________Women in the Bible ________
Old Testament and New Testament
compiled by Sara Lincoln Jan. 2011
Here is a list of women in the Old Testament and New Testament most of whom sought the truth and lived the truth. These women were required and willing to serve the purposes of God.
We acknowledge and thank the hundreds of women not named.
Old Testament
Eve first woman, wife of Adam; acted on the suggestion of the
serpent, evil
Hagar wife of Abraham; mother of Ishmael
Sarah wife of Abraham; mother of Isaac
Rebekah wife of Isaac; mother of Esau and Jacob
Miriam sister of Moses and Aaron
Rahab hid two Hebrew spies in Jericho; ancestor of David
and Jesus
Deborah the fifth judge of Israel and the only female judge;
a prophet
Ruth from Moab, a pagan country; great-grandmother of David
Hannah dedicated her son Samuel to the Lord;
Samuel became the first prophet
Abigail helped David when he was hiding from King Saul;
later became David’s wife
Bath-Sheba wife of Uriah the Hittite, then wife of David and
mother of Solomon
Widow of Zarephath widow with son, willing to give Elijah their last
bit of food
Shunammite woman helped the Prophet Elisha; he healed
her barrenness
Huldah a prophet during the same time that Jeremiah was a prophet
Esther a Jewish queen who saved her people from destruction
New Testament
Mary, mother of Jesus called the Virgin Mary
Elisabeth mother of John the Baptist; her husband was Zacharias
Anna saw the baby Jesus and realized that he was the long-
awaited Messiah
Martha and Mary sisters of Lazarus and followers of Jesus
Three unnamed women healed by Jesus
The Syro-Phoenician woman a Gentile woman whose daughter was
healed by Jesus
Woman of Samaria gave Jesus a drink at the well; recognized Jesus’
divinity and told the elders of the city to come meet him
Mary Magdalene Jesus cast out seven demons; she became one of
Jesus’ followers
Pilate’s wife she defended Jesus and said he shouldn’t be condemned
and crucified
Mary, mother of James and John; present at Jesus’ crucifixion and
resurrection
Salome brought spices to Jesus’ tomb; mother of the disciples
James and John
Mary, mother of John Mark who later wrote the Gospel of Mark
Dorcas raised from the dead by Peter; she was also called Tabitha
Lydia wealthy woman who helped Paul; she heard Paul speak and
became the first convert to Christianity in Europe
Priscilla she and her husband Aquila helped Paul spread the
Gospel of Christianity
Phoebe a wealthy businesswoman who helped Paul
Lois and Eunice Lois was Eunice’s mother; Eunice was the mother of
Timothy who accompanied Paul on his journeys
Friday, December 10, 2010
Men in the Bible New Testament
________Men in the Bible ________
New Testament
compiled by Sara Lincoln Jan. 2011
Jesus The Son of God; The Messiah; through parables and healings, he taught the people that God is all powerful and that man is not material but is also the son of God.
The disciples of Jesus were Simon Peter, Andrew, James the son of Zebedee, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot.
Peter A disciple of Jesus; denied Jesus before the crucifixion but later he raised Dorcas from the dead; he and the Apostle Paul spread Christianity after Jesus ascended.
Apostle Paul in many cities he established churches based on Jesus Christ as the Son of God; wrote letters to encourage these churches; many of the books in the New Testament are letters written by Paul; raised the boy Eutychus from the dead;
Publius chief of the island of Malta; Paul healed Publius’ father
Philip preached the Gospel and healed people
Mark wrote the first story of Jesus’ life several decades after Jesus’
ascension
Matthew Jesus’ disciple; wrote history of Jesus and told about Jesus’
healings and parables
Luke helped the Apostle Paul; wrote about the healings of Jesus in the
book of Luke and the healings of the apostles in the book Acts of the Apostles
John a disciple of Jesus; a strong leader of the disciples after Jesus
ascended; banished to the isle of Patmos where he wrote the book of
Revelation.
New Testament
compiled by Sara Lincoln Jan. 2011
Jesus The Son of God; The Messiah; through parables and healings, he taught the people that God is all powerful and that man is not material but is also the son of God.
The disciples of Jesus were Simon Peter, Andrew, James the son of Zebedee, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot.
Peter A disciple of Jesus; denied Jesus before the crucifixion but later he raised Dorcas from the dead; he and the Apostle Paul spread Christianity after Jesus ascended.
Apostle Paul in many cities he established churches based on Jesus Christ as the Son of God; wrote letters to encourage these churches; many of the books in the New Testament are letters written by Paul; raised the boy Eutychus from the dead;
Publius chief of the island of Malta; Paul healed Publius’ father
Philip preached the Gospel and healed people
Mark wrote the first story of Jesus’ life several decades after Jesus’
ascension
Matthew Jesus’ disciple; wrote history of Jesus and told about Jesus’
healings and parables
Luke helped the Apostle Paul; wrote about the healings of Jesus in the
book of Luke and the healings of the apostles in the book Acts of the Apostles
John a disciple of Jesus; a strong leader of the disciples after Jesus
ascended; banished to the isle of Patmos where he wrote the book of
Revelation.
________Men in the Bible ________
Old Testament
compiled by Sara Lincoln Jan. 2011
Here is a list of men in the Old Testament most of whom sought the truth and lived the truth. These men were required and willing to serve the purposes of God. We acknowledge and thank the hundreds of men not named.
Adam first human; did not obey God; banished from Garden of Eden; must have repented because after the birth of his grandson, Enos, then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
Enoch walked with God: and he was not for God took him
Noah followed God’s directions to build an ark and save mankind and
animals from the flood; Noah walked with God
Abraham had the faith to go to a new land and have only one God;
Father of many nations: Jews, Christians, Muslims
Melchizedek King of Salem; priest of the Most High God; a ‘Christ’ figure.
He blessed Abraham, possessor of heaven and earth
Lot Abraham’s nephew; left Abraham to live in the city of Sodom
Twelve sons of Jacob/Israel settled in Canaan and became the 12 Tribes of Israel: Gad, Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Dan, Levi, Asher, Joseph, Benjamin, Issachar, Zebulon, and Naphtali.
Isaac Abraham and Sarah’s son;
Isaac and Rebekah were parents of Jacob and Esau
Jacob and Esau twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah; Esau sold his birthright
to Jacob; later in life, Esau and Jacob were reunited
Joseph Abraham’s favorite son; he became a prince in Egypt and saved
his brothers who had sold him into slavery because of their jealousy
Moses called by God to lead the Children of Israel out of slavery in
Egypt; received the Ten Commandments; did not cross the Jordan River into the Promised Land
Aaron Moses’ brother who spoke for Moses before Pharaoh;
first High Priest of the Hebrew nation
Joshua led the Children of Israel into Canaan, conquering the city
of Jericho
Gideon a prophet; delivered Israel from the Midianites with only 300 men
Samson last Judge of Israel; destroyed many pagan Philistines by
breaking the pillars holding up the roof of the temple of Dagon
Samuel first Prophet of Israel; anointed Saul then David as Kings
of Israel
Saul first King of Israel; the Children of Israel insisted on
having a king because the nations around them had kings
David as King, he united Israel and Judah into one nation; wrote many
Psalms; an ancestor of Jesus Christ
Absalom son of David who tried to kill David
Solomon David’s son; second King of Israel; built the Temple in Jerusalem;
a ‘wise King’ who wrote the book of Proverbs
Job he lived an honest life before God; ‘Satan’ took everything away but Job remained faithful and would not ‘curse God.’ Everything was restored.
Jonah ran away from God’s directive, spent three days in the belly of a whale, then went forward to ‘preach against and convert the Ninevites,’
as directed
Ahab King of Israel; he and his wife Jezebel worshipped Baal
Elijah God’s prophet who destroyed the ‘prophets of Baal;’ ran away from Jezebel’s death threat; witnessed earthquake, wind, and fire; heard God as a still, small voice; restored a widow’s son to life; did not die but was taken up into heaven; Moses, Elijah, and Jesus appeared to the disciples at the transfiguration
Elisha succeeded the prophet Elijah; advised Kings, preached the Word of God; he sweetened the bitter waters for drinking and healed Naaman
of leprosy
Gehazi Elisha’s servant
Daniel refused to worship the idol set up by King Nebuchadnezzar so he was thrown into a den of lions; the lions did not hurt Daniel for he was obeying God
Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem after Babylon had destroyed
the city
Isaiah a prophet; warned the Israelites that they were not living up to their purpose, but that God would send a Savior
Jeremiah a prophet during the years that Israel was in captivity in Babylon
Old Testament
compiled by Sara Lincoln Jan. 2011
Here is a list of men in the Old Testament most of whom sought the truth and lived the truth. These men were required and willing to serve the purposes of God. We acknowledge and thank the hundreds of men not named.
Adam first human; did not obey God; banished from Garden of Eden; must have repented because after the birth of his grandson, Enos, then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
Enoch walked with God: and he was not for God took him
Noah followed God’s directions to build an ark and save mankind and
animals from the flood; Noah walked with God
Abraham had the faith to go to a new land and have only one God;
Father of many nations: Jews, Christians, Muslims
Melchizedek King of Salem; priest of the Most High God; a ‘Christ’ figure.
He blessed Abraham, possessor of heaven and earth
Lot Abraham’s nephew; left Abraham to live in the city of Sodom
Twelve sons of Jacob/Israel settled in Canaan and became the 12 Tribes of Israel: Gad, Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Dan, Levi, Asher, Joseph, Benjamin, Issachar, Zebulon, and Naphtali.
Isaac Abraham and Sarah’s son;
Isaac and Rebekah were parents of Jacob and Esau
Jacob and Esau twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah; Esau sold his birthright
to Jacob; later in life, Esau and Jacob were reunited
Joseph Abraham’s favorite son; he became a prince in Egypt and saved
his brothers who had sold him into slavery because of their jealousy
Moses called by God to lead the Children of Israel out of slavery in
Egypt; received the Ten Commandments; did not cross the Jordan River into the Promised Land
Aaron Moses’ brother who spoke for Moses before Pharaoh;
first High Priest of the Hebrew nation
Joshua led the Children of Israel into Canaan, conquering the city
of Jericho
Gideon a prophet; delivered Israel from the Midianites with only 300 men
Samson last Judge of Israel; destroyed many pagan Philistines by
breaking the pillars holding up the roof of the temple of Dagon
Samuel first Prophet of Israel; anointed Saul then David as Kings
of Israel
Saul first King of Israel; the Children of Israel insisted on
having a king because the nations around them had kings
David as King, he united Israel and Judah into one nation; wrote many
Psalms; an ancestor of Jesus Christ
Absalom son of David who tried to kill David
Solomon David’s son; second King of Israel; built the Temple in Jerusalem;
a ‘wise King’ who wrote the book of Proverbs
Job he lived an honest life before God; ‘Satan’ took everything away but Job remained faithful and would not ‘curse God.’ Everything was restored.
Jonah ran away from God’s directive, spent three days in the belly of a whale, then went forward to ‘preach against and convert the Ninevites,’
as directed
Ahab King of Israel; he and his wife Jezebel worshipped Baal
Elijah God’s prophet who destroyed the ‘prophets of Baal;’ ran away from Jezebel’s death threat; witnessed earthquake, wind, and fire; heard God as a still, small voice; restored a widow’s son to life; did not die but was taken up into heaven; Moses, Elijah, and Jesus appeared to the disciples at the transfiguration
Elisha succeeded the prophet Elijah; advised Kings, preached the Word of God; he sweetened the bitter waters for drinking and healed Naaman
of leprosy
Gehazi Elisha’s servant
Daniel refused to worship the idol set up by King Nebuchadnezzar so he was thrown into a den of lions; the lions did not hurt Daniel for he was obeying God
Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem after Babylon had destroyed
the city
Isaiah a prophet; warned the Israelites that they were not living up to their purpose, but that God would send a Savior
Jeremiah a prophet during the years that Israel was in captivity in Babylon
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
God the Only Caue and Creator
God the Only Cause and Creator 12-5-2010 Sara Lincoln
If this Lesson were called God the Only, would we ask the only what? _____. How would you answer? God is the only _________________________.
Psalm 145: 4-5 reveals an author who is very enthusiastic about God’s m_______ a______ and w________ w_______. Seee says I will e______ and b______ and p________. Do you ever want to e_____ and b_____ and p______ the Lord? ____. How do you do it? What does it sound like? _______.
Do you agree with Mary Baker Eddy that we need to know that God is C______ and C_______? ______, because _____________________________.
A cause is a person or thing that brings about a result. You are the result of (write in your favorite synonyms for God) ________________bringing about the unique result called ________. John says All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3. What does creation consist of? SH 502: 28. ______________________________________.
A creator is one that causes or produces. Do you think cause and creator mean the same thing? ____.
What are some other things God made besides you?______________________.
Are your parents also a cause, or is God the only cause? _______________.
Jesus said ‘don’t call m___ your father, but call G___ your Father.’ Matt. 23: 9.
Who is your mother, brother, sister? ______________________________. SH 31: 4.
We say the spiritual is scientific because _____________________. SH 207: 27.
In Gen. 17: 3-5, God told __________ I will make you a father of many nations.
In Gen. 17: 15-17, God told _______ I will make you a mother of many nations.
Christian Science says Divine Love blesses its _______ ______ and causes them to m ________and m________ His power. SH 517: 30-31. Is ‘Divine Love’ the same as Father and Mother? I say ___ because the prayer Jesus taught us (and its spiritual interpretation) says __________________.
Mortal sense calls ideas m________, but God is All-in-all. All is Spirit and all must therefore be s________, not material. SH 507:28.
…Mind is the multiplier, and Mind’s infinite idea, man and the universe, is the pro______. SH 508: 3.
When were you and your parents created? There is an answer in the chapter in the Bible that means origin or ‘beginning.’
M________ can never understand God’s creation while believing that man is a _________. SH 69: 6.
Are you getting a spiritual education? _____. From whom? ______________.
Man is more than a material form with a mind inside, which must escape from its environments in order to be immortal. Man ________ infinity, and this __________ is the true idea of God.
SH 258: 9.
Reflection is a good way to describe creation. God expresses L_____, T_____, and L_____, and the result, the reflection, is permanent man. God does not create matter, the un____ and tem_____. Temporal means not ____________.
God expresses in man the i_______ i_______ forever developing itself, broadening and rising h_______ and h________ from a boundless basis. Mind _________ all that exists in the infinitude of Truth. We know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God.
SH 258: 13. Manifestation is a good way to describe creation. God is real and good and All. God manifests, expresses, that Allness in _____ of us.
What idea in this lesson was especially interesting to you? ________________.
If this Lesson were called God the Only, would we ask the only what? _____. How would you answer? God is the only _________________________.
Psalm 145: 4-5 reveals an author who is very enthusiastic about God’s m_______ a______ and w________ w_______. Seee says I will e______ and b______ and p________. Do you ever want to e_____ and b_____ and p______ the Lord? ____. How do you do it? What does it sound like? _______.
Do you agree with Mary Baker Eddy that we need to know that God is C______ and C_______? ______, because _____________________________.
A cause is a person or thing that brings about a result. You are the result of (write in your favorite synonyms for God) ________________bringing about the unique result called ________. John says All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3. What does creation consist of? SH 502: 28. ______________________________________.
A creator is one that causes or produces. Do you think cause and creator mean the same thing? ____.
What are some other things God made besides you?______________________.
Are your parents also a cause, or is God the only cause? _______________.
Jesus said ‘don’t call m___ your father, but call G___ your Father.’ Matt. 23: 9.
Who is your mother, brother, sister? ______________________________. SH 31: 4.
We say the spiritual is scientific because _____________________. SH 207: 27.
In Gen. 17: 3-5, God told __________ I will make you a father of many nations.
In Gen. 17: 15-17, God told _______ I will make you a mother of many nations.
Christian Science says Divine Love blesses its _______ ______ and causes them to m ________and m________ His power. SH 517: 30-31. Is ‘Divine Love’ the same as Father and Mother? I say ___ because the prayer Jesus taught us (and its spiritual interpretation) says __________________.
Mortal sense calls ideas m________, but God is All-in-all. All is Spirit and all must therefore be s________, not material. SH 507:28.
…Mind is the multiplier, and Mind’s infinite idea, man and the universe, is the pro______. SH 508: 3.
When were you and your parents created? There is an answer in the chapter in the Bible that means origin or ‘beginning.’
M________ can never understand God’s creation while believing that man is a _________. SH 69: 6.
Are you getting a spiritual education? _____. From whom? ______________.
Man is more than a material form with a mind inside, which must escape from its environments in order to be immortal. Man ________ infinity, and this __________ is the true idea of God.
SH 258: 9.
Reflection is a good way to describe creation. God expresses L_____, T_____, and L_____, and the result, the reflection, is permanent man. God does not create matter, the un____ and tem_____. Temporal means not ____________.
God expresses in man the i_______ i_______ forever developing itself, broadening and rising h_______ and h________ from a boundless basis. Mind _________ all that exists in the infinitude of Truth. We know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God.
SH 258: 13. Manifestation is a good way to describe creation. God is real and good and All. God manifests, expresses, that Allness in _____ of us.
What idea in this lesson was especially interesting to you? ________________.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias, Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.
Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced
11-28-2010 Sara Lincoln
Is imagination a useful mental capacity? ____. It helps a thinker discover new things and new ways of doing things. A person who values im_______ does not get stuck in limitation.
A spiritual thinker might call imagination sp______ s______, which also refuses limits and seeks new possibilities. A Psalmist urges us to Mark the p______ m_____, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is ______. Ps. 37: 37. To mark means to ____________.
Not with material sense, but with imagination, spiritual sense, we behold the perfect man.
Mortalnomind does not honor G____ nor look to sp______ s______. It claims to imagine e_____ and dishonest mental nightmares like the words in our lesson title: n___________, m________, and h________. The Psalmist asked, Why do…the people imagine a v______ thing? Ps. 2: 1. Seee didn’t answer the question, but instead said Be w_____… A wise thinker knows what has power and what does not have power. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that p______ belongeth unto G____. Ps. 62: 11.
The Apostle Paul said there is no po_____ but of God. Rom. 13: 1.The spiritual thinker, the Christian Scientist, needs to denounce necromancy, mesmerism, and hypnotism because__. Does denounce mean disapprove of, or disprove? ___________. What’s the difference?
Mary Baker Eddy makes a great power statement (SH 228: 25-27): There is no p______ apart from God. Omni________ has all p______, and to acknowledge any other p______ is to dishonor God. What is the great power statement we say together every Sunday? ________.
Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, through the wilderness, and into the P______ L_______. They had to go through the land of Moab. Find it on the map. Balak, King of Moab, was afraid of this horde of Israelites. He commanded Balaam, a diviner (wise man) to c________ the Israelites and halt their progress. Balaam truly was a wise person. He said he couldn’t curse them because God did not curse them. He said Behold, I have received commandment to b_____: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23: 20.
Balaam said, ‘even if you gave me a lot of money, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind, but what the Lord saith, that will I speak.’ Numbers 24: 13. Do you think Balaam would have agreed with another wise person, ______ ______ ______, who came along several thousand years later saying, The h______ m______ has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no c________ over God’s man. The d_____ M_____ that made man maintains His own i____ and l______. SH 151: 21.
Could n__________, m__________, and h__________ be described as evil thoughts and aims? ____. Science and Health declares that Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more harm than one’s ________ permits. SH 234: 31-3.
