Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 27 | 2 July 2023 Lord's Day

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Ridwan Dinata
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 48
Responsive Reading:
64. Thanksgiving Day (1)
64. 感恩节(1)
Prayer by Elder Ridwan Dinata
Scripture Reading:
Exodus 23:14-17
出埃及记 23:14-17
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir
People need the Lord
人们需要主
Sermon by Missionary Lauren Li
Let’s Celebrate Feast of Harvest
让我们庆祝收割节
Hymn 172
Offering Prayer by Elder Ridwan Dinata
Offering Song:
There is none like You
有谁能像祢

(Sharon Praise)
Announcements by Elder Ridwan Dinata
*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.
  • 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)

  • There will be major events taking place this month of July:

    – 1-4 July (Sat-Tue): 2023 HORA Conference will be held in Chicago, IL, at Loyola University.

    – 15 July (Sat): HOR Seminar (Special Lectures on the 10 Commandments) at Zion Church by Dr. Baruch Korman. Time: 1:30-5:30 pm.

    Register by scanning QR code or via link: baruch.horaministries.com

SERVICE DUTIES

Prayer (Wed 5 Jul) Elder Steve Yoon
Presider (Sun 9 Jul) Elder Tan Pau Soon
Basket Bearers (Sun 9 Jul) Elder Steve Yoon & Elder William Ng

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
God’s Bestowal to Abraham: Great Land

Scripture: Genesis 13:14-15

The reason we learn and study about Abraham is that our life as Abraham’s spiritual children is directly related to the consummation of the kingdom of God.

After a painful breakup between Abraham and his nephew Lot, they journeyed to the land of Canaan, but because of the quarrel between Abraham’s and Lot’s men, they had to say a painful goodbye.

At this point, Abraham was really down because he had to see his nephew Lot leaving. But spiritually this is a point of great victory because Abraham yielded. He yielded to nephew Lot. “You go and take whatever you want, I will take what’s left.” This is where God appears and says to Abraham, “Look! Even though you may feel that you have lost. Look North, South, East, West, whatever you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.”

The word “give” amongst us human beings is a very ordinary term. But Reverend Abraham Park captured the heart of a Father God through the word “bestowal”. There is no word bestowal in the bible. Bestowal shows God’s determination to ensure everything until it is fulfilled. When the almighty God gives, this word shows God’s unbending and unending determination to give it to you, no matter what.

What are the 3 things to build a nation or kingdom? First, there has to be land, second people, third sovereignty or constitution. This is what God promised to Abraham and not only to him but also to us today.

God’s bestowals began everything, and because of that Abraham could believe, and eventually could bear the fruits of obedience. It is just humbly accepting the fact that even though we are unworthy and it may seem impossible to us at this very moment. Believing in God’s bestowal “I will give”, is faith. God gave the 10 bestowals to Abraham our father of faith.

1. Great land – the land of Canaan is our eternal inheritance
God gave the land of Canaan to Abraham. In order for an army to take over the entire nation, the special forces will be dispatched first, to a very small location or region, where they will operate with special operations to eventually conquer the entire land. That is called the bridgehead. God wanted to conquer the entire world. Canaan is just the bridgehead.

When God banished Adam from the Garden of Eden, he had to cultivate the ground. The ground is where you plant seeds and bear fruits. The Bible says the land and ground are our hearts. Eden means delight, bliss, and satisfaction. The enriched, satisfied state, the state of bliss.

2. Satan has taken over this land.
However, Satan is now taking over this land of our hearts. He has control over the visible and spiritual world. What Adam lost, is now in the hands of devil the Satan. To Jesus Christ, the devil said the land has been handed over to him.

As Christians, what part of your life or your world might still be under Satan’s control? Our life as Christians is not just about coming to church on Sunday and I am okay. As children of God, are you aware of the parts of our life that must be cleaned? This is our battle every day. We must reclaim the land that was originally ours, the land that God has selected for us from the beginning.

3. Abraham
To recover this lost land, God is searching for the lost man who will obey Him. God’s command and man’s obedience are very very important in fulfilling His bestowal.

The first command is to Adam, but he didn’t obey, so God searched and found the 20th generation, Abraham, because he obeyed and sacrificed his only son Isaac on Mount Moriah.

God commissioned Abraham with a special project to build His kingdom. Please know that you are taking the footsteps of our Father Abraham, God has commissioned you with this special building project.

God’s bestowals exist before anything, it is what initiates everything. For God to fulfil His bestowals in our lives, God first gives His command. The only way for us to take these bestowals is to first obey. When we obey, it is because we know and we believe in His bestowal. Remember, what comes first is the bestowal, and then comes faith. Therefore, faith is also provided by God as a gift.

Ephesians 2:8 (NKJ) For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Since faith belongs to Jesus, Jesus is the one who shapes and perfects our faith. That is why we call Jesus Christ the author and perfector of our faith. All the vicissitudes of our lives are written by Jesus, He is the author, and we are just the cast. Hallelujah!

Your daily life is building His kingdom, whether at work, washing dishes, watching your baby, or studying in school. Every moment you are engaged in building His kingdom. This was God’s original purpose for our creation. This was the very first command God gave to mankind.

4. God’s kingdom
Each and every one of us is commissioned with a special building project to expand His kingdom. We are the bridgehead to the kingdom of heaven. As we come to gather here together, we are creating this powerful bridgehead of God.

So let us embrace this amazing bestowal that Father God has bestowed upon us. We are the kingdom of God and now we just have to expand. Let us build this kingdom together.

AMEN!

Evangelist Joanna Pae

2023-07-15T16:50:20+00:00
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