Sunday Scriptural Selection

First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge

Sunday Scriptural Selection & Benediction

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Truth

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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Scriptural selection:

Eph 4:1-3,7 unto,13,14 henceforth,15,17,18,20-25,29,31,32

1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

3Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

7unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

20But ye have not so learned Christ;

21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Eph 5:1,8,9

1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

***Benediction:

Mis 151:24-28

24May mercy and truth go before you: may the lamp of
your life continually be full of oil, and you be wedded
to the spiritual idea, Christ; then will you heal, and
27teach, and preach, on the ascending scale of everlasting
Life and Love.

From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 204: “O Father, Thy kingdom is come upon earth, Thou rulest in all Thy creation”
Hymn 162: “It matters not what be thy lot, So Love doth guide”
Hymn 10: “All power is given unto our Lord, On HIm we place reliance”

Solo:
"God hath led His people on." The words are from Deuteronomy and Hebrews, and the music by Felix Mendelssohn.