August 31–September 6, 2020 Golden Text Responsive

August 31–September 6, 2020 Man

AUGUST 31–SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Man 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the GOLDEN TEXT wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in Luke 17:21 behold the desert. 8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and . . . behold, the kingdom of God is within you. it shall be called The way of holiness;

RESPONSIVE READING S E C T I O N 1 I Chronicles 16:8, 29; Isaiah 45:11–13 (to :), 22; 35:4–6, 8 (to 1st ;) The Bible

8 Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, 1 | Genesis 1:27, 31 (to 1st .) make known his deeds among the people. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the 29 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his image of God created he him; male and female name: bring an offering, and come before him: created he them. worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, 11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and, behold, it was very good. and his Maker, Ask me of things to come 2 | Deuteronomy 7:6, 9, 13 (to :) concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. 6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the a special people unto himself, above all people that heavens, and all their host have I commanded. are upon the face of the earth. 9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and I will direct all his ways: mercy with them that love him and keep his 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends commandments to a thousand generations; of the earth: for I am God, and there is none 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and else. multiply thee: 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come 3 | Ecclesiastes 7:29 (to ;) with vengeance, even God with a recompence; 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath he will come and save you. made man upright;

4 | Ecclesiastes 3:11 (to :), 14 3 | 516:4–13

11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, time: which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be and when we subordinate the false testimony of the for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should see this true likeness and reflection everywhere. fear before him. God fashions all things, Love imparts beauty after His own likeness. Life is 5 | Psalms 139:1, 14 reflected in existence, Truth in truthfulness, God in 1 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known goodness, which impart their own peace and me. permanence. Love, redolent with unselfishness, 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and bathes all in beauty and light. wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 4 | 527:4 Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, Science and Health but ever beautiful and complete. with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

1 | 475:7–9, 11–13 S E C T I O N 2 The Scriptures inform us Fleshly factors unreal The Bible that man is made in the image and likeness of God. 6 | Psalms 29:2, 11 Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is 2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Christian Science. 11 The Lord will give strength unto his people; 2 | 515:21 Man the Lord will bless his people with peace.

Man is the family name for all ideas, — the sons 7 | Isaiah 43:21 and daughters of God. All that God imparts moves in 21 This people have I formed for myself; they accord with Him, reflecting goodness and power. shall shew forth my praise.

8 | Exodus 20:1, 3

1 And God spake all these words, saying, 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

9 | Mark 12:29 The, 30

29 The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

S E C T I O N 3 Science and Health The Bible 5 | 340:16–22 10 | Jeremiah 31:3 The First Commandment is my favorite text. It demonstrates Christian Science. It inculcates the tri- 3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, unity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies that man shall saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting have no other spirit or mind but God, eternal good, love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn and that all men shall have one Mind. The divine thee. Principle of the First Commandment bases the 11 | Psalms 22:19 be, 26 Science of being, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal. 19 be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me. 6 | 301:17–23 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall As God is substance and Inverted praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live images man is the divine image and and ideas for ever. likeness, man should wish for, 12 | II Kings 4:8–12, 16 (to 1st .), 18–21, 25– and in reality has, only the substance of good, the 27 (to 1st :), 30, 32, 33, 35 and the, 36 substance of Spirit, not matter. The belief that man has any other substance, or mind, is not spiritual and 8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to breaks the First Commandment, Thou shalt have Shunem, where was a great woman; and she one God, one Mind. constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. 7 | 191:4 9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, As mortals give up the delusion that there is I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which more than one Mind, more than one God, man in passeth by us continually. God's likeness will appear, and this eternal man will 10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the include in that likeness no material element. wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when 8 | 281:14 he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. 11 And The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and into the chamber, and lay there. 12 And he said to comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when individual spiritual man and things. he had called her, she stood before him. 16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. 18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. 21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed

© 2020 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. BibleLesson.com 3 August 31–September 6, 2020 Man of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and 11 | 427:1–7 went out. If it is true that man lives, Life not 25 So she went and came unto the man of God contingent this fact can never change in on matter to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the Science to the opposite belief man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi that man dies. Life is the law of Soul, even the law of his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: the spirit of Truth, and Soul is never without its 26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto representative. Man's individual being can no more her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. for both are immortal. 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: 12 | 206:19–21, 26–28 30 And the mother of the child said, As the Lord Does God send sickness, giving the mother her liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. child for the brief space of a few years and then And he arose, and followed her. taking it away by death? 32 And when Elisha was come into the house, Instead of God sending sickness and death, He behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. destroys them, and brings to light immortality. 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord. 13 | 266:27

35 and the child sneezed seven times, and the Man is the idea of Spirit; he Beatific presence child opened his eyes. 36 And he called Gehazi, and reflects the beatific presence, said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And illuming the universe with light. Man is deathless, when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up spiritual. He is above sin or frailty. He does not cross thy son. the barriers of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God and the universe. Science and Health 14 | 509:24 9 | 139:4–8 The periods of spiritual ascension are the days From beginning to end, the Marvels and reformations and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, Scriptures are full of accounts sublimity, purity, and holiness — yea, the divine of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter. Moses nature — appear in man and the universe never to proved the power of Mind by what men called disappear. miracles; so did Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha.

