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Wednesday Meeting August 8, 2018, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville, NC
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KJV II Peter 1:1-8
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1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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KJV Mark 10:40-43
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40 …Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. 41 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: 42 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. 43 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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KJV Mark 9:33-37
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33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? 34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. 35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. 36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, 37 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
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KJV Luke 12:22-32
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22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? 27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? 29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. 30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. 31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. 32 …for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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KJV Romans 8:14-17 (to 1st Christ)
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14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ
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KJV Gal 5:1, 13-14
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1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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KJV I John 3:2-3
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2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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KJV Rev 22:14
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14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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S&H 288:27-2
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Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal
\nman, forever unlimited by the mortal senses.
\nThe Christ-element in the Messiah made him
\nthe Way-shower, Truth and Life.
\nThe eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have
\nlearned from error, and man’s real existence as a child
\nof God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal
\nlife.
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S&H 264:13
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As mortals gain more correct views of God and man,
\nmultitudinous objects of creation, which before were
\ninvisible, will become visible. When we
\nrealize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of
\nmatter, this understanding will expand into self-com-
\npleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other
\nconsciousness.
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S&H 323:28-4
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The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen
\nas felt. It is the “still, small voice” of Truth
\nuttering itself. We are either turning away
\nfrom this utterance, or we are listening to it and going
\nup higher. Willingness to become as a little child and
\nto leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of
\nthe advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks
\nand joy to see them disappear, – this disposition helps
\nto precipitate the ultimate harmony.
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S&H 130:15
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Christian Science, properly understood, would dis-
\nabuse the human mind of material beliefs which war
\nagainst spiritual facts; and these material
\nbeliefs must be denied and cast out to make
\nplace for truth. You cannot add to the contents of a
\nvessel already full. Laboring long to shake the adult’s
\nfaith in matter and to inculcate a grain of faith in God, –
\nan inkling of the ability of Spirit to make the body har-
\nmonious, – the author has often remembered our Master’s
\nlove for little children, and understood how truly such as
\nthey belong to the heavenly kingdom.
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S&H 226:14
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God has built a higher platform of human rights, and
\nHe has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not
\nmade through code or creed, but in demonstra-
\ntion of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”
\nHuman codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and
\nhygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine
\nScience rends asunder these fetters, and man’s birthright
\nof sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.
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S&H 227:14-16, 21
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Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to fore-
\nsee the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legiti-
\nmate state of man.
\nChristian Science raises the standard of liberty and
\ncries: “Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sick-
\nness, sin, and death!” Jesus marked out the
\nway. Citizens of the world, accept the “glori-
\nous liberty of the children of God,” and be free! This
\nis your divine right. The illusion of material sense, not
\ndivine law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs,
\ncrippled your capacities, enfeebled your body, and de-
\nfaced the tablet of your being.
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S&H 253:9-21, 25
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I hope, dear reader, I am leading you into the under-
\nstanding of your divine rights, your heaven-bestowed har-
\nmony, – that, as you read, you see there is no
\ncause (outside of erring, mortal, material sense
\nwhich is not power) able to make you sick or
\nsinful; and I hope that you are conquering this false sense.
\nKnowing the falsity of so-called material sense, you can
\nassert your prerogative to overcome the belief in sin, dis-
\nease, or death.
\nIf you believe in and practise wrong knowingly, you
\ncan at once change your course and do right. Matter can
\nmake no opposition to right endeavors against
\nsin or sickness, for matter is inert, mindless.
\nDo not believe in any supposed necessity for sin, dis-
\nease, or death, knowing (as you ought to know) that God
\nnever requires obedience to a so-called material law, for
\nno such law exists. The belief in sin and death is de-
\nstroyed by the law of God, which is the law of Life in-
\nstead of death, of harmony instead of discord, of Spirit
\ninstead of the flesh.
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S&H 106:7
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God has endowed man with inalien-
\nable rights, among which are self-government,
\nreason, and conscience. Man is properly self-
\ngoverned only when he is guided rightly and governed by
\nhis Maker, divine Truth and Love.
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S&H 37:22-25
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It is possible, – yea, it is the duty
\nand privilege of every child, man, and woman, – to follow
\nin some degree the example of the Master by the demon-
\nstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness.
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S&H 128:4
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The term Science, properly understood, refers only to
\nthe laws of God and to His government of the universe,
\ninclusive of man. From this it follows that
\nbusiness men and cultured scholars have found
\nthat Christian Science enhances their endurance and
\nmental powers, enlarges their perception of character,
\ngives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an
\nability to exceed their ordinary capacity. The human
\nmind, imbued with this spiritual understanding, becomes
\nmore elastic, is capable of greater endurance, escapes
\nsomewhat from itself, and requires less repose. A knowl-
\nedge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities
\nand possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of
\nthought, giving mortals access to broader and higher
\nrealms. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight
\nand perspicacity.
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II Peter 1:1-8
\nMark 10:40-43
\nMark 9:33-37
\nLuke 12:22-32
\nRomans 8:14-17 (to Christ)
\nGal 5:1,13-14
\nI John 3:2-3
\nRev 22:14
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288:27-2
\n264:13
\n323:28-4
\n130:15
\n226:14
\n227:14-16, 21
\n253:9-21, 25
\n106:7
\n37:22-25
\n128:4
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Hymns
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15…As gold by fire is tested
\n154…Jesus’ prayer for all his brethren
\n564…Quiet, Lord, my froward heart
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Link to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/your-divine-rights/
", "content_text": "Wednesday Meeting August 8, 2018, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville, NC\n\n\n\nKJV II Peter 1:1-8\n1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n\nKJV Mark 10:40-43\n40 …Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. 41 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: 42 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. 43 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.\n\n\nKJV Mark 9:33-37\n33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? 34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. 35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. 36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, 37 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.\n\n\nKJV Luke 12:22-32\n22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? 27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? 29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. 30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. 31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. 32 …for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.\n\n\nKJV Romans 8:14-17 (to 1st Christ)\n14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ\n\n\nKJV Gal 5:1, 13-14\n1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.\n\n\nKJV I John 3:2-3\n2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.\n\n\nKJV Rev 22:14\n14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.\n\n\nS&H 288:27-2\nScience reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal\nman, forever unlimited by the mortal senses.\nThe Christ-element in the Messiah made him\nthe Way-shower, Truth and Life.\nThe eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have\nlearned from error, and man’s real existence as a child\nof God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal\nlife.\n\n\nS&H 264:13\nAs mortals gain more correct views of God and man,\nmultitudinous objects of creation, which before were\ninvisible, will become visible. When we\nrealize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of\nmatter, this understanding will expand into self-com-\npleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other\nconsciousness.\n\n\nS&H 323:28-4\nThe effects of Christian Science are not so much seen\nas felt. It is the “still, small voice” of Truth\nuttering itself. We are either turning away\nfrom this utterance, or we are listening to it and going\nup higher. Willingness to become as a little child and\nto leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of\nthe advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks\nand joy to see them disappear, – this disposition helps\nto precipitate the ultimate harmony.\n\n\nS&H 130:15\nChristian Science, properly understood, would dis-\nabuse the human mind of material beliefs which war\nagainst spiritual facts; and these material\nbeliefs must be denied and cast out to make\nplace for truth. You cannot add to the contents of a\nvessel already full. Laboring long to shake the adult’s\nfaith in matter and to inculcate a grain of faith in God, –\nan inkling of the ability of Spirit to make the body har-\nmonious, – the author has often remembered our Master’s\nlove for little children, and understood how truly such as\nthey belong to the heavenly kingdom.\n\n\nS&H 226:14\nGod has built a higher platform of human rights, and\nHe has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not\nmade through code or creed, but in demonstra-\ntion of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”\nHuman codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and\nhygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine\nScience rends asunder these fetters, and man’s birthright\nof sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.\n\n\nS&H 227:14-16, 21\nDiscerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to fore-\nsee the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legiti-\nmate state of man.\nChristian Science raises the standard of liberty and\ncries: “Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sick-\nness, sin, and death!” Jesus marked out the\nway. Citizens of the world, accept the “glori-\nous liberty of the children of God,” and be free! This\nis your divine right. The illusion of material sense, not\ndivine law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs,\ncrippled your capacities, enfeebled your body, and de-\nfaced the tablet of your being.\n\n\nS&H 253:9-21, 25\nI hope, dear reader, I am leading you into the under-\nstanding of your divine rights, your heaven-bestowed har-\nmony, – that, as you read, you see there is no\ncause (outside of erring, mortal, material sense\nwhich is not power) able to make you sick or\nsinful; and I hope that you are conquering this false sense.\nKnowing the falsity of so-called material sense, you can\nassert your prerogative to overcome the belief in sin, dis-\nease, or death.\nIf you believe in and practise wrong knowingly, you\ncan at once change your course and do right. Matter can\nmake no opposition to right endeavors against\nsin or sickness, for matter is inert, mindless.\nDo not believe in any supposed necessity for sin, dis-\nease, or death, knowing (as you ought to know) that God\nnever requires obedience to a so-called material law, for\nno such law exists. The belief in sin and death is de-\nstroyed by the law of God, which is the law of Life in-\nstead of death, of harmony instead of discord, of Spirit\ninstead of the flesh.\n\n\nS&H 106:7\nGod has endowed man with inalien-\nable rights, among which are self-government,\nreason, and conscience. Man is properly self-\ngoverned only when he is guided rightly and governed by\nhis Maker, divine Truth and Love.\n\n\nS&H 37:22-25\nIt is possible, – yea, it is the duty\nand privilege of every child, man, and woman, – to follow\nin some degree the example of the Master by the demon-\nstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness.\n\n\nS&H 128:4\nThe term Science, properly understood, refers only to\nthe laws of God and to His government of the universe,\ninclusive of man. From this it follows that\nbusiness men and cultured scholars have found\nthat Christian Science enhances their endurance and\nmental powers, enlarges their perception of character,\ngives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an\nability to exceed their ordinary capacity. The human\nmind, imbued with this spiritual understanding, becomes\nmore elastic, is capable of greater endurance, escapes\nsomewhat from itself, and requires less repose. A knowl-\nedge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities\nand possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of\nthought, giving mortals access to broader and higher\nrealms. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight\nand perspicacity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nII Peter 1:1-8\nMark 10:40-43\nMark 9:33-37\nLuke 12:22-32\nRomans 8:14-17 (to Christ)\nGal 5:1,13-14\nI John 3:2-3\nRev 22:14\n288:27-2\n264:13\n323:28-4\n130:15\n226:14\n227:14-16, 21\n253:9-21, 25\n106:7\n37:22-25\n128:4\n\nHymns\n15…As gold by fire is tested\n154…Jesus’ prayer for all his brethren\n564…Quiet, Lord, my froward heart\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/your-divine-rights/", "date_published": "2018-08-08T19:18:24-07:00", "date_modified": "2018-08-08T19:26:25-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/be-an-active-witness/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/be-an-active-witness/", "title": "Be an active witness", "content_html": "
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KJV Ps 19:1-4 (to 1st world.)
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1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
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KJV Isaiah 55:8-12 (to 1st peace)
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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:
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KJV Isaiah 43:10-12
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10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
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KJV John 1:6-13
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6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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KJV Rom 8:16-17
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16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;
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KJV I John 1:1, 3
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1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us:
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KJV I John 5:6 1st it
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6 …it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
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KJV Acts 3:1-8
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1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; 3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. 4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. 5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. 6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. 7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
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KJV Acts 4:7-10, 18-20
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7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
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KJV Luke 24:48
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48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
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S&H 303:25-28
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God, without the image and likeness of Himself, would
\nbe a nonentity, or Mind unexpressed. He would be
\nwithout a witness or proof of His own na-
\nture.
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S&H 151:26
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All that really exists is the divine Mind and
\nits idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found har-
\nmonious and eternal. The straight and narrow way is to
\nsee and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and
\nfollow the leadings of truth.
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S&H 516:4
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The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love,
\nwhich constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation;
\nand when we subordinate the false testimony of the
\ncorporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see
\nthis true likeness and reflection everywhere.
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S&H 476:28-5
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When speaking of God’s children, not the children of
\nmen, Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you;”
\nthat is, Truth and Love reign in the real
\nman, showing that man in God’s image is
\nunfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per-
\nfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
\nman appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour
\nsaw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man
\nhealed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom
\nof God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.
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S&H 409:23
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This
\nmortal is put off, and the new man or real man is put
\non, in proportion as mortals realize the Science of man
\nand seek the true model.
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S&H 476:1, 9-10
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Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals.
