At our Sunday Service, two readers read selections from the King James Version of the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

  Here is a preview of what to expect at our service:

Subject:

Everlasting Punishment

Golden Text

Romans 8:38 I am, 39

. . . I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We hope you’ll join in singing these three hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal.  You may click on the hymns below to hear them.

hymn_301

Faith; music by G. O’connor-Morris; words from Communion Hymn by Mary baker eddy

hymn_135

Wordsworth; music by william h monk; words adapted from carl j p spitta and richard massie, tr

hymn_340

slingsby; music by edmund s carter; words frederick w faber

Below is a sample of what is in this week’s Lesson Sermon on “Everlasting Punishment”:

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Section 1

The Bible
Jeremiah 31:3
3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
22:27
Whosoever believeth that wrath is righteous or that divinity is appeased by human suffering, does not understand God.

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Section 2

Isaiah 25:8 and
8 and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

251:24
This process of higher spiritual understanding improves mankind until error disappears, and nothing is left which deserves to perish or to be punished.

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Section 3

Micah 6:8 what doth
8 what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

522:30–1
Does the creator condemn His own creation? Does the unerring Principle of divine law change or repent? It cannot be so.

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Section 4

Psalms 66:20
20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

1:11
Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.

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Section 5

Luke 17:21 behold
21 behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

560:11–15
The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man.

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Section 6

Matthew 5:8
8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

58:7
Unselfish ambition, noble life-motives, and purity, — these constituents of thought, mingling, constitute individually and collectively true happiness, strength, and permanence.

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Section 7

Revelation 21:4
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

573:29–31
Take heart, dear sufferer, for this reality of being will surely appear sometime and in some way. There will be no more pain, and all tears will be wiped away.

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Our Bible Lesson Sermons can be found in the Christian Science Quarterly which is
for sale inside our Reading Room.

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