When Jesus was ready to begin his public practice, he called twelve men to be his disciples. Can you name any of them? Matt. 10: 1-4_________________________________________.
When the first disciples heard Jesus preach in the syna_________, they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had auth_________, and not as the scribes.
Mark 1: 21-22. Is authority similar to power? _____.
What happened after they left the synagogue? Let’s read the rest of the story,
Mark 1: 29-34.
The last four words are ______ ______ ______ ______. Did Jesus cast out real devils? _. If they were real, if God had made them, would Jesus have cast them out? _____.
The Glossary of Science and Health explains that the ‘devil’ Jesus cast out was _________.
Through the Christ, God’s idea of man, Jesus cast out beliefs in the so-called ‘magical’ powers of so-called m________ m_______. Three of the false beliefs Jesus denounced were n________, m________, and h________. The lie has to be rejected so that the t________ can be uncovered, revealed. A mistake in mathematics has to be detected and erased or deleted before you can write down the fact.
Can you learn mathematics by copying the answers from another person’s paper? Can you excel in your sport just by watching videos of it? ______. Can you experience the power and authority of Christian Science just by filling in the blanks on your Sunday School discussion sheet? ______. What do you need to do? ____________________________.
Here are some good instructions:
1. Christian Scientists, be a ______ to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. SH 442: 30.
2. At all times and under all circumstances, overcome _______ with ________. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a v_________ over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. SH 571:15-19.
11-28-2010 Sara Lincoln
Is imagination a useful mental capacity? ____. It helps a thinker discover new things and new ways of doing things. A person who values im_______ does not get stuck in limitation.
A spiritual thinker might call imagination sp______ s______, which also refuses limits and seeks new possibilities. A Psalmist urges us to Mark the p______ m_____, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is ______. Ps. 37: 37. To mark means to ____________.
Not with material sense, but with imagination, spiritual sense, we behold the perfect man.
Mortalnomind does not honor G____ nor look to sp______ s______. It claims to imagine e_____ and dishonest mental nightmares like the words in our lesson title: n___________, m________, and h________. The Psalmist asked, Why do…the people imagine a v______ thing? Ps. 2: 1. Seee didn’t answer the question, but instead said Be w_____… A wise thinker knows what has power and what does not have power. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that p______ belongeth unto G____. Ps. 62: 11.
The Apostle Paul said there is no po_____ but of God. Rom. 13: 1.The spiritual thinker, the Christian Scientist, needs to denounce necromancy, mesmerism, and hypnotism because__. Does denounce mean disapprove of, or disprove? ___________. What’s the difference?
Mary Baker Eddy makes a great power statement (SH 228: 25-27): There is no p______ apart from God. Omni________ has all p______, and to acknowledge any other p______ is to dishonor God. What is the great power statement we say together every Sunday? ________.
Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, through the wilderness, and into the P______ L_______. They had to go through the land of Moab. Find it on the map. Balak, King of Moab, was afraid of this horde of Israelites. He commanded Balaam, a diviner (wise man) to c________ the Israelites and halt their progress. Balaam truly was a wise person. He said he couldn’t curse them because God did not curse them. He said Behold, I have received commandment to b_____: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23: 20.
Balaam said, ‘even if you gave me a lot of money, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind, but what the Lord saith, that will I speak.’ Numbers 24: 13. Do you think Balaam would have agreed with another wise person, ______ ______ ______, who came along several thousand years later saying, The h______ m______ has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no c________ over God’s man. The d_____ M_____ that made man maintains His own i____ and l______. SH 151: 21.
Could n__________, m__________, and h__________ be described as evil thoughts and aims? ____. Science and Health declares that Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more harm than one’s ________ permits. SH 234: 31-3.
When Jesus was ready to begin his public practice, he called twelve men to be his disciples. Can you name any of them? Matt. 10: 1-4_________________________________________.
When the first disciples heard Jesus preach in the syna_________, they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had auth_________, and not as the scribes.
Mark 1: 21-22. Is authority similar to power? _____.
What happened after they left the synagogue? Let’s read the rest of the story,
Mark 1: 29-34.
The last four words are ______ ______ ______ ______. Did Jesus cast out real devils? _. If they were real, if God had made them, would Jesus have cast them out? _____.
The Glossary of Science and Health explains that the ‘devil’ Jesus cast out was _________.
Through the Christ, God’s idea of man, Jesus cast out beliefs in the so-called ‘magical’ powers of so-called m________ m_______. Three of the false beliefs Jesus denounced were n________, m________, and h________. The lie has to be rejected so that the t________ can be uncovered, revealed. A mistake in mathematics has to be detected and erased or deleted before you can write down the fact.
Can you learn mathematics by copying the answers from another person’s paper? Can you excel in your sport just by watching videos of it? ______. Can you experience the power and authority of Christian Science just by filling in the blanks on your Sunday School discussion sheet? ______. What do you need to do? ____________________________.
Here are some good instructions:
1. Christian Scientists, be a ______ to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. SH 442: 30.
2. At all times and under all circumstances, overcome _______ with ________. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a v_________ over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. SH 571:15-19.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Soul and Body
Soul and Body 11-21-2010 Sara Lincoln
Do you agree with the definition of soul in your Student dictionary? ____. Write down the part of the definition you like the best.___________________________________________.
What does your dictionary say about body? ________.
John sent out a great greeting to all: …be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. III John 1: 2.
What kind of health was he talking about? Is health physical or mental?_______________.
Soul (God) expresses itself in m____ (and you). ‘My soul’ is my God-sense of identity. What do I need to do to protect and nurture my spiritual identity and cause it to prosper, succeed? My soul, my mind, myself, needs to choose right actions, like what? ___________________.
In his letter to the church in Thessalonica, Paul gave seven instructions for prospering,
I Thess. 5: 16-22. Pick 3 and write just the command verb: _________________________. Are these instructions for the soul or the body? ___________.
The spiritual part of a person (student dictionary) is that person’s in____________, mind. Do soul and body together make identity? _____. Check out your answer in the chapter that is all questions and answers, Re__________, page 477:20. S______ is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man… . Christian Science helps mankind so much by showing us all how to prove that the material body is not the substance, Life, and intelligence of man…
There is a story and a book in the Bible called J______. Job was perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil. Job 1: 1.
Feared God means _____________________.
Eschewed evil means ___________________________.
Satan said seee could make Job curse God by covering his body with boils. Job asked, will {God} plead against me with his great power? ___, but he would put _______ in me. Job 23: 6. Job was confident: For {God} performeth the thing that is appointed for me (vs. 14). Job was humble and ready to learn what Mary Baker Eddy would later describe this way: This Soul-sense comes to the _______ ______ when the latter yields to the divine Mind. SH 85: 4. Job was ready to yield, to admit only that God is good and to stick with this truth!
While Job was learning to yield, three so-called friends came to comfort him. They were not able to comfort Job because they believed that Job was guilty of some sin and was being punished for it. Job ‘argued’ with them and tried to prove his in____________. Job knew he was not g______ of sin. Job’s main point was that he {God} is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will _____ _______. Job. 37: 23. Does Christian Science teach us to say similar words? _____. S______, like Mind, is one of the s________ for God. Mind is manifested as you and Soul is too. Soul is not a spiritual part of a person, but rather the substance and intelligence and manifestation - body - of a person. Life is the law of Soul… and Soul is never without its _________________. SH 427 2.
What happened to Job? Did Satan make him curse God? ____. Did he have boils for the rest of his life? ____. Job was willing to learn more about the om____________ of God. Job said, ‘I knew a little bit about you, God, but now I see you.’ Job. 42: 5 and SH 262: 17.
So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, vs.12. As the Psalmist said, No good thing will he withhold from them that walk __________. Ps. 84: 11.
Job needed to learn, be sure, that it was not the hand of Satan that had touched him. The hand of God hath touched me. Job 19: 21. Did the hand of God put boils on Job? ____. The hand (po_____) of God lifted Job’s t________ and understanding to a sp________ perspective. Does C_______ S_______ lift thought and understanding to a spiritual perspective? ______. How do you know? __________.
Was that the purpose of Christ Jesus too, to lift thought and understanding to a spiritual perspective? _____. When Christians and others read Science and Health, they will discover that Jesus did not teach that man is guilty. Jesus insisted on the in________ of man, like Job had done in the Old Testament. Jesus knew there was a belief called S________, but he cast that belief out of thought and healed people in m______ and b______. Christian Science words it this way: The beliefs of the hu______ m______ rob and enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive personification, named S______. SH 187: 10. I’ve even heard people say, the devil made me do it. Is that an excuse or a reason for doing the wrong thing?___________________.
John 5: 2-14 tells about a man in Jerusalem who had had an infirmity (physical problem) for _____ years (vs. 5). He couldn’t walk. Jesus asked him, wilt thou be made whole? What do you think the man answered? ____. The man probably thought, ‘O good! I can walk again!’ But Jesus meant something more than that by the words be made whole. What do you think Jesus meant? ___________________________. Later, when he saw him in the temple, Jesus said Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (vs. 14). Do you think the man had to throw off the belief that a S________, evil, can cause disease? ______.
The belief that life can be in matter or soul in body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg, is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth, destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which man is p________, even as the “Father which is in heaven is perfect.” SH 485: 19-24. Maybe one mortal error that Truth destroys is the belief that a S_____ can cause disease.
Did God create matter? ______. Could God create matter? ___, because ______________.
This Bible Lesson is about Soul and Body. I know that Soul is my____________________.
I know that body is not matter, but is a man____________ of Soul.
Do you agree with the definition of soul in your Student dictionary? ____. Write down the part of the definition you like the best.___________________________________________.
What does your dictionary say about body? ________.
John sent out a great greeting to all: …be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. III John 1: 2.
What kind of health was he talking about? Is health physical or mental?_______________.
Soul (God) expresses itself in m____ (and you). ‘My soul’ is my God-sense of identity. What do I need to do to protect and nurture my spiritual identity and cause it to prosper, succeed? My soul, my mind, myself, needs to choose right actions, like what? ___________________.
In his letter to the church in Thessalonica, Paul gave seven instructions for prospering,
I Thess. 5: 16-22. Pick 3 and write just the command verb: _________________________. Are these instructions for the soul or the body? ___________.
The spiritual part of a person (student dictionary) is that person’s in____________, mind. Do soul and body together make identity? _____. Check out your answer in the chapter that is all questions and answers, Re__________, page 477:20. S______ is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man… . Christian Science helps mankind so much by showing us all how to prove that the material body is not the substance, Life, and intelligence of man…
There is a story and a book in the Bible called J______. Job was perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil. Job 1: 1.
Feared God means _____________________.
Eschewed evil means ___________________________.
Satan said seee could make Job curse God by covering his body with boils. Job asked, will {God} plead against me with his great power? ___, but he would put _______ in me. Job 23: 6. Job was confident: For {God} performeth the thing that is appointed for me (vs. 14). Job was humble and ready to learn what Mary Baker Eddy would later describe this way: This Soul-sense comes to the _______ ______ when the latter yields to the divine Mind. SH 85: 4. Job was ready to yield, to admit only that God is good and to stick with this truth!
While Job was learning to yield, three so-called friends came to comfort him. They were not able to comfort Job because they believed that Job was guilty of some sin and was being punished for it. Job ‘argued’ with them and tried to prove his in____________. Job knew he was not g______ of sin. Job’s main point was that he {God} is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will _____ _______. Job. 37: 23. Does Christian Science teach us to say similar words? _____. S______, like Mind, is one of the s________ for God. Mind is manifested as you and Soul is too. Soul is not a spiritual part of a person, but rather the substance and intelligence and manifestation - body - of a person. Life is the law of Soul… and Soul is never without its _________________. SH 427 2.
What happened to Job? Did Satan make him curse God? ____. Did he have boils for the rest of his life? ____. Job was willing to learn more about the om____________ of God. Job said, ‘I knew a little bit about you, God, but now I see you.’ Job. 42: 5 and SH 262: 17.
So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, vs.12. As the Psalmist said, No good thing will he withhold from them that walk __________. Ps. 84: 11.
Job needed to learn, be sure, that it was not the hand of Satan that had touched him. The hand of God hath touched me. Job 19: 21. Did the hand of God put boils on Job? ____. The hand (po_____) of God lifted Job’s t________ and understanding to a sp________ perspective. Does C_______ S_______ lift thought and understanding to a spiritual perspective? ______. How do you know? __________.
Was that the purpose of Christ Jesus too, to lift thought and understanding to a spiritual perspective? _____. When Christians and others read Science and Health, they will discover that Jesus did not teach that man is guilty. Jesus insisted on the in________ of man, like Job had done in the Old Testament. Jesus knew there was a belief called S________, but he cast that belief out of thought and healed people in m______ and b______. Christian Science words it this way: The beliefs of the hu______ m______ rob and enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive personification, named S______. SH 187: 10. I’ve even heard people say, the devil made me do it. Is that an excuse or a reason for doing the wrong thing?___________________.
John 5: 2-14 tells about a man in Jerusalem who had had an infirmity (physical problem) for _____ years (vs. 5). He couldn’t walk. Jesus asked him, wilt thou be made whole? What do you think the man answered? ____. The man probably thought, ‘O good! I can walk again!’ But Jesus meant something more than that by the words be made whole. What do you think Jesus meant? ___________________________. Later, when he saw him in the temple, Jesus said Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (vs. 14). Do you think the man had to throw off the belief that a S________, evil, can cause disease? ______.
The belief that life can be in matter or soul in body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg, is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth, destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which man is p________, even as the “Father which is in heaven is perfect.” SH 485: 19-24. Maybe one mortal error that Truth destroys is the belief that a S_____ can cause disease.
Did God create matter? ______. Could God create matter? ___, because ______________.
This Bible Lesson is about Soul and Body. I know that Soul is my____________________.
I know that body is not matter, but is a man____________ of Soul.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Mortals and Immortals, continued
We must destroy the false belief that life and intelligence are in m_______, and plant ourselves upon what is p_______ and p________. SH 222: 31-2.
When the disciples saw a man blind from his birth (John 9: 1-7) they wanted to know whether it was the man or his parents who had sinned. It seems that mortals try to find reasons why mortals experience sin, disease, and death. Are there any reasons? __. How do you think Jesus answered the disciples? ___________________. The correct way to see this situation, Jesus said, is to see it as an opp_________ to see the works of God become m________. Jesus beheld in Science the p______ man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this p_______ man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is in______, universal, and that man is pure and holy. SH 476: 32. Pure and holy man is im________ man.
What is the meaning of heredity? ___________________________________. Is it a law? _____
SH 178: 8. In proportion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are freed from the b________ of heredity, of mind in matter or a___________ m____________… SH 178: 22.
When Jesus and his disciples were approaching a city called Nain, they saw a funeral procession. A widow’s son had died. Without a husband or a son, what would probably happen to that widow? ________________________________________________________________.
Jesus had com________ on her and said weep not. Luke 7: 11-16. He touched the bier (see your student dictionary). That stopped the procession. Then Jesus said to the young man, _________. The young man sat up and began to speak, Maybe he said, Hi mom; what a weird dream I had. I dreamed I was dead, but I knew I wasn’t. Or maybe he just said, where’s lunch? Did Jesus raise that young man from the dead? ___. Jesus did not see a ‘dead mortal.’ He saw ____________.
Did Jesus himself rise from the dead? _______. He said he would, and he did, and yet he didn’t! All the people thought he was dead, but in the tomb he was alive, thinking about his im_______.
Mortals do not ‘rise from the dead.’ They simply wake up to the fact that they are a________ and i______________. If life were here today and gone tomorrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not that Love, the divine Pri________ that obtains in divine Science, destroys all e______ and brings immor_______ to light. SH 305: 22-27.
Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for your pure and perfect motive to find that all is infinite Mind {Life} and its infinite manifestation {immortal man}. SH 468. Immortality is the always fact; mortality is the never true illusion. SH 305: 22.
What did you find out new today about mortals?
What did you find out new today about immortals?
When the disciples saw a man blind from his birth (John 9: 1-7) they wanted to know whether it was the man or his parents who had sinned. It seems that mortals try to find reasons why mortals experience sin, disease, and death. Are there any reasons? __. How do you think Jesus answered the disciples? ___________________. The correct way to see this situation, Jesus said, is to see it as an opp_________ to see the works of God become m________. Jesus beheld in Science the p______ man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this p_______ man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is in______, universal, and that man is pure and holy. SH 476: 32. Pure and holy man is im________ man.
What is the meaning of heredity? ___________________________________. Is it a law? _____
SH 178: 8. In proportion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are freed from the b________ of heredity, of mind in matter or a___________ m____________… SH 178: 22.
When Jesus and his disciples were approaching a city called Nain, they saw a funeral procession. A widow’s son had died. Without a husband or a son, what would probably happen to that widow? ________________________________________________________________.
Jesus had com________ on her and said weep not. Luke 7: 11-16. He touched the bier (see your student dictionary). That stopped the procession. Then Jesus said to the young man, _________. The young man sat up and began to speak, Maybe he said, Hi mom; what a weird dream I had. I dreamed I was dead, but I knew I wasn’t. Or maybe he just said, where’s lunch? Did Jesus raise that young man from the dead? ___. Jesus did not see a ‘dead mortal.’ He saw ____________.
Did Jesus himself rise from the dead? _______. He said he would, and he did, and yet he didn’t! All the people thought he was dead, but in the tomb he was alive, thinking about his im_______.
Mortals do not ‘rise from the dead.’ They simply wake up to the fact that they are a________ and i______________. If life were here today and gone tomorrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not that Love, the divine Pri________ that obtains in divine Science, destroys all e______ and brings immor_______ to light. SH 305: 22-27.
Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for your pure and perfect motive to find that all is infinite Mind {Life} and its infinite manifestation {immortal man}. SH 468. Immortality is the always fact; mortality is the never true illusion. SH 305: 22.
What did you find out new today about mortals?
What did you find out new today about immortals?
Mortals and Immortals
Mortals and Immortals 11-14-10 Sara Lincoln
Is it important for food and water to be pure? ____. Your student dictionary mentions two things that need to be pure:_______________________.
I think purity was important to Christ Jesus too. He said a person is blessed who is __________. Matt. 5: 8. You know you are being p_____ i____ h_______ when you ___________________.
A synonym for pure is p________. Did your Master Teacher think you and everyone in your family could be perfect? ____, because he said ____________________________. Matt. 5: 48.
Pure in heart is natural, and also the result of ________________ of sense and self. SH 324: 4.
Paul wrote to the church members in Ephesus that they should put off the ______ ______, and put on the ______ _______. Eph. 4: 22, 24. What did he mean?
In the Old Testament, a symbol for the old man is ________. In the New Testament, a symbol for the new man is ________. In Gen. 17: 1, what orders did the Almighty God give to Abraham? ___________________________________. Last week we learned something about dust that God said to Abraham, Gen. 13: 16: _________________________.
There’s only one theology I know of that says you definitely can be, are now, p_______ and p________. What theology is that? __________. In a 7-line statement on page 468, Science and Health uses another word that means p______ and p________. What is that word? __________.
Evidently Noah was pure in heart because ________.
His descendant E_______ walked with God, meaning his thought was _____________________.
Is a counterfeit real? ____.The counterfeit of immortal is m______. A counterfeit matter-man is un______ and tem______ and we are not fooled by the counterfeit when our thought affirms that man is the i_____ of ______. SH 477: 9-13.