\nThey are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil,
\nwhich declares that man begins in dust or as a material
\nembryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are
\ninseparable as divine Principle and idea.
\nGod is the Principle of
\nman, and man is the idea of God.
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S&H 351:16
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We cannot bring out the practical proof of Christianity,
\nwhich Jesus required, while error seems as potent and
\nreal to us as Truth, and while we make a per-
\nsonal devil and an anthropomorphic God our
\nstarting-points, – especially if we consider Satan as a
\nbeing coequal in power with Deity, if not superior to Him.
\nBecause such starting-points are neither spiritual nor
\nscientific, they cannot work out the Spirit-rule of Christian
\nhealing, which proves the nothingness of error, discord,
\nby demonstrating the all-inclusiveness of harmonious
\nTruth.
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\n
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S&H 120:15
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Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor
\ncan the material senses bear reliable testimony on the sub-
\nject of health. The Science of Mind-healing
\nshows it to be impossible for aught but Mind
\nto testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man. There-
\nfore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testi-
\nmony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously
\nexistent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and
\nthus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows
\nfalse evidence, and refutes materialistic logic.
\n
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S&H 417:16
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When you silence the witness against your
\nplea, you destroy the evidence, for the disease disap-
\npears. The evidence before the corporeal senses is not
\nthe Science of immortal man.
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S&H 475:14
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[Man] is the compound idea of
\nGod, including all right ideas; the generic term for
\nall that reflects God’s image and likeness; the conscious
\nidentity of being as found in Science, in which man is
\nthe reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal;
\nthat which has no separate mind from God; that which
\nhas not a single quality underived from Deity; that which
\npossesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his
\nown, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.
\n
\n
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S&H 205:22
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When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law
\nof loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded;
\nwhereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders
\nman’s normal drift towards the one Mind, one
\nGod, and leads human thought into opposite channels
\nwhere selfishness reigns.
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\n
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S&H 510:9
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Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, in whose
\n“light shall we see light;” and this illumination is re-
\nflected spiritually by all who walk in the light and turn
\naway from a false material sense.
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S&H 174:20
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Truth is revealed. It needs only to
\nbe practised.
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Ps 19:1-4 (to world.)
\nIsaiah 55:8-12 (to peace)
\nIsaiah 43:10-12
\nJohn 1:6-13
\nRom 8:16-17
\nI John 1:1,3
\nI John 5:6 it
\nActs 3:1-8
\nActs 4:7-10,18-20
\nLuke 24:48
\n303:25-28
\n151:26
\n516:4
\n476:28-5
\n409:23
\n476:1,9-10
\n351:16
\n120:15
\n417:16
\n475:14
\n205:22
\n510:9
\n174:20
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Hymns
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19…Behold, they stand in robes of white
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482…
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12…Arise yet people, take your stand
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In this perfect man the Saviour\nsaw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man\nhealed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom\nof God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.\n\n\nS&H 409:23\nThis\nmortal is put off, and the new man or real man is put\non, in proportion as mortals realize the Science of man\nand seek the true model.\n\n\nS&H 476:1, 9-10\nMortals are the counterfeits of immortals.\nThey are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil,\nwhich declares that man begins in dust or as a material\nembryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are\ninseparable as divine Principle and idea.\nGod is the Principle of\nman, and man is the idea of God.\n\n\nS&H 351:16\nWe cannot bring out the practical proof of Christianity,\nwhich Jesus required, while error seems as potent and\nreal to us as Truth, and while we make a per-\nsonal devil and an anthropomorphic God our\nstarting-points, – especially if we consider Satan as a\nbeing coequal in power with Deity, if not superior to Him.\nBecause such starting-points are neither spiritual nor\nscientific, they cannot work out the Spirit-rule of Christian\nhealing, which proves the nothingness of error, discord,\nby demonstrating the all-inclusiveness of harmonious\nTruth.\n\n\nS&H 120:15\nHealth is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor\ncan the material senses bear reliable testimony on the sub-\nject of health. 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Wednesday, 7-5-2017
\nFirst Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville
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KJV Phil 2:5
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5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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KJV Matt 4:17 1st Jesus, 23
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17 …Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
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KJV Matt 5:1-10 1st he
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1 …he [Jesus] went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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KJV Isaiah 61:1-3
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1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
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KJV Luke 18:9-13
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9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
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KJV John 8:3-12
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3 …the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
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S&H\u00a0271:8, 21 Sermon on the mount
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He [Jesus] knew that the phi-
\nlosophy, Science, and proof of Christianity were in Truth,
\ncasting out all inharmony.
\nWhen the Science of Christianity
\nappears, it will lead you into all truth. The
\nSermon on the Mount is the essence of this
\nScience, and the eternal life, not the death of Jesus, is
\nits outcome.
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S&H\u00a0283:1 Poor
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As mortals begin to understand Spirit,
\nthey give up the belief that there is any true existence
\napart from God.
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S&H\u00a0518:15
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The rich in spirit help the poor in
\none grand brotherhood, all having the same
\nPrinciple, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth
\nhis brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in
\nanother’s good. Love giveth to the least spiritual idea
\nmight, immortality, and goodness, which shine through
\nall as the blossom shines through the bud. All the varied
\nexpressions of God reflect health, holiness, immortality –
\ninfinite Life, Truth, and Love.
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S&H\u00a0265:23-5 Mourn
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Who that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained
\nstronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration after
\nheavenly good comes even before we discover
\nwhat belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss
\nof earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending
\npath of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform
\nus that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is
\nspiritual.
\nThe pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away
\nfalse pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections
\nfrom sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good,
\n“rejoicing the heart.” Such is the sword of
\nScience, with which Truth decapitates error,
\nmateriality giving place to man’s higher individuality and
\ndestiny.
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S&H\u00a0192:30 Meek
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Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed
\nlove, receives directly the divine power.
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S&H\u00a0272:3-8
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The spiritual sense of truth must be gained before
\nTruth can be understood. This sense is assimilated only
\nas we are honest, unselfish, loving, and meek.
\nIn the soil of an “honest and good heart” the
\nseed must be sown; else it beareth not much fruit, for the
\nswinish element in human nature uproots it.
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S&H\u00a04:3-5, 12-22 Hunger
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What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire
\nfor growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness,
\nlove, and good deeds.
\nThe habitual struggle to be always good is unceas-
\ning prayer. Its motives are made manifest in the
\nblessings they bring,- blessings which, even if not
\nacknowledged in audible words, attest our worthiness
\nto be partakers of Love.
\nSimply asking that we may love God will never
\nmake us love Him; but the longing to be better
\nand holier, expressed in daily watchful-
\nness and in striving to assimilate more of
\nthe divine character, will mould and fashion us
\nanew, until we awake in His likeness.
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S&H\u00a0191:4
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As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than
\none Mind, more than one God, man in God’s likeness will
\nappear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness
\nno material element.
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S&H\u00a0495:31-8 Mercy
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In the Science of Mind, you will soon ascertain
\nthat error cannot destroy error. You will also learn
\nthat in Science there is no transfer of evil suggestions
\nfrom one mortal to another, for there is but one Mind,
\nand this ever-present omnipotent Mind is reflected by
\nman and governs the entire universe. You will learn
\nthat in Christian Science the first duty is to obey
\nGod, to have one Mind, and to love another as
\nyourself.
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S&H 572:6-12 (to ,)
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\u201cLove one another\u201d (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality.
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Love fulfils the law of Christian Science(.)
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S&H\u00a0465:14
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The attributes of God are justice,
\nmercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on.
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S&H 323:32-6 Pure
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Willingness to become as a little child and
\nto leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of
\nthe advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks
\nand joy to see them disappear, – this disposition helps
\nto precipitate the ultimate harmony. The purification
\nof sense and self is a proof of progress. “Blessed are the
\npure in heart: for they shall see God.
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S&H 264:28 Peacemakers
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When we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-
\nognize man’s spiritual being, we shall behold and under-
\nstand God’s creation, – all the glories of earth and heaven
\nand man.
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S&H 469:30-5
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With
\none Father, even God, the whole family of man would
\nbe brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,
\nthe brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,
\nand have unity of Principle and spiritual power which
\nconstitute divine Science.
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S&H 97:32-3 Persecuted
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Earth has no repayment for the persecutions which
\nattend a new step in Christianity; but the spiritual recom-
\npense of the persecuted is assured in the elevation of ex-
\nistence above mortal discord and in the gift of divine Love.
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S&H 98:15
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Beyond the frail premises of human beliefs, above the
\nloosening grasp of creeds, the demonstration of Christian
\nMind-healing stands a revealed and practical
\nScience. It is imperious throughout all ages
\nas Christ’s revelation of Truth, of Life, and of Love, which
\nremains inviolate for every man to understand and to
\npractise.
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S&H 444:10-19
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Step by
\nstep will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge
\nand strength, a very present help in trouble.”
\nStudents are advised by the author to be charitable
\nand kind, not only towards differing forms of religion
\nand medicine, but to those who hold these dif-
\nfering opinions. Let us be faithful in pointing
\nthe way through Christ, as we understand it,
\nbut let us also be careful always to “judge righteous judg-
\nment,” and never to condemn rashly.
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S&H 57:18 Practice
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Happiness is spiritual,
\nborn of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore
\nit cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to
\nshare it.
