Readings for October 13, 2021
Subject : “Felt ye the Power of the Word?"
From The Bible
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(John 1:1)
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
(Psalms 29:4)
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. ...
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
(Psalms 107:8, 9, 20)
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
(Hebrews 4:12)
... I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
(Numbers 22:18 I)
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? ... and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
(II Chronicles 20:6 (to 1st ?), 6 3rd and)
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: For he took away the altars of the strange gods, ...
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. ...
And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; ...
... ¶ And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, ...
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, ... help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. ..
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, ...
And the spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, ... The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; ...
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, ... and renewed the altar of the LORD, ...
And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa. ...
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. ¶ And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
(II Chronicles 14:2, 3 (to 1st ,), 4, 8 (to ;), 9 (to ,), 11 (to 3rd ,), 11 2nd help (to 1st .), 12 (to ,); 15:1, 2 (to 4th ,), 2 The (to 3rd ;), 8 (to 3rd ,), 8 6th and (to 6th ,), 19; 16:12, 13)
... thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, ...
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, ... and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
(Jeremiah 33:4 thus (to 2nd ,), 6 (to 2nd ,), 6 3rd and)
¶ And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: ...
And came down to Capernaum, ... and taught them on the sabbath days. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. ¶ And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? ...
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out. ...
... ¶ And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. ¶ Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
(Luke 4:14 (to :), 31 (to 1st ,), 31–34 2nd and (to 1st ?), 35, 36, 38–40)
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. ...
... ¶ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, ...
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
(Luke 9:1, 2; 10:1, 17, 18 (to ,), 19)
¶ 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.
(John 8:12)
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. ¶ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: ...
(Matthew 28:18–20 (to :))
Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. ...
... he raised up unto them David to be their king; ...
Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: ...
And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, ...
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: ...
(Acts 13:16, 17, 22 2nd he (to ;), 23, 32, 33 (to 1st ,), 47, 48 (to :))
Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, ...
... and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
(I Chronicles 29:11 (to 8th ,), 12 2nd and, 13 )
Selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. — Psalms.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 165:-1)
In the Gospel of John, it is declared that all things were made through the Word of God, “and without Him [the logos, or word] was not anything made that was made.” ... In the Science of Genesis we read that He saw everything which He had made, “and, behold, it was very good.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 525:17–20, 22–24)
Genesis i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
... This word beginning is employed to signify the only, — that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe. The creative Principle — Life, Truth, and Love — is God. ...
God, Spirit, dwelling in infinite light and harmony from which emanates the true idea, is never reflected by aught but the good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 502:22, 24–28 This (to 1st .); 503:28)
... Spirit, God, has created all in and of Himself. Spirit never created matter. There is nothing in Spirit out of which matter could be made, for, as the Bible declares, without the Logos, the Æon or Word of God, “was not anything made that was made.” Spirit is the only substance, the invisible and indivisible infinite God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 335:7–13 Spirit)
The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, — contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual. These eternal verities reveal primeval existence as the radiant reality of God's creation, in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wisdom good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 109:32)
Spirit is divine Principle, and divine Principle is Love, and Love is Mind, and Mind is not both good and bad, for God is Mind; therefore there is in reality one Mind only, because there is one God.
... The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power. As manifested by mankind it stands for a lie, nothing claiming to be something, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 330:20, 25–29 The (to 1st ,))
We must silence this lie of material sense with the truth of spiritual sense.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 318:12–13)What is termed material sense can report only a mortal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can bear witness only to Truth. To material sense, the unreal is the real until this sense is corrected by Christian Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 298:8)
Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes all power to God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 473:10–12)
The divine Spirit, which identified Jesus thus centuries ago, has spoken through the inspired Word and will speak through it in every age and clime. It is revealed to the receptive heart, and is again seen casting out evil and healing the sick.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 46:7)
In Latin the word rendered disciple signifies student; and the word indicates that the power of healing was not a supernatural gift to those learners, but the result of their cultivated spiritual understanding of the divine Science, which their Master demonstrated by healing the sick and sinning.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 271:11–16)
The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, ... 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 repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. xi:9–11 (to ,), 14–18)
Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understanding, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — that is, all power, all presence, all Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 275:20–23)
Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 391:7–9)
“Agree to disagree” with approaching symptoms of chronic or acute disease, whether it is cancer, consumption, or smallpox. ... Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 390:27–29, 32–2)
Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 390:29–32)
Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, ... No law of God hinders this result.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 391:9–11 (to ,), 13 (only))
Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, “God is All-in-all,” and the light of ever-present Love illumines the universe.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 503:12–15)
The power of God brings deliverance to the captive. No power can withstand divine Love. What is this supposed power, which opposes itself to God? Whence cometh it?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 224:29–1)
Tell the sick that they can meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize that divine Love gives them all power over every physical action and condition.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 420:24)
Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on Mind alone as the curative Principle, acknowledging that the divine Mind has all power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 157:8–10)
When the discoverer of Christian Science is consulted by her followers as to the propriety, advantage, and consistency of systematic medical study, she tries to show them that under ordinary circumstances a resort to faith in corporeal means tends to deter those, who make such a compromise, from entire confidence in omnipotent Mind as really possessing all power. While a course of medical study is at times severely condemned by some Scientists, she feels, as she always has felt, that all are privileged to work out their own salvation according to their light, and that our motto should be the Master's counsel, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” ...
... Let us be faithful in pointing the way through Christ, as we understand it, but let us also be careful always to “judge righteous judgment,” and never to condemn rashly. ...
The teacher must make clear to students the Science of healing, especially its ethics, — that all is Mind, and that the Scientist must conform to God's requirements.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 443:1; 444:16–19, 31–1)
No hypothesis as to the existence of another power should interpose a doubt or fear to hinder the demonstration of Christian Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 445:5–8)
We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 264:10)
Hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn 10
All power is given unto our Lord, / On Him we place reliance; / With truth from out His sacred word / We bid our foes defiance. / With Him we shall prevail, / Whatever may assail; / He is our shield and tower, / Almighty is His power; / His kingdom is forever.
Rejoice, ye people, praise His name, / His care doth e'er surround us. / His love to error's thralldom came, / And from its chains unbound us. / Our Lord is God alone, / No other power we own; / No other voice we heed, / No other help we need; / His kingdom is forever.
O then give thanks to God on high, / Who life to all is giving; / The hosts of death before Him fly, / In Him we all are living. / Then let us know no fear, / Our King is ever near; / Our stay and fortress strong, / Our strength, our hope, our song; / His kingdom is forever.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 10)
Hymn 175
Lo, He sent His Word and healed them, / Still that Word of God is here. / Still its tender healing message / Speaks to every listening ear. / Truth divine, that overcometh / All the ills that seem to be, / In our hearts Thy Word abiding, / We may know Thee and be free.
Love divine, that faileth never, / Still Thy presence and Thy power / Mighty are to save and heal us, / Guard and guide us every hour. / Life divine, Thy Word proclaimeth / All true being one with Thee. / Sinless, fearless, whole, rejoicing, / Now and through eternity.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 175)
Hymn 300
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound? / Felt ye the power of the Word? / 'Twas the Truth that made us free, / And was found by you and me / In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom, / Love wipes your tears all away, / And will lift the shade of gloom, / And for you make radiant room / Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain, / Cleanse the foul senses within; / 'Tis the Spirit that makes pure, / That exalts thee, and will cure / All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless, / Life of all being divine: / Thou the Christ, and not the creed; / Thou the Truth in thought and deed; / Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 300)
