Sunday, August 24th, 2025 Roundtable
Self-knowledge, Humility, and Love are Divine Strength
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Mind
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Morning Prayer
The Science of omnipotence demonstrates but one power, and this power is good, not evil; not matter, but Mind. This virtually destroys matter and evil, including sin and disease.
If God is All, and God is good, it follows that all must be good; and no other power, law, or intelligence can exist. On this proof rest premise and conclusion in Science, and the facts that disprove the evidence of the senses.
God is individual Mind.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 101
The first thing I do in the morning when I awake is to declare I shall have no other mind before divine Mind and become fully conscious of this and then adhere to it throughout the entire day, and then the evil cannot touch me.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 217
Daily Watch
428 — WATCH that you put mental vigor and determination into your effort to dispute error, and to eject from consciousness the belief of a mind apart from God. It is necessary to fulfill Mrs. Eddy’s demand on page 421 of the textbook, “Insist vehemently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside Him.”
If a stray animal sneaked into your house, you might have to take a broom and chase it out with vigor. It takes determination and activity to chase out the suggestions of fear and pleasure, a determination that nothing shall come to us or go forth from us but that which goeth forth from God, good.
The right declaration given with determination, is sufficient to oust any erroneous suggestion. If the broom represents our scientific understanding of Truth, then the straws illustrate the orderly way in which our scientific thought is bound together to become an effective eliminator of falsity.
Mrs. Eddy once said, “The earth is simply what we recognize with the material senses; hence, it is in reality mortal mind, and the declaration, ‘I give you dominion over the earth,’ means ‘I give you the power to control your mind.’” When we recognize the complete control God has given to us over our thinking, if we do not exercise this control, it is because we have accepted the suggestion that we cannot do it, or else that we do not want to do it.
Discussion points
6. II Timothy 1 : 7
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Watching Point 496, from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
Body – Second Article, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox
The patient feels ill, ruminates, and the trial commences.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 430
Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never unready to work for God, — is obedience; being “faithful over a few things.”
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 116 to 117
Golden Text: Job 28 : 12, 28
“Where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.”
Wisdom is not gained of knowledge that brought sin and death into the world.
from Science and Health, 1875, by Mary Baker Eddy
The secret stores of wisdom must be discovered, their treasures reproduced and given to the world, before man can truthfully conclude that he has been found in the order, mode, and virgin origin of man according to divine Science, which alone demonstrates the divine Principle and spiritual idea of being.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 165 to 166
Wisdom’s Single Source by John B. Willis
Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
“The way of salvation” by M. Mac L. E.
Things to handle daily, from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments given by Mary Baker Eddy
The Vitality Of Truth by Grace Squires
2. James 4 : 6 (God)-8, 10
6 God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
4. 183 : 21-25
Divine Mind rightly demands man’s entire obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty. Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength. Submission to error superinduces loss of power.
The Way from Miscellaneous Writings
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
Nebuchadnezzar by Rev. Martin Sindell
Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle. The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 518
Ephesians 4:23
“And be renewed in the Spirit of your mind;”
Renew: In theology, to make new; to renovate; to transform; to change from natural enmity to the love of God and his law; to implant holy affections in the heart; to regenerate. [Webster 1828]
Renewed in the Spirit …..a renewal, or an increase of spiritual light and knowledge, of life and strength, of joy and comfort, and fresh supplies of grace, and a revival of the exercise of grace. [Gills Bible Exposition]
“God’s Word is essential to being renewed in the spirit of our minds. As we develop in our understanding of the truth in Scripture, our minds are renewed and transformed by God’s Spirit, and our lives reflect that change… spiritually, you are what you think.”…As we meditate on God’s Word “day and night” and “delight in the law of the Lord,” we become firmly reestablished “like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do” (Psalm 1)
“Prayer is also necessary to be renewed in the spirit of our minds. Paul prayed for the Colossians to be filled “with the knowledge of [God’s] will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God” (Colossians 1:9–10).
As you seek the Lord in the truth of His Word and in prayer, you are renewed in the spirit of your mind: “Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. Renewal brings a new mindset of trust, peace, and humble obedience.”
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