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S&H 174:17
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The thunder of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount
\nare pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in
\ntheir course all error and proclaiming the kingdom of
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", "content_text": "Wednesday, 7-5-2017\nFirst Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville\n\n\n\n\nKJV Phil 2:5\n5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:\n\n\nKJV Matt 4:17 1st Jesus, 23\n17 …Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.\n\n\nKJV Matt 5:1-10 1st he\n1 …he [Jesus] went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n\n\nKJV Isaiah 61:1-3\n1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.\n\n\nKJV Luke 18:9-13\n9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.\n\n\nKJV John 8:3-12\n3 …the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nS&H\u00a0271:8, 21 Sermon on the mount\nHe [Jesus] knew that the phi-\nlosophy, Science, and proof of Christianity were in Truth,\ncasting out all inharmony.\nWhen the Science of Christianity\nappears, it will lead you into all truth. The\nSermon on the Mount is the essence of this\nScience, and the eternal life, not the death of Jesus, is\nits outcome.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0283:1 Poor\nAs mortals begin to understand Spirit,\nthey give up the belief that there is any true existence\napart from God.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0518:15\nThe rich in spirit help the poor in\none grand brotherhood, all having the same\nPrinciple, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth\nhis brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in\nanother’s good. Love giveth to the least spiritual idea\nmight, immortality, and goodness, which shine through\nall as the blossom shines through the bud. All the varied\nexpressions of God reflect health, holiness, immortality –\ninfinite Life, Truth, and Love.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0265:23-5 Mourn\nWho that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained\nstronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration after\nheavenly good comes even before we discover\nwhat belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss\nof earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending\npath of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform\nus that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is\nspiritual.\nThe pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away\nfalse pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections\nfrom sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good,\n“rejoicing the heart.” Such is the sword of\nScience, with which Truth decapitates error,\nmateriality giving place to man’s higher individuality and\ndestiny.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0192:30 Meek\nWhatever holds human thought in line with unselfed\nlove, receives directly the divine power.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0272:3-8\nThe spiritual sense of truth must be gained before\nTruth can be understood. This sense is assimilated only\nas we are honest, unselfish, loving, and meek.\nIn the soil of an “honest and good heart” the\nseed must be sown; else it beareth not much fruit, for the\nswinish element in human nature uproots it.\n\n\nS&H\u00a04:3-5, 12-22 Hunger\nWhat we most need is the prayer of fervent desire\nfor growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness,\nlove, and good deeds.\nThe habitual struggle to be always good is unceas-\ning prayer. Its motives are made manifest in the\nblessings they bring,- blessings which, even if not\nacknowledged in audible words, attest our worthiness\nto be partakers of Love.\nSimply asking that we may love God will never\nmake us love Him; but the longing to be better\nand holier, expressed in daily watchful-\nness and in striving to assimilate more of\nthe divine character, will mould and fashion us\nanew, until we awake in His likeness.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0191:4\nAs mortals give up the delusion that there is more than\none Mind, more than one God, man in God’s likeness will\nappear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness\nno material element.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0495:31-8 Mercy\nIn the Science of Mind, you will soon ascertain\nthat error cannot destroy error. You will also learn\nthat in Science there is no transfer of evil suggestions\nfrom one mortal to another, for there is but one Mind,\nand this ever-present omnipotent Mind is reflected by\nman and governs the entire universe. You will learn\nthat in Christian Science the first duty is to obey\nGod, to have one Mind, and to love another as\nyourself.\nS&H 572:6-12 (to ,)\n\u201cLove one another\u201d (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality.\nLove fulfils the law of Christian Science(.)\nS&H\u00a0465:14\n\n\nThe attributes of God are justice,\nmercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on.\n\n\nS&H 323:32-6 Pure\nWillingness to become as a little child and\nto leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of\nthe advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks\nand joy to see them disappear, – this disposition helps\nto precipitate the ultimate harmony. The purification\nof sense and self is a proof of progress. “Blessed are the\npure in heart: for they shall see God.\n\n\nS&H 264:28 Peacemakers\nWhen we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-\nognize man’s spiritual being, we shall behold and under-\nstand God’s creation, – all the glories of earth and heaven\nand man.\n\n\nS&H 469:30-5\nWith\none Father, even God, the whole family of man would\nbe brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,\nthe brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,\nand have unity of Principle and spiritual power which\nconstitute divine Science.\n\n\nS&H 97:32-3 Persecuted\nEarth has no repayment for the persecutions which\nattend a new step in Christianity; but the spiritual recom-\npense of the persecuted is assured in the elevation of ex-\nistence above mortal discord and in the gift of divine Love.\n\n\nS&H 98:15\nBeyond the frail premises of human beliefs, above the\nloosening grasp of creeds, the demonstration of Christian\nMind-healing stands a revealed and practical\nScience. It is imperious throughout all ages\nas Christ’s revelation of Truth, of Life, and of Love, which\nremains inviolate for every man to understand and to\npractise.\n\n\nS&H 444:10-19\nStep by\nstep will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge\nand strength, a very present help in trouble.”\nStudents are advised by the author to be charitable\nand kind, not only towards differing forms of religion\nand medicine, but to those who hold these dif-\nfering opinions. Let us be faithful in pointing\nthe way through Christ, as we understand it,\nbut let us also be careful always to “judge righteous judg-\nment,” and never to condemn rashly.\n\n\nS&H 57:18 Practice\nHappiness is spiritual,\nborn of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore\nit cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to\nshare it.\n\n\nS&H 174:17\nThe thunder of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount\nare pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in\ntheir course all error and proclaiming the kingdom of\nheaven on earth. Truth is revealed. It needs only to\nbe practised.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhil 2:5\nMatt 4:17 Jesus, 23\nMatt 5:1-10 he\nIsaiah 61:1-3\nLuke 18:9-13\nJohn 8:3-12271:8, 21\n283:1\n518:15\n265:23-5\n192:30\n272:3-8\n4:3-5, 12-22\n191:4\n495:31-8\n572:6\n465:14\n323:32-6\n264:28\n469:30-5\n97:32-3\n98:15\n444:10-19\n57:18\n174:17Hymns\n474…Father, we Thy loving children lift our hearts in joy today\n537…O church of God, built on a firm foundation\n199…Now thank we all our God\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/beatitudes-blessed-be/", "date_published": "2017-07-05T19:52:41-07:00", "date_modified": "2017-07-05T20:05:30-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-promise/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-promise/", "title": "The Promise", "content_html": "
Wednesday, May 17, 2017, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville
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KJV Gal 1:1-3, 11-12
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1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 11 …I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
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16 …\u00a0what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 14 …bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
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Unfathomable Mind is expressed. The depth, breadth,
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Man’s privilege at this supreme
\nmoment is to prove the words of our Master: “If a man
\nkeep my saying, he shall never see death.” To divest
\nthought of false trusts and material evidences in order
\nthat the spiritual facts of being may appear, – this is
\nthe great attainment by means of which we shall sweep
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TEMPLE. Body; the idea of Life, substance, and in-
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That Life is God, Jesus proved by his reappearance
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\ntific statement: “Destroy this temple [body],
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Jesus’ students, not sufficiently advanced fully to un-
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The Master said plainly that physique was not Spirit,
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\nhigher in the understanding of Spirit, God.
\nHis students then received the Holy Ghost. By this is
\nmeant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered, they
\nwere roused to an enlarged understanding of divine Sci-
\nence, even to the spiritual interpretation and discernment
\nof Jesus’ teachings and demonstrations, which gave them
\na faint conception of the Life which is God.
\nThey no longer measured man by material
\nsense. After gaining the true idea of their glorified Master,
\nthey became better healers, leaning no longer on matter,
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Paul had a clear sense of the demands of Truth upon
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The Apostle James said, “Show me thy faith without
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\nThis faith relies upon an understood Principle. This
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Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to un-
\nderstand God. It shows the superiority of faith by works
\nover faith in words. Its ideas are expressed only in “new
\ntongues;” and these are interpreted by the translation of
\nthe spiritual original into the language which human
\nthought can comprehend.
\nThe Principle and proof of Christianity are discerned
\nby spiritual sense. They are set forth in Jesus’ demon-
\nstrations, which show – by his healing the
\nsick, casting out evils, and destroying death,
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In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or
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I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error,
\nand that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mor-
\ntals are taught their right to freedom, so the
\nclaims of the enslaving senses must be de-
\nnied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must
\nend human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware
\nof man’s inalienable rights and in subjection to hope-
\nless slavery, because some public teachers permit
\nan ignorance of divine power, – an ignorance that
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Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed
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The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs
\nof the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed
\non man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent
\nMind, who gives man faith and understanding
\nwhereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but
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\npreme harmony, that God, the divine Principle
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\nGal 6:16
\nI Cor 3:16
\nActs 2:1-4, 14 (to them,) 39
\nII Cor 6:16
\nEph 3:1, 14-19 bow520:3-5
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\n595:7-9 (to Love;)
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\n572:12-15 (to Apocalypse,)
\n573:13-17Hymns
\n12…Arise you people take your stand
\n3…A grateful heart a garden is
\n65…From glory unto glory
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", "content_text": "Wednesday, May 17, 2017, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville\n\n\n\n\nKJV Gal 1:1-3, 11-12\n1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 11 …I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.\n\n\nKJV Gal 2:16\n16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.\n\n\nKJV Gal 3:1-3, 7, 26-28\n1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.\n\n\nKJV Gal 5:6\n6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.\n\n\nKJV Gal 6:16\n16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.\nKJV I Cor 3:16\n16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?\nActs 2:1-4, 14 (to them,) 39\n…\u00a0when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.\u00a0And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.\u00a0And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.\u00a0And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.\u00a0…\u00a0Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, …\u00a0the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.\n\n\nKJV II Cor 6:16\n16 …\u00a0what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.\n\n\nKJV Eph 3:1, 14-19 1st bow\n1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 14 …bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nS&H 520:3-5\nUnfathomable Mind is expressed. The depth, breadth,\nheight, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all\nspace.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0428:6\nMan’s privilege at this supreme\nmoment is to prove the words of our Master: “If a man\nkeep my saying, he shall never see death.” To divest\nthought of false trusts and material evidences in order\nthat the spiritual facts of being may appear, – this is\nthe great attainment by means of which we shall sweep\naway the false and give place to the true. Thus we may\nestablish in truth the temple, or body, “whose builder\nand maker is God.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0595:7-9 (to Love\nTEMPLE. Body; the idea of Life, substance, and in-\ntelligence; the superstructure of Truth; the shrine of\nLove;\n\n\nS&H\u00a027:10\nThat Life is God, Jesus proved by his reappearance\nafter the crucifixion in strict accordance with his scien-\ntific statement: “Destroy this temple [body],\nand in three days I [Spirit] will raise it up.”\nIt is as if he had said: The I – the Life, substance,\nand intelligence of the universe – is not in matter to\nbe destroyed.\n\n\nS&H\u00a045:32-4\nJesus’ students, not sufficiently advanced fully to un-\nderstand their Master’s triumph, did not perform many\nwonderful works, until they saw him after his crucifixion\nand learned that he had not died. This convinced them\nof the truthfulness of all that he had taught.\n\n\nS&H\u00a046:13-17, 30-9\nThe Master said plainly that physique was not Spirit,\nand after his resurrection he proved to the physical senses\nthat his body was not changed until he himself\nascended, – or, in other words, rose even\nhigher in the understanding of Spirit, God.\nHis students then received the Holy Ghost. By this is\nmeant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered, they\nwere roused to an enlarged understanding of divine Sci-\nence, even to the spiritual interpretation and discernment\nof Jesus’ teachings and demonstrations, which gave them\na faint conception of the Life which is God.\nThey no longer measured man by material\nsense. After gaining the true idea of their glorified Master,\nthey became better healers, leaning no longer on matter,\nbut on the divine Principle of their work. The influx of\nlight was sudden. It was sometimes an overwhelming\npower as on the Day of Pentecost.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0325:20-24\nPaul had a clear sense of the demands of Truth upon\nmortals physically and spiritually, when he said: “Pre-\nsent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac-\nceptable unto God, which is your reasonable\nservice.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0487:25-26, 30-1\nThe Apostle James said, “Show me thy faith without\nthy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.\nThis faith relies upon an understood Principle. This\nPrinciple makes whole the diseased, and brings out the\nenduring and harmonious phases of things.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0209:31-10\nSpiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to un-\nderstand God. It shows the superiority of faith by works\nover faith in words. Its ideas are expressed only in “new\ntongues;” and these are interpreted by the translation of\nthe spiritual original into the language which human\nthought can comprehend.\nThe Principle and proof of Christianity are discerned\nby spiritual sense. They are set forth in Jesus’ demon-\nstrations, which show – by his healing the\nsick, casting out evils, and destroying death,\n“the last enemy that shall be destroyed,” –\nhis disregard of matter and its so-called laws.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0107:1-3\nIn the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or\ndivine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and\nnamed my discovery Christian Science.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0227:3\nI saw that the law of mortal belief included all error,\nand that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mor-\ntals are taught their right to freedom, so the\nclaims of the enslaving senses must be de-\nnied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must\nend human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware\nof man’s inalienable rights and in subjection to hope-\nless slavery, because some public teachers permit\nan ignorance of divine power, – an ignorance that\nis the foundation of continued bondage and of human\nsuffering.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0192:30\nWhatever holds human thought in line with unselfed\nlove, receives directly the divine power.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0387:27\nThe history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs\nof the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed\non man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent\nMind, who gives man faith and understanding\nwhereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but\nfrom bodily suffering.\n572:12-15 (to Apocalypse)\nLove fulfils the law of Christian Science, and nothing short of this divine Principle, understood and demonstrated, can ever furnish the vision of the Apocalypse,\n\n\n\nS&H\u00a0573:13-17\nAccompanying this scientific consciousness was an-\nother revelation, even the declaration from heaven, su-\npreme harmony, that God, the divine Principle\nof harmony, is ever with men, and they are\nHis people.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGal 1:1-3, 11-12\nGal 2:16\nGal 3:1-3, 7, 26-28\nGal 5:6\nGal 6:16\nI Cor 3:16\nActs 2:1-4, 14 (to them,) 39\nII Cor 6:16\nEph 3:1, 14-19 bow520:3-5\n428:6\n595:7-9 (to Love;)\n27:10\n45:32-4\n46:13-17, 30-9\n325:20-24\n487:25-26, 30-1\n209:31-10\n107:1-3\n227:3\n192:30\n387:27\n572:12-15 (to Apocalypse,)\n573:13-17Hymns\n12…Arise you people take your stand\n3…A grateful heart a garden is\n65…From glory unto glory\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/the-promise/", "date_published": "2017-05-17T20:31:39-07:00", "date_modified": "2017-05-17T20:54:51-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-law-of-joy/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-law-of-joy/", "title": "The law of joy!", "content_html": "
Wednesday meeting, April 5, 2017 First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville, NC
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KJV Zeph 3:17
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17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
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KJV Matt 4:23 1st Jesus
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23 …Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
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KJV Matt 5:2, 6
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2 And he…taught them, saying, 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
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KJV Matt 13:44 1st the
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44 …the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
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KJV Ps 32:1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 11
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1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 5 I acknowledge 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. 7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. 11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
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KJV Ps 92:1, 2, 4
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1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
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KJV Ps 16:1, 5-11
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1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. 6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. 8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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KJV Ps 126:1-6
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1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. 3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. 4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
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KJV Luke 15:8 1st what, 9, 10
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8 …what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? 9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. 10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
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KJV John 12:23
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23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
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KJV John 15:1, 2, 4, 5, 11
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1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
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KJV Gal 5:22 1st the, 23
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22 …the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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KJV Romans 15:13
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13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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S&H\u00a014:9-18, 25
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To be “with the Lord” is to be in
\nobedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed
\nby divine Love,- by Spirit, not by matter.
