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? _______
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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 _____________________________________.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Life
Life 7-18-10 Sara Lincoln
The Psalmist says …the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Ps. 133: 3. If the blessing is ‘life for evermore,’ why are there cemeteries in this city and every city?
In Moses’ last long speech to the Children of Israel, he told them that the Lord would give them total success and safety ____ they would keep the Commandments, pray, and listen only to him. What is that little two-letter word? Deut. 28: 2, 9, 11. 12. Have your parents ever said, __ you finish your assignment, then you can play games or watch television? ____
The tempter, Satan, used this word three times when attempting to get Jesus to bow down to seee, Matt. 4. Is if an important word to watch out for? _____
Christian Science tells us, Ask yourself: Am I living the life that approaches the supreme good?
Am I demonstrating the healing power of Truth and Love? ___ ___ then the way will grow brighter "unto the perfect day." Your fruits will prove what the understanding of God brings to man. SH 496: 9.
Is God the source of all blessing? ____ Can you also be a blessing?____ How?
During the reign of King Ahab, there was famine instead of abundance. Had the Lord stopped providing abundance? ___ The king and queen required the people to worship i______. Elijah the prophet said that this false leadership, turning the people away from the sustaining infinite, expressed itself as f________. Ahab said that Elijah was causing the famine! So there was a great contest between the 450 prophets of Baal and Elijah, prophet of the one God. Baal’s prophets could not get their god to prove he had power. Why did they fail? ______________ Elijah knew that SEEE* {God} was always ready to prove the one source of power so SEEE sent f______ to consume the water-soaked altar. Then the people said the Lord, he is the God.
I Kings 18: 39.
* SEEE might be a good pronoun for God. God is Father – Mother but God is not a male or a female. Maybe SEEE could be a good gender-free pronoun for God.
During the famine, the Lord told Elijah that the widow of Zarephath would prepare his meals, and she did. Why is it significant that she was a widow?
I Kings 17: 8-16.
Later, the widow’s son died – there was no breath left in him. What happened after Elijah prayed? I Kings 17: 17-24.
Is there a prophet today, doing the same good works that Elijah and Elisha did? ________
Mary Baker Eddy explains that ‘prophecy’ is Christian Science with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; the basis of immortality. SH 585: 9. ‘Apparent discord’ is the result of the people’s i________ of ______ and the r_________ u_________ of Him restores harmony. SH 390: 4-9.
As we have noticed before, our Psalmist says it so well in just a few words: Though I walk {live} in the midst of trouble, ______ ______ revive me. Ps. 138: 7.
Can we obey God and bless mankind through sin? ____ What is sin?
It is a sin to believe that aught {anything} can ___________ omnipotent and eternal _______, and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit. SH 428: 31.
We cannot serve two masters nor perceive divine Science with the material senses.
SH 157: 11. What are the two masters?
The ________ ______ and the ________ ______ of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the material must be untrue. SH 289: 25.
After Elijah had done all his work well, the Lord took him up by a w________ into heaven.
The man who witnessed this became the next great prophet. His name was _________
II Kings 2: 1, 8-12. The divine whirlwind is not a danger to people or property.
The prophecy called Christian Science inevitably _______ one's being higher in the scale of harmony and ___________ SH 60: 2. People want to learn about life through Christian Science because it lifts them up and gives them a spiritual perspective, a prophet’s perspective. Are you learning to be a spiritual seer, a prophet? _____
Popular theology takes up the history of man as if he began materially right, but immediately fell into mental sin; whereas revealed religion proclaims the Science of Mind and its formations as being in accordance with the first chapter of the Old Testament, when God, Mind, spake and it was done. SH 557: 22.
How would you explain the difference between popular theology and revealed religion?
One time Jesus took Peter, James, and John up into a high mountain and there Jesus was transfigured. Perhaps he seemed more like a shining than a man of flesh. He was shining because he knew that he was a r____________ of God. Jesus was talking with two prophets of the Old Testament: M_______ and E_______. Mark 9: 2-4. Do you think Christ Jesus was giving his disciples, and us, another proof that life is eternal? _______
Christian Science is our perfect guide to eternal life because it is the t_________ of Christ Jesus. It tells us we _____ ______ where we would walk, and we ______ ______ as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being. SH 264: 10.
