Listening To Students Through Teaching

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THOUGHT THINGS A POME

LET’S KNOW WHAT THINGS OF CERTAINTY ARE
SEEING THINGS BOTH NEAR AND FAR.
UPWARD LEAVING STILL PROCEEDING
THOUGHTS MOVE TOWARD THE CHRIST OUR STAR

CHORUS
OH STAR OF WONDER STAR OF LIGHT,
STAR WITH HEAVENLY BEAUTY BRIGHT
HOMEWARD LEADING, STILL PROCEEDING
GUIDE US OH THOU GREAT ALL-MIGHT.

FAITH WE BRING AS FAITH WE RECEIVED
HOPE FLOWERED IN CHRIST SO ALL COULD BELIEVE
KING FOREVER, CEASING NEVER
OVER US ALL TO REIN

CHORUS
OH STAR OF WONDER STAR OF LIGHT,
STAR WITH HEAVENLY BEAUTY BRIGHT
HOMEWARD LEADING, STILL PROCEEDING
GUIDE US OH THOU GREAT ALL-MIGHT.

Sara Lincoln
12-29-10

Instead of discussion sheets for my Sunday School Class this week, I am posting this seasonal "thought things."

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________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

Men in the Bible New Testament

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________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.

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________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

God the Only Caue and Creator

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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? ________________.

Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias, Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.

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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.

Soul and Body

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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.

Mortals and Immortals, continued

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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?

Mortals and Immortals

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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.

see page 2

Adam and Fallen Man

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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?

Everlasting Punishment

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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______________.

Probation After Death

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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 _____________________________

Doctrine of Atonement

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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______.

Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?

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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.

Unreality, part 2

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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!

Unreality

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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

Reality

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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 ________ ________.

Mind

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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.

Soul

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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_____

Spirit

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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.

Love

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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? _______

Truth

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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 _____________________________________.

Life

2010-07-12T11:48:00.000-07:00

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? _____

Sacrament

2010-07-06T11:35:00.000-07:00

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

God

2010-07-01T06:01:00.000-07:00

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?

Christian Science

2010-06-23T07:44:00.000-07:00

Christian Science 6-27-10 Sara Lincoln

When did Christianity begin? _____________________________________________
When did Science begin? ________________________________________ SH 128: 4-6.
When did Christian Science begin? The discovery in _______; the book in ________.
The teachings of Christian Science are summarized on SH 497 and SH 304: 9-14.
Here are a few things I really like about Christian Science. It teaches
* God is The Mind and my mind
* God did not require or allow His Son Christ Jesus to die. Instead, God gave him the strength and understanding to live no matter what ‘powers’ were trying to kill him.
* God has been protecting and advancing me even when I didn’t know it or express gratitude.
* God has always provided saints to guide and instruct us, e.g., the prophets, Christ Jesus, Paul, John the Revelator, and Mary Baker Eddy (MBE).
* God showed Ready-miz- Eddy that Christ-likeness can be learned and experienced by everyone because it is a Science that can be learned by any sincere seeker for Truth.
* God showed this saint that all that’s un-good and un-Godlike is unreal, therefore cannot hurt man. God showed her and shows us that all evil is false belief and can / must be cast out of thought.

Put a checkmark by the teachings you appreciate. What else would you add? _______________

People go to college and get lots of knowledge, if they want it. Is knowledge the same as wisdom? _____ Wisdom means applying k________, but even more, it means asking ______.
My son, attend to ____ _______; incline thine ear unto ____ ____________. Prov.4: 20.
What Bible Friend wrote down many wise sayings because he listened to God? __________
Solomon asked for w________so that he could be a good King. ‘Give therefore thy servant an __________ ______ to judge thy people that I may discern between g______ and b_____.’
I Kings 3: 9. What do you want to ‘do well’?________ How can God help? ______

Ecclesiastes, The P___________, gave us more wisdom (Eccl. 9: 1) …the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God.. Does this make you feel safe? ________
We have Science and Health because our listening leader also accepted this protection.

The Bible, also called the ___________, is so old. Why don’t we look for a more recent book? Because the Bible teaches ______________________ which is forever and does not get old. The first tenet of Christian Science says: As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life. SH 497. Good’s will for me is better than my own w______, so I follow G_____ guidance every day. I can do that because I (man) am a r___________ of divine Mind: God’s image and l_________. SH 256: 7 and SH 547: 23.

Daniel prayed to God. In a vision, a voice said Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and ___ ___ _____ for thy words. Dan. 10: 12. Two hundred years later, Jesus would reveal that man is spiritual, the C______ man. Eighteen hundred years later, MBE explained it this way: Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true idea ___________ ________, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. SH 332: 9. Do you feel safe and wise when you are listening to the voice of Christ? _____ That voice comes to us as _________.

Where did MBE get her inspiration? The ______ has been my _____ authority.
SH 126: 22-31.
In Genesis, the first thing God created was ________. Gen. 1: 3. St. John said that In the beginning was the ________ and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…All things were made by him… In him was life; and the life was the _________ of men. John 1: 1-4.
MBE stayed focused on the l_________. Christian Science brings to ________ Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of _______. SH 293: 28.

Is the practice of Christian Science hard work, or is it a delight and a joy? _______
The Psalmist said I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Ps. 40: 8.
Paul said Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory…Let this mind ___ ___ ___, which was also in Christ Jesus: Phil. 2: 2, 3, 5.
Does Christian Science help us ‘let the mind of Christ Jesus be in us’? _____

Jesus stayed with the mind of Christ all the time. That’s why he is called _______ _______. Through the Christ, he cast out every kind of disease, even healing someone who was blind and dumb. Matt. 12: 22-26. The ‘deaf’ were sometimes called ‘dumb’ because they could not speak.

Has Christian Science healed anyone who was blind and deaf? _____ In Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer by Yvonne Cache von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, Amplified Edition 2009, there are five pages in the Index listing types of diseases and specific diseases healed by Mary Baker Eddy. There are healings of both blindness and deafness.
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In the last chapter of Science and Health, called __________, people tell about their healings.
On page 620, a woman says that deafness has been overcome by an enlarged understanding of God’s word which she found in Science and Health.
On page 627- 628, a woman heard the words of Science and Health and she said, ‘God has as much for me, if I will accept it.’ She accepted it and was healed of blindness.

Three sources of the inspiration that leads to ‘wisdom, Truth, and Love’ are s______, s________, and S________. SH 234: 4. Mary Baker Eddy reminds us that All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to ______. SH 275: 14.
It takes w______, seeing spiritually, to see that Christian Science presents the calm and clear verdict of Truth against error…as is recorded throughout the Scriptures. SH 358: 13-18.

In this church on ____________ evenings, we have a ‘testimony meeting.’ After the Reader reads citations from the Bible and from Science and Health, people tell about their healings.
I find it very encouraging to hear these first-hand accounts of healing.
Thank you God, thank you Christ Jesus, and thank you Mary Baker Eddy for Christian Science!

Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

2010-06-15T11:52:00.000-07:00

Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?
6-20-10 Sara Lincoln

Atomism is the doctrine that the universe is composed of indivisible particles (atoms), Christian Science is the doctrine that the universe is composed of indivisible spiritual facts. Each one is a ‘doctrine’ which means a t__________. Does the same mind create atomism and Christian Science? _____ There is no physical science, inasmuch as all _______ proceeds from the d______ M_______. SH 127: 23.
Is the atom really matter, or just a belief in matter? ___________ What is it that believes in matter? _______ ________. Did Science, the Law of God, create mortal mind? _____ Did it create matter? _____ M m and m are only suggestions that try to force their way into human thought but they cannot succeed when man is alert, like Jesus, and says Get thee hence, Satan; there is only one God and Him only shall I serve. Matt. 4: 10. Did Jesus prove that m m and m had no force, no reality? ______

The Psalmist knew that the w______ of the Lord created heaven and earth. Ps. 33: 4-9. The Word creates thoughts which are manifested in words and deeds. The Word could not create its opposite, matter, any more than Principle could create a m________, or Love create h______.

The universe is not filled with matter, but with s__________ i________, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them. SH 295: 6. God made the universe and it’s done and it’s forever. How often do I have to remember and say ‘thank you’? _________________. Moses had a thought and a warning about this. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. Deut. 8: 18-19. I shall rem____________, not per_______.

Physical force and ________ ________ are one. SH 484: 15. Here, there, and everywhere, it seems that mortalmindmatter is threatening or destroying ‘the universe, including man.’ Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for a correct analysis and solution to ‘the mortal mind’ picture: Science shows that material, conflicting mortal opinions and beliefs emit the effects of error at all times, but this atmosphere of mortal mind cannot be destructive to morals and health when it is ___________ promptly and persistently ____ ___________ ___________. Truth and Love antidote this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain existence. SH 273: 29-3. Truth and Love are ‘the force’ and they keep us alive and progressing.

When the Children of Israel needed to cross the Red Sea, ________ prayed to the one God of the universe, including man, and the __________ parted so they could cross on dry land. Ex. 14: 22. Later, they needed to cross the great River Jordan. Their leader was now J________, not Moses. The waters parted because the first to step into the river were the p________ carrying the a____. Joshua 3: 15-17. What did the ark contain? _____________ Was this the ark Noah built? _____

Did these deeds by Moses and Joshua show that deliverance and safety are possible only through super________ events? _____ Supernatural means acts that are not according to God’s law but rather acts by so-called gods. Is Science, the law of God-Good, supernatural? _____ Miracles are impossible in Science, and here Science takes issue with popular religions. The scientific ______________ of power is from the divine nature and is not supernatural, since Science is an explication of nature. The belief that the universe, including man, is governed in general by material laws, but that occasionally Spirit sets aside these laws, — this belief belittles omnipotent wisdom, and gives to matter the precedence over Spirit.
SH 83: 13. What does the scientific statement of being (SH 468) say about ‘manifestation’? _______________________
The ‘divine nature’ is natural, not supernatural!

The Kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom sent armies to defend themselves against the pagans from Moab. Soon these fighters for good had no more access to water. No problem if there is a p________ at hand! Elisha, the P________, knew to ask the Creator of the Universe where water could be found. Elisha said, dig ditches throughout the valley. When the people obeyed and were prepared and expectant, what do you think happened? Not rain, but the only force in the universe filled the ditches with __________. II Kings 3: 16-17. The Moabites would not ‘see the truth,’ so the waters looked to them like the blood from a battle among the three good kings, but when they crossed the border to see what they could steal, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites. II Kings 3: 24. No matter how many enemies there appear to be, the one God of the universe, including man, shows that o_________ to the one God is the only f______ there is. Only G_____ makes things happen.

Do you want to reach the right conclusion (solution) in every situation? ____ Only by understanding that there is but one power, — not two powers, matter and Mind, — are scientific and logical conclusions reached. SH 270: 7. This sounds like the F____ C___________. The one God is the source of all evolving, developing, and producing. God says, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Ex. 20: 2-3.

How did Jesus answer this question, Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force? Jesus said ____________. In the synagogue, he proved that God-Good was the Only Force. He cast out d_______ and healed Simon’s wife’s mother of a ________ _______. Luke 4: 32-41. The power of God brings deliverance to the captive. SH 224: 29

How do you answer the question Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force? I know the answer is ______ because God’s power is not expressed by a______.
Mind’s government of the body must supersede the so-called ________ ____ ___________. SH 182: 18.

‘So-called’ means ‘n __ __ really.' So-called laws of matter are not really laws!
‘So-called mortal mind’ means mind is not really mortal.
‘So-called mortal man’ means man is not really mortal.
‘So-called gods’ means they are not really God.

God the Preserver of Man

2010-06-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

God the Preserver of Man 6-13-10 Sara Lincoln

We ‘preserve’ food by putting it in the refrigerator. What are some foods being preserved in your refrigerator or freezer?
God-Creator preserves us-creation by putting us where

The Psalmist thought of many ways to describe how God ‘preserves’: God made everything that is in the heavens, earth, and sea and keepeth truth for ever. God executes judgment for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry, and looseth the prisoners, opens blind eyes, and raiseth those that are bowed down. Ps. 146: 6-8. You are preserved because you re_________ and man__________ God-Life.

The Psalmist said, the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever. Ps. 37: 28. What is a ‘saint’? _____________________________. Are you a saint? ______

King Ahab and Queen Jezebel worshipped a material god named B______. The Prophet Elijah did not go around the country breaking as many statue gods as he could find. Why not? ____
In I Kings 18, Elijah proved that God helps man, and that the Baal-god was only a belief because it never answered the call of its prophets. This angered the Queen and probably put a lot of people out of work who were in the business of making Baal statues. Elijah was running from the Queen, but he was also trusting God. Christian Science affirms that step by step will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” SH 444: 10.
God provided food and water as Elijah ran for safety to the ‘mount of God.’
I Kings 19: 1-8.

The greatest prophet, ________, was teaching in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth. He was giving examples of people who were preserved in spite of famine or disease. They were preserved, Jesus said, because they served God and were un___________ and gen___________. Why did this make some listeners very angry? ________________________ These men tried to hustle Jesus off to a place where they could throw him off the cliff. Did this frighten Jesus and make him try to escape? ______What did Jesus do? Luke 4: 14-16, 24-31.
Christ presents the indestructible man, whom Spirit creates, constitutes, and governs. Christ illustrates that blending with God, his divine Principle, which gives man dominion over all the earth. SH 316: 20. The Christ told Jesus how to calmly walk away and go on about his business.

You are ‘blending with God’ when you know that…….
God will heal the sick _________ _____, whenever man is governed by God.
SH 495: 1-2.

Is your enemy ‘other people’? ______ Shall we ask God to preserve us from ‘other people’? ___ The determination to _____ _______ in the grasp of matter is the persecutor of Truth and Love. SH 28: 6. Is that kind of ‘determination’ an action of Mind? _____ It is a suggestion of so-called ________ _________. I protect myself from this so-called ________ through my spiritual determination to be _______________________________________
Another way to describe harmful determination is h_______ w______. SH 490: 8.

Jesus knew how to protect himself from hostile crowds, but sometimes he had to figure out what to do when enthusiastic crowds were pushing to get closer. That happened on the lake shore, so Jesus asked Simon (Peter) to row away from the shore so that Jesus could teach the crowd from the boat. That meant loss of fishing time for Simon and thus loss of income. He had been fishing all night and caught nothing. Would Jesus take advantage of Peter’s need to earn a living? ___ After his sermon, Jesus said, let’s row out again, but Peter said, what’s the use? Jesus knew that God was preserving Peter’s ‘business.’ Peter agreed to go back out on the lake. Two important things happened. Luke 5: 1-11. Let’s read this story.

Mary Baker Eddy reminds us that prosperity does not consist of gaining ‘things.’ Spirit, God, gathers unformed __________ into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose _____ ________. SH 506: 18.
…to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good. SH 444: 13-14.
Today is big with blessings for the consciousness that is leaning on the _____________ ______________. SH vii: 1. Does ‘sustaining’ mean ‘preserving’? ____
As mortals reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a __________ _______, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, as the healing and ________ ________. SH 285: 27.

Mind preserves and expresses its idea man. This ‘preserving’ includes the h________ of men, women, children, and our world. Who does that healing? ___________________________
Jesus said, “These signs shall follow them that believe; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." SH 328: 20.

Here’s how the prophet Zephaniah describes God preserving man: The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will ________ he will __________ over thee with joy; he will ________ in his love, he will _______ over thee with singing. Zeph. 3: 17.

We’ve seen how God preserved Elijah and Jesus when they were in danger. God also preserved the apostles (d_________) even when they were put in prison for preaching the good news (the g_________) of Jesus Christ. But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. Acts 5: 19-21. Do you think the disciples were very brave? _____ They did not give in to the belief in a power apart from God called ‘political power.’ They knew that they were serving God and that God would _______________________. Can you be wise and brave about sharing the healing truths of Christian Science? ________. I say ______ because The Lord shall preserve {my} going out and {my} coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. Ps. 121: 8.
Why do you have to be ‘wise’ as well as ‘brave’? ____________________

The power of God brings _____________ to the captive. No power can withstand ________ Love. SH 224: 31.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. SH 481: 4 and II Cor. 3: 17.
Where is the Spirit of the Lord? ______________________
Why will God preserve you every day of your life?

God the Only Cause and Creator

2010-06-01T08:09:00.000-07:00

God the Only Cause and Creator 6-6-10 Sara Lincoln

‘Only’ implies that there is no other. There is you the student, you the family member, you the athlete, but there’s only one you. Is there any other like you? _____Can you explain how ‘yes’ and ‘no’ can both be correct answers?

Christian Science helps us understand that God is the only C_______ and C_________ and also P_, M_, S_, S_, Life, T_, and Love (SH 587) and that God is i_______ which means u_______.

As you learn, live, and love do you cause things to happen? ______
I can think of many Bible Friends who caused things to happen, e.g., Noah. What did he cause? _
Isaac (Abraham’s son) dug two wells for his family and flocks, but other people claimed the wells were theirs. Gen. 26: 19-22. Did Isaac fight them?____ He dug a third well which no one else claimed. It was only for him. He wanted only the well that was right for him, the well that God provided, so he also brought peace to the region. It looked like Isaac was causing things to happen, but perhaps Isaac was only thinking about what this Psalmist said: Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his _____________ ________ to the children of men. Ps. 107: 15. Did Noah cause mankind to be saved from the flood? _____

Where in the Bible is there a description of all that God caused and created? _________
Does In the beginning (Gen. 1: 1) mean the beginning of time? ______Once again, true Science helps us understand that beginning signifies _____ ________. SH 502: 24-25.
The only God creates all forms of reality. His __________ are spiritual realities. SH 513: 26. Every created thing begins as a t__________.

Is there such a thing as a counterfeit dollar bill? ____ Is there also a counterfeit creation? ____
Creation is ever ______________, and must ever continue to __________…SH 507: 28-29
But the multiplication of God’s children comes from no power of propagation in matter, it is the ________________ _____ ____________. SH 303: 5-7.

One way we know that matter is not a cause, creator, or creation is that matter cannot tell us about ______.Your intelli________, existence, and indivi_________ remain in God. SH 513: 17.

Hannah and Elkanah were very sad because they had no children, Hannah prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore and she also made a promise. O Lord, if thou wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life…I Samuel 1: 10-11. Hannah had learned that only ________ could create a c_________. She promised not to selfishly possess the child, but to let the child be raised in the Temple where he (Samuel) would learn how to serve God. Samuel became a great prophet. Creation is always s___________, never m___________.
Is that true even when you are preparing (creating) a school project? _____
...creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas… SH 502: 29.

Could Jesus heal from a distance? ___ Can Christian Science heal from a distance? ___
John 4: 46-53 tells about a nobleman whose son was sick in another city. Jesus saith unto him, go thy way, thy son liveth. What happened next? Verse 50.
What if the man had said, but Master, if you don’t come touch my son and talk to him, he will not get well. Would the son have recovered if the father had not ‘believed’? _____
If God is the only Cause, can disbelief also be a cause? _______
Can the spiritual truths in the Bible and in Science and Health heal you even if you don’t believe the words? ______Jesus said, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe, John 4: 48.
Does Jesus mean that you have to see the evidence, or the possibility of healing? _____________

God, good, can no more produce sickness than goodness can cause evil and health occasion disease. SH 230: 16. Underline the two words that mean ‘cause.’

This is something you say about God if you believe that God is Good and God is All:
It is not in accordance with the goodness of God's character that He should make man sick, then leave man to heal himself; it is absurd to suppose that matter can ______ ______ ____ _ ____ disease, or that Spirit, God, produces disease and leaves the remedy to matter. SH 208: 12.

After Jesus ascended, the number of disciples increased to about 120. They went around teaching and healing. Were they causing things to happen? _____The Day of Pentecost was one of the Feast Days in Jerusalem. Thousands of Jews came from far-away places. They were amazed to hear the disciples speaking other languages. Only God-Mind, divine inspiration, could cause them to speak of the wonderful works of God in a language they didn’t know! Acts 2: 11.
Indeed, the Christian era was ushered in with ________and ____________ SH 139: 8-9.

The whole family of man could speak and does speak the language of sp_________ power and the language of l_______. The brotherhood of man could and does consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science. SH 469: 30-5.
This is what God the Only Cause and Creator brings about. If we are Christian Scientists, we acknowledge this, and we can unite with this church only as we are new-born of Spirit, as we reach the Life which is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth the fruits of Love, -- casting out error and healing the sick.
SH 35: 20-25.
Is this the kind of church you would like to be a member of? _____ Can you join the church at your age? _____. Where would you find out about the qualifications for membership? In the C_______ M________. You could get an application from the Clerk and see what it says.

Ps. 95: 6-7 says O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God, and we are the __________ of his pasture, and the _________ of his hand.
God is perfect cause and c_________ and I am perfect effect and c__________.

Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine ‘__________ ______ _____.’ Such is the true Science of being. SH 249: 8-10.

Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced -- continued

2010-05-26T06:07:00.000-07:00

The building of the walls was progressing nicely because the people had a ‘______ ___ _____.’ Neh. 4: 6. What do you think happened next? People who weren’t helping were hypnotized to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder (the building). These enemies who were listening to m_______ m_________ spread lies about the motives and desires of the builders. Did the builders stop work to fight the liars? _____ Every builder, with one hand wrought in the w_____, and with the other hand held a __________.
Neh. 4: 17.

It’s hard for me to picture the scene. The worker is looking at the wall as he builds it, and is also looking away from the wall to see if any enemies are coming. How do you picture it?
When I couldn’t make the material picture work, I thought this is hypnotism and animal magnetism! I denounced these. I asked God, ‘how do You picture the scene?’ Because my desire was p______, God answered me! (O thank you Father – Mother – Friend!) God said, with both their hands they do good work on rebuilding the wall, and with all their thoughts they are thanking Me for opportunity and strength. They are trusting Me to help them. They are denouncing mortal mind. Does this answer sound like a message from divine Mind? _____

She who discovered and explained Christian Science says to me, to us, Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that m_______ m___________ cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. SH 442: 30. Are you ‘a law unto yourself’? ____ How do you do it? ______________
First, I affirm that God Good is the only law and power.
Next I denounce hypnotism and animal magnetism: You are no mind, no power, no presence!
I understand that evil has in reality no power. SH 452: 3.
I know I am the Christianly scientific man. I reflect the divine law, thus becoming a law unto {myself}. I am honest and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind. SH 458: 23-28.

When the wall was finished and they were ready to put doors in the gates, Nehemiah’s enemies got desperate and tried another tactic. They pretended to be friends who wanted to meet with Nehemiah and help him. When that didn’t work, they sent a letter supposedly from the nations around the Jews accusing the Jews of planning to rebel and make war. But Nehemiah was not fooled because all his thoughts were listening to God’s messages. Nehemiah said, ‘there’s no such rumor. This letter is just a lie meant to hypnotize me into giving up on the wall.’ Neh. 6: 8. So the wall was finished in ______ days and all Nehemiah’s enemies were embarrassed and defeated. Their evil intent boomeranged and struck them down instead of striking Nehemiah and his helpers.

The words of the Psalmist were proved true. God’s enemies shall make their own tongue to fall _______ ___________: all that see them shall flee away. And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider his doing. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. Ps. 64: 8-10.

Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced

2010-05-26T05:51:00.000-07:00

Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced
Sara Lincoln 5-30-10

In Psalms 141: 1-4, 8-9, and 64: 3-6, 8-10, who is doing the talking? ______
What is seee asking God to do? In our Quarterlies, let’s underline the requests.
What does seee say will happen to liars? Ps. 64: 8.

Can evil hide itself? _____ Job said (Job 26: 6)………. And Luke said (Luke 12:2) ……………
Is evil power? ______ ‘It is a m________ of strength…which… betrays its _____________ and falls, ________ to rise.’ SH 192: 24.

Is evil mental or material and physical? _______Christian Science says you can ‘______ evil, o__________ evil, and even prove its ____________.’ SH 446: 24. This is done by de________ evil. This is a strong verb. What does it mean? __________________
When Jesus was alone in the wilderness (Matt. 4) how did error try to hypnotize him?_______
The specific term for error or mortal mind is a____________ _____________.
SH 103: 18-23.
Is it humans or animals that seem to have a ‘mortal mind’? _______ ‘Animal’ means ‘a living being’ but it does not have the r___________ ability or the s__________ nature of ‘man.’ Are you man or animal? ______ When humans ignore or deny their sp__________ nature, they fall under the influence of m_______ m_______ which loves only itself and hates God and man.

If something has intelligence and power, should you know what it is? ____ What is it? _______
If mortal mind pretends to have intelligence and power, should you ignore it? ______SH 454: 11
How often shall we ‘overcome evil with good’? SH 571: 15.