\nBecome conscious for a single moment that Life and
\nintelligence are purely spiritual, – neither in nor of
\nmatter, – and the body will then utter no
\ncomplaints. If suffering from a belief in
\nsickness, you will find yourself suddenly well. Sorrow
\nis turned into joy when the body is controlled by spir-
\nitual Life, Truth, and Love.
\nEntirely separate from the belief and dream of mate-
\nrial living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual under-
\nstanding and the consciousness of man’s dominion
\nover the whole earth. This understanding casts out
\nerror and heals the sick, and with it you can speak
\n“as one having authority.”
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S&H\u00a076:18-20, 22-29
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Suffering, sinning, dying beliefs are unreal. When
\ndivine Science is universally understood, they will have
\nno power over man,…
\nThe sinless joy, – the perfect harmony and immortality
\nof Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness
\nwithout a single bodily pleasure or pain, –
\nconstitutes the only veritable, indestructible
\nman, whose being is spiritual. This state of existence
\nis scientific and intact, – a perfection discernible only
\nby those who have the final understanding of Christ in
\ndivine Science.
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S&H\u00a0124:25-26 (to 1st .)
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Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all
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S&H\u00a0125:12
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As human thought changes from one stage to an-
\nother of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and
\njoy, – from fear to hope and from faith to understand-
\ning, – the visible manifestation will at last be man gov-
\nerned by Soul, not by material sense. Reflecting God’s
\ngovernment, man is self-governed. When subordinate
\nto the divine Spirit, man cannot be controlled by sin or
\ndeath, thus proving our material theories about laws of
\nhealth to be valueless.
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S&H\u00a0229:15
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By universal consent, mortal belief has constituted
\nitself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death.
\nThis customary belief is misnamed material
\nlaw, and the individual who upholds it is mis-
\ntaken in theory and in practice. The so-called law of
\nmortal mind, conjectural and speculative, is made void
\nby the law of immortal Mind, and false law should be
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S&H\u00a0273:21-22
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God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual
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S&H\u00a0265:23
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Who that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained
\nstronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration after
\nheavenly good comes even before we discover
\nwhat belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss
\nof earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending
\npath of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform
\nus that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is
\nspiritual.
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S&H\u00a063:5
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In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beauti-
\nful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is
\nnot, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor
\ndoes he pass through material conditions prior
\nto reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ulti-
\nmate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the
\nlaw of his being.
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S&H\u00a066:6-10, 11
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Trials teach mortals not to lean on a material staff,–a broken reed, which pierces the heart. We do not half remember this in the sunshine of joy
\nand prosperity. Sorrow is salutary. Through
\ngreat tribulation we enter the kingdom. Spiritual development germi-
\nnates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes,
\nbut when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher
\njoys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth. Each suc-
\ncessive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine
\ngoodness and love.
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S&H\u00a0414:11, 19
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…truth and love will establish
\na healthy state, guide and govern mortal mind or the
\nthought of the patient, and destroy all error, whether it is
\ncalled dementia, hatred, or any other discord.
\nThe Christian Scien-
\ntist’s argument rests on the Christianly scientific basis of
\nbeing. The Scripture declares, “The Lord He is God
\n[good]; there is none else beside Him.” Even so, harmony
\nis universal, and discord is unreal. Christian Science de-
\nclares that Mind is substance, also that matter neither
\nfeels, suffers, nor enjoys. Hold these points strongly in
\nview. Keep in mind the verity of being, – that man is
\nthe image and likeness of God, in whom all being is
\npainless and permanent. Remember that man’s perfec-
\ntion is real and unimpeachable, whereas imperfection is
\nblameworthy, unreal, and is not brought about by divine
\nLove.
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S&H 304:5-21
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…Paul said: “Nei-
\nther death, nor life, . . . nor things present,
\nnor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor
\nany other creature, shall be able to separate us from
\nthe love of God.” This is the doctrine of Christian
\nScience: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its
\nmanifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into
\nsorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can
\nnever produce evil; that matter can never produce mind
\nnor life result in death. The perfect man – governed
\nby God, his perfect Principle – is sinless and eternal.
\nHarmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled
\nby it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life
\nof man. Man’s happiness is not, therefore, at
\nthe disposal of physical sense. Truth is not
\ncontaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful
\nas in music, and discord is unnatural, unreal.
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\nPs 32:1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 11
\nPs 92:1, 2, 4
\nPs 16:1, 5-11
\nPs 126:1-6
\nLuke 15:8 what, 9, 10
\nJohn 12:23
\nJohn 15:1, 2, 4, 5, 11
\nGal 5:22 the, 23
\nRomans 15:1314:9-18, 25
\n76:18-20, 22-29
\n124:25-26 (to 1st .)
\n125:12
\n229:15
\n273:21-22
\n265:23
\n63:5
\n66:6-10, 11
\n414:11, 19
\n304:5-21Hymns
\n453…Rise up and walk, take up your bed
\n452…O Thou unchanging Truth
\n450…O house of God, built on a firm foundation
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", "content_text": "Wednesday meeting, April 5, 2017 First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville, NC\n\n\nKJV Zeph 3:17\n17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.\n\n\nKJV Matt 4:23 1st Jesus\n23 …Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.\n\n\nKJV Matt 5:2, 6\n2 And he…taught them, saying, 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.\n\n\nKJV Matt 13:44 1st the\n44 …the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.\n\n\nKJV Ps 32:1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 11\n1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 5 I acknowledge 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. 7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. 11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.\n\n\nKJV Ps 92:1, 2, 4\n1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.\n\n\nKJV Ps 16:1, 5-11\n1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. 6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. 8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.\n\n\nKJV Ps 126:1-6\n1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. 3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. 4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.\n\n\nKJV Luke 15:8 1st what, 9, 10\n8 …what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? 9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. 10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.\n\n\nKJV John 12:23\n23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.\n\n\nKJV John 15:1, 2, 4, 5, 11\n1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.\n\n\nKJV Gal 5:22 1st the, 23\n22 …the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.\n\n\nKJV Romans 15:13\n13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.\n\n\nS&H\u00a014:9-18, 25\nTo be “with the Lord” is to be in\nobedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed\nby divine Love,- by Spirit, not by matter.\nBecome conscious for a single moment that Life and\nintelligence are purely spiritual, – neither in nor of\nmatter, – and the body will then utter no\ncomplaints. If suffering from a belief in\nsickness, you will find yourself suddenly well. Sorrow\nis turned into joy when the body is controlled by spir-\nitual Life, Truth, and Love.\nEntirely separate from the belief and dream of mate-\nrial living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual under-\nstanding and the consciousness of man’s dominion\nover the whole earth. This understanding casts out\nerror and heals the sick, and with it you can speak\n“as one having authority.”\n\n\nS&H\u00a076:18-20, 22-29\nSuffering, sinning, dying beliefs are unreal. When\ndivine Science is universally understood, they will have\nno power over man,…\nThe sinless joy, – the perfect harmony and immortality\nof Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness\nwithout a single bodily pleasure or pain, –\nconstitutes the only veritable, indestructible\nman, whose being is spiritual. This state of existence\nis scientific and intact, – a perfection discernible only\nby those who have the final understanding of Christ in\ndivine Science.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0124:25-26 (to 1st .)\nSpirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all\nthings.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0125:12\nAs human thought changes from one stage to an-\nother of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and\njoy, – from fear to hope and from faith to understand-\ning, – the visible manifestation will at last be man gov-\nerned by Soul, not by material sense. Reflecting God’s\ngovernment, man is self-governed. When subordinate\nto the divine Spirit, man cannot be controlled by sin or\ndeath, thus proving our material theories about laws of\nhealth to be valueless.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0229:15\nBy universal consent, mortal belief has constituted\nitself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death.\nThis customary belief is misnamed material\nlaw, and the individual who upholds it is mis-\ntaken in theory and in practice. The so-called law of\nmortal mind, conjectural and speculative, is made void\nby the law of immortal Mind, and false law should be\ntrampled under foot.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0273:21-22\nGod never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual\nlaw.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0265:23\nWho that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained\nstronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration after\nheavenly good comes even before we discover\nwhat belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss\nof earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending\npath of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform\nus that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is\nspiritual.\n\n\nS&H\u00a063:5\nIn Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beauti-\nful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is\nnot, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor\ndoes he pass through material conditions prior\nto reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ulti-\nmate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the\nlaw of his being.\n\n\nS&H\u00a066:6-10, 11\nTrials teach mortals not to lean on a material staff,–a broken reed, which pierces the heart. We do not half remember this in the sunshine of joy\nand prosperity. Sorrow is salutary. Through\ngreat tribulation we enter the kingdom. Spiritual development germi-\nnates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes,\nbut when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher\njoys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth. Each suc-\ncessive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine\ngoodness and love.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0414:11, 19\n…truth and love will establish\na healthy state, guide and govern mortal mind or the\nthought of the patient, and destroy all error, whether it is\ncalled dementia, hatred, or any other discord.\nThe Christian Scien-\ntist’s argument rests on the Christianly scientific basis of\nbeing. The Scripture declares, “The Lord He is God\n[good]; there is none else beside Him.” Even so, harmony\nis universal, and discord is unreal. Christian Science de-\nclares that Mind is substance, also that matter neither\nfeels, suffers, nor enjoys. Hold these points strongly in\nview. Keep in mind the verity of being, – that man is\nthe image and likeness of God, in whom all being is\npainless and permanent. Remember that man’s perfec-\ntion is real and unimpeachable, whereas imperfection is\nblameworthy, unreal, and is not brought about by divine\nLove.\n\n\nS&H 304:5-21\n…Paul said: “Nei-\nther death, nor life, . . . nor things present,\nnor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor\nany other creature, shall be able to separate us from\nthe love of God.” This is the doctrine of Christian\nScience: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its\nmanifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into\nsorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can\nnever produce evil; that matter can never produce mind\nnor life result in death. The perfect man – governed\nby God, his perfect Principle – is sinless and eternal.\nHarmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled\nby it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life\nof man. Man’s happiness is not, therefore, at\nthe disposal of physical sense. Truth is not\ncontaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful\nas in music, and discord is unnatural, unreal.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZeph 3:17\nMatt 4:23 Jesus\nMatt 5:2, 6\nMatt 13:44 the\nPs 32:1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 11\nPs 92:1, 2, 4\nPs 16:1, 5-11\nPs 126:1-6\nLuke 15:8 what, 9, 10\nJohn 12:23\nJohn 15:1, 2, 4, 5, 11\nGal 5:22 the, 23\nRomans 15:1314:9-18, 25\n76:18-20, 22-29\n124:25-26 (to 1st .)\n125:12\n229:15\n273:21-22\n265:23\n63:5\n66:6-10, 11\n414:11, 19\n304:5-21Hymns\n453…Rise up and walk, take up your bed\n452…O Thou unchanging Truth\n450…O house of God, built on a firm foundation\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/the-law-of-joy/", "date_published": "2017-04-03T19:40:08-07:00", "date_modified": "2017-04-05T19:56:09-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-battle-is-gods-not-yours/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-battle-is-gods-not-yours/", "title": "The Battle is God\u2019s, Not Yours", "content_html": "

Wednesday Meeting, March 22, 2017
\nFirst Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville

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KJV Hosea 1:1 (to 1st ,), 7 1st \u200b
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1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea,… 7 …I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
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KJV Judges 7:2-7, 9, 16-21
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2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. 4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. 5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. 6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. 9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
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KJV Ps 62:1, 2, 7, 11
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1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. 2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. 7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
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KJV Acts 12:1-3 (to .), 4 (to ;), 5-11
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1\u00a0Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also….And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him;…Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
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KJV Ps 91:1-4, 9-11
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1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
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KJV I Sam 17:1-50
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1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle,…2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. 4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. 32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. 34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. 37…And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee. 40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. 41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand;…47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands. 48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
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KJV Ps 18:32, 35 (to 1st ,), 39 (to 1st :), 46, 48-50 (to 1st he)
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32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up,… 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:…46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. 49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. 50 Great deliverance giveth he…
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KJV Isaiah 45:5, 6, 22
\n5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
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KJV Romans 13:1
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1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:
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S&H 203:17-18
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We are prone to believe either in more than one Su-
\npreme Ruler or in some power less than God.
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S&H 203:3-5 (to ,)
\nIn the Science of Christianity, Mind \u2009\u2014\u2009omnipotence\u2009\u2014\u2009has all-power,…
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S&H 203:13
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Spiritual perception brings out the possibilities of being, destroys reliance on aught but God, and so makes man the image of his Maker in deed and in truth.
