of Sabbath, those who come into it will receive those blessings. But those who ignore it are neglecting God and rejecting God’s blessings. What are these blessings ?

(1) Blessing of flourishment, growth and being fruitful
Ps 92:12-15 tell us the righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar. Cedar wood lasts long and repels bugs. Cedar tree represents people who are blessed so that temptations and satan’s work are repelled from them. It represents eternal life. They are full of sap and very green. God will use us to declare His uprightness.

(2) Blessing of prosperity and sanctification of the soul
3 John 1:2 is speaking about the wellbeing of our spirit, soul and body. If you brought your heart of depression, worries and concerns today, may God bless you with this today so that your heart, your soul may be rejuvenated. On Sabbath, let us come to seek His grace, and His salvation. And may we receive it.

(3) Blessing of salvation and consecration
Deuteronomy 5:15 – this is the day we remember God’s salvation. When we observe it, God will save us, God will save us from our troubles, God will save us from the sins of this world, and from the sin we committed.

(4) Blessing of God remembering His covenant/promise
Keeping, observing the Sabbath will allow us to celebrate the Sabbath throughout our generations, and God will remember His covenant with us. We will become the people for whom God will fulfill His covenant (Exod 31:16). And we will become the receiver of God’s promise – eternal life (1 John 2:25).

(5) Blessing of the joy of redemption
Isaiah 56:2-8 tell us that even gentiles or foreigners can enter into the general assembly of God’s people if they do 2 things; remember the Sabbath and keep the covenant of God.

(6) The Sabbath day is the foreshadowing of the eternal Sabbath in heaven
(Rev 21:1-2, Heb 4:1-10) All the wrath, all the condemnation will be taken away, you and I will be able to enter into the eternal Sabbath.

2. He sanctified this day


Sanctify means to make Holy. To make holy means to give it a purpose, it’s only for God.

(1) It’s a blessing of being able to worship God and come into fellowship with God.
Unless we are given the Holy Spirit, we are not able to truly worship Him. Those who come to the Sabbath are given that permission, meaning we can find God as our friend on this day. God is here, and He wants to have fellowship with you; this is the great privilege of the sanctification of this day. This is the day when the channel is really wide open, so come and pray to God believing that your prayers will be answered according to God’s goodness.

(2) Those who come into His presence will also be sanctified, will be cleansed so that today will be a new day (Matthew 6:33, Isaiah 58:13-14).

Conclusion:


Let us pray that we all together will enter into God’s presence, God’s Sabbath. When we enter into His Sabbath that is forever. Let us lift up all our troubles to God. And He will return His covenant, His blessings, His sanctification to us. Let us take all of that, and more than anything we have the greatest blessing, we become friends of God. May we receive that blessing and gain victory.

AMEN.

Pastor Samuel Kim

2022-08-27T16:30:45+00:00
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