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

Love

Golden Text

I John 4:8 God is, 19

. . . God is love.

 . . . We love because he first loved us.

452 – Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing

555 – Only Love, Only Love

433 – A new commandment I give unto you

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

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Section 1

The Bible
Jeremiah 31:3 (to : )
3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:

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

340:12
Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is in and of God, and manifests His love.

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Section 2

I John 4:16 he
16he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

57:18, 23–24
Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

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Section 3

Deuteronomy 6:5 thou
5 thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

9:17–21 (to 1st . )
Dost thou “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”? This command includes much, even the surrender of all merely material sensation, affection, and worship.

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Section 4

Matthew 8:2, 3
2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

231:16
God is not the author of mortal discords. Therefore we accept the conclusion that discords have only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine Truth and Love destroy.

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Section 5

Galatians 5:13 by, 14
13 by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

38:24–26
Jesus mapped out the path for others. He unveiled the Christ, the spiritual idea of divine Love.

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Section 6

I John 3:18 let
18let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

241:19–21
The substance of all devotion is the reflection and demonstration of divine Love, healing sickness and destroying sin.

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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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