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S&H\u00a0192:19-20 \u200b
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In Science, you can
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S&H\u00a0249:8-9, 13-14 \u200b
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Let us re-
\njoice that we are subject to the divine “powers that be.
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\nomnipotence, or omnipotence is the only power.
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S&H\u00a0231:7-8, 9-10 (for no) (to ;)
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What God cannot\u00a0do, man need not attempt.
\n…for no lesser power equals the infinite
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S&H\u00a0275:6-24 \u200b
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The starting-point of divine Science is
\nthat God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other
\nmight nor Mind, – that God is Love, and therefore He
\nis divine Principle.
\nTo grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,
\nyou must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle
\nof all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,
\ncombine as one, – and are the Scriptural names
\nfor God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-
\nmortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are
\nHis attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite
\ndivine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His
\nwisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life
\nbut the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.
\nDivine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understand-
\ning, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is
\nGod, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,
\n– that is, all power, all presence, all Science.
\nHence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.
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S&H\u00a0174:9-14 \u200b
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The footsteps of thought, rising above material stand-
\npoints, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller;
\nbut the angels of His presence – the spiritual
\nintuitions that tell us when “the night is far
\nspent, the day is at hand” – are our guardians in the
\ngloom.
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S&H\u00a0566:29-6 \u200b
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The Old Testament assigns to the angels, God’s divine
\nmessages, different offices. Michael’s charac-
\nteristic is spiritual strength. He leads the
\nhosts of heaven against the power of sin, Satan, and
\nfights the holy wars. Gabriel has the more quiet task
\nof imparting a sense of the ever-presence of ministering
\nLove. These angels deliver us from the depths. Truth
\nand Love come nearer in the hour of woe, when strong
\nfaith or spiritual strength wrestles and prevails through
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S&H\u00a0574:25-30 \u200b
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Think of this, dear reader, for it will lift the sack-
\ncloth from your eyes, and you will behold the soft-
\nwinged dove descending upon you. The very
\ncircumstance, which your suffering sense
\ndeems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel
\nentertained unawares.
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My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door
\nof some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried
\nits fondest earthly hopes. With white fin-
\ngers they point upward to a new and glo-
\nrified trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels
\nare God’s representatives. These upward-soaring beings
\nnever lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to
\nthe divine Principle of all good, whither every real indi-
\nviduality, image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving
\nearnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us,
\nand we entertain “angels unawares.
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The God-
\nprinciple is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every-
\nwhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has
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Hymns

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O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
\nO Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
\nThou Love that guards the nestling\u2019s faltering flight!
\nKeep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
\nCan I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
\nHis habitation high is here, and nigh,
\nHis arm encircles me, and mine, and all.O make me glad for every scalding tear,
\nFor hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
\nWait, and love more for every hate, and fear
\nNo ill,\u2014since God is good, and loss is gain.Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
\nIn that sweet secret of the narrow way,
\nSeeking and finding, with the angels sing:
\n\u201cLo, I am with you alway,\u201d\u2014watch and pray.No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
\nNo night drops down upon the troubled breast,
\nWhen heaven\u2019s aftersmile earth\u2019s tear-drops gain,
\nAnd mother finds her home and heav\u2019nly rest.
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He that hath God his guardian made,
\nShall underneath th\u2019 Almighty\u2019s shade
\nFearless and undisturbed abide;
\nThus to myself of Him I\u2019ll say,
\nHe is my fortress, shield and stay,
\nMy God; in Him I will confide.His tender love and watchful care
\nShall free thee from the fowler\u2019s snare,
\nFrom every harm and pestilence.
\nHe over thee His wings shall spread
\nTo cover thy unguarded head.
\nHis truth shall be thy strong defense.He gives His angels charge o\u2019er thee,
\nNo evil therefore shalt thou see;
\nThy refuge shall be God most high;
\nDwelling within His secret place,
\nThou shalt behold His power and grace,
\nSee His salvation ever nigh.All power is given unto our Lord,
\nOn Him we place reliance;
\nWith truth from out His sacred word
\nWe bid our foes defiance.
\nWith Him we shall prevail,
\nWhatever may assail;
\nHe is our shield and tower,
\nAlmighty is His power;
\nHis kingdom is forever.Rejoice, ye people, praise His name,
\nHis care doth e\u2019er surround us.
\nHis love to error\u2019s thralldom came,
\nAnd from its chains unbound us.
\nOur Lord is God alone,
\nNo other power we own;
\nNo other voice we heed,
\nNo other help we need;
\nHis kingdom is forever.O then give thanks to God on high,
\nWho life to all is giving;
\nThe hosts of death before Him fly,
\nIn Him we all are living.
\nThen let us know no fear,
\nOur King is ever near;
\nOur stay and fortress strong,
\nOur strength, our hope, our song;
\nHis kingdom is forever.
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Hosea 1:1 (to ,), 7\u200b
\nJudges 7:2-7, 9, 16-21
\nPs 62:1, 2, 7, 11\u200b
\nActs 12:1-3 (to .), 4 (to ;), 5-11 (to last ,)
\nPs 91:1-4, 9-11
\nI Sam 17:1-50
\nI Sam 17:1 (to ,), 2-5, 10, 11, 32-36, 37 (And Saul), 40-43, 45, 46 (to ;), 47-50
\nPs 18:32, 35 (to ,), 39 (to:), 46, 48-50 (to he)
\nIsaiah 45:5, 6, 22\u200b
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\n249:8-9, 13-14\u200b
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\n275:6-24\u200b
\n174:9-14\u200b
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\n99…\u200bHe who hath God His guardian made
\n10…\u200bAll power is given unto our Lord, on Him we place reliance
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", "content_text": "Wednesday Meeting, March 22, 2017\nFirst Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville\n\n\n\nKJV Hosea 1:1 (to 1st ,), 7 1st \u200b\n1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea,… 7 …I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.\n\n\nKJV Judges 7:2-7, 9, 16-21\n2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. 4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. 5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. 6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. 9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.\n\n\nKJV Ps 62:1, 2, 7, 11\n1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. 2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. 7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.\n\n\nKJV Acts 12:1-3 (to .), 4 (to ;), 5-11\n1\u00a0Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also….And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him;…Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.\n\n\nKJV Ps 91:1-4, 9-11\n1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.\n\n\nKJV I Sam 17:1-50\n1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle,…2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. 4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. 32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. 34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. 37…And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee. 40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. 41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand;…47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands. 48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.\n\n\nKJV Ps 18:32, 35 (to 1st ,), 39 (to 1st :), 46, 48-50 (to 1st he)\n32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up,… 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:…46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. 49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. 50 Great deliverance giveth he…\nKJV Isaiah 45:5, 6, 22\n5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.\n\n\nKJV Romans 13:1\n1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:\n\n\nS&H 203:17-18\nWe are prone to believe either in more than one Su-\npreme Ruler or in some power less than God.\nS&H 203:3-5 (to ,)\nIn the Science of Christianity, Mind \u2009\u2014\u2009omnipotence\u2009\u2014\u2009has all-power,…\n\n\n\nS&H 203:13\nSpiritual perception brings out the possibilities of being, destroys reliance on aught but God, and so makes man the image of his Maker in deed and in truth.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0192:19-20 \u200b\nIn Science, you can\nhave no power opposed to God,\n\n\nS&H\u00a0249:8-9, 13-14 \u200b\nLet us re-\njoice that we are subject to the divine “powers that be.\nEither there is no\nomnipotence, or omnipotence is the only power.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0231:7-8, 9-10 (for no) (to ;)\nWhat God cannot\u00a0do, man need not attempt.\n…for no lesser power equals the infinite\nAll-power;\n\n\nS&H\u00a0275:6-24 \u200b\nThe starting-point of divine Science is\nthat God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other\nmight nor Mind, – that God is Love, and therefore He\nis divine Principle.\nTo grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,\nyou must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle\nof all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,\ncombine as one, – and are the Scriptural names\nfor God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-\nmortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are\nHis attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite\ndivine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His\nwisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life\nbut the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.\nDivine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understand-\ning, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is\nGod, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,\n– that is, all power, all presence, all Science.\nHence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0174:9-14 \u200b\nThe footsteps of thought, rising above material stand-\npoints, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller;\nbut the angels of His presence – the spiritual\nintuitions that tell us when “the night is far\nspent, the day is at hand” – are our guardians in the\ngloom.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0566:29-6 \u200b\nThe Old Testament assigns to the angels, God’s divine\nmessages, different offices. Michael’s charac-\nteristic is spiritual strength. He leads the\nhosts of heaven against the power of sin, Satan, and\nfights the holy wars. Gabriel has the more quiet task\nof imparting a sense of the ever-presence of ministering\nLove. These angels deliver us from the depths. Truth\nand Love come nearer in the hour of woe, when strong\nfaith or spiritual strength wrestles and prevails through\nthe understanding of God.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0574:25-30 \u200b\nThink of this, dear reader, for it will lift the sack-\ncloth from your eyes, and you will behold the soft-\nwinged dove descending upon you. The very\ncircumstance, which your suffering sense\ndeems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel\nentertained unawares.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0299:7 \u200b\u200b\nMy angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door\nof some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried\nits fondest earthly hopes. With white fin-\ngers they point upward to a new and glo-\nrified trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels\nare God’s representatives. These upward-soaring beings\nnever lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to\nthe divine Principle of all good, whither every real indi-\nviduality, image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving\nearnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us,\nand we entertain “angels unawares.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0473:7-10 \u200b\nThe God-\nprinciple is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every-\nwhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has\npower.\n\n\nHymns\n\n\n\n\nO gentle presence, peace and joy and power;\nO Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,\nThou Love that guards the nestling\u2019s faltering flight!\nKeep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.Love is our refuge; only with mine eye\nCan I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:\nHis habitation high is here, and nigh,\nHis arm encircles me, and mine, and all.O make me glad for every scalding tear,\nFor hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!\nWait, and love more for every hate, and fear\nNo ill,\u2014since God is good, and loss is gain.Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;\nIn that sweet secret of the narrow way,\nSeeking and finding, with the angels sing:\n\u201cLo, I am with you alway,\u201d\u2014watch and pray.No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;\nNo night drops down upon the troubled breast,\nWhen heaven\u2019s aftersmile earth\u2019s tear-drops gain,\nAnd mother finds her home and heav\u2019nly rest.\n\n\n \n\n\nHe that hath God his guardian made,\nShall underneath th\u2019 Almighty\u2019s shade\nFearless and undisturbed abide;\nThus to myself of Him I\u2019ll say,\nHe is my fortress, shield and stay,\nMy God; in Him I will confide.His tender love and watchful care\nShall free thee from the fowler\u2019s snare,\nFrom every harm and pestilence.\nHe over thee His wings shall spread\nTo cover thy unguarded head.\nHis truth shall be thy strong defense.He gives His angels charge o\u2019er thee,\nNo evil therefore shalt thou see;\nThy refuge shall be God most high;\nDwelling within His secret place,\nThou shalt behold His power and grace,\nSee His salvation ever nigh.All power is given unto our Lord,\nOn Him we place reliance;\nWith truth from out His sacred word\nWe bid our foes defiance.\nWith Him we shall prevail,\nWhatever may assail;\nHe is our shield and tower,\nAlmighty is His power;\nHis kingdom is forever.Rejoice, ye people, praise His name,\nHis care doth e\u2019er surround us.\nHis love to error\u2019s thralldom came,\nAnd from its chains unbound us.\nOur Lord is God alone,\nNo other power we own;\nNo other voice we heed,\nNo other help we need;\nHis kingdom is forever.O then give thanks to God on high,\nWho life to all is giving;\nThe hosts of death before Him fly,\nIn Him we all are living.\nThen let us know no fear,\nOur King is ever near;\nOur stay and fortress strong,\nOur strength, our hope, our song;\nHis kingdom is forever.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosea 1:1 (to ,), 7\u200b\nJudges 7:2-7, 9, 16-21\nPs 62:1, 2, 7, 11\u200b\nActs 12:1-3 (to .), 4 (to ;), 5-11 (to last ,)\nPs 91:1-4, 9-11\nI Sam 17:1-50\nI Sam 17:1 (to ,), 2-5, 10, 11, 32-36, 37 (And Saul), 40-43, 45, 46 (to ;), 47-50\nPs 18:32, 35 (to ,), 39 (to:), 46, 48-50 (to he)\nIsaiah 45:5, 6, 22\u200b\nRomans 13:1 (to:)\u200b\n203:17-18\n203:3-5 (to ,)\n203:13\n192:19-20\u200b\n249:8-9, 13-14\u200b\n231:7-8, 9-10 (for no) (to ;)\n275:6-24\u200b\n174:9-14\u200b\n566:29-6\u200b\n574:25-30\u200b\n299:7\u200b\u200b\n473:7-10\u200b\n\nHymns\n208…\u200bO gentle presence\n99…\u200bHe who hath God His guardian made\n10…\u200bAll power is given unto our Lord, on Him we place reliance\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/the-battle-is-gods-not-yours/", "date_published": "2017-03-22T20:32:31-07:00", "date_modified": "2017-03-23T21:19:07-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/and-set-me-free-2/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/and-set-me-free-2/", "title": "\u2026and set me free!", "content_html": "
Wednesday Meeting 2-1-2017
\nFirst Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville(Ps 118:5) “I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place”…[in Hebrew: “large” means an open, expansive place; a place of freedom.]