When we realize that ______ ____ _______, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.
SH 264: 15.
Christian Scientists affirm that God is infinite Mind and man is i_________ m__________. SH 468. Is it natural for all of us to live infinite Life? _____
The Psalmist says …the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Ps. 133: 3. If the blessing is ‘life for evermore,’ why are there cemeteries in this city and every city?
In Moses’ last long speech to the Children of Israel, he told them that the Lord would give them total success and safety ____ they would keep the Commandments, pray, and listen only to him. What is that little two-letter word? Deut. 28: 2, 9, 11. 12. Have your parents ever said, __ you finish your assignment, then you can play games or watch television? ____
The tempter, Satan, used this word three times when attempting to get Jesus to bow down to seee, Matt. 4. Is if an important word to watch out for? _____
Christian Science tells us, Ask yourself: Am I living the life that approaches the supreme good?
Am I demonstrating the healing power of Truth and Love? ___ ___ then the way will grow brighter "unto the perfect day." Your fruits will prove what the understanding of God brings to man. SH 496: 9.
Is God the source of all blessing? ____ Can you also be a blessing?____ How?
During the reign of King Ahab, there was famine instead of abundance. Had the Lord stopped providing abundance? ___ The king and queen required the people to worship i______. Elijah the prophet said that this false leadership, turning the people away from the sustaining infinite, expressed itself as f________. Ahab said that Elijah was causing the famine! So there was a great contest between the 450 prophets of Baal and Elijah, prophet of the one God. Baal’s prophets could not get their god to prove he had power. Why did they fail? ______________ Elijah knew that SEEE* {God} was always ready to prove the one source of power so SEEE sent f______ to consume the water-soaked altar. Then the people said the Lord, he is the God.
I Kings 18: 39.
* SEEE might be a good pronoun for God. God is Father – Mother but God is not a male or a female. Maybe SEEE could be a good gender-free pronoun for God.
During the famine, the Lord told Elijah that the widow of Zarephath would prepare his meals, and she did. Why is it significant that she was a widow?
I Kings 17: 8-16.
Later, the widow’s son died – there was no breath left in him. What happened after Elijah prayed? I Kings 17: 17-24.
Is there a prophet today, doing the same good works that Elijah and Elisha did? ________
Mary Baker Eddy explains that ‘prophecy’ is Christian Science with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; the basis of immortality. SH 585: 9. ‘Apparent discord’ is the result of the people’s i________ of ______ and the r_________ u_________ of Him restores harmony. SH 390: 4-9.
As we have noticed before, our Psalmist says it so well in just a few words: Though I walk {live} in the midst of trouble, ______ ______ revive me. Ps. 138: 7.
Can we obey God and bless mankind through sin? ____ What is sin?
It is a sin to believe that aught {anything} can ___________ omnipotent and eternal _______, and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit. SH 428: 31.
We cannot serve two masters nor perceive divine Science with the material senses.
SH 157: 11. What are the two masters?
The ________ ______ and the ________ ______ of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the material must be untrue. SH 289: 25.
After Elijah had done all his work well, the Lord took him up by a w________ into heaven.
The man who witnessed this became the next great prophet. His name was _________
II Kings 2: 1, 8-12. The divine whirlwind is not a danger to people or property.
The prophecy called Christian Science inevitably _______ one's being higher in the scale of harmony and ___________ SH 60: 2. People want to learn about life through Christian Science because it lifts them up and gives them a spiritual perspective, a prophet’s perspective. Are you learning to be a spiritual seer, a prophet? _____
Popular theology takes up the history of man as if he began materially right, but immediately fell into mental sin; whereas revealed religion proclaims the Science of Mind and its formations as being in accordance with the first chapter of the Old Testament, when God, Mind, spake and it was done. SH 557: 22.
How would you explain the difference between popular theology and revealed religion?
