God 1-3-2010 Sara Lincoln
Does God have a voice? ____ Have you ever heard it? ___ What does it sound like?
Here is how different authors of biblical books describe the voice of God:
The voice of the Lord is powerful,
* It shakes the wilderness
* It is mightier than the pounding waves of the sea
* It flashes like lightening, it thunders with authority
* It gives instructions that cannot be ignored
* It proclaims the kingdom of heaven on earth
* It says “I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine” (Isa. 43: 1)
* It comforts, saying “Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46: 10); “Fear not: I am with thee” (Isa. 41: 10)
* It said to Abraham take your family away from the land of idols to a new place I will show you (Gen 12: 1, 4)
* It said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; lead the Children of Israel out of slavery
(Ex. 3: 14-17)
* It said to Elijah get out of that cave where you are hiding in fear and learn that the mighty voice of God is heard by man as a still small voice within (I Kings 19)
* It told Jesus to notice a woman who had been unable to stand up for 18 years and to heal her (Luke 13: 11-13)
* It told the Apostle Paul to assure the ship’s captain that no life would be lost even while the storm was destroying the ship (Acts 27: 20-25)
* It sounded like a trumpet to John the Revelator, telling him, “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last” (Rev. 1: 10-11). There is only one God, as Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Jesus, and Paul told you and proved to you
* It told Mary Baker Eddy that in Science, in reality, there is ‘no power opposed to God and the physical senses must give up their false testimony’ (SH 192: 19-21).
* It instills the courage to keep speaking the truth even while error screams louder,
because error’s ‘suggestions’ and ‘threats’ will always cease
* It says through Christian Science that there is no beginning and ending; there is only the All-in-all that is here and now
In the Bible, the Promised Land was called C________. Now it is called ___________.
God told Abraham, “I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.” Gen. 17: 2. A covenant is like a __________.
What was the covenant that God had previously made with Noah? Gen. 9: 8-17.
Queen Jezebel (wife of King Ahab) sent a death-threat to the Prophet Elijah because Elijah had proved that the prophets of B______ had no power at all (I Kings 18). Elijah had proved that there is only one Almighty God, and yet he was afraid when he received the death-threat and he ran away. How can a person who has proved his knowledge of the allness of God run away in fear from a human who denied that there is only one God?
How did God heal Elijah’s fear?
Remember? It had something to do with wind, earthquake, and fire. (I Kings 19: 11-12).
We hear God’s voice “through the senses of Soul ----through ____________ _____________.”
SH 213: 17. What is ‘spiritual understanding’?
We seem to hear many things that are negative through our ears, but what are ‘ears’?
What can you do if a voice says, ’you are not succeeding’?
First, I can say n____, there is no liar voicing a lie because God-Good makes no liars or lies.
Second, I can say y____ my Love, I have the spiritual understanding that Spirit is constantly expressing in me. The voice of Truth is always telling me all I need to know and do and its message is never neg______.
Through the Christ, God directs, protects, and corrects humans, never punishing man.
Jesus’ mission was ‘to prove what ______ ____ and what _____ ______ for man’
SH 26: 14.
Jesus’ approach to every problem was ___________ _______ and ___________ _______.
This was the basis of his ‘thought and demonstration.’ SH 259: 11
Jesus was the man who lived and taught the Christ-man.
“Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness.” SH 332: 9.
Does God make us hear His voice, His explanation, His plan? ______
Do you pray ‘without ceasing’ which means ‘all the time’? _____ I am grateful that Science and Health gives me a better understanding of what ‘unceasing prayer’ means. SH 4: 12-13.
The Romans arrested the Apostle Paul because Paul was stirring up public thought by talking about Christ Jesus and saying that even though Caesar claimed to be God, he was not God. They sent Paul by ship to Rome where he would be tried, but they had no intention of giving Paul a ‘fair trial.’ Was Paul angry and resentful about this injustice? ______ We know Paul kept his thought focused on the fact that God governs man and the universe, because when the ship was about to sink, he was ready to demonstrate God’s control, God’s good plan for every man.
Is there anything wrong in your life or in the world that you would like for God
to ‘fix’? ____
Perhaps you are learning in Christian Science to express that desire in a better way: “Oh God, this and this and this seem so bad and unjust, but I can help the world, my family, and myself every time I thank God for the rule of ‘perfect God and perfect man’ and make this rule the starting point of my prayer.”
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Christian Science
Christian Science 12-27-09 Sara Lincoln
Why did Mary Baker Eddy write Science and Health?........
Did she have a textbook that helped her write her textbook? _______ SH 110: 13
Why did she call it a textbook and not just a book?
The Prophet Isaiah said things about God, for example, ‘He will destroy darkness and ignorance and wipe away tears and bad memories.’ Did Isaiah also talk directly to God? ____. Which word in Isa. 25: 1, 4 shows that Isaiah is talking to God? ______. This word means ‘you.’
Was Jesus ‘King of the Jews’? ______ Matt.2:1-2. Why didn’t he live in a king’s palace? ……
The Apostle John says that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
John 1: 14.
If ‘the Word’ (God) became flesh, does that mean it became matter? _____.
SH 350: 24-30.
Flesh is “a belief that ______ has sensation.” SH 586: 18. Flesh refers to the five material senses (SH 200: 20), the sense of a material body. The flesh wars against Spirit (SH 274: 20), just as m____________ sense wars against s____________ sense.
Christian Science helps us understand that ‘the Word’ can be known as Mind expressing right ideas in every human consciousness. Where in our textbook are we reminded that “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation”?______
Where do we find ‘the Word’ in order to learn it? ______ SH 497: 3
Peter tells us something very important about prophecy. It did not come in old time by the _____ _____ ______, but because holy men of God spake as they were moved by the ______ _______. II Peter 1: 21. Because of Christian Science, we understand that the Holy Ghost was not a mysterious thing that could appear and dis_____. The Holy Ghost is _____ _____. SH 588.
The author of Science and Health, _____ _____ _____, called the Holy Ghost a S________ because it can be proved and demands proof. To discover this very important truth, we need to use the quality that filled the thought of Jesus who was “full of ______ and truth.” John 1: 14.
What is grace and how do you know if you have it?
Jesus taught us to say to God, “Give us this day our daily bread.” ‘Daily bread’ is _______ and we get more ______, more understanding and compassion and humility, every day.
The dictionary says that ‘grace’ is unmerited, meaning, we don’t earn it in the way that you earn a good grade in school. How do you earn a good grade in school?
Maybe ‘grace’ is like intelligence. You have intelligence; you don’t get it, but you must honor your intelligence and use it more and more so that it will develop and expand. This helps you understand God and become more of a blessing to yourself and others.
You are accepting that you have grace every time you are kind, thoughtful, considerate, and grateful to God that you always have all you need. How did Jesus show that he honored ‘grace’?
Jesus was born. Was the Christ also born? ____ The Christ is a sp_______ i______ in thought, giving _______ and _______ to all who are prepared to see Christ.
SH 333: 16-23.
“The __________ Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus _________ as a bodily existence.” SH 334: 10.
What is the definition of Christ? ……
“Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, --the divine idea of God outside the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his ________ over matter.” SH 482: 19.
People call Christ Jesus the M________, the S________, the C__________, and also I________, which means ‘God with us,’ delivering us from every mental and physical problem. SH 107: 1-10.
Did Jesus want to be famous? ___ Why did Jesus want people to believe in him?
John 12: 44-45.
A few decades after Christ Jesus ascended, the Apostle ______ helped the Jews and the G______ understand why Jesus came to earth. Paul established many churches and wrote letters to them.
Zacchaeus was a rich Jew who helped the ‘enemy,’ the Roman government, collect taxes from the Jews. The Jews did not like Zacchaeus or trust him, but this man wanted to see Jesus. How did Zacchaeus manage to see this famous man who was surrounded by a crowd a people?
Did Jesus criticize Zacchaeus? _______ What did Jesus do? Luke 19: 2-10.
Do you know anyone who seems to be selfish and not loving and not generous? ______
What difference would it make if you saw this person in the same way, in the same light, in which Jesus saw Zacchaeus?
Is physical healing the main mission of Christian Science? ______SH 150: 4. Metaphysical healing of physical disease is only a sign that the Christ-power is here today “to take away the ______ _____ ____ _______.” What is an example of ‘a sin of this world’?
What is the meaning of ‘mortal mind’?
Is ‘mortal mind’ a real thing? ______ It’s like a mistake in mathematics. Because we are intelligent and alert, we see mistakes and correct them. Tell us about a time when you corrected a mistake.
I cannot be tricked by the mistake called m_______ m_________ if I am taking the high way, the free way, of knowing I can do what Christ Jesus and the Apostle Paul tell me I can do:
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is ________.”
Matt. 5: 48.
“Let this Mind be in you which was also in ________ _________ .” Phil 2: 5.
The effect of Christian Science is “to stir the ________ ________ to a change of base on which it may yield to the harmony of the _________ __________.” SH 162: 9.
Why is Christian Science the best method in the world for treating disease?
SH 162: 4 and SH 344: 19-24.
Is Christianity different from Christian Science? _______
SH 372: 17-18 and SH 271: 1-5.
What do you like most about Christian Science? …..
Why did Mary Baker Eddy write Science and Health?........
Did she have a textbook that helped her write her textbook? _______ SH 110: 13
Why did she call it a textbook and not just a book?
The Prophet Isaiah said things about God, for example, ‘He will destroy darkness and ignorance and wipe away tears and bad memories.’ Did Isaiah also talk directly to God? ____. Which word in Isa. 25: 1, 4 shows that Isaiah is talking to God? ______. This word means ‘you.’
Was Jesus ‘King of the Jews’? ______ Matt.2:1-2. Why didn’t he live in a king’s palace? ……
The Apostle John says that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
John 1: 14.
If ‘the Word’ (God) became flesh, does that mean it became matter? _____.
SH 350: 24-30.
Flesh is “a belief that ______ has sensation.” SH 586: 18. Flesh refers to the five material senses (SH 200: 20), the sense of a material body. The flesh wars against Spirit (SH 274: 20), just as m____________ sense wars against s____________ sense.
Christian Science helps us understand that ‘the Word’ can be known as Mind expressing right ideas in every human consciousness. Where in our textbook are we reminded that “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation”?______
Where do we find ‘the Word’ in order to learn it? ______ SH 497: 3
Peter tells us something very important about prophecy. It did not come in old time by the _____ _____ ______, but because holy men of God spake as they were moved by the ______ _______. II Peter 1: 21. Because of Christian Science, we understand that the Holy Ghost was not a mysterious thing that could appear and dis_____. The Holy Ghost is _____ _____. SH 588.
The author of Science and Health, _____ _____ _____, called the Holy Ghost a S________ because it can be proved and demands proof. To discover this very important truth, we need to use the quality that filled the thought of Jesus who was “full of ______ and truth.” John 1: 14.
What is grace and how do you know if you have it?
Jesus taught us to say to God, “Give us this day our daily bread.” ‘Daily bread’ is _______ and we get more ______, more understanding and compassion and humility, every day.
The dictionary says that ‘grace’ is unmerited, meaning, we don’t earn it in the way that you earn a good grade in school. How do you earn a good grade in school?
Maybe ‘grace’ is like intelligence. You have intelligence; you don’t get it, but you must honor your intelligence and use it more and more so that it will develop and expand. This helps you understand God and become more of a blessing to yourself and others.
You are accepting that you have grace every time you are kind, thoughtful, considerate, and grateful to God that you always have all you need. How did Jesus show that he honored ‘grace’?
Jesus was born. Was the Christ also born? ____ The Christ is a sp_______ i______ in thought, giving _______ and _______ to all who are prepared to see Christ.
SH 333: 16-23.
“The __________ Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus _________ as a bodily existence.” SH 334: 10.
What is the definition of Christ? ……
“Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, --the divine idea of God outside the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his ________ over matter.” SH 482: 19.
People call Christ Jesus the M________, the S________, the C__________, and also I________, which means ‘God with us,’ delivering us from every mental and physical problem. SH 107: 1-10.
Did Jesus want to be famous? ___ Why did Jesus want people to believe in him?
John 12: 44-45.
A few decades after Christ Jesus ascended, the Apostle ______ helped the Jews and the G______ understand why Jesus came to earth. Paul established many churches and wrote letters to them.
Zacchaeus was a rich Jew who helped the ‘enemy,’ the Roman government, collect taxes from the Jews. The Jews did not like Zacchaeus or trust him, but this man wanted to see Jesus. How did Zacchaeus manage to see this famous man who was surrounded by a crowd a people?
Did Jesus criticize Zacchaeus? _______ What did Jesus do? Luke 19: 2-10.
Do you know anyone who seems to be selfish and not loving and not generous? ______
What difference would it make if you saw this person in the same way, in the same light, in which Jesus saw Zacchaeus?
Is physical healing the main mission of Christian Science? ______SH 150: 4. Metaphysical healing of physical disease is only a sign that the Christ-power is here today “to take away the ______ _____ ____ _______.” What is an example of ‘a sin of this world’?
What is the meaning of ‘mortal mind’?
Is ‘mortal mind’ a real thing? ______ It’s like a mistake in mathematics. Because we are intelligent and alert, we see mistakes and correct them. Tell us about a time when you corrected a mistake.
I cannot be tricked by the mistake called m_______ m_________ if I am taking the high way, the free way, of knowing I can do what Christ Jesus and the Apostle Paul tell me I can do:
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is ________.”
Matt. 5: 48.
“Let this Mind be in you which was also in ________ _________ .” Phil 2: 5.
The effect of Christian Science is “to stir the ________ ________ to a change of base on which it may yield to the harmony of the _________ __________.” SH 162: 9.
Why is Christian Science the best method in the world for treating disease?
SH 162: 4 and SH 344: 19-24.
Is Christianity different from Christian Science? _______
SH 372: 17-18 and SH 271: 1-5.
What do you like most about Christian Science? …..
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?
Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force? 12-20-09 Sara Lincoln
Hallelujah, Alleluia: These words mean….
Have you ever heard anyone say ‘Hallelujah!’?
What is an angel?......
Webster’s says an angel is “a spiritual being superior to man in power and intelligence;
a guardian, a messenger.” Does Webster’s definition include a Christian Science definition? _____
Science and Health says that “Angels are ________ ______________.” SH 299: 11-12.
Do angels have names?____ Luke 1: 26.
What did the angel G__________ tell Mary? Luke 1: 28, 31.
Mary was ready and able to receive this very unusual message because she was
“the ___________ of the Lord.” Luke 1: 38.
This means that Mary had been focusing her attention, her thought, on God. Perhaps she prayed, “thank you God that you are here and good. How can I praise you more?” Science and Health says it was Mary’s __________ ______ that caught the light of God’s truth: being is spiritual, not material. SH 29: 20-29.
Hundreds of years before the angel (thought) talked to Mary, it talked to the Prophet Isaiah. He was ready to receive a very unusual message because he was a ________ of the Lord, and a ________ is someone who…..
Angels (thoughts) come to g______ us. Do angels make us listen and follow? _____
We hear the angel message when we are th________ God and lis_________ to God. “Jesus was the offspring of Mary’s _____-__________ communion with God.” SH 29: 32-1. Could this mean that Mary knew she could talk to God and that God talked to her? ___
Angels (thoughts) shine a light on our sp_________ s________ and in this light we see how m________ s________ would try to limit and confuse us. As we say, “yes, thank you God” for every angel (thought), the beliefs of discord and disease lose their influence. It becomes clearer that ‘man is the __________ of God, the _______ of Spirit, the __________ that man is eternal.’ SH 29: 30-32.
How did the Wisemen know to go to Bethlehem? Matt. 2: 1, 2.
Wise people had been looking for a ‘King’ because the Prophet Isaiah had told them that “ the __________ shall be upon his shoulder.” Isa. 9: 6.
Was the Lord already their King? Isa. 43: 15: “I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, ______ ______.” Why were the Children of Israel looking for a king? ……
Do you and I pray for a King to come? ______
There is a prayer in the Church Manual, page 41, which uses the words kingdom, reign, rule, and govern. It is called the _______ _________.
How did the shepherds know to go to Bethlehem? Luke 2: 8-18.
In the P_________ of Science and Health (lines 4-10) Mary Baker Eddy calls “the Bethlehem babe the _______ ________ of Christ, Truth…”
A herald is an official messenger who tells what’s coming. When he was grown, Jesus told the people the truth about God and man in Matthew, chapters ___ through ___. These chapters are called the S_________ on the M________.
In which month of the year should we be thinking more about our love for Jesus and our desire to follow his example? _____________ Are you ready to receive something new about the story of Jesus?______ How do you know?.......
Jesus not only told the people but also showed the people the accuracy of Isaiah’s prophecy: “Arise, shine; for _____ _______ ____ _______, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Isa. 60: 1. Was Jesus saying to his followers ‘you are the sunshine that is exactly like the s_____’? _____Is it atomic force that makes the sunshine? ______ The sun (Life) expresses itself as r___________. SH 502: 28. It’s like God looks in a mirror and sees _______ and the ___________. Our all-wise Creator-God had good material to work with, called sub________, which never wears out. If God had good material to work with, why would He use a cheap counterfeit called _______________?
When did the material called substance become matter? ______
Is water solid enough to walk on? ____Do you remember John’s account of Jesus walking on the water? John 6: 16-21. What happened to the boat when he got to it?
The universe includes lakes which illustrate sub__________ but not m_________.
Did Jesus think that man and the universe were “governed in general by material laws” but that God could set aside these laws when He wanted to? ______
Is this what you think? ______ SH 83: 12. Is this what many people think? _____
‘God’s unchangeable law’ is called __________. Science is an angel saying to us,
“Here, take this idea and prove it. It will bless you.”
Matter and its changing conditions is not S________ but only s___________. An angel (thought) does not offer an opinion or suggestion. It offers………….
Angel (thoughts) bring good messages of freedom and do___________. “The ________
of being _________ man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect…” SH 302: 19.
The universe and man did not result from a big explosion of atoms. How do we know that? Because, “God creates and governs the universe, including man.” SH 295: 5.
And Genesis 1: 1 says………..
How do I apply this fact at school? When I hear other kids at school say ‘he’s dumb’ or ‘she’s stupid,’ I will think, and I might even say, “We are all the children of God, of Spirit. Therefore, we are not material; we are spiritual.”
Hallelujah! God, Good, created heaven and earth and all that in them is!
(Ex. 20: 11).
Hallelujah, Alleluia: These words mean….
Have you ever heard anyone say ‘Hallelujah!’?
What is an angel?......
Webster’s says an angel is “a spiritual being superior to man in power and intelligence;
a guardian, a messenger.” Does Webster’s definition include a Christian Science definition? _____
Science and Health says that “Angels are ________ ______________.” SH 299: 11-12.
Do angels have names?____ Luke 1: 26.
What did the angel G__________ tell Mary? Luke 1: 28, 31.
Mary was ready and able to receive this very unusual message because she was
“the ___________ of the Lord.” Luke 1: 38.
This means that Mary had been focusing her attention, her thought, on God. Perhaps she prayed, “thank you God that you are here and good. How can I praise you more?” Science and Health says it was Mary’s __________ ______ that caught the light of God’s truth: being is spiritual, not material. SH 29: 20-29.
Hundreds of years before the angel (thought) talked to Mary, it talked to the Prophet Isaiah. He was ready to receive a very unusual message because he was a ________ of the Lord, and a ________ is someone who…..