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KJV Ps 118:5
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5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
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KJV II Samuel 22:1-7, 17-21, 29-34, 36-37
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1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: 2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. 4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. 17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. 20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. 30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. 31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. 32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? 33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. 34 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places. 36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great. 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
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KJV Ps 40:1-5
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1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
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KJV Ps 86:7
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7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
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27 …Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. 28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee. 29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I. 30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. 31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all. 32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
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17 …where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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13 …brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
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5 Out of my distress I called upon the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.
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Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing
\nelse. God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and
\nboundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
\nthere is liberty.” Like the archpriests of yore, man is
\nfree “to enter into the holiest,” – the realm of God.
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S&H 223:2-11
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Paul said, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not
\nfulfil the lust of the flesh.” Sooner or later we shall learn
\nthat the fetters of man’s finite capacity are forged by the
\nillusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter
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\nMatter does not express Spirit. God is infinite omni-
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The admission to one’s self that man is God’s own like-
\nness sets man free to master the infinite idea. This con-
\nviction shuts the door on death, and opens it
\nwide towards immortality. The understanding
\nand recognition of Spirit must finally come, and we may
\nas well improve our time in solving the mysteries of being
\nthrough an apprehension of divine Principle. At present
\nwe know not what man is, but we certainly shall know
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Christian Science explains all cause and effect as men-
\ntal, not physical. It lifts the veil of mystery from Soul and
\nbody. It shows the scientific relation of man
\nto God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities
\nof being, and sets free the imprisoned thought. In divine
\nScience, the universe, including man, is spiritual, harmoni-
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God has built a higher platform of human rights, and
\nHe has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not
\nmade through code or creed, but in demonstra-
\ntion of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”
\nHuman codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and
\nhygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine
\nScience rends asunder these fetters, and man’s birthright
\nof sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.
\nI saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servi-
\ntude to an unreal master in the belief that the body gov-
\nerned them, rather than Mind.
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S&H 227:3, 16 only, 18-19
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I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error,
\nand that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mor-
\ntals are taught their right to freedom, so the
\nclaims of the enslaving senses must be de-
\nnied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must
\nend human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware
\nof man’s inalienable rights and in subjection to hope-
\nless slavery, because some public teachers permit
\nan ignorance of divine power, – an ignorance that
\nis the foundation of continued bondage and of human
\nsuffering.
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God made man free.

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“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is lib-
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S&H 258:13, 21
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God expresses in man the infinite idea forever develop-
\ning itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from
\na boundless basis. Mind manifests all that exists in
\nthe infinitude of Truth. We know no more of man as
\nthe true divine image and likeness, than we know of
\nGod.
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\nhuman capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor-
\ntion as humanity gains the true conception of man and
\nGod.
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S&H 264:13, 28
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As mortals gain more correct views of God and man,
\nmultitudinous objects of creation, which before were
\ninvisible, will become visible. When we
\nrealize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of
\nmatter, this understanding will expand into self-com-
\npleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other
\nconsciousness.
\nWhen we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-
\nognize man’s spiritual being, we shall behold and under-
\nstand God’s creation, – all the glories of earth and heaven
\nand man.
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S&H 265:10
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This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for
\nSpirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity
\nand the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en-
\nlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action,
\na more expansive love, a higher and more permanent
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Ps 118:5
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\nGal 5:13-14, 16-18
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\n265:10452…O Thou unchanging Truth
\n[211]…O gentle presence, peace, and joy, and power
\n58…Father, we Thy loving children lift our hearts in joy today
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", "content_text": "Wednesday Meeting 2-1-2017\nFirst Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville(Ps 118:5) “I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place”…[in Hebrew: “large” means an open, expansive place; a place of freedom.]\n\n\n\n\nKJV Ps 118:5\n5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.\n\n\nKJV II Samuel 22:1-7, 17-21, 29-34, 36-37\n1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: 2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. 4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. 17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. 20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. 30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. 31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. 32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? 33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. 34 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places. 36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great. 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.\n\n\nKJV Ps 40:1-5\n1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.\n\n\nKJV Ps 86:7\n7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.\n\n\nKJV Mark 14:27-36\n27 …Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. 28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee. 29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I. 30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. 31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all. 32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.\n\n\nKJV II Cor 3:17 1st where\n17 …where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.\n\n\nKJV Gal 5:13-14, 16-18\n13 …brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.\n\n\nKJV Ps 118:5\n5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.\n\n\nESV\u00a0Ps 118:5 (English Standard Version)\n5 Out of my distress I called upon the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nS&H\u00a0481:2\nMan is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing\nelse. God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and\nboundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is,\nthere is liberty.” Like the archpriests of yore, man is\nfree “to enter into the holiest,” – the realm of God.\n\n\nS&H 223:2-11\nPaul said, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not\nfulfil the lust of the flesh.” Sooner or later we shall learn\nthat the fetters of man’s finite capacity are forged by the\nillusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter\ninstead of in Spirit.\nMatter does not express Spirit. God is infinite omni-\npresent Spirit. If Spirit is all and is everywhere, what\nand where is matter? Remember that truth\nis greater than error, and we cannot put the\ngreater into the less.\n\n\nS&H 90:24\nThe admission to one’s self that man is God’s own like-\nness sets man free to master the infinite idea. This con-\nviction shuts the door on death, and opens it\nwide towards immortality. The understanding\nand recognition of Spirit must finally come, and we may\nas well improve our time in solving the mysteries of being\nthrough an apprehension of divine Principle. At present\nwe know not what man is, but we certainly shall know\nthis when man reflects God.\n\n\nS&H 114:23-29\nChristian Science explains all cause and effect as men-\ntal, not physical. It lifts the veil of mystery from Soul and\nbody. It shows the scientific relation of man\nto God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities\nof being, and sets free the imprisoned thought. In divine\nScience, the universe, including man, is spiritual, harmoni-\nous, and eternal.\n\n\nS&H 226:14-24\nGod has built a higher platform of human rights, and\nHe has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not\nmade through code or creed, but in demonstra-\ntion of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”\nHuman codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and\nhygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine\nScience rends asunder these fetters, and man’s birthright\nof sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.\nI saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servi-\ntude to an unreal master in the belief that the body gov-\nerned them, rather than Mind.\n\n\nS&H 227:3, 16 only, 18-19\nI saw that the law of mortal belief included all error,\nand that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mor-\ntals are taught their right to freedom, so the\nclaims of the enslaving senses must be de-\nnied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must\nend human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware\nof man’s inalienable rights and in subjection to hope-\nless slavery, because some public teachers permit\nan ignorance of divine power, – an ignorance that\nis the foundation of continued bondage and of human\nsuffering.\nGod made man free.\n“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is lib-\nerty.”\n\n\nS&H 258:13, 21\nGod expresses in man the infinite idea forever develop-\ning itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from\na boundless basis. Mind manifests all that exists in\nthe infinitude of Truth. We know no more of man as\nthe true divine image and likeness, than we know of\nGod.\nThe\nhuman capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor-\ntion as humanity gains the true conception of man and\nGod.\n\n\nS&H 264:13, 28\nAs mortals gain more correct views of God and man,\nmultitudinous objects of creation, which before were\ninvisible, will become visible. When we\nrealize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of\nmatter, this understanding will expand into self-com-\npleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other\nconsciousness.\nWhen we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-\nognize man’s spiritual being, we shall behold and under-\nstand God’s creation, – all the glories of earth and heaven\nand man.\n\n\nS&H 265:10\nThis scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for\nSpirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity\nand the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en-\nlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action,\na more expansive love, a higher and more permanent\npeace.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPs 118:5\nII Samuel 22:1-7, 17-21, 29-34, 36-37\nPs 40:1-5\nPs 86:7\nMark 14:27-36\nII Cor 3:17 where\nGal 5:13-14, 16-18\nPs 118:5\nPs 118:5481:2\n223:2-11\n90:24\n114:23-29\n226:14-24\n227:3, 16 only, 18-19\n258:13, 21\n264:13, 28\n265:10452…O Thou unchanging Truth\n[211]…O gentle presence, peace, and joy, and power\n58…Father, we Thy loving children lift our hearts in joy today\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/and-set-me-free-2/", "date_published": "2017-02-01T19:21:11-08:00", "date_modified": "2017-02-01T19:29:59-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/with-signs-following/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/with-signs-following/", "title": "\u2026with signs following", "content_html": "
\nWednesday Meeting 1-25-2017, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville

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KJV Dan 4:1-3
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1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. 2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. 3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
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KJV Dan 6:27
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27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
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KJV Matt 4:23-24
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23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
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KJV Matt 10:1, 5 (to 1st saying,), 7-8
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1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying,… 7 … as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
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KJV Matt 7:7-11, 15-20
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7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
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KJV John 6:1-3, 5, 7-14
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1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. 3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? 7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little. 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto him, 9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? 10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
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KJV John 6:63
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63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
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KJV John 14:12
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12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
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KJV Acts 5:12, 15-16
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12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; 15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. 16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
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KJV Mark 16:17-18, 20
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17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.
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S&H 10:5-6
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The world must grow to the spiritual understanding
of prayer.
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S&H 328:14-17, 20-4
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This understanding of man’s power, when he is
equipped by God, has sadly disappeared from Christian
history. For centuries it has been dormant, a
lost element of Christianity.
Under-
standing spiritual law and knowing that there is no mate-
rial law, Jesus said: “These signs shall follow them that
believe, . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” It
were well had Christendom believed and obeyed this
sacred saying.
Jesus’ promise is perpetual. Had it been given only
to his immediate disciples, the Scriptural passage would
read you, not they. The purpose of his great life-work
extends through time and includes universal humanity.
Its Principle is infinite, reaching beyond the pale of a
single period or of a limited following. As time moves
on, the healing elements of pure Christianity will be fairly
dealt with; they will be sought and taught, and will glow
in all the grandeur of universal goodness.
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S&H 110:25
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Jesus demonstrated the power of Christian Science to
heal mortal minds and bodies. But this power was lost
sight of, and must again be spiritually dis-
cerned, taught, and demonstrated according
to Christ’s command, with “signs following.”
Its Science must be apprehended by as many as believe
on Christ and spiritually understand Truth.
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S&H 139:4-9
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From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of
accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter.
Moses proved the power of Mind by what men
called miracles; so did Joshua, Elijah, and
Elisha. The Christian era was ushered in with signs and
wonders.
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S&H 133:8
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In Egypt, it was Mind which saved the Israelites from
belief in the plagues. In the wilderness, streams flowed
from the rock, and manna fell from the sky. The Israelites
looked upon the brazen serpent, and straightway believed
that they were healed of the poisonous stings of vipers.
In national prosperity, miracles attended the successes of
the Hebrews; but when they departed from the true
idea, their demoralization began. Even in captivity
among foreign nations, the divine Principle wrought
wonders for the people of God in the fiery furnace and
in kings’ palaces.
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S&H 150:4
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To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demon-
strated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a
phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the
coming anew of the gospel of “on earth peace,
good-will toward men.” This coming, as was promised
by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent
dispensation among men; but the mission of Christian
Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration,
is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then,
signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical heal-
ing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demon-
strate its divine origin, – to attest the reality of the higher
mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the
world.
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S&H 272:19-25
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It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization
of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce
of material existence; it is chastity and purity,
in contrast with the downward tendencies
and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity,
which really attest the divine origin and operation of Chris-
tian Science.
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S&H 273:21
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God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual
law. If there were such a material law, it would oppose
the supremacy of Spirit, God, and impugn the
wisdom of the creator. Jesus walked on the
waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the
dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were
the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims
of material sense or law.
