Bible Lesson 10/29/17

BIBLE, SIN, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Everlasting Punishment:

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged (Proverbs 16).

man--The perfect man--governed by God, his perfect Principle--is sinless and eternal (Eddy, 1906, p. 304).

Love--Divine Love corrects and governs man (Eddy, 1906, p. 6).

Christ--He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:  and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver (Malachi 3).

Magdalen--Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much:  but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little (Luke 7).

health--Behold, thou art made whole:  sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (John 5).

gold--The furnace separates the gold from the dross that the precious metal may be graven with the image of God (Eddy, 1906, p. 66).

References

Eddy, M. B.  (1906).  Science and health with key to the scriptures.  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Holy bible (King James version).  (n. d.).  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Publishing Society.

Bible Lesson 10/22/17

BIBLE, PROGRESS, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Probation After Death:

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will (John 5).

wisdom--The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death (Proverbs 13).

Elijah--Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew (Eddy, 1906, p. 425).

Elisha--Progress is born of experience.  It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for the immortal (Eddy, 1906, p. 296).

Jesus--He showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs (Acts 1).

Paul--Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city (Acts 14).

change--I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living (Psalms 116).  As St. Paul says:  "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God" (of Spirit) (Eddy, 1906, p. 288).

References

Eddy, M. B.  (1906).  Science and health with key to the scriptures.  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Holy bible (King James version).  (n. d.).  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Publishing Society.

Bible Lesson 10/15/17

BIBLE, ATONEMENT, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Doctrine of Atonement:

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (Romans 8).

demonstration--Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands (Isaiah 49).

covenant--Divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object (Eddy, 1906, p. 304).

reconciliation--And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation (II Corinthians 5).

Immanuel--Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural.  They are the sign of Immanuel, or "God with us," (Eddy, 1906, p. xi).

Lord Jesus--We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement (Romans 5).

oneness--Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called (Ephesians 4).

References

Eddy, M. B.  (1906).  Science and health with key to the scriptures.  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Holy bible (King James version).  (n. d.).  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Publishing Society.

Bible Lesson 10/8/17

BIBLE, MORTALITY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?

Be not afraid of their faces (Jeremiah 1).

standard--When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him (Isaiah 59).

sin--O man greatly beloved, fear not:  peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong (Daniel 10).

harvest--Science separates the wheat from the tares, through the realization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness (Eddy, 1906, p. 300).

sickness--Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague (Mark 5).  Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients (Eddy, 1906, p. 411).

death--And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. . . .  And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.  And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak.  And he delivered him to his mother (Luke 7).

face--The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace (Numbers 6).

References

Eddy, M. B.  (1906).  Science and health with key to the scriptures.  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Holy bible (King James version).  (n. d.).  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Publishing Society.

Bible Lesson 10/1/17

BIBLE, UNREALITY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Unreality:

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding (Proverbs 3).

duality--Liberation does not scientifically show itself in a knowledge of both good and evil, for the latter is unreal (Eddy, 1906, p. 103).

sin--To prove scientifically the error or unreality of sin, you must first see the claim of sin, and then destroy it (Eddy, 1906, p. 461).

sickness--When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea.  Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought (Eddy, 1906, p. 495).

death--The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God:  and they that hear shall live (John 5).

ghosts--Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night . . . .  For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways (Psalms 91).

leaves--When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized (Eddy, 1906, p. 480).

References

Eddy, M. B.  (1906).  Science and health with key to the scriptures.  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Holy bible (King James version).  (n. d.).  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Publishing Society.

Bible Lesson 9/22/17

BIBLE, REALITY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Reality:

Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see (Isaiah 42).

patriarch--Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee (Genesis 13).

prophet--As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever (Psalms 125).

faith--We walk by faith, not by sight (II Corinthians 5).

understanding--And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself (Luke 24).

vision--This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility (Eddy, 1906, p. 574).

References

Eddy, M. B.  (1906).  Science and health with key to the scriptures.  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Holy bible (King James version).  (n. d.).  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Publishing Society.

Bible Lesson 9/17/17

BIBLE, MATTER, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Matter:

Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value] (Colossians 3; AMP).

grass--All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.  The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away (I Peter 1).

Goliath--And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine (I Samuel 17).

riches--Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base by resting upon Spirit instead of matter (Eddy, 1906, p. 430).

health--Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic (Eddy, 1906, p. 120).

triumph--From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter (Eddy, 1906, p. 139).

word--We speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual (I Corinthians 2).

References

Amplified^® Bible (AMP), Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, Used by permission. www.Lockman.org.

Eddy, M. B.  (1906).  Science and health with key to the scriptures.  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Holy bible (King James version).  (n. d.).  Boston, MA:  The Christian Science Publishing Society.