The Bible citations were read from the New Revised Standard Version.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Asheville, 2-3-2016
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Asheville, 2-3-2016
- KJV Matt 13:34
- 34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
- KJV Matt 25:14-29
- 14…the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. 17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. 18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money. 19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. 20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. 21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. 23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. 26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. 29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
- KJV Matt 10:1, 5 (to 1st instructions:), 7, 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 26
- 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. 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 19 But when they deliver you
- up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. 26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
- KJV John 3:1-8
- 1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
- KJV John 15:6
- 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
- KJV II Corinthians 3:2-6
- 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- KJV Galatians 5:13, 14, 16 (to 1st Spirit,), 22-23, 25
- 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. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,… 22 … the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
- KJV Galatians 6:9-10
- 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
- S&H 497:3
- 1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word
of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
- S&H 319:21-23
- The divine Science taught in the original language
of the Bible came through inspiration, and needs inspi-
ration to be understood.
- S&H 136:32
- Jesus patiently persisted in
teaching and demonstrating the truth of being. His stu-
dents saw this power of Truth heal the sick, cast out evil,
raise the dead; but the ultimate of this wonderful work
was not spiritually discerned, even by them, until after the
crucifixion, when their immaculate Teacher stood before
them, the victor over sickness, sin, disease, death, and
the grave.
- S&H 34:18-20, 21-23
- Through all the disciples experienced, they became more
spiritual and understood better what the Master had
taught.
It helped them to raise themselves and
others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into
the perception of infinite possibilities.
- S&H 332:9 Christ, 10-11
- Christ is the true idea
voicing good, the divine message from God to men speak-
ing to the human consciousness.
- S&H 520:5-7
- Human language
can repeat only an infinitesimal part of what
exists.
- S&H 234:4
- Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love – be
it song, sermon, or Science – blesses the human family
with crumbs of comfort from Christ’s table
feeding the hungry and giving living waters to
the thirsty.
- S&H 447:1-5
- The heavenly law is broken by trespassing upon
man’s individual right of self-government. We have no
authority in Christian Science and no moral
right to attempt to influence the thoughts of
others, except it be to benefit them.
- S&H 8:14-18
- If we feel the aspiration, hu-
mility, gratitude, and love which our words express,-
this God accepts; and it is wise not to try to deceive
ourselves or others, for “there is nothing covered that
shall not be revealed.
- S&H 367:3
- The tender word and Christian
encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience
with his fears and the removal of them, are better than
hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed
speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so
many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame
with divine Love.
- S&H 548:12
- Earth has little light or joy for mortals before
Life is spiritually learned. Every agony of mortal error
helps error to destroy error, and so aids the apprehension
of immortal Truth. This is the new birth going on
hourly, by which men may entertain angels, the true
ideas of God, the spiritual sense of being.
- S&H 5:3-6
- Sorrow for wrong-doing is but one step towards reform
and the very easiest step. The next and great step re-
quired by wisdom is the test of our sincerity,
– namely, reformation.
- S&H 78:28
- Spirit blesses man, but man cannot “tell whence
it cometh.” By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are
comforted, and the sinning are reformed. These are the
effects of one universal God, the invisible good dwelling
in eternal Science.
- S&H 117:6-7, 10-23
- God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must
be, and is, spiritual.
God’s essential language is spoken of in the last
chapter of Mark’s Gospel as the new tongue, the spir-
itual meaning of which is attained through “signs
following.”
Ear hath not heard, nor hath lip spoken, the pure lan-
guage of Spirit. Our Master taught spirituality by simili-
tudes and parables. As a divine student he
unfolded God to man, illustrating and demon-
strating Life and Truth in himself and by his power over
the sick and sinning. Human theories are inadequate to
interpret the divine Principle involved in the miracles
(marvels) wrought by Jesus and especially in his mighty,
crowning, unparalleled, and triumphant exit from the
flesh.
- S&H 150:4-6, 10 but
- To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demon-
strated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a
phenomenal exhibition.
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.
- S&H 460:24
- When the Science of Mind was a fresh revelation to
the author, she had to impart, while teaching its grand
facts, the hue of spiritual ideas from her own
spiritual condition, and she had to do this orally
through the meagre channel afforded by language and by
her manuscript circulated among the students. As for-
mer beliefs were gradually expelled from her thought, the
teaching became clearer, until finally the shadow of old
errors was no longer cast upon divine Science.
- S&H 461:9
- Only by the illumination of the spiritual sense, can
the light of understanding be thrown upon this Science,
because Science reverses the evidence before the material
senses and furnishes the eternal interpretation of God and
man.
- S&H 475:11-13
- Man is spiritual and perfect; and be-
cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so under-
stood in Christian Science.
- S&H 476:21-22, 28-2
- Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual
status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood.
When speaking of God’s children, not the children of
men, Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you;”
that is, Truth and Love reign in the real
man, showing that man in God’s image is
unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per-
fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
man appears to mortals.
- S&H 497:24-27
- 6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for
that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to
do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and
to be merciful, just, and pure.
- 88…Gracious Spirit, dwell with me
316…Speak gently
458…Though I may speak with moving words
Matt 13:34
Matt 25:14-29
Matt 10:1, 5 (to instructions:), 7, 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 26
John 3:1-8
John 15:6
II Corinthians 3:2-6
Galatians 5:13, 14, 16 (to Spirit,), 22-24
Galatians 6:9497:3
319:21-23
136:32
34:18-20, 21-23
332:9 Christ, 10-11
520:5-7
234:4
447:1-5
8:14-18
367:3
548:12
5:3-6
78:28
117:6-7, 10-23
150:4-6, 10 but
460:24
461:9
475:11-13
476:21-22, 28-2
497:24-2788…Gracious Spirit, dwell with me
316…Speak gently
458…Though I may speak with moving words
Matt 25:14-29
Matt 10:1, 5 (to instructions:), 7, 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 26
John 3:1-8
John 15:6
II Corinthians 3:2-6
Galatians 5:13, 14, 16 (to Spirit,), 22-24
Galatians 6:9497:3
319:21-23
136:32
34:18-20, 21-23
332:9 Christ, 10-11
520:5-7
234:4
447:1-5
8:14-18
367:3
548:12
5:3-6
78:28
117:6-7, 10-23
150:4-6, 10 but
460:24
461:9
475:11-13
476:21-22, 28-2
497:24-2788…Gracious Spirit, dwell with me
316…Speak gently
458…Though I may speak with moving words
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