First Church of Christ, Scientist, Asheville, 3-9-2016
- KJV I Thess 5:21
- 21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
- KJV Luke 18:18, 19
- 18 …a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
- 3 John 11
11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doe th good is of God: but he that doe th evil hath not seen God.
- KJV Deut 5:1, 3, 4, 6, 7
- 1 …Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
- KJV Deut 6:4-6
- 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
- KJV I Chron 29:11
- 11 Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
- KJV Ps 139:17, 18 (to 1st sand:)
- 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
- KJV Ps 145:3
- 3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
- KJV Ps 147:5
- 5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
- KJV Isaiah 55:8-13
- 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
- KJV John 3:16
- 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- KJV John 10:11, 14, 15, 16 1st third and, 30
- 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 30 I and my Father are one.
- KJV John 14:23 1st If
- 23 …If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
- KJV John 15:4 (to 1st you.), 9, 13
- 4 Abide in me, and I in you. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- KJV John 16:32
- 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
- KJV John 17:5, 20-26
- 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
- KJV Ephesians 4:1-7, 13
- 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
- KJV Rev 19:6 1st Alleluia, 7
- 6 …Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him:
- S&H 340:15-24 (to man;)
- “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus
xx. 3.) The First Commandment is my favorite text.
It demonstrates Christian Science. It inculcates the tri-
unity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies that man shall
have no other spirit or mind but God, eternal good, and
that all men shall have one Mind. The divine Principle
of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by
which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal.
One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; con-
stitutes the brotherhood of man;
- S&H 469:30-5
- With
one Father, even God, the whole family of man would
be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,
the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,
and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which
constitute divine Science.
- S&H 470:11
- Divine Science explains the abstract statement that
there is one Mind by the following self-evident propo-
sition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the
unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can
only seem to be real by giving reality to the
unreal. The children of God have but one Mind. How
can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man,
never sins? The standard of perfection was originally
God and man. Has God taken down His own standard,
and has man fallen?
- S&H 171:4-13
- Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of ma-
teriality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will
reopen with the key of divine Science the gates
of Paradise which human beliefs have closed,
and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free,
not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities either
of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brain-
ology to learn how much of a man he is.
Mind’s control over the universe, including man, is
no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science.
- S&H 19:29-1
- Jesus urged the commandment, “Thou shalt have no
other gods before me,” which may be ren-
dered: Thou shalt have no belief of Life as
mortal; thou shalt not know evil, for there is one Life,-
even God, good.
- S&H 26:10-12
- The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his
own statements: “I am the way, the truth, and the life;”
“I and my Father are one.
- S&H 361:15
- … – that is, one in
quality, not in quantity. As a drop of water is one with
the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God
and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scrip-
ture reads: “For in Him we live, and move, and have
our being.
- S&H 465:16-1
- Question. – Is there more than one God or Principle?
Answer. – There is not. Principle and its idea is one,
and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-
present Being, and His reflection is man and the universe.
- S&H 267:5-6
- God is one. The
allness of Deity is His oneness.
- S&H 467:3 The, 4-13
- The first demand of this Science is, “Thou
shalt have no other gods before me.” This me is Spirit.
Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt
have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no
truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second
is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one
Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love.
Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact
becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brother-
hood of man will be established. Having no other gods,
turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide
him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, hav-
ing that Mind which was also in Christ.
This me is Spirit.
Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt
have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no
truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second
is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one
Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love.
Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact
becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brother-
hood of man will be established.
- S&H 315:3
- That saying of our Master, “I and my Father are one,”
separated him from the scholastic theology of the rabbis.
His better understanding of God was a rebuke
to them. He knew of but one Mind and laid
no claim to any other. He knew that the Ego was Mind
instead of body and that matter, sin, and evil were not
Mind; and his understanding of this divine Science
brought upon him the anathemas of the age.
- S&H 204:20
- When will the ages under-
stand the Ego, and realize only one God, one
Mind or intelligence?
- S&H 205:22
- When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law
of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded;
whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders
man’s normal drift towards the one Mind, one
God, and leads human thought into opposite channels
where selfishness reigns.
- S&H 183:29
- If Christian
Science dishonors human belief, it honors spir-
itual understanding; and the one Mind only is entitled to
honor.
- S&H 216:30
- Give up
your material belief of mind in matter, and
have but one Mind, even God; for this Mind forms its
own likeness. The loss of man’s identity through the
understanding which Science confers is impossible; and
the notion of such a possibility is more absurd than to
conclude that individual musical tones are lost in the
origin of harmony.
- S&H 240:10
- In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above
what it reflects, all is one grand concord. Change this
statement, suppose Mind to be governed by
matter or Soul in body, and you lose the key-
note of being, and there is continual discord. Mind is
perpetual motion. Its symbol is the sphere. The rota-
tions and revolutions of the universe of Mind go on
eternally.
- S&H 588:11
- There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or
Mind, governing all existence; man and woman un-
changed forever in their individual characters, even as
numbers which never blend with each other, though they
are governed by one Principle. All the objects of God’s
creation reflect one Mind, and whatever reflects not this
one Mind, is false and erroneous, even the belief that
life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and
material.
- S&H 519:16
- What
can fathom infinity! How shall we declare Him, till,
in the language of the apostle, “we all come in the unity
of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto
a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the ful-
ness of Christ”?
- S&H 572:6-8, 12
- “Love one an-
other” (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound
counsel of the inspired writer.
Love fulfils the law of Christian Science, and nothing
short of this divine Principle, understood and demon-
strated, can ever furnish the vision of the
Apocalypse, open the seven seals of error with
Truth, or uncover the myriad illusions of sin, sickness,
and death. Under the supremacy of Spirit, it will be seen
and acknowledged that matter must disappear.
- S&H 502:29 only
- There is but one creator and one creation.
I Thess 5:21
Luke 18:18, 19
3 John 11
Deut 5:1, 3, 4, 6, 7
Deut 5:1, 3, 4, 6, 7
Deut 6:4-6
I Chron 29:11
Ps 139:17, 18 (to sand:)
Ps 145:3
Ps 147:5
Isaiah 55:8-13
John 3:16
John 10:11, 14, 15, 16 third and, 30
John 14:23 If
John 15:4 (to you.), 9, 13
John 16:32
John 17:5, 20-26
Ephesians 4:1-7, 13
Rev 19:6 Alleluia, 7340:15-24 (to man;)
469:30-5
470:11
171:4-13
19:29-1
26:10-12
361:15
465:16-1
267:5-6
467:3 The, 4-13
315:3
204:20
205:22
183:29
216:30
240:10
588:11
519:16
572:6-8, 12
502:29 only
Luke 18:18, 19
3 John 11
Deut 5:1, 3, 4, 6, 7
Deut 5:1, 3, 4, 6, 7
Deut 6:4-6
I Chron 29:11
Ps 139:17, 18 (to sand:)
Ps 145:3
Ps 147:5
Isaiah 55:8-13
John 3:16
John 10:11, 14, 15, 16 third and, 30
John 14:23 If
John 15:4 (to you.), 9, 13
John 16:32
John 17:5, 20-26
Ephesians 4:1-7, 13
Rev 19:6 Alleluia, 7340:15-24 (to man;)
469:30-5
470:11
171:4-13
19:29-1
26:10-12
361:15
465:16-1
267:5-6
467:3 The, 4-13
315:3
204:20
205:22
183:29
216:30
240:10
588:11
519:16
572:6-8, 12
502:29 only
437…Father, Thou art very near us
444…I am the Lord, there is none else
157…Jesus’ prayer for all his brethren
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