N__________ was the man who left his high position in court as a_____________ to go back to Jerusalem to rebuild the __________ which the Babylonians had destroyed. First, he p________ to know if it was God’s will. Neh. 1: 11. Is ‘desire’ prayer? _____ SH 1: 11. God shapes and refines desire until it is ready to receive and do God’s will. What kinds of things does mortal mind desire? ___
The desire that connects with God’s plan is the desire of _______________ consciousness. We connect when we ‘wait ____________, seek Truth _______________ and begin _________’. SH 254: 10. Are you willing to do these three things when you are praying to God for help? ___

What did Nehemiah request from King Artaxerxes? Neh. 2: 5. __________ Nehemiah was sure it was God’s will that he rebuild the walls, but he did not run away from his job. That would have been m_______ m________ and Nehemiah trusted divine Mind for guidance.
Who does God select for the highest service? SH 455: 20. God selects one who will not a______ his mission or m_________ his mental power. “Your influence for good depends upon the weight you throw into the ________ ________. SH 192: 19.

When Nehemiah got to Jerusalem, he did not talk about his appointed task to everyone who would listen. No, he analyzed the task first, then he told the Jews, and they said “Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this ________ ________.” Neh. 2: 18.
As spiritual thinkers, our work is to build walls of protection for all mankind, so Mary Baker Eddy says to us, “Be __________, sober, and ___________”. SH 324: 13. These words mean….
And she says, “pray without ceasing.” SH 15: 20. This is possible when we have r________ d_______ all the time.

Does mankind in general believe that evil is power? _______ Does it believe in hypnotism? ____ That makes it a contest of a thousand to one, but ‘one’ can be victorious if one looks to_______ and if one knows that evil’s threat is only a ‘p_________ of ___________.’ SH 102: 30-31.

The building of the walls was progressing nicely because the people had a ‘______ ___ _____.’ Neh. 4: 6. What do you think happened next? People who weren’t helping were hypnotized to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder (the building). These enemies who were listening to m_______ m_________ spread lies about the motives and desires of the builders. Did the builders stop work to fight the liars? _____ Every builder, with one hand wrought in the w_____, and with the other hand held a __________. Neh. 4: 17.

It’s hard for me to picture the scene. The worker is looking at the wall as he builds it, and is also looking away from the wall to see if any enemies are coming. How do you picture it?
When I couldn’t make the material picture work, I thought this is hypnotism and animal magnetism! I denounced these. I asked God, ‘how do You picture the scene?’ Because my desire was p______, God answered me! (O thank you Father – Mother – Friend!) God said, with both their hands they do good work on rebuilding the wall, and with all their thoughts they are thanking Me for opportunity and strength. They are trusting Me to help them. They are denouncing mortal mind. Does this answer sound like a message from divine Mind? _____

She who discovered and explained Christian Science says to me, to us, Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that m_______ m___________ cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. SH 442: 30. Are you ‘a law unto yourself’? ____ How do you do it? ______________
First, I affirm that God Good is the only law and power.
Next I denounce hypnotism and animal magnetism: You are no mind, no power, no presence!
I understand that evil has in reality no power. SH 452: 3.
I know I am the Christianly scientific man. I reflect the divine law, thus becoming a law unto {myself}. I am honest and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind. SH 458: 23-28.

When the wall was finished and they were ready to put doors in the gates, Nehemiah’s enemies got desperate and tried another tactic. They pretended to be friends who wanted to meet with Nehemiah and help him. When that didn’t work, they sent a letter supposedly from the nations around the Jews accusing the Jews of planning to rebel and make war. But Nehemiah was not fooled because all his thoughts were listening to God’s messages. Nehemiah said, ‘there’s no such rumor. This letter is just a lie meant to hypnotize me into giving up on the wall.’ Neh. 6: 8. So the wall was finished in ______ days and all Nehemiah’s enemies were embarrassed and defeated. Their evil intent boomeranged and struck them down instead of striking Nehemiah and his helpers.

The words of the Psalmist were proved true. God’s enemies shall make their own tongue to fall _______ ___________: all that see them shall flee away. And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider his doing. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. Ps. 64: 8-10.

Soul and Body

2010-05-19T09:58:00.000-07:00

Soul and Body 5-23-10 Sara Lincoln

You live in your body now, but when you die, your soul goes to heaven. Right or wrong? ¬__ You live in L_______ now and forever. Man does not die because God does not die. You are visually manifested now; you have a body now, just as the number 12 is visually manifested by the stack of books in the center of our table, six Bibles and six textbooks.
The people in Paul’s day were also trying to understand this concept of Soul and Body, II Cor. 3: 18. Paul said, in effect, Nothing can be figured out in the darkness of limited human thinking. Look up, he says, with an open, honest, face, and focus until you can see the goodness of God and feel that you are reflecting that very goodness. Is Paul saying you will be changed from a body into a spirit? ____ He is saying that your present sense of soul (being) will keep expanding into a more divine sense of Being. Would you like that? _____ Why?

The Psalmist, referring to God as a shield, asks God to look upon his face and accept seee as a doorkeeper. What does a shield do? _____What does a doorkeeper do? ________Ps. 84: 1-4, 9-11. Perhaps it means that while you are doing your duty as a doorkeeper, God is protecting your spiritual being. God is enabling you to ‘stand porter at the door of thought, admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, and thus controlling yourself harmoniously.’ SH 392: 25.

Soul is not in the b________. Man is the _______________ of Soul. SH 477: 26.
The light of the body is the e_____...and when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Luke 11: 34. Having a single eye means staying focused on the truth. Having an evil eye means seeing evil as __________.
Do you ‘see’ with your fleshly eyes, or with your mind? ___________People see with their thinking. What they think is what they see. Mortal th_________ sees sin, disease, and death. Divine th_________ sees God’s spiritual creation. Christ Jesus ‘saw’ the perfect man and this view healed the sick. SH 476: 32. Can we say then that the ‘eye’ is the thinking of the ‘I’? ¬_____

Christian Science says we should choose our own m_______ - p_________ and be sure it’s spiritual, not material. SH 360: 13. If you don’t have your own m________ - p__________, evil sneaks in to offer its mind-picture in which evil is real. Is that what you want? _____ Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts. SH 261: 4. That ‘holding’ is not done by your body but by your being, your purpose, your soul, your mind. If we are not ‘holding’ on purpose and with gratitude what happens? F____, ignorance, or _____ try to take hold of us and mess up our lives. SH 411: 20-23. Soul is our sole protection and strength.

Fear, ignorance, and sin are not real because __________________________. But if we don’t ask God to help us guard our soul, our thinking, then animal magnetism steps in and takes over our thinking and our body, dismissing God. Can that really happen? ______ But it can seem to happen if you agree to be in a mortal dream which can’t know ______.

Wise King Solomon, who wrote the book of Proverbs, said, Keep sound w_________ and discretion. Prov. 3: 21. Mentally hold on to these. What is ‘discretion’? ______

When the Psalmist felt discouraged, he stopped this attack on his soul, his being. He said, Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Ps.42: 11.
His ‘countenance’ is his _____ and he wants it to show health and confidence, not w________.

Is Soul the same as Mind? ____ Can you substitute mind for soul in the quotation above? ___
Mortal consciousness sees Mind and Body as two, but merging. Many medical practitioners acknowledge that they cannot help the body unless they also help the patient deal with ‘mind.’ I am grateful that Science and Health came along to explain that every man is a unique collection ** of qualities, ** not body parts. Spiritual consciousness sees Soul and Body as one wholeness of being, reflecting God. Is that how Jesus saw every man and woman? ______

In Luke 13: 11-17, we read about a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. It seemed she could not stand up but Christ Jesus didn’t believe it! He said it was ‘Satan,’ not God, that had bound her. He knew there was no ‘other god’ called Satan so there could be no ‘work of the devil’ called disability. Jesus touched her with his hands, his power to do God’s will, and she stood up, healed. The facts of being – Soul – erased the so-called false evidence of the corporeal senses and proved the ever presence of incor_____________ sense. SH 395: 6-10.

Can we know about body what Soul knows about body? _____ How? We must (because we can) do two things: ______ in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. B_____ _____ the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. SH 390: 32. What helps us do this? _____
Soul, the truth of being, helps us. With that kind of help, can you ever fail? _____

Paul said we are always confident when we are ‘at home’ in Soul, true being, and not trying to be comfortably ‘at home’ in the body. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be _________ _______ ____ ________ and to be present with the Lord. II Cor. 5: 8.

The Psalmist said I will dwell in the _________ ___ _____ ________ forever. Ps. 23: 6. The house of the Lord is the c_____________ of God, Mind, and I am an infinite manifestation of that Mind! That’s what the ‘s s of b’ says on page 468. Why is this statement called ‘scientific’?

Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for recording a revelation: …God, the Soul of man… imparts and perpetuates {which} qualities in man? SH 280: 25-4. There’s that word ** qualities ** again. What qualities do you express because of Soul? __________________

This Bible Lesson is called Soul and Body, not Soul or Body, because
Soul, true being, is the li______ and ‘in_____________ ity’ of every male and female, made ‘in His image and likeness’, as it says in Genesis one, and
Body is the immaterial ‘man____________tion’ of Principle, just as the number 4 is also an immaterial manifestation. Body is the embod_____________ of Soul’s individualized qualities.

In the chapter Recapitulation, in Science and Health, is there a Question and Answer about body and Soul? ____ Does it say ‘man is the expression of Soul’ or ‘man is the expression of Body’?

Mortals and Immortals, continued

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Let’s look at the Responsive Reading in the Bible Lesson Quarterly for other benefits:
18 __________ shall no more be heard in the land, w__________ nor d__________ Isa. 60: 18.
17 I create new _________ and a new ________ Isa. 65: 17, 18, 19, 21, 24,
18 I create Jerusalem a rejoicing. It will be a place of joy, not war.
21 All shall build _________ and plant ____________. No one shall be homeless or hungry.
24 Before they call, I will __________; while they are yet speaking, I will ________.
25 My people shall not _________ nor __________, anytime or anywhere.
I think God is saying to His people, you are ______________, not ____________.
Christian Science says as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme. SH 16-17. Is this a way to describe ‘immortality’? ____ Is there anything we need to do to help mankind accept immortality?______ The Bible gives many answers to this question. One of Paul’s answers is in Eph.4: 24. Who will read this to us then put it into your own words?
And Christian Science directs us to…let human justice pattern the divine.
SH 542: 20-21.

Mary Baker Eddy gives everyone great hope when she says “…infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at least yield to the scientific fact and d__________...” SH 295:11.
Do you think it’s possible that some of ‘mortal consciousness’ can disappear every day? _____
‘Material history’ is not as real and alive as ‘spiritual history.’ SH 204: 3-11.
Where can we read a history and description of immortal, spiritual man?
SH page _________.

I Samuel 17 tells the story of a young boy who took on an enemy Philistine more than twice his size. How many stones did __________ have in his shepherd’s bag? _____ verse 40. Why so many? Did he think Goliath would stand there waiting for the second stone if the first one didn’t cause the giant to fall? _____ Mary Baker Eddy was like David. She wrote a book with hundreds of spiritual facts (stones) we can use as we bring down the seeming ‘giant’ called ‘mortality.’

Does Genesis 1: 31 refer to mortals or immortals? ____________
Is infinite Mind in mortals or immortals? _______________ SH 468: 8 and SH 336: 9-18.

Here is the ‘be and be and be’ path to demonstrating your immortality:
…be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Rom. 12: 2 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Matt. 5: 48.

Pick one of these ‘be’ statements and put it into your own words.

Mortals and Immortals

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Mortals and Immortals 5-16-10 Sara Lincoln

The word ‘mortals’ means people who can ________
The word ‘immortals’ means people who cannot _______.
To which category do you and I belong? _____________

Is the Bible a 2000 year history of mortals or immortals? ___________
Is Science and Health a textbook about mortals or immortals? ___________

In the exact middle of the Bible is the much loved Psalm 103 where the Psalmist asks us to join him in blessing the Lord…Who _______________ thy life from destruction; who ____________ thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies. Ps. 103: 5
To ‘crown’ someone is to give that person ___________________________.
To ‘redeem’ your bike means to buy it back by paying off the loan from the pawnshop.
To ‘redeem’ a person means to buy seee back from ______________________________.
Through Moses, the Lord redeemed the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt.
Did Christ Jesus redeem many people during his three years of ministry? ______ He bought them back from unnatural and illegal, temporary and seeming ‘masters’ named s_______, d__________, and d___________.

It was error and evil that appeared to own the people he redeemed. Did he buy them back with money? ______ He bought them back with dominion and spiritual understanding. He had so much of these that he could buy back thousands of people in his day, and billions of people during the last 2000 years. Many more people want to know and deserve to know God’s everlasting love and care for them. When will Christ Jesus run out of dominion and understanding and not be able to buy people back from worry and fear? __________
When will you run out of dominion and spiritual understanding? __________

Christ Jesus was able to redeem mortals because he realized they were actually _____________.
Because of this conviction, he healed a man in the synagogue who had a withered (useless) hand. Luke 6: 6-10.
Christian Science explains that Christ presents the ________________ man, whom Spirit creates, constitutes, and governs. SH 316: 20-21. Jesus knew that he was immortal man. Is that why he is called the Christ?_____ Each time I realize I am immortal man, I am identifying myself as the Christ-man, and I will be able to do the healing works Jesus told his followers to do. Matt. 10: 8. See the logo on the front cover of Science and Health.

You and I want to help family, friends, and ‘neighbors’ now, for the next 100-plus years, and forever. How can we do this? Shall we see them as mortals AND immortals? _____ We will help direct their attention to ________ who redeems everyone from destruction and crowns everyone with life and l__________________ and tender ___________. Ps. 103: 4.

Centuries before Christ Jesus was born, the great Prophet Isaiah heard God say ‘I am your Saviour and your ______________.’ I am the mighty One of Jacob. Isa. 60: 16. Jacob came to have a double name: ________ ________. God gave him that name when Jacob showed he was willing to fight for his identity. Jacob had been acting very much like a _________ but God, the Redeemer, insisted that Jacob learn the truth, namely that he was ___________. Gen. 32: 24-30.
The Psalmist said, ‘Bless the Lord, O my soul and remember all his benefits.’ Let’s name some benefits we have when we ‘bless (thank) the Lord.’___________________________________

Adam and Fallen Man

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Adam and Fallen Man 5-9-10 Sara Lincoln

We have discovered before that the dictionary gives both positive and negative meanings of words used in our Bible Lessons. ‘Subtle’ is an example. It means advanced thinking abilities like insight and perception. It also means hiding one’s dishonesty and trying to trick people. The Bible uses the word ‘serpent’ to illustrate dishonest and hateful communication with others.
The Bible uses the image of an a_________ to illustrate ‘God’s thoughts passing to man.’

The dictionary says that a ‘serpent’ is a snake, but is also a creature (person) that wants to harm you. In Ii Cor. 11: 3, the Apostle Paul warns the Christians in Corinth that the serpent can voice suggestions that seem to make sense, but are designed to trick them and make them forget the teachings of Christ Jesus. Jesus said that the two most important commandments are to l________ ________ and l________ your __________. That is very clear and simple. Is it always easy? ________ . Sometimes when the right thing seems difficult, the ‘serpent’ suggests that you don’t have to try so hard. You can change God’s commands to suit yourself. What did the serpent say to Eve that tricked her and made her forget God’s command? Gen. 3: 1-6.

Eve wanted to be ‘wise’ and the serpent said ‘what’s the harm in eating a piece of fruit’? Did God want Eve to be wise and have good things to eat? ____ The only way to wisdom and abundance is to o_______ ________and we do that naturally by remembering that man is the r___________ of God. The reflection knows and does what the original knows and does!
God’s man does not ‘fall’ for the serpent’s tricks, so cannot be ‘fallen man.’

Christian Science helps us silence the serpent by revealing that its name is m_______ m_______. A snake does not talk, but so-called ‘mortal mind’ seems to whisper lies to thought that is not standing up for (remembering) truth. Does man think with divine Mind or with mortal mind? ___________. In Rom. 16: 20, Paul says that God uses our ‘feet,’ our understanding and obedience, to defeat Satan, another name for the serpent. When I stand up for what is true, I am standing man, not fallen man! The author of Psalm 8 tells the truth about man. Thou madest him to have __________... and hast put all things under his __________.” Ps. 8: 6. So does Mary Baker Eddy: God’s man, spiritually created, is not m__________ and m_________.
SH 306: 30

When the Lord God questioned Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Eve admitted that she had been tricked (beguiled) by the serpent’s suggestion that she could think for herself instead of thinking God’s thoughts that gave her all good. It’s good to admit disobedience, but even better to just keep o_____________ the Father – Mother Giver of all good. Gen. 3: 11-13.
Eve quickly learned that c_________ s__________ is the serpent. SH 533: 27. Its opposite, honesty and humility, enabled Eve and Mary and Mary to discern spiritual creation. Who are these two women named Mary? The V______ Mary was receptive to the birth of Jesus. Mary ______ ______ was receptive to the birth of a book that would explain the Scriptures.
What will honesty and humility enable you to do?

God’s man C________ J________, obeyed God all the time. What good and amazing things did obedience, honesty, and humility enable Jesus to do? SH 473: 10-15.
Which has the most influence on mankind today, Adam or Christ? _______

It seems that most religions fall for the serpent’s suggestion that life is both material and spiritual. Thank God for Christian Science that gives us a foundational fact for experiencing the goodness of God: Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of _________; for Life is ______, and man is the ________ ___ ________. SH 200: 9.

Was your life new when you were born, or is your life new every day? _______________
If something is new every day, it never falls into being weak and easily tricked. SH 249: 5.

The Adam and Eve story (Gen. 2: 4 through 5: 32) presents a man-made or limited ‘Lord God’ saying that the serpent will always be biting at man, but the true ‘Lord God of Israel’ sent his son J_________ C_________ to show us that we also are sons (children) of God. Gal. 4: 4-7.
A serpent cannot bite a spiritual idea. Are you and I spiritual ideas? _____
Let’s read I John 3: 1-3.

In Revelation, John explains that the serpent became a dragon that tried to kill the “man child, who was to rule all nations…and her child was caught up unto God…” Rev. 12: 1-5. Who is that man child? _______________

The ‘spiritual and scientific meaning of the Scriptures’ is found in __________ __________. SH 534: 24. Material sense says NO and tries to ‘bite the heel’ of the woman who wrote Science and Health and tries to deny the male and female of God’s creating. I am not afraid because I accept spiritual sense and I know that Mind – God will always show me how to handle error. Will your God, your Mind, always show you what’s true and protect you from being tricked by ‘suggestion’? _____ Truth bruises the head of error – destroys error. SH 216: 8.

Jesus’ disciples wondered if a man ‘blind from birth’ was a fallen man, guilty of sin, or if he was blind because his parents had sinned. Which did Jesus say was guilty? ________ As usual, Jesus would not be tricked into choosing either mistaken view. He stayed with the clear and simple perspective that any ‘disorder’ is simply an opportunity, a call, to prove that man is the work of God and manifests the works of God. Jesus restored the man’s sight, and this made the P__________ angry because…..
The Pharisees tried to portray Jesus as a fraud, but the healed man said, If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. John 9: 1-3, 6-7, 14, 16, 29-34.
Did the Pharisees believe in Fallen Man? ______Because of that, they couldn’t help the man. Jesus believed in Perfect Man, so he was able to remove the seeming disorder. Christian Science explains what Jesus did: SH 476: 32-5.

Paul was subtle in the right way and made it clear and simple: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. I Cor. 15: 22
And so did Mary Baker Eddy: The good man finally can overcome his fear of sin.
SH 405: 18-19.
We can use ‘the key of divine Science’ and reopen ‘the gates of Paradise’ and find ourselves _________, upright, pure, and free. SH 171: 4.

When will man pass through the open gate of Christian Science into the heaven of Soul, into the heritage of the first born among men? Truth is indeed “the way.”
SH 535: 15.
One place in the Bible that describes ‘the first born among men’ is in the spiritual and true story of creation which is in _______________

Probation After Death

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Probation After Death 10-4-25 Sara Lincoln

Probation is a time of testing to see if a person’s thought, motives, and acts stand corrected. I’m no longer ‘on probation’ if enlightened thinkers can see that I now have a true and proper sense of thinking and doing. There is no separate mortalnomind with its own motives and acts.
Mind is the source of all thinking and doing, and Mind is ______. We can think rightly about motives and acts every day as we pray the Lord’s Prayer, especially the lines: And lead us not into t___________, but deliver us from _________; And G____ leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from s_____, d________, and d________. SH 16-17.

The true and proper sense of ‘death’ is that it never can kill L______, which is G______ and therefore always manifested in m_______. The belief that man is material includes the belief that man can d_____, but “man is not material; he is s________.” SH 468. Every time I choose spiritual sense as my sense, I am moving up and out of probation because I am proving that I rely on divine _______, not on a human belief.

Death is not what happens to life. Death is only a mist of d_________ which is dispersed by the constant fact of l________. Jesus said, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the l________ of l________. John 8: 12.

Death is not a friend. If death were ‘a friend,’ Jesus would have stayed in the tomb to be with his friend! Instead, he might have said, “Death, you are not a friend, you are a dream, and I’m not dreaming! I’m awake and alive and I’m getting out of here!”

All the writers in the Bible give us examples of light displacing darkness, life displacing death. Isaiah said (Isa. 60: 1, 2) ________________________________________________________________________________
One Psalmist said (Ps. 116: 9) ____________________________________________________
Let’s see what the author of Psalm 23 says about ‘death.’
Many people say they are afraid of death, but that’s only because people can’t see when their eyes are closed! When we open our eyes, our thought, we see l_______ and l________.

Do the rules and principle of soccer require a square ball? ____ Why not?
Does God who lives Life in man require death? ____ God, divine good, does not k______ a man in order to give him eternal L_____, for God alone is ________ ________ SH 203: 31-32.

When do we ‘overcome death’? We overcome death n______. We overcome it every time this world belief tries to be our thinking. We say, N____. God is Life and everyone’s l_____, always.
We need to ‘correct the error’ about death even when many people are insisting that the error is true? A true error would be a strange thing indeed! Will it always be easy to correct the error about death?_____ Christian Science alerts all followers of Christ Jesus: We must have trials and self-denials, as well as joys and victories, until all error is destroyed. SH 39: 8-9.

Jesus didn’t teach his followers how to ‘prepare for death.’ He taught them how to be blessed now and forever. Where in the Bible does Jesus give many ‘Blessed are’ promises? _________ Let’s name the qualities of thought that mean life now and always in the kingdom of heaven.

Did Jesus overcome death? _____ What is your proof?
Knowing that God was the Life of man, Jesus was able to present himself unchanged after the crucifixion. SH 555: 30.
He didn’t do it just for himself. He did it for __________. Jesus ___________ _____ the path for _________. He unveiled the _________, the spiritual idea of divine Love. SH 38: 24-26.
The ‘Christ’ is the r________ m________. I am the ‘C________ man.’ Are you? ______
The Christ can never die because the Christ is i________, not m________.

Paul said, ‘we preach that Christ rose from the dead. If he didn’t, then there is no resurrection. But he did, so our preaching is not in vain and your faith in eternal life is not in vain.’
I Cor. 15: 1, 3-8.

The religion that helps us understand how to overcome death now is _________________.
In SH 410: 1. Mary Baker Eddy says that if we don’t pay any attention to what it says about life and death, we won’t be ready to enjoy life now and forever. How do we ‘pay attention’ to Christian Science? ___________________________________________________________
If you don’t pay any attention to the rules of your sport, or the rules of grammar and mathematics, you won’t be able to play the g______ or succeed in s________.

The Psalmist knew God as loving and kind. She said How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! Ps. 36: 7. Verse 9 says, For with thee is the fountain of _______: in thy _________ shall we see light. God does not hide in the darkness or require us to live in darkness.
A loving and kind God never lets us sit down in darkness and be comfortable. No. A loving and kind God says stand up in My light and let’s get going on our wonderful adventure called your individual life. No need for you to be ‘on probation’ because you know Me and I know you! We illustrate infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation. Let’s go!

As always, Science and Health, 242: 9, tells it like it is. The marginal heading says ‘the one only way’ and the passage tells us what actions we need to take to experience heaven, harmony, now and forever. Let’s underline the actions we need to take:
There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality — to have no other consciousness of life — than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses.

Man's privilege at this supreme moment is to prove the words of our Master: "If a man keep my saying, he shall _______ ______ _______." SH 428: 6-8.
We must realize the ability of __________ __________ to offset human misconceptions and to replace them with the life which is spiritual, not material. SH 428: 19.