A Pharisee named N________ wanted to know more about Jesus, but he had to go to Jesus by night because ____________________________________. Jesus said ‘you must be born again if you want to see the kingdom of God.’ John 3: 1-6. Nicodemus didn’t get it at first. He thought that he would have to have another m________ birth, but Jesus explained: you must be born of the S_______. Do you and I also need to be born again of the S______? ___ because ‘humans’ are pressured to believe that they are ‘m_______.’ A Psalmist prayed, Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth speaketh v______, and their right hand is a right hand of f_____. Ps. 144: 11. What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in g______, expressed in pat______, meek_______, love, and good d_______. SH 4: 3-5.
A much stronger ‘pressure’ is the p________ and p________ of Father-Mother God always telling man you are ________________________________.
Because man is the reflection of his M_______, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. SH 305: 27.
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Is it important for food and water to be pure? ____. Your student dictionary mentions two things that need to be pure:_______________________.
I think purity was important to Christ Jesus too. He said a person is blessed who is __________. Matt. 5: 8. You know you are being p_____ i____ h_______ when you ___________________.
A synonym for pure is p________. Did your Master Teacher think you and everyone in your family could be perfect? ____, because he said ____________________________. Matt. 5: 48.
Pure in heart is natural, and also the result of ________________ of sense and self. SH 324: 4.
Paul wrote to the church members in Ephesus that they should put off the ______ ______, and put on the ______ _______. Eph. 4: 22, 24. What did he mean?
In the Old Testament, a symbol for the old man is ________. In the New Testament, a symbol for the new man is ________. In Gen. 17: 1, what orders did the Almighty God give to Abraham? ___________________________________. Last week we learned something about dust that God said to Abraham, Gen. 13: 16: _________________________.
There’s only one theology I know of that says you definitely can be, are now, p_______ and p________. What theology is that? __________. In a 7-line statement on page 468, Science and Health uses another word that means p______ and p________. What is that word? __________.
Evidently Noah was pure in heart because ________.
His descendant E_______ walked with God, meaning his thought was _____________________.
Is a counterfeit real? ____.The counterfeit of immortal is m______. A counterfeit matter-man is un______ and tem______ and we are not fooled by the counterfeit when our thought affirms that man is the i_____ of ______. SH 477: 9-13.
A Pharisee named N________ wanted to know more about Jesus, but he had to go to Jesus by night because ____________________________________. Jesus said ‘you must be born again if you want to see the kingdom of God.’ John 3: 1-6. Nicodemus didn’t get it at first. He thought that he would have to have another m________ birth, but Jesus explained: you must be born of the S_______. Do you and I also need to be born again of the S______? ___ because ‘humans’ are pressured to believe that they are ‘m_______.’ A Psalmist prayed, Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth speaketh v______, and their right hand is a right hand of f_____. Ps. 144: 11. What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in g______, expressed in pat______, meek_______, love, and good d_______. SH 4: 3-5.
A much stronger ‘pressure’ is the p________ and p________ of Father-Mother God always telling man you are ________________________________.
Because man is the reflection of his M_______, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. SH 305: 27.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Adam and Fallen Man
Adam and fallen Man 11-7-2010 Sara Lincoln
A few years ago, a kid named N.R. deliberately broke school rules. Four students in this Sunday School are to be punished for N.R.’s misdeeds. Is that fair? ___. In this hypothetical scenario, ______ represents ‘Adam.’ Four innocent students represent F_______ M_______.
Mankind is not descended from this mistake-maker and is not ‘fallen.’
Which one of you can give me a piece of dust? ____ What causes dust? ____________.
How does your Student Dictionary define dust? _____________________________________.
My dictionary has many dust words: dust pan; dust mop; dust jacket -- your dictionary has one.
Genesis 2: 6-7 reports that the first human was made out of ______. If you had been there, could you have blown away this counterfeit creation like blowing out a candle? ___. That piece of dust you gave me, can it grow up to have great ideas for helping all mankind? ____. I think of Abraham as the real first human although he was preceded by other God-likeness men such as Noah and Enoch. Abraham was obedient and faithful to God and God knew idea dust. God told Abraham, that his offspring (seed) would be as abundant as the d______ of the earth. Gen.13: 16.
When God looked into the mirror called Allness, did God see dust? ____. What did God see? _______ God fashions all things after His own likeness. SH 516: 8-13. Did God fashion your house and school books? ____. All that is made is the work of God, and all is good. SH 521: 5. Pollution is good? ____. Poverty is good? ____. Luck is good? ____. If God did not make these, how did they come to be? __________________________________________________.
Your friend could dress or talk in a way meant to fool you. Why wouldn’t you be fooled? ____
How does this illustrate the pretense creation (Gen. 2: 6-7) and the real creation
(Gen. 1: 26-27).
A pretense is a c_________ not supported by f__________. (See your Student Dictionary).
The pretense story shows man as mutable and mortal, - as having broken away from Deity (God)…
SH 522: 8. The reality story assigns all might and government to God, and endows man out of God’s perfection and power. SH 522: 5. If you listen to the wrong story, or both stories, you’ll be stuck at the starting point of the good you want to do. How can you make a habit of listening only to the true story?______________________. What good do you want to do for all mankind? _________________.
The word Adam means ___________________________________. SH 338: 12-13.
The true story (real creation) is sometimes called the S________ of b________. SH 200: 16.
The counterfeit story (pretense creation) is sometimes called a__________ m______________.
It was a s________ that tempted Eve to want the knowledge of evil. Gen.3: 1-6. Was the serpent a snake or a suggestion? ____________.
Not God but the Lord God put Adam to sleep before creating a w________ to be with Adam.
Gen. 2: 21-22. Why did the woman eat the forbidden fruit? _________________________________.
In Gen. 3: 20, Adam finally gave the woman the name ______. The Lord God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden not only because they had disobeyed, but also because the Lord God was ‘afraid that the man might become like one of us and eat from the tree of Life.’ Gen. 3: 22. What do you think Adam and Eve were thinking and talking about as they left the Garden of Eden?
Was it necessary for Adam and Eve to f_____? ____. Could they have obeyed the rules about identity? They must have known that they didn’t make themselves, that the Lord God made them. Adam and Eve did learn from their mistakes. Christ was voicing good and influencing their every thought and they gradually yielded. They lived another ______ years. Gen. 5: 5, and their offspring began to call upon the name of the Lord. Gen.4: 26.
Human belief, not God, created the story of Adam. Even though Christ Jesus proved that man is not like Adam – selfish and disobedient – but rather like God – God’s image and likeness – humans seem to hold on to m______ m______ opinions. It’s only a________ m__________ that suggests that personal opinion is stronger than the C______ T______. If you can show me a piece of dust, you can show me a piece of animal magnetism. G____ doesn’t consider either one to be su________. Our Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines substance as ___________.
Mary Baker Eddy observed that human reason and religion come slowly to the recognition of spiritual facts, and so continue to call upon matter to remove the error which the human mind alone has created. SH 173: 26. Adam and Eve did not reject mere human reason. Will you? _____
Because there’s only one God, there’s only one M______. Its ideas are g______. According to the definition of God, Mind, bad ideas have no p_______, p_______, or understanding.
Where did Jesus say the kingdom of heaven is? ______. Matt. 10: 5-7. That being true, what things in verse 8 are not at hand? ____________________________________________.
He instructed his disciples to rise up and not accuse: ‘when people don’t want to listen to you, leave, and ______ ______ ______ off your feet.’ Matt. 10: 14. The example of Jesus offers the model of __________________. SH 259: 6-14. The example of Adam and Eve offers poor _______ __________.
Can I follow both examples, depending on how I feel? ____. Truth has but one reply to all error, - to sin, sickness, and death: “D______{n______________} thou art, and unto dust {______________} shalt thou return.” SH 545: 29. The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen sin, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their ______________ and the allness of God, or good. SH 450: 19-22.
Paul was a Jew but the Jewish authorities hated him and Barnabas, his assistant. Why? ____.
Acts 13: 43-45. When the Jews expelled them out of their coasts (threw them out of town) what did Paul and Barnabas do? Acts 13: 51-52. __________. We know Paul obeyed and spoke the Word of God because of the effect of his words. What did Paul say to the crippled man who never had walked? __________________________________________________.Acts 14: 8-10.
Thousands of years ago, the Prophet I________ told God’s chosen people, the J______, to awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust. Isa. 26: 19. God ‘chose’ the Jews to do what? _____________________.
Do we also have to ‘wake up’?_____. It helps to know that dust (the unreal and temporal creation) is n__________. What does the scientific statement of being say about the ‘unreal and temporal’? __________________________________________________.SH 468.
Christian Science says that through Christ, Truth, man will reopen with the key of d________ S__________ the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and will find himself un_______, upright, p______, and f_______…
SH 171: 4.
What is the most important thing to you about the Adam and Eve story? Where is fallen man?
A few years ago, a kid named N.R. deliberately broke school rules. Four students in this Sunday School are to be punished for N.R.’s misdeeds. Is that fair? ___. In this hypothetical scenario, ______ represents ‘Adam.’ Four innocent students represent F_______ M_______.
Mankind is not descended from this mistake-maker and is not ‘fallen.’
Which one of you can give me a piece of dust? ____ What causes dust? ____________.
How does your Student Dictionary define dust? _____________________________________.
My dictionary has many dust words: dust pan; dust mop; dust jacket -- your dictionary has one.
Genesis 2: 6-7 reports that the first human was made out of ______. If you had been there, could you have blown away this counterfeit creation like blowing out a candle? ___. That piece of dust you gave me, can it grow up to have great ideas for helping all mankind? ____. I think of Abraham as the real first human although he was preceded by other God-likeness men such as Noah and Enoch. Abraham was obedient and faithful to God and God knew idea dust. God told Abraham, that his offspring (seed) would be as abundant as the d______ of the earth. Gen.13: 16.
When God looked into the mirror called Allness, did God see dust? ____. What did God see? _______ God fashions all things after His own likeness. SH 516: 8-13. Did God fashion your house and school books? ____. All that is made is the work of God, and all is good. SH 521: 5. Pollution is good? ____. Poverty is good? ____. Luck is good? ____. If God did not make these, how did they come to be? __________________________________________________.
Your friend could dress or talk in a way meant to fool you. Why wouldn’t you be fooled? ____
How does this illustrate the pretense creation (Gen. 2: 6-7) and the real creation
(Gen. 1: 26-27).
A pretense is a c_________ not supported by f__________. (See your Student Dictionary).
The pretense story shows man as mutable and mortal, - as having broken away from Deity (God)…
SH 522: 8. The reality story assigns all might and government to God, and endows man out of God’s perfection and power. SH 522: 5. If you listen to the wrong story, or both stories, you’ll be stuck at the starting point of the good you want to do. How can you make a habit of listening only to the true story?______________________. What good do you want to do for all mankind? _________________.
The word Adam means ___________________________________. SH 338: 12-13.
The true story (real creation) is sometimes called the S________ of b________. SH 200: 16.
The counterfeit story (pretense creation) is sometimes called a__________ m______________.
It was a s________ that tempted Eve to want the knowledge of evil. Gen.3: 1-6. Was the serpent a snake or a suggestion? ____________.
Not God but the Lord God put Adam to sleep before creating a w________ to be with Adam.
Gen. 2: 21-22. Why did the woman eat the forbidden fruit? _________________________________.
In Gen. 3: 20, Adam finally gave the woman the name ______. The Lord God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden not only because they had disobeyed, but also because the Lord God was ‘afraid that the man might become like one of us and eat from the tree of Life.’ Gen. 3: 22. What do you think Adam and Eve were thinking and talking about as they left the Garden of Eden?
Was it necessary for Adam and Eve to f_____? ____. Could they have obeyed the rules about identity? They must have known that they didn’t make themselves, that the Lord God made them. Adam and Eve did learn from their mistakes. Christ was voicing good and influencing their every thought and they gradually yielded. They lived another ______ years. Gen. 5: 5, and their offspring began to call upon the name of the Lord. Gen.4: 26.
Human belief, not God, created the story of Adam. Even though Christ Jesus proved that man is not like Adam – selfish and disobedient – but rather like God – God’s image and likeness – humans seem to hold on to m______ m______ opinions. It’s only a________ m__________ that suggests that personal opinion is stronger than the C______ T______. If you can show me a piece of dust, you can show me a piece of animal magnetism. G____ doesn’t consider either one to be su________. Our Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines substance as ___________.
Mary Baker Eddy observed that human reason and religion come slowly to the recognition of spiritual facts, and so continue to call upon matter to remove the error which the human mind alone has created. SH 173: 26. Adam and Eve did not reject mere human reason. Will you? _____
Because there’s only one God, there’s only one M______. Its ideas are g______. According to the definition of God, Mind, bad ideas have no p_______, p_______, or understanding.
Where did Jesus say the kingdom of heaven is? ______. Matt. 10: 5-7. That being true, what things in verse 8 are not at hand? ____________________________________________.
He instructed his disciples to rise up and not accuse: ‘when people don’t want to listen to you, leave, and ______ ______ ______ off your feet.’ Matt. 10: 14. The example of Jesus offers the model of __________________. SH 259: 6-14. The example of Adam and Eve offers poor _______ __________.
Can I follow both examples, depending on how I feel? ____. Truth has but one reply to all error, - to sin, sickness, and death: “D______{n______________} thou art, and unto dust {______________} shalt thou return.” SH 545: 29. The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen sin, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their ______________ and the allness of God, or good. SH 450: 19-22.
Paul was a Jew but the Jewish authorities hated him and Barnabas, his assistant. Why? ____.
Acts 13: 43-45. When the Jews expelled them out of their coasts (threw them out of town) what did Paul and Barnabas do? Acts 13: 51-52. __________. We know Paul obeyed and spoke the Word of God because of the effect of his words. What did Paul say to the crippled man who never had walked? __________________________________________________.Acts 14: 8-10.
Thousands of years ago, the Prophet I________ told God’s chosen people, the J______, to awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust. Isa. 26: 19. God ‘chose’ the Jews to do what? _____________________.
Do we also have to ‘wake up’?_____. It helps to know that dust (the unreal and temporal creation) is n__________. What does the scientific statement of being say about the ‘unreal and temporal’? __________________________________________________.SH 468.
Christian Science says that through Christ, Truth, man will reopen with the key of d________ S__________ the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and will find himself un_______, upright, p______, and f_______…
SH 171: 4.
What is the most important thing to you about the Adam and Eve story? Where is fallen man?
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Everlasting Punishment
Everlasting Punishment 10-31-2010 Sara Lincoln
The theology of Christian Science clearly states that punishment is not everlasting, but the _______ in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts. SH 497, third tenet. The belief in an error, like 4+4=44, is troublesome and potentially harmful only so long as the false _______ about 4 exists. Punishment cannot be everlasting because it ends as soon as the fa________ be_________ is corrected. One opposite of punish it bl_____. Is there everlasting blessing? _____
Several thousand years ago, the Prophet Isaiah was helping the Children of Israel know the true God. He urged the wicked and the unrighteous to return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isa. 55: 7. Is par_____ the opposite of pun_____? ____. Wicked means selfish, disho_______ and determined to h______ others. Unrighteous means to d______ the allness and goodness of G______ and m______. Wicked and unrighteous seem to be states of thought that are potentially harmful but they are counterfeits of T______, God, therefore they must self-destruct.
Have you seen bullying in your school? ___. What does it look like? _____________________
Should the bully be pardoned? ___ punished? ___ corrected? ___
One time ‘a sinner’ washed and kissed Jesus’ feet as he sat at dinner with some Pharisees. She then anointed his feet with expensive oil. Jesus could have said to her you will be punished for your sins. Instead, he said to her, thy s______ are for_______. Luke 7: 48. Why would Jesus forgive her and not punish her? The story begins in Luke 7: 35.
Abraham loved God and his neighbor. He knew about very harmful and ungodlike behavior in two cities called Sodom and Gomorrah and he learned that the Lord would punish these sinful acts and cause the cities to self-destruct. He questioned the Lord, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Gen. 18: 23. What do you think the Lord answered? ___________________________________.
Two angels (who looked like men) came to Sodom, and Lot (Abraham’s nephew) gladly brought them into his house. It seemed like everyone in the city had agreed to allow these sinful acts, and the men in Sodom tried to get these angels involved. They almost broke down the door, but Lot protected the angels. Then the angels protected Lot and his family by leading them out of the city, which then began to burn with sulfur (brimstone), making it impossible to breathe,
Gen. 19.
Why didn’t the Lord forgive the sinners in Sodom, like Jesus forgave the sinner who washed and kissed his feet? _______________________________.
Could all of that wicked and unrighteous belief have yielded to God and received mercy and pardon? ______. Christian Science explains that the destruction of s______ is the divine method of par_____. SH 339: 1. God destroys s_______ but pardons s________ who turn away from wi_______ and un_________ beliefs. What is happening to wrong notions about God? They are ________ ______.
SH 357:19-22. I am glad, and I can help save my city and my school by making sure I have no w________ n________ about God or man.
The Prophet Samuel tells about a man named Nabal (see I Sam. 25) who was not like Abraham because he did not love God and his neighbor. Nabal was not like Lot either because he was not generous and helpful. Nabal had 1000 sheep and 1000 goats so he was very rich. David had protected Nabal’s sheep when they were in David’s area, but Nabal refused to feed David’s men who approached him with great respect. Was Nabal acting like a bully? ___. David was angry and insulted. He told 400 of his men to ‘gird on their swords’ and they set out to attack Nabal. Was this action inspired by God? _____. Thank God someone was inspired to stop David, and that person was A________, wife of Nabal, verse 3. She gathered a lot of food and set out to meet David and his men. She bowed before David saying ‘let me take the blame for my husband’s actions.’ Abigail was not foolish. She was hu______ and wi____. She knew David would one day be k______ over Israel and she didn’t want David to regret a bloody revenge.
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand, verse 32-33. David was learning that evil self-de______ according to God’s law and he should not try to intervene or act out hu____ will. Did God pun_____ David for a moment of vengeful anger? ____. God par______ David who said Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, verse 39. God does not punish m_____ but rather redeems m______ from ‘wrong notions.’ God destroys s________ but not s________, if they are willing to yield to God’s will.
‘Sin’ is the belief that there is life, tr_____, and intelligence in m________, and this belief punishes the believer. When will you have the opportunity to refuse and cast out this belief? __
Christian Science explains that ‘sin’ starts small, grows big, and finally governs the so-called man. SH 188: 4. The real man casts out sin. What are the things that are punished? …dishonesty, e______, h_________, revenge ripen into action, only to pass from shame and woe to their final p_____. SH 188: 9-10. Let’s look at the Lord’s Prayer and its spiritual interpretation (SH 16-17) to see if this prayer tells us how to obey God and avoid the punishment of false belief.
How do we help mankind learn that as in heaven, so on earth, -- God is omnipotent, supreme? SH 17: 1-3. Science and Health tells us how: At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know t______, and God will supply the w_______ and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. SH 571: 15.
False belief in mortal selfhood and material sense is so-called thinking that is p____________.
Christ, the real man, expresses real thinking that b__________ everyone. SH 316: 3-7,
Evil must be over_____, not tolerated. Remember that mankind must sooner or later, either by su______________ or by S__________, be convinced of the e_______ that is to be overcome. SH 240: 24. I don’t need to be convinced by suffering. I choose to be convinced by __________. Science is the l______ of God, Good and Christian Science explains how and why man reflects the law of God and casts out the belief of e_____________ p______________.
