Truth

Truth 1-25-09 Sara Lincoln

“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” Where is it that someone has to answer this question, and why?

Where in this building would you find the following statement: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
This promise was given by ______________ to ___________________. John 8: 31-32

What is the first tenet of Christian Science? SH 497: 3
As Christian Scientists, we agree to look not just to the Bible, but to the ___________ __________ of the Bible. How do you find the inspired Word among so many words?

We need to know the Bible because it, along with Science and Health, is our Pastor.
The Bible is like a library of books. How many books are in the Bible?_______
Every book deals with the relationship between _________ and __________.
Can you name 12 books? Write them down. (Don’t be concerned about spelling).

Could you find ‘the inspired Word’ in any book of the Bible? ______
The inspired Word is any story or passage that teaches the truth about God and man.
The Lord’s Prayer, including its spiritual interpretation, summarizes this truth about God and man. Read aloud the last four lines on page 17 of Science and Health.
In your own words, what do these four lines say about God and man?

Jesus said his purpose in life was to “bear witness unto _______ ________.”
John 18: 37
Is that your purpose too? What evidence do you have that this is your purpose?

Our textbook says that “the ___________ _______ of truth must be gained before Truth can be understood.” You can find the spiritual sense of truth when you are __________, _______________, ________________, and _____________. SH 272: 3-5
Our textbook says “Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness, error, Truth’s opposite, has no might.” SH 367: 31-32
What is Truth always correcting and destroying? ___________.
We practice Christian Science by witnessing to what God is doing as Truth.

One time, Jesus’ disciples were not able to heal a young boy. After Jesus healed him, the disciples asked, ‘why couldn’t we cast out the evil, the disease’? Jesus answered,because you don’t really believe the Truth that you say!
Is every good thing possible to you? ________
Jesus said, “…._____________ shall be impossible to you.” Matt. 17: 20-21
Every error is cast out (corrected) by prayer and ____________. What is fasting?

It’s easier to desire ________ than to get rid of _________, but we can succeed as we work and pray to possess no other consciousness but _____________. SH 322: 31-5
“The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.”
SH 199: 21-22

When you ‘seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,’ what do you receive? Matt. 6: 31-33

Does everyone seek the Truth? ________

Can you think of any examples in the Bible, in history books, when someone did or
did not ‘seek the Truth’?

You have .... “at-one-ment with Truth and Love” when you let Truth overcome error in your daily ______________ and _________________.” SH 21: 1-5, 9
The disciple of Christ Jesus, the student of Christian Science, “constantly turns away from ____________ ___________, and looks toward the imperishable __________ ___________ _________.”