Readings for November 17, 2021

From The Bible

... I am the LORD that healeth thee.

(Exodus 15:26 3rd I)

... unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; ...

(Malachi 4:2 unto (to ;))

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; ...

... yea, our God is merciful.

... I was brought low, and he helped me. ...

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

(Psalms 116:3, 4 (to ;), 5 yea, 6 I, 8)

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

... who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

(Psalms 103:2, 3, 4 2nd who)

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; ...

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. ...

And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. ...

And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, ...

... there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

(Mark 1:1, 4, 7, 9, 10 (to 1st ,), 11 there)

¶ And Jesus went about all Galilee, ... healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

(Matthew 4:23 (to 1st ,), 23 healing)

¶ And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, ...

And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

(Luke 7:19, 20 (to 3rd ,), 21, 22)

¶ And he came to Nazareth, ... and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, ... to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, ...

And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. ...

(Luke 4:16 (to 1st ,), 16–18 2nd and (to 3rd ,), 18–20 7th to (to 1st ,), 21, 22 (to .))

And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: ...

And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

(Mark 2:15 (to :), 16, 17)

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone; ...

And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. ...

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.

(Mark 1:23, 24 (to ;), 25, 27)

Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. ...

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ...

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

(John 7:16, 17; 8:31, 32, 36)

... To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. ...

(John 18:37 To (to 2nd .))

And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:

(Matthew 7:28)

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he ...

... commanded them, saying, ...

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

(Matthew 10:1 (to 2nd he), 5 commanded (to 3rd ,), 8)

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. ...

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. ...

... ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; ...

... he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: ...

(John 14:1, 12, 15–17 (to 1st ;), 26 he, 27 (to :))

¶ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. ...

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: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. ...

(Matthew 28:16, 18–20 (to 1st .))

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. ...

For, ... ye have been called unto liberty; ...

(Galatians 5:1, 13 (to 1st ,), 13 ye (to ;))

Selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. vii:13–18 Truth)

The question, What is Truth, is answered by demonstration, — by healing both disease and sin; and this demonstration shows that Christian healing confers the most health and makes the best men.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. viii:12–15)

We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love by following the example of our Master in the understanding of divine metaphysics.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 192:27–29)

To understand all our Master's sayings as recorded in the New Testament, sayings infinitely important, his followers must grow into that stature of manhood in Christ Jesus which enables them to interpret his spiritual meaning. Then they know how Truth casts out error and heals the sick. His words were the offspring of his deeds, both of which must be understood.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 350:6–13)

Jesus' works established his claim to the Messiahship. In reply to John's inquiry, “Art thou he that should come,” Jesus returned an affirmative reply, recounting his works instead of referring to his doctrine, confident that this exhibition of the divine power to heal would fully answer the question.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 131:29–4)

Jesus once said of his lessons: “My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 109:28–29)

If God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them and in defiance of all material conditions.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 227:30)

Divine Truth must be known by its effects on the body as well as on the mind, before the Science of being can be demonstrated.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 350:24–27 Divine)

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,” ... 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.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. xi:9–11 (to ,), 14–16 (to 2nd ,), 18 coming)

Truth brings the elements of liberty. ... 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? What is it that binds man with iron shackles to sin, sickness, and death? Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 224:28 (only), 29–3)

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 227:18)

I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error, and that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mortals are taught their right to freedom, so the claims of the enslaving senses must be denied and superseded.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 227:3–7)

Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final triumph over the body.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 242:6)

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. Ignorant of our God-given rights, we submit to unjust decrees, and the bias of education enforces this slavery. Be no more willing to suffer the illusion that you are sick or that some disease is developing in the system, than you are to yield to a sinful temptation on the ground that sin has its necessities.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 380:32)

... 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.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 330:25–27 The)

Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind. In both the waking and the sleeping dream, the dreamer thinks that his body is material and the suffering is in that body.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 188:11)

The history of error is a dream-narrative. The dream has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true nor real.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 530:26–29)

To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream from which the patient needs to be awakened.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 417:20–21)

Divine Science reverses the false testimony of the material senses, and thus tears away the foundations of error.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 273:10–12)

We must learn how mankind govern the body, ... We should learn whether they govern the body through a belief in the necessity of sickness and death, sin and pardon, or govern it from the higher understanding that the divine Mind makes perfect, acts upon the so-called human mind through truth, leads the human mind to relinquish all error, to find the divine Mind to be the only Mind, and the healer of sin, disease, death.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 251:15 (only, to ,), 17–24)

A Christian Scientist's medicine is Mind, the divine Truth that makes man free. ...

Teach your students the omnipotence of Truth, which illustrates the impotence of error. ... That evil or matter has neither intelligence nor power, is the doctrine of absolute Christian Science, and this is the great truth which strips all disguise from error.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 453:29–30; 454:4–5, 11)

As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, man in God's likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness no material element.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 191:4)

Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not God's man. ... In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 475:28–1 (to 1st .); 476:4)

Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 481:2–5)

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. 390:32–2)

By the truthful arguments you employ, and especially by the spirit of Truth and Love which you entertain, you will heal the sick.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 418:22)

Christian Science raises the standard of liberty and cries: “Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sickness, sin, and death!” Jesus marked out the way. Citizens of the world, accept the “glorious liberty of the children of God,” and be free! This is your divine right.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 227:21–26)

Hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn 563

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.  568)

Hymn 412

O dreamer, leave thy dreams for joyful waking, / O captive, rise and sing, for thou art free; / The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking, / Unloosing bonds of all captivity.

He comes to bless thee on his wings of healing; / To banish pain, and wipe all tears away; / He comes anew, to humble hearts revealing / The mounting footsteps of the upward way.

He comes to give thee joy for desolation, / Beauty for ashes of the vanished years; / For every tear to bring full compensation, / To give thee confidence for all thy fears.

He comes to call the dumb to joyful singing; / The deaf to hear; the blinded eyes to see; / The glorious tidings of salvation bringing. / O captive, rise, thy Saviour comes to thee.

(Christian Science Hymnal, No.  412)

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)