Angels (thoughts) come to g______ us. Do angels make us listen and follow? _____
We hear the angel message when we are th________ God and lis_________ to God. “Jesus was the offspring of Mary’s _____-__________ communion with God.” SH 29: 32-1. Could this mean that Mary knew she could talk to God and that God talked to her? ___
Angels (thoughts) shine a light on our sp_________ s________ and in this light we see how m________ s________ would try to limit and confuse us. As we say, “yes, thank you God” for every angel (thought), the beliefs of discord and disease lose their influence. It becomes clearer that ‘man is the __________ of God, the _______ of Spirit, the __________ that man is eternal.’ SH 29: 30-32.
How did the Wisemen know to go to Bethlehem? Matt. 2: 1, 2.
Wise people had been looking for a ‘King’ because the Prophet Isaiah had told them that “ the __________ shall be upon his shoulder.” Isa. 9: 6.
Was the Lord already their King? Isa. 43: 15: “I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, ______ ______.” Why were the Children of Israel looking for a king? ……
Do you and I pray for a King to come? ______
There is a prayer in the Church Manual, page 41, which uses the words kingdom, reign, rule, and govern. It is called the _______ _________.
How did the shepherds know to go to Bethlehem? Luke 2: 8-18.
In the P_________ of Science and Health (lines 4-10) Mary Baker Eddy calls “the Bethlehem babe the _______ ________ of Christ, Truth…”
A herald is an official messenger who tells what’s coming. When he was grown, Jesus told the people the truth about God and man in Matthew, chapters ___ through ___. These chapters are called the S_________ on the M________.
In which month of the year should we be thinking more about our love for Jesus and our desire to follow his example? _____________ Are you ready to receive something new about the story of Jesus?______ How do you know?.......
Jesus not only told the people but also showed the people the accuracy of Isaiah’s prophecy: “Arise, shine; for _____ _______ ____ _______, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Isa. 60: 1. Was Jesus saying to his followers ‘you are the sunshine that is exactly like the s_____’? _____Is it atomic force that makes the sunshine? ______ The sun (Life) expresses itself as r___________. SH 502: 28. It’s like God looks in a mirror and sees _______ and the ___________. Our all-wise Creator-God had good material to work with, called sub________, which never wears out. If God had good material to work with, why would He use a cheap counterfeit called _______________?
When did the material called substance become matter? ______
Is water solid enough to walk on? ____Do you remember John’s account of Jesus walking on the water? John 6: 16-21. What happened to the boat when he got to it?
The universe includes lakes which illustrate sub__________ but not m_________.
Did Jesus think that man and the universe were “governed in general by material laws” but that God could set aside these laws when He wanted to? ______
Is this what you think? ______ SH 83: 12. Is this what many people think? _____
‘God’s unchangeable law’ is called __________. Science is an angel saying to us,
“Here, take this idea and prove it. It will bless you.”
Matter and its changing conditions is not S________ but only s___________. An angel (thought) does not offer an opinion or suggestion. It offers………….
Angel (thoughts) bring good messages of freedom and do___________. “The ________
of being _________ man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect…” SH 302: 19.
The universe and man did not result from a big explosion of atoms. How do we know that? Because, “God creates and governs the universe, including man.” SH 295: 5.
And Genesis 1: 1 says………..
How do I apply this fact at school? When I hear other kids at school say ‘he’s dumb’ or ‘she’s stupid,’ I will think, and I might even say, “We are all the children of God, of Spirit. Therefore, we are not material; we are spiritual.”
Hallelujah! God, Good, created heaven and earth and all that in them is!
(Ex. 20: 11).
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
God the Preserver of Man
God the Preserver of Man 12-13-09 Sara Lincoln
What was ‘the Promised Land?’ Gen. 13: 14-17 What is now in ‘the Promised Land’?
What are some words or phrases in the Lord’s Prayer that could be examples of
‘the Promised Land’?
Could it be that Christian Science is ‘the Promised Land/? _____
Last Sunday we reminded ourselves of key people in the Bible who accepted and acted on the idea that there is only one God taking care of man, not many gods. These are the people we named: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Jesus. Are there more? ___
All these people were men. Who were the women who witnessed to the truth of being?
Why did this early group of monotheists come to be called the Children of Israel?...
Who was ‘Israel’? __________ What is a monotheist?
Law and Prophecy have always declared God’s promises.
________ is the Old Testament leader who represents law. What law?
Moses even prophesied the coming of Jesus: Deut. 18: 15.
________ is the Old Testament leader who represents the great prophets.
Isaiah also prophesied the coming of Jesus: Isa. 40: 10-11
When God told Moses to lead the Children of Israel out of slavery, did Moses say
‘Great idea! Let’s go!? ______ Ex. 3: 10-12.
Moses said…..
and God said……
How long did it take for the Children of Israel to reach the Promised Land? ________
Let’s say you and your family were among the thousands of Hebrew slaves in E______. Would you have believed this man named _______ who said, ‘Let’s get out of here.
We are God’s people and we cannot be enslaved’? ______
When we look at a map, we see that to walk from Egypt to the Promised Land, you have to get across the Red _______ then get across miles and miles of ________________. Ex. 13: 17-18.The people were afraid, but Moses said ‘fear not, stand still, see the salvation of the Lord,’ (Ex. 14: 13) and the people followed their leader.
Moses led the people out of Egypt, but it was _______ that provided a pillar of _______ by night and a cloud by day to g________ them and p___________ them.
Were the Children of Israel satisfied travelers as they walked their way to freedom with signs of God’s presence and evidence of Moses’ faithful leadership? _____ Why oh why did they murmur (grumble)? Ex. 16: 2, 3, 11-15 and Num. 20: 2, 7, 8, 11.
Is it sometimes easier to suffer from wrong than to claim and demonstrate what’s right?
Our textbook says, “Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government.
Truth makes man free.” SH 225: 2-4.
Are there any Children of Israel around today? _____ Check the G_______ in SH.
Moses gave the Children of Israel a way out of being slaves to the Egyptians and Jesus gives us a way out of being slaves to _______, _________, and _________.
Do you remember what Jesus said? It’s on the logo of Science and Health.
Almost 3000 years after Moses, ______ ______ ______ said it was time “to reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” See Church Manual, 17.
Mrs. Eddy says that Truth is the way to freedom and Truth is a Science – to be proven.
The ‘powers of this world’ (belief in matter) will try to interrupt the proving of Science, but they cannot succeed. SH 225: 5.
Through the Science of Christianity, we learn more about our dominion over m_________ s_______ because it would try to cover up our s__________ s_______.
Even today when we can travel faster and there are restaurants all along the way, do we still have to “lean on the sustaining infinite” during our journey? _______ Why?
Science and Health says that “to those leaning on the sustaining infinite, _______ is _____ with ___________.” There is something very important about this statement.
It is at the beginning of our textbook in a section called the P__________, What does this word mean? ……..
Which biblical thinker could have said these words: “,,,Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
Moses? ___ Joshua? ___ Isaiah? ___Jesus? ___ Mary Baker Eddy? ___ Who else? …….
“The divine _______ that _______ man ___________ His own image and likeness.”
SH 151: 23
When you are _____________ ____ ______ you know that “with God all things are possible.” SH 180: 25-27
God, Spirit preserves you by giving you spiritual substance and divine intelligence.
The scientific statement of being (SH 468) says that these are in you, but not in _______.
“God guards you from every evil; He guards your very life. He guards you when you leave and when you return; He guards you now; He guards you always.”
Ps. 121: 7-8, The Message.
Can you think of a time when God guarded and guided you?
What was ‘the Promised Land?’ Gen. 13: 14-17 What is now in ‘the Promised Land’?
What are some words or phrases in the Lord’s Prayer that could be examples of
‘the Promised Land’?
Could it be that Christian Science is ‘the Promised Land/? _____
Last Sunday we reminded ourselves of key people in the Bible who accepted and acted on the idea that there is only one God taking care of man, not many gods. These are the people we named: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Jesus. Are there more? ___
All these people were men. Who were the women who witnessed to the truth of being?
Why did this early group of monotheists come to be called the Children of Israel?...
Who was ‘Israel’? __________ What is a monotheist?
Law and Prophecy have always declared God’s promises.
________ is the Old Testament leader who represents law. What law?
Moses even prophesied the coming of Jesus: Deut. 18: 15.
________ is the Old Testament leader who represents the great prophets.
Isaiah also prophesied the coming of Jesus: Isa. 40: 10-11
When God told Moses to lead the Children of Israel out of slavery, did Moses say
‘Great idea! Let’s go!? ______ Ex. 3: 10-12.
Moses said…..
and God said……
How long did it take for the Children of Israel to reach the Promised Land? ________
Let’s say you and your family were among the thousands of Hebrew slaves in E______. Would you have believed this man named _______ who said, ‘Let’s get out of here.
We are God’s people and we cannot be enslaved’? ______
When we look at a map, we see that to walk from Egypt to the Promised Land, you have to get across the Red _______ then get across miles and miles of ________________. Ex. 13: 17-18.The people were afraid, but Moses said ‘fear not, stand still, see the salvation of the Lord,’ (Ex. 14: 13) and the people followed their leader.
Moses led the people out of Egypt, but it was _______ that provided a pillar of _______ by night and a cloud by day to g________ them and p___________ them.
Were the Children of Israel satisfied travelers as they walked their way to freedom with signs of God’s presence and evidence of Moses’ faithful leadership? _____ Why oh why did they murmur (grumble)? Ex. 16: 2, 3, 11-15 and Num. 20: 2, 7, 8, 11.
Is it sometimes easier to suffer from wrong than to claim and demonstrate what’s right?
Our textbook says, “Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government.
Truth makes man free.” SH 225: 2-4.
Are there any Children of Israel around today? _____ Check the G_______ in SH.
Moses gave the Children of Israel a way out of being slaves to the Egyptians and Jesus gives us a way out of being slaves to _______, _________, and _________.
Do you remember what Jesus said? It’s on the logo of Science and Health.
Almost 3000 years after Moses, ______ ______ ______ said it was time “to reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” See Church Manual, 17.
Mrs. Eddy says that Truth is the way to freedom and Truth is a Science – to be proven.
The ‘powers of this world’ (belief in matter) will try to interrupt the proving of Science, but they cannot succeed. SH 225: 5.
Through the Science of Christianity, we learn more about our dominion over m_________ s_______ because it would try to cover up our s__________ s_______.
Even today when we can travel faster and there are restaurants all along the way, do we still have to “lean on the sustaining infinite” during our journey? _______ Why?
Science and Health says that “to those leaning on the sustaining infinite, _______ is _____ with ___________.” There is something very important about this statement.
It is at the beginning of our textbook in a section called the P__________, What does this word mean? ……..
Which biblical thinker could have said these words: “,,,Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
Moses? ___ Joshua? ___ Isaiah? ___Jesus? ___ Mary Baker Eddy? ___ Who else? …….
“The divine _______ that _______ man ___________ His own image and likeness.”
SH 151: 23
When you are _____________ ____ ______ you know that “with God all things are possible.” SH 180: 25-27
God, Spirit preserves you by giving you spiritual substance and divine intelligence.
The scientific statement of being (SH 468) says that these are in you, but not in _______.
“God guards you from every evil; He guards your very life. He guards you when you leave and when you return; He guards you now; He guards you always.”
Ps. 121: 7-8, The Message.
Can you think of a time when God guarded and guided you?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
God the Only Cause and Creator
God the Only Cause and Creator 12-6-09 Sara Lincoln
Who taught Abraham? Abraham learned from ______ that there are not many gods, as everyone believed. There is only o____ G_____.
The daughter of Pharaoh found the baby Moses in a basket, floating in the river. She raised Moses to be an Egyptian prince.
Who taught Moses about the history of the Hebrew people? ______
Let’s see what you remember about this history which began with the man A__________.
The descendants of Abraham, living in the land of Canaan, went to Egypt to buy bread (food) and finally settled in Egypt because of the long famine. What son of Abraham was a prince in Egypt and invited the Hebrews to come live in Egypt? J_________
The son of Abraham named J__ __ __ __ helped convince Joseph that the sons (tribes) of Abraham were coming in peace to ask for food.
People belonging to the tribe of Judah later came to be called Jews.
What descendant of Abraham led the Hebrews out of Egypt after an ‘unfriendly’ Pharaoh made them slaves. _________
Isaiah was a great prophet who was living in the Promised Land of Canaan that the Hebrews came to under the leadership of M________ and J__________ around 1387 BCE. In 587 BCE, the Babylonians destroyed the Jews’ Temple in Jerusalem and took them as prisoners (captives) to Babylon. After about 50 years in captivity, King Cyrus of Persia allowed the Jews to return to their homeland.
Isaiah knew that the Jews, the Children of Israel. had been taken captive not just because Babylon was a very strong and conquering country, but because the Jews had stopped putting God first, had stopped obeying the First Commandment and trusting God for their protection.
The Prophet Isaiah urged the Jews to improve, spiritualize, their concept of God, to see God as the Holy One, the one all-mighty God.
Was this Almighty God powerless to prevent the Jews being taken into captivity? _____ God was never powerless and unable to protect His people, but the Jews broke the Covenant. They needed to gain a better understanding of their God and a more sincere desire to have only one God, to love God, and to obey God. Let’s read what Isaiah said to the people: Isa. 40: 25, 26, 28.
Isaiah told the people that a Messiah or Savior would come. Did Isaiah’s prophecy come true? ____ What is your proof?
Who taught Jesus the history of the Jews, the laws of Moses, and the prophecies of Isaiah? The teachers in the s_____________.
Who taught Jesus about the true nature of God, the qualities and actions of the ‘one God’? _______
Who taught Mary Baker Eddy about the Bible and about God? ________________Two thousand years after Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy was called, like the Prophet Isaiah had been called, to help the people improve their concept of God, to see God as the Only Cause and Creator.
Let’s read what Science and Health teaches us about God: SH 331: 18-24 He.
“____________ in God’s universe expresses ________.” SH 331: 16.
Mary Baker Eddy helps Christians and Christian Scientists discover the one God through these synonyms she gave us:
Hebrews, Children of Israel, Jews: These three terms refer to the people in the Old Testament who believed in the o____ G____, not many gods.
Christians: this term refers to the people in the _______ ____________ who believed that Jesus was the Son of God who helped people understand God better. This term ‘Christian’ also refers to people today, in all parts of the world, who want to understand God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Most Christians believe, however, that man is material and experiences sin, disease, and death.
Christian Scientists: This term refers to the people in all parts of the world who believe that every person can discover and prove Christliness, spiritual identity as man’s only identity. A ‘scientist’ is always seeking facts and proving them. The fact is that “God saw ____________ that he had made, and, behold, it was________ ________.” Where in Genesis is this statement? ________________
Who taught Abraham? Abraham learned from ______ that there are not many gods, as everyone believed. There is only o____ G_____.
The daughter of Pharaoh found the baby Moses in a basket, floating in the river. She raised Moses to be an Egyptian prince.
Who taught Moses about the history of the Hebrew people? ______
Let’s see what you remember about this history which began with the man A__________.
The descendants of Abraham, living in the land of Canaan, went to Egypt to buy bread (food) and finally settled in Egypt because of the long famine. What son of Abraham was a prince in Egypt and invited the Hebrews to come live in Egypt? J_________
The son of Abraham named J__ __ __ __ helped convince Joseph that the sons (tribes) of Abraham were coming in peace to ask for food.
People belonging to the tribe of Judah later came to be called Jews.
What descendant of Abraham led the Hebrews out of Egypt after an ‘unfriendly’ Pharaoh made them slaves. _________
Isaiah was a great prophet who was living in the Promised Land of Canaan that the Hebrews came to under the leadership of M________ and J__________ around 1387 BCE. In 587 BCE, the Babylonians destroyed the Jews’ Temple in Jerusalem and took them as prisoners (captives) to Babylon. After about 50 years in captivity, King Cyrus of Persia allowed the Jews to return to their homeland.
Isaiah knew that the Jews, the Children of Israel. had been taken captive not just because Babylon was a very strong and conquering country, but because the Jews had stopped putting God first, had stopped obeying the First Commandment and trusting God for their protection.
The Prophet Isaiah urged the Jews to improve, spiritualize, their concept of God, to see God as the Holy One, the one all-mighty God.
Was this Almighty God powerless to prevent the Jews being taken into captivity? _____ God was never powerless and unable to protect His people, but the Jews broke the Covenant. They needed to gain a better understanding of their God and a more sincere desire to have only one God, to love God, and to obey God. Let’s read what Isaiah said to the people: Isa. 40: 25, 26, 28.
Isaiah told the people that a Messiah or Savior would come. Did Isaiah’s prophecy come true? ____ What is your proof?
Who taught Jesus the history of the Jews, the laws of Moses, and the prophecies of Isaiah? The teachers in the s_____________.
Who taught Jesus about the true nature of God, the qualities and actions of the ‘one God’? _______
Who taught Mary Baker Eddy about the Bible and about God? ________________Two thousand years after Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy was called, like the Prophet Isaiah had been called, to help the people improve their concept of God, to see God as the Only Cause and Creator.
Let’s read what Science and Health teaches us about God: SH 331: 18-24 He.
“____________ in God’s universe expresses ________.” SH 331: 16.
Mary Baker Eddy helps Christians and Christian Scientists discover the one God through these synonyms she gave us:
Hebrews, Children of Israel, Jews: These three terms refer to the people in the Old Testament who believed in the o____ G____, not many gods.
Christians: this term refers to the people in the _______ ____________ who believed that Jesus was the Son of God who helped people understand God better. This term ‘Christian’ also refers to people today, in all parts of the world, who want to understand God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Most Christians believe, however, that man is material and experiences sin, disease, and death.
Christian Scientists: This term refers to the people in all parts of the world who believe that every person can discover and prove Christliness, spiritual identity as man’s only identity. A ‘scientist’ is always seeking facts and proving them. The fact is that “God saw ____________ that he had made, and, behold, it was________ ________.” Where in Genesis is this statement? ________________
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced
Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced
11-29-09 Sara Lincoln
What is astronomy?
What is astrology?
One of these helps us learn about the stars and the universe, ___________.
The other is a mask for a belief in many gods, ______________.
King Darius of Babylon believed in the one God. How did he get tricked into signing a decree meant to harm those who served the one God, especially Daniel? What happened to Daniel? Read the story in Daniel 6
Why wasn’t Daniel harmed? Dan. 6: 23-24.
Daniel felt safe in the lion/s den because he understood “the __________ which __________ held over all.” SH 514: 26
Are lions a natural enemy to man? ____ A negative mental influence called h_________
tries to make them enemies, tries to establish a__________ m___________ which is another name for m________ m________. SH 103: 18-19.
Animal magnetism // mortal mind is only a f________ belief that m_______ is in m________ and is both evil and good. God, immortal M________ protects and delivers humans and causes the lies of m________ m________ to self-destruct. SH 103: 22-28.
Maybe we could say that the lies of mortal mind are like the early morning fog. The fog ‘self-destructs’ as the sun shines brighter. ‘Sun’ is the symbol of Soul governing man.
See SH Glossary.
I say thank you to Mary Baker Eddy for exposing and naming the enemy that would destroy us as is was supposed to destroy Daniel. That enemy is a b________ in more than one M_________, more than one God. God is o____________ so there is nothing that can harm man who is in God’s care. Omni-potent means _____ ________.
To be very sure I don’t get tricked by a belief in evil, here is what I say and remember about God: II Sam. 22: 33.
How did this evil belief called mortal mind // animal magnetism try to trick Jesus when he went into the wilderness after he was baptized? Matt. 4: 1-4, 8-11.