One time Jesus took Peter, James, and John up into a high mountain and there Jesus was transfigured. Perhaps he seemed more like a shining than a man of flesh. He was shining because he knew that he was a r____________ of God. Jesus was talking with two prophets of the Old Testament: M_______ and E_______. Mark 9: 2-4. Do you think Christ Jesus was giving his disciples, and us, another proof that life is eternal? _______
Christian Science is our perfect guide to eternal life because it is the t_________ of Christ Jesus. It tells us we _____ ______ where we would walk, and we ______ ______ as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being. SH 264: 10.
When we realize that ______ ____ _______, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.
SH 264: 15.
Christian Scientists affirm that God is infinite Mind and man is i_________ m__________. SH 468. Is it natural for all of us to live infinite Life? _____
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Sacrament
Sacrament 7-11-10 Sara Lincoln
Before Jesus went through the extreme challenge of a mock trial and the crucifixion, he shared a meal with his disciples. In later years, Christians would call this the L_______ S_______, but it was not the last meal he had with his disciples. Remember? After his resurrection, he fixed breakfast for them after they had been fishing all night and had caught nothing. John 21: 3, 4, 6, 12, 13. What a contrast between our Lord's last supper and his last spiritual breakfast with his disciples… SH 34: 29. What chapter in Science and Health explains the life purpose and last days of Christ Jesus? A__________ and E__________.
Over the last two centuries, Christians have continued to act out, celebrate, ‘the Last Supper.’ The minister gives you bits of bread and sips of juice while repeating Jesus’ words this do in remembrance of me. Luke 22: 19. This event is called the sacrament. Do we Christian Scientists also celebrate the sacrament? ____ No one hands out food or drink, but at the end of the church service, attendees are invited to kneel and repeat together the L______ P________. Why don’t we hand out bits of bread and sips of juice? Perhaps it is because the sy________ are not as important as the actual ob________ to laws stated by Moses and by the Prophet Micah, He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to ___ justly, and to _____ mercy, and to ______ humbly with thy God? Micah 6: 8. Christian Science asks Are all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspiration to a dead rite, instead of showing, by casting out error and making the body "holy, acceptable unto God," that Truth has come to the understanding? SH 33: 31
What was the motive of Christ Jesus in going through the crucifixion and attaining the resurrection? Was he mainly interested in being a super hero? ____ He was establishing d________ S________ so that we could know how to follow him in word and deed. Our Master fully and finally demonstrated divine Science in his victory over death and the grave Jesus' deed was for the enlightenment of men and for the salvation of the whole world from sin, sickness, and death. SH 45: 6-10.
Jesus selected 12 d________ who would learn to follow his example of t_________ in their synagogues and p_________ the gospel of the kingdom, and h________ all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. Matt. 4: 23. Do you think Christians can do what the disciples did? ______ Are most Christians doing what Christ Jesus and the disciples did? ______ When Mary Baker Eddy asked that question perhaps she realized that Christians needed guidance in learning how! She gives us that guidance in _________________________.
It is possible, — yea, it is the ______ and __________ of every child, man, and woman, — to followin some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness. SH 37: 22-31.
Christian Science makes it clear that would-be disciples must set aside even the most cherished ________ and ________, to leave all for Christ. SH 141: 4-9. One of those cherished beliefs is that Jesus could heal the sick, but we ordinary humans need doctors. Would Christ Jesus ask his followers to do what they couldn’t do? ____ The logo on Science and Health, quoting Jesus, states what we must do. And what is that?
It is ___ ______ that quickeneth; ___ _______ profiteth nothing: John 6: 63.
What mental act helps us see and hear the commands and promises of Christ Jesus? ________
Equally important to prayer is the m________ (purpose) we have for praying. Is it OK to pray for a change in the material situation? _____ In prayer, we affirm and yield to what G_____ knows about man and the universe. Truth-Life-Love – God – knows that all is w______. It is not well to imagine that Jesus demonstrated the divine power to heal only for a select number or for a limited period of time, since to ____ mankind and in _____ hour, divine Love supplies ____ good. SH 494: 11. What is the most repeated word in the definition of God? ____ SH 587. A little word with a lot of meaning!
