Topic: Replace uncertainty with confidence in the Christ
The Bible:
(1) Ps 42:5,7,8
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
(2) Ex 3:1,2 (to :),4,7 (to ;),10-12 (to ;)
1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush:
4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
7 ¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters;
10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
11 ¶ 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?
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee;
(3) Ex 4:12
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
(4) Mark 8:11-19,21,22-25 and they
11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
14 ¶ Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.
17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
22 and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
(5) Luke 7:19-23
19 ¶ And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
(6) I Cor 9:24
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
(7) I Tim 6:17-19
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
(8) Mark 11:23 verily,24
23 verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
(9) Isa 54:2,3,10
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
(10) Isa 32:17 the work,18
17 the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy:
(1) 68:9-11 The
9 The presence of
mistrust, where confidence is due, withers the flowers
of Eden and scatters love's petals to decay.
(2) 231:20
To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made
21 you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To
fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love Superiority
and the divine Science of being in man's rela- to sickness
24 tion to God, — to doubt His government and and sin
distrust His omnipotent care. To hold yourself superior
to sickness and death is equally wise, and is in accordance
27 with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when
you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part
of His creation.
(3) 234:3-12
3 If we trust matter, we distrust Spirit.
Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love — be
it song, sermon, or Science — blesses the human family
6 with crumbs of comfort from Christ's table, Crumbs of
feeding the hungry and giving living waters to comfort
the thirsty.
9 We should become more familiar with good than with
evil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we
bar our doors against the approach of thieves Hospitality
12 and murderers. to health
and good
(4) 486:18-2
18 Alas for the blindness of belief, which makes
harmony conditional upon death and matter, and yet
supposes Mind unable to produce harmony! So long
21 as this error of belief remains, mortals will continue mor-
tal in belief and subject to chance and change.
Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are
24 eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immor-
tality are in Spirit and understanding, not in Permanent
matter, — hence their permanence. If this sensibility
27 were not so, man would be speedily annihilated. If the
five corporeal senses were the medium through which
to understand God, then palsy, blindness, and deafness
30 would place man in a terrible situation, where he would
be like those "having no hope, and without God in the
world;" but as a matter of fact, these calamities often
1 drive mortals to seek and to find a higher sense of happi-
ness and existence.
(5) 451:31
Show your student that mental malpractice tends to
blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct
1 him how to bar the door of his thought against this
seeming power, — a task not difficult, when one under-
3 stands that evil has in reality no power. Indispensable
Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error. defence
The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a
6 chance to manifest itself.
(6) 252:4-14
Human ignorance of Mind and of the recuperative
energies of Truth occasions the only skepticism regard-
6 ing the pathology and theology of Christian Science.
When false human beliefs learn even a little of their
own falsity, they begin to disappear. A knowledge of
9 error and of its operations must precede that Eternal man
understanding of Truth which destroys error, recognized
until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears,
12 and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit,
is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his
Maker.
(7) 209:10
The world would collapse without Mind, without the in-
telligence which holds the winds in its grasp. Neither
12 philosophy nor skepticism can hinder the march of the
Science which reveals the supremacy of Mind. The im-
manent sense of Mind-power enhances the glory of Mind.
15 Nearness, not distance, lends enchantment to this view.
(8) 368:2
The
3 confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact Real and
that Truth is real and error is unreal. Error counterfeit
is a coward before Truth. Divine Science insists that
6 time will prove all this. Both truth and error have come
nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals,
and truth will become still clearer as error is self-
9 destroyed.
(9) 130:9-19
Excuses for
9 It is unwise to doubt ignorance
if reality is in perfect harmony with God, divine Principle,
— if Science, when understood and demonstrated, will
12 destroy all discord, — since you admit that God is om-
nipotent; for from this premise it follows that good and
its sweet concords have all-power.
15 Christian Science, properly understood, would dis-
abuse the human mind of material beliefs which war
against spiritual facts; and these material Children
18 beliefs must be denied and cast out to make and adults
place for truth.
(10) 403:14-20,23-27
You command the situation if you understand that
15 mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the
truth of being. Mortal mind is constantly Error's power
producing on mortal body the results of false imaginary
18 opinions; and it will continue to do so, until mortal
error is deprived of its imaginary powers by Truth,
which sweeps away the gossamer web of mortal illusion.
the sick. Never conjure up some new discovery from
24 dark forebodings regarding disease and then acquaint
your patient with it.
The mortal so-called mind produces all that is unlike
27 the immortal Mind.
(11) 514:10-19
Moral courage is "the lion of the tribe of Juda," the
king of the mental realm. Free and fearless it roams in
12 the forest. Undisturbed it lies in the open Qualities
field, or rests in "green pastures, . . . beside of thought
the still waters." In the figurative transmission from the
15 divine thought to the human, diligence, promptness, and
perseverance are likened to "the cattle upon a thousand
hills." They carry the baggage of stern resolve, and
18 keep pace with highest purpose. Tenderness accompa-
nies all the might imparted by Spirit.
(12) 326:16-17 (to .),20
The purpose and motive to live aright can be gained
now.
Working and praying with true motives,
21 your Father will open the way. "Who did hinder you,
that ye should not obey the truth?"
(13) 306:7 (only),13,25
Life demonstrates Life.
If Life or Soul and its representative, man, unite for
a period and then are separated as by a law of divorce to
15 be brought together again at some uncertain future time
and in a manner unknown, — and this is the general
religious opinion of mankind, — we are left without a
18 rational proof of immortality. But man cannot be sep-
arated for an instant from God, if man reflects God.
Thus Science proves man's existence to be intact.
Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the
material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding
27 to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle,
— is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and
eternal.
From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymns 390, 115, 202
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