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S&H 151:20-24, 26-28
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Every function of the
real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human
mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no con-
trol over God’s man. The divine Mind that made man
maintains His own image and likeness.
All that really exists is the divine Mind and
its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found har-
monious and eternal.
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S&H xi:9-21
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The physical healing of Christian Science results
now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine
Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real-
ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally
and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and
sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works
are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are
the sign of Immanuel, or “God with us,” a divine
influence ever present in human consciousness and re-
peating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised.
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\nMatt 10:1, 5 (to saying,), 7-8
\nMatt 7:7-11, 15-20
\nJohn 6:1-3, 5, 7-14
\nJohn 6:63
\nJohn 14:12
\nActs 5:12, 15-16
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40…Come, Ye desolate, where’re Ye languish
\n108:..Here, O mum Lord, I’d see Thee face to face
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", "content_text": "Wednesday Meeting 1-25-2017, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville\n\n\n\nKJV Dan 4:1-3\n1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. 2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. 3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.\n\n\nKJV Dan 6:27\n27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.\n\n\nKJV Matt 4:23-24\n23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.\n\n\nKJV Matt 10:1, 5 (to 1st saying,), 7-8\n1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying,… 7 … as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.\n\n\nKJV Matt 7:7-11, 15-20\n7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.\n\n\nKJV John 6:1-3, 5, 7-14\n1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. 3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? 7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little. 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto him, 9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? 10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.\n\n\nKJV John 6:63\n63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.\n\n\nKJV John 14:12\n12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.\n\n\nKJV Acts 5:12, 15-16\n12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; 15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. 16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.\n\n\nKJV Mark 16:17-18, 20\n17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nS&H 10:5-6\n The world must grow to the spiritual understanding of prayer.\n\n\nS&H 328:14-17, 20-4\n This understanding of man’s power, when he is equipped by God, has sadly disappeared from Christian history. For centuries it has been dormant, a lost element of Christianity. Under- standing spiritual law and knowing that there is no mate- rial law, Jesus said: “These signs shall follow them that believe, . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” It were well had Christendom believed and obeyed this sacred saying. Jesus’ promise is perpetual. Had it been given only to his immediate disciples, the Scriptural passage would read you, not they. The purpose of his great life-work extends through time and includes universal humanity. Its Principle is infinite, reaching beyond the pale of a single period or of a limited following. As time moves on, the healing elements of pure Christianity will be fairly dealt with; they will be sought and taught, and will glow in all the grandeur of universal goodness.\n\n\nS&H 110:25\n Jesus demonstrated the power of Christian Science to heal mortal minds and bodies. But this power was lost sight of, and must again be spiritually dis- cerned, taught, and demonstrated according to Christ’s command, with “signs following.” Its Science must be apprehended by as many as believe on Christ and spiritually understand Truth.\n\n\nS&H 139:4-9\n From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter. Moses proved the power of Mind by what men called miracles; so did Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha. The Christian era was ushered in with signs and wonders.\n\n\nS&H 133:8\n In Egypt, it was Mind which saved the Israelites from belief in the plagues. In the wilderness, streams flowed from the rock, and manna fell from the sky. The Israelites looked upon the brazen serpent, and straightway believed that they were healed of the poisonous stings of vipers. In national prosperity, miracles attended the successes of the Hebrews; but when they departed from the true idea, their demoralization began. Even in captivity among foreign nations, the divine Principle wrought wonders for the people of God in the fiery furnace and in kings’ palaces.\n\n\nS&H 150:4\n To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demon- strated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the coming anew of the gospel of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.” This coming, as was promised by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent dispensation among men; but the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration, is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical heal- ing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demon- strate its divine origin, – to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world.\n\n\nS&H 272:19-25\n It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce of material existence; it is chastity and purity, in contrast with the downward tendencies and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity, which really attest the divine origin and operation of Chris- tian Science.\n\n\nS&H 273:21\n God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual law. If there were such a material law, it would oppose the supremacy of Spirit, God, and impugn the wisdom of the creator. Jesus walked on the waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law.\n\n\nS&H 151:20-24, 26-28\n Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no con- trol over God’s man. The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness. All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found har- monious and eternal.\n\n\nS&H xi:9-21\n The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real- ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or “God with us,” a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and re- peating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime, To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense], And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDan 4:1-3\nDan 6:27\nMatt 4:23-24\nMatt 10:1, 5 (to saying,), 7-8\nMatt 7:7-11, 15-20\nJohn 6:1-3, 5, 7-14\nJohn 6:63\nJohn 14:12\nActs 5:12, 15-16\nMark 16:17-18, 20\n10:5-6\n328:14-17, 20-4\n110:25\n139:4-9\n133:8\n150:4\n272:19-25\n273:21\n151:20-24, 26-28\nxi:9-21\n40…Come, Ye desolate, where’re Ye languish\n108:..Here, O mum Lord, I’d see Thee face to face\n12…Arise Ye people, take your stand\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/with-signs-following/", "date_published": "2017-01-25T20:22:28-08:00", "date_modified": "2017-01-25T20:22:28-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/who-do-you-trust/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/who-do-you-trust/", "title": "Who do you trust?", "content_html": "
\nWednesday Meeting 1-11-2017 First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville

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KJV Gen 3:8-10
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8 …they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
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KJV Ps 121:1-3, 5, 7-8
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1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. 7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
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KJV Prov 3:5-7, 13-20
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5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. 19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
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KJV Isaiah 1:16-18
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16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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KJV Matt 6:19-25
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19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. 24 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 25 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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KJV John 9:1-7
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1 …as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
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KJV Hebrews 11:1-3
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1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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S&H 476:32-7
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Jesus beheld in Science the per-
fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
man appears to mortals. In this perfect 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 intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.
Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself
spiritual.
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S&H 495:15
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Allow nothing but His
likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither
fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and
calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious – as
Life eternally is – can destroy any painful sense of, or
belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science,
instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of
being, and this understanding will supplant error with
Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence dis-
cord with harmony.
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S&H 487:13 Who, 16-23
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Who or what is it
that believes?  
Matter cannot believe, and Mind
understands. The body cannot believe. The
believer and belief are one and are mortal.
Christian evidence is founded on Science or
demonstrable Truth, flowing from immortal Mind, and
there is in reality no such thing as mortal mind. Mere
belief is blindness without Principle from which to ex-
plain the reason of its hope.
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S&H 488:7
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The Hebrew and Greek words often translated belief
differ somewhat in meaning from that conveyed by the
English verb believe; they have more the sig-
nificance of faith, understanding, trust, con-
stancy, firmness. Hence the Scriptures often appear in
our common version to approve and endorse belief, when
they mean to enforce the necessity of understanding.
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S&H 455:3
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A mental state of self-condemnation and guilt or a
faltering and doubting trust in Truth are unsuitable
conditions for healing the sick. Such mental
states indicate weakness instead of strength.
Hence the necessity of being right yourself in order to
teach this Science of healing. You must utilize the moral
might of Mind in order to walk over the waves of error
and support your claims by demonstration. If you are
yourself lost in the belief and fear of disease or sin, and
if, knowing the remedy, you fail to use the energies of
Mind in your own behalf, you can exercise little or no
power for others’ help. “First cast out the beam out
of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast
out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
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S&H 181:21-31
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If you are too material to love the Science of Mind and
are satisfied with good words instead of effects, if you
adhere to error and are afraid to trust Truth,
the question then recurs, “Adam, where art
thou?” It is unnecessary to resort to aught besides
Mind in order to satisfy the sick that you are doing some-
thing for them, for if they are cured, they generally know
it and are satisfied.
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
If you have more faith in drugs than in Truth, this faith
will incline you to the side of matter and error.
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S&H 182:1
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The act
of healing the sick through divine Mind alone, of casting
out error with Truth, shows your position as a Christian
Scientist.
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S&H 169:18-26, 29-2
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Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as
mental, but it also declares that all disease is cured by
divine Mind. There can be no healing ex-
cept by this Mind, however much we trust
a drug or any other means towards which human faith
or endeavor is directed. It is mortal mind, not mat-
ter, which brings to the sick whatever good they may
seem to receive from materiality. But the sick are never
really healed except by means of the divine power.
Whatever teaches man to have other laws and to
acknowledge other powers than the divine
Mind, is anti-Christian. The good that a
poisonous drug seems to do is evil, for it robs man of
reliance on God, omnipotent Mind, and according to be-
lief, poisons the human system.
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S&H 170:4, 14
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The discord which calls for material
methods is the result of the exercise of faith in material
modes, – faith in matter instead of in Spirit.
The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the
body through Mind. The best interpreter of man’s needs
said: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat,
or what ye shall drink.”
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S&H 20:14
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Jesus bore our infirmities; he knew the error of mortal
belief, and “with his stripes [the rejection of error] we are
healed.” “Despised and rejected of men,”
returning blessing for cursing, he taught mor-
tals the opposite of themselves, even the nature of God;
and when error felt the power of Truth, the scourge and
the cross awaited the great Teacher. Yet he swerved not,
well knowing that to obey the divine order and trust God,
saves retracing and traversing anew the path from sin to
holiness.
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S&H 145:8-17
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The struggle for the recovery of invalids goes on, not
between material methods, but between mortal minds
and immortal Mind. The victory will be on
the patient’s side only as immortal Mind
through Christ, Truth, subdues the human belief in
disease. It matters not what material method one may
adopt, whether faith in drugs, trust in hygiene, or reliance
on some other minor curative.
Scientific healing has this advantage over other meth-
ods, – that in it Truth controls error.
