Sunday, June 8th, 2025 Roundtable
I Am the Lord, and There Is None Else
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: God The Only Cause And Creator
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Morning Prayer
Abide in Love. Nothing can touch or harm you in Love. Know that you live in Love. Love is God as Life itself. Take this understanding with you and bless others with Love.
To know there is but one God, one cause, one effect, one Mind, heals instantly. Have but one God, and your reflection of Him does the healing.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 20 of the Addenda
Daily Watch
138 — WATCH lest your prayers, or mental work, include an effort to gain more spiritual power from God, when you should seek to enlarge your capacity to reflect more of His power. Is God’s power something that He sends or withdraws, as it is sought or not sought? God is sending forth more than you receive; hence your effort must be to increase your capacity to receive. A still higher realization shows man to be the very power of God, expressed.
Discussion points
A Treatment for Every Day by Mary Baker Eddy
Meekness and Restoration by Florence Roberts
Three Essential Statements by Mary Beth Singleterry
7. 134 : 31-11
A miracle fulfils God’s law, but does not violate that law. This fact at present seems more mysterious than the miracle itself. The Psalmist sang: “What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye little hills, like lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.” The miracle introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal order, establishing the Science of God’s unchangeable law. Spiritual evolution alone is worthy of the exercise of divine power.
The same power which heals sin heals also sickness.
Law and Creation by John M. Dean
…the stately goings of Christian Science.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 245
…the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
II Corinthians 3:6, in the King James Bible
Responsive Reading: Isaiah 45 : 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 22
5. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6. That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
8. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
9. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
12. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
18. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
22. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
God’s law is in three words, “I am All;”
from No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 30
RIGHTOUSNESS: Purity of heart; conformity of heart and life to the divine law; holiness; justice, honesty, virtue, holy affections; true religion; perfection; exact rectitude; faithfulness; active and passive obedience of Christ.
from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary
“Righteousness Exalteth a Nation” by Duncan Sinclair
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Love’s Springtime by Charles C. Sandelin
Resolutions for the Day, from Poems by Mary Baker Eddy, page 32
“The Flower Lady” By Kelly Byquist (featured in the June newsletter from Longyear)
Final deliverance from error, whereby we rejoice in immortality, boundless freedom, and sinless sense, is not reached through paths of flowers nor by pinning one’s faith without works to another’s vicarious effort.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 22
Virtue medicine: the newest is Beauty
God’s preparations for the sick are potions of His own qualities.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 268
We can’t get into heaven without beauty! The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of beauty.
from the 1936 College by Bicknell Young
One marvels that a friend can ever seem less than beautiful.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 248
3. Exodus 14
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
382 — WATCH that you finish and clean up every demonstration by knowing that the error was never real, never present, never happened, never had a manifestation, nor was there ever such a claim. Only in this way can you guard against a relapse. Whatever the claim was, you may believe it to be real again, if you hold that you did believe in it formerly. The only scientific attitude is to know you never had it. Once when a patient asked Gilbert Carpenter if he should stop treatment, he said, “Give me one more day in which to know that you never had the claim.”
500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
“This Place Has Changed Hands” by Mary Beth Singleterry
4. Hebrews 11 : 1, 24, 27, 29
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Endured
1. To last; to continue in the same state without perishing; to remain; to abide.
2. To bear; to brook; to suffer without resistance, or without yielding.
Making the Port by Rev. G. A. Kratzer
“I AM THAT I AM” by Bicknell Young
Evil has no history
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 538
Looking Up and Lifted Up by J. S. Drummond
Isaiah 45:22
Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
In Mrs. Fletcher’s biography she tells us of a convert who had a strange dream. He thought he was down a very steep well in the night, and, looking up, he saw a single star shining far above him, and it seemed to let down lines of silver light that took hold upon him and lifted him up. Then he looked down and began to go down. He looked up and began to go up, and he looked down again and began to go down; and he found that by simply keeping his eye on that star he rose out of the well, and his foot stood on the firm ground. A parable is in the dream. If you look down, you go down; if you look up, you go up. There must be first the looking up before there can be the lifting up.