Service for Sunday, June 12, 2011

Subject: God the Preserver of Man

 Hymn 10

 Frederic W. Root – Based on hymn by Martin Luther

 All power is given unto our Lord,

   On Him we place reliance;

 With truth from out His sacred word

   We bid our foes defiance.

     With Him we shall prevail,

     Whatever may assail;

     He is our shield and tower,

     Almighty is His power;

     His kingdom is forever.

 Rejoice, ye people, praise His name,

   His care doth e'er surround us.

 His love to error's thralldom came,

   And from its chains unbound us.

     Our Lord is God alone,

     No other power we own;

     No other voice we heed,

     No other help we need;

     His kingdom is forever.

 O then give thanks to God on high,

   Who life to all is giving;

 The hosts of death before Him fly,

   In Him we all are living.

     Then let us know no fear,

     Our King is ever near;

     Our stay and fortress strong,

     Our strength, our hope, our song;

     His kingdom is forever.

The scriptural selection is from Psalms.

Ps    84:1‑12

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.  Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.  They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.  O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.  Selah.  Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.  For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.  For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.  O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. 

           

Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s prayer, with its spiritual interpretation as given in the Christian Science textbook.

Our Father which art in heaven,

Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,

Hallowed be Thy name.

Adorable One.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Enable us to know – as in heaven, so on earth

God is omnipotent, supreme.

Give us this day our daily bread;

Give us grace for today; feed the famished affections;

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And Love is reflected in love;

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;

And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.

For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.

 Hymn 350 

 Mary Peters – Adapted

 Through the love of God our Saviour

       All will be well;

 Free and changeless is His favor;

       All must be well;

 Precious is the Love that healed us,

 Perfect is the grace that sealed us,

 Strong the hand stretched forth to shield us;

       All, all is well.

 Though we pass through tribulation,

       All will be well;

 Ours is such a full salvation,

       All must be well;

 Happy still, in God confiding,

 Fruitful, when in Christ abiding,

 Holy, through the Spirit's guiding;

       All, all is well.

 We expect a bright tomorrow,

       All will be well;

 Faith can sing through days of sorrow,

       All must be well;

 While His truth we are applying,

 And upon His love relying,

 God is every need supplying,

       All, all is well.

Solo: “In the Time of Trouble”

The lesson-sermon from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, read by the First and Second Readers.

The content of the Lesson Sermon may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly. You may also read the Lesson-Sermon for this week online by clicking here.

 Hymn 292 

 Maria Louise Baum

 Put on the whole armor of pure consecration,

   The breastplate of righteousness valiantly gird,

 With shield of true faith, and the helmet of

          salvation‑‑

   The sword of the Spirit is God's mighty Word!

 For His is the greatness, the power and the glory,

   The victory His, when for succor we call;

 His majesty shines in creation's wondrous story,

   And He is exalted as head over all!

"The Scientific Statement of Being" (S&H p. 468} and the correlative scripture according to I John 3:1-3.

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.468

1John.3

[1] Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

[2] Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

[3] And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Benediction

Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.