Oct 29 Bible Readings
... I am the LORD, I change not; ...
(Malachi 3:6 I (to ;))
For this God is our God for ever and ever: ...
(Psalms 48:14 (to :))
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? ...
(Malachi 2:10 (to 2nd ?))
Thus saith the LORD, ... I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
(Jeremiah 31:2 (to 1st ,), 3 I)
It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
(Lamentations 3:22, 23)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ...Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. ...By faith Moses, ... forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: ...
(Hebrews 11:1, 3, 23 (to 1st ,), 27 forsook (to :))
¶ And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; .... Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, ...And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: … And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
(Exodus 3:11, 12 (to ;); 4:1 Moses (to 4th ,), 2–4, 6, 7)
... Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: ... he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
(Daniel 2:20 Blessed (to 1st :), 21 3rd he)
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, … 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:
(Matthew 9:35 (to 3rd ,); 15:30)
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, … 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. 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. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? … Jesus answered, …That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. … 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.
(John 3:1 (to 2nd ,), 2–4 (to 1st ?), 5 (to 1st ,), 6, 8)
And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, … And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: ...While he yet spake, there came ... certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: ...As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. ...And when he was come in, he saith unto them, ... the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. … And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, ... Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; ... And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
(Mark 5:22 (to 3rd ,), 23 (to :), 35 (to came), 35 certain (to :), 36, 39 (to 2nd ,), 39 the, 41 (to 3rd ,), 41 2nd Damsel, 42 (to ;), 42 3rd And)
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. .... the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: … Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. … 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.
(John 12:44, 49 the, 50 (to :); 14:10, 12)
... to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
(I Corinthians 8:6 to)
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
(Hebrews 13:8)
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: ...That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; ...
(Ecclesiastes 3:14 (to 2nd :), 15 (to 2nd ;))
The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 140:25–27)
... God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 465:9 God)
From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude come spiritual rules, laws, and their demonstration, which, like the great Giver, are “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;” ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 112:16–20 (to ;))
The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 475:7–9)
God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal nor material. ... To the five corporeal senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but Christian Science reveals man as the idea of God, and declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and erring illusions.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 476:9–11; 477:9–13 To)
When, led by wisdom to cast down his rod, he saw it become a serpent, Moses fled before it; but wisdom bade him come back and handle the serpent, and then Moses’ fear departed. In this incident was seen the actuality of Science. Matter was shown to be a belief only. The serpent, evil, under wisdom’s bidding, was destroyed through understanding divine Science, and this proof was a staff upon which to lean. The illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him, when he discovered that what he apparently saw was really but a phase of mortal belief. It was scientifically demonstrated that leprosy was a creation of mortal mind and not a condition of matter, when Moses first put his hand into his bosom and drew it forth white as snow with the dread disease, and presently restored his hand to its natural condition by the same simple process. God had lessened Moses’ fear by this proof in divine Science, ... And so it was in the coming centuries, when the Science of being was demonstrated by Jesus, who showed his students the power of Mind by changing water into wine, and taught them how to handle serpents unharmed, to heal the sick and cast out evils in proof of the supremacy of Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 321:8–25 (to ,), 29)
A change in human belief changes all the physical symptoms, ... When one’s false belief is corrected, Truth sends a report of health over the body.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 194:6–7 (to ,), 8)
The various contradictions of the Science of Mind by the material senses do not change the unseen Truth, which remains forever intact.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 481:9–12)
In the illusion of life that is here to-day and gone to-morrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not that Love, the divine Principle that obtains in divine Science, destroys all error and brings immortality to light. Because man is the reflection of his Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not divine.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 305:22)
Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood. Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise. Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 246:18)
Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in proportion as the other is recognized. Time is finite; eternity is forever infinite. Life is neither in nor of matter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Matter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind. Life is not limited. Death and finiteness are unknown to Life.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 468:28–5 (to 2nd .))
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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 188:11–15)
Jesus demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring human sense to flee from its own convictions and seek safety in divine Science. Reason, rightly directed, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the experiences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Science of man’s eternal harmony breaks their illusion with the unbroken reality of scientific being.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:15 Jesus)
Jesus said of Lazarus: “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.” Jesus restored Lazarus by the understanding that Lazarus had never died, not by an admission that his body had died and then lived again.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 75:12–16)
To the synagogue ruler’s daughter, whom they called dead but of whom he said, “she is not dead, but sleepeth,” he simply said, “Damsel, I say unto thee, arise!”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 398:10–13)
The understanding of Truth gives full faith in Truth, … The Master said, “No man cometh unto the Father [the divine Principle of being] but by me,” Christ, Life, Truth, Love; for Christ says, “I am the way.” Physical causation was put aside from first to last by this original man, Jesus.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 286:6–7 (to ,), 9–13)
The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still overcomes death proves the “king of terrors” to be but a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this shows that what appears to the senses to be death is but a mortal illusion, for to the real man and the real universe there is no death-process.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 289:14)
All that we term sin, sickness, and death is a mortal belief. We define matter as error, because it is the opposite of life, substance, and intelligence. Matter, with its mortality, cannot be substantial if Spirit is substantial and eternal. Which ought to be substance to us, — the erring, changing, and dying, the mutable and mortal, or the unerring, immutable, and immortal? A New Testament writer plainly describes faith, a quality of mind, as “the substance of things hoped for.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 278:28)
Paul says: “For the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” (Romans i. 20.) When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized. Where the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is not, evil becomes nothing, — the opposite of the something of Spirit.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 479:29–5)
The Bible declares: “All things were made by Him [the divine Word]; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” This is the eternal verity of divine Science. ... Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 480:26–29; 481:2–3)
Principle and its idea, man, are coexistent and eternal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 520:9–10)
Happy the man whose heart can rest, / Assured God’s goodness ne’er will cease; / Each day, complete, with joy is blessed, / God keepeth him in perfect peace.
God keepeth him, and God is one, / One Life, forevermore the same, / One Truth unchanged while ages run; / Eternal Love His holiest name.
Dwelling in Love that cannot change, / From anxious fear man finds release; / No more his homeless longings range, / God keepeth him in perfect peace.
In perfect peace, with tumult stilled, / Enhavened where no storms arise, / There man can work what God hath willed; / The joy of perfect work his prize.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 93)
Be still, my heart: you rest in Love divine; / God’s gracious touch has silenced grief and pain. / Love’s timeless Christ allows for no decline; / In changeless being shall your health remain. / Be still, my heart: your faithful only Friend / Secures your joyful voyage without end.
Be still, my heart: of present glories sing, / Instead of mourning for a troubled past. / Replace sad tunes with melodies that ring / Of God’s rich mercy and of blessings vast. / Be still, my heart: the winds and waves recede / When to God’s angel voices you give heed.
Be still, my heart: our God casts out all fears, / Assuring you that God and man are one; / And in that oneness here and now appears / Love’s everlasting life, with death outdone. / Be still, my heart: no lies, no tears, no curse / Can mar the rhythm of God’s universe.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 444)
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. 570)