The theology of Christian Science clearly states that punishment is not everlasting, but the _______ in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts. SH 497, third tenet. The belief in an error, like 4+4=44, is troublesome and potentially harmful only so long as the false _______ about 4 exists. Punishment cannot be everlasting because it ends as soon as the fa________ be_________ is corrected. One opposite of punish it bl_____. Is there everlasting blessing? _____
Several thousand years ago, the Prophet Isaiah was helping the Children of Israel know the true God. He urged the wicked and the unrighteous to return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isa. 55: 7. Is par_____ the opposite of pun_____? ____. Wicked means selfish, disho_______ and determined to h______ others. Unrighteous means to d______ the allness and goodness of G______ and m______. Wicked and unrighteous seem to be states of thought that are potentially harmful but they are counterfeits of T______, God, therefore they must self-destruct.
Have you seen bullying in your school? ___. What does it look like? _____________________
Should the bully be pardoned? ___ punished? ___ corrected? ___
One time ‘a sinner’ washed and kissed Jesus’ feet as he sat at dinner with some Pharisees. She then anointed his feet with expensive oil. Jesus could have said to her you will be punished for your sins. Instead, he said to her, thy s______ are for_______. Luke 7: 48. Why would Jesus forgive her and not punish her? The story begins in Luke 7: 35.
Abraham loved God and his neighbor. He knew about very harmful and ungodlike behavior in two cities called Sodom and Gomorrah and he learned that the Lord would punish these sinful acts and cause the cities to self-destruct. He questioned the Lord, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Gen. 18: 23. What do you think the Lord answered? ___________________________________.
Two angels (who looked like men) came to Sodom, and Lot (Abraham’s nephew) gladly brought them into his house. It seemed like everyone in the city had agreed to allow these sinful acts, and the men in Sodom tried to get these angels involved. They almost broke down the door, but Lot protected the angels. Then the angels protected Lot and his family by leading them out of the city, which then began to burn with sulfur (brimstone), making it impossible to breathe,
Gen. 19.
Why didn’t the Lord forgive the sinners in Sodom, like Jesus forgave the sinner who washed and kissed his feet? _______________________________.
Could all of that wicked and unrighteous belief have yielded to God and received mercy and pardon? ______. Christian Science explains that the destruction of s______ is the divine method of par_____. SH 339: 1. God destroys s_______ but pardons s________ who turn away from wi_______ and un_________ beliefs. What is happening to wrong notions about God? They are ________ ______.
SH 357:19-22. I am glad, and I can help save my city and my school by making sure I have no w________ n________ about God or man.
The Prophet Samuel tells about a man named Nabal (see I Sam. 25) who was not like Abraham because he did not love God and his neighbor. Nabal was not like Lot either because he was not generous and helpful. Nabal had 1000 sheep and 1000 goats so he was very rich. David had protected Nabal’s sheep when they were in David’s area, but Nabal refused to feed David’s men who approached him with great respect. Was Nabal acting like a bully? ___. David was angry and insulted. He told 400 of his men to ‘gird on their swords’ and they set out to attack Nabal. Was this action inspired by God? _____. Thank God someone was inspired to stop David, and that person was A________, wife of Nabal, verse 3. She gathered a lot of food and set out to meet David and his men. She bowed before David saying ‘let me take the blame for my husband’s actions.’ Abigail was not foolish. She was hu______ and wi____. She knew David would one day be k______ over Israel and she didn’t want David to regret a bloody revenge.
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand, verse 32-33. David was learning that evil self-de______ according to God’s law and he should not try to intervene or act out hu____ will. Did God pun_____ David for a moment of vengeful anger? ____. God par______ David who said Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, verse 39. God does not punish m_____ but rather redeems m______ from ‘wrong notions.’ God destroys s________ but not s________, if they are willing to yield to God’s will.
‘Sin’ is the belief that there is life, tr_____, and intelligence in m________, and this belief punishes the believer. When will you have the opportunity to refuse and cast out this belief? __
Christian Science explains that ‘sin’ starts small, grows big, and finally governs the so-called man. SH 188: 4. The real man casts out sin. What are the things that are punished? …dishonesty, e______, h_________, revenge ripen into action, only to pass from shame and woe to their final p_____. SH 188: 9-10. Let’s look at the Lord’s Prayer and its spiritual interpretation (SH 16-17) to see if this prayer tells us how to obey God and avoid the punishment of false belief.
How do we help mankind learn that as in heaven, so on earth, -- God is omnipotent, supreme? SH 17: 1-3. Science and Health tells us how: At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know t______, and God will supply the w_______ and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. SH 571: 15.
False belief in mortal selfhood and material sense is so-called thinking that is p____________.
Christ, the real man, expresses real thinking that b__________ everyone. SH 316: 3-7,
Evil must be over_____, not tolerated. Remember that mankind must sooner or later, either by su______________ or by S__________, be convinced of the e_______ that is to be overcome. SH 240: 24. I don’t need to be convinced by suffering. I choose to be convinced by __________. Science is the l______ of God, Good and Christian Science explains how and why man reflects the law of God and casts out the belief of e_____________ p______________.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Probation After Death
Probation After Death 10-24-10 Sara Lincoln
Are you and I on ‘probation after death’ right now? Yes ___ No__ I don’t know ___. Perhaps the spiritual thinker needs to ask, what do you mean by ‘death’? and how does ‘probation’ apply to ‘death’? Let’s posit some preliminary responses to these questions, then see what this Bible Lesson adds to our understanding of what ‘death’ and ‘probation’ mean.
Is ‘belief’ in mortality all around us? ___ Mortality means se______ from G____. Is the ‘fact’ of mortality all around us? ___ How often does belief have to yield to fact? __________________ Why doesn’t someone just get rid of belief so that all we can know is fact? Someone did! In fact, many-ones did! Name someone who got rid of belief in mortality: ________________________
If someone, many-ones, got rid of belief then belief is dead. Right? _____
Isaiah declared the death of death over 2000 years ago. Isa. 35: 8: He {the glory of the Lord} will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces…
Almost 2000 years ago, Paul again declared the death of death as he described the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ Jesus, I Cor. 15: 3-4: …he was buried…he rose again…Paul said that when we ‘put on i________ then death is swa________ up in victory.’ I Cor. 15: 54.
Is ‘putting on immortality’ like putting on a robe? ___. I’d like to have this robe of immortality. Where can I buy it? _____________. Do you think ‘putting on immortality’ is like always feeling embraced and protected by Love and all-knowing Mind? ______
Did Mary Baker Eddy also experience the death of death? ____. Remember? When her friends thought she was going to die, she asked for her Bible, read in Matt. 9 about Jesus healing a paralyzed man, and realized this healing power is the most present thing, the ‘forever fact.’ She was healed. Did she ‘put on immortality’ during that time of being near death? _____
She said to God, tell me more about the death of death. God did, and she passed along the facts to us in Science and Health. Does Christian Science show us how to put on immortality? ____.
If the death of death has been so well proven, why are you and I ‘on probation’ to prove that life is the fact and death is only a false belief? __________________________________________
Are we, like our predecessors, continuing to prove that there is no m________ m_______ that can believe in death? ______. Are we willing to do this, even though it isn’t always easy? _____
There is something that has to die. If it’s not ‘man,’ what is it? SH 290: 23. ________________
Universal salvation {everyone free of death} rests on pro________ and pro________, and is unattainable without them. SH 291: 12.
Is there death in Life? ____. Life is where we came from, where we are, and where we’re going, but we still have to gain Life, achieve it, by walking in the pathway of _______ both before and after that which is called d____. SH 487: 3-6. According to this fact -- before and after death -- we will still be thinking after what seems to be death. Do you like this fact? ______. I do too. Why are we glad this is true? _______________
Every week, the Psalmist helps us pray. What does the Psalmist ask God to do in Ps. 139 23-24? ___________________________________________________
After Jesus was arrested, the disciples were afraid. Why?_______________________________
Three people pointed at Peter and said ‘this man was with Jesus.’ How did Peter respond?
Peter said ______________________ Luke 22: 57-60. Was Peter learning what it means to be ‘on probation?’ At very important moments, did Peter tell the truth? ____When he admitted to himself, I lied, he went out and ________ _________. Luke 22: 62. Did Peter stay in this state of grief? _____. He accepted from the Christ a regeneration, which means a re______. Even though he didn’t make a good grade on the ‘probation’ test, God’s love, the Christ, made sure Peter learned what he needed to learn. Just as death is not more real than life, so a lie is not more real than truth. During ‘probation,’ do we show that we are sticking with the facts and casting out beliefs? ___
Is defeat the result of experience? ___. P______ is born of experience. SH 296: 4-12. The death of a false m_____ s______ and of s___…is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal. Is ‘man’ on probation? ____What is ‘on probation’? ____________. Christian Science says we should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the ___…
SH 8: 28-30.
Mary, one of Jesus’ disciples, was weeping at the tomb. She looked into the cave-like sepulcher and saw two angels who asked Why weepest thou? Mary was worried because Jesus’ body was not in the tomb. When she turned around, a man asked Why weepest thou? Who was that man? _.
Do you think Jesus was ‘on probation after death’? ____. I think he was showing that ‘probation’ is a time of progress. Do you agree? _____
Perhaps Mary wanted to hug him in joy, but Jesus said touch me not; for I am not yet ascended… He then gave Mary instructions to go do what? _________________________ John 20: 11-17.
What was Jesus doing in the tomb?__. He was ‘solving the great problem __ ___.’ SH 44: 5-10.
He solved it by proving that man is s______ and the body is not m________. SH 313: 30-5.
After you and I learn that death is a dream, a lie, how long will we be ‘on probation’ to prove this fact? ________________________________ SH 77: 13-18.
When we learn that e_____ is not real, we shall be ready for p______… SH 353: 22. Can I learn more everyday about the unreality of e_____ and d______? _____. I learn more by___________________
Through C____ J____ and C_____ S_____ we learn that Life and man survive this body. Neither evil, disease, nor death can be spiritual, and the material belief in them disappears in the ratio of our sp______ growth. SH 368: 20-24.
After so-called death, the ‘human mind’ realizes it is still a_____! Does the ‘mortal, erring mind’ still have to put off the belief in death and yield to God, immortal Mind? ____. Perhaps this is the yielding that happens during ‘probation after death.’ Does that make sense to you? ______. If here we give no heed to Christian Science, which is spiritual and eternal, we shall not be ready for spiritual Life hereafter.
SH 410: 1. I’m glad to know that, because it is such a joy to give heed (pay close attention) to the law of Life, Truth, and Love as explained in Christian Science.
Today I understand that the only ‘death’ is ________________________________
And I understand that ‘probation’ is a time of _____________________________
Are you and I on ‘probation after death’ right now? Yes ___ No__ I don’t know ___. Perhaps the spiritual thinker needs to ask, what do you mean by ‘death’? and how does ‘probation’ apply to ‘death’? Let’s posit some preliminary responses to these questions, then see what this Bible Lesson adds to our understanding of what ‘death’ and ‘probation’ mean.
Is ‘belief’ in mortality all around us? ___ Mortality means se______ from G____. Is the ‘fact’ of mortality all around us? ___ How often does belief have to yield to fact? __________________ Why doesn’t someone just get rid of belief so that all we can know is fact? Someone did! In fact, many-ones did! Name someone who got rid of belief in mortality: ________________________
If someone, many-ones, got rid of belief then belief is dead. Right? _____
Isaiah declared the death of death over 2000 years ago. Isa. 35: 8: He {the glory of the Lord} will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces…
Almost 2000 years ago, Paul again declared the death of death as he described the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ Jesus, I Cor. 15: 3-4: …he was buried…he rose again…Paul said that when we ‘put on i________ then death is swa________ up in victory.’ I Cor. 15: 54.
Is ‘putting on immortality’ like putting on a robe? ___. I’d like to have this robe of immortality. Where can I buy it? _____________. Do you think ‘putting on immortality’ is like always feeling embraced and protected by Love and all-knowing Mind? ______
Did Mary Baker Eddy also experience the death of death? ____. Remember? When her friends thought she was going to die, she asked for her Bible, read in Matt. 9 about Jesus healing a paralyzed man, and realized this healing power is the most present thing, the ‘forever fact.’ She was healed. Did she ‘put on immortality’ during that time of being near death? _____
She said to God, tell me more about the death of death. God did, and she passed along the facts to us in Science and Health. Does Christian Science show us how to put on immortality? ____.
If the death of death has been so well proven, why are you and I ‘on probation’ to prove that life is the fact and death is only a false belief? __________________________________________
Are we, like our predecessors, continuing to prove that there is no m________ m_______ that can believe in death? ______. Are we willing to do this, even though it isn’t always easy? _____
There is something that has to die. If it’s not ‘man,’ what is it? SH 290: 23. ________________
Universal salvation {everyone free of death} rests on pro________ and pro________, and is unattainable without them. SH 291: 12.
Is there death in Life? ____. Life is where we came from, where we are, and where we’re going, but we still have to gain Life, achieve it, by walking in the pathway of _______ both before and after that which is called d____. SH 487: 3-6. According to this fact -- before and after death -- we will still be thinking after what seems to be death. Do you like this fact? ______. I do too. Why are we glad this is true? _______________
Every week, the Psalmist helps us pray. What does the Psalmist ask God to do in Ps. 139 23-24? ___________________________________________________
After Jesus was arrested, the disciples were afraid. Why?_______________________________
Three people pointed at Peter and said ‘this man was with Jesus.’ How did Peter respond?
Peter said ______________________ Luke 22: 57-60. Was Peter learning what it means to be ‘on probation?’ At very important moments, did Peter tell the truth? ____When he admitted to himself, I lied, he went out and ________ _________. Luke 22: 62. Did Peter stay in this state of grief? _____. He accepted from the Christ a regeneration, which means a re______. Even though he didn’t make a good grade on the ‘probation’ test, God’s love, the Christ, made sure Peter learned what he needed to learn. Just as death is not more real than life, so a lie is not more real than truth. During ‘probation,’ do we show that we are sticking with the facts and casting out beliefs? ___
Is defeat the result of experience? ___. P______ is born of experience. SH 296: 4-12. The death of a false m_____ s______ and of s___…is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal. Is ‘man’ on probation? ____What is ‘on probation’? ____________. Christian Science says we should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the ___…
SH 8: 28-30.
Mary, one of Jesus’ disciples, was weeping at the tomb. She looked into the cave-like sepulcher and saw two angels who asked Why weepest thou? Mary was worried because Jesus’ body was not in the tomb. When she turned around, a man asked Why weepest thou? Who was that man? _.
Do you think Jesus was ‘on probation after death’? ____. I think he was showing that ‘probation’ is a time of progress. Do you agree? _____
Perhaps Mary wanted to hug him in joy, but Jesus said touch me not; for I am not yet ascended… He then gave Mary instructions to go do what? _________________________ John 20: 11-17.
What was Jesus doing in the tomb?__. He was ‘solving the great problem __ ___.’ SH 44: 5-10.
He solved it by proving that man is s______ and the body is not m________. SH 313: 30-5.
After you and I learn that death is a dream, a lie, how long will we be ‘on probation’ to prove this fact? ________________________________ SH 77: 13-18.
When we learn that e_____ is not real, we shall be ready for p______… SH 353: 22. Can I learn more everyday about the unreality of e_____ and d______? _____. I learn more by___________________
Through C____ J____ and C_____ S_____ we learn that Life and man survive this body. Neither evil, disease, nor death can be spiritual, and the material belief in them disappears in the ratio of our sp______ growth. SH 368: 20-24.
After so-called death, the ‘human mind’ realizes it is still a_____! Does the ‘mortal, erring mind’ still have to put off the belief in death and yield to God, immortal Mind? ____. Perhaps this is the yielding that happens during ‘probation after death.’ Does that make sense to you? ______. If here we give no heed to Christian Science, which is spiritual and eternal, we shall not be ready for spiritual Life hereafter.
SH 410: 1. I’m glad to know that, because it is such a joy to give heed (pay close attention) to the law of Life, Truth, and Love as explained in Christian Science.
Today I understand that the only ‘death’ is ________________________________
And I understand that ‘probation’ is a time of _____________________________
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Doctrine of Atonement
Doctrine of Atonement 10-17-10 Sara Lincoln
We’ve learned before that a doctrine is a _________. Atonement is at-_____-_______.
The opposite of at-one-ment is s___________. Are God and man s_________ or at-one? __
One of the earliest stories about at-one-ment is in __________. One of the earliest stories about separation is in __________.
A theologian is one who studies and teaches about ________. Do most theologians believe that God and man are s__________? ____. They say religion can help man reconnect with God. Did the o________, o________, and o_________ allow man to become disconnected? _____. Which theologians saw correctly that Creator and creation are ever at-one? _______________________
One of them, P______, wrote a letter to the Christians in Rome, thanking God and them that they had obeyed from the heart that form of d______ which Paul had taught them. Rom. 6: 17. They had been serving the ‘sin of s_______,’ but Christ Jesus broke down the middle wall of partition between God and man. Eph. 2: 14 Walls of partition serve a useful purpose in your h______, but a mind with several private rooms is likely to have several gods such as m______ and l_______.
Another theologian, John, said he that abideth in the d______ of C______, he hath both the Father and the Son. II John 1: 9. What is the doctrine of Christ? _________________________
One doctrine of Christian Science is that ‘e_____ and m______ have neither intelligence nor power.’ SH 454: 10
Man-made doctrines are w_______, which means _______________. SH 134: 14. Man-made doctrines cannot help us because they deny the possibility of Christian h_______, line 18. The doctrines (teachings) of C______ J______ and C________ S________ are the same: There is only one God-C______ and that’s Good. God is A___ so Cause and E______ are one and good. You and I really can prove that each of us is the i_______ and l________ of God. Gen. 1: 26-27.
What is it that shuts the door on spiritual healing? SH 132: 20-24. ________ ________.
Its opposite, f______, opens our eyes to see God’s will and God’s actions.
If Truth is overcoming error in your daily walk and conversation, you can finally say, “I have fought a good fight…I have kept the f______,” because you are a better man. This is having our part in the a___-o____-m______ with Truth and Love. SH 21: 1-5. At-one-ment is not just a theory. At-one-ment is the foundation on which we build lives that honor God and bless others.
The chief priests thought they had a right to put Jesus to death for the sin of b________ because Jesus said he was the S____ of G____. Mark 14: 55-64. The only blasphemy (sin against God) is to say ‘I am se________ from God; I am a mortal, made by mortals.’ This is the belief (blasphemy?) that some theologians (doctrines) preach, but will it ever be true? ____. How do you know? Because the record of a material creation will never be true, and because the Word of God is always true and the words of human opinions are not always ______. None of us are strangers and foreigners; we are all fellow-citizens with the s______, and of the household of G____…Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. Eph. 2: 19-20. What does the corner stone do? Does this church have one? ___. It has one made of stone and one made of s______ u_______.
Are false beliefs a sin?____. If you insist on believing something that is not of God and therefore not true, that is a sin. Sin is a b_______ in a p_______ opposed to God. Is sin an actual power opposed to God? ____
Jesus said, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Matt. 28: 20 & SH 446: 20.
Did Jesus mean the Christ is with you alway? _____. The Creator’s creation is forever. What is the false belief about the end of the world?
