Order of Service
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?
Hymn 33
Scriptural Selection
Proverbs 3 - various verses
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
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 to-day; 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.
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 16-17
Hymn 412
Notices
Solo
Explanatory Note
Subject of the Lesson-Sermon
Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?
Golden Text
Job 32:8 there
. . . there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Responsive Reading
Isaiah 33:6 wisdom (to :), Psalms 103:2–4; 38:15, 18, 21, 22; 3:1–4 many, 7 (to :), 8
. . . wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation:
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;
For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
. . . many are they that rise up against me.
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God.
But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill.
Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God:
Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people.
Lesson-Sermon
Collection
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Hymn 48
The scientific statement of being and its correlative scripture
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, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:9-15)
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. 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. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
(I John 3:1–3)
Benediction
II Corinthians 5:8
Postlude
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