We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are. SH 8: 28. Does this mean ‘be willing to discover your motive for praying’? _____ And ‘be willing to detect sin and reject it’? ____
Christians, and the Pharisees before them, have always been concerned about s __ __.
Selfishness, jealousy, and indifference are examples of ______. It is a s __ __ to believe in a power opposed to God. SH 428: 32. There are 388 references to s __ __ in the Bible. Jesus said Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. John 8: 34. When you pray, how do you talk to God and listen to God about this issue called sin? _____Let’s each offer some words we might use, words that show our sincerity and humility and desire to be free of sin.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. Ps. 19: 14. Would these be good starting words for a prayer? __
Seee also said I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Ps. 32: 5.
Do I need to know the names of sins that are interfering with my spiritual growth? ____ Do I need to believe that I am a sinner? __ What I most need to know and do is the T___ C_______ as suggested by the Bible verse that introduces our lesson on Sacrament thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deut. 6: 5. This is a command as well as a promise!
Many Christians, especially Christian Scientists, pray for those who are sick, and as James, the brother of Jesus, says …the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. James 5: 15. Is this kind of prayer a good way to worship God and love our neighbors as ourselves? _____
Recapitulation: for most Christians, the sacrament involves receiving symbolic bits of _____ and sips of ______ from the minister. For Christian Scientists, the sacrament means
* looking again at our m_______ for prayer
* being more alert to reject sin, which is any belief in a power opposed to ______
* seeking forgiveness of sins, in part, by following Jesus’ example and ‘casting out evil as unreal’ SH 497: 9
Before Jesus went through the extreme challenge of a mock trial and the crucifixion, he shared a meal with his disciples. In later years, Christians would call this the L_______ S_______, but it was not the last meal he had with his disciples. Remember? After his resurrection, he fixed breakfast for them after they had been fishing all night and had caught nothing. John 21: 3, 4, 6, 12, 13. What a contrast between our Lord's last supper and his last spiritual breakfast with his disciples… SH 34: 29. What chapter in Science and Health explains the life purpose and last days of Christ Jesus? A__________ and E__________.
Over the last two centuries, Christians have continued to act out, celebrate, ‘the Last Supper.’ The minister gives you bits of bread and sips of juice while repeating Jesus’ words this do in remembrance of me. Luke 22: 19. This event is called the sacrament. Do we Christian Scientists also celebrate the sacrament? ____ No one hands out food or drink, but at the end of the church service, attendees are invited to kneel and repeat together the L______ P________. Why don’t we hand out bits of bread and sips of juice? Perhaps it is because the sy________ are not as important as the actual ob________ to laws stated by Moses and by the Prophet Micah, He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to ___ justly, and to _____ mercy, and to ______ humbly with thy God? Micah 6: 8. Christian Science asks Are all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspiration to a dead rite, instead of showing, by casting out error and making the body "holy, acceptable unto God," that Truth has come to the understanding? SH 33: 31
What was the motive of Christ Jesus in going through the crucifixion and attaining the resurrection? Was he mainly interested in being a super hero? ____ He was establishing d________ S________ so that we could know how to follow him in word and deed. Our Master fully and finally demonstrated divine Science in his victory over death and the grave Jesus' deed was for the enlightenment of men and for the salvation of the whole world from sin, sickness, and death. SH 45: 6-10.
Jesus selected 12 d________ who would learn to follow his example of t_________ in their synagogues and p_________ the gospel of the kingdom, and h________ all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. Matt. 4: 23. Do you think Christians can do what the disciples did? ______ Are most Christians doing what Christ Jesus and the disciples did? ______ When Mary Baker Eddy asked that question perhaps she realized that Christians needed guidance in learning how! She gives us that guidance in _________________________.
It is possible, — yea, it is the ______ and __________ of every child, man, and woman, — to followin some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness. SH 37: 22-31.