I will not be on probation after death because I am making it my business to know every day that my life is in Life, now and forever. Now that is mental might!

Doctrine of Atonement

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Doctrine of Atonement 4-18-10 Sara Lincoln

Let’s think of ‘atonement’ as meaning at-one-ment. What does it mean to be ‘at one’ with something? For example, are you ‘at one’ with any sport? _¬¬¬_________ Any hobby? ______
Was the man Jesus at-one with God?____ Was Christ, God’s idea of man, at-one with God?__ ‘The Christ’ was Jesus’ understanding that G_____ and m______ are one, like sunshine is one with the sun. Thanks to Christian Science, everyone everywhere can learn about and prove at-one-ment with Life, Truth, Love, ---with God.

Did Jesus say, I and my Father are one? _______John 10: 30. Did he mean, I am the Father? __ Jesus knew that the one who was sent is not greater than the One who sent.
Jesus said, in effect, I don’t try to do anything by myself or for myself, for “I do always those things that please Him.” John 8: 29. Can you and I say the same? ____

In my dictionary, ‘atonement’ includes this Christian Science definition: The exemplification of man’s unity with God, whereby man reflects divine Truth, Life, and Love. To ‘exemplify’ is to provide an__________. Who exemplified man’s unity with God? ____________________. Not only Christ Jesus but also someone who wrote a book with many examples and proofs that man is at one with God, even though ‘man’ continues to look very much like a human. What book is that, and who wrote it? ________________________________________________
And there is another book written by many people over hundreds of years: _______________

Throughout the Bible, God shows us what is good. An Old Testament prophet, Micah, shows us what the Lord requires: do ________; love _________; and walk ___________ with thy God. Micah 6: 8.
A Psalmist said it this way in Psalm 51: 10: Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Do you think maybe Jesus sometimes prayed this prayer? ______

When Moses and the Children of Israel were first learning how to be closer to God, be at-one with God, they sacrificed animals on an altar. They were worshipping an anthropomorphic (a m____¬¬___ m_______) sense of God. They hadn’t yet learned that God’s only ‘nose’ is that He ‘knows’ that ‘man’ is His image and likeness. After Moses, many Prophets taught the Jews a more spiritual sense of God, but ________ _________ taught them the most spiritual sense of God, and God’s creation, man. About 30 years after Jesus ascended, ________ reminded and encouraged them to be true and stay at-one. How many letters to churches did this man write? __

In Philippians 2: 12-13, Paul said, ______ works with you, helping you to know and do God’s good will. “Truth has furnished the key to the kingdom, and with this key _________ ________has opened the door of the _____________ ____________.”
SH 99: 9-11.

Matthew says that Jesus was “led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.” Matt. 4: 1.The ‘devil’ tried to tempt Jesus by offering three good things. What were they? b________ from a stone; s________ if he jumped off the Temple; r_______ and p_______ if he would just worship another god. Perhaps Spirit – God really led Jesus to a mental place where he could defeat ‘the devil’ and prove even more of man’s dominion. ‘The devil,’ evil, wanted to separate Jesus from God, but Jesus knew he was at one with his Father-Mother God.

Did Jesus say, Stand porter at the door of thought…Resist evil – error of every sort – and it will flee from you? _____ SH 392: 24 and 406: 19.

Can you have the mind which was also in Christ Jesus? ______ Who said so?______ What proof did he have? ________________________________________________________
Phil. 2: 5.

Some people wanted Jesus to heal their friend who ‘had the palsy,’ was paralyzed. Mark 2: 1-12. They couldn’t get near the house where Jesus was, so they climbed up on the roof and let the man down through the opening in the roof. When Jesus saw their ________ (verse 5) he said to the man, “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.” Maybe his only sin was believing he had a disease not made by God. The Pharisees were furious. They did not know, and were not interested in learning, that “the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins…” (verse 10). The Pharisees were at-one with the human intellect, their many books of commentary on the Old Testament. They had forgotten that the Prophets wanted the Israelites to be at-one with God Himself.
The Pharisees accused Jesus of b__________, which means great disrespect towards God.

The real man being linked by _________ to his Maker, mortals need only turn from _______ and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the r______ m______ and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine s___________. SH 316: 3.
The r________ m________ is spiritual.

You are at-one with your human family and friends because that is an illustration of being at-one with your F________ - M_________ God.

John said, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15: 13. Does ‘lay down your life’ mean ‘die’? ___ It means lay out your life as an e______.

Do you feel ‘the arm of the Lord’ embracing you, protecting you? ______ Then you are experiencing on-going rebirth. This is having part in the atonement; this is the understanding, in which Jesus suffered and triumphed. SH 24: 11-15. Do you have to ‘suffer’ to be at-one with God? ______ Proving ‘atonement’ takes practice and great effort, just like it does to be at-one with a sport you love, but do you have to suffer? ______ It will take wisdom and humility to refuse offers from ‘the devil,’ who doesn’t even have those things to give in the first place!
Do you have to suffer to be wise and willing? ______

Christian Science shows us how to be on the at-one-ment path. 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 faith,” because you are a better man. This is having our part in the at-one-ment with Truth and Love. SH 21: 1-5. Are you always willing to let ‘Truth’ overcome ‘error’? ______
Micah said: Do _________; love __________; and walk ___________ with thy God.
Are Mary Baker Eddy’s words similar to what the Prophet Micah said? ________:

‘Doctrine’ means ‘teaching.’ The Christian Science teaching about Atonement is that _______ is at-one with ___________.

Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?

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Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? 4-11-10 Sara Lincoln

Are sin, disease, and death real? The counterfeit mind called ‘mortal mind’ would answer ____
In our class, we call it ‘mortalnomind’ because it knows only its own dream, not God//Mind.
How would the one and only Mind called God answer the question?_______, not real.

If someone is going to come out of a dream into the light of day, that person needs to ______. See the first word of our Golden Test from Ephesians 5: 14: …A___________.
Those 3 dots before the ‘A’ mean that the beginning words of that verse were ______________.

The Prophet Jeremiah was very concerned about ‘false prophets’ who told the people their own version of the truth instead of listening to God. According to Jeremiah, Jer. 23: 32, the Lord said that the dreams of the false prophets “shall not _________this people at all…”
There is no ___________ or gain in being a false ____________ and telling dreams.
Do we have false prophets on television that would cause people “to forget {God’s} name by their dreams…?” _______. These false prophets want you to remember the name of a _______, not the name of God, when you need a healing. Perhaps they don’t intend to do harm to God’s people, but they do harm because these television ads try to convince you to believe in disease and disorder, in matter instead of in Spirit. If you had the authority, would you prohibit ads that promote the belief in sick matter and material remedies? _______

You and I do have the authority to do the most important thing: to wake up from the dream of a mortalnomind. Our authority is in trusting ________ and in healing through s_________ means.
The Prophet Micah gave us words to use: “Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a _______ _______ _____.” Micah 7: 8.

Sin, sickness, and death wear masks that make them look like God either created them or allows man to have what ‘another god’ created. The mask suggests this: ‘Everyone agrees: it’s too bad, but sin, sickness and death are normal and real.’ If Christian Scientists are awake and not dreaming, they will pray with these words from God through the Prophet Isaiah; “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” Isa. 45: 22
I am Good so I do not make sin, disease, or death.
What three prophets have we mentioned so far: _____________, _________, _____________.
Which two wrote long books in the Old Testament? ________________ and ______________.

Christian Science takes the lead in waking up everyone with the amazing declaration that error is the story of a dream: “the history of error is a dream-narrative…the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true nor real.” SH 530: 26-29.
E__________ equals d___________.

If you were God, would you make error? _____ Would you make sin, sickness, and death? ____ Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for helping us ask and answer these questions, and for telling the world that “God created all through ________, and made all ________ and eternal.” SH 205:12.

One book in the Bible appears nine times in this week’s lesson, the book of ________________ David and others showed that they were asking ‘Are sin, disease, and death real?’ and finding their answers in ________. They understood that you can’t just say ‘no.’ You have to understand why they do not exist in truth. Sin, disease, and death do not exist in truth because God is T________, and God, G_______, doesn’t make ‘bad.’
Science and Health says things in such a memorable way: “Instead of God sending sickness and death, He __________ them, and brings to light immortality….God does not cause man to sin, to be sick, or to die.” SH 206 26-28, 30. ‘Immortality’ means ______________________________.

The Apostle Paul says, here’s how you avoid sin: “__________ to righteousness, and sin not.” I Cor. 15: 34. ‘Righteousness’ means _________________________________________.
If you don’t control evil thoughts, what happens? They will _________ ______.
SH 234: 26-27.
“To the Christian Science healer, _____________ is a __________ from which the patient needs to be awakened.” SH 417: 20-21.

The ‘corporeal senses’ are the b_________ senses. What can master and conquer the bodily senses? ________. SH 393: 8. “______ is God’s remedy for error of every kind…” SH 142: 31

L___________, the brother of Mary and Martha, got sick and died. He was put in a tomb, like Jesus was in last week’s lesson. The sisters sent for Jesus, hoping he could help, and yet, when Jesus said, “Thy brother shall rise again,” Martha didn’t believe it could happen right away, before “the resurrection at the last day” when everyone who has died will rise again. Jesus realized he had to state the truth again. “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” John 11: 25-26. How would you answer the question Jesus asked Martha? Do you believe what Christ Jesus said, that you will never die if you believe in him? _________

We must start proving now “that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal.” We must give up m___________ b___________ and admit the i_____________ f__________. SH 428: 22-29.
Christ Jesus helped Mary and Martha learn this. They went to the tomb of Lazarus. For a moment “Jesus wept.” John 11:35. Was Jesus afraid Lazarus was ‘really dead’? ______ Do you think Jesus was a little sad? He had been teaching these close friends, but when they needed to prove the truth that man cannot die, instead they agreed with the error that he had died. Anyway, Jesus did not rebuke them. He thanked God for hearing his prayer then called out for Lazarus to ‘come forth!’ “And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes…Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.” John 11: 41-44. The family needed to ‘loose him’ from the graveclothes. They also needed to loose Lazarus from the belief that he had been d____.

How did Jesus raise the dead? “Jesus restored Lazarus by the understanding that Lazarus had ________ ________.” Jesus would not admit the lie that his body had died and then lived again. SH 75: 12-20. Does this teach us what to think and pray when we hear that someone is sinning, diseased, or dead? ______ We thank God that it is Life - l_______ that is always true.
Sin, disease, and death are never true, because God did not ________ ________. Then we trust the Christ, God’s action in man, to ‘improve on a false sense’ – the corporeal sense. With persistence (doing it again and again) we affirm “the power and willingness of divine Mind to hold man forever intact in his perfect state, and to govern man’s entire action.” SH 493: 28-2.

What is your main reason for affirming that sin, disease, and death are not real? ____________

Unreality

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Unreality 4-4-10 Sara Lincoln

Happy Easter! Someone named Jesus showed all of us how to step out of a problem\m that seems to have closed us in. How did Jesus do it? How did he get out of that rock tomb?______
Jesus knew who he was, and he knew it with all his heart and soul and mind and strength. He didn’t waste a moment thinking ‘it’s all over.’ He insisted on the fact that ‘it’s all God and life and light.’ When you and I do that, we have what’s called a ___________. Thank God that Christian Science shows us how to have _____________ and help heal others too!

When Jesus was on the cross, he wasted no time condemning the Romans or the Jews. He turned to the Bible. Well, there wasn’t yet a printed Bible in Jesus’ day, but Jesus knew the Old Testament Scriptures and he knew Psalm 22 and he spoke those words, perhaps to himself or perhaps out loud. Sometimes I pray out loud. You too? _________
More than a thousand years before Jesus, a Psalmist foresaw and wrote down what was going to happen to the Messiah. In his hours of great need, Jesus found comfort in the Psalms he had learned as a child. Here in Sunday School, you are learning about the Scriptures and the Key to the Scriptures, and if you are ever in trouble, you will remember what you have learned! What do you say about that? I say ____________________________________________________

Who wrote the book of II (Second) Corinthians? _______ He said that it is God who commands the light to shine when all is dark, and that light “hath shined _____ ________ ________.” II Cor. 4: 6. ‘Heart’ means m_________. Jesus came to earth to tell us about our Christ identity. Every time we claim our Christ identity, we are saying, thank you Christ Jesus! My Christ identity means that I too am the ‘i__________ and l____________’ of God. Gen. 1:26-27.

The Psalmist thanked the Lord who is so good and said, ‘I shall not be sick or sad or afraid or dead. I shall live and declare the works of the Lord. I am a perfect work of a perfect God!’Ps. 118:1, 17.
When can you and I say this? _____________________

Like Jesus in the New Testament, the Prophets in the Old Testament knew that death is not real. They reversed the claim of death again and again. When Elisha’s followers, ‘the sons of the prophets,’ ate some food that had a poison weed in it, Elisha put meal in the pot and the poison was gone. Was there something special about the ‘meal,’ or something special about the thought of Elisha? ___________________________II Kings 4: 38 Elisha knew that death is un____________.

Science and Health shows that “all in____________ is un__________.” SH 276: 12. When we realize this, objects and thoughts are seen to be beautiful and immortal.
Matter is not the life of man. “D__________ P____________ is the Life of man.” SH 304:17-18.
That’s what Jesus knew and told us to know. Mortals have to a_________ (claim) their freedom and dominion, not ignore it or be uncertain about it. SH 228: 14-15.

Thousands of years ago, the Prophet Jeremiah said watch out for the ‘customs of the people’ which are vain (useless) and the ‘work of errors.’ Jer. 10: 3, 5, 15.
Errors are powerless if we know the ___________.

Let’s find the chapter in Science and Health that is all Questions and Answers, then find the question What is error? It’s on page ________. Error is not a fact. It is a s______________. Error is un_______ because un________. SH 472: 18-19.
Jesus and Jeremiah and you and I know that “discord is the n__________________ named error. Harmony is the s__________________ named Truth.” SH 276: 26.
“The testimony of the c____________ s___________ cannot inform us what is real and what is delusive, but the revelations of C__________ S_____________ unlock the treasures of Truth.” SH 70: 2-5.
Which one will you choose every day? ________________________ Why? ______

Now, in this stage of our spiritual progress, we need food and clothing. It seems like our parents give us these things, but that’s because “C________, T__________, gives mortals temporary food and clothing …” while we are learning that matter gives us nothing and Spirit gives us everything. We have the best when we know it’s coming from C__________ T__________. SH 442: 22.

Jesus did good things because he knew that God was doing good things, for everyone. This made the Pharisees angry because their thought was still in the dark tomb of belief in matter. They were jealous and put Jesus in the dark tomb, but …“the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.” Matt. 28: 2. Wow! I’d like to have seen that! When two women named Mary arrived at the tomb, it was empty, and the angel told them, “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.” Matt. 28: 6. Darkness could never hold the light of Jesus’ thought! The women spread the good news of Jesus’ resurrection.

Jesus then found his disciples and said, “Peace be unto you.” Luke 24: 36. He was not angry at them for their lack of support. Jesus just wanted to increase their spiritual understanding and their knowledge of the scriptures. He led them out of town, to Bethany, “and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them” then he was “carried up into heaven,” meaning that Jesus a_________. Luke 24: 50-52. A person named E_____________ in the Old Testament also ascended.

There is a chapter in Science and Health which tells how Jesus destroyed sin, disease, and death, and it tells about the last days of Jesus. It’s called A_____________________ and Eucharist. Mary Baker Eddy knew that what Jesus did we can do too, because Jesus depended on G_____. The so-called powers of selfish and material men tried to stop the influence of Jesus, but they caused it to grow instead! These men had not accepted the fact that “All reality is in _______ and His _________, harmonious and eternal.” SH 472: 24-25.

The disciples finally learned that this is the reality Jesus had been teaching. Christian Science explains that “His resurrection was also their resurrection.” SH 34: 20. Resurrection means proving that l_______ is real and d________ is unreal.

When Jesus was a boy learning the Psalms, I think he knew he would prove this statement: “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”
Ps. 118: 17.
I especially like this verse because Christian Science helps me understand how I can prove it too.

What did you learn today about the Easter story of resurrection?

Matter

2010-03-17T08:18:00.000-07:00

Matter 3-21-10 Sara Lincoln

King Nebuchadnezzar had a troubling dream that disturbed his sleep. Daniel 2: 1, but Daniel had a night vision which caused him to ‘bless the name of God for ever.’
Dan. 2: 19-20.
What is the difference between a dream and a night vision?
In Daniel’s vision, ‘wisdom and might’ belong exclusively to ________, not to a matter man.

What was the King’s image of a matter man made of? ____________________
A great stone smashed the image by attacking which part? ____________________________
F________ symbolize base or foundation.
The stone became a great mountain that filled the whole earth. What do you think the stone was made of and symbolizes? ______________________________

The Prophet Isaiah says that God rejects ‘graven images.’ Isa. 42: 8.
What is a graven image? __
Where can we find graven images in our own lives?
So many centuries before Daniel, the Psalmist was aware of the danger of graven images. He asked God to turn his eyes away from beholding (looking at) _____________. Ps. 119: 37.
V____________ means ………….
In the First Commandment, God tells us “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” Ex. 20: 7.
To do something in vain is to do something useless and worthless.
To be vain is to be conceited and have excessive pride, or we might say pride in personal power. Nebuchadnezzar the King had a vain desire for a kingdom bigger than God. Would you call that a useless and conceited desire? ______
Christ the King desires that we know and have the unlimited kingdom that God gives to man.
As Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is ____________ you.” Could the will of Christ the King be the stone that smashed and dissolved the useless and worthless image of a matter king? ______

“Divine Science {Christian Science} deals its chief blow at the supposed {dreamed up} ____________ _____________ of life and intelligence.” SH 535: 10.

If people say to you ‘don’t babble,’ they mean don’t talk in a foolish, vain, or irresponsible way. Talk so that others can hear you and know what you are saying. Say helpful words.
Don’t think or say conceited words as did the men who built the Tower of Babel. Gen.11: 1-9.
Why were they trying to build a tower, and what happened to the tower and the men building it?
What happens when language is not used for speaking the truth? _________________________
Babel is defined in the Glossary of Science and Health as
Pick a phrase or two to write down.

Where do you hear language that is useless, worthless, and self-serving?
Is it associated with matter or spirit?

The Psalmist, who teaches us so many prayers, trusts God that she will never be put to ___________. ‘You are my strong habitation. I will talk of thy righteousness all the day long.’ Ps. 71: 1, 3, 24.
Since God is Spirit, the language of Spirit must be ____________. SH 117: 6-7.
“Unnecessary knowledge” comes from the ________ ________ and it symbolizes all that is ________ and perishable. SH 274: 3-7.The whole family of man will be brethren as you and I (and others) reject m___________ ____________ and recognize “one M________ and that G______, or good.” SH 469: 30-5.

One time some Pharisees accused Jesus of using the devil to cast out a devil. They were desperate to prove that the people should not trust him. Jesus answered, ‘every kingdom divided against itself… shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?’ Jesus’ t__________ and w_________ were true and God-given. Matt. 12:25-26. Perhaps Jesus was saying that matter cannot cast out matter. He said, “I cast out devils by the Spirit of God….” Christian Science echoes that statement: “Truth casts out all evils and materialistic methods with the actual spiritual law …” SH 183: 26-27.
Christian Science “dishonors ________ ________” but it honors “__________ __________.”
Nebuchadnezzar was thinking / dreaming at the level of __________ __________.
Daniel had a vision because he was thinking wisely at the level of __________ ____________.

What would you think if you were in a boat and you saw someone outside the boat, walking on the water? Matt. 14: 22-32. Jesus wanted to get from the land to the boat, so naturally, he walked on the water. It was easy. He knew that water is not _________, anymore than land is ________. Jesus was walking in the Spirit, so he could be anywhere in a minute (or less)! The disciple P___ tried to walk on the water and almost sank! For a moment, he walked in the Spirit then the so-called belief of ‘life, truth, intelligence, and substance in matter’ tried to sink him. Do you think Peter was being vain and foolish when he tried to walk on the water? ______ Why?

What are the two kinds of ‘law’ described in SH 182: 32?

What are the forces all around us? SH 124: 26?
The source of each force is

Paul says, ‘you are God’s building.’ I Cor. 3: 9. The foundation of your building is laid by ______ ______. In order to see and feel this spiritual foundation that is creating and supporting us, we have to look at ….II Cor. 4: 18.

With every thought, motive and act, it’s an either–or choice: the foundation of ______ ______ or of ____________ our Saviour. SH 326: 12-14.

Is it really possible to live and not trust matter? _______
Did anyone ever do it? ___________________
Tell us about a time you trusted Spirit instead of matter.

Substance

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Substance 3-14-10 Sara Lincoln

The word substance comes from sub-stare which means to stand under or support. When you know what’s ‘standing under,’ you have ‘under-standing.’
I’d like to know what’s supporting, causing, my understanding of me.

Do you think there could be a word in the dictionary that means ‘matter,’ and also means ‘God’? There is. That word is the subject of our lesson: ___________. Many people would say that matter is substance but they are not so sure that God is substance. Why?

The author of Ecclesiastes was called _____ __________. He wanted to understand the cause of everything and whether he could depend on that cause. Do you think many people in the world want to know the same thing? ________ Do you want to know what you can depend on?_
The Preacher was unsure about many things, but very sure about at least one thing: “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever; _________ can be put to it ____ ______________ taken from it.” Nothing can be added or subtracted. In other words, if G_________ is behind it and standing under it, it is for ever! If m__________ is behind it and standing under it, it is not forever. It is not dependable.

The Psalmist also wanted to understand ‘cause,’ or what ‘stands under.’ Sometimes he was uncertain, but many times he was sure that God’s works stand under and uphold man’s abundance. Let’s read Ps. 104: 24, 30, 31 and Ps. 115: 14, 15. “The Lord shall __________ you more and ________...” What substance is going to increase for you? __

Paul tells us that f________ is “the __________ of things hoped for…” Hebrews 11: 1.
Is f__________ mental or material? _____________

Like most other people, the lexicographers who wrote the dictionary believed that substance could mean both God and Matter. Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for listening to God and bringing more light to this subject. Substance is God and is dependable. Matter is not dependable. It changes. It is an illusion, something that seems to be but is not. If matter can be a cause, stand under, then it is a god. But there is only one God! Who said so? __________

Mary Baker Eddy uses a word that means to ‘stand under.’ “To those leaning on the ____________ infinite, to-day is big with __________.” Pref. vii: 1. Blessings increase forever. Substance is _________. SH 468: 17
________, ________, and ________ are substance. SH 468: 18
_________ is the only substance. SH 335: 12. ________ is substance. SH 301: 17

A woman believed that what was behind her substance was a husband and the money he made. When her husband died, she was afraid her two boys would be taken from her to work as servants. The Prophet Elisha taught her a great lesson about substance. She must have been very surprised when she poured out the oil from her little pot and it filled many vessels (containers). Elisah knew that oil was not m___________. It represented substance so it was ___________. Kings 4: 1-7. Is there a definition of ‘oil’ in our textbook? ______
Science and Health says that Spirit “________ and ________ every object, as it appears in the line of ____________ creation.” SH 507: 3-6.

Another ‘great woman’ made a special room where Elisha could stay as he traveled around. Elisah did something very kind for her when her son died. What did Elisha do? II Kings 4: 32-36
At first she thought her son was ‘material substance,’ but Elisha showed her that the boy was real ‘spiritual substance’ that could not die.

Christian Science says, and proves, that “Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of _________, for Life is ________, and man is the _______ of God, not formed ____________ but ____________, and not subject to decay and dust.”
SH 200: 9-13.
…”Through C_______ and C_______ ________, we must master sin and death.”
SH 428: 22.
Man is immortal now, and we can hold that truth in our c_____________.

“The effect of this Science is to stir the _________ ________ to a change of base, on which it may ________ to the harmony of the __________ __________.” SH 162: 9.

It seems like matter is substance until we enter into a ___________ __________ of the facts, and comprehend the theology of ____________...” SH 369: 5-13.

Substance is “the __________ of ________” which “endureth _______________.”
Ps. 52: 1
“_________ is the ________, _______________, and continuity of all things.”
SH 124: 25-26.

Matter seems to be s___________ because so many people believe that it is. If many people believe that matter is substance, does that make it true? __________

The person who loves God and is learning to lean on the “sustaining infinite” (SH Pref. vii: 1) can learn that God is a s_____________ you can really trust.