Jesus did not get tricked by the t__________, alias the d________, because Jesus, like Daniel, trusted the protective armor of his innocence. Both were ‘innocent’ because they refused to believe in more than one power, more than one God. Jesus trusted his F_______-M________ to send a________. These are t_________ from God that protect and direct us in every situation. Does God also send angels to you? ______
What temptation do you have to resist? SH 218: 25
Evil has only the power to ________ ________. SH 186: 19-20
To ‘denounce’ something is to reject it completely and reject it with authority. Jesus denounced danger when the people in the synagogue got very angry with him. Why were they angry and how did Jesus escape? Luke 4: 14, 23-30.
One time the Apostle Paul denounced the ‘danger’ of a snake bite. What happened?
See Acts 28: 3, 5.
Man and lions are not natural enemies. Are man and snakes natural enemies? _____
Is evil a power: ______
Christian Science makes plain that “Mankind ______ ________ that evil is not power.
Its so-called ______________ is but a phase of ______________.” SH 102: 30-3
Is it safe to ignore evil and danger? ______
If you try to pretend that evil and danger are not a problem then they will seem to have more presence and more power until you denounce them as untrue because not created by Truth, God.
I am safe at all times if I am remembering that God, Good, is all p________, all p_________, all action. SH 587: 19-20.give us a definition of ________.
11-29-09 Sara Lincoln
What is astronomy?
What is astrology?
One of these helps us learn about the stars and the universe, ___________.
The other is a mask for a belief in many gods, ______________.
King Darius of Babylon believed in the one God. How did he get tricked into signing a decree meant to harm those who served the one God, especially Daniel? What happened to Daniel? Read the story in Daniel 6
Why wasn’t Daniel harmed? Dan. 6: 23-24.
Daniel felt safe in the lion/s den because he understood “the __________ which __________ held over all.” SH 514: 26
Are lions a natural enemy to man? ____ A negative mental influence called h_________
tries to make them enemies, tries to establish a__________ m___________ which is another name for m________ m________. SH 103: 18-19.
Animal magnetism // mortal mind is only a f________ belief that m_______ is in m________ and is both evil and good. God, immortal M________ protects and delivers humans and causes the lies of m________ m________ to self-destruct. SH 103: 22-28.
Maybe we could say that the lies of mortal mind are like the early morning fog. The fog ‘self-destructs’ as the sun shines brighter. ‘Sun’ is the symbol of Soul governing man.
See SH Glossary.
I say thank you to Mary Baker Eddy for exposing and naming the enemy that would destroy us as is was supposed to destroy Daniel. That enemy is a b________ in more than one M_________, more than one God. God is o____________ so there is nothing that can harm man who is in God’s care. Omni-potent means _____ ________.
To be very sure I don’t get tricked by a belief in evil, here is what I say and remember about God: II Sam. 22: 33.
How did this evil belief called mortal mind // animal magnetism try to trick Jesus when he went into the wilderness after he was baptized? Matt. 4: 1-4, 8-11.
Jesus did not get tricked by the t__________, alias the d________, because Jesus, like Daniel, trusted the protective armor of his innocence. Both were ‘innocent’ because they refused to believe in more than one power, more than one God. Jesus trusted his F_______-M________ to send a________. These are t_________ from God that protect and direct us in every situation. Does God also send angels to you? ______
What temptation do you have to resist? SH 218: 25
Evil has only the power to ________ ________. SH 186: 19-20
To ‘denounce’ something is to reject it completely and reject it with authority. Jesus denounced danger when the people in the synagogue got very angry with him. Why were they angry and how did Jesus escape? Luke 4: 14, 23-30.
One time the Apostle Paul denounced the ‘danger’ of a snake bite. What happened?
See Acts 28: 3, 5.
Man and lions are not natural enemies. Are man and snakes natural enemies? _____
Is evil a power: ______
Christian Science makes plain that “Mankind ______ ________ that evil is not power.
Its so-called ______________ is but a phase of ______________.” SH 102: 30-3
Is it safe to ignore evil and danger? ______
If you try to pretend that evil and danger are not a problem then they will seem to have more presence and more power until you denounce them as untrue because not created by Truth, God.
I am safe at all times if I am remembering that God, Good, is all p________, all p_________, all action. SH 587: 19-20.give us a definition of ________.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Soul and Body
Soul and Body 11-22-09 Sara Lincoln
Giving Thanks.
Why is it good to say ‘thank you’? When was the last time you said ‘thank you’?
Do you have to use the word ‘thank’ when you are thanking someone? ______
What are some other words we can use? ___________________________
People in the Bible who wanted to thank God often used the word p_______.
Do you like to receive praise? ____How do I praise you every Sunday? _____
What words do you use when you want to praise someone? ____________________
Before thanksgiving and praise appear in words, they appear as ________ from God.
I thank God, Mind, for being the source of my thought and gratitude..
Is Soul spiritual and Body material? _________
Webster’s dictionary says that soul is ____material and spiritual.
Does that definition of soul give the Christian Science definition? ____________
Do you have a soul? ____ “…Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not confined in man, and is never in matter.” SH 467: 24
The dictionary says that body is the material part of a human being. If you and I and everyone in the world accepted a less material and more inspired and intelligent definition of body, would everyone have more health? ______
Was health important to Christ Jesus? _____ How do you know?
Did Christ Jesus expect his followers to do something about health? _____
What did he tell us to do?
Was health important to Mary Baker Eddy? ____ How do you know? ………
Material sense has a c________feit sense of health and body. On the other hand,
S________, true knowledge and proven fact, gives a true sense of health and body.
Science does great things for us. It __________ the false testimony of p_________ sense. SH 120: 7
We can do what God expects us to do only if we seek and accept a higher, sp________ sense of ________ and ________.
Christian Science teaches us that ‘higher sense.’ It gives a definition of man on page 475
of Science and Health: Man is not _____________. The Scriptures tell us that man is
sp___________, p_________, i________, i________, the r______________ of God.
The Apostle Paul wrote two letters to the C_______________ who lived in Corinth.
He challenged them to have a new thought about body: “…know ye not that your ________is the ___________ of the _______ ________?” I Cor. 6: 19.
Many spiritual thinkers challenge us to have an ever new thought about health and body. The Prophet Isaiah says, “Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Isa. 60: 1. ‘Risen upon thee’ means ex___________ in you.
The Psalmist says, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. I will _____ ______ what _________ can do unto me.” Ps. 56: 3-4.
“The Lord shall __________ thee from all evil: He shall preserve _____ _____. Ps. 121: 7.
Christ Jesus said to a woman who could not stand up straight, “…Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.” Then what happened? Luke 13: 11-17.
The P__________ criticized this healing because it happened on the s_________ and people were not supposed to ‘work’ on the sabbath. One of Moses’ commandments tells us not to work on the sabbath: Ex. 20: 8-11. Are you disobeying one of the Ten Commandments when you heal on the sabbath? ______
The sabbath is more than a particular day in the week that we call S________. It is the ‘sabbath’ when man is doing the works of God, as explained by Christ Jesus: _____ the sick, ______ the dead, ______ the lepers, ______ ______ demons.” See logo on SH.
Does it show on your face when you are happy? ____ Does it show on your face when you are inspired? ___ Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with “two tablets of testimony.” What was written on the stone tablets? ____________________. Moses didn’t know it, but “the skin of his face shone.” Ex. 34: 29-30.
Do you think Moses was feeling very close to Soul and its light?________
Mary Baker Eddy says “…Truth is made manifest by its effects upon the human mind and body, healing ___________ and destroying ________.” SH 316: 7
“Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is _________________ but not in matter.” “Man is the ______________ of Soul.” SH 477: 22-26.
Soul is _______ and body is the _________, __________, ________, ________of Soul.
Let’s think of several words that fit in these blanks.
“________ is the reflection of ________.” SH 249: 31.
What is the Christian Science definition of ‘sun’? “The __________ ____ ________ governing man, --of Truth, Life, and Love.”
Sun and sunshine can remind us of Creator and Creation. God is the light; man and nature are the shining, the sunshine.
Do people come to this church on Thanksgiving Day? ____ Why? Will you come? ___
What will you say? Let’s each say now what we could say in church on Thanksgiving Day. Let’s each tell what we are grateful for………
Saying, giving, thanks is a ‘joyful sound.’
Giving Thanks.
Why is it good to say ‘thank you’? When was the last time you said ‘thank you’?
Do you have to use the word ‘thank’ when you are thanking someone? ______
What are some other words we can use? ___________________________
People in the Bible who wanted to thank God often used the word p_______.
Do you like to receive praise? ____How do I praise you every Sunday? _____
What words do you use when you want to praise someone? ____________________
Before thanksgiving and praise appear in words, they appear as ________ from God.
I thank God, Mind, for being the source of my thought and gratitude..
Is Soul spiritual and Body material? _________
Webster’s dictionary says that soul is ____material and spiritual.
Does that definition of soul give the Christian Science definition? ____________
Do you have a soul? ____ “…Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not confined in man, and is never in matter.” SH 467: 24
The dictionary says that body is the material part of a human being. If you and I and everyone in the world accepted a less material and more inspired and intelligent definition of body, would everyone have more health? ______
Was health important to Christ Jesus? _____ How do you know?
Did Christ Jesus expect his followers to do something about health? _____
What did he tell us to do?
Was health important to Mary Baker Eddy? ____ How do you know? ………
Material sense has a c________feit sense of health and body. On the other hand,
S________, true knowledge and proven fact, gives a true sense of health and body.
Science does great things for us. It __________ the false testimony of p_________ sense. SH 120: 7
We can do what God expects us to do only if we seek and accept a higher, sp________ sense of ________ and ________.
Christian Science teaches us that ‘higher sense.’ It gives a definition of man on page 475
of Science and Health: Man is not _____________. The Scriptures tell us that man is
sp___________, p_________, i________, i________, the r______________ of God.
The Apostle Paul wrote two letters to the C_______________ who lived in Corinth.
He challenged them to have a new thought about body: “…know ye not that your ________is the ___________ of the _______ ________?” I Cor. 6: 19.
Many spiritual thinkers challenge us to have an ever new thought about health and body. The Prophet Isaiah says, “Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Isa. 60: 1. ‘Risen upon thee’ means ex___________ in you.
The Psalmist says, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. I will _____ ______ what _________ can do unto me.” Ps. 56: 3-4.
“The Lord shall __________ thee from all evil: He shall preserve _____ _____. Ps. 121: 7.
Christ Jesus said to a woman who could not stand up straight, “…Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.” Then what happened? Luke 13: 11-17.
The P__________ criticized this healing because it happened on the s_________ and people were not supposed to ‘work’ on the sabbath. One of Moses’ commandments tells us not to work on the sabbath: Ex. 20: 8-11. Are you disobeying one of the Ten Commandments when you heal on the sabbath? ______
The sabbath is more than a particular day in the week that we call S________. It is the ‘sabbath’ when man is doing the works of God, as explained by Christ Jesus: _____ the sick, ______ the dead, ______ the lepers, ______ ______ demons.” See logo on SH.
Does it show on your face when you are happy? ____ Does it show on your face when you are inspired? ___ Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with “two tablets of testimony.” What was written on the stone tablets? ____________________. Moses didn’t know it, but “the skin of his face shone.” Ex. 34: 29-30.
Do you think Moses was feeling very close to Soul and its light?________
Mary Baker Eddy says “…Truth is made manifest by its effects upon the human mind and body, healing ___________ and destroying ________.” SH 316: 7
“Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is _________________ but not in matter.” “Man is the ______________ of Soul.” SH 477: 22-26.
Soul is _______ and body is the _________, __________, ________, ________of Soul.
Let’s think of several words that fit in these blanks.
“________ is the reflection of ________.” SH 249: 31.
What is the Christian Science definition of ‘sun’? “The __________ ____ ________ governing man, --of Truth, Life, and Love.”
Sun and sunshine can remind us of Creator and Creation. God is the light; man and nature are the shining, the sunshine.
Do people come to this church on Thanksgiving Day? ____ Why? Will you come? ___
What will you say? Let’s each say now what we could say in church on Thanksgiving Day. Let’s each tell what we are grateful for………
Saying, giving, thanks is a ‘joyful sound.’
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Mortals and Immortals
Mortals and Immortals 11-15-09 Sara Lincoln
Most people believe that a mortal is a person who _________, and that an immortal is
a person who ____________. What do you believe? A mortal is _________________
and an immortal is ______________________.
Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans had many gods: Mars, Venus, Mercury, and Zeus who was the ‘king of the gods.’ These gods were called ‘immortals’ These mythological gods were popular long ago. Do people in our world today still believe in ‘gods’? _____Today these ‘gods’ have other names, for example, mat_______, s______, dis_________, and d________.
It seems that people today do not believe in ‘immortals.’ Most people believe that every man will d_____ because s/he is a m________, and mortals die.
Mary Baker Eddy heard God telling her something very different: man is God’s reflection therefore cannot die. Is this like what God told Christ Jesus to say, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”_______? Matt. 5: 48. Man cannot die. Man is as alive as her Creator Mind!
Be perfect; man does not die. These are not impossible expectations. These demands illustrate ‘science’ and science is the ________ of being which includes demons_______. Not demons but demonstration!
Does demonstration mean changing the human or material situation? ______ What a surprise that the answer is ______. Demonstration is the mental action you take, mentally accepting and holding on to the truth that God is the only Creator and always in control. As I take that mental action, physical healing is the result. The human and ‘material’ problem is corrected, dismissed, healed. You might want to read the article “What is the demonstration” in the Christian Science Journal, Nov. 2009, page 50-51.
Jesus said, if you want to see the kingdom of God you must be born ______. John 3: 3.
P_____ said “…put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”? Eph. 4: 24 put. P_______ gave this command in his letter to the __________, to the church in E__________. Is Paul’s command similar to Christ Jesus’ command, ‘Be ye therefore perfect?’_______ Is Paul saying, be immortal, don’t be mortal? _____
Paul even tells us how to put on and be ‘perfect man.’ Paul said (II Cor. 4: 18)
Don’t look at the things that are________. Look at the things that are ______ ______.
Christian Science also tells us how to put on and be the ‘perfect man’: SH 519: 14-16. …throw off the ______ _______; reach (put on) the ________ ______ ___ ________.
In Luke 7: 36-39, 44-48 Jesus explained to the P________ that a sinner can indeed put off sinful mortality and put on sinless immortality. But how can a sinner put on the perfect man? The religious leaders in Jesus’ day, the P__________, said a sinner is a sinner and should be treated like a sinner. But Jesus said, “Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she ________ ________.” See verse 47-48. Love is immortality.
What does this story mean for you and me? Perhaps it means this. I can do what Jesus did. “Jesus beheld in ________ the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. SH 476: 32. What is ‘Science’? _________________
Science and Health says, “the way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides _____ ________.” SH 201: 17
Does every mortal want to be more like Christ Jesus? ______ Christ Jesus is the highest and truest model, but “mortals must change their __________ in order to improve their models.” SH 260: 19-20. What is your ideal, your goal? ………………………….
Christ Jesus said, still says, you don’t have to be content with thought-models that present man as ‘fallen, sick, _________, and dying.’ You can choose “p__________ God and p__________ man, as {your} basis of thought and demonstration.” SH 259: 11-12.
I don’t want to sin. Do you? _____ If I don’t want to sin then I need to be immortal man. “Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin.” SH 405: 19. Isn’t that great? Under God’s government, I’m not even able to sin!! I need to remember that man “…has _____ separate mind from God…and _____ single quality underived from Deity….” SH 475: 13. To practice immortality is to be always ready with a no-no, yes-yes.
Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, asked Jesus to come to his home and heal his daughter who was dying. Just as Jairus was asking, someone said, too late. She’s dead. {She was only a mortal, and mortals die}. But Jesus said. “______ ______: ________ ______
Luke 8: 50. What happened next? Read the whole story in Luke 8: 41-42, 49-55.
Were you born because a man and a woman (your parents) wanted a child? ______
You were born because God had a wonderful idea and expressed it (manifested it)
as you! Thank you Father-Mother God. John 1: 12 as, 13.
You are the son of God – immortal -- if you are led (governed) by the Spirit of God.
And the Spirit says, YES, that’s right! Rom. 8: 14, 16, 17.
Christian Science asks a question which we also need to ask: “Can there be any birth or death for man, the spiritual image and likeness of God? ______ SH 206: 25-28.
Jesus really meant it when he said (John 8: 51): “If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.” That’s like saying, he shall never be mortal. See also SH 429: 31-4.
When is man mortal? _______
When is man immortal? _________
Most people believe that a mortal is a person who _________, and that an immortal is
a person who ____________. What do you believe? A mortal is _________________
and an immortal is ______________________.
Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans had many gods: Mars, Venus, Mercury, and Zeus who was the ‘king of the gods.’ These gods were called ‘immortals’ These mythological gods were popular long ago. Do people in our world today still believe in ‘gods’? _____Today these ‘gods’ have other names, for example, mat_______, s______, dis_________, and d________.
It seems that people today do not believe in ‘immortals.’ Most people believe that every man will d_____ because s/he is a m________, and mortals die.
Mary Baker Eddy heard God telling her something very different: man is God’s reflection therefore cannot die. Is this like what God told Christ Jesus to say, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”_______? Matt. 5: 48. Man cannot die. Man is as alive as her Creator Mind!
Be perfect; man does not die. These are not impossible expectations. These demands illustrate ‘science’ and science is the ________ of being which includes demons_______. Not demons but demonstration!
Does demonstration mean changing the human or material situation? ______ What a surprise that the answer is ______. Demonstration is the mental action you take, mentally accepting and holding on to the truth that God is the only Creator and always in control. As I take that mental action, physical healing is the result. The human and ‘material’ problem is corrected, dismissed, healed. You might want to read the article “What is the demonstration” in the Christian Science Journal, Nov. 2009, page 50-51.
Jesus said, if you want to see the kingdom of God you must be born ______. John 3: 3.
P_____ said “…put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”? Eph. 4: 24 put. P_______ gave this command in his letter to the __________, to the church in E__________. Is Paul’s command similar to Christ Jesus’ command, ‘Be ye therefore perfect?’_______ Is Paul saying, be immortal, don’t be mortal? _____
Paul even tells us how to put on and be ‘perfect man.’ Paul said (II Cor. 4: 18)
Don’t look at the things that are________. Look at the things that are ______ ______.
Christian Science also tells us how to put on and be the ‘perfect man’: SH 519: 14-16. …throw off the ______ _______; reach (put on) the ________ ______ ___ ________.
In Luke 7: 36-39, 44-48 Jesus explained to the P________ that a sinner can indeed put off sinful mortality and put on sinless immortality. But how can a sinner put on the perfect man? The religious leaders in Jesus’ day, the P__________, said a sinner is a sinner and should be treated like a sinner. But Jesus said, “Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she ________ ________.” See verse 47-48. Love is immortality.
What does this story mean for you and me? Perhaps it means this. I can do what Jesus did. “Jesus beheld in ________ the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. SH 476: 32. What is ‘Science’? _________________
Science and Health says, “the way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides _____ ________.” SH 201: 17
Does every mortal want to be more like Christ Jesus? ______ Christ Jesus is the highest and truest model, but “mortals must change their __________ in order to improve their models.” SH 260: 19-20. What is your ideal, your goal? ………………………….
Christ Jesus said, still says, you don’t have to be content with thought-models that present man as ‘fallen, sick, _________, and dying.’ You can choose “p__________ God and p__________ man, as {your} basis of thought and demonstration.” SH 259: 11-12.
I don’t want to sin. Do you? _____ If I don’t want to sin then I need to be immortal man. “Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin.” SH 405: 19. Isn’t that great? Under God’s government, I’m not even able to sin!! I need to remember that man “…has _____ separate mind from God…and _____ single quality underived from Deity….” SH 475: 13. To practice immortality is to be always ready with a no-no, yes-yes.
Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, asked Jesus to come to his home and heal his daughter who was dying. Just as Jairus was asking, someone said, too late. She’s dead. {She was only a mortal, and mortals die}. But Jesus said. “______ ______: ________ ______
Luke 8: 50. What happened next? Read the whole story in Luke 8: 41-42, 49-55.
Were you born because a man and a woman (your parents) wanted a child? ______
You were born because God had a wonderful idea and expressed it (manifested it)
as you! Thank you Father-Mother God. John 1: 12 as, 13.
You are the son of God – immortal -- if you are led (governed) by the Spirit of God.
And the Spirit says, YES, that’s right! Rom. 8: 14, 16, 17.
Christian Science asks a question which we also need to ask: “Can there be any birth or death for man, the spiritual image and likeness of God? ______ SH 206: 25-28.
Jesus really meant it when he said (John 8: 51): “If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.” That’s like saying, he shall never be mortal. See also SH 429: 31-4.
When is man mortal? _______
When is man immortal? _________
Friday, November 6, 2009
Adam and Fallen Man
Adam and Fallen Man 11-8-09 Sara Lincoln
Many people over hundreds of years have written stories, ‘histories,’ of creation from their own point of view. ‘Point of view’ means ………
Mary Baker Eddy studied the Bible for many years and listened for God’s Word (Truth) about the creation and nature of man. What were her conclusions:
*God is G_____ and the only C_____
*A perfect God can make only a p______ man and universe
*God keeps on being God so God’s creations do not, cannot, fail or fall away.
For hundreds of years before Mary Baker Eddy wrote the book that helps us understand Creator and Creation, people were asking, ‘Who was the first man? Who was the first woman?’ These people already had a point of view (a belief) before they asked the question. They believed that man is mortal, material, and disobedient, with a mind of his own. The creation stories they wrote were true to these beliefs.
The Adam and Eve story was probably written about 1000 BCE. At that time, the Hebrews were a strong nation and D_______ was their King. Over the next 900 years, prophets faithful to the one God gave the Hebrew people a better understanding of God. Who were some of these prophets? Let’s look again at our Bible Time Line.
A spiritual account of creation, Genesis 1, was written about 500 BCE. In this true history, Spirit-God reveals a spiritual expression of itself, a spiritual creation where man and woman have d__________ and are declared to be g______, not fallen.
Gen. 1: 26, 27, 31. Would our good parent God let its children become ‘bad’ or ‘fallen’?__
Mortalnomind is the star of the untrue history and tries to get people to believe it.
Is it successful?______ Do many (most) people believe they are mortal? ______
Mortalnomind believes itself, but woman/man (like Abraham) looks higher for a heavenly view. Do you remember how Abraham became the first man to look for a heavenly view, to know and serve the one God? God told him to leave…………….…………...….and go to…………….…………….….. Gen. 12: 1.
In the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, and many prophets obeyed God’s call to teach the people the truth about the One God. Who was the great teacher of this great truth in the New Testament? ______________ He received and held on to the Truth.
Now, C__________ and C___________ S_____________ receive and hold on to this truth by learning about God from the ________ and from ________________________.
The Apostle Paul explained what it means to ‘hold on’: “If we ________ in the Spirit, let us also ________ in the Spirit.” Gal. 5: 25.
This book is called Galatians because it was P______ letter to the church in G_________.
Our textbook says, “________ is the cement of civilization and progress.” SH 57: 1
‘Chastity’ means ……………
This declaration about progress is in the chapter on ___________. Does that mean that chastity applies only to married people? _______
Do you remember the story of Naaman? He was a captain in the Syrian army and he also had a skin disease called leprosy. See how much of this story you can tell in your own words, then read the story in II Kings 5: 1-4, 9-14.
Was Naaman healed by ‘dipping himself seven times’ in the Jordan River? ______
Who are the main characters in this story? Naaman; the prophet __________; A little ______; and Naaman’s servants who said “…________ and be clean.” Verse 13.
It looked like Naaman had fallen into a bad habit of pride and belief in disease.
Did God still love Naaman? _____ How do you know? ………
Why does Christian Science teach “the nothingness of sin, sickness, and death?”
SH 345: 6-13.
The Psalmist warns us: “Cease from ________, and forsake ________: fret not thyself in any wise to _____ ______.” Ps. 37: 8.
Is it OK to be angry? ______ Science and Health says (406: 19) “Resist evil – error of every sort – and it will flee from you.” How do you ‘resist evil’?.........
What do you think are very harmful attitudes and actions? For example, anger, selfishness…..
Mary Baker Eddy says many things about sin, but maybe this statement sums it up:
“It is a sin to believe that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life, and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit.” SH 428: 32
About 800 years ago, the Christian church named seven sins which were later called the seven ‘deadly sins:’ pride, covetousness, lust anger, gluttony, envy, sloth.
The wise people writing the book of Proverbs, King Solomon and others, also listed ‘seven things the Lord hates’ (Prov. 6: 16-19): a proud _______; a lying _________; ______ that shed innocent blood; a _______{mind} that devises wicked plans; ________ that make haste to run to evil. a _______ __________ that speaketh lies;
a man who _____ _________ among brothers.
What special thing did you notice about the book of Proverbs on the Bible Time Line?
What was the name of the man who betrayed Jesus with a kiss? ______ Which of the ‘deadly sins’ influenced him?......... He had fallen into some bad habits, like gr_______ and jeal__________. Maybe he was angry that he wasn’t as pure as his Master. He did not overcome these ungodlike habits with spiritual convictions such as gen____________, gra____________, and unself____________
Was Judas a ‘fallen man’? ________
Everyone must ‘…wake to the ________ ___ ________’ so that what will cease? …..
SH 218: 32.
What is a main reason for studying this subject of Adam and Fallen Man twice a year?
Many people over hundreds of years have written stories, ‘histories,’ of creation from their own point of view. ‘Point of view’ means ………
Mary Baker Eddy studied the Bible for many years and listened for God’s Word (Truth) about the creation and nature of man. What were her conclusions:
*God is G_____ and the only C_____
*A perfect God can make only a p______ man and universe
*God keeps on being God so God’s creations do not, cannot, fail or fall away.
For hundreds of years before Mary Baker Eddy wrote the book that helps us understand Creator and Creation, people were asking, ‘Who was the first man? Who was the first woman?’ These people already had a point of view (a belief) before they asked the question. They believed that man is mortal, material, and disobedient, with a mind of his own. The creation stories they wrote were true to these beliefs.
The Adam and Eve story was probably written about 1000 BCE. At that time, the Hebrews were a strong nation and D_______ was their King. Over the next 900 years, prophets faithful to the one God gave the Hebrew people a better understanding of God. Who were some of these prophets? Let’s look again at our Bible Time Line.
A spiritual account of creation, Genesis 1, was written about 500 BCE. In this true history, Spirit-God reveals a spiritual expression of itself, a spiritual creation where man and woman have d__________ and are declared to be g______, not fallen.
Gen. 1: 26, 27, 31. Would our good parent God let its children become ‘bad’ or ‘fallen’?__
Mortalnomind is the star of the untrue history and tries to get people to believe it.
Is it successful?______ Do many (most) people believe they are mortal? ______
Mortalnomind believes itself, but woman/man (like Abraham) looks higher for a heavenly view. Do you remember how Abraham became the first man to look for a heavenly view, to know and serve the one God? God told him to leave…………….…………...….and go to…………….…………….….. Gen. 12: 1.
In the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, and many prophets obeyed God’s call to teach the people the truth about the One God. Who was the great teacher of this great truth in the New Testament? ______________ He received and held on to the Truth.
Now, C__________ and C___________ S_____________ receive and hold on to this truth by learning about God from the ________ and from ________________________.
The Apostle Paul explained what it means to ‘hold on’: “If we ________ in the Spirit, let us also ________ in the Spirit.” Gal. 5: 25.
This book is called Galatians because it was P______ letter to the church in G_________.
Our textbook says, “________ is the cement of civilization and progress.” SH 57: 1
‘Chastity’ means ……………
This declaration about progress is in the chapter on ___________. Does that mean that chastity applies only to married people? _______
Do you remember the story of Naaman? He was a captain in the Syrian army and he also had a skin disease called leprosy. See how much of this story you can tell in your own words, then read the story in II Kings 5: 1-4, 9-14.
Was Naaman healed by ‘dipping himself seven times’ in the Jordan River? ______
Who are the main characters in this story? Naaman; the prophet __________; A little ______; and Naaman’s servants who said “…________ and be clean.” Verse 13.
It looked like Naaman had fallen into a bad habit of pride and belief in disease.
Did God still love Naaman? _____ How do you know? ………
Why does Christian Science teach “the nothingness of sin, sickness, and death?”
SH 345: 6-13.
The Psalmist warns us: “Cease from ________, and forsake ________: fret not thyself in any wise to _____ ______.” Ps. 37: 8.
Is it OK to be angry? ______ Science and Health says (406: 19) “Resist evil – error of every sort – and it will flee from you.” How do you ‘resist evil’?.........
What do you think are very harmful attitudes and actions? For example, anger, selfishness…..
Mary Baker Eddy says many things about sin, but maybe this statement sums it up:
“It is a sin to believe that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life, and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit.” SH 428: 32
About 800 years ago, the Christian church named seven sins which were later called the seven ‘deadly sins:’ pride, covetousness, lust anger, gluttony, envy, sloth.
The wise people writing the book of Proverbs, King Solomon and others, also listed ‘seven things the Lord hates’ (Prov. 6: 16-19): a proud _______; a lying _________; ______ that shed innocent blood; a _______{mind} that devises wicked plans; ________ that make haste to run to evil. a _______ __________ that speaketh lies;
a man who _____ _________ among brothers.
What special thing did you notice about the book of Proverbs on the Bible Time Line?
What was the name of the man who betrayed Jesus with a kiss? ______ Which of the ‘deadly sins’ influenced him?......... He had fallen into some bad habits, like gr_______ and jeal__________. Maybe he was angry that he wasn’t as pure as his Master. He did not overcome these ungodlike habits with spiritual convictions such as gen____________, gra____________, and unself____________
Was Judas a ‘fallen man’? ________
Everyone must ‘…wake to the ________ ___ ________’ so that what will cease? …..
SH 218: 32.
What is a main reason for studying this subject of Adam and Fallen Man twice a year?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Adam and Fallen Man
Adam and Fallen Man 11-8-09 Sara Lincoln
Many people over hundreds of years have written stories, ‘histories,’ of creation from their own point of view. ‘Point of view’ means ………
Mary Baker Eddy studied the Bible for many years and listened for God’s Word (Truth) about the creation and nature of man. What were her conclusions:
*God is G_____ and the only C_____
*A perfect God can make only a p______ man and universe
*God keeps on being God so God’s creations do not, cannot, fail or fall away.
For hundreds of years before Mary Baker Eddy wrote the book that helps us understand Creator and Creation, people were asking, ‘Who was the first man? Who was the first woman?’ These people already had a point of view (a belief) before they asked the question. They believed that man is mortal, material, and disobedient, with a mind of his own. The creation stories they wrote were true to these beliefs.
The Adam and Eve story was probably written about 1000 BCE. At that time, the Hebrews were a strong nation and D_______ was their King. Over the next 900 years, prophets faithful to the one God gave the Hebrew people a better understanding of God. Who were some of these prophets? Let’s look again at our Bible Time Line.
A spiritual account of creation, Genesis 1, was written about 500 BCE. In this true history, Spirit-God reveals a spiritual expression of itself, a spiritual creation where man and woman have d__________ and are declared to be g______, not fallen.
Gen. 1: 26, 27, 31.
Would our good parent God let its children become ‘bad’ or ‘fallen’? ______
Mortalnomind is the star of the untrue history and tries to get people to believe it. Is it successful?______ Do many (most) people believe they are mortal? ______
Mortalnomind believes itself, but woman/man (like Abraham} looks higher for a heavenly view. Do you remember how Abraham became the first man to look for a heavenly view, to know and serve the one God? God told him to leave…………….…………...….and go to…………….…………….….. Gen. 12: 1.
In the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, and many prophets obeyed God’s call to teach the people the truth about the One God. Who was the great teacher of this great truth in the New Testament? ______________ He received and held on to the Truth.
Now, C__________ and C___________ S_____________ receive and hold on to this truth by learning about God from the ________ and from ________________________.
The Apostle Paul explained what it means to ‘hold on’: “If we ________ in the Spirit, let us also ________ in the Spirit.” Gal. 5: 25.
This book is called Galatians because it was P______ letter to the church in G_________.
Our textbook says, “________ is the cement of civilization and progress.” SH 57: 1
‘Chastity’ means ……………
This declaration about progress is in the chapter on ___________. Does that mean that chastity applies only to married people? _______
Do you remember the story of Naaman? He was a captain in the Syrian army and he also had a skin disease called leprosy. See how much of this story you can tell in your own words, then read the story in II Kings 5: 1-4, 9-14.
Was Naaman healed by ‘dipping himself seven times’ in the Jordan River? ______
Who are the characters in this story? Naaman, an army captain; The prophet _______; The S________ army; A little ______; Naaman’s wife, the little maids mistress; and Naaman’s servants who suggested that Naaman “…________ and be clean.” Verse 13.
It looked like Naaman had fallen into a bad habit of pride and belief in disease.
Did God still love Naaman? _____ How do you know? ………
Why does Christian Science teach “the nothingness of sin, sickness, and death?”
SH 345: 6-13.
Is it OK to be angry? ______ How is this guidance from Science and Health helpful: “Resist evil – error of every sort – and it will flee from you.” SH 406: 19.
About 800 years ago, the Christian church named seven sins which were later called the seven ‘deadly sins.’ You can look them up in the dictionary. What do you think are the most harmful attitudes and actions? For example, anger, selfishness,…………
The Psalmist warns us: “Cease from ________, and forsake ________: fret not thyself in any wise to _____ ______.” Ps. 37: 8.
What was the name of the man who betrayed Jesus with a kiss? ______ He had fallen into some bad habits, like gr_______ and jeal__________. Maybe he was angry that he wasn’t as pure as his Master. He did not overcome these ungodlike habits with spiritual convictions such as gen____________, gra____________, and unself____________
Was Judas a ‘fallen man’? ________
Everyone must ‘…wake to the ________ ___ ________’ so that what will cease? …..
SH 218: 32.
What is a main reason for studying this subject of Adam and Fallen Man twice a year?
Many people over hundreds of years have written stories, ‘histories,’ of creation from their own point of view. ‘Point of view’ means ………
Mary Baker Eddy studied the Bible for many years and listened for God’s Word (Truth) about the creation and nature of man. What were her conclusions:
*God is G_____ and the only C_____
*A perfect God can make only a p______ man and universe
*God keeps on being God so God’s creations do not, cannot, fail or fall away.
For hundreds of years before Mary Baker Eddy wrote the book that helps us understand Creator and Creation, people were asking, ‘Who was the first man? Who was the first woman?’ These people already had a point of view (a belief) before they asked the question. They believed that man is mortal, material, and disobedient, with a mind of his own. The creation stories they wrote were true to these beliefs.
The Adam and Eve story was probably written about 1000 BCE. At that time, the Hebrews were a strong nation and D_______ was their King. Over the next 900 years, prophets faithful to the one God gave the Hebrew people a better understanding of God. Who were some of these prophets? Let’s look again at our Bible Time Line.
A spiritual account of creation, Genesis 1, was written about 500 BCE. In this true history, Spirit-God reveals a spiritual expression of itself, a spiritual creation where man and woman have d__________ and are declared to be g______, not fallen.
Gen. 1: 26, 27, 31.
Would our good parent God let its children become ‘bad’ or ‘fallen’? ______
Mortalnomind is the star of the untrue history and tries to get people to believe it. Is it successful?______ Do many (most) people believe they are mortal? ______
Mortalnomind believes itself, but woman/man (like Abraham} looks higher for a heavenly view. Do you remember how Abraham became the first man to look for a heavenly view, to know and serve the one God? God told him to leave…………….…………...….and go to…………….…………….….. Gen. 12: 1.
In the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, and many prophets obeyed God’s call to teach the people the truth about the One God. Who was the great teacher of this great truth in the New Testament? ______________ He received and held on to the Truth.
Now, C__________ and C___________ S_____________ receive and hold on to this truth by learning about God from the ________ and from ________________________.
The Apostle Paul explained what it means to ‘hold on’: “If we ________ in the Spirit, let us also ________ in the Spirit.” Gal. 5: 25.
This book is called Galatians because it was P______ letter to the church in G_________.
Our textbook says, “________ is the cement of civilization and progress.” SH 57: 1
‘Chastity’ means ……………
This declaration about progress is in the chapter on ___________. Does that mean that chastity applies only to married people? _______
Do you remember the story of Naaman? He was a captain in the Syrian army and he also had a skin disease called leprosy. See how much of this story you can tell in your own words, then read the story in II Kings 5: 1-4, 9-14.
Was Naaman healed by ‘dipping himself seven times’ in the Jordan River? ______
Who are the characters in this story? Naaman, an army captain; The prophet _______; The S________ army; A little ______; Naaman’s wife, the little maids mistress; and Naaman’s servants who suggested that Naaman “…________ and be clean.” Verse 13.
It looked like Naaman had fallen into a bad habit of pride and belief in disease.
Did God still love Naaman? _____ How do you know? ………
Why does Christian Science teach “the nothingness of sin, sickness, and death?”
SH 345: 6-13.
Is it OK to be angry? ______ How is this guidance from Science and Health helpful: “Resist evil – error of every sort – and it will flee from you.” SH 406: 19.
About 800 years ago, the Christian church named seven sins which were later called the seven ‘deadly sins.’ You can look them up in the dictionary. What do you think are the most harmful attitudes and actions? For example, anger, selfishness,…………
The Psalmist warns us: “Cease from ________, and forsake ________: fret not thyself in any wise to _____ ______.” Ps. 37: 8.
What was the name of the man who betrayed Jesus with a kiss? ______ He had fallen into some bad habits, like gr_______ and jeal__________. Maybe he was angry that he wasn’t as pure as his Master. He did not overcome these ungodlike habits with spiritual convictions such as gen____________, gra____________, and unself____________
Was Judas a ‘fallen man’? ________
Everyone must ‘…wake to the ________ ___ ________’ so that what will cease? …..
SH 218: 32.
What is a main reason for studying this subject of Adam and Fallen Man twice a year?
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Everlasting Punishment
Everlasting Punishment 11-1-09 Sara Lincoln
The highest and best description of God is
The lowest and saddest description of God is
We learned more about the Psalms last week. What do you remember?
Some Psalms are songs of thanks and joy.
Some Psalms are cries of complaint: O God, when are you going to help me? Ps. 77:7-9.
While h__________ c___________ is thanking and complaining, hoping and worrying, what is d_______¬¬¬___ c_________________ doing? Ps. 85: 8 and Ps. 86: 5.
Christian Science is a Christly view of what’s going on, the view that Jesus had and held on to. Creator-God does things right. And then what happens? Does Creation-Man do things wrong? ____ When did Creator lose control of Creation? ______
‘Christian’ is attached to the word ‘Science’ because Science is the Christ inviting us to know and prove that Creator-Creation is g_______.
What is a sport you like? ______ Does it include lots of knowledge and skill and fun for those who play it? If you are practicing, proving, and improving the skills you have and also learning new skills, does that make you a scientist? How does the dictionary define *science ________________________________________________
*scientist ____________________________________________
The scientific Christian (or Christian Scientist) practices and proves and improves her understanding of Creator-Creation. How long will the scientist be doing this? ______
Is this ‘scientific investigation’ everlasting? _____SH 470:21-23.