Could the end of the world mean the end of worldly belief in something separate from God? ___
Because the Christ is with us always, the belief in a material world will fade away, and what will remain? Man (females and males) and every other wonderful thing made by God, including ‘the pure in spirit, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and those who greatly desire to know God.’ (Matt. 5: 3-9). God’s world is full of people like this. Do you think it will ever end? ____
Do Christian Scientists have to be separate? ____. We cannot be separate from God for we are at-one with God, but we do have to separ8 ourselves from _______________________________
Our Pastor (the B________ and S__________) reminds us to come out from the material world and be s________. SH 451: 2-7.
What does a ‘show off’ do? Our parents and our Pastor tell us don’t show off or act superior to others. Why not?
Let’s read Matt. 23: 1-8. These mortal mind motives are not at one with God. Man=males=females are at-one with ________. Are you sure that’s true? ____
Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the h_____ c__________. SH 332: 9. Christ brings peace to the ‘struggling hearts’ that don’t feel at-one with God. Then the heart/mind stops struggling and accepts God-given dominion. The Christ brings h______, f_______, and sp________ un________, the corner stone for at-____-______ with the spiritual idea of man and his divine Principle, Love. SH 45: 16-21.
The theology of Christian Science gives the best understanding of atonement. We like to learn more about the Doctrine of Atonement because it reminds us that we are all the s_____ of _____ G______.
We’ve learned before that a doctrine is a _________. Atonement is at-_____-_______.
The opposite of at-one-ment is s___________. Are God and man s_________ or at-one? __
One of the earliest stories about at-one-ment is in __________. One of the earliest stories about separation is in __________.
A theologian is one who studies and teaches about ________. Do most theologians believe that God and man are s__________? ____. They say religion can help man reconnect with God. Did the o________, o________, and o_________ allow man to become disconnected? _____. Which theologians saw correctly that Creator and creation are ever at-one? _______________________
One of them, P______, wrote a letter to the Christians in Rome, thanking God and them that they had obeyed from the heart that form of d______ which Paul had taught them. Rom. 6: 17. They had been serving the ‘sin of s_______,’ but Christ Jesus broke down the middle wall of partition between God and man. Eph. 2: 14 Walls of partition serve a useful purpose in your h______, but a mind with several private rooms is likely to have several gods such as m______ and l_______.
Another theologian, John, said he that abideth in the d______ of C______, he hath both the Father and the Son. II John 1: 9. What is the doctrine of Christ? _________________________
One doctrine of Christian Science is that ‘e_____ and m______ have neither intelligence nor power.’ SH 454: 10
Man-made doctrines are w_______, which means _______________. SH 134: 14. Man-made doctrines cannot help us because they deny the possibility of Christian h_______, line 18. The doctrines (teachings) of C______ J______ and C________ S________ are the same: There is only one God-C______ and that’s Good. God is A___ so Cause and E______ are one and good. You and I really can prove that each of us is the i_______ and l________ of God. Gen. 1: 26-27.
What is it that shuts the door on spiritual healing? SH 132: 20-24. ________ ________.
Its opposite, f______, opens our eyes to see God’s will and God’s actions.
If Truth is overcoming error in your daily walk and conversation, you can finally say, “I have fought a good fight…I have kept the f______,” because you are a better man. This is having our part in the a___-o____-m______ with Truth and Love. SH 21: 1-5. At-one-ment is not just a theory. At-one-ment is the foundation on which we build lives that honor God and bless others.
The chief priests thought they had a right to put Jesus to death for the sin of b________ because Jesus said he was the S____ of G____. Mark 14: 55-64. The only blasphemy (sin against God) is to say ‘I am se________ from God; I am a mortal, made by mortals.’ This is the belief (blasphemy?) that some theologians (doctrines) preach, but will it ever be true? ____. How do you know? Because the record of a material creation will never be true, and because the Word of God is always true and the words of human opinions are not always ______. None of us are strangers and foreigners; we are all fellow-citizens with the s______, and of the household of G____…Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. Eph. 2: 19-20. What does the corner stone do? Does this church have one? ___. It has one made of stone and one made of s______ u_______.
Are false beliefs a sin?____. If you insist on believing something that is not of God and therefore not true, that is a sin. Sin is a b_______ in a p_______ opposed to God. Is sin an actual power opposed to God? ____
Jesus said, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Matt. 28: 20 & SH 446: 20.
Did Jesus mean the Christ is with you alway? _____. The Creator’s creation is forever. What is the false belief about the end of the world?
Could the end of the world mean the end of worldly belief in something separate from God? ___
Because the Christ is with us always, the belief in a material world will fade away, and what will remain? Man (females and males) and every other wonderful thing made by God, including ‘the pure in spirit, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and those who greatly desire to know God.’ (Matt. 5: 3-9). God’s world is full of people like this. Do you think it will ever end? ____
Do Christian Scientists have to be separate? ____. We cannot be separate from God for we are at-one with God, but we do have to separ8 ourselves from _______________________________
Our Pastor (the B________ and S__________) reminds us to come out from the material world and be s________. SH 451: 2-7.
What does a ‘show off’ do? Our parents and our Pastor tell us don’t show off or act superior to others. Why not?
Let’s read Matt. 23: 1-8. These mortal mind motives are not at one with God. Man=males=females are at-one with ________. Are you sure that’s true? ____
Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the h_____ c__________. SH 332: 9. Christ brings peace to the ‘struggling hearts’ that don’t feel at-one with God. Then the heart/mind stops struggling and accepts God-given dominion. The Christ brings h______, f_______, and sp________ un________, the corner stone for at-____-______ with the spiritual idea of man and his divine Principle, Love. SH 45: 16-21.
The theology of Christian Science gives the best understanding of atonement. We like to learn more about the Doctrine of Atonement because it reminds us that we are all the s_____ of _____ G______.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?
Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? 10-10-10 Sara Lincoln
Does Creator-God have any real enemies? ___ Does creation-man have any real enemies? ___ Do humans seem to have enemies? ___. Are these enemies ‘other people’? ___. The only enemies humans seem to have are ___________________. A Psalmist said Mine enemies would daily swallow me up, Ps. 56: 2, 4. Maybe seee was thinking about ‘people;’ maybe about sin, disease, and death. But seee made a very important choice not to f____ but rather to t____ and to p______ God’s word.
Mortal mind is the worst ____ of the body, while divine Mind is its best _________. SH 176: 19.
Does every ‘bad thing’ fit into one of these three categories: sin, disease, or death? ____
Discouragement and helplessness are bad things. They belong in the category called _______.
Is sin mortalnomind trying to separate us from God? ___ Complete this brief definition of sin: Sin is a b________ in a p________ opposed to God.
Frequently we revisit Gen. 1: 26 which states that God gave _______ to man (females and males). Over what? f______, f______, c_______, and creeping things. Do you want dominion over these things, or something else? _______________________________________
I think many people (including me) would like to accept and feel dominion over s____, d_____, and d_____. Did Christ Jesus have dominion over these? ____. He intended us to have it too because he said ‘rise up’ to the person who could not stand.
If I accept dominion over ______, the other two (d______ and d______) will fade away and disappear. SH 426: 28-29. It’s a sin to believe you have a m_____ of your own. It’s a sin to believe you can choose and know something God did not make, namely e______. Does the Bible teach us that God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life? ___. Gen. 2: 7. Another name, L_____ G_____, identifies the supposed creator of people with minds of their own who could choose to eat (believe) that evil is as real as good.
The truthteller in Genesis 1 describes the ‘very good’ creation of God. This is the Science of Genesis. SH 525: 22. The tree-fruit-leaves created by God were for the healing of the nations. Rev. 22: 2. The storyteller in Genesis 2 put his characters in a Garden called ________. In this imaginary place, there was a lot of mist and not much light to see by. This garden had a tree with poisonous fruit and it also had a creeping thing called a s_______.
Two thousand years after this storyteller described a make-believe creation, Mary Baker Eddy proved that this material creation story is a lying suggestion, not a real event. In K______ to the S________ (Science and Health, page 500) the chapter called G______ describes the real good creation of the One God, and the so-called harmful and disobedient creation of another god. How important is it to know the difference between God’s creation and an imaginary creation? ____
How does the SH dictionary called the G______ (SH 570) define KNOWLEDGE?
see part two
Through Christian Science, the true story of creation is being proved true again, every day. So why would anyone still believe the lie? It’s a trick. Your student dictionary says that a trick is an action intended to d________ or c________. Man does not have such an intention, but the s_________ does. Serpent is a symbol for a deceiving, cheating ‘thought’ trying to harm you. The spiritual thinker says STOP RIGHT THERE. God is good; God is Mind; therefore mind is good. There is no evil mind that can invent s_____, d______, and d______. I am so glad this is true! I give thanks for this fact every day, and remember it when the lie wears a disguise that looks like truth.
When sin, disease, and death seem real to you, what can you do?
You can stand up (mentally) and say to material sense you are not good, therefore, you are not real. Truth is telling me what is good and real, and the light of this telling pierces the mist you are hiding in.
Science and Health says that it is wisdom that warns man not to be fooled by the testimony of error… SH 481: 12-15. Error is m________ s________. Can I ask of every thought and event every day ‘did God send this’? ___. If God did not send it, I can say………………..
Are sin, disease, and death real? NO. These words of the Psalmist are true and real: Ps. 103: 1-4.
Mary Baker Eddy designated 26 topics for our weekly Lesson Sermons. With each reappearance in a year, there are different passages to study in the B________ and S____________________. Why do you think she phrased this topic as a question?
Was she sure or unsure about the answer? _____________________
In 1866, Mary Baker Eddy’s friends thought she was about to die. She asked for her Bible and opened it to Matthew 9, which tells about Jesus healing a paralyzed man. Suddenly she realized the presence of that same haling power and she too was completely healed. She asked herself, how did this happen? She knew the answer was in the Bible so she studied it deeply for three years. Out of that study came the textbook that helps all of us find healing in the Bible. The name of that textbook is __________.
Let’s re-word the title of this week’s lesson so that we can answer YES.
Does Creator-God have any real enemies? ___ Does creation-man have any real enemies? ___ Do humans seem to have enemies? ___. Are these enemies ‘other people’? ___. The only enemies humans seem to have are ___________________. A Psalmist said Mine enemies would daily swallow me up, Ps. 56: 2, 4. Maybe seee was thinking about ‘people;’ maybe about sin, disease, and death. But seee made a very important choice not to f____ but rather to t____ and to p______ God’s word.
Mortal mind is the worst ____ of the body, while divine Mind is its best _________. SH 176: 19.
Does every ‘bad thing’ fit into one of these three categories: sin, disease, or death? ____
Discouragement and helplessness are bad things. They belong in the category called _______.
Is sin mortalnomind trying to separate us from God? ___ Complete this brief definition of sin: Sin is a b________ in a p________ opposed to God.
Frequently we revisit Gen. 1: 26 which states that God gave _______ to man (females and males). Over what? f______, f______, c_______, and creeping things. Do you want dominion over these things, or something else? _______________________________________
I think many people (including me) would like to accept and feel dominion over s____, d_____, and d_____. Did Christ Jesus have dominion over these? ____. He intended us to have it too because he said ‘rise up’ to the person who could not stand.
If I accept dominion over ______, the other two (d______ and d______) will fade away and disappear. SH 426: 28-29. It’s a sin to believe you have a m_____ of your own. It’s a sin to believe you can choose and know something God did not make, namely e______. Does the Bible teach us that God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life? ___. Gen. 2: 7. Another name, L_____ G_____, identifies the supposed creator of people with minds of their own who could choose to eat (believe) that evil is as real as good.
The truthteller in Genesis 1 describes the ‘very good’ creation of God. This is the Science of Genesis. SH 525: 22. The tree-fruit-leaves created by God were for the healing of the nations. Rev. 22: 2. The storyteller in Genesis 2 put his characters in a Garden called ________. In this imaginary place, there was a lot of mist and not much light to see by. This garden had a tree with poisonous fruit and it also had a creeping thing called a s_______.
Two thousand years after this storyteller described a make-believe creation, Mary Baker Eddy proved that this material creation story is a lying suggestion, not a real event. In K______ to the S________ (Science and Health, page 500) the chapter called G______ describes the real good creation of the One God, and the so-called harmful and disobedient creation of another god. How important is it to know the difference between God’s creation and an imaginary creation? ____
How does the SH dictionary called the G______ (SH 570) define KNOWLEDGE?
see part two
Through Christian Science, the true story of creation is being proved true again, every day. So why would anyone still believe the lie? It’s a trick. Your student dictionary says that a trick is an action intended to d________ or c________. Man does not have such an intention, but the s_________ does. Serpent is a symbol for a deceiving, cheating ‘thought’ trying to harm you. The spiritual thinker says STOP RIGHT THERE. God is good; God is Mind; therefore mind is good. There is no evil mind that can invent s_____, d______, and d______. I am so glad this is true! I give thanks for this fact every day, and remember it when the lie wears a disguise that looks like truth.
When sin, disease, and death seem real to you, what can you do?
You can stand up (mentally) and say to material sense you are not good, therefore, you are not real. Truth is telling me what is good and real, and the light of this telling pierces the mist you are hiding in.
Science and Health says that it is wisdom that warns man not to be fooled by the testimony of error… SH 481: 12-15. Error is m________ s________. Can I ask of every thought and event every day ‘did God send this’? ___. If God did not send it, I can say………………..
Are sin, disease, and death real? NO. These words of the Psalmist are true and real: Ps. 103: 1-4.
Mary Baker Eddy designated 26 topics for our weekly Lesson Sermons. With each reappearance in a year, there are different passages to study in the B________ and S____________________. Why do you think she phrased this topic as a question?
Was she sure or unsure about the answer? _____________________
In 1866, Mary Baker Eddy’s friends thought she was about to die. She asked for her Bible and opened it to Matthew 9, which tells about Jesus healing a paralyzed man. Suddenly she realized the presence of that same haling power and she too was completely healed. She asked herself, how did this happen? She knew the answer was in the Bible so she studied it deeply for three years. Out of that study came the textbook that helps all of us find healing in the Bible. The name of that textbook is __________.
Let’s re-word the title of this week’s lesson so that we can answer YES.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Unreality, part 2
A proverb is a w_______ saying. Here is one example: There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the L____. Prov. 21: 30.
God has no real enemies. I have no real enemies.
Christian Science proves that God-Mind has no opposite, therefore it states
The mortal ____________ mind produces all that is un________ the immortal Mind.
SH 403: 26.
In my coin purse there is a graven image that is also a likeness. What is it? _____
Am I breaking God’s law? ____
When people love or fear graven images, that is id____________: believing in the supposed existence of more than one mind… SH 470: 5. When you and I say ‘I don’t know, I don’t understand,’ we better be careful that we are not believing in more than one Mind. Each of us is the i_________ m____________ of i__________ ___________. SH 468: 8.
We bless ourselves and others when we hear the Word: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a c__________ of the people, for a light of the Gentiles Isa. 42: 6-7. Do you want to be a light? _____. How will you be ‘a light’? _____
Jesus knew he was the light of Light. John 8:12. This knowing is the Christ. He that followeth me shall … have the light of life. Can God, immortality, have an unlikeness? ____. Can God’s likeness, man, have mortality? ____. Mary Baker Eddy promised God that she would focus on the Light as she wrote Science and Health. Would you say that was ‘right reasoning’? ____ Another way of describing the Light is sp________ ex________. SH 492: 3. We can always prove that this is the reality, and ma________ ex________ is the unreality. The Apostle Paul said the same, as expressed in Science and Health: When spiritual being is understood…then shall man be found in His likeness. SH 325: 13
I am a real image and likeness, therefore I cannot be an un_________ thing called a mortal! Hallelujah!
God has no real enemies. I have no real enemies.
Christian Science proves that God-Mind has no opposite, therefore it states
The mortal ____________ mind produces all that is un________ the immortal Mind.
SH 403: 26.
In my coin purse there is a graven image that is also a likeness. What is it? _____
Am I breaking God’s law? ____
When people love or fear graven images, that is id____________: believing in the supposed existence of more than one mind… SH 470: 5. When you and I say ‘I don’t know, I don’t understand,’ we better be careful that we are not believing in more than one Mind. Each of us is the i_________ m____________ of i__________ ___________. SH 468: 8.
We bless ourselves and others when we hear the Word: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a c__________ of the people, for a light of the Gentiles Isa. 42: 6-7. Do you want to be a light? _____. How will you be ‘a light’? _____
Jesus knew he was the light of Light. John 8:12. This knowing is the Christ. He that followeth me shall … have the light of life. Can God, immortality, have an unlikeness? ____. Can God’s likeness, man, have mortality? ____. Mary Baker Eddy promised God that she would focus on the Light as she wrote Science and Health. Would you say that was ‘right reasoning’? ____ Another way of describing the Light is sp________ ex________. SH 492: 3. We can always prove that this is the reality, and ma________ ex________ is the unreality. The Apostle Paul said the same, as expressed in Science and Health: When spiritual being is understood…then shall man be found in His likeness. SH 325: 13
I am a real image and likeness, therefore I cannot be an un_________ thing called a mortal! Hallelujah!
Unreality
Unreality 10-3-10 Sara Lincoln
The words unreality, likeness, unlikeness, and mortal mind, are not words you are likely to hear in daily conversation or read in the daily news. Why do you think the spiritual thinker needs these words?
Is there a definition of unreality in your Student Dictionary? ____
Could other words for unreality and reality be error and truth? _
Would it be a good idea to devote all our thinking to reality and truth, and none of our thinking to unreality and error? ____. Why?
In Ex. 20: 3-5, Moses said that God’s first commands are to have no other _____ and make no g________ i________. Does that mean that the one God knew about other gods? ______
The disciple John says In the beginning was the W_____. John 1:1. The inspired author of Genesis 1:3 says In the beginning,…God said, let there be ______. Apparently, God created everything except m_____, because Word and Light are expressed (manifested) by i______, not m________.
Every week, the Psalmist reminds us of the facts and the falsities. FACT: For ever, O Lord, thy ______ is settled in heaven. Ps. 119: 89. FALSITY: I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree…but see how falsity is overcome by fact… yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not. Ps. 37: 35-36. In other words, it looked like evil and matter were present and spreading then they suddenly disappeared. If something is real it cannot disappear, can it? ____
Our Key to the Scriptures textbook affirms it this way: Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness, no room for unreality! SH 339: 7. When are we going to be the sons of God knowing no unreality or unlikeness? ____ I John 3: 2.
In the Scientific Statement of Being (which I’m glad to see you know by heart) what two-letter word meaning now is used? ____ . How many times is it used? _____
Man, in the likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light of being…That light is m___________ but not in m__________. SH 305: 6.
see part 2
The words unreality, likeness, unlikeness, and mortal mind, are not words you are likely to hear in daily conversation or read in the daily news. Why do you think the spiritual thinker needs these words?
Is there a definition of unreality in your Student Dictionary? ____
Could other words for unreality and reality be error and truth? _
Would it be a good idea to devote all our thinking to reality and truth, and none of our thinking to unreality and error? ____. Why?
In Ex. 20: 3-5, Moses said that God’s first commands are to have no other _____ and make no g________ i________. Does that mean that the one God knew about other gods? ______
The disciple John says In the beginning was the W_____. John 1:1. The inspired author of Genesis 1:3 says In the beginning,…God said, let there be ______. Apparently, God created everything except m_____, because Word and Light are expressed (manifested) by i______, not m________.