What you understand is substance. It will always be manifested but will never be matter.
It’s like sun and sunshine, isn’t it? The sun is always manifested, but not as m_________.
Science and Health says that the sunshine of Truth is S_________. SH 299: 28.

You will know substance through your spiritual (real) senses of seeing and hearing and touching. Material s____________ cannot know substance. Spiritual s____________ knows substance.
Are we clear about this? _____ In your own words, tell us what matter is and what substance is.
Matter is ____________________________________________
Substance is _________________________________________

Are YOU substance or matter? ______________

Did you learn a new word today, beginning with the letter ‘l’? See paragraph 6.

Man

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Man 3-7-10 Sara Lincoln

“What is man?” Before Mary Baker Eddy asked this question in 1875, had any previous writers or theologians asked this question? ___________
The author of Genesis 1 asked this question then wrote down an answer: Man is…
The author of Genesis 2 and 3 wrote down a different answer: Man is…..
These are very different stories about man. How do we know which one is true?

Moses must have been wondering “What is man?” when he doubted his ability to obey God’s command to lead the Children of Israel out of slavery. God answered his doubt by promising, ‘I will be ______ ______.’ Ex. 3: 11-12. Does God answer our doubts the same way? ____
Do you think there were other people in the Old Testament who asked this question? ______

The New Testament was written because a man named ______ answered the question
“What is man?” when he said, “Be ye therefore ________.” Matt. 5: 48.
The first books in the New Testament were letters written by the A_______ P________ to churches in Colosse and Corinth and Galatia. What are the names of these books?
Paul urged the church members to “put off the ________ ________ with his deeds, and put on the ______ ________” which has true knowledge about Creator – creation. Col. 3: 9 – 10.
In order to see and be ‘glorious man,’ we must first behold the ‘_____ of the Lord.’ II Cor. 3: 18.

As far back in history as we can go, we find people who did not seem interested in ‘putting off the _______ _______ and putting on the ________ ________.’ They acted out selfishness and cruelty. Did God create ‘evil’ man? _____ Who created ‘evil’ man? _____________________
Belief in evil will try to use man until human thought says NO: God Good governs man!

“What is man?” That question has been of great interest to authors of Bible books, history books, and the books you read in school. These authors assume and seem to prove that ‘man’ is sometimes e________, sometimes g________, and sometimes even h________.

Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for listening to Father – Mother God telling you that the ‘creation’ is like the ___________. An analogy is that the sunshine is like the ________.
And Christ Jesus, the Son, came to show that every man can prove the C__ __ __ __ __ man.
Scientifically speaking, “all is i________ M_______ and its _________ _________.” SH 468.
If we want to be free to act out ‘true man,’ we have to first admit to ____________ “that man is ________ ________ ____________.” SH 90: 24-25.

Christian Science helps us understand that human thought rises step by step from evil to good to holiness. Science and Health describes these three degrees.
SH 115: 19-5.
The First Degree is depravity, having no goodness or godliness at all.
What good quality is in so-called PHYSICAL man? ____________
The Second Degree means evil beliefs are disappearing.
What good quality is in MORAL man?_____________________
The Third Degree is understanding. What good quality is in SPIRITUAL man? ___________
Which of the three degrees describes you? ____________________
If someone believes that man is mortal and sinful and sick, can that person come to understand that man is immortal and selfless and whole? _______

Did the Adam and Eve story take place at the PHYSICAL, MORAL, or SPIRITUAL level? ____
Not long after Adam and Eve were evicted from their heavenly home in the G________ of E______, another man was already choosing to ‘put off the old man and put on the new man.’ Therefore, that man did not die. His name was E________. Gen. 5: 21-24
“E________ walked with God and he was not, for ________ took him.” He a___________.

The prophet Micah said, ‘it’s not too hard to be godlike.’ “What doth the Lord require of thee but to do __________, and to love _________, and to walk ________ with thy ______.” Micah 6: 8. That’s what Enoch did.
Our textbook says we must go beyond words and make spirituality our l_______ -- p_________ SH 202: 3.

The subject this week is Man. Should we also have a Bible Lesson on Woman, Boy, and Girl? _

Paul said in his letter to the Romans (8: 28): “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Are you one of “the called according to his purpose”? ______ Are you a special person? _____

In Romans 8, Paul talks about ‘predestination.’ ‘Pre’ means ahead of time (as in preview). ‘Destination’ refers to where you are going. Your destination or ‘destiny’ is what God wills (plans) for your life. Is it God’s will that ‘this man’ will succeed and ‘that man’ will fail? _____
Does Matt. 5: 48 and Science and Health 468: 8 provide proof for your answer? ________

Christian Science says that the new man is the true man is the real man – the r______________ of _________. SH 300: 9. I’m glad the theology of Christian Science tells everyone this truth.
Every day, do you think and act out this truth? ________
No one is ‘pre-destined’ to be separated from God! Let’s hear a cheer for God!

“{Man} is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas;” SH 475: 14-15. Can you prove this if you don’t believe it? ____ Man’s (my) unlimited ability is a scientific fact, meaning it invites proof. You and I have to take the “human footsteps leading to perfection.” SH 253: 32-6. How about the teachers and kids at your school? Can every one of them accept and prove the Mind of God? _____ Can everyone be loved and unlimited? _____

The opposite of ma____ is mo________. The ‘opposite’ tries to ‘oppose’ you, confuse you, limit you. But an opposite cannot oppose if you see that it is ____________ because it was not made by God.

How can you help the world know that “…sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man.” SH 99: 27.

Christ Jesus

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Christ Jesus 2-28-10 Sara Lincoln

In the Bible, he is most often called ________ ________ (189 times) but in Science and Health he is most often called __________ __________ (258 times). Why the difference?

Here are three of the titles of Jesus. C________ is the Greek word; M_______________ is the Hebrew word; and S___________ is the English word.
SH 326: 12-14.

Before Jesus lived his life as the Son of God and the Son of Man, Jesus and other Jews studied ‘the Law and the Prophets,’ but the Jews didn’t call these writings the ‘Old Testament.’ Why not?
The book of the prophet Malachi, the _________ book in the Old Testament, reveals God’s promise to the Jews: “Unto you that fear my name shall the __________ _____ __________________ arise with healing in his wings.” Mal. 4: 2. Did Malachi’s prophecy come true? ____ Who called Jesus ‘the Son of man’?
SH 482: 16-17.___________

Jesus started his career of teaching and healing after receiving ______________ from John the Baptist. When Jesus came up out of the water, “a voice from heaven” called Jesus “my ________________ ___________.” Mark 1: 11
Then Jesus gave that title to every one who received him. Jesus gave everyone, gives us, the power to become “the ___________ _____ _________.” John 1: 12

God says to everyone, everywhere, if you believe in my Son, __________ __________, you will have real life, which is everlasting life. John 3: 16. Jesus also says to everyone, everywhere, if you believe in me, you can do the ____________ that I do. SH 326: 4-5

I thank Mary Baker Eddy for our textbook which provides such a simple and true explanation regarding ‘Jesus’ and ‘Christ:’ “Jesus is the ____________ ________, and Christ is the ____________ __________; hence the duality of Jesus the Christ.” SH 473: 16.

Most people believe they are living a material, mortal selfhood and so can’t yet know God and Christ and man’s oneness with God. Christian Science says to them and us, all you have to do is “_________ ________ ________ and lose sight of mortal ________________.” SH 316: 3-7.
This may not always be e_______, but it is always p____________.

Last week, we reviewed the story of a young girl. Everyone else thought she was dead, but Jesus knew that God does not make a life that dies, so he told her to wake up and get up. And she did.
This week, we have the story of a nobleman who urged Jesus to come heal his son who was near death. This time, Jesus did not go to the home. What did he do instead and what happened? John 4: 46-53.
Jesus’ demonstrations were so powerful because of his ______________ to God, the P______________ of being. SH 25: 16-19.
“Mighty works” are very natural because they are a sign of I______________, “God with us,” ‘a divine influence ever present in human consciousness’… SH xi: 14-21
“Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men, speaking to the _______________ _______________.” SH 332: 9.

One time a man asked Jesus’ disciples to heal his son who was ‘lunatick.’ They were not successful, so the man asked Jesus to heal his son. Jesus ‘rebuked the devil’ and the child was cured. Later the disciples asked, ‘why couldn’t we cast out that devil?’ Jesus answered them, because of your __________. If you will just have f__________, even if it seems very little, nothing will be impossible, but the thing you need, beyond faith, is ____________ and ____________. Matt. 17: 14-21
We can learn something new about faith today. It’s more than wavering ‘belief.’ It needs to be advanced to _____________ ________________, to evidence gained from Spirit. SH 23: 16.
The prayer that…heals…is “an _____________ faith that all things are possible to God, -- …” SH 1: 1-4. Is this the kind of faith Jesus had? ________

Jesus did not want people to think of him as merely a material man with a mighty mind. He wanted people to know that he was the ________ ____ ________. “Who do you think I am?” he asked his disciples. ____________ said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus was grateful for this true answer, and said to ____________, “upon this rock I will build my ____________; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matt. 16: 13-18.
Was Peter himself the ‘rock,’ or was his s_____________ u______________ the ‘rock’? __ SH 138: 6-9, 14-16.
There is a big church in Rome, Italy called St. Peter’s, dedicated to God and governed by Peter’s alleged ‘successor,’ the p______. There is a big-enough church in East Lansing called F_______ __________________ dedicated to God and the words and works of __________ _________ as explained by Christian Science. If it’s ‘church’ it proceeds from divine P_________. SH 583: 12

Jesus knew that ‘the elders and chief priests and scribes’ would convince the Romans to crucify him. Jesus agreed to let that happen so that he could prove that man has only one ________ that cannot be killed. After his resurrection, he appeared to the disciples and criticized them because of their “______________ and _______________ of heart” (Mark16: 14) but he didn’t dwell on their mistakes. He looked ahead and saw the good they would do for Christianity. This good thing would result in the writing of the ________ Testament. He told the disciples to go forth into the world to preach and heal. And they did. He tells us to do the same thing, and we do.

About 20 years after Jesus ascended, a man named ___________ wrote letters, encouraging the new Christian churches. ______’s letters became the first books of the N______ T___________.

When Peter and John healed a man that had been lame all his life, the observers got all excited and focused on Peter and John, but Peter corrected their wrong idea that it was ‘person’ that did the healing. He said, “The ________ of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the _______ of our fathers, hath glorified his Son ________; And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong….”
Acts 3: 2-9, 11-13, 16.
“Understanding spiritual _______ and knowing that there is no material _______, Jesus said: ‘These signs shall follow them that believe…’” SH 328: 20 – 27. The ‘signs’ are healings of everything that needs healing. Are there still ‘signs’ today? _______ That’s because people who study Christian Science understand spiritual ________ and how to heal themselves and others through an inspired acknowledgment of each one’s relationship to the Christ man that Jesus taught and proved.

Mind

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Mind 2-21-10 Sara Lincoln

Can you “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus?” ____ Phil. 2: 5.
Do you “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus?” _____ How do you know?

The Psalmist said, ‘I get so many thoughts from God I can’t even count them!’
And “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”
Ps. 40: 7-8.
Is the Psalmist’s ‘heart’ the same as the Psalmist’s ‘mind’? ____
Perhaps the prophet Jeremiah answered this question about 2500 years ago. How does Jeremiah relate ‘thoughts’ (mind) and ‘heart’? Jer. 29: 11, 13.

The Apostle Paul tells us who does not welcome ‘the things of the Spirit of God, or you might say, ‘the things of the Mind of God; the Mind that is God.’
I Cor. 2: 14, 16. ________
And Mary Baker Eddy concurs where she says “Christian Science demonstrates that none but the ____________ _____ ____________ can see God, as the gospel teaches.” SH 337: 14-16.

I like to think of myself as a thinker. Do you too? ______What does it mean to be
‘a thinker’?
Apparently Mary Baker Eddy respected ‘thinkers.’ What are the first words in line 13 in the Preface of Science and Health?

How did she test or measure the spiritual quality of her thoughts? “By thousands of well-authenticated cases of ____________, she and her students have proved the worth of her ______________.” SH x: 15-17.
Spiritual thinking and understanding, which we reflect from Mind, result in ____________.

The author of Proverbs told us this about 3000 years ago: “_______________ is a wellspring of ____________ unto him that hath it.” Prov. 16: 22.

When will you have learned enough from Mind that you are ready to graduate and proceed on your own? ________ The author of Science and Health says she is ever ‘waiting at the heavenly gate for the __________ _____ ____________.’ SH ix: 16.

David, who was King of Israel about ____________B.C., wanted very much to build a ‘house’ for God, a t___________, in Jerusalem. He needed a proper place to put the ‘ark of the covenant.’ What did this box (ark) contain? __________________God said, no, it won’t be you, David. Your son S____________ will build it. David was gracious about this decision and set about the task of teaching his son to serve God “with a perfect ___________ and a willing _________: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee.” I Chron. 28: 9. Solomon did seek God, and
when he became King, he asked God to give him an ‘understanding heart so that he could judge the people well.’ What was God’s response? I Kings 3: 11-12.

Solomon did build it and it was the greatest temple ever built by the Jews. It stood for about 900 years, until the Roman army destroyed it in 60 B.C. When Jesus was 12, he visited the smaller Temple in Jerusalem, built to replace Solomon’s Temple. While his parents were looking for him, do you remember what he was doing? He was “sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and __________ __________ ____________.” The boy Jesus did not think his understanding was limited just because he was only 12 years of age. Is your understanding limited? ______Luke 2: 46.

Last Sunday we talked about one’s soul as being one’s motive or purpose. ‘Motive’ is mental and so it belongs to M_______. Our textbook says, “The purpose and motive to live aright can be gained now. This point won, you have ____________ as you should…and nothing but wrong intention can hinder your advancement. SH 326: 16

Could this be true? That nothing can hinder your progress and advancement? ________
Shall we say, ‘the sky’s the limit’? ________

Simeon was a man who went often to the Temple to pray. One day, he saw the baby Jesus there, took the baby into his arms, and said “Mine eyes have seen ________ ____________...a light to lighten the ____________, and the glory of thy people ____________” Luke 2: 25-30.
Did Simeon believe that a man’s mind is limited, or unlimited? ___________ He saw the future because he was faithful to the one ____________.
“One only of the following statements can be true:…” What are the two statements, and which one is true? SH 270: 2-4.

Again we have the story of the woman with a bleeding problem who managed to touch Jesus’ garment, “and straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up” and she knew she was healed. Jesus healed her because he knew he (and she) were reflections of divine Mind, and yet he said to the woman, “Daughter, thy __________ hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.” Mark 5: 34. ____________ is mental, and thus an expression of ________. Everyone has enough __________ because everyone has enough ___________.
Jesus could tell what was going on in so-called ‘mortal mind,’ not by focusing on mortal mind or belief, but by staying focused on ____________ ____________. Can you do the same? ______
Jesus knew that it was not _________ calling for his help, but rather ________ _________ SH 86: 1-8.

Tell us about the healing of the little girl, daughter of ‘a ruler of the synagogue.’ Who in this story was not listening to Mind? _________ What did Jesus say to them? _________________ Luke 8: 40-42, 51-55.
What wonderful healings Mind can accomplish when
“Science reveals only one Mind, and this one shining by its own __________ and ____________ the universe, including man, in perfect ____________. “ SH 510: 28-1.

Why is it important that you pray to God as Mind?

Soul

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Soul 2-14-10 Sara Lincoln

As we discovered before, the definition of ‘soul’ in Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate includes the Christian Science definition: ______.
‘soul’ is also an adjective. In the expressions ‘soul food,’ ‘soul music,’ and ‘soul mate,’ the word ‘soul’ means true or authentic. These are expressions first used by African Americans.

Would Christian Scientists agree that ‘soul’ is the ‘real thing’? ____ That’s because ‘Soul’ is the real thing. It is a ___________________for God.

The dictionary also lists ‘soul-searching.’ What do you think that means?
It means taking an honest look at one’s m________ and values.

In our Sunday School lessons, do we do ‘soul-searching’? ______
Perhaps that is what was happening when we discussed questions like
Why did it take 40 years for the Israelites to travel 200 miles to the Promised Land?
Why did Jesus touch the woman who could not stand when that was not essential to the healing?

Do you think the Children of Israel did a lot of soul-searching during their 40 years in the wilderness? ______
Moses told them, let your soul-searching open your ears to hear…..Deut 6: 4-5.
Hundreds of years later, Jesus would say to the Pharisees that this is the first of the two great commandments. What is the second of the two great commandments? Thou shalt ________ _________ ____________ as thyself.
Are these also the two great commandments in Christian Science? _______ One place it says so is in the sixth __________, SH 497.

Christian Science also promises us that “the spiritual idea {will} guide all right _____________ in their passage from sense to Soul, from a ____________ __________ of existence to the ____________, up to the glory prepared for them who ________ ________.” SH 566: 6.
The spiritual idea of man as the reflection of God, as taught by Jesus Christ and Christian Science, is what guides all right desires in their passage from a m____________ s__________ up to glorious ____________ ___________.

What is an ‘Exemplar’? ______________. The word refers to __________ __________.
The Exemplar spoke with _____________, knowing that Soul//God would remove the lie of c_________ s___________ and establish the truth of C__________ S__________, the truth of s___________ s___________. SH 395: 6-11.
{There are a lot of ‘s’ words to consider when we are learning about Soul//soul!}

The Apostle _________ tells me that God works with me and in me,
“to __________________ and to _______________ of his good pleasure.” Phil. 2: 13.
Paul is called an ‘apostle’ instead of a ‘disciple’ because he started his ministry after ……..

Paul said that Jesus Christ raised him ‘from the dead.’ Gal. 1: 1. Was Paul dead? ___
Paul was ‘raised from the dead.’ God showed him the light, the fact that the purpose of man’s soul, man’s true desire and motive and intention, is to praise God and to know that Christ Jesus shows us our soul, our spiritual sense of being.
Paul traveled to far-away places so that he could visit the new Christian churches and encourage them. Paul reminded them to focus on Jesus’ commandment: love ______ and love your ______.
Let’s read together the words from Luke 10: 27, beginning with the word ‘Thou’……..

I really like it when the sun is shining. Do you? _____ Mary Baker Eddy gives me a reason why I like the sunshine. Sun: the symbol of ___________ governing __________. SH 595: 1.

Every Christian Science Bible Lesson reminds us to claim and use something God said in the chapter about creation: _________, chapter _____, verse 26. What is it? ________________
I think Mary Baker Eddy is reminding me of what my soul’s intention and desire and motive is when she says this: “Love for God and man is the ________ __________ in both healing and teaching. “__________ ___________ give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.” SH 454: 17-18, 19- 21.

Lots of people think that humans have a body now but when they die their soul goes to heaven. Is this what we think? ____ The Psalmist said, “Lord, thou hast been our ______________ ___________ in all generations.” Ps. 90: 1.
“Soul has infinite {unlimited} resources with which to bless mankind…” SH 60: 29.
Soul gives life to man. What provided manna and water while the Children of Israel were traveling for 40 years through the wilderness? _______

What motives and intentions of so-called mortal mind try to block and destroy the harmony and goodness of Soul/soul? s_________________ and s_______________. SH 61: 9
Valley of sin and mountain of selfishness: do you like these metaphors? ______.

Perhaps God//Soul said to Jesus: I am giving you a sense of being, a desire and motive to open the ________ eyes, cause the lame to __________, remove diseases, make the __________ to hear, and raise the __________, from a mortal sense of being.
Jesus said to Soul//God, yes, my soul, my sense of being and my purpose is to heal by relying on a spiritual sense, a Soul-sense, of being. Did that take courage and love? ______
Does it take courage and love for you to say to Soul//God, yes, __________--soul acknowledges this desire and intention and will use it every day.
What name belongs in that blank before the word ‘soul’? _____________

To thank God is to p_________ God with my s________. My soul is my intention, desire, and motive to p________ God. And Soul says, yes, good for you; you are proving that “the creations of God are good, ________________ ____ _____________.” Ps. 19: 8 and SH 265: 31-2.

Write your name in this blank: _________________ prays and it is praise!
‘S________ is my master, and m__________ s__________ and human w______ have no place!’ SH 9: 17-24.

Spirit

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Spirit 2-7-10 Sara Lincoln

Jesus often used parables to teach something. What is a parable?

Jesus used about 39 parables. Do you remember the one about the shepherd who lost a sheep?
You can find it in Matt. 18: 12-14 and in Luke 15: 3-7.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote a poem called “Feed My Sheep.” We often sing this poem which begins…

What is the parable about the sower and the seed? Three Gospel writers record this parable Matt. 13: 1-23; Mark 4: 1-20; Luke 8: 4-15.
The seed fell in four places: the _____ ______; __________ places; thorns;
and into ‘_________ __________’ where the seed could grow into a plant and bear fruit.

In his teaching, Jesus used language that helped the listener understand. Not only did Jesus use parables, but he also used metaphors. It is a metaphor when a thing in one category is compared to a thing in another category. Jesus said, for example, “I am the door.” John 10: 7 and 9. In John 15: 1-17, the metaphor is about ‘husbandman --- vine --- branch --- and fruit.’

The husbandman is __________
The vine is __________
The branch is __________
The fruit is __________

This metaphor, ‘good ground,’ means that the listener hears Jesus’ teaching, accepts it, knows that it is true, and acts on it. These responses bring forth good ‘fruit,’ maybe a little; maybe a lot!

Science and Health explains that the ‘good ground’ is s__________ s__________.
SH 272: 3-8.
“God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must be, and is, _______________. SH 117: 6-7.
If you want to speak and understand ‘the language of Spirit,’ you can practice the skill of using spiritual sense to see and describe everything in your daily life, and keep on practicing it!

Jesus sometimes revealed that he knew what others were thinking. Mark 2: 3-12.
Jesus knew that the scribes were silently accusing him of blasphemy. Human sense might call this intu___________, but Spirit’s sense calls it sp__________ ins__________.

Christ Jesus teaches that “…man is the offspring of __________.” SH 63: 5. Genesis 1 says something similar: God made man in His own __________ ____ ____________. It is through
__________ that we learn about this spiritual origin of man. It is called a __________ because it is the law of God which we can study and learn and __________. SH 476: 32-5.

When the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the church in Galatia, he said that Spirit (like a tree) bears fruit. It produces things that are useful and very desirable. Spirit is expressed, for example, as affection for others, joy, peace, patience (longsuffering), kindness (gentleness), goodness, faithfulness, and self-control.

Which three ‘fruits of the Spirit’ do you express often? Underline them.
Are there any ‘fruits of the Spirit’ that you need to express (act out) more often than you are doing at present? Circle these.

Our fruits “prove what the understanding of God brings to man.” SH 496: 13-14.
Our textbook (__________ ____ __________) suggests two questions that can help us measure our spiritual progress.
• “Am I ____________ _____ ____________...”
• “Am I _____________________ the healing power…” SH 496: 10-11.
How would you answer these two questions? _____

Jesus’ mission was “to ______ what God is and what he ______ ____ ______.”
SH 26: 16-18.
Is that your mission too? _____ Mine too. Christian Science helps us fulfill our mission.
We can’t fool ourselves or others. “The objects _____ ____________ and the spirit we _______________ reveal our standpoint, and show what we are winning.” SH 239: 20.

Did Jesus need to touch people to heal them? _____ Luke tells about Jesus healing a woman who could not stand up straight. Luke 13: 10-17. Jesus ‘laid his hands on her.’ Why do you think he touched her?

‘Consciousness’ means _______________.
Does consciousness affect your body, or does your body affect your consciousness?
SH 425: 23-26. My ____________________ affects my ________________.
“Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth.” SH 505: 16-17.

How wonderful to know that we can ‘rise in the conscious strength of the _________ ____ ________ to overthrow the plea of ________ ________ alias __________.’
SH 390: 32-4.

Some of the men and women who did this ‘rising’ are named in these lists: Women in the Bible and Men in the Bible. There is a brief descriptor beside each name, but let’s fold the paper to cover the descriptor. Which names do you recognize? Put a check mark by that name.
Do you think we should recognize these individuals as our Bible Friends? _____ Why?

As we discover more Bible Friends, we can add them to our lists.

Women in the Bible

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Women in the Bible: February 2010
Here is a list of women in the Old Testament and New Testament who 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.

Eve first woman, wife of Adam; acted on the evil suggestion of the serpent,
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 and 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 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

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
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
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; also called Tabitha
Lydia wealthy woman; 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

Men in the Bible

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Men in the Bible February 2010
Here is a list of men in the Old Testament and New Testament who 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. We may find more names to add.

