Wednesday, 12 Nov.
... the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
(Isaiah 33:22 the)
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, ... will I rule over you:
(Ezekiel 20:33 (to 4th ,), 33 will)
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, ... and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
(Exodus 24:12 (to 2nd ,), 12 3rd and)
Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, ...
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and ... all the congregation, ... saying, Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. And Moses brought their cause before the LORD. ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
(Numbers 27:1 (to 2nd ,), 2 (to 3rd and), 2 all (to 3rd ,), 2–7 saying)
O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for ... he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
(Psalms 67:4 (to 2nd for); 98:9 he)
Now, my son, ... the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: ...
(I Chronicles 22:11 (to 2nd ,), 12 the, 13 (to :))
Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, ...
Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: ...But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: ...Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, ...... Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: ...
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: ... until he come whose right it is; ...
(Ezekiel 20:2, 3 (to 3rd ,), 7 Cast (to :), 8 (to 1st :); 21:24 (to 1st ,), 26 Remove (to 1st :), 27 (to :), 27 until (to ;))
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.
(Psalms 94:12, 15 judgment)
... there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, ...
and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: ...
(Isaiah 11:1 there, 2 (to 1st ,), 3 2nd and, 4 (to :))
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
(John 1:17)
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. … And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: ... and taught them, saying, …
...Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
(Matthew 4:23; 5:1 (to 1st :), 2 2nd and, 17, 18)
And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, ... of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
(Matthew 17:24, 25 (to 4th ,), 25–27 of)
And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days? ...
and there was a man whose right hand was withered. And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; ...
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it? And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other. And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. ...And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: … and said, ...Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, ... and shall reproach you, ... for the Son of man’s sake. ... for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. ... But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
(Luke 6:2, 6 3rd and, 7 (to ;), 9–11, 13 (to :), 20 2nd and (to 2nd ,), 22 (to 2nd ,), 22 2nd and (to 4th ,), 22 for, 23 3rd for, 27, 28)
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
(Matthew 7:12)
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: ...
(James 4:12 (to :))
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. ...... whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
(James 1:16, 17, 25 whoso)
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, ...For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(Galatians 5:1 (to ,), 14)
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
(Romans 13:10)
God creates and governs the universe, including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 295:5–8)
Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens, — all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. ...
In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 240:1–6, 10–11)
Our Master treated error through Mind. ... There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a spiritual law instead of material.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 463:24–25, 27–28)
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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 273:24)
... What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. — CHRIST JESUS.
The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love. Regardless of what another may say or think on this subject, I speak from experience.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 1:-4–5 What)
Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord’s Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick.
Here let me give what I understand to be the spiritual sense of the Lord’s Prayer:
... Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
... Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is omnipotent, supreme.
... For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 16:20–25, 27; 17:2, 14)
... God is incorporeal, ... Mind, ... Principle, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 465:9 God (only, to 1st ,), 10 Mind (only, to 1st ,), 10 Principle (only, to 1st ,))
... all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; ... all substance; intelligence.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587:5–6 all-knowing (to 1st ;), 7 all)
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 ;))
As God is substance and man is the divine image and likeness, man should wish for, and in reality has, only the substance of good, the substance of Spirit, not matter. The belief that man has any other substance, or mind, is not spiritual and breaks the First Commandment, Thou shalt have one God, one Mind. Mortal man seems to himself to be material substance, while man is “image” (idea).
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 301:17–24)
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?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 168:15–20)
There is no physical science, inasmuch as all truth proceeds from the divine Mind. Therefore truth is not human, and is not a law of matter, for matter is not a lawgiver. … 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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 127:23–26, 30–2 (to 1st .))
