First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge

Sunday Scriptural Selection & Benediction

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Spirit
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Section I

Scriptural selection:
1
II Cor 1:21,22

21Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

22Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

2
II Cor 2:14

14Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

3
II Cor 3:2,3 (to ;),4-6,12-14,16-18

2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;

4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

12Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

13And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.

16Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

4
II Cor 5:1 we know,4,5

1we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Section Break

Benediction:
Heb 13:20 (to ,),21 (to .)

20Now the God of peace,

21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.

From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 451: “… For all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time glad”
Hymn 207: “Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain”
Hymn 438: “… In Thy Spirit living, moving, We shall neither faint nor fall”


Solo:
"This is My Commandment." The words are from the gospel of John, and the music by Bernard Hamblen.

 

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