Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 24 | 16 June 2024
Lord's Day

LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Steve Yoon
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 30
Responsive Reading:
11. Psalm 28
11. 诗篇 28
Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Scripture Reading:
Leviticus 25:1–13
利未记 25:1–13
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir
Total Praise
全心赞美
Sermon by Pastor Samuel Kim
Leviticus 15: Sabbath year and Jubilee
利未记 15: 安息年和禧年
Hymn 233
Offering Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Offering Song:
Hymn 340 – ‘Tis so sweet to Trust in Jesus 信靠耶穌真是甜美 (Sharon Choir)
Announcements by Elder Steve Yoon
*Hymn 6
*Benediction by Pastor 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 these upcoming events:

    (1) HORA Youth & Young Adults Conference

    Theme: RE:Align (Theme verse: 2 Chronicles 34:2)
    Where: Stony Brook University campus, New York
    When: 3-6 July 2024 (Wed-Sat)

    (2) 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)

    *Registration and details at: http://sc2024.zionchurch.sg
    (Please register before 15 July)

  • There will be Lord’s Day Bible Study on 30th June. As such, the monthly afternoon Cell group meetings will take place on the following Lord’s Day (7th July).

  • On this Father’s Day, let us remember the unwavering faithfulness and boundless love of our Heavenly Father. Let us also lift up our earthly fathers in prayer, asking for God’s guidance and strength as they lead their families with wisdom and grace. Happy Father’s Day!

  • Let us continue to pray fervently for HORA 120 Project and HOR Book translation & distribution work. Please pray for the work of translating and sending the books, and further for God’s blessings upon those who receive and read the books.

SERVICE DUTIES

Wednesday Service (19 June)
Prayer Eld. Tan Pau Soon
Lord’s Day Service (23 June)
Presider Eld. Anthony Lim
Basket Bearers Eld. Tan Pau Soon & Dcn. Louis Loy

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
Ezekiel’s Temple: The Pinnacle of Faith

Scripture: Ezekiel 40:1-4

Today I want to share with you a message entitled “Ezekiel’s Temple: the pinnacle of faith.”

What is Ezekiel’s Temple? God never commanded that this temple be built. He showed the vision of this temple to Ezekiel. And when you compare its vision to that of the vision that Apostle John received in Revelation of the New Jerusalem, you can see that they are very similar. Thus, Rev. Abraham Park said that the Ezekiel’s Temple is the blueprint of the New Jerusalem.

Both are located on top of Mt. Zion, the highest spiritual mountain.

Ezekiel 40:2 (NASB95) — 2 In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.

Revelation 21:10 (NASB95) — 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

New Jerusalem is the bride of Christ

Revelation 21:9 (NASB95) — 9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

Revelation 21:2 (NASB95) — 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Thus, Ezekiel’s Temple and New Jerusalem are both showing us the model of the true church.

Is church the bride of Christ? Not yet…we are betrothed to become His bride. 

2 Corinthians 11:2 (NASB95) — 2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

We are on our way to being the bride. That is the highest point…the pinnacle of faith is to become the bride of Christ. How can we get to that level… pinnacle.

1. Three stages and 25 steps to get to the top

Mt. Zion is the highest peak, and Ezekiel’s Temple is built to Mt. Zion. But to get to the top of Ezekiel’s Temple where the sanctuary is, you must go up even more.

(1) 7 steps to the outer court

Ezekiel 40:26 (NASB95) — 26 There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side.

(2) 8 steps to the inner court

Ezekiel 40:27 (NASB95) — 27 The inner court had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 40:31 (NASB95) — 31 Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.

(3) 10 steps into the sanctuary (temple)

Ezekiel 40:49 (ESV) — 49 The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits, and people would go up to it by ten steps. And there were pillars beside the jambs, one on either side.

7 steps + 8 steps + 10 steps = 25 steps in total

2. Redemptive-historical meaning of 3 stages and 25 steps

Matt 21:33- 43 records the Parable of the Landowner. Jesus talks about 3 stages of redemptive history.

Matthew 21:33 (NASB95) — 33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Time of servants (slaves) – OT

Matthew 21:34–36 (NASB95) — 34 “When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce. 35 “The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. 36 “Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

Time of Son – NT

Matthew 21:37–39 (NASB95) — 37 “But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 “But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’ 39 “They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Time of owner (Father) – ET

Matthew 21:40–43 (NASB95) — 40 “Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?” 41 They said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.” 42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone; This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.

(1) OT – Old Testament

OT is characterized by the number ‘7’ (7 steps) because the basic activity of faith was to keep the sabbath which is the 7th day.

In this era, God built temples as building structures… God wants to meet with His people.

Acts 7:48 (NASB95) — 48 “However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:

(2) NT – New Testament

NT is characterized by the number ‘8’ (8 steps) because we are now keeping the Lord’s Day which is the 8th day. 8 is the number of re-creation. The 8th day celebrates the Resurrection of Christ which brought us new life… a new beginning.

In this era, God wanted to have His temples in the hearts of people.

1 Corinthians 3:16 (NASB95) — 16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

John 2:19 (NASB95) — 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Jesus came to give us faith so that we may be saved.

1 Peter 1:9 (NASB95) — 9 obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.

(3) ET – End times

Matthew 16:27 (NASB95) — 27 “For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds.

This era is characterized by the number 10 (10 steps). 10 is the number of fullness.

Ephesians 4:13 (NASB95) — 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

In this era, God wants us to bear fruits. When the owner returns He will give the vineyard to workers bearing fruits.

Fruits = actions

God wants His temple to be the covenant community.

Ephesians 2:20–22 (NASB95) — 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

Ephesians 4:1–3 (NASB95) — 1 Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4:4–6 (NASB95) — 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

Now, God wants our faith to be perfected as Abraham’s…

James 2:21–22 (NASB95) — 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;

When we get to the pinnacle…the highest point, then we have become the bride of Christ.

Revelation 19:8 (NASB95) — 8 It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Zion Church is now in her 25th year…like the 25 steps, you have endured well. Now, I pray, as you are doing…please bear fruits worthy of your calling.

Let us be a church that is worthy to be called bride of Christ.

Proverbs 31:10 (NASB95) — 10 An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels.

Proverbs 31:15 (NASB95) — 15 She rises also while it is still night And gives food to her household And portions to her maidens.

Luke 12:42 (NASB95) — 42 And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?

Proverbs 31:17 (NASB95) — 17 She girds herself with strength And makes her arms strong.

Ephesians 6:14 (NASB95) — 14 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Strength of the bride of Christ is the Word of God.

Proverbs 31:22 (NASB95) — 22 She makes coverings for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Revelation 19:8 (NASB95) — 8 It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 

Proverbs 31:30 (NASB95) — 30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

I believe Zion Church is this kind of church…thus a church that is fit to become the bride of Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:58 (NKJ) Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

AMEN.

Pastor Andrew Pak

2024-06-19T06:45:43+00:00
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