The Psalmist, like the Christian and Christian Scientist, tells himself to wake up and sing and be certain of good. “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be s______________ when I awake, with thy _____________.”
Ps. 17: 15.
Your ‘soul’ is what makes you YOU! Does it want to think bad, do bad, feel bad? ____ Does it want to punish others? _____ Soul is a name for ______. Does Soul want to punish? _____ Why not?
So is it OK to think bad, do bad, and feel bad since God does not punish? _____
Sin punishes itself, and seems to punish the person who expects to ignore God and try, like a mad scientist, to prove that ‘sinful’ is the nature of man. What is sin?
Sin is the lazy, incorrect, harmful belief that ……
Is sin necessary? _____ Science and Health tells us that sin’s ‘necessity’ is to __________ _________. SH 405: 5. Punishment for tolerating sin is not everlasting.
The punishment stops when the sin stops.
Did God send His Son into the world to punish sinners? ______
Christ Jesus did not come to _________ ____ ________but to save it. John 3: 17.
But what if a person deliberately breaks God’s law against lying, stealing, killing, or coveting? Should that person be punished? ______
Jesus met a lot of people who were guilty of these things. What did he do when the Pharisees showed him a woman who had been ‘caught in the act’ of doing wrong?
Let’s read John 8: 1-11. Did Jesus punish her? _____ Why? ……….
Jesus was the Comforter and promised to send another comforter. What comforter did he send that is always present, always restoring and multiplying peace and joy and power? _____
Divine Love does not punish. Love c__________ and g__________ man. SH 6: 3.
It is not OK to sin and be sorry over and over again! Our wise Father-Mother God established a great way to destroy ‘sin’. Science and Health says it is “to cause ____________ as the result of s______ …SH 6: 11-12. After you are sorry for sin, you need to scientifically d__________ sin by knowing that God never made it.
The tenets or main points about Christian Science are at the end of the chapter called R______________, which means ‘summary.’ One of our tenets talks about sin and punishment. What are your own words for the third tenet? ………….
Should you be honest and kind because you might be punished if you are not?______
Why should you be, why are you, honest and kind? …………..
One time when Christ Jesus was healing a paralyzed person (he had the palsy). Jesus said, “Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.” Luke 5: 20. What Jesus said made the Pharisees very angry! This is blasphemy they said! What is blasphemy? ___________________
Only God can forgive sins, they said, but Jesus corrected them. Jesus said that the
“Son ____ ______” does have power to forgive sins. Luke 5: 24. Jesus wiped away the ‘sin,’ the wrong thoughts or false beliefs, then the physical healing took place.
Can you ‘forgive sins’? What does the Lord’s Prayer say? ______________________
You are not the son-daughter of a mortal woman/man, but are you a ‘daughter/son of God’? ____ I John 3: 2 says “_______ are _____ the sons of _______” Does the Scientific Statement of Being say that you are the son/daughter of God? ____
It says you are _____________. SH 468.
Where is the kingdom of God? ______
Does this perfect place of perfect order include sin? ______ punishment? ______.
“Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is ____ and _____ God, and manifests His ________.” SH 340: 12. Everything real is a manifestation of God.
Where does it say that you are manifestation? _______
Creator-Love does not accuse or punish its Loved-Creation.
Truth-God is always correcting and comforting, but never punishing!
The highest and best description of God is
The lowest and saddest description of God is
We learned more about the Psalms last week. What do you remember?
Some Psalms are songs of thanks and joy.
Some Psalms are cries of complaint: O God, when are you going to help me? Ps. 77:7-9.
While h__________ c___________ is thanking and complaining, hoping and worrying, what is d_______¬¬¬___ c_________________ doing? Ps. 85: 8 and Ps. 86: 5.
Christian Science is a Christly view of what’s going on, the view that Jesus had and held on to. Creator-God does things right. And then what happens? Does Creation-Man do things wrong? ____ When did Creator lose control of Creation? ______
‘Christian’ is attached to the word ‘Science’ because Science is the Christ inviting us to know and prove that Creator-Creation is g_______.
What is a sport you like? ______ Does it include lots of knowledge and skill and fun for those who play it? If you are practicing, proving, and improving the skills you have and also learning new skills, does that make you a scientist? How does the dictionary define *science ________________________________________________
*scientist ____________________________________________
The scientific Christian (or Christian Scientist) practices and proves and improves her understanding of Creator-Creation. How long will the scientist be doing this? ______
Is this ‘scientific investigation’ everlasting? _____SH 470:21-23.
The Psalmist, like the Christian and Christian Scientist, tells himself to wake up and sing and be certain of good. “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be s______________ when I awake, with thy _____________.”
Ps. 17: 15.
Your ‘soul’ is what makes you YOU! Does it want to think bad, do bad, feel bad? ____ Does it want to punish others? _____ Soul is a name for ______. Does Soul want to punish? _____ Why not?
So is it OK to think bad, do bad, and feel bad since God does not punish? _____
Sin punishes itself, and seems to punish the person who expects to ignore God and try, like a mad scientist, to prove that ‘sinful’ is the nature of man. What is sin?
Sin is the lazy, incorrect, harmful belief that ……
Is sin necessary? _____ Science and Health tells us that sin’s ‘necessity’ is to __________ _________. SH 405: 5. Punishment for tolerating sin is not everlasting.
The punishment stops when the sin stops.
Did God send His Son into the world to punish sinners? ______
Christ Jesus did not come to _________ ____ ________but to save it. John 3: 17.
But what if a person deliberately breaks God’s law against lying, stealing, killing, or coveting? Should that person be punished? ______
Jesus met a lot of people who were guilty of these things. What did he do when the Pharisees showed him a woman who had been ‘caught in the act’ of doing wrong?
Let’s read John 8: 1-11. Did Jesus punish her? _____ Why? ……….
Jesus was the Comforter and promised to send another comforter. What comforter did he send that is always present, always restoring and multiplying peace and joy and power? _____
Divine Love does not punish. Love c__________ and g__________ man. SH 6: 3.
It is not OK to sin and be sorry over and over again! Our wise Father-Mother God established a great way to destroy ‘sin’. Science and Health says it is “to cause ____________ as the result of s______ …SH 6: 11-12. After you are sorry for sin, you need to scientifically d__________ sin by knowing that God never made it.
The tenets or main points about Christian Science are at the end of the chapter called R______________, which means ‘summary.’ One of our tenets talks about sin and punishment. What are your own words for the third tenet? ………….
Should you be honest and kind because you might be punished if you are not?______
Why should you be, why are you, honest and kind? …………..
One time when Christ Jesus was healing a paralyzed person (he had the palsy). Jesus said, “Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.” Luke 5: 20. What Jesus said made the Pharisees very angry! This is blasphemy they said! What is blasphemy? ___________________
Only God can forgive sins, they said, but Jesus corrected them. Jesus said that the
“Son ____ ______” does have power to forgive sins. Luke 5: 24. Jesus wiped away the ‘sin,’ the wrong thoughts or false beliefs, then the physical healing took place.
Can you ‘forgive sins’? What does the Lord’s Prayer say? ______________________
You are not the son-daughter of a mortal woman/man, but are you a ‘daughter/son of God’? ____ I John 3: 2 says “_______ are _____ the sons of _______” Does the Scientific Statement of Being say that you are the son/daughter of God? ____
It says you are _____________. SH 468.
Where is the kingdom of God? ______
Does this perfect place of perfect order include sin? ______ punishment? ______.
“Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is ____ and _____ God, and manifests His ________.” SH 340: 12. Everything real is a manifestation of God.
Where does it say that you are manifestation? _______
Creator-Love does not accuse or punish its Loved-Creation.
Truth-God is always correcting and comforting, but never punishing!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Probation After Death
Probation After Death 10-25-09 Sara Lincoln
When does death happen? _________ Does life end? __________
The Psalmist was aware of a dark shadow on his path, the valley of the shadow of death. Ps. 23: 4. He decided not to be afraid. Because of that decision, he became even more aware of help at hand: a rod and a staff.
Every shepherd used his rod to defend the sheep against _________.
He used his staff to guide and control the __________.
In what ways is God a rod and a staff for us?..............
God _______________me. God _______________ me.
The Psalmist put it this way: “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.”
Ps. 37: 23.
Because the Psalmist knew that he was being protected and guided, he saw a much brighter path. Instead of dark shadow, he saw abundance of food, drink, and safety that his enemies could not steal. In his expanding view of God as the great Shepherd (Defender and Guide) he could see that kindness and love (goodness and mercy) would be with him every day (all the days of his life) and that he actually lived in God’s house. Is that were you live? ______ No matter where you live now, or may live 20 years from now, you always LIVE in your _______________.
Your ‘house’ is your _______________.
Does death have a consciousness? ______
Will you still be conscious and living 200 years from now? ______ Where? __________
When does h_________ c____________ yield to d_________ c______________? _____
“One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love,
is a foretaste of eternity.” SH 598: 23-24
The Psalmist is grateful that the Lord ‘anoints his head with oil.’ Where in Science and Health would you find the spiritual significance of ‘oil’? __________
Who is speaking in Psalm 23? ________
Did this same person write many Psalms:? ______ How do you know? ………….
Our textbook says, “Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of man; never attainable through death, but gained by walking in the pathway of Truth both before and after that which is called death.” SH 487: 3-6. How did you put this in your own words?
People started writing down their prayers and songs (Psalms) about ________ years ago, from ca ________ BC to ca________ BC. Let’s get our answers from The Bible Time Line published by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
There are ________ Psalms in our Bible. Some tell the history of the Hebrews, a history which began with what man? ____________ See Gen. 17: 1, 2, 4, 5.
There are 365 days in a year and Enoch lived 365 years on earth. Then did Enoch die?__
What happened? See Gen. 5: 23-24.
Enoch did not go through ‘probation’ (a time of testing). There was no ‘after death’ because Enoch did not die. He did not believe in the ‘evidence before his material senses’ Enoch __________ ______ _______. SH 214: 5.
Would this statement also be true: Jesus walked with God, and he was not, for God took him? ______ Mark 16: 19
Science and Health says, “The divine demand, ‘Be ye therefore perfect,’ is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable…God requires perfection, but not until the battle between Spirit and flesh is fought and the victory won.” SH 253: 32-8.
Why does Mary Baker Eddy call this demand scientific? …………..
What is a ‘contract’? …………
Do God and man have a contract? _______ In the Bible, a contract is called a covenant. The first covenant was between God and the man_________. After the flood which destroyed much of the world known to the Hebrews, Noah thanked God that he and his family and his animals had not drowned. Then God made a covenant with Noah.
Gen. 9: 11, 13.What was the covenant?........
Did Jesus make a covenant with his disciples and with us? _____
In the following examples, what is the responsibility of each party to the covenant:
*Jesus said, ‘whosoever believeth in me shall never die.’ John 11: 25-26
*He also said, ‘ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:’ Matt. 7: 7
*He also said, ‘…he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the
________ ____ ________.’ John 8: 12
The name of the man Jesus raised from the dead was __________. As Jesus prayed at the tomb, the first thing he said was “…Father, _____ ______ ______ that thou hast heard me.” John 11: 41.
Christian Science explains that “Jesus restored _________ by the understanding that ________ had never died, not by an admission that his body had died and then lived again. SH 75: 12-20.
What did you find out today about
Consciousness __________________________________________
The Psalms ____________________________________________
Enoch ______________________________________________
Covenant ______________________________________________
Probation _______________________________________________
When does death happen? _________ Does life end? __________
The Psalmist was aware of a dark shadow on his path, the valley of the shadow of death. Ps. 23: 4. He decided not to be afraid. Because of that decision, he became even more aware of help at hand: a rod and a staff.
Every shepherd used his rod to defend the sheep against _________.
He used his staff to guide and control the __________.
In what ways is God a rod and a staff for us?..............
God _______________me. God _______________ me.
The Psalmist put it this way: “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.”
Ps. 37: 23.
Because the Psalmist knew that he was being protected and guided, he saw a much brighter path. Instead of dark shadow, he saw abundance of food, drink, and safety that his enemies could not steal. In his expanding view of God as the great Shepherd (Defender and Guide) he could see that kindness and love (goodness and mercy) would be with him every day (all the days of his life) and that he actually lived in God’s house. Is that were you live? ______ No matter where you live now, or may live 20 years from now, you always LIVE in your _______________.
Your ‘house’ is your _______________.
Does death have a consciousness? ______
Will you still be conscious and living 200 years from now? ______ Where? __________
When does h_________ c____________ yield to d_________ c______________? _____
“One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love,
is a foretaste of eternity.” SH 598: 23-24
The Psalmist is grateful that the Lord ‘anoints his head with oil.’ Where in Science and Health would you find the spiritual significance of ‘oil’? __________
Who is speaking in Psalm 23? ________
Did this same person write many Psalms:? ______ How do you know? ………….
Our textbook says, “Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of man; never attainable through death, but gained by walking in the pathway of Truth both before and after that which is called death.” SH 487: 3-6. How did you put this in your own words?
People started writing down their prayers and songs (Psalms) about ________ years ago, from ca ________ BC to ca________ BC. Let’s get our answers from The Bible Time Line published by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
There are ________ Psalms in our Bible. Some tell the history of the Hebrews, a history which began with what man? ____________ See Gen. 17: 1, 2, 4, 5.
There are 365 days in a year and Enoch lived 365 years on earth. Then did Enoch die?__
What happened? See Gen. 5: 23-24.
Enoch did not go through ‘probation’ (a time of testing). There was no ‘after death’ because Enoch did not die. He did not believe in the ‘evidence before his material senses’ Enoch __________ ______ _______. SH 214: 5.
Would this statement also be true: Jesus walked with God, and he was not, for God took him? ______ Mark 16: 19
Science and Health says, “The divine demand, ‘Be ye therefore perfect,’ is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable…God requires perfection, but not until the battle between Spirit and flesh is fought and the victory won.” SH 253: 32-8.
Why does Mary Baker Eddy call this demand scientific? …………..
What is a ‘contract’? …………
Do God and man have a contract? _______ In the Bible, a contract is called a covenant. The first covenant was between God and the man_________. After the flood which destroyed much of the world known to the Hebrews, Noah thanked God that he and his family and his animals had not drowned. Then God made a covenant with Noah.
Gen. 9: 11, 13.What was the covenant?........
Did Jesus make a covenant with his disciples and with us? _____
In the following examples, what is the responsibility of each party to the covenant:
*Jesus said, ‘whosoever believeth in me shall never die.’ John 11: 25-26
*He also said, ‘ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:’ Matt. 7: 7
*He also said, ‘…he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the
________ ____ ________.’ John 8: 12
The name of the man Jesus raised from the dead was __________. As Jesus prayed at the tomb, the first thing he said was “…Father, _____ ______ ______ that thou hast heard me.” John 11: 41.
Christian Science explains that “Jesus restored _________ by the understanding that ________ had never died, not by an admission that his body had died and then lived again. SH 75: 12-20.
What did you find out today about
Consciousness __________________________________________
The Psalms ____________________________________________
Enoch ______________________________________________
Covenant ______________________________________________
Probation _______________________________________________
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Doctrine of Atonement
Doctrine of Atonement 10-18-09 Sara Lincoln
What is a ‘doctrine’? _________________
In Jewish and Christian history, ‘atonement’ was a way of describing how Jesus, the innocent, let himself be crucified so that mortal man, the guilty, would be spared, not killed, for his evil thoughts and actions. Does this definition of ‘atonement’ describe God’s control of His Son, sons, and daughters?
God and Christ Jesus give us a true meaning. Atonement must mean the at-one-ment planned by the perfect Creator God for His / Her perfect Creation, man.
Are you and I ‘perfect creation man’? ______
Every Sunday, we hear the fact again, “All is i_________ M_______ and its i_________ m_____________. SH page _______.
Do you and I also need to learn what this means, to be at-one with God as Her manifestation? ______As human consciousness grows and expands year by year, it learns how to yield to divine consciousness. We learn that the human view isn’t good enough and that the divine view is natural.
While he was on earth, did Christ Jesus learn how to turn away from the human view and yield to God’s view? _____What did the Apostle Paul say in his letter to the Hebrews, chapter 5: 8-9: “Though he were a Son, yet learned he o_________ by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” What word could you substitute for ‘salvation’? _______________
What are some main examples of Jesus ‘turning away from the human view and yielding to God’s view’?
He did that big time when he, the innocent, was called guilty and put on the cross. While he was on the cross, what did he ask God to do to the Jews and Romans who were trying to kill him? _____________________________________. Luke 23:34
Maybe Mary Baker Eddy was thinking of that when she wrote her poem Christ My Refuge. Jesus was not afraid of the cross. He said, “I kiss the cross and wake to know a world more bright.” Hymn 253
Christ Jesus felt so at-one with his Father-Mother that he wasted no time thinking he was separate. He meant it when he said, ‘I and my Father are one. I do the works of my Father and my Father does good works as me.’
Tell us about a time you felt at-one, cared for and protected by your Mother-Father.
It might have been a time when your mom and dad helped you out at a difficult time.
The Apostle Paul urges us to “…be reconciled to God.” II Cor. 5: 20 be.
Maybe that could mean ‘go with God’s plan. Forget your own plan.’
You submitted a poem for publication in the Christian Science Sentinel – your plan,
and the editor is suggesting that you revise your poem. Could that be God’s plan?
I, wo-man, love God’s good plan. There is, however a rumor of an additional mind, called mortal mind, full of its own selfish desires and insisting on its own limited plan.
I do not listen to rumors, do you? ______
There’s a couplet (two lines) in the Lord’s Prayer where Jesus warns his followers not to be led astray by rumors. Which two lines? …………..
There are other ways to describe rumor, for example Heb. 13: 9: ____ ____ ____ ____.
Also SH 316: 3: “…lose sight of __________ _______________”
and SH 286:1: “…belief in a ________ ________.”
Did you ever have a pet you loved? Did you make it suffer? ______
If it was a dog, maybe it was given ‘obedience training.’ Did the dog suffer during obedience training? ____ What happened to the dog, and its owner, during this training?
Why is the atonement ‘a hard problem in theology’? SH 23: 7.
Perhaps it’s because most people in the special field of God study (theo-ology) believe that man is a sinner, separated from God. Did God create or permit sinners? _____
The Science that belongs to all theology (God study) says, ‘You can do this. You can believe that Jesus was being practical when he said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Where in Matthew is this command? _______
You are at-one with your Creator and you will get to prove this scientifically many times.
Christ Jesus did not come to earth to show people how sinful they were. So why did he come? “Christ came to destroy ____ _______ of sin.” SH 473: 6-7. Why didn’t he come to destroy sin? ……………..
Do you remember what happened in Jerusalem at the pool called Bethseda? John 5: 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14. The man went to the temple after he was healed, perhaps to thank God. Jesus found him in the temple. What did Jesus tell him? See verse 14
Jesus said, ‘sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.’ Did he mean ‘give up the sin of believing you are a limited man, separate from God’? _____
Jesus and the man knew the meaning of that command ‘sin no more.’ I think maybe Jesus wanted that man to claim his dominion, his at-one-ment with God. What do you think Jesus wanted that man to start doing and stop doing?
Maybe Jesus said to that man (and Christ Jesus definitely tells us) there are four things each of us must do to show that we are children of our Father-Mother God. Matt. 5: 44-45:
1 3
2 4
We are God’s image and ________. We are at-one with God, but we can know what this means only as we know the life and teachings of Christ Jesus. Was Jesus a Scientist? ______He proved what is true and dismissed what is untrue. SH 19: 6.