Christian Science makes it clear that would-be disciples must set aside even the most cherished ________ and ________, to leave all for Christ. SH 141: 4-9. One of those cherished beliefs is that Jesus could heal the sick, but we ordinary humans need doctors. Would Christ Jesus ask his followers to do what they couldn’t do? ____ The logo on Science and Health, quoting Jesus, states what we must do. And what is that?
It is ___ ______ that quickeneth; ___ _______ profiteth nothing: John 6: 63.
What mental act helps us see and hear the commands and promises of Christ Jesus? ________
Equally important to prayer is the m________ (purpose) we have for praying. Is it OK to pray for a change in the material situation? _____ In prayer, we affirm and yield to what G_____ knows about man and the universe. Truth-Life-Love – God – knows that all is w______. It is not well to imagine that Jesus demonstrated the divine power to heal only for a select number or for a limited period of time, since to ____ mankind and in _____ hour, divine Love supplies ____ good. SH 494: 11. What is the most repeated word in the definition of God? ____ SH 587. A little word with a lot of meaning!
We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are. SH 8: 28. Does this mean ‘be willing to discover your motive for praying’? _____ And ‘be willing to detect sin and reject it’? ____
Christians, and the Pharisees before them, have always been concerned about s __ __.
Selfishness, jealousy, and indifference are examples of ______. It is a s __ __ to believe in a power opposed to God. SH 428: 32. There are 388 references to s __ __ in the Bible. Jesus said Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. John 8: 34. When you pray, how do you talk to God and listen to God about this issue called sin? _____Let’s each offer some words we might use, words that show our sincerity and humility and desire to be free of sin.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. Ps. 19: 14. Would these be good starting words for a prayer? __
Seee also said I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Ps. 32: 5.
Do I need to know the names of sins that are interfering with my spiritual growth? ____ Do I need to believe that I am a sinner? __ What I most need to know and do is the T___ C_______ as suggested by the Bible verse that introduces our lesson on Sacrament thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deut. 6: 5. This is a command as well as a promise!
Many Christians, especially Christian Scientists, pray for those who are sick, and as James, the brother of Jesus, says …the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. James 5: 15. Is this kind of prayer a good way to worship God and love our neighbors as ourselves? _____
Recapitulation: for most Christians, the sacrament involves receiving symbolic bits of _____ and sips of ______ from the minister. For Christian Scientists, the sacrament means
* looking again at our m_______ for prayer
* being more alert to reject sin, which is any belief in a power opposed to ______
* seeking forgiveness of sins, in part, by following Jesus’ example and ‘casting out evil as unreal’ SH 497: 9
Thursday, July 1, 2010
God
God 7-4-10 Sara Lincoln
Many religions consider God to be a mystery, but they pray to ‘the Trinity--- in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.’ The ‘Divine trinity’ in Christian Science is described this way: Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God, — that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one, — the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature of the infinite. SH 331: 26. Are you an expression of the ‘Divine trinity’? ______
Before I discovered Science and Health, I thought I was a good Christian because I attended Sunday School and church and I valued the moral qualities of humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance, SH 115: 26. No one ever expected me to ‘know and understand God.’ I suppose I had a personal sense of God and of man’s capabilities {which} necessarily limits faith and hinders spiritual understanding. SH 312: 23. Does God want us to know Him? ___ The Spirit of the Lord – God – insists that we know SEEE (a gender free pronoun for God because God is not a male). SEEE called Abraham to move to an unknown land and made sure that Daniel was safe even in ‘a burning fiery furnace.’ Dan.6.
Why doesn’t God just materialize so that the material senses could know SEEE? Air is not earth, and Spirit is not ________. SH 285: 15 only.
God does not materialize, but God is made m_____________ in you and me and the universe.
Science and Health helps everyone get to know God by offering a definition, SH 587.
What is the most repeated word? ________
Another form of that word is used in the definition of Good, SH 587. ________
‘Jehovah’ is the name of a tribal god but not the name of the Almighty God. SH 524: 8.
Is God infinite or finite? _________ Is your understanding of God infinite or finite? _______
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Ps. 139: 1, 7
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. II Cor. 3: 17. Perhaps both Testaments are saying
• Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity. SH 227: 18
• man is free “to enter into the holiest” – the realm of God. SH 481: 4.
