july 26th, 2023

From The Bible

Ps. 118:24, 29 (to :)

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. ...

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: ...

Gen. 1:3 (to :), 5 (to ,), 26 (to dominion), 26 4th over (to 6th ,), 31 (to 1st .)

And God said, Let there be light: ...

And God called the light Day, ...

... ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion ... over all the earth, ...

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. ...

James 1:16, 17

Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 

Ps. 67:4 (to :)

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: ...

Ps. 22:28 the

... the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations. 

Isa. 9:6 (to 2nd :)

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: ...

Ex. 24:12 (to 1st ,), 12 I (to thee), 12 a (to commandments), 12 that

¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, ... I will give thee ... a law, and commandments ... that thou mayest teach them. 

Josh. 22:5 take

... take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. 

Luke 24:36 Jesus (to 3rd ,), 44 These (to 2nd ,), 44 that

... Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, ...

... These are the words which I spake unto you, ... that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 

Matt. 5:17; 15:29–31

¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. ...

And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel. 

John 8:1, 3 (to ;), 4 (to 1st ,), 5 Moses, 7, 9 they (to 3rd ,), 10 (to 3rd ,), 10 hath, 11

Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. ...

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; ...

They say unto him, ...

... Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? ...

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. ...

... they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, ...

When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, ... hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. 

Rom. 8:1, 2

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

Ps. 94:12, 15 judgment

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law; ...

... judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. 

Matt. 8:18, 23–26 (to 2nd ,), 26 Then, 27

¶ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. ...

... ¶ And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, ... Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! 

John 5:19 (to :), 30 (to 1st :), 30 4th I

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: ...

I can of mine own self do nothing: ... I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. 

John 14:12 (to 1st ;)

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; ...

Matt. 10:8 (to :)

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: ...

Gal. 5:1 (to ,), 16 (to 1st ,), 18, 22 the, 23

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, ...

This I say then, ...

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. ...

... the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

 

SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by MARY BAKER EDDY

SH 584:1–7 (to ,)

Day. The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love. 

“And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis i. 5.) The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, ...

SH 72:9–12 As, 30–32 divine

As light destroys darkness and in the place of darkness all is light, so (in absolute Science) Soul, or God, is the only truth-giver to man. ...

... divine law is the communicator of truth, health, and harmony to earth and humanity. 

SH 516:24–25 (to ;); 517:7–9; 518:1

Genesis i. 27. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; ...

... The life-giving quality of Mind is Spirit, not matter. The ideal man corresponds to creation, to intelligence, and to Truth. ...

... His birthright is dominion, not subjection. He is lord of the belief in earth and heaven, — himself subordinate alone to his Maker. This is the Science of being. 

SH 63:5–6, 9

In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. ... Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being. 

SH 303:16–18 (to ,)

Divine Science lays the axe at the root of the illusion that life, or mind, is formed by or is in the material body, ...

SH 380:32–1

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. 

SH 463:27–28

There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a spiritual law instead of material. 

SH 472:9

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government. His law, rightly understood, destroys them. Jesus furnished proofs of these statements. 

SH 233:3–5

These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. 

SH 227:30

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. 

SH 273:24

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. 

SH 127:30–2 (to 1st .)

Christian Science eschews what is called natural science, in so far as this is built on the false hypotheses that matter is its own lawgiver, that law is founded on material conditions, and that these are final and overrule the might of divine Mind. 

SH 168:15–20

Because man-made systems insist that man becomes sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are we to believe an authority which denies God’s spiritual command relating to perfection, — an authority which Jesus proved to be false? 

SH 191:24

The Science of being reveals man and immortality as based on Spirit. Physical sense defines mortal man as based on matter, and from this premise infers the mortality of the body. 

SH 277:24–28

The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, — it is a human concept. Matter is an error of statement. This error in the premise leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters. 

SH 167:11–28

We cannot serve two masters nor perceive divine Science with the material senses. Drugs and hygiene cannot successfully usurp the place and power of the divine source of all health and perfection. If God made man both good and evil, man must remain thus. What can improve God’s work? Again, an error in the premise must appear in the conclusion. To have one God and avail yourself of the power of Spirit, you must love God supremely. 