Are you a Scientist? ____ How do you know? …………
I am at-one with G____, my n__________, and my________
What is a ‘doctrine’? _________________
In Jewish and Christian history, ‘atonement’ was a way of describing how Jesus, the innocent, let himself be crucified so that mortal man, the guilty, would be spared, not killed, for his evil thoughts and actions. Does this definition of ‘atonement’ describe God’s control of His Son, sons, and daughters?
God and Christ Jesus give us a true meaning. Atonement must mean the at-one-ment planned by the perfect Creator God for His / Her perfect Creation, man.
Are you and I ‘perfect creation man’? ______
Every Sunday, we hear the fact again, “All is i_________ M_______ and its i_________ m_____________. SH page _______.
Do you and I also need to learn what this means, to be at-one with God as Her manifestation? ______As human consciousness grows and expands year by year, it learns how to yield to divine consciousness. We learn that the human view isn’t good enough and that the divine view is natural.
While he was on earth, did Christ Jesus learn how to turn away from the human view and yield to God’s view? _____What did the Apostle Paul say in his letter to the Hebrews, chapter 5: 8-9: “Though he were a Son, yet learned he o_________ by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” What word could you substitute for ‘salvation’? _______________
What are some main examples of Jesus ‘turning away from the human view and yielding to God’s view’?
He did that big time when he, the innocent, was called guilty and put on the cross. While he was on the cross, what did he ask God to do to the Jews and Romans who were trying to kill him? _____________________________________. Luke 23:34
Maybe Mary Baker Eddy was thinking of that when she wrote her poem Christ My Refuge. Jesus was not afraid of the cross. He said, “I kiss the cross and wake to know a world more bright.” Hymn 253
Christ Jesus felt so at-one with his Father-Mother that he wasted no time thinking he was separate. He meant it when he said, ‘I and my Father are one. I do the works of my Father and my Father does good works as me.’
Tell us about a time you felt at-one, cared for and protected by your Mother-Father.
It might have been a time when your mom and dad helped you out at a difficult time.
The Apostle Paul urges us to “…be reconciled to God.” II Cor. 5: 20 be.
Maybe that could mean ‘go with God’s plan. Forget your own plan.’
You submitted a poem for publication in the Christian Science Sentinel – your plan,
and the editor is suggesting that you revise your poem. Could that be God’s plan?
I, wo-man, love God’s good plan. There is, however a rumor of an additional mind, called mortal mind, full of its own selfish desires and insisting on its own limited plan.
I do not listen to rumors, do you? ______
There’s a couplet (two lines) in the Lord’s Prayer where Jesus warns his followers not to be led astray by rumors. Which two lines? …………..
There are other ways to describe rumor, for example Heb. 13: 9: ____ ____ ____ ____.
Also SH 316: 3: “…lose sight of __________ _______________”
and SH 286:1: “…belief in a ________ ________.”
Did you ever have a pet you loved? Did you make it suffer? ______
If it was a dog, maybe it was given ‘obedience training.’ Did the dog suffer during obedience training? ____ What happened to the dog, and its owner, during this training?
Why is the atonement ‘a hard problem in theology’? SH 23: 7.
Perhaps it’s because most people in the special field of God study (theo-ology) believe that man is a sinner, separated from God. Did God create or permit sinners? _____
The Science that belongs to all theology (God study) says, ‘You can do this. You can believe that Jesus was being practical when he said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Where in Matthew is this command? _______
You are at-one with your Creator and you will get to prove this scientifically many times.
Christ Jesus did not come to earth to show people how sinful they were. So why did he come? “Christ came to destroy ____ _______ of sin.” SH 473: 6-7. Why didn’t he come to destroy sin? ……………..
Do you remember what happened in Jerusalem at the pool called Bethseda? John 5: 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14. The man went to the temple after he was healed, perhaps to thank God. Jesus found him in the temple. What did Jesus tell him? See verse 14
Jesus said, ‘sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.’ Did he mean ‘give up the sin of believing you are a limited man, separate from God’? _____
Jesus and the man knew the meaning of that command ‘sin no more.’ I think maybe Jesus wanted that man to claim his dominion, his at-one-ment with God. What do you think Jesus wanted that man to start doing and stop doing?
Maybe Jesus said to that man (and Christ Jesus definitely tells us) there are four things each of us must do to show that we are children of our Father-Mother God. Matt. 5: 44-45:
1 3
2 4
We are God’s image and ________. We are at-one with God, but we can know what this means only as we know the life and teachings of Christ Jesus. Was Jesus a Scientist? ______He proved what is true and dismissed what is untrue. SH 19: 6.
Are you a Scientist? ____ How do you know? …………
I am at-one with G____, my n__________, and my________
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?
Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? 10-11-09 Sara Lincoln
Did Mary Baker Eddy know the answer to this question? ____
Why did she ask it?
We have 26 subjects we study twice a year. Can you name any of them?
There is one other Bible Lesson that asks a question: Is the Universe…..
Do you think Christ Jesus ever asked either of these questions? ____
Jesus knew that many people around him believed that sin, sickness, and death were real, and so his words and works focused on the facts: none of these ungodlike conditions is true, or could be true. Why can’t sin, sickness, and death be true? ……
Who else says that sin, sickness, and death cannot be true? _____________
The Gospel of Luke gives us many examples of Jesus’ words and works.
What error or lie about God and man did Jesus contradict and reverse in the following settings?
Luke 4: 38-40
Luke 7: 12-16
Luke 17: 12-19
Luke 8: 27-28, 30-35
The Psalmist also declared his confidence that the Creator God did not create things that are the opposite of God. In Ps. 9, he said, “When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.” Ps. 9: 3. What enemies? …….
In another Psalm, she said, “He prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” What Psalm is this? _________
Is this Psalm also in Science and Health? ____
On page 578, Mary Baker Eddy offers an inspiring interpretation, for example
“________ _______ is my shepherd.”
“________ prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.”
Is there anything that could make sin, sickness, and death disappear? ______
Science and Health says these enemies need to be understood ____ ________. 480:26- 2
“With its divine proof, Science _________the evidence of material sense.” SH 215: 22
Jesus reversed the evidence of material sense and healed people. What a wonderful proof of God’s (________) presence, (________) power, (_________) knowledge, and (________) action. See definition of Good in the Glossary.
Did everyone appreciate what Jesus did, his power to heal? ____ Why?
Today, does everyone appreciate Christian Science for its power to heal? ____ Why?
Is it your duty and purpose in life to receive healing and offer healing truths to others?
Can you tell us about a healing you are a witness to? ……….
Then and now, it takes certain qualities of thought to experience Christ-healing. These are qualities that bless and bring blessing, for example, humility, o__________, mercy, p__________ and peace-making. Jesus talked about these qualities in Matthew ______.
Is there anything God cannot do or make? _____
Does infinite Mind experience sin, sickness, and death? _____ Does its manifestation? __
SH 356: 19 says God cannot e___________ or p_____________ sin, sickness, and death.
Something is called ‘a god’ if people f_______ it or w__________ it.
Why does Mrs. Eddy call sin, sickness, and death p__________ g______? SH 347: 23
Many television ads encourage us to trust d_______. What’s the danger? …….
“Man is not the offspring of ______, but of ______, ---of Life, not of matter.”
SH 289: 31
When sin, sickness, or death seem real to us, we can pray. As we pray we can think and say words like these:
Teach me to do thy will
I am thy servant; I do thy will
Create in me a clean heart
I will listen for thy voice
I am one of your perfect ideas
I thank you God for being All-in-all
What are some words you say as you pray? ……….
Before, during, and after our prayer, God, Love, gives us thoughts like these:
I have saved you and you are my witness
I have called you by name and you are mine
You are my loved son and daughter
I have put a new song in your mouth
I am the Lord and there is none else; there is no other god called sin, sickness, or death
I, Spirit, created you; you are a spiritual idea including all right ideas
What does God say to you? …………..
Did Mary Baker Eddy know the answer to this question? ____
Why did she ask it?
We have 26 subjects we study twice a year. Can you name any of them?
There is one other Bible Lesson that asks a question: Is the Universe…..
Do you think Christ Jesus ever asked either of these questions? ____
Jesus knew that many people around him believed that sin, sickness, and death were real, and so his words and works focused on the facts: none of these ungodlike conditions is true, or could be true. Why can’t sin, sickness, and death be true? ……
Who else says that sin, sickness, and death cannot be true? _____________
The Gospel of Luke gives us many examples of Jesus’ words and works.
What error or lie about God and man did Jesus contradict and reverse in the following settings?
Luke 4: 38-40
Luke 7: 12-16
Luke 17: 12-19
Luke 8: 27-28, 30-35
The Psalmist also declared his confidence that the Creator God did not create things that are the opposite of God. In Ps. 9, he said, “When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.” Ps. 9: 3. What enemies? …….
In another Psalm, she said, “He prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” What Psalm is this? _________
Is this Psalm also in Science and Health? ____
On page 578, Mary Baker Eddy offers an inspiring interpretation, for example
“________ _______ is my shepherd.”
“________ prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.”
Is there anything that could make sin, sickness, and death disappear? ______
Science and Health says these enemies need to be understood ____ ________. 480:26- 2
“With its divine proof, Science _________the evidence of material sense.” SH 215: 22
Jesus reversed the evidence of material sense and healed people. What a wonderful proof of God’s (________) presence, (________) power, (_________) knowledge, and (________) action. See definition of Good in the Glossary.
Did everyone appreciate what Jesus did, his power to heal? ____ Why?
Today, does everyone appreciate Christian Science for its power to heal? ____ Why?
Is it your duty and purpose in life to receive healing and offer healing truths to others?
Can you tell us about a healing you are a witness to? ……….
Then and now, it takes certain qualities of thought to experience Christ-healing. These are qualities that bless and bring blessing, for example, humility, o__________, mercy, p__________ and peace-making. Jesus talked about these qualities in Matthew ______.
Is there anything God cannot do or make? _____
Does infinite Mind experience sin, sickness, and death? _____ Does its manifestation? __
SH 356: 19 says God cannot e___________ or p_____________ sin, sickness, and death.
Something is called ‘a god’ if people f_______ it or w__________ it.
Why does Mrs. Eddy call sin, sickness, and death p__________ g______? SH 347: 23
Many television ads encourage us to trust d_______. What’s the danger? …….
“Man is not the offspring of ______, but of ______, ---of Life, not of matter.”
SH 289: 31
When sin, sickness, or death seem real to us, we can pray. As we pray we can think and say words like these:
Teach me to do thy will
I am thy servant; I do thy will
Create in me a clean heart
I will listen for thy voice
I am one of your perfect ideas
I thank you God for being All-in-all
What are some words you say as you pray? ……….
Before, during, and after our prayer, God, Love, gives us thoughts like these:
I have saved you and you are my witness
I have called you by name and you are mine
You are my loved son and daughter
I have put a new song in your mouth
I am the Lord and there is none else; there is no other god called sin, sickness, or death
I, Spirit, created you; you are a spiritual idea including all right ideas
What does God say to you? …………..
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Unreality
Unreality 10-4-09 Sara Lincoln
Christians and Christian Scientists consider God to be the most real thing there is, Reality itself. Twice a year, our Bible Lesson teaches us more about Reality. Since reality is THE real and only thing, why do we have a Bible Lesson about Unreality?........
Truth = Reality; Error = Unreality
What is the Christian Science definition of ‘error’ in the dictionary?______________
Does God create error? ________ Do humans create error? ________
For answers, we go not only to the dictionary, but also to our textbook. Science and Health says that error is an __________, meaning it has no real existence. 287: 22
“…evil and matter are ________ _______, and error has _____ _______.” SH 277: 7-10
Can you imagine something that doesn’t exist? _____ Do other people also do this?
Someone checking your homework might say, ‘you made an error.’ Another way of saying that would be, ‘you made a m__________.’ Is this ‘error’ an ‘evil’? _____
According to Webster’s, evil is not a mistake; evil is wrong and bad and causes suffering. For example, it is error, mistake, to say that God causes human suffering.
It is evil, wrong, to keep saying this after learning that God, Good, causes only good.
Where do we learn that God causes only good? ____________________________
Religious leaders in Jesus’ time saw his proofs that God, Good, causes only good, and yet they continued to insist that evil is real. Do people in our time believe that evil is real? __
Because we reflect God, it is natural to receive from God everything we need, for example, strength, intelligence, compassion, and the courage to ________________.
In order to receive good from God, we may have to refuse the counterfeit, the deception, the belief that we are separate from God and limited. The Apostle Peter put it this way: “________ yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may _______you in due time: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” I Peter 5: 6-7.
How do you know God cares for you? ………..
To feel ‘the mighty hand of God’ lifting us up, perhaps we need a truer view of anything ‘pulling us down.’ I’m glad to have Christian Science which shows me this true view.
“We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is ________, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming to be real and identical.” SH 472: 30
Mary Baker Eddy gives us a word-picture of a baby chick coming out of its shell.
SH 552: 16-19. In line 17, who is ‘they’? ______
We ‘peck open our shells with Christian Science’ when we do what? ……………….
Who provides your food and clothes? ________ Yes, your p________, but not m_______. We need to remember that ‘________ provides all we need, tenderly expressing the _______________ and _________________of God.’ SH 507: 3-6.
Can you find the Beatitudes? In ____________ 5: 1-12, Jesus is teaching us the thoughts and actions that make us useful, happy, and satisfied, for example………….
Jesus blesses those people who ‘grieve,’ who are sorry for their mistakes, and those people who are h _________ and willing to o________.
Who do you look up to as an example of honesty and right thinking? ________________
The Gospel of Mark tells how Jesus came preaching and saying, “…_______ ___, and believe the gospel.” Mark 1: 15. To ‘repent’ means to be sorry for insisting on mistaken beliefs. To ‘repent’ means to change your thinking. Do you ever repent? ___
We have mentioned three important ideas: be humble, obey, and repent.
These attitudes and actions help us discover who we are. Who are we? ……….
Mark 3: 1-5 tells about Jesus healing a man with a withered (useless) ________. Religious leaders were watching but not rejoicing. They just wanted to accuse Jesus of breaking one of Moses’ Commandments because Jesus ‘healed’ (worked) on the __________ day. These religious leaders refused to repent, to change their thinking. Jesus was ‘grieved’ for the ‘hardness of their hearts’ but he went ahead and did what God wanted. Jesus ________ the man. These religious leaders believed an error, the mistaken thinking that God causes suffering. Because they were not willing to question their thinking and change their thinking, they let error sink into evil which is wrong, bad and causes or allows suffering. What did Jesus know that enabled him to prove that error//evil is unreal, powerless? _____
With his eyes, Jesus saw suffering and sin, but with his vision he saw wholeness.
Do you trust eyes or vision? _______
The words of Jesus are like the message of Christian Science: “Correct material belief by ____________ _____________, and Spirit will form you anew.” SH 425: 24-26.
Unreality is m___________ b__________. Reality is s__________ u____________.
Christians and Christian Scientists consider God to be the most real thing there is, Reality itself. Twice a year, our Bible Lesson teaches us more about Reality. Since reality is THE real and only thing, why do we have a Bible Lesson about Unreality?........
Truth = Reality; Error = Unreality
What is the Christian Science definition of ‘error’ in the dictionary?______________
Does God create error? ________ Do humans create error? ________
For answers, we go not only to the dictionary, but also to our textbook. Science and Health says that error is an __________, meaning it has no real existence. 287: 22
“…evil and matter are ________ _______, and error has _____ _______.” SH 277: 7-10
Can you imagine something that doesn’t exist? _____ Do other people also do this?
Someone checking your homework might say, ‘you made an error.’ Another way of saying that would be, ‘you made a m__________.’ Is this ‘error’ an ‘evil’? _____
According to Webster’s, evil is not a mistake; evil is wrong and bad and causes suffering. For example, it is error, mistake, to say that God causes human suffering.
It is evil, wrong, to keep saying this after learning that God, Good, causes only good.
Where do we learn that God causes only good? ____________________________
Religious leaders in Jesus’ time saw his proofs that God, Good, causes only good, and yet they continued to insist that evil is real. Do people in our time believe that evil is real? __
Because we reflect God, it is natural to receive from God everything we need, for example, strength, intelligence, compassion, and the courage to ________________.
In order to receive good from God, we may have to refuse the counterfeit, the deception, the belief that we are separate from God and limited. The Apostle Peter put it this way: “________ yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may _______you in due time: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” I Peter 5: 6-7.
How do you know God cares for you? ………..
To feel ‘the mighty hand of God’ lifting us up, perhaps we need a truer view of anything ‘pulling us down.’ I’m glad to have Christian Science which shows me this true view.
“We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is ________, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming to be real and identical.” SH 472: 30
Mary Baker Eddy gives us a word-picture of a baby chick coming out of its shell.
SH 552: 16-19. In line 17, who is ‘they’? ______
We ‘peck open our shells with Christian Science’ when we do what? ……………….
Who provides your food and clothes? ________ Yes, your p________, but not m_______. We need to remember that ‘________ provides all we need, tenderly expressing the _______________ and _________________of God.’ SH 507: 3-6.
Can you find the Beatitudes? In ____________ 5: 1-12, Jesus is teaching us the thoughts and actions that make us useful, happy, and satisfied, for example………….
Jesus blesses those people who ‘grieve,’ who are sorry for their mistakes, and those people who are h _________ and willing to o________.
Who do you look up to as an example of honesty and right thinking? ________________
The Gospel of Mark tells how Jesus came preaching and saying, “…_______ ___, and believe the gospel.” Mark 1: 15. To ‘repent’ means to be sorry for insisting on mistaken beliefs. To ‘repent’ means to change your thinking. Do you ever repent? ___
We have mentioned three important ideas: be humble, obey, and repent.
These attitudes and actions help us discover who we are. Who are we? ……….
Mark 3: 1-5 tells about Jesus healing a man with a withered (useless) ________. Religious leaders were watching but not rejoicing. They just wanted to accuse Jesus of breaking one of Moses’ Commandments because Jesus ‘healed’ (worked) on the __________ day. These religious leaders refused to repent, to change their thinking. Jesus was ‘grieved’ for the ‘hardness of their hearts’ but he went ahead and did what God wanted. Jesus ________ the man. These religious leaders believed an error, the mistaken thinking that God causes suffering. Because they were not willing to question their thinking and change their thinking, they let error sink into evil which is wrong, bad and causes or allows suffering. What did Jesus know that enabled him to prove that error//evil is unreal, powerless? _____
With his eyes, Jesus saw suffering and sin, but with his vision he saw wholeness.
Do you trust eyes or vision? _______
The words of Jesus are like the message of Christian Science: “Correct material belief by ____________ _____________, and Spirit will form you anew.” SH 425: 24-26.
Unreality is m___________ b__________. Reality is s__________ u____________.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Reality
Reality 9-27-09 Sara Lincoln
The Psalmist said to God, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Ps. 119: 18. I expect students of theology and physics have expressed the same sincere desire. Does God ‘open their eyes’? ___ And yet these seekers still view matter as part of God’s law. Is matter part of God’s law? ____, because ‘law’ deals with unchanging facts, whereas ‘matter’ is always changing. As our textbook on Science tells us, ‘…matter is the f_________, not the f_______, of existence.” SH 127: 16-22
“There is __________ in Spirit out of which _________ could be made…” SH 335: 8
Which lines in the Lord’s Prayer (SH 16-17) show that Jesus did not regard matter as the real thing…reality.
And right away, you are probably thinking of the Commandments God gave to Moses about choosing ‘reality’ over ‘matter.’ Which Commandment says it best?
