LORD’S DAY SERVICE ORDER

PRESIDER: Elder Steve Yoon
*Silent Prayer
*Confession of Faith
Hymn 30
Responsive Reading: 34. Proverbs 3 34. 箴言 3
Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Scripture Reading: 2 Timothy 4:7-16 提摩太后书 4:7–16
Choir Anthem by Sharon Choir Let the Song of Praise Be Heard 让赞美歌声响起
Sermon by Reverend Samuel Kim *Let Us Move On After a Good Finish* 让我们在圆满结束后继续前进
Hymn 448
Offering Prayer by Elder Steve Yoon
Offering Song by Sharon Choir Hymn 404 – The Love of God is Greater Far 真神之爱
Announcements by Elder Steve Yoon
*Hymn 6
Benediction: Reverend 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）
Our church’s precept for the year 2025 is “A church that strives to fulfil Redemptive History by becoming a pure and holy people through living sacrifices.”
Let us take this as our mission for the coming year.
There will be a session meeting after service today.
There will be all-church cleaning today after the cell group meetings.
There will be cell group meetings today during fellowship time. There will be no afternoon Bible Study today.
End of year service schedule is as follows:
- 31^st December New Years Eve Watchnight Service: 10:15pm.
- 1^st January New Years Day service: 10:45am.
There will be a meeting with elders, ordained deacons, and Chinese translation team on 5^th January Lord’s Day after the Bible study for the preparation of the Chinese services.
All ministries are to submit their budgets for 2025 by 12^th January next year.

SERVICE DUTIES

Wednesday Service (1 January)
Prayer	NA.
Lord’s Day Service (5 January)
Presider	Eld. William Ng
Basket Bearers	Dcn. Sean Tang, Dcn. Andrew Cheong

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

Mark 19 – Overcoming Faith

Scripture: Mark 10:36-52

When we are faced with illnesses and difficult problems, we need faith to overcome. Do we have faith on paper, only on our lips or with practice? Sometimes we feel we do not have faith, sometimes we feel our faith is not 100%. That is why we need grace to fill us.

In today’s passage, Mark introduces a blind man called Bartimaeus and he is also a beggar. How did Jesus do it previously? He brought the person aside, spat on the mud and applied the mud on him. This time Jesus only spoke the words. So the way that Jesus work is different. It depends on the person’s faith and what Jesus wanted to teach at the moment. Bartimaeus probably heard about the blind man that Jesus healed before. When he heard that Jesus is here, he sprang up. He is the one who has faith to overcome obstacles. He threw his outer garments and ran out. When Jesus Christ ask what do you want? What will you tell him? He told Jesus Christ that he wants to see. As a result of this word, a miracle occurred.

First, what obstacle does he have? Physical disability. He was blind. He was a person who lived in complete darkness. In Luke 11:34, it says the eye is the lamp of your body. He could not see light. How about you and I? Do we have similar obstacle like Bartimaeus. Darkness because they cannot come out of their depression, sorrow and also because they cannot understand the Word. Sometimes we pray God help me to see. We need faith like Bartimaeus. He had the spiritual eyes to see Jesus even though he does not have the physical eye. All the people were teaching that the Messiah will come as the son of David. This man even though he cannot see, he kept this Word in his heart and he is able to recognize Jesus Christ. There are many people in this world who have perfect vision but they are spiritually blind just like the Pharisees. Many times we choose what we want to see, hear what they want to hear. For this blind man, there was no obstacle. He cannot see and that is why he cannot choose. May the darkness that we may have not become that obstacle. May we have the faith that overcomes.

Second, he has economical obstacle. He is not just blind but he is also a beggar. Before that, Jesus Christ met a young rich ruler. Bartimaeus was economically poor. There was no obstacle for him. For the young rich ruler, his wealth is the obstacle. He is not just poor economically, he is also poor in spirit. Bartimaeus had nothing to give up. The young rich ruler had many things to give up. Is there anything we need to give up in order to come to Jesus? On the contrary, lacking material possession can also be an obstacle. Those things can become an obstacle in coming to the Lord. People get darkened when they do not have enough. I have heard people blaming God when they lost money. Material possessions can become an obstacle to both types of people. Even though Bartimaeus was poor with no possession, there was no obstacles to prevent him from to Jesus. The last thing that he has is his cloak and even that he threw that aside. May we have this kind of attitude in coming to Jesus.

His social status became an obstacle. During that time, people look down upon beggars with contempt. They will say how sinful your parents must be for you to become like this. Beggars were not even allowed to come to church. They were considered impure. In 2 Sam 5:8, it is said that the blind and lame are not to come into the house. May we never be the ones who will stop those like Bartimaeus from coming to God. Faith does not fear or hesitate, faith moves forward. Faith is the victory and life. Those who come to Jesu with such faith, Jesus welcomes them, no matter how impure or blind they were. Jesus is the real temple who will receive them. You think he is blind? Let me change that Matt 21:14.

Jesus Christ calls people like Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus is one who overcomes all obstacles with faith. Jesus calls for a steadfast, forward moving faith. In Dan 12:11-12, God is looking for faith that will continue on, even through persecution, through silence.

In Revelation, Jesus praised the church that perseveres. In Rev 14:4, we see that in the end, Jesus says there will be trial of faith, there will be things that will happen to test our faith. May we be victorious and may we be able to stand on Mount Zion with the lamb. In Rev 2-3, Jesus wrote to the churches and before he blesses them, he wrote, to he who overcomes. Those who have faith will be able to overcome their obstacles.

Bartimaeus cried out “Jesus Christ son of David, have mercy on me!” That is the key and he continues to repeat that. He knew what he did not have. That is why he is saying Jesus I have nothing and this mercy is the grace. Then Jesus answers him, what do you want me to do for you? If Jesus Christ is to ask you today, what would you say? Bartimaeus could have said I want riches, but he simply say I want to regain my sight. Why? The answer is in verse 52. Jesus Christ says go your faith has made you well and he immediately received his sight and followed Jesus. Why did he want to regain his sight? It is because he wants to follow Jesus Christ. This is in contrast to the young rich ruler. This Bartimaeus gave up everything, and said he wants to see to follow Jesus. May we have this faith that overcomes and may we also get up to follow Jesus Christ.

AMEN.