The “flesh lusteth against the Spirit.” The flesh and Spirit can no more unite in action, than good can coincide with evil. It is not wise to take a halting and half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error. There is but one way — namely, God and His idea — which leads to spiritual being. The scientific government of the body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is impossible to gain control over the body in any other way. 

SH 109:4

Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Mind and idea. This great fact is not, however, seen to be supported by sensible evidence, until its divine Principle is demonstrated by healing the sick and thus proved absolute and divine. This proof once seen, no other conclusion can be reached. 

SH 230:1

If sickness is real, it belongs to immortality; if true, it is a part of Truth. Would you attempt with drugs, or without, to destroy a quality or condition of Truth? But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health, holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the forever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick. This is the salvation which comes through God, the divine Principle, Love, as demonstrated by Jesus. 

SH 273:7–12

Deductions from material hypotheses are not scientific. They differ from real Science because they are not based on the divine law. 

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

SH 390:23

You have no law of His to support the necessity either of sin or sickness, but you have divine authority for denying that necessity and healing the sick. 

SH 307:26

Man was not created from a material basis, nor bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher law of Mind. 

SH 484:9–11 In

In divine Science, the supposed laws of matter yield to the law of Mind. 

SH 328:20–23 (to 3rd .), 24–25

Understanding spiritual law and knowing that there is no material law, Jesus said: “These signs shall follow them that believe, . . . ... They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” 

SH 470:32–4 (to ,)

The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, ...

SH 243:25

Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God. 

SH 302:19

The Science of being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect, because the Soul, or Mind, of the spiritual man is God, the divine Principle of all being, and because this real man is governed by Soul instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not by the so-called laws of matter. 

SH 417:10–14

Maintain the facts of Christian Science, — that Spirit is God, and therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter cannot be sick; that all causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law. 

SH 381:15–16 (to ,), 27–28

God is the lawmaker, ...

... Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony, — God’s law. 

SH 584:1 (only, to .), 4

Day. ...

... The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and “there shall be no night there.” 

Christian science hymnals

Hymn. 585

This is the day the Lord has made; / Be glad, give thanks, rejoice; / Stand in God’s presence, unafraid, / In praise lift up your voice. / All perfect gifts are from above, / And all our blessings show / The amplitude of God’s dear love / Which every heart may know. 

The Lord will hear before we call, / And every need supply; / Good things are freely given to all / Who on God’s word rely. / We come today to bring Love praise / Not for such gifts alone, / But for the higher, deeper ways / In which God’s love is shown. 

For sin destroyed, for sorrow healed, / For health and peace restored; / For Life and Love by Truth revealed, / We thank and bless the Lord. / This is the day the Lord has made, / In praise lift up your voice. / In shining robes of joy arrayed, / Be glad, give thanks, rejoice. 

Words: Laura Lee Randall, alt.

Music: Jonathan Roberts

Hymn. 517

Joyfully we’re singing of our dear God’s grace, / Living every day within Love’s warm embrace. / Eagerly we long to witness everywhere; / All throughout the world, God’s saving love to share. 

REFRAIN / Singing of our dear God’s grace, / Living in Love’s warm embrace, / Longing, now and everywhere, / All God’s saving love to share. 

Who can separate us from the love of God? / Truth is here to shield us with its staff and rod. / What is there to harm us when this help is sure? / We are more than conquerors; we rest secure. / / REFRAIN / Everything that happens to us day by day, / Christ will be the beacon that will light our way. / Through distress and peril, God is faithful still, / Why should we be fearful if we trust God’s will? / / REFRAIN / God remains our refuge in the trials we face, / Shielding and sustaining us with loving grace. / Working through the labors of our hearts and hands, / Truth will lead us onward in triumphant bands! / / REFRAIN 

Words: verses 1, 4 anon.; verses 2, 3 Enrique S. Turral; eng. tr. Mary Louise Bringle, adapt.

Music: Argentine melody; harm. Ronald Krisman, alt.

Hymn. 144

In atmosphere of Love divine, / We live, and move, and breathe; / Though mortal eyes may see it not, / ’Tis sense that would deceive. 

The mortal sense we must destroy, / If we would bring to light / The wonders of eternal Mind, / Where sense is lost in sight. 

For God, immortal Principle, / Is with us everywhere; / He holds us perfect in His love, / And we His image bear. 

Words: H., adapted

Music: Robert P. Stewart