Two prophets in the Old Testament wrote long books. That’s one reason they are called Major Prophets. Who are they? _________ and ___________. One of there prophets speaks to us in our Responsive Reading from the Christian Science Quarterly.
He says, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
______ ____ _______ _______.” That prophet is _________________ (29: 13).
Do you think Moses wanted to experience God as the only Reality? ____ Moses was raised in a palace as an Egyptian prince. Egypt was a pagan country; people believed in many gods. But Moses’ mother had taught him well about the one God so he was a faithful Hebrew living as an Egyptian. Because Moses was seeking a fuller understanding of God, “…the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire.”
What was burning? ________Let’s read that account. Ex. 3: 1-5
What did God want Moses to do? Ex. 3: 10…….. Did Moses obey God? ______
To accomplish his task, Moses needed to be sure that God, Spirit, was the only power, even the present reality. Perhaps he prayed using words like these:
“Nothing is real and eternal, -- nothing is Spirit, -- but God and His idea.”
SH 71: 1-2
Let’s make this into a positive statement. Instead of beginning with ‘Nothing,’ we’ll begin with ‘Everything.’ How would you say it?
Here’s one way to say it:
Everything real is of Spirit; Mother -- Father God is All-in-all and I am Her idea.
Moses was a great deliverer. Elijah was a great prophet. There are many stories about Elijah in I Kings. Elijah proved to the priests that there is only one God, and Baal is not his name! Queen Jezebel worshipped Baal, so she tried to kill Elijah for insulting Baal. Would you be frightened if someone were trying to kill you? ____Elijah was frightened. He ran away and hid in a cave. The Lord was with him and said, “What doest thou here, Elijah? “ I Kings 19: 9.
Or we might describe it this way: Elijah knew he was cared for by God so he asked himself, ‘What am I doing here? Why am I hiding?’ What did Mind tell Elijah to do and what did Elijah learn? I Kings 19: 11-12
Perhaps Elijah spoke words like these from Science and Health: “Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite __________, which bears no resemblance to spirituality,
is _____ _______.” SH 207: 30-31
In the Glossary of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy gives us helpful definitions of things we need to understand as we get to know God and man. What familiar words do you see in the definition of Elijah (Elias)? P__________; C_________ S__________.
True Prophets (like Elijah and Christian Science) focus on s___________ f_________ and deny m___________ s__________.
To increase our understanding, we look up words in the dictionary. Recently we found something that may have surprised you. Webster’s definitions of ‘substance’ and ‘matter’ include the Christian Science definitions. ‘Substance’ is ______. ‘Matter’ is __________.
Perhaps the editors of the dictionary realized the importance of including the spiritual sense of an idea, not just the human sense. I’m glad the Discoverer of Christian Science, _____________________, knew to give us a book with definitions of essential words.
Moses gave the Children of Israel, including us, a spiritual interpretation of ‘law.’
Mary Baker Eddy gave us a spiritual interpretation of reality. ‘Reality,’ like ‘law,’simply IS. No human opinion can change reality or law.
In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus didn’t just say to the people, ‘do better.’ Jesus said ‘____ ________.’ Matt. 5: 48. Jesus was able to heal because he did what he said. He saw the _________ _______. SH 476: 32-4
One time, the disciples saw Jesus talking to Moses (who was born about 1200 years before Jesus) and Elijah (who was born about 600 years before Jesus). Mark 9: 2-9.
This was possible because man is i_____ and has no a_____, no d________.
Like Jesus, we are agreeing only with i______________ c_______________.
SH 279: 11-12.
In this consciousness, ideas can be touched; they are t_________ and r__________.
The spiritual facts of being, Reality, appear as we divest (get rid of) f_______ t________ and m___________ e_____________. SH 428: 8-14. By doing this, we “sweep away the _______ and give place to the ________.”
The Psalmist said to God, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Ps. 119: 18. I expect students of theology and physics have expressed the same sincere desire. Does God ‘open their eyes’? ___ And yet these seekers still view matter as part of God’s law. Is matter part of God’s law? ____, because ‘law’ deals with unchanging facts, whereas ‘matter’ is always changing. As our textbook on Science tells us, ‘…matter is the f_________, not the f_______, of existence.” SH 127: 16-22
“There is __________ in Spirit out of which _________ could be made…” SH 335: 8
Which lines in the Lord’s Prayer (SH 16-17) show that Jesus did not regard matter as the real thing…reality.
And right away, you are probably thinking of the Commandments God gave to Moses about choosing ‘reality’ over ‘matter.’ Which Commandment says it best?
Two prophets in the Old Testament wrote long books. That’s one reason they are called Major Prophets. Who are they? _________ and ___________. One of there prophets speaks to us in our Responsive Reading from the Christian Science Quarterly.
He says, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
______ ____ _______ _______.” That prophet is _________________ (29: 13).
Do you think Moses wanted to experience God as the only Reality? ____ Moses was raised in a palace as an Egyptian prince. Egypt was a pagan country; people believed in many gods. But Moses’ mother had taught him well about the one God so he was a faithful Hebrew living as an Egyptian. Because Moses was seeking a fuller understanding of God, “…the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire.”
What was burning? ________Let’s read that account. Ex. 3: 1-5
What did God want Moses to do? Ex. 3: 10…….. Did Moses obey God? ______
To accomplish his task, Moses needed to be sure that God, Spirit, was the only power, even the present reality. Perhaps he prayed using words like these:
“Nothing is real and eternal, -- nothing is Spirit, -- but God and His idea.”
SH 71: 1-2
Let’s make this into a positive statement. Instead of beginning with ‘Nothing,’ we’ll begin with ‘Everything.’ How would you say it?
Here’s one way to say it:
Everything real is of Spirit; Mother -- Father God is All-in-all and I am Her idea.
Moses was a great deliverer. Elijah was a great prophet. There are many stories about Elijah in I Kings. Elijah proved to the priests that there is only one God, and Baal is not his name! Queen Jezebel worshipped Baal, so she tried to kill Elijah for insulting Baal. Would you be frightened if someone were trying to kill you? ____Elijah was frightened. He ran away and hid in a cave. The Lord was with him and said, “What doest thou here, Elijah? “ I Kings 19: 9.
Or we might describe it this way: Elijah knew he was cared for by God so he asked himself, ‘What am I doing here? Why am I hiding?’ What did Mind tell Elijah to do and what did Elijah learn? I Kings 19: 11-12
Perhaps Elijah spoke words like these from Science and Health: “Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite __________, which bears no resemblance to spirituality,
is _____ _______.” SH 207: 30-31
In the Glossary of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy gives us helpful definitions of things we need to understand as we get to know God and man. What familiar words do you see in the definition of Elijah (Elias)? P__________; C_________ S__________.
True Prophets (like Elijah and Christian Science) focus on s___________ f_________ and deny m___________ s__________.
To increase our understanding, we look up words in the dictionary. Recently we found something that may have surprised you. Webster’s definitions of ‘substance’ and ‘matter’ include the Christian Science definitions. ‘Substance’ is ______. ‘Matter’ is __________.
Perhaps the editors of the dictionary realized the importance of including the spiritual sense of an idea, not just the human sense. I’m glad the Discoverer of Christian Science, _____________________, knew to give us a book with definitions of essential words.
Moses gave the Children of Israel, including us, a spiritual interpretation of ‘law.’
Mary Baker Eddy gave us a spiritual interpretation of reality. ‘Reality,’ like ‘law,’simply IS. No human opinion can change reality or law.
In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus didn’t just say to the people, ‘do better.’ Jesus said ‘____ ________.’ Matt. 5: 48. Jesus was able to heal because he did what he said. He saw the _________ _______. SH 476: 32-4
One time, the disciples saw Jesus talking to Moses (who was born about 1200 years before Jesus) and Elijah (who was born about 600 years before Jesus). Mark 9: 2-9.
This was possible because man is i_____ and has no a_____, no d________.
Like Jesus, we are agreeing only with i______________ c_______________.
SH 279: 11-12.
In this consciousness, ideas can be touched; they are t_________ and r__________.
The spiritual facts of being, Reality, appear as we divest (get rid of) f_______ t________ and m___________ e_____________. SH 428: 8-14. By doing this, we “sweep away the _______ and give place to the ________.”
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Substance
Dear 7th graders, Welcome to your new class. Let’s do a short ‘getting to know you’ exercise then we’ll see if we can learn anything new about Substance, the subject of this week’s Bible Lesson.
Substance 9-13-09 Sara Lincoln
Perhaps you do not often use the word ’substance’ in conversation, but what you think it means shows up in your life every day. What are some words that explain the meaning of ‘substance’?
What does the dictionary say?
Doe the dictionary give the Christian Science definition? _____
Here’s another way to open up the meaning of this word Substance in your daily life.
Ask yourself, “What do I hope for and want?” Quickly now, before you think much about it, write down what you hope for and want:
Do you collect things, like sea shells or baseball cards? People like what they collect; they treasure their collection. The US Government collects money in the form of taxes and puts that money in the US Treasury. Most adults also collect money. What do they do with it?
Where is ‘the Sermon on the Mount’? ___________ In that collection of teachings, Jesus talked about treasures. In Matt. 6: 20-21, he said we should lay up (put) our treasures in ____________. Why?
What you ‘treasure’ is what you love with your heart, your thought.
There are material riches and heavenly riches. What’s the difference? ……..
Jesus gave some good guidance. He said, seek ye the __________ ___ ________ (heavenly riches) and all these things (material riches) shall be added unto you. Luke 12: 31
And don’t worry, he said. “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you ___ _________”
Luke 13: 32. God loves us so much that He gives us every thought and idea and thing we need, and God helps us want what He gives!
I’m thinking of a time when Jesus was talking to thousands of people outside of town. The people were hungry for the love of God that Jesus was talking about. When the people got hungry for food, what did Jesus do? Matt. 14: 17-21.
Is this Bible story about ‘substance’? ____ What kind of substance?
Is this table ‘substance’? _____ Are tables necessary here, at home, in school? _____ Christian Science explains that a table is not m_________ but is m________________.
See the Scientific Statement of Being, page _________. See line 9-11. How would you explain the difference between ‘matter’ and ‘manifestation’?
I am _______________ but I am not ____________.
God gives us what we need. Here’s how it works: God gives the idea. We accept the idea. The idea appears to human consciousness as a thing or an act.
What do you give to God? ………..
Some Christians (and others) give 10% of their income (their riches) to the church. If I give 10% of my substance (my riches or wealth) to the church, is that enough? ______
One time a ruler asked Jesus, ‘what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ Maybe he wanted to have a good life here and a continuing life instead of death.
What would you tell the ruler to do?...................
Jesus said, ‘keep the Commandments.’ The ruler said, ‘I do that already.’ Well then, Jesus said, the next thing you need to do is ‘sell everything you have and give the money to the poor. Have treasure in heaven. Come follow me.’ Luke 18: 18-24
Did Jesus want the man to be poor? ______Jesus wanted the man to desire and accept heavenly r________ first so that he could then have human r_______ to share with others.
The Scientific Statement of Being says ‘man is not material; he is spiritual.’
Could we also say, s_________ is not material; s__________ is spiritual?
.
Substance 9-13-09 Sara Lincoln
Perhaps you do not often use the word ’substance’ in conversation, but what you think it means shows up in your life every day. What are some words that explain the meaning of ‘substance’?
What does the dictionary say?
Doe the dictionary give the Christian Science definition? _____
Here’s another way to open up the meaning of this word Substance in your daily life.
Ask yourself, “What do I hope for and want?” Quickly now, before you think much about it, write down what you hope for and want:
Do you collect things, like sea shells or baseball cards? People like what they collect; they treasure their collection. The US Government collects money in the form of taxes and puts that money in the US Treasury. Most adults also collect money. What do they do with it?
Where is ‘the Sermon on the Mount’? ___________ In that collection of teachings, Jesus talked about treasures. In Matt. 6: 20-21, he said we should lay up (put) our treasures in ____________. Why?
What you ‘treasure’ is what you love with your heart, your thought.
There are material riches and heavenly riches. What’s the difference? ……..
Jesus gave some good guidance. He said, seek ye the __________ ___ ________ (heavenly riches) and all these things (material riches) shall be added unto you. Luke 12: 31
And don’t worry, he said. “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you ___ _________”
Luke 13: 32. God loves us so much that He gives us every thought and idea and thing we need, and God helps us want what He gives!
I’m thinking of a time when Jesus was talking to thousands of people outside of town. The people were hungry for the love of God that Jesus was talking about. When the people got hungry for food, what did Jesus do? Matt. 14: 17-21.
Is this Bible story about ‘substance’? ____ What kind of substance?
Is this table ‘substance’? _____ Are tables necessary here, at home, in school? _____ Christian Science explains that a table is not m_________ but is m________________.
See the Scientific Statement of Being, page _________. See line 9-11. How would you explain the difference between ‘matter’ and ‘manifestation’?
I am _______________ but I am not ____________.
God gives us what we need. Here’s how it works: God gives the idea. We accept the idea. The idea appears to human consciousness as a thing or an act.
What do you give to God? ………..
Some Christians (and others) give 10% of their income (their riches) to the church. If I give 10% of my substance (my riches or wealth) to the church, is that enough? ______
One time a ruler asked Jesus, ‘what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ Maybe he wanted to have a good life here and a continuing life instead of death.
What would you tell the ruler to do?...................
Jesus said, ‘keep the Commandments.’ The ruler said, ‘I do that already.’ Well then, Jesus said, the next thing you need to do is ‘sell everything you have and give the money to the poor. Have treasure in heaven. Come follow me.’ Luke 18: 18-24
Did Jesus want the man to be poor? ______Jesus wanted the man to desire and accept heavenly r________ first so that he could then have human r_______ to share with others.
The Scientific Statement of Being says ‘man is not material; he is spiritual.’
Could we also say, s_________ is not material; s__________ is spiritual?
.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Man
Man 9-6-09 Sara Lincoln
Does God love you?___ How do you know? Do you love you? ____ Why?
“Who do you think you are, anyway?” You might have heard this negative reaction to your self-expression. Does self-expression include ‘showing off’?____ Your first response to this question needs to be thought, not words. In thought you might ask yourself, “am I feeling or acting superior to others? Putting myself ahead of others in importance?” It takes honesty and humility to ask and answer such questions, but you need to move on from question to answer. Is your Parent Mind always showing you how to be and do? ___ You are learning through Christian Science how to be real Christians, actual followers of Christ Jesus. The Bible and Science and Health are teaching you to quickly take a spiritual direction in thought, and that is to remember who you really are. Who are you, according to God? Who are you really, according to spiritual sense? There’s a hint on page 468 of SH.
Did people ask Jesus “who do you think you are, anyway?” ____ Religious leaders criticized Jesus for doing things they couldn’t do and didn’t understand. People were afraid and jealous too. They could have said, ‘teach us more.’ Instead they said, ‘this is not what we have always believed so how could it be true???’
Did people criticize Mary Baker Eddy by asking, “Who do you think you are, anyway?”_
Most people had a conviction that ‘man’ is material and mortal, that man is a victim of sin, disease, and death, and no one can be sure whether God will help out or not! Because Mrs. Eddy greatly desired to know the truth about God and man, God-Mind revealed it to her. Because she loved mankind, she wrote a book describing how anyone can ‘know the truth’ and how ‘the truth will make free’ as Jesus promised.
Mrs. Eddy makes many statements about ‘man’ as did many Bible writers.
What did the Prophet Isaiah say? Isa. 43: 5, 21
What did the Prophet Jeremiah say? Jer. 31: 3
What did the Apostle Paul say? Rom. 8: 16
What did Christ Jesus say? Matt. 5: 48
What did Mary Baker Eddy say in the definition of man? SH 475. Let’s find some phrases that are strong statements of truth about man (like the ones Christ Jesus made):
The definition says ‘you include all right ideas,’ but it also says ‘you possess no life, intelligence, nor creative power of your own.’ Is there a contradiction? Or did I miss something?
Christian Science explains: ‘man r__________ spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.’
Would you like to have “enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace”? You find these through a s____________ s_________ of b___________. SH 265: 10. ‘Scientific’ means _______
According to our textbook, that man is blessed ‘who seeth his brother’s _______ and ______________ it, seeking his own in another’s good.’ SH 518: 17-19
When did you ever see another person’s need and supply it?..........
Maybe you know the names of some other Christian religions, for example, P________________, M____________, E________________, B_____________.
These religious sects believe that God became flesh, in the form of Jesus. Do Christian Scientists believe this? ____ In the Bible, John says ‘the Word was made flesh.’
John 1: 1, 14. This means the Word of God corrects and heals the flesh. The Word heals the human mind which believes in flesh. The Word speaks to man’s thought and body.
Science and Health warns us not to ‘war’ over the corporeality of Jesus….not to fight over the nature of Jesus, but to rejoice “in the _____________ of our God.”
‘Affluence’ means __________________________________________.
Maybe we could say Jesus was a m_________ who taught us the truth about M______.
Can you be the same? Can you be a m______ or w________ who knows and lives the truth about M_________?
Does God love you?___ How do you know? Do you love you? ____ Why?
“Who do you think you are, anyway?” You might have heard this negative reaction to your self-expression. Does self-expression include ‘showing off’?____ Your first response to this question needs to be thought, not words. In thought you might ask yourself, “am I feeling or acting superior to others? Putting myself ahead of others in importance?” It takes honesty and humility to ask and answer such questions, but you need to move on from question to answer. Is your Parent Mind always showing you how to be and do? ___ You are learning through Christian Science how to be real Christians, actual followers of Christ Jesus. The Bible and Science and Health are teaching you to quickly take a spiritual direction in thought, and that is to remember who you really are. Who are you, according to God? Who are you really, according to spiritual sense? There’s a hint on page 468 of SH.
Did people ask Jesus “who do you think you are, anyway?” ____ Religious leaders criticized Jesus for doing things they couldn’t do and didn’t understand. People were afraid and jealous too. They could have said, ‘teach us more.’ Instead they said, ‘this is not what we have always believed so how could it be true???’
Did people criticize Mary Baker Eddy by asking, “Who do you think you are, anyway?”_
Most people had a conviction that ‘man’ is material and mortal, that man is a victim of sin, disease, and death, and no one can be sure whether God will help out or not! Because Mrs. Eddy greatly desired to know the truth about God and man, God-Mind revealed it to her. Because she loved mankind, she wrote a book describing how anyone can ‘know the truth’ and how ‘the truth will make free’ as Jesus promised.
Mrs. Eddy makes many statements about ‘man’ as did many Bible writers.
What did the Prophet Isaiah say? Isa. 43: 5, 21
What did the Prophet Jeremiah say? Jer. 31: 3
What did the Apostle Paul say? Rom. 8: 16
What did Christ Jesus say? Matt. 5: 48
What did Mary Baker Eddy say in the definition of man? SH 475. Let’s find some phrases that are strong statements of truth about man (like the ones Christ Jesus made):
The definition says ‘you include all right ideas,’ but it also says ‘you possess no life, intelligence, nor creative power of your own.’ Is there a contradiction? Or did I miss something?
Christian Science explains: ‘man r__________ spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.’
Would you like to have “enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace”? You find these through a s____________ s_________ of b___________. SH 265: 10. ‘Scientific’ means _______
According to our textbook, that man is blessed ‘who seeth his brother’s _______ and ______________ it, seeking his own in another’s good.’ SH 518: 17-19
When did you ever see another person’s need and supply it?..........
Maybe you know the names of some other Christian religions, for example, P________________, M____________, E________________, B_____________.
