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1 1 of 8 //01 5:8 PM Forgiveness (Part 1 of : Letting Ourselves Be Forgiven) [--1, DKeeler] Wed Svc [Hymns, 10, 10] Wednesday, February, 01 FORGIVENESS, PART I: LETTING OURSELVES BE FORGIVEN SECTION I BIBLE 1 Ps 10:1-,1 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 1 11 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Ps 5:11 For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. Jer :,,, 8 Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name; Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. John :1-1 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Jesus forgives the penitent tax-collector, Zacchaeus 5

2 of 8 //01 5:8 PM Luke 1: And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. 8 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Forgiveness in Lord's Prayer 1 Luke 11:1, (to th,), And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Jesus forgives and heals palsied man 1 Mark :1 (to Capernaum),(to :),-11 And again he entered into Capernaum And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? 8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and

3 of 8 //01 5:8 PM 10 take up thy bed, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) 11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house. 8 Ps 5: Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord. Isa 50:, For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Jesus forgives adulterous woman & responds to acusers 10 1 John 8:1-11 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 5 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 10 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more Jer 1: And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Isa 55: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. SCIENCE AND HEALTH

4 of 8 //01 5:8 PM SH 1:- (to ;) And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And Love is reflected in love; :1 0 :1 SH :-5 Divine Love corrects and governs man. Men may pardon, but this divine Principle alone reforms the sinner. SH 5:-1 Men and women of all climes and races are still in bondage to material sense, ignorant how to obtain their freedom. SH :1-15 The fear of disease and the love of sin are the sources of man's enslavement. SH :1- To reach heaven, the harmony of being, we must understand the divine Principle of being. "God is Love." More than this we cannot ask, higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go. To suppose that God forgives or punishes sin according as His mercy is sought or unsought, is to misunderstand Love and to make prayer the safety-valve for wrong-doing. Jesus uncovered and rebuked sin before he cast it out. SH 5:0-1 The design of Love is to reform the sinner. If the sinner's punishment here has been insufficient to reform him, the good man's heaven would be a hell to the sinner. SH :8-5 When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;" Pardon and amendment Love frees from fear Mercy without partiality that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God's image is unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. The kingdom within 8 SH 0:8-1 Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted

5 5 of 8 //01 5:8 PM 1 it. Science removes the penalty only by first removing the sin which incurs the penalty. This is my sense of divine pardon, which I understand to mean God's method of destroying sin. If the saying is true, "While there's life there's hope," its opposite is also true, While there's sin there's doom :1 SH :1-1 The fear occasioned by ignorance can be cured; but to remove the effects of fear produced by sin, you must rise above both fear and sin. SH 05:5-11 Christian Science commands man to master the propensities, to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness, to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with charity, and to overcome deceit with honesty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you would not cherish an army of conspirators against health, happiness, and success. SH :1 Mental conspirators Only those, who repent of sin and forsake the unreal, can fully understand the unreality of evil. SH :-,11-, 0-1 Vibrating like a pendulum between sin and the hope of forgiveness, selfishness and sensuality causing constant retrogression, our moral progress will be slow. "Work out your own salvation," is the demand of Life and Love, for to this end God worketh with you. "Occupy till I come!" Wait for your reward, and "be not weary in well doing." If Moral retrogression Wait for reward your endeavors are beset by fearful odds, and you receive no present reward, go not back to error, nor become a sluggard in the race. When the smoke of battle clears away, you will discern the good you have done, and receive according to your deserving. Love is not hasty to deliver us from temptation, for Love means that we shall be tried and purified. Justice requires reformation of the sinner. Mercy cancels the debt only when justice approves. SH :1-5, -11 The Wisdom and Love may require many sacrifices of self to save us from sin. One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin. The atonement requires Justice and substitution

6 of 8 //01 5:8 PM constant self-immolation on the sinner's part. The atonement is a hard problem in theology, but its scientific explanation is, that suffering is an error of sinful sense which Truth destroys, and that eventually both sin and suffering will fall at the feet of everlasting Love SH :-1 We We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death. SH 05: The good man finally can overcome his fear of sin. This is sin's necessity, to destroy itself. Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin. SH 01:1- The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love. SH 11:5- The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. SH 5:- (to ;) Thus we see, in both the first and last books of the Bible, in Genesis and in the Apocalypse, that sin is to be Christianly and scientifically reduced to its native nothingness. "Love one another" (I John, iii. ), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are children of God; SH 1:10 Native nothingness of sin Ages pass, but this leaven of Truth is ever at work. It must destroy the entire mass of error, and so be eternally glorified in man's spiritual freedom. SH :- Being destroyed, sin needs no other form of forgiveness.

7 of 8 //01 5:8 PM HYMNS 1 Hymn :0- Hymn Play other arrangement: 50 John Greenleaf Whittier* REST Frederick C. Maker Dear Lord and Father of us all, Forgive our foolish ways; Reclothe us in our rightful mind; In purer lives Thy service find, In deeper reverence, praise. In simple trust like theirs who heard, Beside the Syrian sea, The gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word Rise up and follow thee. Breathe through the pulses of desire Thy coolness and Thy balm; Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm. Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from us now the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace. Hymn 10:0- Hymn 10 John Keble Adapted ST. OLAVE Robert Hudson If on our daily course, our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, As more of heaven in each we see;

8 8 of 8 //01 5:8 PM Some softening gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. New mercies, each returning day, Around us hover while we pray; Old fears are past, old sins forgiven, New thoughts of God reveal our heaven. Hymn 10:0- Hymn 10 Play other arrangement: 110, Maria Louise Baum ELLESDIE Attrib. to Mozart, arr. by H. P. Main Here, O God, Thy healing presence Lifts our thoughts from self and sin, Fills with light their hidden places, When Thy love is welcomed in. Here Thy tender sweet persuasions Turn us home to heavenly ways, While our hearts, unsealed, adoring, Pour the fragrance of Thy praise. Reverent lives unveil Thy beauty, Faithful witness bear of Thee; Binding up the broken-hearted, We reflect Thy radiancy. So may deeper consecration Show Thee forth in healing's sign, Till through joyful self-surrender We in Love's pure likeness shine. Printed from CONCORD: A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE STUDY RESOURCE, published by The Christian Science Board of Directors in Boston, MA, USA. This content may be under copyright and may not be further reproduced or distributed, unless permitted under the Concord User License Agreement.