Every week, the Psalmist reminds us of the facts and the falsities. FACT: For ever, O Lord, thy ______ is settled in heaven. Ps. 119: 89. FALSITY: I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree…but see how falsity is overcome by fact… yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not. Ps. 37: 35-36. In other words, it looked like evil and matter were present and spreading then they suddenly disappeared. If something is real it cannot disappear, can it? ____
Our Key to the Scriptures textbook affirms it this way: Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness, no room for unreality! SH 339: 7. When are we going to be the sons of God knowing no unreality or unlikeness? ____ I John 3: 2.
In the Scientific Statement of Being (which I’m glad to see you know by heart) what two-letter word meaning now is used? ____ . How many times is it used? _____
Man, in the likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light of being…That light is m___________ but not in m__________. SH 305: 6.
see part 2
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Reality
Reality 9-26-10 Sara Lincoln
Some adults watch Reality Shows on TV. These supposedly show how people really talk and act when they are not actors reading from a script. I doubt that adults learn much from these shows because they are missing the all-important perspective of __________ reality. What is that?
Do you know any TV shows for kids or Internet games that are missing sp________ reality?
Maybe it’s enough to have a spiritual perspective just on Sunday. Do you agree? _____ Why?
…the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you. Lev. 9:6. In your student dictionary, the word glory (noun) has these two meanings: B________, S________. These shall appear to you especially if you are l________ and l________. When you see the glory of the Lord, can you also see the glory of m______? ____. What Bible Friends can you think of who beheld the g______ of the Lord and received great strength and inspiration, and ability to do their God-assigned work?
One Psalmist said I shall be _________ when I awake with thy likeness. Ps. 17: 15.
II Kings 6: 8-17 tells the story of the prophet E______ helping the king of I________. Why would \the Lord help the King of Israel and not help the King of Syria?
When Elisha heard that the enemy’s horses and chariots surrounded his city, he said (verse 16) ______ ____: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. What did he mean?
Do you think E______ was a prophet because he let the glory of the Lord appear unto him? ____
If you are going to see the presence and power of the Lord, you have to open your ______ and look at the sp______ perspective because the m_______ perspective is lying to you. Right? ____
Psalmists sometimes wondered ‘what is real?’ but more often they really got it right. What does seee say in Ps. 33: 4, 9-11? Another word for ‘right’ is r_____. Another word for heathen is ___
Our textbook tells us The testimony of the c______ s______ cannot inform us what is real and what is delusion, but the revelations of C_____ S_____ unlock the treasures of Truth. SH 70: 1-5
A young person might say I don’t know enough to have dominion over all the earth. What encouraging, empowering thing could you say to seee? SH 516: 19. If man already knows it, why do we have to learn about the real and eternal… the kingdom of heaven? SH 208: 20.
Thank you Prophet Isaiah for giving us these words from God: My counsel shall stand, and I will do ____ ____ _______. Isa. 46: 10. God is Good and Good cannot result in _____. SH 277: 7
The greatest wrong is but a _______________ opposite of the highest right. SH 368: 1.
Joseph, a boy from Israel, was in prison in Egypt. How did that happen?
Was he angry and trying to escape? ____. Because he knew that God was really in charge, he kept l______ and tr______. Was it God or Pharaoh who gave Joseph the opportunity to save thousands of people from starving during the f__________? ______.
A PROPHET is a ________ ______. SH 593: 4. Was Joseph a prophet? ____ Are you? ____
Was Jesus a prophet? ____ Matt. 21: 11. Was Mary Baker Eddy a prophet? _____
What and where is the kingdom of heaven? _______. In Matt. 13: 10-11, 15-16, 24-30, Jesus told an interesting story called a p______. He was explaining the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is a mystery to m_______ s ______ but not to s______ s_____.
He tells how a farmer plants w _______ but t______ also come up. Since these words are symbols, we could say w_______ means ______________, and t________ means ________.
As always, our textbook helps us better understand Scripture. Jesus’ parables __________ Life as never mingling with _______ and __________. SH 27: 17-18.
Mary Baker Eddy explains that Science is a l______ that is always in effect and cannot be broken. Could wheat be a symbol for Sc_______? Even though the tares (error) seem to grow right alongside the wheat (truth), does error -- the temporal, unreal, mutable and imperfect -- ever kill or even touch Science -- the truth which is immutable, perfect, harmonious and real? __
Are you wheat? _____. What are the tares that cannot keep you from experiencing and sharing good? _____________________________________. Are the tares like the sins we listed? ____
A farmer will tell you that wheat and tares look very much alike. What can you do if truth and error sometimes look alike? ________. God Good helps us through Christian Science, which separates the wheat from the tares through the realization that G____ is ever present and m____ reflects the divine likeness. SH 300: 13. Where is the verse that tells us we are God’s likeness?
Is there one cause and effect or more? ______. Its name is ____ so cause and effect are ______. SH 207: 20. The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe is ________ and is the ideal of Truth. Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite ________, which bears no resemblance to spirituality, is ____ ______. SH 207: 28.
On the wall in our church auditorium is a verse from John 8: 32: ye shall know ____ _____, and the truth shall make you ______. A prophet knows what’s _____ even when error seems to be present. One time Jesus was in a friend’s home where a woman was taken with a great fever. Christ Jesus knew that God did not send that fever, so he stood over her and ________ the fever. Luke 4: 39. To rebuke means to condemn as u______. When a lie is seen as unreal, it disappears!
Christian Science teaches what Christ Jesus knew: Health is not a condition of m________ but of ______…SH 120: 15.
Is it an exaggeration to say that All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal? _____. SH 472: 24-30. Unrealities seem real to human, erring _______, until God strips off their ________. They are not true, because they are not of ______. SH 472: 18
Has the kingdom of God been lost or overcome by error? _____ Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that m_____ is pure and holy. SH 477: 4. ‘Intact’ means________
The Preacher (Eccl. 3: 14-15) was also a p________. He looked always for the truth so the glory of the Lord appeared to him. It gave him wonderful understanding. He said I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it. Eccl. 3: 14. Can you and I (and all mankind) have that same understanding? ______
The prophet of to-day beholds in the mental horizon the signs of these times, the reappearance of the Christianity which heals the _____ and destroys _____, and no other sign shall be given.
SH 98: 4-7. The Christianity that heals the sick is called ________ ________.
Some adults watch Reality Shows on TV. These supposedly show how people really talk and act when they are not actors reading from a script. I doubt that adults learn much from these shows because they are missing the all-important perspective of __________ reality. What is that?
Do you know any TV shows for kids or Internet games that are missing sp________ reality?
Maybe it’s enough to have a spiritual perspective just on Sunday. Do you agree? _____ Why?
…the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you. Lev. 9:6. In your student dictionary, the word glory (noun) has these two meanings: B________, S________. These shall appear to you especially if you are l________ and l________. When you see the glory of the Lord, can you also see the glory of m______? ____. What Bible Friends can you think of who beheld the g______ of the Lord and received great strength and inspiration, and ability to do their God-assigned work?
One Psalmist said I shall be _________ when I awake with thy likeness. Ps. 17: 15.
II Kings 6: 8-17 tells the story of the prophet E______ helping the king of I________. Why would \the Lord help the King of Israel and not help the King of Syria?
When Elisha heard that the enemy’s horses and chariots surrounded his city, he said (verse 16) ______ ____: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. What did he mean?
Do you think E______ was a prophet because he let the glory of the Lord appear unto him? ____
If you are going to see the presence and power of the Lord, you have to open your ______ and look at the sp______ perspective because the m_______ perspective is lying to you. Right? ____
Psalmists sometimes wondered ‘what is real?’ but more often they really got it right. What does seee say in Ps. 33: 4, 9-11? Another word for ‘right’ is r_____. Another word for heathen is ___
Our textbook tells us The testimony of the c______ s______ cannot inform us what is real and what is delusion, but the revelations of C_____ S_____ unlock the treasures of Truth. SH 70: 1-5
A young person might say I don’t know enough to have dominion over all the earth. What encouraging, empowering thing could you say to seee? SH 516: 19. If man already knows it, why do we have to learn about the real and eternal… the kingdom of heaven? SH 208: 20.
Thank you Prophet Isaiah for giving us these words from God: My counsel shall stand, and I will do ____ ____ _______. Isa. 46: 10. God is Good and Good cannot result in _____. SH 277: 7
The greatest wrong is but a _______________ opposite of the highest right. SH 368: 1.
Joseph, a boy from Israel, was in prison in Egypt. How did that happen?
Was he angry and trying to escape? ____. Because he knew that God was really in charge, he kept l______ and tr______. Was it God or Pharaoh who gave Joseph the opportunity to save thousands of people from starving during the f__________? ______.
A PROPHET is a ________ ______. SH 593: 4. Was Joseph a prophet? ____ Are you? ____
Was Jesus a prophet? ____ Matt. 21: 11. Was Mary Baker Eddy a prophet? _____
What and where is the kingdom of heaven? _______. In Matt. 13: 10-11, 15-16, 24-30, Jesus told an interesting story called a p______. He was explaining the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is a mystery to m_______ s ______ but not to s______ s_____.
He tells how a farmer plants w _______ but t______ also come up. Since these words are symbols, we could say w_______ means ______________, and t________ means ________.
As always, our textbook helps us better understand Scripture. Jesus’ parables __________ Life as never mingling with _______ and __________. SH 27: 17-18.
Mary Baker Eddy explains that Science is a l______ that is always in effect and cannot be broken. Could wheat be a symbol for Sc_______? Even though the tares (error) seem to grow right alongside the wheat (truth), does error -- the temporal, unreal, mutable and imperfect -- ever kill or even touch Science -- the truth which is immutable, perfect, harmonious and real? __
Are you wheat? _____. What are the tares that cannot keep you from experiencing and sharing good? _____________________________________. Are the tares like the sins we listed? ____
A farmer will tell you that wheat and tares look very much alike. What can you do if truth and error sometimes look alike? ________. God Good helps us through Christian Science, which separates the wheat from the tares through the realization that G____ is ever present and m____ reflects the divine likeness. SH 300: 13. Where is the verse that tells us we are God’s likeness?
Is there one cause and effect or more? ______. Its name is ____ so cause and effect are ______. SH 207: 20. The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe is ________ and is the ideal of Truth. Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite ________, which bears no resemblance to spirituality, is ____ ______. SH 207: 28.
On the wall in our church auditorium is a verse from John 8: 32: ye shall know ____ _____, and the truth shall make you ______. A prophet knows what’s _____ even when error seems to be present. One time Jesus was in a friend’s home where a woman was taken with a great fever. Christ Jesus knew that God did not send that fever, so he stood over her and ________ the fever. Luke 4: 39. To rebuke means to condemn as u______. When a lie is seen as unreal, it disappears!
Christian Science teaches what Christ Jesus knew: Health is not a condition of m________ but of ______…SH 120: 15.
Is it an exaggeration to say that All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal? _____. SH 472: 24-30. Unrealities seem real to human, erring _______, until God strips off their ________. They are not true, because they are not of ______. SH 472: 18
Has the kingdom of God been lost or overcome by error? _____ Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that m_____ is pure and holy. SH 477: 4. ‘Intact’ means________
The Preacher (Eccl. 3: 14-15) was also a p________. He looked always for the truth so the glory of the Lord appeared to him. It gave him wonderful understanding. He said I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it. Eccl. 3: 14. Can you and I (and all mankind) have that same understanding? ______
The prophet of to-day beholds in the mental horizon the signs of these times, the reappearance of the Christianity which heals the _____ and destroys _____, and no other sign shall be given.
SH 98: 4-7. The Christianity that heals the sick is called ________ ________.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Mind
Mind 8-22-10 Sara Lincoln
Is your intelligent, perceptive approach to everything and everyone a function of thought, mind? _____ The senses of Soul (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling) may make us aware, but only thinking, m______, enables us to understand and make use of the information we receive through the senses. Do you succeed in school because of an unlimited personal m_____? You (we) succeed because we agree to be the infinite ________ of infinite ________. SH 468; 10 -11.
God as Mind is the only creator. Twenty-three years before King James commissioned an ‘authorized’ translation of the Bible, there was a translation of the Bible into Icelandic. Mary Baker Eddy discerned the accuracy of the Icelandic translation of Gen. 1: 26-27:
And God said, Let us make man after our mind and our likeness; and God shaped man after His mind; after God’s mind shaped He him,; and He shaped them male and female.
She quotes this translation on page 525 of Science and Health. If I am made by ‘mind’ (Mind) then I am ‘the compound idea of God, including all right ideas;’ just as Science and Health reveals in answering the question ‘What is man?’ 475: 14-15. How intelligent and perceptive am I if I include ‘all right ideas’? ________
Is material sense an expression of Mind? ______ Does matter talk to you? ______ It may seem to, but Christian Science reveals that ‘matter talking’ is only ‘mental sug________.’ How do I know whether I’m thinking a ‘right idea’ or a ‘suggestion’? _____________
Does man need to give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God,…?_____ SH 191: 4. What’s the difference between ‘man’ and ‘mortal’?...............
The first written record of creation, Gen. 2: 4 – 4: 24, calls the creator L_____ G______. Six hundred years later, an accurate record was written, Gen. 1 – Gen. 2: 3, which calls the creator G______. The term ‘L_____ G_____’ represented common opinion or suggestion. The term G______ revealed awakened t________, inspired thinking, the right idea of m_______. How often do you tell stories, tell what happened? _______ Does it matter what you say? _____ Are you telling a story that points t______ upward toward God-good or downward toward sug_______ of evil? One Biblical writer told the story that serpent suggestion overcame intelligent and unselfed t______. Many people in the world still seem to believe the serpent’s story that evil is as real as good. It does matter, doesn’t it? ____ How can we help correct this problem of suggestion vs revelation?
Who were the ‘children of Israel’? M______ and J______ led them into the Promised Land, but some of them still served _____, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. II Kings 17: 12. One of the good kings was ______. He removed all the i____, but he did not remove the ‘high places.’ These were altars for worship erected in visible places. II Kings 15: 14. Asa went half-way in tr______ God. He could have relied on one God, all-knowing M_____, but instead he decided to keep the places where the people could worship a human sense of God called ‘the L____ G____.’ Why wasn’t this a good idea? Later, when King Asa had a physical problem, he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. Soon thereafter, he slept with his fathers, which means……
II Chron. 16: 12-13
Every trouble seems to begin with choosing a p_______ mind instead of the p______ Mind. Is ‘having a p______ mind’ like ‘making an i_____’? ______ SH 535: 10.
Divine Mind rightly demands man’s _______ obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty. SH 183: 21-23. What is ‘lesser loyalty’?
The first idolatry was faith in m______________. SH 146: 5.
Only through _______ _______ on Truth can scientific healing power be realized.
SH 167: 30.
We don’t come to complete trust all at once. We gain it s____ by s_____. SH 444: 10.
Another way of saying s____ by s____ is t________ by t________. It’s natural progress for God hath not given us the s______ of f______; but of power, and of love, and of a s________ m________. II Tim. 1: 7.
Is fear an expression of thinking, or mind? _____ Fear is the fountain of s________, and you master fear and sin through divine ______; hence it is through divine M_____ that you overcome disease. SH 391: 32.
Jesus healed many people because he remained loyal to divine M____ and rejected sugg_
Let’s see which healings we can remember.
Peter also healed people. Acts 9: 32-34. Let’s read about this healing.
M______ is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action. SH 283: 4-6.
It should be thoroughly understood that all men have _____ _____, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact becomes ________... SH 467: 9.
Do you need to know all the theories about sickness and health in order to have good health? ______You need only know and live the f______ about health revealed by Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy.
The ‘serpent’ m_____ m_____ suggests that both good and evil are real. Is this true?___
The ‘Christ,’ the actual M_____ of man, reveals that we know everything, as did Jesus, when we choose M______ as the source of intelligence.
Is your intelligent, perceptive approach to everything and everyone a function of thought, mind? _____ The senses of Soul (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling) may make us aware, but only thinking, m______, enables us to understand and make use of the information we receive through the senses. Do you succeed in school because of an unlimited personal m_____? You (we) succeed because we agree to be the infinite ________ of infinite ________. SH 468; 10 -11.
God as Mind is the only creator. Twenty-three years before King James commissioned an ‘authorized’ translation of the Bible, there was a translation of the Bible into Icelandic. Mary Baker Eddy discerned the accuracy of the Icelandic translation of Gen. 1: 26-27:
And God said, Let us make man after our mind and our likeness; and God shaped man after His mind; after God’s mind shaped He him,; and He shaped them male and female.
She quotes this translation on page 525 of Science and Health. If I am made by ‘mind’ (Mind) then I am ‘the compound idea of God, including all right ideas;’ just as Science and Health reveals in answering the question ‘What is man?’ 475: 14-15. How intelligent and perceptive am I if I include ‘all right ideas’? ________
Is material sense an expression of Mind? ______ Does matter talk to you? ______ It may seem to, but Christian Science reveals that ‘matter talking’ is only ‘mental sug________.’ How do I know whether I’m thinking a ‘right idea’ or a ‘suggestion’? _____________
Does man need to give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God,…?_____ SH 191: 4. What’s the difference between ‘man’ and ‘mortal’?...............
The first written record of creation, Gen. 2: 4 – 4: 24, calls the creator L_____ G______. Six hundred years later, an accurate record was written, Gen. 1 – Gen. 2: 3, which calls the creator G______. The term ‘L_____ G_____’ represented common opinion or suggestion. The term G______ revealed awakened t________, inspired thinking, the right idea of m_______. How often do you tell stories, tell what happened? _______ Does it matter what you say? _____ Are you telling a story that points t______ upward toward God-good or downward toward sug_______ of evil? One Biblical writer told the story that serpent suggestion overcame intelligent and unselfed t______. Many people in the world still seem to believe the serpent’s story that evil is as real as good. It does matter, doesn’t it? ____ How can we help correct this problem of suggestion vs revelation?
Who were the ‘children of Israel’? M______ and J______ led them into the Promised Land, but some of them still served _____, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. II Kings 17: 12. One of the good kings was ______. He removed all the i____, but he did not remove the ‘high places.’ These were altars for worship erected in visible places. II Kings 15: 14. Asa went half-way in tr______ God. He could have relied on one God, all-knowing M_____, but instead he decided to keep the places where the people could worship a human sense of God called ‘the L____ G____.’ Why wasn’t this a good idea? Later, when King Asa had a physical problem, he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. Soon thereafter, he slept with his fathers, which means……
II Chron. 16: 12-13
Every trouble seems to begin with choosing a p_______ mind instead of the p______ Mind. Is ‘having a p______ mind’ like ‘making an i_____’? ______ SH 535: 10.
Divine Mind rightly demands man’s _______ obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty. SH 183: 21-23. What is ‘lesser loyalty’?
The first idolatry was faith in m______________. SH 146: 5.
Only through _______ _______ on Truth can scientific healing power be realized.
SH 167: 30.
We don’t come to complete trust all at once. We gain it s____ by s_____. SH 444: 10.
Another way of saying s____ by s____ is t________ by t________. It’s natural progress for God hath not given us the s______ of f______; but of power, and of love, and of a s________ m________. II Tim. 1: 7.
Is fear an expression of thinking, or mind? _____ Fear is the fountain of s________, and you master fear and sin through divine ______; hence it is through divine M_____ that you overcome disease. SH 391: 32.
Jesus healed many people because he remained loyal to divine M____ and rejected sugg_
Let’s see which healings we can remember.
Peter also healed people. Acts 9: 32-34. Let’s read about this healing.