The law of Christ, or Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing from the basis of one God, one lawmaker.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 182:32–4)
It is a law of so-called mortal mind, misnamed matter, which causes all things discordant.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 387:24)
Divine Science lays the axe at the root of the illusion that life, or mind, is formed by or is in the material body, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 303:16–18 (to ,))
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 380:32–1)
... Subject sickness, sin, and death to the rule of health and holiness in Christian Science, and you ascertain that this Science is demonstrably true, for it heals the sick and sinning as no other system can. ... It brings to light the only living and true God and man as made in His likeness; whereas the opposite belief — that man originates in matter and has beginning and end, that he is both soul and body, both good and evil, both spiritual and material — terminates in discord and mortality, in the error which must be destroyed by Truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 337:29–1 Subject; 338:2–8)
The best sermon ever preached is Truth practised and demonstrated by the destruction of sin, sickness, and death. …
... Passions, selfishness, false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirituality, and the superabundance of being is on the side of God, good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 201:1–3, 9)
Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error. Divine Science reveals these grand facts. On their basis Jesus demonstrated Life, never fearing nor obeying error in any form.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 243:32)
Rabbi and priest taught the Mosaic law, which said: “An eye for an eye,” and “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” Not so did Jesus, the new executor for God, present the divine law of Love, which blesses even those that curse it. As the individual ideal of Truth, Christ Jesus came to rebuke rabbinical error and all sin, sickness, and death, — to point out the way of Truth and Life.(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 30:14–21)
Christ Jesus overruled the error which would impose penalties for transgressions of the physical laws of health; he annulled supposed laws of matter, opposed to the harmonies of Spirit, lacking divine authority and having only human approval for their sanction.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 381:31)
His spirituality separated him from sensuousness, and caused the selfish materialist to hate him; but it was this spirituality which enabled Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the dead.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 51:28 His)
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.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 328:20–23 (to 3rd .), 24–25)
Jesus aided in reconciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love, the divine Principle of Jesus’ teachings, and this truer sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit, — the law of divine Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 19:6)
You will learn that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey God, to have one Mind, and to love another as yourself.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 496:5)
The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 113:5–6)
Love is the liberator.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 225:21)
Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony, — God’s law.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 381:27–28)
Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, — the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain forever unseen.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 208:20)
God is the lawmaker, ... In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor death, and the Scriptures declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 381:15–16 (to ,), 17)
Love is life’s true crown and glory, / Love the splendor of the light, / Truly is God’s counsel gentle, / Truly all His ways are bright; / Jesus knew the law of kindness, / Healing mind and heart of blindness; / And in heavenly wisdom taught / Holy works of love he wrought.
Love, the Golden Rule of living, / Showeth forth the perfect Mind; / Love, our debt to God who gives it, / All compassion is, and kind; / Charity the law fulfilleth, / Mid the nations rancor stilleth; / Loving hearts in friendship blend, / One in Him, our heavenly Friend.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 178)
Lean on the sustaining infinite / And blessings will be yours. / Lean not on person, place, or thing, / Or economic laws; / But lean upon all-blessing God / Who will all needs supply / And give to all abundant good / That money cannot buy.
Let the healing reign of Truth and Life, / The reign of Love divine, / Be now established within me / To show Soul’s clear design / Of Oneness, indivisible— / Of God and me as one— / As water is to ocean wave, / As sunbeam is to sun.
Love with a heart of tenderness / Your enemies and friends; / However hard this may appear, / This quality just mends. / For Love is God in action true, / A presence that is felt; / A healing and a saving power / That will all discord melt.
So lean, and let, and love; / This is the balanced Way. / It’s free from self-will, pressure, stress; / It welcomes in God’s day. / The leaning is so gentle; / The letting is so free. / And loving is the only way / To think, and speak, and be.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 519)
It matters not what be thy lot, / So Love doth guide; / For storm or shine, pure peace is thine, / Whate’er betide.
And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones, / God able is / To raise up seed—in thought and deed— / To faithful His.
Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence! / Our God is good. / False fears are foes—truth tatters those, / When understood.
Love looseth thee, and lifteth me, / Ayont hate’s thrall: / There Life is light, and wisdom might, / And God is All.
The centuries break, the earth-bound wake, / God’s glorified! / Who doth His will—His likeness still— / Is satisfied.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 513)
