CS Lesson: Are Sin Disease and Death Real

Christian Science Bible Lesson

8 – 15 April 2018

Are Sin Disease and Death Real?

Golden Text: Psalm 36:9

⁹For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Responsive Reading: Psalm 68: 20, 5, 6, 26, 35, 16

²⁰He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.

⁵A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation

⁶God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

²⁶Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

³⁵O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

¹⁶Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

Section 1 – The Bible – Psalm 5: 4-7

⁴For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

⁵The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

⁶Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

⁷But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The Science of being shows it to be impossible for in-

finite Spirit or Soul to be in a finite body or for man to

have an intelligence separate from his Maker.

It is a self-evident error to suppose that there

can be such a reality as organic animal or vegetable life,

when such so-called life always ends in death. Life is

never for a moment extinct. Therefore it is never struc-

tural nor organic, and is never absorbed nor limited by its

own formations.

Section 2 – The Bible – Psalm 133: 1-3

133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

²It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

³As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Homoeopathic remedies, sometimes not containing a

particle of medicine, are known to relieve the symptoms

of disease. What produces the change? It is

the faith of the doctor and the patient, which

reduces self-inflicted sufferings and produces a new effect

upon the body. In like manner destroy the illusion of

pleasure in intoxication, and the desire for strong drink

is gone. Appetite and disease reside in mortal mind, not

in matter.

Section 3 – The Bible Psalm 40:1-6

40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

²He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

³And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

⁴Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

⁶Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

When infringing some supposed law, you say that

there is danger. This fear is the danger and induces the

physical effects. We cannot in reality suffer

from breaking anything except a moral or

spiritual law. The so-called laws of mortal belief are

destroyed by the understanding that Soul is immortal,

and that mortal mind cannot legislate the times, periods,

and types of disease, with which mortals die. God is the

lawmaker, but He is not the author of barbarous codes.

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.

Section 4 – The Bible Psalm 37:1-7

37 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

³Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

⁴Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

⁵Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

⁶And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

⁷Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Soul and matter are at variance from the

very necessity of their opposite natures. Mortals are

unacquainted with the reality of existence, because matter

and mortality do not reflect the facts of Spirit.

Spiritual vision is not subordinate to geometric alti-

tudes. Whatever is governed by God, is never for an

instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence

and Life.

Section 5 – The Bible Psalm 51: 1-6

51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

²Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

³For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

⁵Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

⁶Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

BABEL. Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided

against itself, which cannot stand; material knowledge.

The higher false knowledge builds on the basis of evi-

dence obtained from the five corporeal senses, the more

confusion ensues, and the more certain is the downfall

of its structure.

Section 6 – The Bible Psalm 144

144 Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

²My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

³Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

⁴Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

⁵Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

⁷Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

In divine Science, the material man is shut out from

the presence of God. The five corporeal senses cannot

take cognizance of Spirit. They cannot come

into His presence, and must dwell in dream‑

land, until mortals arrive at the understanding that ma-

terial life, with all its sin, sickness, and death, is an illu-

sion, against which divine Science is engaged in a warfare

of extermination. The great verities of existence are

never excluded by falsity.

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