10 | 69:13 Spiritually to understand that there is but one creator, God, unfolds all creation, confirms the Scriptures, brings the sweet assurance of no parting, no pain, and of man deathless and perfect and eternal.

S E C T I O N 4 Science and Health The Bible 15 | 475:28–1 (to 1st .) 13 | Hebrews 12:12–14 lift Man is incapable of sin, Man unfallen 12 lift up the hands which hang down, and the sickness, and death. The real feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or way; but let it rather be healed. freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not God's man. 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 16 | 135:11–15 The same power which Fear and 14 | Acts 10:38 God sickness heals sin heals also sickness. identical 38 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy This is “the beauty of holiness,” Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, that when Truth heals the sick, it casts out evils, and and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for when Truth casts out the evil called disease, it heals God was with him. the sick.

15 | Matthew 9:2–8 17 | 94:1–4

2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of Jesus taught but one God, Scientific man the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith one Spirit, who makes man in said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good the image and likeness of Himself, — of Spirit, not of cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. 3 And, behold, matter. Man reflects infinite Truth, Life, and Love. certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. 18 | 304:17 4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Divine Principle is the Life Harmony natural Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? 5 For of man. Man's happiness is not, whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; therefore, at the disposal of physical sense. Truth is or to say, Arise, and walk? 6 But that ye may know not contaminated by error. Harmony in man is as that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive beautiful as in music, and discord is unnatural, sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, unreal. take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. 7 And he arose, and departed to his house. 8 But when the 19 | 391:29–32 multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, Mentally contradict every Sin to be overcome which had given such power unto men. complaint from the body, and rise to the true consciousness of Life as Love, — as 16 | Romans 6:22 now all that is pure, and bearing the fruits of Spirit. 22 now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

20 | 392:4 21 | Luke 17:20, 21

To cure a bodily ailment, every broken moral law 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, should be taken into account and the error be when the kingdom of God should come, he rebuked. Fear, which is an element of all disease, answered them and said, The kingdom of God must be cast out to readjust the balance for God. cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they Casting out evil and fear enables truth to outweigh say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of error. The only course is to take antagonistic God is within you. grounds against all that is opposed to the health, holiness, and harmony of man, God's image. 22 | Colossians 3:2, 4, 9, 10, 12, 14 2 Set your affection on things above, not on 21 | 365:15–19 things on the earth. If the Scientist reaches his Speedy 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then healing patient through divine Love, shall ye also appear with him in glory. the healing work will be accomplished at one visit, 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put and the disease will vanish into its native off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on nothingness like dew before the morning sunshine. the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and S E C T I O N 5 beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; The Bible 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 17 | Job 40:10

10 Deck thyself now with majesty and Science and Health excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. 22 | 316:12 (only), 20 18 | Matthew 10:7 Jesus represented Christ, the true idea of God.

7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Christ presents the indestructible man, whom heaven is at hand. Spirit creates, constitutes, and governs. Christ illustrates that blending with God, his divine 19 | Luke 8:40 Principle, which gives man dominion over all the

40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was earth. returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.

20 | Luke 4:40, 44

40 Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. 44 And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

23 | 476:28–5 S E C T I O N 6

When speaking of God's The kingdom within The Bible children, not the children of men, Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within 23 | Psalms 93:1 (to ;), 5 you;” that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, 1 The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; showing that man in God's image is unfallen and 5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever. who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour 24 | Psalms 90:1, 16, 17 (to :) saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the generations. kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy pure and holy. glory unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon 24 | 560:10–15 us: Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science interprets the Principle of heavenly harmony. The 25 | Psalms 145:10 great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and 10 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true saints shall bless thee. idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man. Science and Health

25 | 409:20 27 | 481:2–4, 5 The real man is spiritual and immortal, but the Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing mortal and imperfect so-called “children of men” are else. God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and counterfeits from the beginning, to be laid aside for boundless bliss. the pure reality. This mortal is put off, and the new Like the archpriests of yore, man is free “to enter man or real man is put on, in proportion as mortals into the holiest,” — the realm of God. realize the Science of man and seek the true model. 28 | 246:23 26 | 248:26 Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always We must form perfect Perfect beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds models models in thought and look at wisdom, beauty, and holiness. them continually, or we shall never carve them out 29 | 516:21 in grand and noble lives. Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite disease, and death will diminish until they finally Father-Mother God. disappear.

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