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 ________ ________.