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\nGen 3:8-10
\nPs 121:1-3, 5, 7-8
\nProv 3:5-7, 13-20
\nIsaiah 1:16-18
\nMatt 6:19-25
\nJohn 9:1-7
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476:32-7
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\n487:13 Who, 16-23
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\n181:21-31
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\n169:18-26, 29-2
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402…How gentle God’s commands
\n139…I walk with Love along the way
\n189…Mine eyes look toward the mountains

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", "content_text": "Wednesday Meeting 1-11-2017 First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville\n\n\n\nKJV Gen 3:8-10\n8 …they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.\n\n\nKJV Ps 121:1-3, 5, 7-8\n1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. 7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.\n\n\nKJV Prov 3:5-7, 13-20\n5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. 19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.\n\n\nKJV Isaiah 1:16-18\n16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.\n\n\nKJV Matt 6:19-25\n19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. 24 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 25 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?\n\n\nKJV John 9:1-7\n1 …as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.\n\n\nKJV Hebrews 11:1-3\n1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nS&H 476:32-7\n Jesus beheld in Science the per- fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect 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 intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself spiritual.\n\n\nS&H 495:15\n Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious – as Life eternally is – can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science, instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of being, and this understanding will supplant error with Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence dis- cord with harmony.\n\n\nS&H 487:13 Who, 16-23\n Who or what is it that believes?   Matter cannot believe, and Mind understands. The body cannot believe. The believer and belief are one and are mortal. Christian evidence is founded on Science or demonstrable Truth, flowing from immortal Mind, and there is in reality no such thing as mortal mind. Mere belief is blindness without Principle from which to ex- plain the reason of its hope.\n\n\nS&H 488:7\n The Hebrew and Greek words often translated belief differ somewhat in meaning from that conveyed by the English verb believe; they have more the sig- nificance of faith, understanding, trust, con- stancy, firmness. Hence the Scriptures often appear in our common version to approve and endorse belief, when they mean to enforce the necessity of understanding.\n\n\nS&H 455:3\n A mental state of self-condemnation and guilt or a faltering and doubting trust in Truth are unsuitable conditions for healing the sick. Such mental states indicate weakness instead of strength. Hence the necessity of being right yourself in order to teach this Science of healing. You must utilize the moral might of Mind in order to walk over the waves of error and support your claims by demonstration. If you are yourself lost in the belief and fear of disease or sin, and if, knowing the remedy, you fail to use the energies of Mind in your own behalf, you can exercise little or no power for others’ help. “First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”\n\n\nS&H 181:21-31\n If you are too material to love the Science of Mind and are satisfied with good words instead of effects, if you adhere to error and are afraid to trust Truth, the question then recurs, “Adam, where art thou?” It is unnecessary to resort to aught besides Mind in order to satisfy the sick that you are doing some- thing for them, for if they are cured, they generally know it and are satisfied. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” If you have more faith in drugs than in Truth, this faith will incline you to the side of matter and error.\n\n\nS&H 182:1\nThe act of healing the sick through divine Mind alone, of casting out error with Truth, shows your position as a Christian Scientist.\n\n\nS&H 169:18-26, 29-2\n Science not only reveals the origin of all disease as mental, but it also declares that all disease is cured by divine Mind. There can be no healing ex- cept by this Mind, however much we trust a drug or any other means towards which human faith or endeavor is directed. It is mortal mind, not mat- ter, which brings to the sick whatever good they may seem to receive from materiality. But the sick are never really healed except by means of the divine power. Whatever teaches man to have other laws and to acknowledge other powers than the divine Mind, is anti-Christian. The good that a poisonous drug seems to do is evil, for it robs man of reliance on God, omnipotent Mind, and according to be- lief, poisons the human system.\n\n\nS&H 170:4, 14\n The discord which calls for material methods is the result of the exercise of faith in material modes, – faith in matter instead of in Spirit. The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the body through Mind. The best interpreter of man’s needs said: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.”\n\n\nS&H 20:14\n Jesus bore our infirmities; he knew the error of mortal belief, and “with his stripes [the rejection of error] we are healed.” “Despised and rejected of men,” returning blessing for cursing, he taught mor- tals the opposite of themselves, even the nature of God; and when error felt the power of Truth, the scourge and the cross awaited the great Teacher. Yet he swerved not, well knowing that to obey the divine order and trust God, saves retracing and traversing anew the path from sin to holiness.\n\n\nS&H 145:8-17\n The struggle for the recovery of invalids goes on, not between material methods, but between mortal minds and immortal Mind. The victory will be on the patient’s side only as immortal Mind through Christ, Truth, subdues the human belief in disease. It matters not what material method one may adopt, whether faith in drugs, trust in hygiene, or reliance on some other minor curative. Scientific healing has this advantage over other meth- ods, – that in it Truth controls error.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGen 3:8-10\nPs 121:1-3, 5, 7-8\nProv 3:5-7, 13-20\nIsaiah 1:16-18\nMatt 6:19-25\nJohn 9:1-7\nHebrews 11:1-3\n476:32-7\n495:15\n487:13 Who, 16-23\n488:7\n455:3\n181:21-31\n182:1\n169:18-26, 29-2\n170:4, 14\n20:14\n145:8-17\n402…How gentle God’s commands\n139…I walk with Love along the way\n189…Mine eyes look toward the mountains\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/who-do-you-trust/", "date_published": "2017-01-11T19:22:16-08:00", "date_modified": "2017-01-11T19:22:16-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/begin-with-god/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/begin-with-god/", "title": "Begin with God", "content_html": "
1-4-2017 Wednesday meeting, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville
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KJV Ps 143:1, 7-8, 10-11
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1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
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KJV Lam 3:22-25
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22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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KJV Matt 4:23
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23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
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KJV Matt 5:2
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2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
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KJV Matt 6:5-8
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5 …when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
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KJV Mark 1:35, 21-27
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35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. 21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
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KJV Luke 18:1-8
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1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
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KJV Luke 5:16
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16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
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S&H 15:14-18, 23-24
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In order to pray aright, we must enter into the
\ncloset and shut the door. We must close the lips and
\nsilence the material senses. In the quiet
\nsanctuary of earnest longings, we must
\ndeny sin and plead God’s allness.
\nThe Master’s injunction is, that we pray in secret and
\nlet our lives attest our sincerity.
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S&H 14:31-13
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“When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and,
\nwhen thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
\nwhich is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in
\nsecret, shall reward thee openly.”
\nSo spake Jesus. The closet typifies the sanctuary of
\nSpirit, the door of which shuts out sinful sense but
\nlets in Truth, Life, and Love. Closed to
\nerror, it is open to Truth, and vice versa.
\nThe Father in secret is unseen to the physical senses,
\nbut He knows all things and rewards according to
\nmotives, not according to speech. To enter into the
\nheart of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be
\nclosed. Lips must be mute and materialism silent,
\nthat man may have audience with Spirit, the divine
\nPrinciple, Love, which destroys all error.
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S&H 392:24 Stand
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Stand porter at the door of thought.
\nAdmitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in
\nbodily results, you will control yourself har-
\nmoniously. When the condition is present
\nwhich you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise,
\nheredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office
\nas porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears.
\nExclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the
\nbody cannot suffer from them. The issues of pain or
\npleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman
\nforsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forget-
\nting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.
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S&H 393:8-10 (to authority.), 16-21
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Mind is the
\nmaster of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness,
\nsin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority.
\nBe firm in your understanding that the divine Mind
\ngoverns, and that in Science man reflects God’s govern-
\nment. Have no fear that matter can ache,
\nswell, and be inflamed as the result of a law
\nof any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have
\nno pain nor inflammation.
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S&H 467:29-3
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Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind,
\nwe begin with Mind, which must be under-
\nstood through the idea which expresses it and
\ncannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we
\narrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own
\nunerring idea and never can be coordinate with human
\nillusions.
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S&H 130:26-2
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If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science
\nfor the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the su-
\npremacy of good, ought we not, contrari-
\nwise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims
\nof evil and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to
\nlove sin and unnatural to forsake it, – no longer imagine
\nevil to be ever-present and good absent? Truth should
\nnot seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error
\nshould not seem so real as truth.
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S&H 234:9-12, 17-21, 25-27, 31-3
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We should become more familiar with good than with
\nevil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we
\nbar our doors against the approach of thieves
\nand murderers.
\nIf mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind,
\nthe brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out.
\nWe must begin with this so-called mind and
\nempty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sick-
\nness will never cease.
\nSin and disease must be thought before they can be
\nmanifested. You must control evil thoughts in the first
\ninstance, or they will control you in the second.
\nEvil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more
\nharm than one’s belief permits. Evil thoughts, lusts, and
\nmalicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen,
\nfrom one human mind to another, finding unsuspected
\nlodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence.
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S&H 260:31
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If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for
\nLife, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit,
\nwe find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action.
\nLook away from the body into Truth and Love,
\nthe Principle of all happiness, harmony, and
\nimmortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the endur-
\ning, the good, and the true, and you will bring these
\ninto your experience proportionably to their occupancy
\nof your thoughts.
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S&H 260:13
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Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good,
\nand sets mortals at work to discover what God has already
\ndone; but distrust of one’s ability to gain the goodness
\ndesired and to bring out better and higher results, often
\nhampers the trial of one’s wings and ensures failure at the
\noutset.
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S&H 275:10-15
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To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,
\nyou must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle
\nof all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,
\ncombine as one, – and are the Scriptural names
\nfor God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-
\nmortality, cause, and effect belong to God.
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S&H 283:1
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As mortals begin to understand Spirit,
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\nrealize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of
\nmatter, this understanding will expand into self-com-
\npleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other
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Ps 143:1, 7-8, 10-11
\nLam 3:22-25
\nMatt 4:23
\nMatt 5:2
\nMatt 6:5-8
\nMark 1:35, 21-27
\nLuke 18:1-8
\nLuke 5:1615:14-18, 23-24
\n14:31-13
\n392:24 Stand
\n393:8-10 (to authority.), 16-21
\n467:29-3
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\n234:9-12, 17-21,25-27, 31-3
\n260:31
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\n341…They who seek the throne of grace
\n[253]…O’er waiting harp strings of the mind
\n437…Father, Thou art very near us

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", "content_text": "1-4-2017 Wednesday meeting, First Church of Christ, Scientist-Asheville\n\n\nKJV Ps 143:1, 7-8, 10-11\n1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.\n\n\nKJV Lam 3:22-25\n22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.\n\n\nKJV Matt 4:23\n23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.\n\n\nKJV Matt 5:2\n2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,\n\n\nKJV Matt 6:5-8\n5 …when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.\n\n\nKJV Mark 1:35, 21-27\n35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. 21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.\n\n\nKJV Luke 18:1-8\n1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?\n\n\nKJV Luke 5:16\n16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nS&H 15:14-18, 23-24\nIn order to pray aright, we must enter into the\ncloset and shut the door. We must close the lips and\nsilence the material senses. In the quiet\nsanctuary of earnest longings, we must\ndeny sin and plead God’s allness.\nThe Master’s injunction is, that we pray in secret and\nlet our lives attest our sincerity.\n\n\nS&H 14:31-13\n“When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and,\nwhen thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father\nwhich is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in\nsecret, shall reward thee openly.”\nSo spake Jesus. The closet typifies the sanctuary of\nSpirit, the door of which shuts out sinful sense but\nlets in Truth, Life, and Love. Closed to\nerror, it is open to Truth, and vice versa.\nThe Father in secret is unseen to the physical senses,\nbut He knows all things and rewards according to\nmotives, not according to speech. To enter into the\nheart of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be\nclosed. Lips must be mute and materialism silent,\nthat man may have audience with Spirit, the divine\nPrinciple, Love, which destroys all error.\n\n\nS&H 392:24 Stand\nStand porter at the door of thought.\nAdmitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in\nbodily results, you will control yourself har-\nmoniously. When the condition is present\nwhich you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise,\nheredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office\nas porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears.\nExclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the\nbody cannot suffer from them. The issues of pain or\npleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman\nforsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forget-\nting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.\n\n\nS&H 393:8-10 (to authority.), 16-21\nMind is the\nmaster of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness,\nsin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority.\nBe firm in your understanding that the divine Mind\ngoverns, and that in Science man reflects God’s govern-\nment. Have no fear that matter can ache,\nswell, and be inflamed as the result of a law\nof any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have\nno pain nor inflammation.\n\n\nS&H 467:29-3\nReasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind,\nwe begin with Mind, which must be under-\nstood through the idea which expresses it and\ncannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we\narrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own\nunerring idea and never can be coordinate with human\nillusions.\n\n\nS&H 130:26-2\nIf thought is startled at the strong claim of Science\nfor the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the su-\npremacy of good, ought we not, contrari-\nwise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims\nof evil and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to\nlove sin and unnatural to forsake it, – no longer imagine\nevil to be ever-present and good absent? Truth should\nnot seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error\nshould not seem so real as truth.\n\n\nS&H 234:9-12, 17-21, 25-27, 31-3\nWe should become more familiar with good than with\nevil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we\nbar our doors against the approach of thieves\nand murderers.\nIf mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind,\nthe brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out.\nWe must begin with this so-called mind and\nempty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sick-\nness will never cease.\nSin and disease must be thought before they can be\nmanifested. You must control evil thoughts in the first\ninstance, or they will control you in the second.\nEvil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more\nharm than one’s belief permits. Evil thoughts, lusts, and\nmalicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen,\nfrom one human mind to another, finding unsuspected\nlodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence.\n\n\nS&H 260:31\nIf we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for\nLife, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit,\nwe find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action.\nLook away from the body into Truth and Love,\nthe Principle of all happiness, harmony, and\nimmortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the endur-\ning, the good, and the true, and you will bring these\ninto your experience proportionably to their occupancy\nof your thoughts.\n\n\nS&H 260:13\nScience reveals the possibility of achieving all good,\nand sets mortals at work to discover what God has already\ndone; but distrust of one’s ability to gain the goodness\ndesired and to bring out better and higher results, often\nhampers the trial of one’s wings and ensures failure at the\noutset.\n\n\nS&H 275:10-15\nTo grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,\nyou must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle\nof all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,\ncombine as one, – and are the Scriptural names\nfor God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-\nmortality, cause, and effect belong to God.\n\n\nS&H 283:1\nAs mortals begin to understand Spirit,\nthey give up the belief that there is any true existence\napart from God.\n\n\nS&H\u00a0264:15\nWhen we\nrealize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of\nmatter, this understanding will expand into self-com-\npleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other\nconsciousness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPs 143:1, 7-8, 10-11\nLam 3:22-25\nMatt 4:23\nMatt 5:2\nMatt 6:5-8\nMark 1:35, 21-27\nLuke 18:1-8\nLuke 5:1615:14-18, 23-24\n14:31-13\n392:24 Stand\n393:8-10 (to authority.), 16-21\n467:29-3\n130:26-2\n234:9-12, 17-21,25-27, 31-3\n260:31\n260:13\n275:10-15\n283:1\n264:15\nHymns\n341…They who seek the throne of grace\n[253]…O’er waiting harp strings of the mind\n437…Father, Thou art very near us\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/begin-with-god/", "date_published": "2017-01-04T19:35:38-08:00", "date_modified": "2017-01-04T19:40:33-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "robbiesweetser", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/robbiesweetser/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/24bd33a001da04acac090b86d0142736855d2abdfcc183f0e591777b5e8e6677?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] } ] }