Adam first human; made from dust; did not obey God; banished from Garden of Eden

Noah followed God’s directions to build an ark to save mankind from the flood

Abraham had the faith to go to a new land and have only one God; Father of many nations

Melchizedek a king and priest of the one God; friend of Abraham

Lot Abraham’s nephew; Lot left Abraham to live in the city of Sodom

Twelve sons of Abraham they settled in Canaan and became the 12 Tribes of Israel

Joseph Abraham’s favorite son; 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 Israel

Joshua led the Children of Israel into Canaan, conquering the city of Jericho

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

Samuel first prophet of the Hebrew nation; anointed Saul then David as Kings of Israel

Saul first King of the nation of Israel; the Children of Israel insisted on having a king

David as King, he united Israel and Judah into one nation; wrote many Psalms; 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

Spirit

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Spirit 2-7-10 Sara Lincoln

Jesus often used parables to teach something. What is a parable?

Jesus used about 39 parables. Do you remember the one about the shepherd who lost a sheep?
You can find it in Matt. 18: 12-14 and in Luke 15: 3-7.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote a poem called “Feed My Sheep.” We often sing this poem which begins…

What is the parable about the sower and the seed? Three Gospel writers record this parable Matt. 13: 1-23; Mark 4: 1-20; Luke 8: 4-15.
The seed fell in four places: the _____ ______; __________ places; thorns;
and into ‘_________ __________’ where the seed could grow into a plant and bear fruit.

In his teaching, Jesus used language that helped the listener understand. Not only did Jesus use parables, but he also used metaphors. It is a metaphor when a thing in one category is compared to a thing in another category. Jesus said, for example, “I am the door.” John 10: 7 and 9.
In John 15: 1-17, the metaphor is about ‘husbandman --- vine --- branch --- and fruit.’

The husbandman is __________
The vine is __________
The branch is __________
The fruit is __________

This metaphor, ‘good ground,’ means that the listener hears Jesus’ teaching, accepts it, knows that it is true, and acts on it. These responses bring forth good ‘fruit,’ maybe a little; maybe a lot!

Science and Health explains that the ‘good ground’ is s__________ s__________.
SH 272: 3-8.
“God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must be, and is, _______________. SH 117: 6-7.
If you want to speak and understand ‘the language of Spirit,’ you can practice the skill of using spiritual sense to see and describe everything in your daily life, and keep on practicing it!

Jesus sometimes revealed that he knew what others were thinking. Mark 2: 3-12.
Jesus knew that the scribes were silently accusing him of blasphemy. Human sense might call this intu___________, but Spirit’s sense calls it sp__________ ins__________.

Christ Jesus teaches that “…man is the offspring of __________.” SH 63: 5. Genesis 1 says something similar: God made man in His own __________ ____ ____________. It is through __________ that we learn about this spiritual origin of man. It is called a __________ because it is the law of God which we can study and learn and __________. SH 476: 32-5.

When the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the church in Galatia, he said that Spirit (like a tree) bears fruit. It produces things that are useful and very desirable. Spirit is expressed, for example, as affection for others, joy, peace, patience (longsuffering), kindness (gentleness), goodness, faithfulness, and self-control.

Which three ‘fruits of the Spirit’ do you express often? Underline them.
Are there any ‘fruits of the Spirit’ that you need to express (act out) more often than you are doing at present? Circle these.

Our fruits “prove what the understanding of God brings to man.” SH 496: 13-14.
Our textbook (__________ ____ __________) suggests two questions that can help us measure our spiritual progress.
• “Am I ____________ _____ ____________...”
• “Am I _____________________ the healing power…” SH 496: 10-11.
How would you answer these two questions? _____

Jesus’ mission was “to ______ what God is and what he ______ ____ ______.”
SH 26: 16-18. Is that your mission too? _____ Mine too. Christian Science helps us fulfill our mission.
We can’t fool ourselves or others. “The objects _____ ____________ and the spirit we _______________ reveal our standpoint, and show what we are winning.” SH 230: 20.

Did Jesus need to touch people to heal them? _____ Luke tells about Jesus healing a woman who could not stand up straight. Luke 13: 10-17. Jesus ‘laid his hands on her.’ Why do you think he touched her?

‘Consciousness’ means _______________.
Does consciousness affect your body, or does your body affect your consciousness?
SH 425: 23-26. My ____________________ affects my ________________.
“Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth.”
SH 505: 16-17.

How wonderful to know that we can ‘rise in the conscious strength of the _________ ____ ________ to overthrow the plea of ________ ________ alias __________.’ SH 390: 32-4.

Some of the men and women who did this ‘rising’ are named in these lists: Women in the Bible and Men in the Bible. There is a brief descriptor beside each name, but let’s fold the paper to cover the descriptor. Which names do you recognize? Put a check mark by that name.
Do you think we should recognize these individuals as our Bible Friends? _____ Why?

As we discover more Bible Friends, we can add them to our lists.

Love

2010-01-29T06:22:00.000-08:00

Love 1-31-10 Sara Lincoln

God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. Gen. 1: 31
How lovely and loving that God still sees everything He is making and doing, and behold it is very good for _______________
The Psalmist reminds us many times that “The Lord is ________ to all: and his ________ ________ are over all his works.” Ps. 145: 9.

Why is it important for us to know all the time that we are greatly loved?
Every time people attend our church, they see this reminder on the wall: SH 494: 10:

What is the difference between a ‘desire’ for some thing and a ‘need’ for some thing?
The human mind calls something a ‘need’ (like love and food) but the D________ M________ calls everything, including love and food, a ‘gift.’
The need is gifted and every gift is a need, -- the need to share every gift. What gifts do you have?
You have the gift of Love//love and so you need to share __________ and __________
We need Divine Love because “Divine Love __________ and ___________ man.” SH 6: 3.

In the dictionary, do you think one meaning of ‘sense’ is ‘intelligence’?________
Can ‘sense’ mean judgment, and wisdom? __________
God-sense, spiritual sense, intelligence, tells me that ‘the five senses’ belong to G________ -- G________, not to matter.
L________ makes sure that my senses glorify God and bless others. Thank you Love for loving me in this way.

The Lord’s Prayer indicates that when Christ Jesus talked about God and talked to God, he called God __________. Christ Jesus constantly proved the caring, comforting, mothering actions of God, so Mary Baker Eddy talks about God as ______¬____ -- ___________ As we acknowledge and identify with Love//love it becomes more natural to prove that “The power of __________ __________ and __________ __________ is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death.” SH 412: 13. It becomes more natural to prove that infinite M_______ is my mind; I manifest divine Mind. Who said, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” ________ Phil. 2: 5.

Is will-power one of the gifts of God? ______ What man in the New Testament used a lot of will-power to harm the new religious group called Christians? ________ . Mind//Love changed this man so completely that he traveled to far-away places to tell people why they should believe in Christ Jesus. It is __________ that dissolves the enemies of God and man called “______ -- _______, ______ --______________. and ______--_______.” SH 242: 15.

What is the full title of the fifth book in the New Testament? ________________________
How loving that God told his disciple, A_________, to help S__________ who had been blinded temporarily by the Christ-light. This light and inspiration showed Saul he should not kill Christians. What special life-purpose did God have for S______, later called _______? Acts 9: 10-20
(verse 15). Christian Science explains what Love made possible for a man who was acting out hate and ignorance. What did Love give to Saul?

If “Love for _______ _____ _______” is your reason for everything you do, you will always know what to do and how to do it. Such is the effect of _________. SH 454: 17-19 and 22.

Paul loved and shared the Christ message. Love protected Paul and kept him going.
The Jewish leaders tried to kill Paul, just as they had tried to kill _________. Love made sure Paul learned about this plot. He couldn’t leave by the town gates where the would-be murderers were waiting. So how did Paul escape? Acts 9: 22-25.
What other Bible Friend was helped by a basket?

Did Mary Baker Eddy’s enemies try to kill her? ___ They used h______ and l______, not swords.
She gave a name to this kind of enemy: a___________ m___________. SH 484: 21.
It can be ‘voluntary’ which means Or it can be ‘involuntary’ which means
Christian Science explains that hatred cannot harm you when you are covered (clad) in the covering (panoply) of ________. SH 571: 18.

Jewish leaders insisted and so the Roman government agreed to send Paul to Rome to be tried…and found guilty of preaching an illegal religion. A storm destroyed the ship, but no passengers were harmed because Paul knew that L________ and L________ were in control. When they got to the island of Melita, who did Paul help and heal? Acts 28: 1, 7-9.

The more I use spiritual sense, the more I am grateful that Love provides it and grows it. Love is one of the ____________ for God. In our textbook, Love-love appears 489 times. The synonym that appears most often is M________, and next most often is T________. Mrs. Eddy was explaining the Science of Christianity. Was she explaining a human science or a Divine Science?______ It is logical to use the words Mind//mind and Truth//truth to explain a science because ‘science’ is about using the m________ to find or prove the t________.

Omniscience = all knowledge = Good.
The dictionary says that science means knowledge that can be studied and learned, as in a sport. .What knowledge do you study and learn in your sport of ___________? Mary Baker Eddy does not help us study and learn christian science, but rather C_________ S__________. Both words start with a capital letter to show that they can be studied and learned only through s__________ s________, not through m___________ s________.
Does everyone have spiritual sense? _____
I admit that I have ___________ sense. Every time I use it, I gain more skill in using it. It is natural to use spiritual sense because Spirit, Mind, created me and renews me every day. It is natural to use a loving sense because ________ renews me every day.
If I first gain knowledge of God I can study and learn an unlimited number of things about any other subject. That’s what a genius can do. I am a genius when I thank Love that I manifest infinite Mind and Truth. Are you a genius? _______

Truth

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Truth 1-24-10 Sara Lincoln

Everyone has a consciousness. It seems like there can be good and bad in consciousness, but thanks to Christian Science, we have a true idea about consciousness: “The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness.” SH 536: 9. How does this fact help you?

The divine Mind, God, gives us all good, gives us true thoughts and feelings like patience, confidence, trust, and expectation of good. Mind wants us to know only ‘the facts’ and helps us know them. Thank you God!
Mortalnomind, animal magnetism, however, tries to take over our feelings (thoughts) and make us agree to impatience, worry, fear, and doubt. This no-mind does not ask ‘what are the facts?’
As we learn about God and man through Christian Science, we learn to turn away from human thoughts, which can be negative or positive, and turn toward the all-knowing ________ This Mind, God, which loves us, gives us sp_________ thoughts, spiritual consciousness.
Jesus was able to bless himself and others because he chose to have and use only sp_______________ con__________________. Can you do the same? ______.
Another word for ‘fact’ would be T_______. Is T________ part of the definition of God? ____ Is T_________ another name for God? ______. Is T________ our subject for today? ______

A prophet of God is focused on listening to God and doing God’s will.
Are you a prophet? ____
The Prophet Elijah agreed to have the qualities of patience, confidence, trust, and expectation of good. When Elijah had no food because of a famine in the land, he did not panic! No. Never. He trusted divine Mind that told him to go to the home of a poor widow. She was able to feed him because Elijah helped her prove the law of God – that there is always enough. Later, when her son suddenly died, Elijah did not panic. He prayed with confidence and expectation of good.
What happened next? I Kings 17: 8-10, 17, 22-24.

The author of Psalm 119 is very bold and spiritually minded when he says, I have more understanding than all my teachers because I know, I think about, and I keep this law of God: “to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good.” SH 494: 13.

Three thousand years ago, the Children of Israel were slaves in Egypt. God told ________ to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and take them to the P___________ L________. This story is told in the book of __________ in the Bible. Have you read and discussed this story before? ___
If we know the basic story, why would we review it again and again?

“Progress is the law of God” (SH 233: 6). I am a manifestation of God. Am I always making spiritual progress as well as human progress? _____.
Each time I reconsider the Exodus story, I can desire and have new questions about what happened and what the story has to do with me, if anything, since it happened so long ago.
The only way you and I can grow in our understanding of Truth is to ask questions.
What kind of questions?.......
We cannot be content with questions that only test our memory, for example, ‘what was Moses’ first response to God’s directive to liberate the Hebrews?’ Ex. 3: 10-11.

No, we must demand questions that make us think and discover, for example, ‘why did it take 40 years and 800 miles of wandering to reach the Promised Land when the direct route was only about 200 miles?’ Even if they stopped often to rest and listen for God’s further directions, it wouldn’t take 40 years to travel 200 miles, would it? ______. Why did the journey take so long?

In one of your classes in school, did you ever have a question but you didn’t ask it because you were afraid the class or teacher might laugh at you? ______ Yes, it’s good to think before speaking or questioning, asking yourself, for example, ‘What do I already know? What is my motive in asking?’ But it is good to ask questions. The most intelligent people ask questions. When you ask a question, you show that you are, or want to be, mentally engaged, not dozing on the sidelines!

Here’s a question that interests me, and I hope you too. In the Ten Commandments (Ex. 20) how many commands are never do this’? __ How many commands are always do this’? ___.
Let’s look in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 – 7, to see if we can spot any beatitudes that imply never or always.
Jesus called himself “…the way the _________, and the life…” John 14: 6.
Jesus also said something about Truth which is on the wall of our church: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall ________ _______ ________.” John 8: 32. In what two places in this statement can you insert the word always? ______

In the Scientific Statement of Being, let’s see if Christian Science gives us some never and always commands. Is the first sentence a never command? ______ Is the last sentence a never and an always command? ______ In the other sentences, where can you insert an always or a never, for example, Always Spirit is immortal Truth; always matter is mortal error.
What would be another example?......
How many ‘commands’ are there? _______It seems to me there are ______ never commands, and there are _______ always commands.

Please make a prediction. In Science and Health, which synonym for God appears most often? _______
Which of these words appears most often: never or always?______ An always statement on the wall of our church auditorium says:

But the word never appears 3 times more often than the word always in Science and Health! What computer program did I use to find this out? __________ People can buy this program in the Christian Science Reading Room. You can look up anything in the Bible or the textbook.

What can you and I learn from these facts that Mind//mind appears 1334 times and Truth // truth is used almost 1000 times. The word never appears 3 times more often than always.
What are the implications of these facts as we practice ‘knowing the Truth’?

“The eternal ________ destroys what mortals seem to have learned from ________, and man’s real existence as a child of God comes to light.” SH 288: 31-1.

Life

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Life 1-17-10 Sara Lincoln

“You are what you eat” (a popular saying). “You are what you know” (Prov. 4: 13).
Which statement is more true, and why? …….

What are the first five books of the Old Testament? ….
They are known as ‘the Law of Moses.’ After the Children of Israel returned to Jerusalem from captivity in Babylon about 538 B.C., Nehemiah directed the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. The people gathered to listen to Ezra the scribe read from Moses’ Law and then he and Nehemiah explained the meaning of it. The people were so happy and declared it a holy day!
Does Christian Science honor the Law of Moses? _____ What is your proof?
The teachings of Christian Science help anyone obey the Law of Moses to a much higher and more satisfying degree.

Mary Baker Eddy must have understood what a joy this was for the people to hear again the inspiring word of the law of God. What did she choose as the first tenet? (A tenet is a belief or doctrine held to be true).

Christian Science says that we can prove that “the Bible contains the recipe for all healing.” SH 406: 1. Christian Science also teaches that “The ________ __________ taught in the original language of the Bible came through inspiration, and needs ____________ to be understood.”
SH 319: 21.

In most churches, people listen to the Pastor’s sermon, hoping for inspiration. The ‘sermon’ in a Christian Science church does not come from the inspired words of a man or woman who is the Pastor or Minister. Mrs. Eddy chose something else as Pastor of the Christian Science Church. What did she choose?

Most Christian churches teach that God knows good and evil and so does man, because both good and evil are real. The Christian Science Church teaches that God is …………
and man is ……………..
When she was a young girl, Mrs. Eddy honored the Pastors of her church. As a grown woman, still searching for a God she could believe in, she discovered God’s law, the Science of being. “This Science teaches man that God is the only ________, and that this Life is ____________ and __________; that God is to be ____________, adored, and demonstrated; that __________ Truth casts out suppositional error and heals the sick.” SH 471: 23-4.

There will be many people and happenings in your life over the next 100 years. If you keep honoring “the truth of being” as taught in Christian Science, you will always know how to find the blessing in every person and event.

The Prophet Isaiah said, “And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of ____________. Isa. 33: 6. How would you explain ‘salvation’ in your own words? ..

The big, tall clock in the foyer of our church has a p___________. Each back and forth is one second of time. How does Science and Health use the pendulum as a metaphor? SH 246: 1-5. Good writers make good use of metaphors. Do you like this metaphor? ____ Why?

Does a clock, or time, have anything to do with Life? _____ That’s because Life is ______. “Life is __________. We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof. Life and ________ are immortal.” SH 246: 27.
You can I can have the ___________ consciousness of being if we will learn it, accept it, and ________it. SH 264: 15-19.

One time a ruler asked Jesus how he could “inherit eternal life.” When Jesus answered, he quoted the Law of ___________, Luke 18: 20.
But then Jesus went beyond the Law of Moses. Verse 22 shows that Jesus told the rich ruler to sell everything, give the money to the poor, and follow him. The ruler was not willing to do that. Do you think you would you be willing to do that? ______

Did Jesus want the man to be poor and homeless? _____ Was Jesus poor and homeless? ____
Was Jesus talking about the value of having priorities? ___ Luke 18: 22-27.
Would you rather have a new game or understand all things? …..
Christ Jesus does not make impractical demands but he does make the practical demand that we give up (sacrifice) every thing that keeps us from having all good. Christian Science explains how we need to move forward from desire to sacrifice if we truly want all good. SH 11: 22-25.
We must give up the ____________ sense of life, substance, and intelligence in order to truly have these through a _____________ sense of each one. SH 311: 28.

Do you really want to ‘live, move, and have {your} being in Life, God?’ ______ SH 381: 17. What will you do with thoughts that present man as “fallen, sick, sinning, and dying”? SH 259: 10.
As usual, the Psalmist and Mrs. Eddy say it well. Let’s read together these two teachings from our Pastor: Ps. 118: 17 and SH 427: 246: 27.

Sacrament

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Sacrament 1-10-10 Sara Lincoln

There was an event in Jesus’ life called The Last Supper. Who was there? What special thing happened after they finished supper? Matt. 26: 26-28

The dictionary says that ‘sacrament’ is a formal religious act that symbolizes a spiritual reality.
All other religions (at least all the ones I know about) include two formal religious acts that have deep spiritual meanings: b________ and s________. In b________, the minister uses water and for the s_________ the minister uses bread and wine (or grape juice). Churches are honoring Christ Jesus who instructed us to remember him by ‘taking the cup, and ‘eating the bread.’
Matt. 26: 26-28.
In the Christian Science church, do we use water in baptism or bread and wine for the sacrament? ____ Thank you Mary Baker Eddy for bringing to Christianity a more spiritual meaning of baptism and sacrament.
‘Baptism’ is _____________________________________. SH 581: 23.
“The baptism of Spirit, washing the body of all the impurities of flesh, signifies that the ______ ____ ______ see God and are approaching spiritual Life and its demonstration.” SH 241: 27.
“Our baptism is a _________________ from all error.” SH 35: 19.

“Our Eucharist {sacrament] is ____________ ______________ with the one God. Our bread, ‘which cometh down from heaven’ is _________. Our cup is the _______.”
SH 35: 25-27.
Science and Health says there is something more important than the ‘material symbols’ of water, bread, and wine. Science and Health says, as Christ Jesus said, “…take up the ______, heal the ______, cast out ________, and preach Christ, or Truth, to the poor, -- the ________ _______...” SH 34: 13.
You and I are preaching Christ or Truth every time we remember to be an ex______________ of honesty, purity, faith, and l______. God inspires us to say true words and do good deeds.
What does it mean to be an example of love and purity? Tell us about a time you were willing to be an example of good and God-likeness.

Christ Jesus means ‘Jesus the anointed.’ SH 313: 1-8.
While Jesus and his disciples were eating together at ‘the last supper,’ what were the chief priests and elders doing? Matt. 26: 59.
Why did they want to kill Jesus who was also a Jew, like them?
Their hope was to find a Messiah (savior) who would overthrow the Roman occupation. But Jesus had a different purpose, a higher aim. He came to teach them and all the people how to overthrow “…all manner of s___________ and all manner of d__________ among the people.” Matt. 4: 23. The chief priests were not interested in a pure state of thought that could heal.
Which chapter in Science and Health focuses on Jesus’ purpose? _________________________.
Jesus had a special commission (appointed task) to prove what? SH 54: 13-16.

What does it mean to ‘sacrifice’ something?
If we try to do everything through Love, we will not lose anything by sacrificing. We cannot lose anything because Love is giving us everything good. “Love enriches the nature, _____________, ________________, and _________________ it.” SH 57: 23-24.

Did Christ Jesus give up or sacrifice his life? _____ Jesus was willing to be the ex__________ of l________ which cannot be killed because Life is God and life is God’s permanent expression

Water and oil are important symbols in the Bible.
II Kings 5 tells the story of N________, an army captain, who had a skin disease called leprosy. How did a little maid, about your age, help Naaman find his healing?
John 12: 3 tells about Mary anointing Jesus’ feet with oil. Perhaps Mary sacrificed a lot of m________ to buy that sweet-smelling oil. An ‘oil’ that is even more precious and pleasant is “consecration; charity; gentleness; ___________; and ___________ __________.” SH 592: 25.

Matthew 3 tells about John the Baptist who was the same age as Jesus. John baptized the people who believed him by helping them dip themselves into the river, just as Naaman had done as a symbol of his purified motives and thought. SH 561: 32-3. John knew that Jesus would give baptism the more spiritual meaning of purifying thought.
Before beginning his career as a teacher and healer, Jesus went to John to be baptized. John objected because Jesus was already pure in thought and deed, but Jesus insisted. Perhaps Jesus wanted to honor this outward symbol of a person’s commitment to purity of thought and deed. Jesus took this outward symbol to a spiritual level of inward commitment to God-likeness. Jesus’ message was, ‘know that you are the image and likeness of God and act like it. This is the highest proof of your devotion (consecration) to your Father-Mother God.’

Today we talked about baptism and sacrament. If you were going to take a photograph of either one, what would the photo show?
What is the important spiritual meaning of each word?

God

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God 1-3-2010 Sara Lincoln

Does God have a voice? ____ Have you ever heard it? ___ What does it sound like?
Here is how different authors of biblical books describe the voice of God:
The voice of the Lord is powerful,
* It shakes the wilderness
* It is mightier than the pounding waves of the sea
* It flashes like lightening, it thunders with authority
* It gives instructions that cannot be ignored
* It proclaims the kingdom of heaven on earth
* It says “I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine” (Isa. 43: 1)
* It comforts, saying “Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46: 10); “Fear not: I am with thee” (Isa. 41: 10)
* It said to Abraham take your family away from the land of idols to a new place I will show you (Gen 12: 1, 4)
* It said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; lead the Children of Israel out of slavery
(Ex. 3: 14-17)
* It said to Elijah get out of that cave where you are hiding in fear and learn that the mighty voice of God is heard by man as a still small voice within (I Kings 19)
* It told Jesus to notice a woman who had been unable to stand up for 18 years and to heal her (Luke 13: 11-13)
* It told the Apostle Paul to assure the ship’s captain that no life would be lost even while the storm was destroying the ship (Acts 27: 20-25)
* It sounded like a trumpet to John the Revelator, telling him, “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last” (Rev. 1: 10-11). There is only one God, as Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Jesus, and Paul told you and proved to you
* It told Mary Baker Eddy that in Science, in reality, there is ‘no power opposed to God and the physical senses must give up their false testimony’ (SH 192: 19-21).
* It instills the courage to keep speaking the truth even while error screams louder,
because error’s ‘suggestions’ and ‘threats’ will always cease
* It says through Christian Science that there is no beginning and ending; there is only the All-in-all that is here and now

In the Bible, the Promised Land was called C________. Now it is called ___________.
God told Abraham, “I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.” Gen. 17: 2. A covenant is like a __________.
What was the covenant that God had previously made with Noah? Gen. 9: 8-17.

Queen Jezebel (wife of King Ahab) sent a death-threat to the Prophet Elijah because Elijah had proved that the prophets of B______ had no power at all (I Kings 18). Elijah had proved that there is only one Almighty God, and yet he was afraid when he received the death-threat and he ran away. How can a person who has proved his knowledge of the allness of God run away in fear from a human who denied that there is only one God?
How did God heal Elijah’s fear?
Remember? It had something to do with wind, earthquake, and fire. (I Kings 19: 11-12).

We hear God’s voice “through the senses of Soul ----through ____________ _____________.”
SH 213: 17. What is ‘spiritual understanding’?