M______ is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action. SH 283: 4-6.
It should be thoroughly understood that all men have _____ _____, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact becomes ________... SH 467: 9.
Do you need to know all the theories about sickness and health in order to have good health? ______You need only know and live the f______ about health revealed by Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy.
The ‘serpent’ m_____ m_____ suggests that both good and evil are real. Is this true?___
The ‘Christ,’ the actual M_____ of man, reveals that we know everything, as did Jesus, when we choose M______ as the source of intelligence.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Soul
Soul 8-15-10 Sara Lincoln
People in the Bible talk abut ‘my soul.’ In your conversations, do you ever hear or say ‘my soul’? ______A common belief is that one’s soul goes to heaven when one’s material body dies. Is this what you believe? ____ Thanks to Christian Science, we understand that soul is our sense of a real and permanent identity that our Bible Friends urge us to accept. Who articulated each of these truths/facts about your identity and everyone’s identity?
…in him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17: 28) ______
…seee that dwells in the secret place of the Most High is safe and sound (Ps. 91: 1-3)
…be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heavcn is perfect
(Matt. 5: 48) ______
Let’s recall the seven synonyms for God stated in Science and Health, page 587. Which ones are frequently used with ‘my’? __________
Do you ever say ‘my mind’ or ‘my life’? _____When you say ‘my homework’ or ‘my friend,’ is it a human sense of ‘my’ or a divine sense? ______ ______ Mary Baker Eddy was inspired, like prophets in the Bible, in urging us to accept a spiritual sense of ‘my.’ What if I said, my God-given homework, my God-given friend? What difference would it make? If it’s God-given, it blesses ________ and ________.
The Psalmist says to himself, Praise the Lord, O my _______. Ps. 146: 1. Praise SEEE for what? Ps. 146: 8 says: The Lord _______ the eyes of the blind: the Lord ________ them that are bowed down: the Lord ________ the righteous. Is the Psalmist grateful and certain about these blessings? ____. If so, the Psalmist could say Praise the Lord O my gratitude: Praise the Lord O my certainty. Do you think the author of
Ps. 35: 9 would be willing to say my gratitude shall be joyful in the Lord: my certainty shall rejoice in his salvation? _____
Does God show gratitude for man and certainty about man’s goodness? ___
Jer. 32: 41. Science and Health gives us the perfect word for describing how man relates to God: Man is the re______________ of Soul. SH 249: 31.
Is man also the ma______________ of Soul/Mind? ___ SH 468.
When the so-called ‘human mind’ is agreeing with ignorance or error, it says man has five material senses. Is this true? ____ The ability to s____, h____, s____, t____, and f____ comes from S_____, not from ‘brain.’ It is sp_________ u____________ by which we know all we need to know, and it is an expression of S_____ and S_____. Can ma_________ sense have sp_________ understanding? _____.
Matter and Spirit are o___________! Let’s read SH 486: 23-26.
Jesus healed the blind, the deaf, and the lame. How did he do it? Did he have special power and ability because he was the Son of God? _____ The good Bible student knows seee can do the same thing because Jesus told all his followers to h_____ the sick, r_____ the dead, c_____ the lepers, and c_____ out devils/demons. Matt. 10: 8. Science and Health tells us how Jesus did it. Knowing that _____ and its attributes were forever ________ through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and __________. Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same _____________ process. SH 210: 11-16.
Salvation means ________________________. Metaphysical means ______________.
Jesus raised the dead when he called L______ to come out of the tomb. Peter also raised _________ (Tabitha) from the dead. (Acts 9: 36-41). Many people were weeping. Peter put them all out of the room. Why? _______ Then what did he do? ______ As followers (disciples) of Christ Jesus, we too agree with imm_________, not with mor_________. Life, Soul, never loses its r____________ man. SH 306: 13.
When are you going to be perfect and immortal? ____________ If ever I can’t see this fact clearly, what can I do? The evidence of man’s immortality will become more apparent as material beliefs are ________ ____ and the immortal facts of being are admitted. SH 428: 26. Are we admitting the facts of being when we think about the items on these discussion sheets and fill in the blanks? _____
Joy is a mental state instilled by S______. When we are joyful we sing p_________.
Many Psalms contain the words praise, bless, rejoice, and sing. Open your Bible now and see if this is truly the case. Is the Psalmist confident that God loves, guides, and protects every man and woman? _____. If you also are confident, you are letting God as Soul comfort you and give you assurance. And you are making a commitment: my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Ps. 35: 9. On page one, we found out that SALVATION is now and means: Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as ______________ over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed. SH 593. When I say that ‘my soul’ is my joy, gratitude, and certainty, am I experiencing salvation? _____
Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the _______ _____ _______. SH 390: 9.
Man is harmonious when governed by _____. SH 273: 18.
Do you know the meaning of sole? _____ Can I say Soul is my sole identity? _____ This is confirmed by Principle, Mind, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love – the other synonyms that help us understand God.
Soul is my gratitude and certainty that I am an unlimited spiritual idea; I am not matter. Because of Soul-sense, I see, hear, smell, taste, and feel ……good!
Soul comforts me when I seem to be afraid or uncertain.
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name,
O most High. For thou, Lord hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. Ps. 92: 1, 4, 5.
I am one of thy perfect w_____ and one of thy perfect t_____
People in the Bible talk abut ‘my soul.’ In your conversations, do you ever hear or say ‘my soul’? ______A common belief is that one’s soul goes to heaven when one’s material body dies. Is this what you believe? ____ Thanks to Christian Science, we understand that soul is our sense of a real and permanent identity that our Bible Friends urge us to accept. Who articulated each of these truths/facts about your identity and everyone’s identity?
…in him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17: 28) ______
…seee that dwells in the secret place of the Most High is safe and sound (Ps. 91: 1-3)
…be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heavcn is perfect
(Matt. 5: 48) ______
Let’s recall the seven synonyms for God stated in Science and Health, page 587. Which ones are frequently used with ‘my’? __________
Do you ever say ‘my mind’ or ‘my life’? _____When you say ‘my homework’ or ‘my friend,’ is it a human sense of ‘my’ or a divine sense? ______ ______ Mary Baker Eddy was inspired, like prophets in the Bible, in urging us to accept a spiritual sense of ‘my.’ What if I said, my God-given homework, my God-given friend? What difference would it make? If it’s God-given, it blesses ________ and ________.
The Psalmist says to himself, Praise the Lord, O my _______. Ps. 146: 1. Praise SEEE for what? Ps. 146: 8 says: The Lord _______ the eyes of the blind: the Lord ________ them that are bowed down: the Lord ________ the righteous. Is the Psalmist grateful and certain about these blessings? ____. If so, the Psalmist could say Praise the Lord O my gratitude: Praise the Lord O my certainty. Do you think the author of
Ps. 35: 9 would be willing to say my gratitude shall be joyful in the Lord: my certainty shall rejoice in his salvation? _____
Does God show gratitude for man and certainty about man’s goodness? ___
Jer. 32: 41. Science and Health gives us the perfect word for describing how man relates to God: Man is the re______________ of Soul. SH 249: 31.
Is man also the ma______________ of Soul/Mind? ___ SH 468.
When the so-called ‘human mind’ is agreeing with ignorance or error, it says man has five material senses. Is this true? ____ The ability to s____, h____, s____, t____, and f____ comes from S_____, not from ‘brain.’ It is sp_________ u____________ by which we know all we need to know, and it is an expression of S_____ and S_____. Can ma_________ sense have sp_________ understanding? _____.
Matter and Spirit are o___________! Let’s read SH 486: 23-26.
Jesus healed the blind, the deaf, and the lame. How did he do it? Did he have special power and ability because he was the Son of God? _____ The good Bible student knows seee can do the same thing because Jesus told all his followers to h_____ the sick, r_____ the dead, c_____ the lepers, and c_____ out devils/demons. Matt. 10: 8. Science and Health tells us how Jesus did it. Knowing that _____ and its attributes were forever ________ through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and __________. Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same _____________ process. SH 210: 11-16.
Salvation means ________________________. Metaphysical means ______________.
Jesus raised the dead when he called L______ to come out of the tomb. Peter also raised _________ (Tabitha) from the dead. (Acts 9: 36-41). Many people were weeping. Peter put them all out of the room. Why? _______ Then what did he do? ______ As followers (disciples) of Christ Jesus, we too agree with imm_________, not with mor_________. Life, Soul, never loses its r____________ man. SH 306: 13.
When are you going to be perfect and immortal? ____________ If ever I can’t see this fact clearly, what can I do? The evidence of man’s immortality will become more apparent as material beliefs are ________ ____ and the immortal facts of being are admitted. SH 428: 26. Are we admitting the facts of being when we think about the items on these discussion sheets and fill in the blanks? _____
Joy is a mental state instilled by S______. When we are joyful we sing p_________.
Many Psalms contain the words praise, bless, rejoice, and sing. Open your Bible now and see if this is truly the case. Is the Psalmist confident that God loves, guides, and protects every man and woman? _____. If you also are confident, you are letting God as Soul comfort you and give you assurance. And you are making a commitment: my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Ps. 35: 9. On page one, we found out that SALVATION is now and means: Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as ______________ over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed. SH 593. When I say that ‘my soul’ is my joy, gratitude, and certainty, am I experiencing salvation? _____
Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the _______ _____ _______. SH 390: 9.
Man is harmonious when governed by _____. SH 273: 18.
Do you know the meaning of sole? _____ Can I say Soul is my sole identity? _____ This is confirmed by Principle, Mind, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love – the other synonyms that help us understand God.
Soul is my gratitude and certainty that I am an unlimited spiritual idea; I am not matter. Because of Soul-sense, I see, hear, smell, taste, and feel ……good!
Soul comforts me when I seem to be afraid or uncertain.
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name,
O most High. For thou, Lord hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. Ps. 92: 1, 4, 5.
I am one of thy perfect w_____ and one of thy perfect t_____
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Spirit
Spirit 8-8-10 Sara Lincoln
Is it confusing to a student like you to have a Mother and Father, and a father and mother? ___ How do you explain it? We know that God is Father-Mother, and we learn that it is S________ that is tenderly expressing the fatherhood and motherhood of God. Spirit n_______ and b_________ all that really exists. SH 507: 3-7.
In a parable called Job in the Old Testament, Satan tells the Lord that Job is ‘a perfect and upright man who loves God and refuses evil’ only because he has no troubles. The Lord is sure of Job’s character. Satan takes everything away, including Job’s 7 sons and 3 daughters. Job did not blame God. (Job 1). Satan was still sure he could break Job’s spirit, so he covered Job’s body with boils, but still Job did not blame God. Job believed that the Lord sends good and evil.
(Job 2). Is that true? ______ Job had much to learn about God and man, but he was willing.
Three friends of Job with lots of opinions tried to prove that man must suffer. Did they prove it? Spirit created man and man’s spirit cannot be broken by suffering. Finally a true friend brought the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. Who was this true friend? _______ SH 332: 9. His human name was Elihu. After Job prayed for his three ‘false friends,’ everything that Job had lost was restored, and more besides. (Job 42).
Now Job knew that he must ‘love God and refuse evil’ by agreeing to be God’s perfect spiritual reflection. Are you also learning to do that through your study of Christian Science? ______
The Psalmist had learned this too. No matter what might happen, seee said, even the ______ shall be ______ about me. Ps. 139: 11. Christian Science always confirms the inspired word of the Bible. The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is ________, and therefore He is divine ____________. SH 275: 6. Nothing happens, nothing exists, without Principle, Love.
Omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience are the three great truths (verities) of ________. Existence is always the __________ reality of God’s creation. SH 109: 32-7. Radiant means….
When will existence (your life) be full of darkness and trouble? ________
How did Jesus get around to all the places where he taught and healed? ___________
It might have looked like he was walking, but Luke 4: 14 says Jesus returned in the__________ of the _________ into Galilee. As you go from place to place every day, how do you travel? …..
If you travel the same way Jesus traveled, that means you will always be wh________ you need to be wh________ you need to be there! Never ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time.’
The hu_______ mi______ did not help Job and it cannot help us. It is di_______ P__________ that makes s_____ and d________ unbelievable. Proving that Spirit is here now is a sign that God is with us, the sign of I__________, or God with us – a divine influence ever present in human consciousness… SH xi: 16.
Most Pharisees rejected Jesus’ teachings, and Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah, but one Pharisee named ____________ wanted to learn from Jesus. John 3: 1-8. Jesus did not express delight at getting another disciple. Instead, Jesus said ‘ye must be born again.’ WHAT? Nicodemus said. Was Nicodemus thinking with only a hu________ mi_____ like the theologians who expressed their human opinions to Job? _____ Jesus meant that Nicodemus must stop believing the human opinion that he was born of the f______, and be born again of the S______. What’s the difference? The story does not indicate that Nicodemus was h________ enough to understand.
From her deep study of the Bible, Mary Baker Eddy learned that The Bible teaches transformation of the body by the __________ of __________. SH 241: 13-14. Is it body or Spirit that gives you a true sense of life, substance, and intelligence? _______ SH 548: 2. Jesus did his own work by the _____ ________. SH 79: 19
About 20 years after Jesus ascended, Saul the Pharisee was trying to kill Christians. Remember what happened? Saul saw a great light and fell to his knees, asking ‘who are you Lord?’ The C_______ spoke to his human consciousness, Saul listened, and he became a healer and teacher of Christianity named ________. One time in Athens, he saw the people worshipping i______ and THE UNKNOWN GOD. Acts 17: 22-25. Spirit had made Paul very brave so he offered to teach the people Jesus’ message that there is only o____ G_____ who can be known. A few men and women believed Paul and followed him. Paul made it clear that in him we live, and move, and have our being;… Acts 17: 28. Is it in Jesus or in Spirit that we live and move and have our being? ______________ What’s the difference? _________
Paganism was the belief that there are many gods, many powers. Is there paganism in our world today? _____Thank God for Christian Science which brings God much nearer to man, and makes Him better known as the A____ in a ____ , forever near. SH 596: 3-9. Is it Spirit or matter that can be forever near? ______
What is a ‘fortune teller’? ______________One of these followed Paul. He didn’t get angry. What did he do instead? He commanded the ‘spirit’ to come out of her, and it did, and she was her normal self as an idea in divine Mind. This made her employers very angry because they were getting rich by taking the money the woman earned as a fortune teller. These business men had Paul and Silas beaten then put in prison. Paul and Silas did not get angry or give up. They p________ and sang praises to God. Did that do any good? ______. … suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. Acts 16: 26.
The human mind calls an earthquake ‘a destructive force,’ but the earthquake of S_______ causes only good. How can this help us pray the next time we hear about an earthquake? ……….
When we cast out the ‘spirit’ of fortune telling – human opinions -- we discover s________ s________ Both Job and Saul-Paul discovered this sense within themselves. Can we do the same? ________
Again the Psalmist describes the works of God in words we can’t forget, Thou sendest forth thy s______, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Ps. 104: 30.
Is it confusing to a student like you to have a Mother and Father, and a father and mother? ___ How do you explain it? We know that God is Father-Mother, and we learn that it is S________ that is tenderly expressing the fatherhood and motherhood of God. Spirit n_______ and b_________ all that really exists. SH 507: 3-7.
In a parable called Job in the Old Testament, Satan tells the Lord that Job is ‘a perfect and upright man who loves God and refuses evil’ only because he has no troubles. The Lord is sure of Job’s character. Satan takes everything away, including Job’s 7 sons and 3 daughters. Job did not blame God. (Job 1). Satan was still sure he could break Job’s spirit, so he covered Job’s body with boils, but still Job did not blame God. Job believed that the Lord sends good and evil.
(Job 2). Is that true? ______ Job had much to learn about God and man, but he was willing.
Three friends of Job with lots of opinions tried to prove that man must suffer. Did they prove it? Spirit created man and man’s spirit cannot be broken by suffering. Finally a true friend brought the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. Who was this true friend? _______ SH 332: 9. His human name was Elihu. After Job prayed for his three ‘false friends,’ everything that Job had lost was restored, and more besides. (Job 42).
Now Job knew that he must ‘love God and refuse evil’ by agreeing to be God’s perfect spiritual reflection. Are you also learning to do that through your study of Christian Science? ______
The Psalmist had learned this too. No matter what might happen, seee said, even the ______ shall be ______ about me. Ps. 139: 11. Christian Science always confirms the inspired word of the Bible. The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is ________, and therefore He is divine ____________. SH 275: 6. Nothing happens, nothing exists, without Principle, Love.
Omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience are the three great truths (verities) of ________. Existence is always the __________ reality of God’s creation. SH 109: 32-7. Radiant means….
When will existence (your life) be full of darkness and trouble? ________
How did Jesus get around to all the places where he taught and healed? ___________
It might have looked like he was walking, but Luke 4: 14 says Jesus returned in the__________ of the _________ into Galilee. As you go from place to place every day, how do you travel? …..
If you travel the same way Jesus traveled, that means you will always be wh________ you need to be wh________ you need to be there! Never ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time.’
The hu_______ mi______ did not help Job and it cannot help us. It is di_______ P__________ that makes s_____ and d________ unbelievable. Proving that Spirit is here now is a sign that God is with us, the sign of I__________, or God with us – a divine influence ever present in human consciousness… SH xi: 16.
Most Pharisees rejected Jesus’ teachings, and Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah, but one Pharisee named ____________ wanted to learn from Jesus. John 3: 1-8. Jesus did not express delight at getting another disciple. Instead, Jesus said ‘ye must be born again.’ WHAT? Nicodemus said. Was Nicodemus thinking with only a hu________ mi_____ like the theologians who expressed their human opinions to Job? _____ Jesus meant that Nicodemus must stop believing the human opinion that he was born of the f______, and be born again of the S______. What’s the difference? The story does not indicate that Nicodemus was h________ enough to understand.
From her deep study of the Bible, Mary Baker Eddy learned that The Bible teaches transformation of the body by the __________ of __________. SH 241: 13-14. Is it body or Spirit that gives you a true sense of life, substance, and intelligence? _______ SH 548: 2. Jesus did his own work by the _____ ________. SH 79: 19
About 20 years after Jesus ascended, Saul the Pharisee was trying to kill Christians. Remember what happened? Saul saw a great light and fell to his knees, asking ‘who are you Lord?’ The C_______ spoke to his human consciousness, Saul listened, and he became a healer and teacher of Christianity named ________. One time in Athens, he saw the people worshipping i______ and THE UNKNOWN GOD. Acts 17: 22-25. Spirit had made Paul very brave so he offered to teach the people Jesus’ message that there is only o____ G_____ who can be known. A few men and women believed Paul and followed him. Paul made it clear that in him we live, and move, and have our being;… Acts 17: 28. Is it in Jesus or in Spirit that we live and move and have our being? ______________ What’s the difference? _________
Paganism was the belief that there are many gods, many powers. Is there paganism in our world today? _____Thank God for Christian Science which brings God much nearer to man, and makes Him better known as the A____ in a ____ , forever near. SH 596: 3-9. Is it Spirit or matter that can be forever near? ______
What is a ‘fortune teller’? ______________One of these followed Paul. He didn’t get angry. What did he do instead? He commanded the ‘spirit’ to come out of her, and it did, and she was her normal self as an idea in divine Mind. This made her employers very angry because they were getting rich by taking the money the woman earned as a fortune teller. These business men had Paul and Silas beaten then put in prison. Paul and Silas did not get angry or give up. They p________ and sang praises to God. Did that do any good? ______. … suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. Acts 16: 26.