These religious sects believe that God became flesh, in the form of Jesus. Do Christian Scientists believe this? ____ In the Bible, John says ‘the Word was made flesh.’
John 1: 1, 14. This means the Word of God corrects and heals the flesh. The Word heals the human mind which believes in flesh. The Word speaks to man’s thought and body.
Science and Health warns us not to ‘war’ over the corporeality of Jesus….not to fight over the nature of Jesus, but to rejoice “in the _____________ of our God.”
‘Affluence’ means __________________________________________.
Maybe we could say Jesus was a m_________ who taught us the truth about M______.
Can you be the same? Can you be a m______ or w________ who knows and lives the truth about M_________?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Christ Jesus
Christ Jesus 8-30-09 Sara Lincoln
Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah said it would happen. He said, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: “ Isa. 9: 6. Not ‘shall be’ in the future, but ‘will be,’
is now.
And what will ‘this child, this son’ be like?
Isaiah said this son will not be influenced by what the material senses say. Isaiah lists eight values that this son will be influenced by: wisdom and good advice and right purpose and spiritual dominion and knowledge and respect for God and quick understanding. and righteousness (right thinking). This son’s authority (government) will keep expanding and there will be no limits to the wholeness he brings to all mankind.
Did Isaiah’s prophecy come true? ____ Did a man like this come to earth? ____
Are there people like this on earth today? ______
In our world, is evil expanding and threatening all mankind, or is the authority (government) of Good expanding and blessing everyone with wholeness and safety?
You have to choose you know, decide which of these two questions is the one you will seek answers to and evidence of.
Are you willing to see Good expanding or do you agree with mortal mind that says evil is expanding?... ’Mortal mind’ is the supposed ‘mind’ that hated Jesus, and hates the Christ.
Put a circle around the values you are influenced by.
Mary Baker Eddy points out that “Jesus was the offspring of Mary’s self-conscious communion with God.” SH 29: 32. What are the negative and positive (or you could say the material and spiritual) meanings of ‘self-conscious’?
Jesus healed a paralyzed man when he said: “Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.” Matt. 9: 2. The scribes said it was blasphemy (serious disrespect to God) to say and do things that only God could say and do, so Jesus stated plainly, “the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins” and heal the sick. Matt. 9: 6. Jesus was the Son of God, so why did he call himself the Son of man?...........
Who else is the son of man? ……..
Sin is only the belief in a power opposed to God. You have the ability to forgive (remove) sins and heal the sick when you remember the metaphor of the mirror.
What you see in the mirror is you, and yet not you. It is r______________.
Mind looks at its creation just as you look in the mirror. What Mind sees in the mirror is a reflection called you, doing the works of Mind, of God, just as Jesus commanded.
See Matt. 17: 1-8. Special things happen to people who think and live close to God. Last week we noticed that Elijah was ‘translated’: he left the earth without dying. This week we read that Christ Jesus was ‘transfigured.’ His face ____________; his raiment (robe) ____________. He was having a conversation with _________ and _________ who lived hundreds of years before Jesus. Peter wanted to honor and celebrate the occasion by building three tabernacles. What is a tabernacle?
When the Children of Israel were crossing the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land of Canaan, Moses built a tabernacle, a big wooden structure, to protect the Ark of the Covenant which contained the ________________. Ex. 25, 26, 40.
But God was not interested in a big memorial for Jesus. What did God want the disciples to do? …….…“A bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”
Listen to him.
Then Jesus did something which showed how he valued unselfishness and thoughtfulness. He knew that hearing God’s voice might have frightened his disciples, so he quickly said, “Arise, and be not afraid.”
Science and Health says that Jesus showed more than human power in what he said and did. SH 539: 27-30. When do you have more than human power? …………….
Jesus is not here today but S_________ is. If something is a Science it means anyone can learn it and prove it. Jesus reversed “the evidence before the corporeal human senses.” SH 116: 5. You can do the same when you know and apply the s________ s_________ of b_______ which says that you are, man is ………..
Did Jesus establish a church? ____ SH 136: 1-2.
What is the foundation of the church Jesus established? ________________
After only three years of teaching, preaching, and healing, Jesus was accused of blasphemy and of stirring up the people. The Pharisees insisted that Jesus be crucified, like a criminal, and the Romans carried out the deed. But after only three days in the tomb, Jesus walked out. His friend, Mary Magdalene, was surprised to find the tomb empty, and even more surprised that Jesus was right there, talking to her. He told her to “go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” John 20: 11-17
Does this mean that you have the same Father that Jesus had? ______
Jesus said and did many things that are written in the Bible.
What do you think was the most important thing Jesus said? …….
What do you think was the most important thing Jesus did?..........
To me, it was “the proof of his final triumph over body and matter.” SH 42: 15-18
Jesus told his disciples to continue the work of teaching, preaching, and healing, then he rose up into heaven; he ascended. And the disciples did go forth, preaching, “and confirming the word with signs following.” Mark 16: 19-20
Thanks to Christian Science, thousands of new disciples are confirming Jesus’ preaching and healing. When can you be a disciple who witnesses to the spiritual sense of being, as Jesus did? __________
Authority is now in the eight values mentioned at the top of page 1. How will these values apply to your new school year, your new teachers and friends and assignments?
Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah said it would happen. He said, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: “ Isa. 9: 6. Not ‘shall be’ in the future, but ‘will be,’
is now.
And what will ‘this child, this son’ be like?
Isaiah said this son will not be influenced by what the material senses say. Isaiah lists eight values that this son will be influenced by: wisdom and good advice and right purpose and spiritual dominion and knowledge and respect for God and quick understanding. and righteousness (right thinking). This son’s authority (government) will keep expanding and there will be no limits to the wholeness he brings to all mankind.
Did Isaiah’s prophecy come true? ____ Did a man like this come to earth? ____
Are there people like this on earth today? ______
In our world, is evil expanding and threatening all mankind, or is the authority (government) of Good expanding and blessing everyone with wholeness and safety?
You have to choose you know, decide which of these two questions is the one you will seek answers to and evidence of.
Are you willing to see Good expanding or do you agree with mortal mind that says evil is expanding?... ’Mortal mind’ is the supposed ‘mind’ that hated Jesus, and hates the Christ.
Put a circle around the values you are influenced by.
Mary Baker Eddy points out that “Jesus was the offspring of Mary’s self-conscious communion with God.” SH 29: 32. What are the negative and positive (or you could say the material and spiritual) meanings of ‘self-conscious’?
Jesus healed a paralyzed man when he said: “Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.” Matt. 9: 2. The scribes said it was blasphemy (serious disrespect to God) to say and do things that only God could say and do, so Jesus stated plainly, “the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins” and heal the sick. Matt. 9: 6. Jesus was the Son of God, so why did he call himself the Son of man?...........
Who else is the son of man? ……..
Sin is only the belief in a power opposed to God. You have the ability to forgive (remove) sins and heal the sick when you remember the metaphor of the mirror.
What you see in the mirror is you, and yet not you. It is r______________.
Mind looks at its creation just as you look in the mirror. What Mind sees in the mirror is a reflection called you, doing the works of Mind, of God, just as Jesus commanded.
See Matt. 17: 1-8. Special things happen to people who think and live close to God. Last week we noticed that Elijah was ‘translated’: he left the earth without dying. This week we read that Christ Jesus was ‘transfigured.’ His face ____________; his raiment (robe) ____________. He was having a conversation with _________ and _________ who lived hundreds of years before Jesus. Peter wanted to honor and celebrate the occasion by building three tabernacles. What is a tabernacle?
When the Children of Israel were crossing the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land of Canaan, Moses built a tabernacle, a big wooden structure, to protect the Ark of the Covenant which contained the ________________. Ex. 25, 26, 40.
But God was not interested in a big memorial for Jesus. What did God want the disciples to do? …….…“A bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”
Listen to him.
Then Jesus did something which showed how he valued unselfishness and thoughtfulness. He knew that hearing God’s voice might have frightened his disciples, so he quickly said, “Arise, and be not afraid.”
Science and Health says that Jesus showed more than human power in what he said and did. SH 539: 27-30. When do you have more than human power? …………….
Jesus is not here today but S_________ is. If something is a Science it means anyone can learn it and prove it. Jesus reversed “the evidence before the corporeal human senses.” SH 116: 5. You can do the same when you know and apply the s________ s_________ of b_______ which says that you are, man is ………..
Did Jesus establish a church? ____ SH 136: 1-2.
What is the foundation of the church Jesus established? ________________
After only three years of teaching, preaching, and healing, Jesus was accused of blasphemy and of stirring up the people. The Pharisees insisted that Jesus be crucified, like a criminal, and the Romans carried out the deed. But after only three days in the tomb, Jesus walked out. His friend, Mary Magdalene, was surprised to find the tomb empty, and even more surprised that Jesus was right there, talking to her. He told her to “go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” John 20: 11-17
Does this mean that you have the same Father that Jesus had? ______
Jesus said and did many things that are written in the Bible.
What do you think was the most important thing Jesus said? …….
What do you think was the most important thing Jesus did?..........
To me, it was “the proof of his final triumph over body and matter.” SH 42: 15-18
Jesus told his disciples to continue the work of teaching, preaching, and healing, then he rose up into heaven; he ascended. And the disciples did go forth, preaching, “and confirming the word with signs following.” Mark 16: 19-20
Thanks to Christian Science, thousands of new disciples are confirming Jesus’ preaching and healing. When can you be a disciple who witnesses to the spiritual sense of being, as Jesus did? __________
Authority is now in the eight values mentioned at the top of page 1. How will these values apply to your new school year, your new teachers and friends and assignments?
Friday, August 21, 2009
In the Bible
In the Bible
What do you know about these people in the OT and NT? Sara Lincoln 2008 – 2009
Ford the sheet so that you can see only the names, then unfold it to check your memory.
OLD TESTAMENT
Man The image and likeness of God, according to Genesis 1: 26, 27;
manifestation
Adam, Eve First human man and woman; Cain, first son, killed Abel his
brother.
Seth Third son of Adam and Eve; ancestor of Jesus Christ:
Enoch He was translated and did not experience death: Gen 5: 18, 24
Methuselah Son of Enoch; grandfather of Noah; Methuselah died at age 969
Noah Obeyed God’s command to build an ark for all living creatures.
God established a covenant with Noah and man, assuring man’s safety.
Melchizedek King of Salem; priest of the Most High God; blesses Abram
Abram The Lord called him out of his own country into Canaan;
renamed Abraham when God said he would be father of many nations;
Lot Abraham’s nephew; separated from Abraham when Lot chose all
the plain of Jordan and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
Sarai Abraham’s wife; name later changed to Sarah.
Hagar Sarai’s handmaid; Ishmael was the son of Abram and Hagar.
Sarah, Isaac God renamed Sarai Sarah when He promised her a son, Isaac;
Rebekah Wife of Isaac
Esau First born twin son of Isaac and Rebekah; Gen. 25: 25
Jacob Renamed Israel after he defeated a false sense of man; Esau’s twin
brother; Jacob’s 12 sons formed the 12 tribes, the ‘Children of Israel.’
Joseph Sold into slavery by his brothers; became a ruler; forgave his brothers.
Pharaoh Advanced Joseph’s career when Joseph interpreted his dream
Moses Led the Children of Israel out of Egypt and received the Commandments.
Aaron Moses’ brother and spokesperson
Miriam Moses’ sister; prophetess; had a bout with leprosy when she doubted
Moses
Elijah A prophet; raised the son of a widow from death; learned that the Lord
was not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but in the still small voice
Elisha A prophet; parted the Jordan River using Elijah’s cloak; multiplied
the oil for a widow, thus saving her sons from servitude
Isaiah A great prophet who said ‘a child will be born, a Savior’
Jeremiah A prophet; he told the people of Jerusalem that they would lose their
Temple and city because they had begun worshipping idols again
Dagon A god of the Philistines; it fell to the earth in front of the Ark of
the Covenant
Baal A god worshipped by King Ahab and Queen Jezebel; Elijah defeated the
prophets of Baal in a contest involving fire
Israel *The name given to Jacob *The name of the people who settled the land
of Canaan, ‘the Promised Land,’ 3000 yrs. ago * The name of the Kingdom
ruled by King David * The nation chosen by God to bring forth the
Messiah, Christ Jesus
Ruth A woman from Moab who remained faithful to Naomi, her Jewish mother-in-
law; became the great-grandmother of David
Saul The first King of Israel
Samuel A prophet who anointed Saul King
David A shepherd boy who played the harp for Saul; a great warrior; the
greatest King of the Jews; wrote most of the Psalms
Goliath A big Philistine warrior who David brought down with a stone from his sling
Solomon David’s son; King of Israel; asked God for wisdom; wrote many Proverbs
Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon; conquered Jerusalem; tried to kill Daniel and his
friends; made a great statue of gold and required all to bow down to it
Daniel Interpreted King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, saying God would tell the meaning
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego Jews faithful to God; they did not burn up when
King Nebuchadnezzar had them thrown into a fiery furnace
Samson A Nazarite; unusually strong; Philistines put him in prison; later he
pushed against two pillars and the building fell in on the Philistines
NEW TESTAMENT
King Herod King of the Jews when Jesus was born; tried to have Jesus killed
Beelzebub The prince of the devils
Jesus The promised Messiah, born of the Virgin Mary; used many parables when
teaching about God and man; did many healings; rose from the
dead
Christ God’s idea of man which Jesus exemplified; God’s message to the human
consciousness; the true nature of Jesus and everyone;
Christian Followers of Christ Jesus; Christians were sometimes called ‘saints’
Romans People who lived in Rome; the Roman army; and a book written by Paul
Matthew – Mark – Luke – John The four gospels tell the story and meaning of
Jesus life; the first four books of the New Testament
Saul – Paul Saul was a Pharisee who tried to kill Jewish Christians; he saw a
great light and heard the voice of Jesus; he took the new name of
Paul and began to preach to the Gentiles; restored a boy to life who
had fallen from a high window; saved the lives of all on a ship;
wrote many letters to the new churches and these letters
make up most of the New Testament
Timothy A young man who assisted the Apostle Paul in his teaching
Peter A disciple of Jesus; later denied knowing Jesus; finally became one of
the great Christian teachers; he and John healed a lame man outside the
Temple; raised Tabitha (Dorcas) from death; healed a paralyzed man;
learned in a vision that God loved Gentiles as well as Jews; was put in
prison but the church prayed and his chains fell off and he walked out of
the prison
John A disciple of Jesus; he wrote a lot about love, including I John 3: 1-3
which is read every Sunday in the Christian Science church service; he also
wrote the book of Revelation while he was ‘under house arrest’ on the isle
of Patmos
What do you know about these people in the OT and NT? Sara Lincoln 2008 – 2009
Ford the sheet so that you can see only the names, then unfold it to check your memory.
OLD TESTAMENT
Man The image and likeness of God, according to Genesis 1: 26, 27;
manifestation
Adam, Eve First human man and woman; Cain, first son, killed Abel his
brother.
Seth Third son of Adam and Eve; ancestor of Jesus Christ:
Enoch He was translated and did not experience death: Gen 5: 18, 24
Methuselah Son of Enoch; grandfather of Noah; Methuselah died at age 969
Noah Obeyed God’s command to build an ark for all living creatures.
God established a covenant with Noah and man, assuring man’s safety.
Melchizedek King of Salem; priest of the Most High God; blesses Abram
Abram The Lord called him out of his own country into Canaan;
renamed Abraham when God said he would be father of many nations;
Lot Abraham’s nephew; separated from Abraham when Lot chose all
the plain of Jordan and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
Sarai Abraham’s wife; name later changed to Sarah.
Hagar Sarai’s handmaid; Ishmael was the son of Abram and Hagar.
Sarah, Isaac God renamed Sarai Sarah when He promised her a son, Isaac;
Rebekah Wife of Isaac
Esau First born twin son of Isaac and Rebekah; Gen. 25: 25
Jacob Renamed Israel after he defeated a false sense of man; Esau’s twin
brother; Jacob’s 12 sons formed the 12 tribes, the ‘Children of Israel.’
Joseph Sold into slavery by his brothers; became a ruler; forgave his brothers.
Pharaoh Advanced Joseph’s career when Joseph interpreted his dream
Moses Led the Children of Israel out of Egypt and received the Commandments.
Aaron Moses’ brother and spokesperson
Miriam Moses’ sister; prophetess; had a bout with leprosy when she doubted
Moses
Elijah A prophet; raised the son of a widow from death; learned that the Lord
was not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but in the still small voice
Elisha A prophet; parted the Jordan River using Elijah’s cloak; multiplied
the oil for a widow, thus saving her sons from servitude
Isaiah A great prophet who said ‘a child will be born, a Savior’
Jeremiah A prophet; he told the people of Jerusalem that they would lose their
Temple and city because they had begun worshipping idols again
Dagon A god of the Philistines; it fell to the earth in front of the Ark of
the Covenant
Baal A god worshipped by King Ahab and Queen Jezebel; Elijah defeated the
prophets of Baal in a contest involving fire
Israel *The name given to Jacob *The name of the people who settled the land
of Canaan, ‘the Promised Land,’ 3000 yrs. ago * The name of the Kingdom
ruled by King David * The nation chosen by God to bring forth the
Messiah, Christ Jesus
Ruth A woman from Moab who remained faithful to Naomi, her Jewish mother-in-
law; became the great-grandmother of David
Saul The first King of Israel
Samuel A prophet who anointed Saul King
David A shepherd boy who played the harp for Saul; a great warrior; the
greatest King of the Jews; wrote most of the Psalms
Goliath A big Philistine warrior who David brought down with a stone from his sling
Solomon David’s son; King of Israel; asked God for wisdom; wrote many Proverbs
Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon; conquered Jerusalem; tried to kill Daniel and his
friends; made a great statue of gold and required all to bow down to it
Daniel Interpreted King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, saying God would tell the meaning
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego Jews faithful to God; they did not burn up when
King Nebuchadnezzar had them thrown into a fiery furnace
Samson A Nazarite; unusually strong; Philistines put him in prison; later he
pushed against two pillars and the building fell in on the Philistines
NEW TESTAMENT
King Herod King of the Jews when Jesus was born; tried to have Jesus killed
Beelzebub The prince of the devils
Jesus The promised Messiah, born of the Virgin Mary; used many parables when
teaching about God and man; did many healings; rose from the
dead
Christ God’s idea of man which Jesus exemplified; God’s message to the human
consciousness; the true nature of Jesus and everyone;
Christian Followers of Christ Jesus; Christians were sometimes called ‘saints’
Romans People who lived in Rome; the Roman army; and a book written by Paul
Matthew – Mark – Luke – John The four gospels tell the story and meaning of
Jesus life; the first four books of the New Testament
Saul – Paul Saul was a Pharisee who tried to kill Jewish Christians; he saw a
great light and heard the voice of Jesus; he took the new name of
Paul and began to preach to the Gentiles; restored a boy to life who
had fallen from a high window; saved the lives of all on a ship;
wrote many letters to the new churches and these letters
make up most of the New Testament
Timothy A young man who assisted the Apostle Paul in his teaching
Peter A disciple of Jesus; later denied knowing Jesus; finally became one of
the great Christian teachers; he and John healed a lame man outside the
Temple; raised Tabitha (Dorcas) from death; healed a paralyzed man;
learned in a vision that God loved Gentiles as well as Jews; was put in
prison but the church prayed and his chains fell off and he walked out of
the prison
John A disciple of Jesus; he wrote a lot about love, including I John 3: 1-3
which is read every Sunday in the Christian Science church service; he also
wrote the book of Revelation while he was ‘under house arrest’ on the isle
of Patmos
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