Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Hymns 392, 77, 134
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The Holy Bible
Ps. 31:1-4
In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
Ps. 20:1
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Ps. 5:11
But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
Ps. 59:1
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Acts 7:22-25 Moses
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
Ex. 3:1-8 (to ;)
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.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
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.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
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; for I know their sorrows;
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;
Phil. 1:1-10
Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
Isa. 31:5
As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
Josh. 1:9
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Science and Health
SH 387:27-32
The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs of the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed on man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent Mind, who gives man faith and understanding whereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but from bodily suffering.
SH 377:26-29
The cause of all so-called disease is mental, a mortal fear, a mistaken belief or conviction of the necessity and power of ill-health; also a fear that Mind is helpless to defend the life of man and incompetent to control it.
SH 348:21-25
Instead of tenaciously defending the supposed rights of disease, while complaining of the suffering disease brings, would it not be well to abandon the defense, especially when by so doing our own condition can be improved and that of other persons as well?
SH 378:3
Disease has no intelligence. Unwittingly you sentence yourself to suffer. The understanding of this will enable you to commute this self-sentence, and meet every circumstance with truth. Disease is less than mind, and Mind can control it.
SH 6:29-7
It is believed by many that a certain magistrate, who lived in the time of Jesus, left this record: “His rebuke is fearful.” The strong language of our Master confirms this description.
The only civil sentence which he had for error was, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” Still stronger evidence that Jesus’ reproof was pointed and pungent is found in his own words, — showing the necessity for such forcible utterance, when he cast out devils and healed the sick and sinning. The relinquishment of error deprives material sense of its false claims.
SH 234:9-12
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 and murderers.
SH 234:17-18
If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind, the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out.
SH 392:11-3
The physical affirmation of disease should always be met with the mental negation. Whatever benefit is produced on the body, must be expressed mentally, and thought should be held fast to this ideal. If you believe in inflamed and weak nerves, you are liable to an attack from that source. You will call it neuralgia, but we call it a belief. If you think that consumption is hereditary in your family, you are liable to the development of that thought in the form of what is termed pulmonary disease, unless Science shows you otherwise. If you decide that climate or atmosphere is unhealthy, it will be so to you. Your decisions will master you, whichever direction they take.
Reverse the case. Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously. When the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the body cannot suffer from them. The issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.
SH 451:19-23
Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will is not Christian Science, and he must recognize this in order to defend himself from the influence of human will.
SH 445:2-5 the
The teacher must thoroughly fit his students to defend themselves against sin, and to guard against the attacks of the would-be mental assassin, who attempts to kill morally and physically.
SH 538:3
Truth should, and does, drive error out of all selfhood. Truth is a two-edged sword, guarding and guiding. Truth places the cherub wisdom at the gate of understanding to note the proper guests. Radiant with mercy and justice, the sword of Truth gleams afar and indicates the infinite distance between Truth and error, between the material and spiritual, — the unreal and the real.
SH 537:15-16
Truth guards the gateway to harmony.
Are you a good lawyer for yourself?
By Jane Partis McCarty
From the August 9, 1999 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel
Have you ever thought of yourself as a lawyer on your own behalf, defending your own true, innocent selfhood, made in God’s image, from evidence that tells you otherwise? Well, you are a lawyer, in a sense, in your own thinking. Limitations, injustices, ill health, fear, lack, are a few of the false accusations that humanity suffers from. But you can defend yourself from these accusations. Christian Science releases the sufferer by setting the record straight.
Christ Jesus knew that God is a loving Father and that God cares for His creation. He saw man as God’s idea, spiritual, innocent, and pure. He healed sickness and deformity of all kinds on that perfect premise. He knew that evil is a lie and tells lies. It is on the basis of these facts of God’s goodness and man’s likeness to God that we can protest pain and symptoms and diagnoses of diseases. Mrs. Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: “When the body is supposed to say, ‘I am sick,’ never plead guilty. Since matter cannot talk, it must be mortal mind which speaks; therefore meet the intimation with a protest. If you say, ‘I am sick,’ you plead guilty” (p. 391).
Man is the infinite idea of God, infinite Mind. Because man is, in truth, governed by the law of God, man is not subject to physical laws of health or of nature. God, divine Love, is wholly and completely good. God never causes man to sin, to be sick, or to die. God, divine Love, doesn’t test, tease, or tempt man. Sickness or inharmony of any kind can be healed, because Christian Science heals on the same basis that Christ Jesus did—perfect God, perfect man.
The false accuser is always mortal mind, a belief of a mind in matter that would oppose God’s allness and goodness. Mortal mind claims to be your very own thought when you feel sick. When you affirm your innocence, you destroy mortal mind’s argument. Sometimes we need to insist and persist. But because truth is true—God is the only cause, and you are God’s perfect expression—the truth will be victorious.
So, be a lawyer on your own behalf. Don’t accept false arguments about your own innocent, lovely, God-given selfhood. Whether they come as accusations of sickness or sin, you have the right to defend yourself and be free.