This Life is Yours
This Sunday, we begin our study of This Life is Yours, a book about healing your whole Self and discovering the eternal, unbreakable You. Our focus in Chapter 1 is understanding our Wholeness and how healing is an expression of our Wholeness. We discover new ways of thinking and ways of living in Wholeness. We examine ways we can heal through activating the Principle of Health and Well-Being.
Join us as we embark on this journey of self-discovery and healing together with inspiring music and friendly fellowship.
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Sermon Notes
The Beggar of Bethesda (John 5:2–9)
2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five porticoes. 3 In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk…Now that day was a sabbath.
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Metaphysical Interpretations
wholeness*
The perfect unification and expression of man as Spirit, soul, and body. True healing means to make whole. It is brought about by regeneration.
health*
A state of being sound or whole in mind and body. Oneness with the Christ Mind assures perfect health. Health is the normal condition of man, a condition true to the Truth of his being. Health is from within and does not have to be manufactured in the without. It is the very essence of Being, universal and enduring.
That which seems to be sickness does not exist in Truth. When man becomes so much at one with God-Mind that he abides in the consciousness of health, he enters the eternal peace in which he knows that "it is finished" (John 19:30). To know God as health one must take up the study of the healthy mind and make it and not physical appearance the basis of every calculation.
healing*
"Restoring to original purity or integrity" (Webster). The first step in all spiritual healing is to believe, and the next step is openness and receptivity to the stream of healing life. Through the exercise of faith and our words, our spiritual quality is fused into unity with the power of Christ and the work is marvelously accomplished.
All healing is based on mental cleansing. When the mind is free from error thoughts, harmony in the body ensues. Permanent healing is never accomplished until the mental cause of the disease, the error thought, is removed. Jesus was a true healer, and when He cast out the error that caused the condition, He said, "Sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee" (John 5:14). The "thing" was caused by sin. Thus the true way to heal is to find the mental cause and destroy it forever.
Bethesda**
The point in consciousness where we feel the flow of the cleansing life of Spirit. This "pool," or place in consciousness, is formed by the realization that our life is being constantly purified, healed, and made new by the activity of mind. Physically this is expressed in the purification and upbuilding wrought in the blood when it comes in contact with the oxygen in the lungs. The ebb and flow of the waters of the pool are constantly going on, and when mind is active all the depleted blood corpuscles are purified and renewed.
*Revealing Word (Fillmore, Charles)
**Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (Fillmore, Charles et al.)