The human mind calls an earthquake ‘a destructive force,’ but the earthquake of S_______ causes only good. How can this help us pray the next time we hear about an earthquake? ……….
When we cast out the ‘spirit’ of fortune telling – human opinions -- we discover s________ s________ Both Job and Saul-Paul discovered this sense within themselves. Can we do the same? ________
Again the Psalmist describes the works of God in words we can’t forget, Thou sendest forth thy s______, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Ps. 104: 30.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Love
Love 8-1-10 Sara Lincoln
In Exodus 15, Moses is thanking the Lord that the Children of Israel had been able to cross the Red Sea on dry land. They had walked to the wilderness of Shur and now there was no water. First too much water, now not enough water! Is this Love’s way, God’s way, of doing things? __ They were experiencing obstacle and lack because the people were not yet admitting that the Lord had done all things for their ancestors Jacob and Joseph and would do all things for them if (IF) they would just listen to SEEE’s voice and do what is right. Again the Lord promised to help, saying: I am the Lord that ______¬¬¬____ ______. Ex. 15: 26. (Remember? God is Father – Mother, but is not a male or a female so we will often refer to God as SEEE instead of He).
How many more times would the Lord God show SEEE-self (Him/Her Self) as Love? ________
About 600 years after Moses, the prophet Jeremiah is showing the people how the Lord God continues to appear as Love: The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with__________________ have I drawn thee. Jer. 31: 3.
And what more will Love do? I will set up _____________ over them which shall feed them: and they shall _______ no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord. Jer. 23: 4. What opposes love is not just hate but also fear, dismay, and lack.
King David saw a beautiful woman and wanted her for his wife. Bathsheba was already married, but David took her anyway and had her husband, Uriah, killed. II Sam. 11. Is it all right to hurt others in order to get what you really love? _____ Was it ‘love’ David was feeling, or just selfish desire? ____________. The Lord God Love sent the prophet Nathan and then David knew he had s__________. II Sam. 12: 13.
Why didn’t the Lord God Love kill David for killing Uriah?
God had great work for David to do, but first David needed to r________ and have a change of heart. David became h____________ and prayed a prayer all of us can use when we are truly sorry for sinning against God and our neighbor. H______ _______ upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgres- sions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the __________ _______ thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Ps. 51: 1-2, 6. What is the hidden part? __________________
The Lord God Love is not angry at man, but rather leads man to know that the purpose of every man is to………….
Mary Baker Eddy understood that The design of Love is to __________ the sinner.
SH 35: 30.
Love dissolves ______-will, ______-justification, and ______-love. ‘Self’ wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death. SH 242: 15. When the Lord is reforming the sinner, is this a good example of God’s promise …I am the Lord that healeth thee? _____
David went on to become a great king and the author of many _____________. Ezekiel gave us God’s word: I will ______ that which was lost, and _______ _______ that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will _____________ that which was sick: Ezek. 34: 16. Does this sound like what Love would do? ______
Jesus told a parable about a shepherd, Luke 15: 3-6. Would the shepherd say ‘I have 100 sheep so I can afford to lose one or two who wander away’? _______
Would Love say, ‘I express myself in billions of ideas called man. I don’t mind losing a few’? _____. Love would not say that because Love-Mind causes only completeness: infinite Mind and its _______________. SH 468. Christian Science asks Is man lost spiritually? ____, he can only________ a ________ material. SH 311: 8-9. Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot ____ ______ nor separated from its divine Principle. SH 303: 28.
Isn’t it lovely to know you will never be separated from Love? _____
You cannot lose what is within you and the kingdom of God is w_______ y_____.
SH 303: 28.
Thank you Christ Jesus. Your words and deeds illustrated L_____, and through Christian Science we all have the ______ ________ of Love which redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit, — the law of divine Love.
SH 19: 6
Many people know Psalm XXIII by heart. Do you? ____ It begins The Lord is my shepherd.
We can also say D_______ L_______ is my shepherd. SH 578: 4. Let’s say this Psalm.
The disciples were healing sickness and sin, just as Jesus was doing Where did the disciples get that power? Matt. 10: 1, 8.
Are there disciples in our world today who can heal the sick and the sinning? ______ How do you know? Are you a disciple of Christ Jesus? _____ Maybe you don’t know anyone who is sick or sinning, but you are still being a disciple when you ______ ______ ________. John 15: 12.
Selfish so-called ‘love’ does not help, but D_______ L________ always has met and always will ______ every human need. SH 494: 10. Healing the s_____ and the s_________ was the ‘highest proof’ Jesus could have offered of divine Love.
SH 54: 13-17.
Did everyone appreciate Jesus’ expression of perfect love? _____Does everyone appreciate your expressions of love? _____. M______ mind cannot know love because it is focused on its own selfish will. M_______ m_______ can offer only fear, dismay, and lack. Not love.
Do you think Jesus was sad? ____ The Bible refers to Jesus as a ‘man of sorrows,’ but Christ Jesus had this great joy: He proved Life to be deathless and ______ to be the master of _______. SH 44: 9-10.
Is God a mystery? ____ Does God want us to know Him? ____________ The Prophet Isaiah was not fooled by the false beliefs about God that were all around him. Thank God Isaiah told us these truths about God:
* I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Isa. 66: 18.
* for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Isa. 11: 9
And John 3: 16-17 says that God sent his Son to save the world, not condemn it.
The teachings of Christ Jesus are expressed in this assurance in Science and Health:
Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. SH 454: 18.
Do you love the way Love loves you? _______
In Exodus 15, Moses is thanking the Lord that the Children of Israel had been able to cross the Red Sea on dry land. They had walked to the wilderness of Shur and now there was no water. First too much water, now not enough water! Is this Love’s way, God’s way, of doing things? __ They were experiencing obstacle and lack because the people were not yet admitting that the Lord had done all things for their ancestors Jacob and Joseph and would do all things for them if (IF) they would just listen to SEEE’s voice and do what is right. Again the Lord promised to help, saying: I am the Lord that ______¬¬¬____ ______. Ex. 15: 26. (Remember? God is Father – Mother, but is not a male or a female so we will often refer to God as SEEE instead of He).
How many more times would the Lord God show SEEE-self (Him/Her Self) as Love? ________
About 600 years after Moses, the prophet Jeremiah is showing the people how the Lord God continues to appear as Love: The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with__________________ have I drawn thee. Jer. 31: 3.
And what more will Love do? I will set up _____________ over them which shall feed them: and they shall _______ no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord. Jer. 23: 4. What opposes love is not just hate but also fear, dismay, and lack.
King David saw a beautiful woman and wanted her for his wife. Bathsheba was already married, but David took her anyway and had her husband, Uriah, killed. II Sam. 11. Is it all right to hurt others in order to get what you really love? _____ Was it ‘love’ David was feeling, or just selfish desire? ____________. The Lord God Love sent the prophet Nathan and then David knew he had s__________. II Sam. 12: 13.
Why didn’t the Lord God Love kill David for killing Uriah?
God had great work for David to do, but first David needed to r________ and have a change of heart. David became h____________ and prayed a prayer all of us can use when we are truly sorry for sinning against God and our neighbor. H______ _______ upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgres- sions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the __________ _______ thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Ps. 51: 1-2, 6. What is the hidden part? __________________
The Lord God Love is not angry at man, but rather leads man to know that the purpose of every man is to………….
Mary Baker Eddy understood that The design of Love is to __________ the sinner.
SH 35: 30.
Love dissolves ______-will, ______-justification, and ______-love. ‘Self’ wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death. SH 242: 15. When the Lord is reforming the sinner, is this a good example of God’s promise …I am the Lord that healeth thee? _____
David went on to become a great king and the author of many _____________. Ezekiel gave us God’s word: I will ______ that which was lost, and _______ _______ that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will _____________ that which was sick: Ezek. 34: 16. Does this sound like what Love would do? ______
Jesus told a parable about a shepherd, Luke 15: 3-6. Would the shepherd say ‘I have 100 sheep so I can afford to lose one or two who wander away’? _______
Would Love say, ‘I express myself in billions of ideas called man. I don’t mind losing a few’? _____. Love would not say that because Love-Mind causes only completeness: infinite Mind and its _______________. SH 468. Christian Science asks Is man lost spiritually? ____, he can only________ a ________ material. SH 311: 8-9. Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot ____ ______ nor separated from its divine Principle. SH 303: 28.
Isn’t it lovely to know you will never be separated from Love? _____
You cannot lose what is within you and the kingdom of God is w_______ y_____.
SH 303: 28.
Thank you Christ Jesus. Your words and deeds illustrated L_____, and through Christian Science we all have the ______ ________ of Love which redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit, — the law of divine Love.
SH 19: 6
Many people know Psalm XXIII by heart. Do you? ____ It begins The Lord is my shepherd.
We can also say D_______ L_______ is my shepherd. SH 578: 4. Let’s say this Psalm.
The disciples were healing sickness and sin, just as Jesus was doing Where did the disciples get that power? Matt. 10: 1, 8.
Are there disciples in our world today who can heal the sick and the sinning? ______ How do you know? Are you a disciple of Christ Jesus? _____ Maybe you don’t know anyone who is sick or sinning, but you are still being a disciple when you ______ ______ ________. John 15: 12.
Selfish so-called ‘love’ does not help, but D_______ L________ always has met and always will ______ every human need. SH 494: 10. Healing the s_____ and the s_________ was the ‘highest proof’ Jesus could have offered of divine Love.
SH 54: 13-17.
Did everyone appreciate Jesus’ expression of perfect love? _____Does everyone appreciate your expressions of love? _____. M______ mind cannot know love because it is focused on its own selfish will. M_______ m_______ can offer only fear, dismay, and lack. Not love.
Do you think Jesus was sad? ____ The Bible refers to Jesus as a ‘man of sorrows,’ but Christ Jesus had this great joy: He proved Life to be deathless and ______ to be the master of _______. SH 44: 9-10.
Is God a mystery? ____ Does God want us to know Him? ____________ The Prophet Isaiah was not fooled by the false beliefs about God that were all around him. Thank God Isaiah told us these truths about God:
* I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Isa. 66: 18.
* for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Isa. 11: 9
And John 3: 16-17 says that God sent his Son to save the world, not condemn it.
The teachings of Christ Jesus are expressed in this assurance in Science and Health:
Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. SH 454: 18.
Do you love the way Love loves you? _______
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Truth
Truth 7-25-10 Sara Lincoln
Now tell the truth! Is this one of the first lessons parents teach their children? ______. Why?
The collection of writings that would become the first book of the Bible is the book of ___________. The writings are presented as the ___________ of Solomon. (This book and Psalms were started about 100 years before the book of Genesis). Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: (3:3); My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are ______ unto those that find them, and _________ to all their flesh. (4: 20-22). Pretend you are sharing this wisdom with children. How will it sound in your words?
A person who is h________ seeks the truth. A person who is p_______ likes seees own opinion! The Psalmist who knew this said Turn away mine eyes from beholding __________; and quicken thou me in thy way. Ps. 119: 37. Mary Baker Eddy who knew this said When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth ______________, He directs our path. SH 254: 10.
Over hundreds of years, have thinkers always agreed on the answer to the question, ‘What is Truth?’ ______. Science and Health says this question convulses the world. It seems to tear the world apart. SH 223: 14. Only the humble person who seeks spiritual understanding can contribute to the answer. The most humble person, ________ ________, looked to M_____ (God) for the understanding that God Good causes and allows only g_____ and requires us to choose only g______ all the time. In Jesus’ parables, he said that we must c_______ good and r_______ what is not good (evil). Let’s talk about the parable in Matt. 13: 47-48. The ‘good fish’ are the people who seek and do the t_____. They will know ‘heaven’ which is h_________.
SH 587: 25.
Christian Science shows that Truth is made manifest by its effects upon the human ______ ____ ______ healing sickness and destroying sin. SH 316: 9. What is material sense? Can it know Truth? _____. How is material sense / matter like a paint ball thrown against a wall? Is matter a mind! ____ Only s_________ s_________ can know Truth because it enables one to be h__________, u__________, l__________, and m__________. SH 272: 3. Underline the qualities you know you have. What actions do you take that reveal these qualities?
Many people, including you, know many truths (facts). Is this the same as ‘knowing the Truth’? You accept the truths in The Lord’s Prayer and in the Scientific Statement of Being (SH 468), but you must also know y________ before you can know and help others. SH 453: 14. The truth about myself is that I am … Let’s each make 3 ‘I am’ statements and see what we discover about identity: I am______________...
I am_______________, … I am ________________.
Whoever reaches this point of moral culture and goodness cannot injure others, and must do them good. The greater or lesser ability of a Christian Scientist to discern thought scientifically, depends upon his genuine spirituality. SH 95: 12.
When Jesus healed a paralyzed man, Jesus said Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. Matt. 9: 2-8. It was not right (just) that he seemed paralyzed. It was not right (true) that he was helpless. Was it Jesus’ words that healed the sick man? ______. Right is radical. The words had a healing effect because Christ Jesus k_____ the truth, l_______ it, and l_______ it. SH 452: 18. What do I do that shows I am knowing, living and loving the truth?
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Matt. 16: 24-25. To ‘lose your life’ does not mean ‘to die.’ It means to be_______. Unselfed love means direct contact with _______ ______. SH 192: 30.
The first words in the first chapter in Science and Health declare: The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an __________ ________.
SH 1: 1-4. More than ‘faith’ is needed!
While you are focused on knowing, living, and loving the truth, will there be enemies that demand your attention? ______ What will you do? If your enemy is a person who is hungry, you will _______. If your enemy is a suggestion that you are not good enough or smart enough, you will _______. Rom. 12: 20. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in _______ and in ________ And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him
I John 3: 18-19.
Perhaps everyone in the world is thinking ‘I want to be myself, have my own unique identity.’ It might seem ironic, but every unique person comes from the same Source! That Source is L____, T____, and L_____, Principle, M______, Soul and Spirit. SH 587. No one can have true identity who looks for it in a dream! Christ Jesus made it clear how we are to find that unique identity: Ye shall know the truth, and the ________ shall make you free – free to be your unique self. John 8: 31-32. Every time we are knowing the truth, we are worshipping (thanking) God and blessing our neighbors as well as ourselves. That is such an important expectation in Christian Science that many churches have that command and promise written on the wall. Is it written on the wall of our church? ______
Do you think everyone wants enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace? _____ Christian Science, in line with the words and works of Christ Jesus, shows how to have these blessings: This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace. SH 265: 10.
It may seem that some people have a strong individuality and yet they discard God. But God Truth is not moved from its loving purpose to be acknowledged as the only light in every consciousness, and Truth is always the victor! SH 380: 4.
Through Christian Science we know this about the Christ: Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. SH 332: 9:
Jesus was faithful to his identity, the Christ. He says to all mankind, know me, follow me, do the works that I do by learning the Science (provability) of Christliness. That Science is explained in a book named _____________________________________.
Now tell the truth! Is this one of the first lessons parents teach their children? ______. Why?
The collection of writings that would become the first book of the Bible is the book of ___________. The writings are presented as the ___________ of Solomon. (This book and Psalms were started about 100 years before the book of Genesis). Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: (3:3); My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are ______ unto those that find them, and _________ to all their flesh. (4: 20-22). Pretend you are sharing this wisdom with children. How will it sound in your words?
A person who is h________ seeks the truth. A person who is p_______ likes seees own opinion! The Psalmist who knew this said Turn away mine eyes from beholding __________; and quicken thou me in thy way. Ps. 119: 37. Mary Baker Eddy who knew this said When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth ______________, He directs our path. SH 254: 10.
Over hundreds of years, have thinkers always agreed on the answer to the question, ‘What is Truth?’ ______. Science and Health says this question convulses the world. It seems to tear the world apart. SH 223: 14. Only the humble person who seeks spiritual understanding can contribute to the answer. The most humble person, ________ ________, looked to M_____ (God) for the understanding that God Good causes and allows only g_____ and requires us to choose only g______ all the time. In Jesus’ parables, he said that we must c_______ good and r_______ what is not good (evil). Let’s talk about the parable in Matt. 13: 47-48. The ‘good fish’ are the people who seek and do the t_____. They will know ‘heaven’ which is h_________.
SH 587: 25.
Christian Science shows that Truth is made manifest by its effects upon the human ______ ____ ______ healing sickness and destroying sin. SH 316: 9. What is material sense? Can it know Truth? _____. How is material sense / matter like a paint ball thrown against a wall? Is matter a mind! ____ Only s_________ s_________ can know Truth because it enables one to be h__________, u__________, l__________, and m__________. SH 272: 3. Underline the qualities you know you have. What actions do you take that reveal these qualities?
Many people, including you, know many truths (facts). Is this the same as ‘knowing the Truth’? You accept the truths in The Lord’s Prayer and in the Scientific Statement of Being (SH 468), but you must also know y________ before you can know and help others. SH 453: 14. The truth about myself is that I am … Let’s each make 3 ‘I am’ statements and see what we discover about identity: I am______________...
I am_______________, … I am ________________.
Whoever reaches this point of moral culture and goodness cannot injure others, and must do them good. The greater or lesser ability of a Christian Scientist to discern thought scientifically, depends upon his genuine spirituality. SH 95: 12.
When Jesus healed a paralyzed man, Jesus said Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. Matt. 9: 2-8. It was not right (just) that he seemed paralyzed. It was not right (true) that he was helpless. Was it Jesus’ words that healed the sick man? ______. Right is radical. The words had a healing effect because Christ Jesus k_____ the truth, l_______ it, and l_______ it. SH 452: 18. What do I do that shows I am knowing, living and loving the truth?
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Matt. 16: 24-25. To ‘lose your life’ does not mean ‘to die.’ It means to be_______. Unselfed love means direct contact with _______ ______. SH 192: 30.
The first words in the first chapter in Science and Health declare: The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an __________ ________.
SH 1: 1-4. More than ‘faith’ is needed!
While you are focused on knowing, living, and loving the truth, will there be enemies that demand your attention? ______ What will you do? If your enemy is a person who is hungry, you will _______. If your enemy is a suggestion that you are not good enough or smart enough, you will _______. Rom. 12: 20. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in _______ and in ________ And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him
I John 3: 18-19.
Perhaps everyone in the world is thinking ‘I want to be myself, have my own unique identity.’ It might seem ironic, but every unique person comes from the same Source! That Source is L____, T____, and L_____, Principle, M______, Soul and Spirit. SH 587. No one can have true identity who looks for it in a dream! Christ Jesus made it clear how we are to find that unique identity: Ye shall know the truth, and the ________ shall make you free – free to be your unique self. John 8: 31-32. Every time we are knowing the truth, we are worshipping (thanking) God and blessing our neighbors as well as ourselves. That is such an important expectation in Christian Science that many churches have that command and promise written on the wall. Is it written on the wall of our church? ______
Do you think everyone wants enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace? _____ Christian Science, in line with the words and works of Christ Jesus, shows how to have these blessings: This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace. SH 265: 10.
It may seem that some people have a strong individuality and yet they discard God. But God Truth is not moved from its loving purpose to be acknowledged as the only light in every consciousness, and Truth is always the victor! SH 380: 4.
Through Christian Science we know this about the Christ: Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. SH 332: 9:
Jesus was faithful to his identity, the Christ. He says to all mankind, know me, follow me, do the works that I do by learning the Science (provability) of Christliness. That Science is explained in a book named _____________________________________.
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