Sunday, December 17th, 2017



Subject — Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

Golden Text: Genesis 1: 1



In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.




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Responsive Reading: Psalm 89 : 11, 13, 15-17; Psalm 62 : 11


11.     The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

13.     Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

15.     Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.

16.     In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

17.     For thou art the glory of their strength.

11.     God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.



Lesson Sermon



The Bible


1. Isaiah 43 : 16, 19, 21

16     Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

19     Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

21     This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

2. Psalm 111 : 1-4 (to :), 6-8

1     Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

2     The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

3     His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

4     He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered:

6     He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

7     The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.

8     They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

3. Joshua 10 : 6-8 (to ;), 10 (to 2nd ,), 11-13 (to 1st .), 14

6     And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.

7     So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

8     And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand;

10     And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon,

11     And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth- horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

12     Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

13     And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.

14     And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.

4. Jeremiah 32 : 17-20

17     Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

18     Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name,

19     Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

20     Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

5. John 6 : 5 (to 2nd ,), 15 (Jesus)-21

5     When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him,

15     …Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

16     And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,

17     And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.

18     And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.

19     So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

20     But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.

21     Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

6. Romans 13 : 1-3

1     Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

2     Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

3     For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

7. Deuteronomy 10 : 12-14

12     And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

13     To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

14     Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.



Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures


1. 502 : 22-5

Genesis i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The infinite has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify the only, — that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe. The creative Principle — Life, Truth, and Love — is God. The universe reflects God. There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God.

2. 300 : 28-4

The universe reflects and expresses the divine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in the ray of light which goes out from it. God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love, — yea, which manifests God's attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror.

3. 192 : 17-26

Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds the "wind in His fists;" and this teaching accords with Science and harmony. In Science, you can have no power opposed to God, and the physical senses must give up their false testimony. Your influence for good depends upon the weight you throw into the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness and falls, never to rise.

4. 69 : 2-10

The scientific fact that man and the universe are evolved from Spirit, and so are spiritual, is as fixed in divine Science as is the proof that mortals gain the sense of health only as they lose the sense of sin and disease. Mortals can never understand God's creation while believing that man is a creator. God's children already created will be cognized only as man finds the truth of being. Thus it is that the real, ideal man appears in proportion as the false and material disappears.

5. 303 : 8-20

The minutiae of lesser individualities reflect the one divine individuality and are comprehended in and formed by Spirit, not by material sensation. Whatever reflects Mind, Life, Truth, and Love, is spiritually conceived and brought forth; but the statement that man is conceived and evolved both spiritually and materially, or by both God and man, contradicts this eternal truth. All the vanity of the ages can never make both these contraries true. Divine Science lays the axe at the root of the illusion that life, or mind, is formed by or is in the material body, and Science will eventually destroy this illusion through the self-destruction of all error and the beatified understanding of the Science of Life.

6. 369 : 5-13

In proportion as matter loses to human sense all entity as man, in that proportion does man become its master. He enters into a diviner sense of the facts, and comprehends the theology of Jesus as demonstrated in healing the sick, raising the dead, and walking over the wave. All these deeds manifested Jesus' control over the belief that matter is substance, that it can be the arbiter of life or the constructor of any form of existence.

7. 124 : 14-31

The universe, like man, is to be interpreted by Science from its divine Principle, God, and then it can be understood; but when explained on the basis of physical sense and represented as subject to growth, maturity, and decay, the universe, like man, is, and must continue to be, an enigma.

Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind. They belong to divine Principle, and support the equipoise of that thought-force, which launched the earth in its orbit and said to the proud wave, "Thus far and no farther."

Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things. We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification.

8. 293 : 13-16

The material so-called gases and forces are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts of being.

9. 170 : 22-24

Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress.

10. 171 : 12-30

Mind's control over the universe, including man, is no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science. Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and the power of immortal Mind by healing sickness and sin and destroying the foundations of death.

Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to be combined matter and Spirit. He believes that Spirit is sifted through matter, carried on a nerve, exposed to ejection by the operation of matter. The intellectual, the moral, the spiritual, — yea, the image of infinite Mind, — subject to non-intelligence!

No more sympathy exists between the flesh and Spirit than between Belial and Christ.

The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false beliefs that intelligence and life are present where Mind is not. These false beliefs are the procuring cause of all sin and disease. The opposite truth, that intelligence and life are spiritual, never material, destroys sin, sickness, and death.

11. 348 : 14-18

Are we irreverent towards sin, or imputing too much power to God, when we ascribe to Him almighty Life and Love? I deny His cooperation with evil, because I desire to have no faith in evil or in any power but God, good.

12. 228 : 25-27

There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God.


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