We seem to hear many things that are negative through our ears, but what are ‘ears’?
What can you do if a voice says, ’you are not succeeding’?
First, I can say n____, there is no liar voicing a lie because God-Good makes no liars or lies.
Second, I can say y____ my Love, I have the spiritual understanding that Spirit is constantly expressing in me. The voice of Truth is always telling me all I need to know and do and its message is never neg______.
Through the Christ, God directs, protects, and corrects humans, never punishing man.

Jesus’ mission was ‘to prove what ______ ____ and what _____ ______ for man’
SH 26: 14.
Jesus’ approach to every problem was ___________ _______ and ___________ _______.
This was the basis of his ‘thought and demonstration.’ SH 259: 11
Jesus was the man who lived and taught the Christ-man.
“Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness.” SH 332: 9.

Does God make us hear His voice, His explanation, His plan? ______
Do you pray ‘without ceasing’ which means ‘all the time’? _____ I am grateful that Science and Health gives me a better understanding of what ‘unceasing prayer’ means. SH 4: 12-13.

The Romans arrested the Apostle Paul because Paul was stirring up public thought by talking about Christ Jesus and saying that even though Caesar claimed to be God, he was not God. They sent Paul by ship to Rome where he would be tried, but they had no intention of giving Paul a ‘fair trial.’ Was Paul angry and resentful about this injustice? ______ We know Paul kept his thought focused on the fact that God governs man and the universe, because when the ship was about to sink, he was ready to demonstrate God’s control, God’s good plan for every man.

Is there anything wrong in your life or in the world that you would like for God
to ‘fix’? ____
Perhaps you are learning in Christian Science to express that desire in a better way: “Oh God, this and this and this seem so bad and unjust, but I can help the world, my family, and myself every time I thank God for the rule of ‘perfect God and perfect man’ and make this rule the starting point of my prayer.”

Christian Science

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Christian Science 12-27-09 Sara Lincoln

Why did Mary Baker Eddy write Science and Health?........
Did she have a textbook that helped her write her textbook? _______ SH 110: 13
Why did she call it a textbook and not just a book?

The Prophet Isaiah said things about God, for example, ‘He will destroy darkness and ignorance and wipe away tears and bad memories.’ Did Isaiah also talk directly to God? ____. Which word in Isa. 25: 1, 4 shows that Isaiah is talking to God? ______. This word means ‘you.’

Was Jesus ‘King of the Jews’? ______ Matt.2:1-2. Why didn’t he live in a king’s palace? ……

The Apostle John says that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
John 1: 14.
If ‘the Word’ (God) became flesh, does that mean it became matter? _____.
SH 350: 24-30.
Flesh is “a belief that ______ has sensation.” SH 586: 18. Flesh refers to the five material senses (SH 200: 20), the sense of a material body. The flesh wars against Spirit (SH 274: 20), just as m____________ sense wars against s____________ sense.

Christian Science helps us understand that ‘the Word’ can be known as Mind expressing right ideas in every human consciousness. Where in our textbook are we reminded that “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation”?______
Where do we find ‘the Word’ in order to learn it? ______ SH 497: 3

Peter tells us something very important about prophecy. It did not come in old time by the _____ _____ ______, but because holy men of God spake as they were moved by the ______ _______. II Peter 1: 21. Because of Christian Science, we understand that the Holy Ghost was not a mysterious thing that could appear and dis_____. The Holy Ghost is _____ _____. SH 588.

The author of Science and Health, _____ _____ _____, called the Holy Ghost a S________ because it can be proved and demands proof. To discover this very important truth, we need to use the quality that filled the thought of Jesus who was “full of ______ and truth.” John 1: 14.

What is grace and how do you know if you have it?
Jesus taught us to say to God, “Give us this day our daily bread.” ‘Daily bread’ is _______ and we get more ______, more understanding and compassion and humility, every day.

The dictionary says that ‘grace’ is unmerited, meaning, we don’t earn it in the way that you earn a good grade in school. How do you earn a good grade in school?
Maybe ‘grace’ is like intelligence. You have intelligence; you don’t get it, but you must honor your intelligence and use it more and more so that it will develop and expand. This helps you understand God and become more of a blessing to yourself and others.

You are accepting that you have grace every time you are kind, thoughtful, considerate, and grateful to God that you always have all you need. How did Jesus show that he honored ‘grace’?

Jesus was born. Was the Christ also born? ____ The Christ is a sp_______ i______ in thought, giving _______ and _______ to all who are prepared to see Christ.
SH 333: 16-23.
“The __________ Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus _________ as a bodily existence.” SH 334: 10.
What is the definition of Christ? ……
“Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, --the divine idea of God outside the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his ________ over matter.” SH 482: 19.

People call Christ Jesus the M________, the S________, the C__________, and also I________, which means ‘God with us,’ delivering us from every mental and physical problem. SH 107: 1-10.

Did Jesus want to be famous? ___ Why did Jesus want people to believe in him?
John 12: 44-45.

A few decades after Christ Jesus ascended, the Apostle ______ helped the Jews and the G______ understand why Jesus came to earth. Paul established many churches and wrote letters to them.

Zacchaeus was a rich Jew who helped the ‘enemy,’ the Roman government, collect taxes from the Jews. The Jews did not like Zacchaeus or trust him, but this man wanted to see Jesus. How did Zacchaeus manage to see this famous man who was surrounded by a crowd a people?
Did Jesus criticize Zacchaeus? _______ What did Jesus do? Luke 19: 2-10.
Do you know anyone who seems to be selfish and not loving and not generous? ______
What difference would it make if you saw this person in the same way, in the same light, in which Jesus saw Zacchaeus?

Is physical healing the main mission of Christian Science? ______SH 150: 4. Metaphysical healing of physical disease is only a sign that the Christ-power is here today “to take away the ______ _____ ____ _______.” What is an example of ‘a sin of this world’?

What is the meaning of ‘mortal mind’?
Is ‘mortal mind’ a real thing? ______ It’s like a mistake in mathematics. Because we are intelligent and alert, we see mistakes and correct them. Tell us about a time when you corrected a mistake.
I cannot be tricked by the mistake called m_______ m_________ if I am taking the high way, the free way, of knowing I can do what Christ Jesus and the Apostle Paul tell me I can do:
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is ________.”
Matt. 5: 48.
“Let this Mind be in you which was also in ________ _________ .” Phil 2: 5.

The effect of Christian Science is “to stir the ________ ________ to a change of base on which it may yield to the harmony of the _________ __________.” SH 162: 9.

Why is Christian Science the best method in the world for treating disease?
SH 162: 4 and SH 344: 19-24.

Is Christianity different from Christian Science? _______
SH 372: 17-18 and SH 271: 1-5.

What do you like most about Christian Science? …..

Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

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Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force? 12-20-09 Sara Lincoln

Hallelujah, Alleluia: These words mean….
Have you ever heard anyone say ‘Hallelujah!’?
What is an angel?......
Webster’s says an angel is “a spiritual being superior to man in power and intelligence;
a guardian, a messenger.” Does Webster’s definition include a Christian Science definition? _____
Science and Health says that “Angels are ________ ______________.” SH 299: 11-12.

Do angels have names?____ Luke 1: 26.
What did the angel G__________ tell Mary? Luke 1: 28, 31.

Mary was ready and able to receive this very unusual message because she was
“the ___________ of the Lord.” Luke 1: 38.
This means that Mary had been focusing her attention, her thought, on God. Perhaps she prayed, “thank you God that you are here and good. How can I praise you more?” Science and Health says it was Mary’s __________ ______ that caught the light of God’s truth: being is spiritual, not material. SH 29: 20-29.

Hundreds of years before the angel (thought) talked to Mary, it talked to the Prophet Isaiah. He was ready to receive a very unusual message because he was a ________ of the Lord, and a ________ is someone who…..
Angels (thoughts) come to g______ us. Do angels make us listen and follow? _____
We hear the angel message when we are th________ God and lis_________ to God. “Jesus was the offspring of Mary’s _____-__________ communion with God.” SH 29: 32-1. Could this mean that Mary knew she could talk to God and that God talked to her? ___
Angels (thoughts) shine a light on our sp_________ s________ and in this light we see how m________ s________ would try to limit and confuse us. As we say, “yes, thank you God” for every angel (thought), the beliefs of discord and disease lose their influence. It becomes clearer that ‘man is the __________ of God, the _______ of Spirit, the __________ that man is eternal.’ SH 29: 30-32.

How did the Wisemen know to go to Bethlehem? Matt. 2: 1, 2.
Wise people had been looking for a ‘King’ because the Prophet Isaiah had told them that “ the __________ shall be upon his shoulder.” Isa. 9: 6.
Was the Lord already their King? Isa. 43: 15: “I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, ______ ______.” Why were the Children of Israel looking for a king? ……
Do you and I pray for a King to come? ______
There is a prayer in the Church Manual, page 41, which uses the words kingdom, reign, rule, and govern. It is called the _______ _________.

How did the shepherds know to go to Bethlehem? Luke 2: 8-18.
In the P_________ of Science and Health (lines 4-10) Mary Baker Eddy calls “the Bethlehem babe the _______ ________ of Christ, Truth…”
A herald is an official messenger who tells what’s coming. When he was grown, Jesus told the people the truth about God and man in Matthew, chapters ___ through ___. These chapters are called the S_________ on the M________.
In which month of the year should we be thinking more about our love for Jesus and our desire to follow his example? _____________ Are you ready to receive something new about the story of Jesus?______ How do you know?.......

Jesus not only told the people but also showed the people the accuracy of Isaiah’s prophecy: “Arise, shine; for _____ _______ ____ _______, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Isa. 60: 1. Was Jesus saying to his followers ‘you are the sunshine that is exactly like the s_____’? _____Is it atomic force that makes the sunshine? ______ The sun (Life) expresses itself as r___________. SH 502: 28. It’s like God looks in a mirror and sees _______ and the ___________. Our all-wise Creator-God had good material to work with, called sub________, which never wears out. If God had good material to work with, why would He use a cheap counterfeit called _______________?
When did the material called substance become matter? ______

Is water solid enough to walk on? ____Do you remember John’s account of Jesus walking on the water? John 6: 16-21. What happened to the boat when he got to it?
The universe includes lakes which illustrate sub__________ but not m_________.

Did Jesus think that man and the universe were “governed in general by material laws” but that God could set aside these laws when He wanted to? ______
Is this what you think? ______ SH 83: 12. Is this what many people think? _____
‘God’s unchangeable law’ is called __________. Science is an angel saying to us,
“Here, take this idea and prove it. It will bless you.”
Matter and its changing conditions is not S________ but only s___________. An angel (thought) does not offer an opinion or suggestion. It offers………….
Angel (thoughts) bring good messages of freedom and do___________. “The ________
of being _________ man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect…” SH 302: 19.

The universe and man did not result from a big explosion of atoms. How do we know that? Because, “God creates and governs the universe, including man.” SH 295: 5.
And Genesis 1: 1 says………..

How do I apply this fact at school? When I hear other kids at school say ‘he’s dumb’ or ‘she’s stupid,’ I will think, and I might even say, “We are all the children of God, of Spirit. Therefore, we are not material; we are spiritual.”
Hallelujah! God, Good, created heaven and earth and all that in them is!
(Ex. 20: 11).

God the Preserver of Man

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God the Preserver of Man 12-13-09 Sara Lincoln

What was ‘the Promised Land?’ Gen. 13: 14-17 What is now in ‘the Promised Land’?
What are some words or phrases in the Lord’s Prayer that could be examples of
‘the Promised Land’?
Could it be that Christian Science is ‘the Promised Land/? _____

Last Sunday we reminded ourselves of key people in the Bible who accepted and acted on the idea that there is only one God taking care of man, not many gods. These are the people we named: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Jesus. Are there more? ___
All these people were men. Who were the women who witnessed to the truth of being?

Why did this early group of monotheists come to be called the Children of Israel?...
Who was ‘Israel’? __________ What is a monotheist?

Law and Prophecy have always declared God’s promises.
________ is the Old Testament leader who represents law. What law?
Moses even prophesied the coming of Jesus: Deut. 18: 15.
________ is the Old Testament leader who represents the great prophets.
Isaiah also prophesied the coming of Jesus: Isa. 40: 10-11

When God told Moses to lead the Children of Israel out of slavery, did Moses say
‘Great idea! Let’s go!? ______ Ex. 3: 10-12.
Moses said…..
and God said……
How long did it take for the Children of Israel to reach the Promised Land? ________

Let’s say you and your family were among the thousands of Hebrew slaves in E______. Would you have believed this man named _______ who said, ‘Let’s get out of here.
We are God’s people and we cannot be enslaved’? ______
When we look at a map, we see that to walk from Egypt to the Promised Land, you have to get across the Red _______ then get across miles and miles of ________________. Ex. 13: 17-18.The people were afraid, but Moses said ‘fear not, stand still, see the salvation of the Lord,’ (Ex. 14: 13) and the people followed their leader.
Moses led the people out of Egypt, but it was _______ that provided a pillar of _______ by night and a cloud by day to g________ them and p___________ them.

Were the Children of Israel satisfied travelers as they walked their way to freedom with signs of God’s presence and evidence of Moses’ faithful leadership? _____ Why oh why did they murmur (grumble)? Ex. 16: 2, 3, 11-15 and Num. 20: 2, 7, 8, 11.
Is it sometimes easier to suffer from wrong than to claim and demonstrate what’s right?
Our textbook says, “Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government.
Truth makes man free.” SH 225: 2-4.

Are there any Children of Israel around today? _____ Check the G_______ in SH.
Moses gave the Children of Israel a way out of being slaves to the Egyptians and Jesus gives us a way out of being slaves to _______, _________, and _________.
Do you remember what Jesus said? It’s on the logo of Science and Health.

Almost 3000 years after Moses, ______ ______ ______ said it was time “to reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” See Church Manual, 17.
Mrs. Eddy says that Truth is the way to freedom and Truth is a Science – to be proven.
The ‘powers of this world’ (belief in matter) will try to interrupt the proving of Science, but they cannot succeed. SH 225: 5.
Through the Science of Christianity, we learn more about our dominion over m_________ s_______ because it would try to cover up our s__________ s_______.

Even today when we can travel faster and there are restaurants all along the way, do we still have to “lean on the sustaining infinite” during our journey? _______ Why?
Science and Health says that “to those leaning on the sustaining infinite, _______ is _____ with ___________.” There is something very important about this statement.
It is at the beginning of our textbook in a section called the P__________, What does this word mean? ……..

Which biblical thinker could have said these words: “,,,Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
Moses? ___ Joshua? ___ Isaiah? ___Jesus? ___ Mary Baker Eddy? ___ Who else? …….

“The divine _______ that _______ man ___________ His own image and likeness.”
SH 151: 23

When you are _____________ ____ ______ you know that “with God all things are possible.” SH 180: 25-27
God, Spirit preserves you by giving you spiritual substance and divine intelligence.
The scientific statement of being (SH 468) says that these are in you, but not in _______.

“God guards you from every evil; He guards your very life. He guards you when you leave and when you return; He guards you now; He guards you always.”
Ps. 121: 7-8, The Message.

Can you think of a time when God guarded and guided you?

God the Only Cause and Creator

2009-12-02T09:27:00.000-08:00

God the Only Cause and Creator 12-6-09 Sara Lincoln

Who taught Abraham? Abraham learned from ______ that there are not many gods, as everyone believed. There is only o____ G_____.
The daughter of Pharaoh found the baby Moses in a basket, floating in the river. She raised Moses to be an Egyptian prince.
Who taught Moses about the history of the Hebrew people? ______
Let’s see what you remember about this history which began with the man A__________.
The descendants of Abraham, living in the land of Canaan, went to Egypt to buy bread (food) and finally settled in Egypt because of the long famine. What son of Abraham was a prince in Egypt and invited the Hebrews to come live in Egypt? J_________
The son of Abraham named J__ __ __ __ helped convince Joseph that the sons (tribes) of Abraham were coming in peace to ask for food.
People belonging to the tribe of Judah later came to be called Jews.
What descendant of Abraham led the Hebrews out of Egypt after an ‘unfriendly’ Pharaoh made them slaves. _________

Isaiah was a great prophet who was living in the Promised Land of Canaan that the Hebrews came to under the leadership of M________ and J__________ around 1387 BCE. In 587 BCE, the Babylonians destroyed the Jews’ Temple in Jerusalem and took them as prisoners (captives) to Babylon. After about 50 years in captivity, King Cyrus of Persia allowed the Jews to return to their homeland.
Isaiah knew that the Jews, the Children of Israel. had been taken captive not just because Babylon was a very strong and conquering country, but because the Jews had stopped putting God first, had stopped obeying the First Commandment and trusting God for their protection.

The Prophet Isaiah urged the Jews to improve, spiritualize, their concept of God, to see God as the Holy One, the one all-mighty God.
Was this Almighty God powerless to prevent the Jews being taken into captivity? _____ God was never powerless and unable to protect His people, but the Jews broke the Covenant. They needed to gain a better understanding of their God and a more sincere desire to have only one God, to love God, and to obey God. Let’s read what Isaiah said to the people: Isa. 40: 25, 26, 28.

Isaiah told the people that a Messiah or Savior would come. Did Isaiah’s prophecy come true? ____ What is your proof?

Who taught Jesus the history of the Jews, the laws of Moses, and the prophecies of Isaiah? The teachers in the s_____________.
Who taught Jesus about the true nature of God, the qualities and actions of the ‘one God’? _______

Who taught Mary Baker Eddy about the Bible and about God? ________________Two thousand years after Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy was called, like the Prophet Isaiah had been called, to help the people improve their concept of God, to see God as the Only Cause and Creator.
Let’s read what Science and Health teaches us about God: SH 331: 18-24 He.
“____________ in God’s universe expresses ________.” SH 331: 16.

Mary Baker Eddy helps Christians and Christian Scientists discover the one God through these synonyms she gave us:

Hebrews, Children of Israel, Jews: These three terms refer to the people in the Old Testament who believed in the o____ G____, not many gods.

Christians: this term refers to the people in the _______ ____________ who believed that Jesus was the Son of God who helped people understand God better. This term ‘Christian’ also refers to people today, in all parts of the world, who want to understand God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Most Christians believe, however, that man is material and experiences sin, disease, and death.

Christian Scientists: This term refers to the people in all parts of the world who believe that every person can discover and prove Christliness, spiritual identity as man’s only identity. A ‘scientist’ is always seeking facts and proving them. The fact is that “God saw ____________ that he had made, and, behold, it was________ ________.” Where in Genesis is this statement? ________________

Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced

2009-11-24T07:09:00.000-08:00

Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced
11-29-09 Sara Lincoln

What is astronomy?
What is astrology?
One of these helps us learn about the stars and the universe, ___________.
The other is a mask for a belief in many gods, ______________.

King Darius of Babylon believed in the one God. How did he get tricked into signing a decree meant to harm those who served the one God, especially Daniel? What happened to Daniel? Read the story in Daniel 6
Why wasn’t Daniel harmed? Dan. 6: 23-24.

Daniel felt safe in the lion/s den because he understood “the __________ which __________ held over all.” SH 514: 26

Are lions a natural enemy to man? ____ A negative mental influence called h_________
tries to make them enemies, tries to establish a__________ m___________ which is another name for m________ m________. SH 103: 18-19.
Animal magnetism // mortal mind is only a f________ belief that m_______ is in m________ and is both evil and good. God, immortal M________ protects and delivers humans and causes the lies of m________ m________ to self-destruct. SH 103: 22-28.

Maybe we could say that the lies of mortal mind are like the early morning fog. The fog ‘self-destructs’ as the sun shines brighter. ‘Sun’ is the symbol of Soul governing man.
See SH Glossary.

I say thank you to Mary Baker Eddy for exposing and naming the enemy that would destroy us as is was supposed to destroy Daniel. That enemy is a b________ in more than one M_________, more than one God. God is o____________ so there is nothing that can harm man who is in God’s care. Omni-potent means _____ ________.

To be very sure I don’t get tricked by a belief in evil, here is what I say and remember about God: II Sam. 22: 33.

How did this evil belief called mortal mind // animal magnetism try to trick Jesus when he went into the wilderness after he was baptized? Matt. 4: 1-4, 8-11.
Jesus did not get tricked by the t__________, alias the d________, because Jesus, like Daniel, trusted the protective armor of his innocence. Both were ‘innocent’ because they refused to believe in more than one power, more than one God. Jesus trusted his F_______-M________ to send a________. These are t_________ from God that protect and direct us in every situation. Does God also send angels to you? ______

What temptation do you have to resist? SH 218: 25

Evil has only the power to ________ ________. SH 186: 19-20
To ‘denounce’ something is to reject it completely and reject it with authority. Jesus denounced danger when the people in the synagogue got very angry with him. Why were they angry and how did Jesus escape? Luke 4: 14, 23-30.

One time the Apostle Paul denounced the ‘danger’ of a snake bite. What happened?
See Acts 28: 3, 5.
Man and lions are not natural enemies. Are man and snakes natural enemies? _____

Is evil a power: ______
Christian Science makes plain that “Mankind ______ ________ that evil is not power.
Its so-called ______________ is but a phase of ______________.” SH 102: 30-3

Is it safe to ignore evil and danger? ______
If you try to pretend that evil and danger are not a problem then they will seem to have more presence and more power until you denounce them as untrue because not created by Truth, God.

I am safe at all times if I am remembering that God, Good, is all p________, all p_________, all action. SH 587: 19-20.give us a definition of ________.

Soul and Body

2009-11-18T09:28:00.000-08:00

Soul and Body 11-22-09 Sara Lincoln

Giving Thanks.
Why is it good to say ‘thank you’? When was the last time you said ‘thank you’?
Do you have to use the word ‘thank’ when you are thanking someone? ______
What are some other words we can use? ___________________________

People in the Bible who wanted to thank God often used the word p_______.
Do you like to receive praise? ____How do I praise you every Sunday? _____
What words do you use when you want to praise someone? ____________________
Before thanksgiving and praise appear in words, they appear as ________ from God.
I thank God, Mind, for being the source of my thought and gratitude..

Is Soul spiritual and Body material? _________
Webster’s dictionary says that soul is ____material and spiritual.
Does that definition of soul give the Christian Science definition? ____________
Do you have a soul? ____ “…Principle is not in its idea. Spirit, Soul, is not confined in man, and is never in matter.” SH 467: 24

The dictionary says that body is the material part of a human being. If you and I and everyone in the world accepted a less material and more inspired and intelligent definition of body, would everyone have more health? ______

Was health important to Christ Jesus? _____ How do you know?
Did Christ Jesus expect his followers to do something about health? _____
What did he tell us to do?

Was health important to Mary Baker Eddy? ____ How do you know? ………
Material sense has a c________feit sense of health and body. On the other hand,
S________, true knowledge and proven fact, gives a true sense of health and body.
Science does great things for us. It __________ the false testimony of p_________ sense. SH 120: 7

We can do what God expects us to do only if we seek and accept a higher, sp________ sense of ________ and ________.
Christian Science teaches us that ‘higher sense.’ It gives a definition of man on page 475
of Science and Health: Man is not _____________. The Scriptures tell us that man is
sp___________, p_________, i________, i________, the r______________ of God.

The Apostle Paul wrote two letters to the C_______________ who lived in Corinth.
He challenged them to have a new thought about body: “…know ye not that your ________is the ___________ of the _______ ________?” I Cor. 6: 19.

Many spiritual thinkers challenge us to have an ever new thought about health and body. The Prophet Isaiah says, “Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” Isa. 60: 1. ‘Risen upon thee’ means ex___________ in you.
The Psalmist says, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. I will _____ ______ what _________ can do unto me.” Ps. 56: 3-4.
“The Lord shall __________ thee from all evil: He shall preserve _____ _____. Ps. 121: 7.
Christ Jesus said to a woman who could not stand up straight, “…Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.” Then what happened? Luke 13: 11-17.

The P__________ criticized this healing because it happened on the s_________ and people were not supposed to ‘work’ on the sabbath. One of Moses’ commandments tells us not to work on the sabbath: Ex. 20: 8-11. Are you disobeying one of the Ten Commandments when you heal on the sabbath? ______
The sabbath is more than a particular day in the week that we call S________. It is the ‘sabbath’ when man is doing the works of God, as explained by Christ Jesus: _____ the sick, ______ the dead, ______ the lepers, ______ ______ demons.” See logo on SH.

