Christmas — November 30th, 2024 Bible Study
BIBLE LESSON FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2024
SUBJECT: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE (link here)
3. 332 : 23 (Jesus)-2
Jesus was the son of a virgin. He was appointed to speak God’s word and to appear to mortals in such a form of humanity as they could understand as well as perceive. Mary’s conception of him was spiritual, for only purity could reflect Truth and Love, which were plainly incarnate in the good and pure Christ Jesus. He expressed the highest type of divinity, which a fleshly form could express in that age. Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence, or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His image.
What Christmas Means To Me
From Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 261-263
https://articles.plainfieldcs.com/mary-baker-eddy/what-christmas-means-to-me/
Christmas
From Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy
A Christmas Sermon
From Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy
Delivered in Chickering Hall, Boston, Mass., on the Sunday
Before Christmas, 1888
https://books.plainfieldcs.com/mary-baker-eddy/miscellaneous-writings/chapter-6/a-christmas-sermon/
The Power of a Right Idea
From Addresses by Martha Wilcox
https://books.plainfieldcs.com/martha-wilcox/addresses/the-power-of-a-right-idea/
Please use the link to read the entire address. Below are a few selected paragraphs.
The Prophet Isaiah
The prophet Isaiah appraised the appearing of the divine idea of God and His manifestation, man, as one inseparable Being. When this idea appeared to Isaiah, he appraised it as “Unto us a child is born.” And, immediately, he appraised even this first faint appearing of this divine idea, as being in the fullness and completeness of its divine character. He appraised this divine idea as “Wonderful, as Counselor, as the mighty God, as the everlasting Father, as the Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)
A Savior Was Born Which Is Christ, the Lord
The angel said unto the shepherds, “Fear not; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people, for unto you is born this day in the City of David, a Saviour (an infinite idea) which is Christ, the Lord.” (Luke 2:10, 11) The angel did not say that a child was born, but he said a Saviour is born, and this Saviour is Christ, the Lord, the divine idea, the living conscious irresistible Truth of the ONENESS OF GOD AND MAN that makes all men free.
Mary’s Concept of Jesus
To the shepherds, Jesus was IMMANUEL. To them Deity had taken the form of flesh and blood. But Mary’s concept of man had risen above matter and material sense, and while others might see man as flesh and blood, Mary’s idea of man was God’s idea of Himself, the Christ. Mary’s mode of consciousness was the Truth, the Christ, and she gave her true conception of man visible birth.
Mary
From Addresses by Martha Wilcox
https://articles.plainfieldcs.com/early-workers/martha-wilcox/mary/
Please use the link to read the entire address. Below are the summary points by Wilcox.
Summary
Let us review some of the vital points in this lesson.
First: The divine idea or spiritual fact, held persistently within the mentality, will externalize itself in outward and visible forms.
Second: The divine idea , when correctly understood as the Mighty God or as active, powerful, conscious Good, holds within itself the power to demonstrate itself.
Third: Things do not merely happen. There is a divine basis for every human thing, circumstance, condition and event.
Fourth: It is spiritual law, active in human consciousness, that causes spiritual facts to become humanly and materially visible to mankind.
Fifth: The divine idea or Saviour will come to our human consciousness in concrete visible demonstration only when our consciousness is prepared and ready both mentally and spiritually.
Blessed Christmas
by Doris White Evans
https://articles.plainfieldcs.com/doris-w-evans/blessed-christmas/
Love is the Liberator
Observing Christmas in Quietude
November 2019