In your own words, what would you say ‘the Spirit of the Lord’ is?
Mark 5: 25-34 tells about a woman who had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Jesus healed her then said Daughter, _____ _______ hath made thee whole; Did she have faith in Jesus or in God? _
Did Jesus use drugs? _____, because
Does God allow sickness, expecting man to figure out how to heal seee self? ______ SH 208: 12.
(Seee self means h____self and h____self).
D______ L______ always has met and always _____ _______ every human need.
SH 494: 17
‘The powers of this world’ that try to kill the Christ and Science are the despotic tendencies inherent in ______ ______ and always germinating in new forms of tyranny… SH 225: 8, 25. A ‘despot’ is a _________________. See Webster’s Dictionary for Students.
One of the things that tries to fetter (limit) our faith and spiritual understanding is s________ t________. SH 226: 18. Both of these words are in your Webster’s Dictionary for Students.
Paul knew a lot of scholastic theology, but he finally learned that ‘to learn’ means to let this mind be in you, which was also in ________ ________. Phil. 2: 5.
In your own words, what tries to limit your understanding of God? _______________________________
The original ‘children of Israel’ were _________________. SH 226: 25
Today’s ‘children of Israel’ are some of the ________ of God beheld as _______, casting out error and healing the sick. SH 583. Are you and I ‘children of Israel’? _
As we learn more about God and man through ________ ________, we become wiser and more careful about what we learn and who we learn from. We stop trying to learn from m__________ and we focus on learning from the d________ P________, God, how to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, as the healing and saving power. SH 285: 27. Does Sunday School help us do this? ______
Luke tells about a storm on the lake when the disciples were trying to take Jesus to the other side. As the storm increased, the disciples were in a panic, but Jesus was taking a peaceful nap. They woke him up shouting Master, master, we ________. Luke 8: 24. Jesus could rebuke the wind and calm the waters because _________________________________________________.
If we think of this story as a metaphor (analogy), are you in a boat going somewhere? _____ You are in a boat called ________________________________ and nothing can stop your progress.
Mary Baker Eddy says there is no vapid fury of mortal mind… SH 293: 21. In other words, there is no weak and useless mortal mind expressed in destructive storms, and this so-called mind is self-destroyed. Christian Science reveals the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil. I will not fear the puny fury of mortalnomind!
Where is the kingdom of God? _________________________ Luke 17: 21
If it’s in you, it can’t be in me too, can it? ____
Paul says the ‘creature’ is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Rom. 8: 19. A creature is _____________________ (see your student’s dictionary). Are you a creature? ____ Creature means creation. In The New Testament in Modern English, revised student edition, J. B. Phillips says it this way: In my opinion whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has in store for us. The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own.
Even if I declare with persistence and gratitude that God did not make sickness, or allow sickness, will I still have to deal with ‘appearances of sickness’? _____ We can learn to call every appearance of sickness a call to deal with an illusion called apparent sickness. It is really a call to love God and our neighbor more by confronting the ‘Goliath’ called sickness. Young David had the superior weapon that defeated Goliath. Was it a stone? ____. It was __________
‘The Spirit of the Lord’ – God -- leads us out of ________________________________
and leads us into __________________________________
What did we say about God today that was new to you, or that you liked hearing again?
Many religions consider God to be a mystery, but they pray to ‘the Trinity--- in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.’ The ‘Divine trinity’ in Christian Science is described this way: Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God, — that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one, — the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature of the infinite. SH 331: 26. Are you an expression of the ‘Divine trinity’? ______
Before I discovered Science and Health, I thought I was a good Christian because I attended Sunday School and church and I valued the moral qualities of humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance, SH 115: 26. No one ever expected me to ‘know and understand God.’ I suppose I had a personal sense of God and of man’s capabilities {which} necessarily limits faith and hinders spiritual understanding. SH 312: 23. Does God want us to know Him? ___ The Spirit of the Lord – God – insists that we know SEEE (a gender free pronoun for God because God is not a male). SEEE called Abraham to move to an unknown land and made sure that Daniel was safe even in ‘a burning fiery furnace.’ Dan.6.