Does it show on your face when you are happy? ____ Does it show on your face when you are inspired? ___ Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with “two tablets of testimony.” What was written on the stone tablets? ____________________. Moses didn’t know it, but “the skin of his face shone.” Ex. 34: 29-30.
Do you think Moses was feeling very close to Soul and its light?________

Mary Baker Eddy says “…Truth is made manifest by its effects upon the human mind and body, healing ___________ and destroying ________.” SH 316: 7
“Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is _________________ but not in matter.” “Man is the ______________ of Soul.” SH 477: 22-26.

Soul is _______ and body is the _________, __________, ________, ________of Soul.
Let’s think of several words that fit in these blanks.
“________ is the reflection of ________.” SH 249: 31.

What is the Christian Science definition of ‘sun’? “The __________ ____ ________ governing man, --of Truth, Life, and Love.”
Sun and sunshine can remind us of Creator and Creation. God is the light; man and nature are the shining, the sunshine.

Do people come to this church on Thanksgiving Day? ____ Why? Will you come? ___
What will you say? Let’s each say now what we could say in church on Thanksgiving Day. Let’s each tell what we are grateful for………

Saying, giving, thanks is a ‘joyful sound.’

Mortals and Immortals

2009-11-10T07:47:00.000-08:00

Mortals and Immortals 11-15-09 Sara Lincoln

Most people believe that a mortal is a person who _________, and that an immortal is
a person who ____________. What do you believe? A mortal is _________________
and an immortal is ______________________.

Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans had many gods: Mars, Venus, Mercury, and Zeus who was the ‘king of the gods.’ These gods were called ‘immortals’ These mythological gods were popular long ago. Do people in our world today still believe in ‘gods’? _____Today these ‘gods’ have other names, for example, mat_______, s______, dis_________, and d________.

It seems that people today do not believe in ‘immortals.’ Most people believe that every man will d_____ because s/he is a m________, and mortals die.
Mary Baker Eddy heard God telling her something very different: man is God’s reflection therefore cannot die. Is this like what God told Christ Jesus to say, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”_______? Matt. 5: 48. Man cannot die. Man is as alive as her Creator Mind!

Be perfect; man does not die. These are not impossible expectations. These demands illustrate ‘science’ and science is the ________ of being which includes demons_______. Not demons but demonstration!

Does demonstration mean changing the human or material situation? ______ What a surprise that the answer is ______. Demonstration is the mental action you take, mentally accepting and holding on to the truth that God is the only Creator and always in control. As I take that mental action, physical healing is the result. The human and ‘material’ problem is corrected, dismissed, healed. You might want to read the article “What is the demonstration” in the Christian Science Journal, Nov. 2009, page 50-51.

Jesus said, if you want to see the kingdom of God you must be born ______. John 3: 3.
P_____ said “…put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”? Eph. 4: 24 put. P_______ gave this command in his letter to the __________, to the church in E__________. Is Paul’s command similar to Christ Jesus’ command, ‘Be ye therefore perfect?’_______ Is Paul saying, be immortal, don’t be mortal? _____

Paul even tells us how to put on and be ‘perfect man.’ Paul said (II Cor. 4: 18)
Don’t look at the things that are________. Look at the things that are ______ ______.

Christian Science also tells us how to put on and be the ‘perfect man’: SH 519: 14-16. …throw off the ______ _______; reach (put on) the ________ ______ ___ ________.

In Luke 7: 36-39, 44-48 Jesus explained to the P________ that a sinner can indeed put off sinful mortality and put on sinless immortality. But how can a sinner put on the perfect man? The religious leaders in Jesus’ day, the P__________, said a sinner is a sinner and should be treated like a sinner. But Jesus said, “Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she ________ ________.” See verse 47-48. Love is immortality.

What does this story mean for you and me? Perhaps it means this. I can do what Jesus did. “Jesus beheld in ________ the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. SH 476: 32. What is ‘Science’? _________________
Science and Health says, “the way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides _____ ________.” SH 201: 17

Does every mortal want to be more like Christ Jesus? ______ Christ Jesus is the highest and truest model, but “mortals must change their __________ in order to improve their models.” SH 260: 19-20. What is your ideal, your goal? ………………………….

Christ Jesus said, still says, you don’t have to be content with thought-models that present man as ‘fallen, sick, _________, and dying.’ You can choose “p__________ God and p__________ man, as {your} basis of thought and demonstration.” SH 259: 11-12.

I don’t want to sin. Do you? _____ If I don’t want to sin then I need to be immortal man. “Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin.” SH 405: 19. Isn’t that great? Under God’s government, I’m not even able to sin!! I need to remember that man “…has _____ separate mind from God…and _____ single quality underived from Deity….” SH 475: 13. To practice immortality is to be always ready with a no-no, yes-yes.

Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, asked Jesus to come to his home and heal his daughter who was dying. Just as Jairus was asking, someone said, too late. She’s dead. {She was only a mortal, and mortals die}. But Jesus said. “______ ______: ________ ______
Luke 8: 50. What happened next? Read the whole story in Luke 8: 41-42, 49-55.

Were you born because a man and a woman (your parents) wanted a child? ______
You were born because God had a wonderful idea and expressed it (manifested it)
as you! Thank you Father-Mother God. John 1: 12 as, 13.

You are the son of God – immortal -- if you are led (governed) by the Spirit of God.
And the Spirit says, YES, that’s right! Rom. 8: 14, 16, 17.

Christian Science asks a question which we also need to ask: “Can there be any birth or death for man, the spiritual image and likeness of God? ______ SH 206: 25-28.

Jesus really meant it when he said (John 8: 51): “If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.” That’s like saying, he shall never be mortal. See also SH 429: 31-4.

When is man mortal? _______
When is man immortal? _________

Adam and Fallen Man

2009-11-06T11:03:00.000-08:00

Adam and Fallen Man 11-8-09 Sara Lincoln

Many people over hundreds of years have written stories, ‘histories,’ of creation from their own point of view. ‘Point of view’ means ………
Mary Baker Eddy studied the Bible for many years and listened for God’s Word (Truth) about the creation and nature of man. What were her conclusions:
*God is G_____ and the only C_____
*A perfect God can make only a p______ man and universe
*God keeps on being God so God’s creations do not, cannot, fail or fall away.

For hundreds of years before Mary Baker Eddy wrote the book that helps us understand Creator and Creation, people were asking, ‘Who was the first man? Who was the first woman?’ These people already had a point of view (a belief) before they asked the question. They believed that man is mortal, material, and disobedient, with a mind of his own. The creation stories they wrote were true to these beliefs.

The Adam and Eve story was probably written about 1000 BCE. At that time, the Hebrews were a strong nation and D_______ was their King. Over the next 900 years, prophets faithful to the one God gave the Hebrew people a better understanding of God. Who were some of these prophets? Let’s look again at our Bible Time Line.

A spiritual account of creation, Genesis 1, was written about 500 BCE. In this true history, Spirit-God reveals a spiritual expression of itself, a spiritual creation where man and woman have d__________ and are declared to be g______, not fallen.
Gen. 1: 26, 27, 31. Would our good parent God let its children become ‘bad’ or ‘fallen’?__

Mortalnomind is the star of the untrue history and tries to get people to believe it.
Is it successful?______ Do many (most) people believe they are mortal? ______
Mortalnomind believes itself, but woman/man (like Abraham) looks higher for a heavenly view. Do you remember how Abraham became the first man to look for a heavenly view, to know and serve the one God? God told him to leave…………….…………...….and go to…………….…………….….. Gen. 12: 1.

In the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, and many prophets obeyed God’s call to teach the people the truth about the One God. Who was the great teacher of this great truth in the New Testament? ______________ He received and held on to the Truth.
Now, C__________ and C___________ S_____________ receive and hold on to this truth by learning about God from the ________ and from ________________________.

The Apostle Paul explained what it means to ‘hold on’: “If we ________ in the Spirit, let us also ________ in the Spirit.” Gal. 5: 25.
This book is called Galatians because it was P______ letter to the church in G_________.
Our textbook says, “________ is the cement of civilization and progress.” SH 57: 1
‘Chastity’ means ……………
This declaration about progress is in the chapter on ___________. Does that mean that chastity applies only to married people? _______

Do you remember the story of Naaman? He was a captain in the Syrian army and he also had a skin disease called leprosy. See how much of this story you can tell in your own words, then read the story in II Kings 5: 1-4, 9-14.
Was Naaman healed by ‘dipping himself seven times’ in the Jordan River? ______
Who are the main characters in this story? Naaman; the prophet __________; A little ______; and Naaman’s servants who said “…________ and be clean.” Verse 13.
It looked like Naaman had fallen into a bad habit of pride and belief in disease.
Did God still love Naaman? _____ How do you know? ………

Why does Christian Science teach “the nothingness of sin, sickness, and death?”
SH 345: 6-13.

The Psalmist warns us: “Cease from ________, and forsake ________: fret not thyself in any wise to _____ ______.” Ps. 37: 8.
Is it OK to be angry? ______ Science and Health says (406: 19) “Resist evil – error of every sort – and it will flee from you.” How do you ‘resist evil’?.........
What do you think are very harmful attitudes and actions? For example, anger, selfishness…..
Mary Baker Eddy says many things about sin, but maybe this statement sums it up:
“It is a sin to believe that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life, and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit.” SH 428: 32

About 800 years ago, the Christian church named seven sins which were later called the seven ‘deadly sins:’ pride, covetousness, lust anger, gluttony, envy, sloth.

The wise people writing the book of Proverbs, King Solomon and others, also listed ‘seven things the Lord hates’ (Prov. 6: 16-19): a proud _______; a lying _________; ______ that shed innocent blood; a _______{mind} that devises wicked plans; ________ that make haste to run to evil. a _______ __________ that speaketh lies;
a man who _____ _________ among brothers.
What special thing did you notice about the book of Proverbs on the Bible Time Line?

What was the name of the man who betrayed Jesus with a kiss? ______ Which of the ‘deadly sins’ influenced him?......... He had fallen into some bad habits, like gr_______ and jeal__________. Maybe he was angry that he wasn’t as pure as his Master. He did not overcome these ungodlike habits with spiritual convictions such as gen____________, gra____________, and unself____________
Was Judas a ‘fallen man’? ________
Everyone must ‘…wake to the ________ ___ ________’ so that what will cease? …..
SH 218: 32.

What is a main reason for studying this subject of Adam and Fallen Man twice a year?

Adam and Fallen Man

2009-11-04T05:26:00.000-08:00

Adam and Fallen Man 11-8-09 Sara Lincoln

Many people over hundreds of years have written stories, ‘histories,’ of creation from their own point of view. ‘Point of view’ means ………
Mary Baker Eddy studied the Bible for many years and listened for God’s Word (Truth) about the creation and nature of man. What were her conclusions:
*God is G_____ and the only C_____
*A perfect God can make only a p______ man and universe
*God keeps on being God so God’s creations do not, cannot, fail or fall away.

For hundreds of years before Mary Baker Eddy wrote the book that helps us understand Creator and Creation, people were asking, ‘Who was the first man? Who was the first woman?’ These people already had a point of view (a belief) before they asked the question. They believed that man is mortal, material, and disobedient, with a mind of his own. The creation stories they wrote were true to these beliefs.

The Adam and Eve story was probably written about 1000 BCE. At that time, the Hebrews were a strong nation and D_______ was their King. Over the next 900 years, prophets faithful to the one God gave the Hebrew people a better understanding of God. Who were some of these prophets? Let’s look again at our Bible Time Line.

A spiritual account of creation, Genesis 1, was written about 500 BCE. In this true history, Spirit-God reveals a spiritual expression of itself, a spiritual creation where man and woman have d__________ and are declared to be g______, not fallen.
Gen. 1: 26, 27, 31.
Would our good parent God let its children become ‘bad’ or ‘fallen’? ______

Mortalnomind is the star of the untrue history and tries to get people to believe it. Is it successful?______ Do many (most) people believe they are mortal? ______
Mortalnomind believes itself, but woman/man (like Abraham} looks higher for a heavenly view. Do you remember how Abraham became the first man to look for a heavenly view, to know and serve the one God? God told him to leave…………….…………...….and go to…………….…………….….. Gen. 12: 1.

In the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, and many prophets obeyed God’s call to teach the people the truth about the One God. Who was the great teacher of this great truth in the New Testament? ______________ He received and held on to the Truth.
Now, C__________ and C___________ S_____________ receive and hold on to this truth by learning about God from the ________ and from ________________________.

The Apostle Paul explained what it means to ‘hold on’: “If we ________ in the Spirit, let us also ________ in the Spirit.” Gal. 5: 25.
This book is called Galatians because it was P______ letter to the church in G_________.
Our textbook says, “________ is the cement of civilization and progress.” SH 57: 1
‘Chastity’ means ……………
This declaration about progress is in the chapter on ___________. Does that mean that chastity applies only to married people? _______

Do you remember the story of Naaman? He was a captain in the Syrian army and he also had a skin disease called leprosy. See how much of this story you can tell in your own words, then read the story in II Kings 5: 1-4, 9-14.
Was Naaman healed by ‘dipping himself seven times’ in the Jordan River? ______
Who are the characters in this story? Naaman, an army captain; The prophet _______; The S________ army; A little ______; Naaman’s wife, the little maids mistress; and Naaman’s servants who suggested that Naaman “…________ and be clean.” Verse 13.
It looked like Naaman had fallen into a bad habit of pride and belief in disease.
Did God still love Naaman? _____ How do you know? ………

Why does Christian Science teach “the nothingness of sin, sickness, and death?”
SH 345: 6-13.

Is it OK to be angry? ______ How is this guidance from Science and Health helpful: “Resist evil – error of every sort – and it will flee from you.” SH 406: 19.
About 800 years ago, the Christian church named seven sins which were later called the seven ‘deadly sins.’ You can look them up in the dictionary. What do you think are the most harmful attitudes and actions? For example, anger, selfishness,…………

The Psalmist warns us: “Cease from ________, and forsake ________: fret not thyself in any wise to _____ ______.” Ps. 37: 8.

What was the name of the man who betrayed Jesus with a kiss? ______ He had fallen into some bad habits, like gr_______ and jeal__________. Maybe he was angry that he wasn’t as pure as his Master. He did not overcome these ungodlike habits with spiritual convictions such as gen____________, gra____________, and unself____________
Was Judas a ‘fallen man’? ________
Everyone must ‘…wake to the ________ ___ ________’ so that what will cease? …..
SH 218: 32.

What is a main reason for studying this subject of Adam and Fallen Man twice a year?

Everlasting Punishment

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Everlasting Punishment 11-1-09 Sara Lincoln

The highest and best description of God is

The lowest and saddest description of God is

We learned more about the Psalms last week. What do you remember?
Some Psalms are songs of thanks and joy.
Some Psalms are cries of complaint: O God, when are you going to help me? Ps. 77:7-9.

While h__________ c___________ is thanking and complaining, hoping and worrying, what is d_______¬¬¬___ c_________________ doing? Ps. 85: 8 and Ps. 86: 5.

Christian Science is a Christly view of what’s going on, the view that Jesus had and held on to. Creator-God does things right. And then what happens? Does Creation-Man do things wrong? ____ When did Creator lose control of Creation? ______
‘Christian’ is attached to the word ‘Science’ because Science is the Christ inviting us to know and prove that Creator-Creation is g_______.

What is a sport you like? ______ Does it include lots of knowledge and skill and fun for those who play it? If you are practicing, proving, and improving the skills you have and also learning new skills, does that make you a scientist? How does the dictionary define *science ________________________________________________
*scientist ____________________________________________
The scientific Christian (or Christian Scientist) practices and proves and improves her understanding of Creator-Creation. How long will the scientist be doing this? ______
Is this ‘scientific investigation’ everlasting? _____SH 470:21-23.

The Psalmist, like the Christian and Christian Scientist, tells himself to wake up and sing and be certain of good. “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be s______________ when I awake, with thy _____________.”
Ps. 17: 15.

Your ‘soul’ is what makes you YOU! Does it want to think bad, do bad, feel bad? ____ Does it want to punish others? _____ Soul is a name for ______. Does Soul want to punish? _____ Why not?
So is it OK to think bad, do bad, and feel bad since God does not punish? _____

Sin punishes itself, and seems to punish the person who expects to ignore God and try, like a mad scientist, to prove that ‘sinful’ is the nature of man. What is sin?

Sin is the lazy, incorrect, harmful belief that ……
Is sin necessary? _____ Science and Health tells us that sin’s ‘necessity’ is to __________ _________. SH 405: 5. Punishment for tolerating sin is not everlasting.
The punishment stops when the sin stops.

Did God send His Son into the world to punish sinners? ______
Christ Jesus did not come to _________ ____ ________but to save it. John 3: 17.

But what if a person deliberately breaks God’s law against lying, stealing, killing, or coveting? Should that person be punished? ______
Jesus met a lot of people who were guilty of these things. What did he do when the Pharisees showed him a woman who had been ‘caught in the act’ of doing wrong?
Let’s read John 8: 1-11. Did Jesus punish her? _____ Why? ……….
Jesus was the Comforter and promised to send another comforter. What comforter did he send that is always present, always restoring and multiplying peace and joy and power? _____

Divine Love does not punish. Love c__________ and g__________ man. SH 6: 3.
It is not OK to sin and be sorry over and over again! Our wise Father-Mother God established a great way to destroy ‘sin’. Science and Health says it is “to cause ____________ as the result of s______ …SH 6: 11-12. After you are sorry for sin, you need to scientifically d__________ sin by knowing that God never made it.

The tenets or main points about Christian Science are at the end of the chapter called R______________, which means ‘summary.’ One of our tenets talks about sin and punishment. What are your own words for the third tenet? ………….

Should you be honest and kind because you might be punished if you are not?______
Why should you be, why are you, honest and kind? …………..

One time when Christ Jesus was healing a paralyzed person (he had the palsy). Jesus said, “Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.” Luke 5: 20. What Jesus said made the Pharisees very angry! This is blasphemy they said! What is blasphemy? ___________________
Only God can forgive sins, they said, but Jesus corrected them. Jesus said that the
“Son ____ ______” does have power to forgive sins. Luke 5: 24. Jesus wiped away the ‘sin,’ the wrong thoughts or false beliefs, then the physical healing took place.
Can you ‘forgive sins’? What does the Lord’s Prayer say? ______________________

You are not the son-daughter of a mortal woman/man, but are you a ‘daughter/son of God’? ____ I John 3: 2 says “_______ are _____ the sons of _______” Does the Scientific Statement of Being say that you are the son/daughter of God? ____
It says you are _____________. SH 468.

Where is the kingdom of God? ______
Does this perfect place of perfect order include sin? ______ punishment? ______.
“Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is ____ and _____ God, and manifests His ________.” SH 340: 12. Everything real is a manifestation of God.
Where does it say that you are manifestation? _______

Creator-Love does not accuse or punish its Loved-Creation.
Truth-God is always correcting and comforting, but never punishing!

Probation After Death

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Probation After Death 10-25-09 Sara Lincoln

When does death happen? _________ Does life end? __________
The Psalmist was aware of a dark shadow on his path, the valley of the shadow of death. Ps. 23: 4. He decided not to be afraid. Because of that decision, he became even more aware of help at hand: a rod and a staff.
Every shepherd used his rod to defend the sheep against _________.
He used his staff to guide and control the __________.
In what ways is God a rod and a staff for us?..............
God _______________me. God _______________ me.
The Psalmist put it this way: “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.”
Ps. 37: 23.

Because the Psalmist knew that he was being protected and guided, he saw a much brighter path. Instead of dark shadow, he saw abundance of food, drink, and safety that his enemies could not steal. In his expanding view of God as the great Shepherd (Defender and Guide) he could see that kindness and love (goodness and mercy) would be with him every day (all the days of his life) and that he actually lived in God’s house. Is that were you live? ______ No matter where you live now, or may live 20 years from now, you always LIVE in your _______________.
Your ‘house’ is your _______________.

Does death have a consciousness? ______
Will you still be conscious and living 200 years from now? ______ Where? __________
When does h_________ c____________ yield to d_________ c______________? _____
“One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love,
is a foretaste of eternity.” SH 598: 23-24

The Psalmist is grateful that the Lord ‘anoints his head with oil.’ Where in Science and Health would you find the spiritual significance of ‘oil’? __________
Who is speaking in Psalm 23? ________
Did this same person write many Psalms:? ______ How do you know? ………….

Our textbook says, “Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of man; never attainable through death, but gained by walking in the pathway of Truth both before and after that which is called death.” SH 487: 3-6. How did you put this in your own words?

People started writing down their prayers and songs (Psalms) about ________ years ago, from ca ________ BC to ca________ BC. Let’s get our answers from The Bible Time Line published by the Christian Science Publishing Society.

There are ________ Psalms in our Bible. Some tell the history of the Hebrews, a history which began with what man? ____________ See Gen. 17: 1, 2, 4, 5.

There are 365 days in a year and Enoch lived 365 years on earth. Then did Enoch die?__
What happened? See Gen. 5: 23-24.
Enoch did not go through ‘probation’ (a time of testing). There was no ‘after death’ because Enoch did not die. He did not believe in the ‘evidence before his material senses’ Enoch __________ ______ _______. SH 214: 5.

Would this statement also be true: Jesus walked with God, and he was not, for God took him? ______ Mark 16: 19

Science and Health says, “The divine demand, ‘Be ye therefore perfect,’ is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable…God requires perfection, but not until the battle between Spirit and flesh is fought and the victory won.” SH 253: 32-8.
Why does Mary Baker Eddy call this demand scientific? …………..

What is a ‘contract’? …………
Do God and man have a contract? _______ In the Bible, a contract is called a covenant. The first covenant was between God and the man_________. After the flood which destroyed much of the world known to the Hebrews, Noah thanked God that he and his family and his animals had not drowned. Then God made a covenant with Noah.
Gen. 9: 11, 13.What was the covenant?........

Did Jesus make a covenant with his disciples and with us? _____
In the following examples, what is the responsibility of each party to the covenant:
*Jesus said, ‘whosoever believeth in me shall never die.’ John 11: 25-26
*He also said, ‘ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:’ Matt. 7: 7
*He also said, ‘…he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the
________ ____ ________.’ John 8: 12

The name of the man Jesus raised from the dead was __________. As Jesus prayed at the tomb, the first thing he said was “…Father, _____ ______ ______ that thou hast heard me.” John 11: 41.
Christian Science explains that “Jesus restored _________ by the understanding that ________ had never died, not by an admission that his body had died and then lived again. SH 75: 12-20.

What did you find out today about
Consciousness __________________________________________
The Psalms ____________________________________________
Enoch ______________________________________________
Covenant ______________________________________________
Probation _______________________________________________

Doctrine of Atonement

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Doctrine of Atonement 10-18-09 Sara Lincoln

What is a ‘doctrine’? _________________
In Jewish and Christian history, ‘atonement’ was a way of describing how Jesus, the innocent, let himself be crucified so that mortal man, the guilty, would be spared, not killed, for his evil thoughts and actions. Does this definition of ‘atonement’ describe God’s control of His Son, sons, and daughters?
God and Christ Jesus give us a true meaning. Atonement must mean the at-one-ment planned by the perfect Creator God for His / Her perfect Creation, man.
Are you and I ‘perfect creation man’? ______
Every Sunday, we hear the fact again, “All is i_________ M_______ and its i_________ m_____________. SH page _______.

Do you and I also need to learn what this means, to be at-one with God as Her manifestation? ______As human consciousness grows and expands year by year, it learns how to yield to divine consciousness. We learn that the human view isn’t good enough and that the divine view is natural.

While he was on earth, did Christ Jesus learn how to turn away from the human view and yield to God’s view? _____What did the Apostle Paul say in his letter to the Hebrews, chapter 5: 8-9: “Though he were a Son, yet learned he o_________ by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” What word could you substitute for ‘salvation’? _______________

What are some main examples of Jesus ‘turning away from the human view and yielding to God’s view’?
He did that big time when he, the innocent, was called guilty and put on the cross. While he was on the cross, what did he ask God to do to the Jews and Romans who were trying to kill him? _____________________________________. Luke 23:34
Maybe Mary Baker Eddy was thinking of that when she wrote her poem Christ My Refuge. Jesus was not afraid of the cross. He said, “I kiss the cross and wake to know a world more bright.” Hymn 253

Christ Jesus felt so at-one with his Father-Mother that he wasted no time thinking he was separate. He meant it when he said, ‘I and my Father are one. I do the works of my Father and my Father does good works as me.’

Tell us about a time you felt at-one, cared for and protected by your Mother-Father.
It might have been a time when your mom and dad helped you out at a difficult time.

The Apostle Paul urges us to “…be reconciled to God.” II Cor. 5: 20 be.
Maybe that could mean ‘go with God’s plan. Forget your own plan.’

