Zion Church Online Bulletin

Week No. 52 | 29 December 2024
Lord's Day

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
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:

    • 31st December New Years Eve Watchnight Service: 10:15pm.
    • 1st January New Years Day service: 10:45am.
  • There will be a meeting with elders, ordained deacons, and Chinese translation team on 5th 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 12th 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 20 – And the Word became flesh

Scripture: John 1:1-14

Apostle John in today’s passage describes to us what Christmas is without all those visible things. “The Word became flesh”, that is the most profound truth of all truth. Without that, Christianity would not exist. The phrase the Word became flesh encapsulates the central truth of Christianity, emphasizing that God became fully human without losing His divinity.

We were told about what happened on earth in Bethlehem but there was a spiritual reality going on.  The non-negotiable reality that we celebrate Christmas is that the Eternal God, the creator of the universe, became a human being.  John wrote his gospel to get this truth across so that we would understand that Jesus is God in human flesh, and He said He will come again in the same way. Christmas is the day when God declared, “Now we can come and meet with Him.”

This Word in Greek is “Logos”, this was believed to be a title given to the creative force, the power of creation, the very essence of the one that created the order in the universe. This means the force that created the whole universe became a human being.

What does it mean to say that Jesus is the Word in flesh?

Jesus Christ, He is the Word that existed before all creation. He was not created, He is eternal, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. The Word is the description of God in spirit, God Himself (John 6:63). Hebrews 1:1-2 is telling us that the Word that existed even before creation, that is the Word that is with us today. Why did He come? We all know the answer, to save us, that’s the truth.

The Word has a purpose. In the beginning, before everything was created, the Word already existed. And then He created the universe over the six days and the last one that He created was Adam.  The Word was given in Genesis 1 and the Word came in John 1, for the same purpose.  Jesus and God sent the Word in Genesis 1 and John 1, because there’s a warfare going on, there was darkness, the darkness was covering and ruling over this world.

Why did the Word became flesh?

The Word became flesh because there was darkness, and that darkness needed to be taken away. In the beginning, the first thing God created was light. In John 1, the first description of the Word is “the Word was light”.  And then Jesus came, it says the light shines upon darkness. This world is becoming darker and darker, that’s why we need the Word to come. As soon as the Word landed what happened? Separation and division take place, light and dark, day and light, land and the sea, man and the beast. When we receive the Word which is light, there must be some kind of movement taking place. But if there’s nothing taking place, that means you have not had a true Christmas yet. When Jesus came to this earth, separation started to take place, separation within my heart. I was fully in darkness but then now there’s light and darkness, there are choices that we must make now.

The light shines in the darkness; the light is Jesus, and the darkness is the people of this world (John 1:5). The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. If the darkness receives the light, the darkness becomes light.  But if the darkness does not receive the light, there is a separation between dark and light (John 1:11).  As soon as He came, separation began to take place, those who believed and received Him versus those who did not believe and receive Him. Even at Jesus’s crucifixion, Jesus was at the centre. The crosses on His right and on His left, they represented two kinds of people on Earth even today. One who recognized Jesus, repented, confessed his faith in Jesus and he received the promise of paradise. The other one, although he was given the same opportunity, he rejected Jesus.

Jesus came to Bethlehem and His coming bothered many people (i.e. Herod, religious leaders). But to those who received Him, it was finally the answer like Simeon and Anna. To those who received Him, they were finally able to find peace.

In conclusion, how do we let darkness turn into light? There are parts of us that still have not received that light or hiding to keep that darkness. The truth is we all have some darkness. That’s why we need to receive that light. True celebration of Jesus’s birth needs to be done by those who have received this heavenly light.  Darkness cannot be turned into light just by attending church physically. It can be done only to those who receive that light. Jesus, the Word who is light that came to this earth, and He came to the people who are in darkness. These people met Him, let us learn through these people.

  1. Samaritan woman

Her past was dark, her present was dark but somehow the light came to her. Jesus walked into that darkness and what’s the first thing. She asked, “How do I worship, where do I worship?” How do we turn this darkness into light? Ask Jesus to revive our worship.

  1. Woman that was suffering through haemorrhage

She was in darkness because there was no hope in her life. She tried everything she could, no cure, no solution amid that darkness. She saw a glimpse of light far away, walking by in the marketplace. That was Jesus but there were so many obstacles, huddles and these people around her were trying to cast more darkness. Do we feel like that sometimes? I feel helpless and rather than these people around me trying to help me to reach that light, they’re blocking me. But even though I might get trampled upon, even though people might point fingers at me and step on me. She said, “I’m going to reach that light,” and she crawled over and touched that light, and that light had power immediately. May we have that desire to reach that light.

  1. Man who was born blind

He never saw light in his life but somehow Jesus decided to walk by. And even in that blind darkness, he saw that light. Jesus asked, “What do you want?” He said, “I want to see, I want light.” May we seek to see that light, the redemption that Jesus is trying to give us.

  1. Lazarus

Lazarus was defeated by death. Death means darkness has gained victory and triumph over us. This is not about physical death but referring to the biblical significance of death. Anybody feel like you’re dead already? Feel like darkness has overcome? Lazarus had his sisters, Martha and Mary who called Jesus over. Jesus was late, they lost hope, and Lazarus was dead. But Jesus called Lazarus out of the darkness.  May Jesus call you out of your darkness. May we be like Lazarus and may we also be like Martha and Mary.  Are there people who are buried under burdens, sickness and sin that they couldn’t call out to the Lord? May you be the Martha and Mary that call out to the Lord and may Jesus come and save your loved ones.

May Jesus come and save us.  That is Christmas.

AMEN.

Pastor Samuel Kim

2024-12-29T04:10:02+00:00
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