Why doesn’t God just materialize so that the material senses could know SEEE? Air is not earth, and Spirit is not ________. SH 285: 15 only.
God does not materialize, but God is made m_____________ in you and me and the universe.
Science and Health helps everyone get to know God by offering a definition, SH 587.
What is the most repeated word? ________
Another form of that word is used in the definition of Good, SH 587. ________
‘Jehovah’ is the name of a tribal god but not the name of the Almighty God. SH 524: 8.
Is God infinite or finite? _________ Is your understanding of God infinite or finite? _______
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Ps. 139: 1, 7
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. II Cor. 3: 17. Perhaps both Testaments are saying
• Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity. SH 227: 18
• man is free “to enter into the holiest” – the realm of God. SH 481: 4.
In your own words, what would you say ‘the Spirit of the Lord’ is?
Mark 5: 25-34 tells about a woman who had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Jesus healed her then said Daughter, _____ _______ hath made thee whole; Did she have faith in Jesus or in God? _
Did Jesus use drugs? _____, because
Does God allow sickness, expecting man to figure out how to heal seee self? ______ SH 208: 12.
(Seee self means h____self and h____self).
D______ L______ always has met and always _____ _______ every human need.
SH 494: 17
‘The powers of this world’ that try to kill the Christ and Science are the despotic tendencies inherent in ______ ______ and always germinating in new forms of tyranny… SH 225: 8, 25. A ‘despot’ is a _________________. See Webster’s Dictionary for Students.
One of the things that tries to fetter (limit) our faith and spiritual understanding is s________ t________. SH 226: 18. Both of these words are in your Webster’s Dictionary for Students.
Paul knew a lot of scholastic theology, but he finally learned that ‘to learn’ means to let this mind be in you, which was also in ________ ________. Phil. 2: 5.
In your own words, what tries to limit your understanding of God? _______________________________
The original ‘children of Israel’ were _________________. SH 226: 25
Today’s ‘children of Israel’ are some of the ________ of God beheld as _______, casting out error and healing the sick. SH 583. Are you and I ‘children of Israel’? _
As we learn more about God and man through ________ ________, we become wiser and more careful about what we learn and who we learn from. We stop trying to learn from m__________ and we focus on learning from the d________ P________, God, how to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, as the healing and saving power. SH 285: 27. Does Sunday School help us do this? ______
Luke tells about a storm on the lake when the disciples were trying to take Jesus to the other side. As the storm increased, the disciples were in a panic, but Jesus was taking a peaceful nap. They woke him up shouting Master, master, we ________. Luke 8: 24. Jesus could rebuke the wind and calm the waters because _________________________________________________.
If we think of this story as a metaphor (analogy), are you in a boat going somewhere? _____ You are in a boat called ________________________________ and nothing can stop your progress.
Mary Baker Eddy says there is no vapid fury of mortal mind… SH 293: 21. In other words, there is no weak and useless mortal mind expressed in destructive storms, and this so-called mind is self-destroyed. Christian Science reveals the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil. I will not fear the puny fury of mortalnomind!
Where is the kingdom of God? _________________________ Luke 17: 21
If it’s in you, it can’t be in me too, can it? ____
Paul says the ‘creature’ is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Rom. 8: 19. A creature is _____________________ (see your student’s dictionary). Are you a creature? ____ Creature means creation. In The New Testament in Modern English, revised student edition, J. B. Phillips says it this way: In my opinion whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has in store for us. The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own.
Even if I declare with persistence and gratitude that God did not make sickness, or allow sickness, will I still have to deal with ‘appearances of sickness’? _____ We can learn to call every appearance of sickness a call to deal with an illusion called apparent sickness. It is really a call to love God and our neighbor more by confronting the ‘Goliath’ called sickness. Young David had the superior weapon that defeated Goliath. Was it a stone? ____. It was __________
‘The Spirit of the Lord’ – God -- leads us out of ________________________________
and leads us into __________________________________
What did we say about God today that was new to you, or that you liked hearing again?
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