You submitted a poem for publication in the Christian Science Sentinel – your plan,
and the editor is suggesting that you revise your poem. Could that be God’s plan?

I, wo-man, love God’s good plan. There is, however a rumor of an additional mind, called mortal mind, full of its own selfish desires and insisting on its own limited plan.
I do not listen to rumors, do you? ______
There’s a couplet (two lines) in the Lord’s Prayer where Jesus warns his followers not to be led astray by rumors. Which two lines? …………..
There are other ways to describe rumor, for example Heb. 13: 9: ____ ____ ____ ____.
Also SH 316: 3: “…lose sight of __________ _______________”
and SH 286:1: “…belief in a ________ ________.”

Did you ever have a pet you loved? Did you make it suffer? ______
If it was a dog, maybe it was given ‘obedience training.’ Did the dog suffer during obedience training? ____ What happened to the dog, and its owner, during this training?

Why is the atonement ‘a hard problem in theology’? SH 23: 7.
Perhaps it’s because most people in the special field of God study (theo-ology) believe that man is a sinner, separated from God. Did God create or permit sinners? _____
The Science that belongs to all theology (God study) says, ‘You can do this. You can believe that Jesus was being practical when he said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Where in Matthew is this command? _______
You are at-one with your Creator and you will get to prove this scientifically many times.

Christ Jesus did not come to earth to show people how sinful they were. So why did he come? “Christ came to destroy ____ _______ of sin.” SH 473: 6-7. Why didn’t he come to destroy sin? ……………..

Do you remember what happened in Jerusalem at the pool called Bethseda? John 5: 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14. The man went to the temple after he was healed, perhaps to thank God. Jesus found him in the temple. What did Jesus tell him? See verse 14
Jesus said, ‘sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.’ Did he mean ‘give up the sin of believing you are a limited man, separate from God’? _____
Jesus and the man knew the meaning of that command ‘sin no more.’ I think maybe Jesus wanted that man to claim his dominion, his at-one-ment with God. What do you think Jesus wanted that man to start doing and stop doing?

Maybe Jesus said to that man (and Christ Jesus definitely tells us) there are four things each of us must do to show that we are children of our Father-Mother God. Matt. 5: 44-45:
1 3
2 4

We are God’s image and ________. We are at-one with God, but we can know what this means only as we know the life and teachings of Christ Jesus. Was Jesus a Scientist? ______He proved what is true and dismissed what is untrue. SH 19: 6.
Are you a Scientist? ____ How do you know? …………
I am at-one with G____, my n__________, and my________

Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?

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Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? 10-11-09 Sara Lincoln

Did Mary Baker Eddy know the answer to this question? ____
Why did she ask it?
We have 26 subjects we study twice a year. Can you name any of them?
There is one other Bible Lesson that asks a question: Is the Universe…..

Do you think Christ Jesus ever asked either of these questions? ____
Jesus knew that many people around him believed that sin, sickness, and death were real, and so his words and works focused on the facts: none of these ungodlike conditions is true, or could be true. Why can’t sin, sickness, and death be true? ……
Who else says that sin, sickness, and death cannot be true? _____________

The Gospel of Luke gives us many examples of Jesus’ words and works.
What error or lie about God and man did Jesus contradict and reverse in the following settings?
Luke 4: 38-40
Luke 7: 12-16
Luke 17: 12-19
Luke 8: 27-28, 30-35

The Psalmist also declared his confidence that the Creator God did not create things that are the opposite of God. In Ps. 9, he said, “When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.” Ps. 9: 3. What enemies? …….

In another Psalm, she said, “He prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” What Psalm is this? _________
Is this Psalm also in Science and Health? ____
On page 578, Mary Baker Eddy offers an inspiring interpretation, for example
“________ _______ is my shepherd.”
“________ prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.”

Is there anything that could make sin, sickness, and death disappear? ______
Science and Health says these enemies need to be understood ____ ________. 480:26- 2
“With its divine proof, Science _________the evidence of material sense.” SH 215: 22

Jesus reversed the evidence of material sense and healed people. What a wonderful proof of God’s (________) presence, (________) power, (_________) knowledge, and (________) action. See definition of Good in the Glossary.

Did everyone appreciate what Jesus did, his power to heal? ____ Why?

Today, does everyone appreciate Christian Science for its power to heal? ____ Why?

Is it your duty and purpose in life to receive healing and offer healing truths to others?
Can you tell us about a healing you are a witness to? ……….

Then and now, it takes certain qualities of thought to experience Christ-healing. These are qualities that bless and bring blessing, for example, humility, o__________, mercy, p__________ and peace-making. Jesus talked about these qualities in Matthew ______.

Is there anything God cannot do or make? _____
Does infinite Mind experience sin, sickness, and death? _____ Does its manifestation? __
SH 356: 19 says God cannot e___________ or p_____________ sin, sickness, and death.

Something is called ‘a god’ if people f_______ it or w__________ it.
Why does Mrs. Eddy call sin, sickness, and death p__________ g______? SH 347: 23

Many television ads encourage us to trust d_______. What’s the danger? …….

“Man is not the offspring of ______, but of ______, ---of Life, not of matter.”
SH 289: 31

When sin, sickness, or death seem real to us, we can pray. As we pray we can think and say words like these:
Teach me to do thy will
I am thy servant; I do thy will
Create in me a clean heart
I will listen for thy voice
I am one of your perfect ideas
I thank you God for being All-in-all
What are some words you say as you pray? ……….

Before, during, and after our prayer, God, Love, gives us thoughts like these:
I have saved you and you are my witness
I have called you by name and you are mine
You are my loved son and daughter
I have put a new song in your mouth
I am the Lord and there is none else; there is no other god called sin, sickness, or death
I, Spirit, created you; you are a spiritual idea including all right ideas
What does God say to you? …………..

Unreality

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Unreality 10-4-09 Sara Lincoln

Christians and Christian Scientists consider God to be the most real thing there is, Reality itself. Twice a year, our Bible Lesson teaches us more about Reality. Since reality is THE real and only thing, why do we have a Bible Lesson about Unreality?........
Truth = Reality; Error = Unreality
What is the Christian Science definition of ‘error’ in the dictionary?______________
Does God create error? ________ Do humans create error? ________

For answers, we go not only to the dictionary, but also to our textbook. Science and Health says that error is an __________, meaning it has no real existence. 287: 22
“…evil and matter are ________ _______, and error has _____ _______.” SH 277: 7-10
Can you imagine something that doesn’t exist? _____ Do other people also do this?

Someone checking your homework might say, ‘you made an error.’ Another way of saying that would be, ‘you made a m__________.’ Is this ‘error’ an ‘evil’? _____
According to Webster’s, evil is not a mistake; evil is wrong and bad and causes suffering. For example, it is error, mistake, to say that God causes human suffering.
It is evil, wrong, to keep saying this after learning that God, Good, causes only good.
Where do we learn that God causes only good? ____________________________
Religious leaders in Jesus’ time saw his proofs that God, Good, causes only good, and yet they continued to insist that evil is real. Do people in our time believe that evil is real? __

Because we reflect God, it is natural to receive from God everything we need, for example, strength, intelligence, compassion, and the courage to ________________.
In order to receive good from God, we may have to refuse the counterfeit, the deception, the belief that we are separate from God and limited. The Apostle Peter put it this way: “________ yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may _______you in due time: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” I Peter 5: 6-7.
How do you know God cares for you? ………..

To feel ‘the mighty hand of God’ lifting us up, perhaps we need a truer view of anything ‘pulling us down.’ I’m glad to have Christian Science which shows me this true view.
“We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is ________, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming to be real and identical.” SH 472: 30

Mary Baker Eddy gives us a word-picture of a baby chick coming out of its shell.
SH 552: 16-19. In line 17, who is ‘they’? ______
We ‘peck open our shells with Christian Science’ when we do what? ……………….

Who provides your food and clothes? ________ Yes, your p________, but not m_______. We need to remember that ‘________ provides all we need, tenderly expressing the _______________ and _________________of God.’ SH 507: 3-6.

Can you find the Beatitudes? In ____________ 5: 1-12, Jesus is teaching us the thoughts and actions that make us useful, happy, and satisfied, for example………….
Jesus blesses those people who ‘grieve,’ who are sorry for their mistakes, and those people who are h _________ and willing to o________.
Who do you look up to as an example of honesty and right thinking? ________________

The Gospel of Mark tells how Jesus came preaching and saying, “…_______ ___, and believe the gospel.” Mark 1: 15. To ‘repent’ means to be sorry for insisting on mistaken beliefs. To ‘repent’ means to change your thinking. Do you ever repent? ___

We have mentioned three important ideas: be humble, obey, and repent.
These attitudes and actions help us discover who we are. Who are we? ……….

Mark 3: 1-5 tells about Jesus healing a man with a withered (useless) ________. Religious leaders were watching but not rejoicing. They just wanted to accuse Jesus of breaking one of Moses’ Commandments because Jesus ‘healed’ (worked) on the __________ day. These religious leaders refused to repent, to change their thinking. Jesus was ‘grieved’ for the ‘hardness of their hearts’ but he went ahead and did what God wanted. Jesus ________ the man. These religious leaders believed an error, the mistaken thinking that God causes suffering. Because they were not willing to question their thinking and change their thinking, they let error sink into evil which is wrong, bad and causes or allows suffering. What did Jesus know that enabled him to prove that error//evil is unreal, powerless? _____

With his eyes, Jesus saw suffering and sin, but with his vision he saw wholeness.
Do you trust eyes or vision? _______

The words of Jesus are like the message of Christian Science: “Correct material belief by ____________ _____________, and Spirit will form you anew.” SH 425: 24-26.

Unreality is m___________ b__________. Reality is s__________ u____________.

Reality

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Reality 9-27-09 Sara Lincoln

The Psalmist said to God, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Ps. 119: 18. I expect students of theology and physics have expressed the same sincere desire. Does God ‘open their eyes’? ___ And yet these seekers still view matter as part of God’s law. Is matter part of God’s law? ____, because ‘law’ deals with unchanging facts, whereas ‘matter’ is always changing. As our textbook on Science tells us, ‘…matter is the f_________, not the f_______, of existence.” SH 127: 16-22
“There is __________ in Spirit out of which _________ could be made…” SH 335: 8

Which lines in the Lord’s Prayer (SH 16-17) show that Jesus did not regard matter as the real thing…reality.

And right away, you are probably thinking of the Commandments God gave to Moses about choosing ‘reality’ over ‘matter.’ Which Commandment says it best?

Two prophets in the Old Testament wrote long books. That’s one reason they are called Major Prophets. Who are they? _________ and ___________. One of there prophets speaks to us in our Responsive Reading from the Christian Science Quarterly.
He says, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
______ ____ _______ _______.” That prophet is _________________ (29: 13).

Do you think Moses wanted to experience God as the only Reality? ____ Moses was raised in a palace as an Egyptian prince. Egypt was a pagan country; people believed in many gods. But Moses’ mother had taught him well about the one God so he was a faithful Hebrew living as an Egyptian. Because Moses was seeking a fuller understanding of God, “…the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire.”
What was burning? ________Let’s read that account. Ex. 3: 1-5
What did God want Moses to do? Ex. 3: 10…….. Did Moses obey God? ______

To accomplish his task, Moses needed to be sure that God, Spirit, was the only power, even the present reality. Perhaps he prayed using words like these:
“Nothing is real and eternal, -- nothing is Spirit, -- but God and His idea.”
SH 71: 1-2
Let’s make this into a positive statement. Instead of beginning with ‘Nothing,’ we’ll begin with ‘Everything.’ How would you say it?

Here’s one way to say it:
Everything real is of Spirit; Mother -- Father God is All-in-all and I am Her idea.

Moses was a great deliverer. Elijah was a great prophet. There are many stories about Elijah in I Kings. Elijah proved to the priests that there is only one God, and Baal is not his name! Queen Jezebel worshipped Baal, so she tried to kill Elijah for insulting Baal. Would you be frightened if someone were trying to kill you? ____Elijah was frightened. He ran away and hid in a cave. The Lord was with him and said, “What doest thou here, Elijah? “ I Kings 19: 9.
Or we might describe it this way: Elijah knew he was cared for by God so he asked himself, ‘What am I doing here? Why am I hiding?’ What did Mind tell Elijah to do and what did Elijah learn? I Kings 19: 11-12

Perhaps Elijah spoke words like these from Science and Health: “Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite __________, which bears no resemblance to spirituality,
is _____ _______.” SH 207: 30-31

In the Glossary of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy gives us helpful definitions of things we need to understand as we get to know God and man. What familiar words do you see in the definition of Elijah (Elias)? P__________; C_________ S__________.
True Prophets (like Elijah and Christian Science) focus on s___________ f_________ and deny m___________ s__________.

To increase our understanding, we look up words in the dictionary. Recently we found something that may have surprised you. Webster’s definitions of ‘substance’ and ‘matter’ include the Christian Science definitions. ‘Substance’ is ______. ‘Matter’ is __________.
Perhaps the editors of the dictionary realized the importance of including the spiritual sense of an idea, not just the human sense. I’m glad the Discoverer of Christian Science, _____________________, knew to give us a book with definitions of essential words.

Moses gave the Children of Israel, including us, a spiritual interpretation of ‘law.’
Mary Baker Eddy gave us a spiritual interpretation of reality. ‘Reality,’ like ‘law,’simply IS. No human opinion can change reality or law.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus didn’t just say to the people, ‘do better.’ Jesus said ‘____ ________.’ Matt. 5: 48. Jesus was able to heal because he did what he said. He saw the _________ _______. SH 476: 32-4

One time, the disciples saw Jesus talking to Moses (who was born about 1200 years before Jesus) and Elijah (who was born about 600 years before Jesus). Mark 9: 2-9.
This was possible because man is i_____ and has no a_____, no d________.
Like Jesus, we are agreeing only with i______________ c_______________.
SH 279: 11-12.
In this consciousness, ideas can be touched; they are t_________ and r__________.
The spiritual facts of being, Reality, appear as we divest (get rid of) f_______ t________ and m___________ e_____________. SH 428: 8-14. By doing this, we “sweep away the _______ and give place to the ________.”

Substance

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Dear 7th graders, Welcome to your new class. Let’s do a short ‘getting to know you’ exercise then we’ll see if we can learn anything new about Substance, the subject of this week’s Bible Lesson.

Substance 9-13-09 Sara Lincoln

Perhaps you do not often use the word ’substance’ in conversation, but what you think it means shows up in your life every day. What are some words that explain the meaning of ‘substance’?

What does the dictionary say?
Doe the dictionary give the Christian Science definition? _____

Here’s another way to open up the meaning of this word Substance in your daily life.
Ask yourself, “What do I hope for and want?” Quickly now, before you think much about it, write down what you hope for and want:

Do you collect things, like sea shells or baseball cards? People like what they collect; they treasure their collection. The US Government collects money in the form of taxes and puts that money in the US Treasury. Most adults also collect money. What do they do with it?

Where is ‘the Sermon on the Mount’? ___________ In that collection of teachings, Jesus talked about treasures. In Matt. 6: 20-21, he said we should lay up (put) our treasures in ____________. Why?
What you ‘treasure’ is what you love with your heart, your thought.

There are material riches and heavenly riches. What’s the difference? ……..
Jesus gave some good guidance. He said, seek ye the __________ ___ ________ (heavenly riches) and all these things (material riches) shall be added unto you. Luke 12: 31
And don’t worry, he said. “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you ___ _________”
Luke 13: 32. God loves us so much that He gives us every thought and idea and thing we need, and God helps us want what He gives!

I’m thinking of a time when Jesus was talking to thousands of people outside of town. The people were hungry for the love of God that Jesus was talking about. When the people got hungry for food, what did Jesus do? Matt. 14: 17-21.
Is this Bible story about ‘substance’? ____ What kind of substance?

Is this table ‘substance’? _____ Are tables necessary here, at home, in school? _____ Christian Science explains that a table is not m_________ but is m________________.
See the Scientific Statement of Being, page _________. See line 9-11. How would you explain the difference between ‘matter’ and ‘manifestation’?
I am _______________ but I am not ____________.

God gives us what we need. Here’s how it works: God gives the idea. We accept the idea. The idea appears to human consciousness as a thing or an act.

What do you give to God? ………..
Some Christians (and others) give 10% of their income (their riches) to the church. If I give 10% of my substance (my riches or wealth) to the church, is that enough? ______

One time a ruler asked Jesus, ‘what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ Maybe he wanted to have a good life here and a continuing life instead of death.
What would you tell the ruler to do?...................
Jesus said, ‘keep the Commandments.’ The ruler said, ‘I do that already.’ Well then, Jesus said, the next thing you need to do is ‘sell everything you have and give the money to the poor. Have treasure in heaven. Come follow me.’ Luke 18: 18-24
Did Jesus want the man to be poor? ______Jesus wanted the man to desire and accept heavenly r________ first so that he could then have human r_______ to share with others.

The Scientific Statement of Being says ‘man is not material; he is spiritual.’
Could we also say, s_________ is not material; s__________ is spiritual?
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Man

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Man 9-6-09 Sara Lincoln

Does God love you?___ How do you know? Do you love you? ____ Why?

“Who do you think you are, anyway?” You might have heard this negative reaction to your self-expression. Does self-expression include ‘showing off’?____ Your first response to this question needs to be thought, not words. In thought you might ask yourself, “am I feeling or acting superior to others? Putting myself ahead of others in importance?” It takes honesty and humility to ask and answer such questions, but you need to move on from question to answer. Is your Parent Mind always showing you how to be and do? ___ You are learning through Christian Science how to be real Christians, actual followers of Christ Jesus. The Bible and Science and Health are teaching you to quickly take a spiritual direction in thought, and that is to remember who you really are. Who are you, according to God? Who are you really, according to spiritual sense? There’s a hint on page 468 of SH.

Did people ask Jesus “who do you think you are, anyway?” ____ Religious leaders criticized Jesus for doing things they couldn’t do and didn’t understand. People were afraid and jealous too. They could have said, ‘teach us more.’ Instead they said, ‘this is not what we have always believed so how could it be true???’

Did people criticize Mary Baker Eddy by asking, “Who do you think you are, anyway?”_
Most people had a conviction that ‘man’ is material and mortal, that man is a victim of sin, disease, and death, and no one can be sure whether God will help out or not! Because Mrs. Eddy greatly desired to know the truth about God and man, God-Mind revealed it to her. Because she loved mankind, she wrote a book describing how anyone can ‘know the truth’ and how ‘the truth will make free’ as Jesus promised.
Mrs. Eddy makes many statements about ‘man’ as did many Bible writers.
What did the Prophet Isaiah say? Isa. 43: 5, 21
What did the Prophet Jeremiah say? Jer. 31: 3
What did the Apostle Paul say? Rom. 8: 16
What did Christ Jesus say? Matt. 5: 48
What did Mary Baker Eddy say in the definition of man? SH 475. Let’s find some phrases that are strong statements of truth about man (like the ones Christ Jesus made):

The definition says ‘you include all right ideas,’ but it also says ‘you possess no life, intelligence, nor creative power of your own.’ Is there a contradiction? Or did I miss something?
Christian Science explains: ‘man r__________ spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.’

Would you like to have “enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace”? You find these through a s____________ s_________ of b___________. SH 265: 10. ‘Scientific’ means _______

According to our textbook, that man is blessed ‘who seeth his brother’s _______ and ______________ it, seeking his own in another’s good.’ SH 518: 17-19
When did you ever see another person’s need and supply it?..........

Maybe you know the names of some other Christian religions, for example, P________________, M____________, E________________, B_____________.
These religious sects believe that God became flesh, in the form of Jesus. Do Christian Scientists believe this? ____ In the Bible, John says ‘the Word was made flesh.’
John 1: 1, 14. This means the Word of God corrects and heals the flesh. The Word heals the human mind which believes in flesh. The Word speaks to man’s thought and body.
Science and Health warns us not to ‘war’ over the corporeality of Jesus….not to fight over the nature of Jesus, but to rejoice “in the _____________ of our God.”
‘Affluence’ means __________________________________________.
Maybe we could say Jesus was a m_________ who taught us the truth about M______.
Can you be the same? Can you be a m______ or w________ who knows and lives the truth about M_________?

Christ Jesus

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Christ Jesus 8-30-09 Sara Lincoln

Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah said it would happen. He said, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: “ Isa. 9: 6. Not ‘shall be’ in the future, but ‘will be,’
is now.
And what will ‘this child, this son’ be like?
Isaiah said this son will not be influenced by what the material senses say. Isaiah lists eight values that this son will be influenced by: wisdom and good advice and right purpose and spiritual dominion and knowledge and respect for God and quick understanding. and righteousness (right thinking). This son’s authority (government) will keep expanding and there will be no limits to the wholeness he brings to all mankind.
Did Isaiah’s prophecy come true? ____ Did a man like this come to earth? ____
Are there people like this on earth today? ______

In our world, is evil expanding and threatening all mankind, or is the authority (government) of Good expanding and blessing everyone with wholeness and safety?
You have to choose you know, decide which of these two questions is the one you will seek answers to and evidence of.
Are you willing to see Good expanding or do you agree with mortal mind that says evil is expanding?... ’Mortal mind’ is the supposed ‘mind’ that hated Jesus, and hates the Christ.
Put a circle around the values you are influenced by.

Mary Baker Eddy points out that “Jesus was the offspring of Mary’s self-conscious communion with God.” SH 29: 32. What are the negative and positive (or you could say the material and spiritual) meanings of ‘self-conscious’?

Jesus healed a paralyzed man when he said: “Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.” Matt. 9: 2. The scribes said it was blasphemy (serious disrespect to God) to say and do things that only God could say and do, so Jesus stated plainly, “the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins” and heal the sick. Matt. 9: 6. Jesus was the Son of God, so why did he call himself the Son of man?...........
Who else is the son of man? ……..

Sin is only the belief in a power opposed to God. You have the ability to forgive (remove) sins and heal the sick when you remember the metaphor of the mirror.
What you see in the mirror is you, and yet not you. It is r______________.
Mind looks at its creation just as you look in the mirror. What Mind sees in the mirror is a reflection called you, doing the works of Mind, of God, just as Jesus commanded.

See Matt. 17: 1-8. Special things happen to people who think and live close to God. Last week we noticed that Elijah was ‘translated’: he left the earth without dying. This week we read that Christ Jesus was ‘transfigured.’ His face ____________; his raiment (robe) ____________. He was having a conversation with _________ and _________ who lived hundreds of years before Jesus. Peter wanted to honor and celebrate the occasion by building three tabernacles. What is a tabernacle?
When the Children of Israel were crossing the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land of Canaan, Moses built a tabernacle, a big wooden structure, to protect the Ark of the Covenant which contained the ________________. Ex. 25, 26, 40.
But God was not interested in a big memorial for Jesus. What did God want the disciples to do? …….…“A bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”
Listen to him.
Then Jesus did something which showed how he valued unselfishness and thoughtfulness. He knew that hearing God’s voice might have frightened his disciples, so he quickly said, “Arise, and be not afraid.”

Science and Health says that Jesus showed more than human power in what he said and did. SH 539: 27-30. When do you have more than human power? …………….
Jesus is not here today but S_________ is. If something is a Science it means anyone can learn it and prove it. Jesus reversed “the evidence before the corporeal human senses.” SH 116: 5. You can do the same when you know and apply the s________ s_________ of b_______ which says that you are, man is ………..

Did Jesus establish a church? ____ SH 136: 1-2.
What is the foundation of the church Jesus established? ________________
After only three years of teaching, preaching, and healing, Jesus was accused of blasphemy and of stirring up the people. The Pharisees insisted that Jesus be crucified, like a criminal, and the Romans carried out the deed. But after only three days in the tomb, Jesus walked out. His friend, Mary Magdalene, was surprised to find the tomb empty, and even more surprised that Jesus was right there, talking to her. He told her to “go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” John 20: 11-17
Does this mean that you have the same Father that Jesus had? ______

Jesus said and did many things that are written in the Bible.
What do you think was the most important thing Jesus said? …….
What do you think was the most important thing Jesus did?..........

To me, it was “the proof of his final triumph over body and matter.” SH 42: 15-18
Jesus told his disciples to continue the work of teaching, preaching, and healing, then he rose up into heaven; he ascended. And the disciples did go forth, preaching, “and confirming the word with signs following.” Mark 16: 19-20

Thanks to Christian Science, thousands of new disciples are confirming Jesus’ preaching and healing. When can you be a disciple who witnesses to the spiritual sense of being, as Jesus did? __________

Authority is now in the eight values mentioned at the top of page 1. How will these values apply to your new school year, your new teachers and friends and assignments?