True Inheritance
November 5, 2014
Ezek. 18:2, 3
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have
occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
James 1:16-18
Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down
from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat
he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Gen. 17:1, 2
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am
the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and
thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
Gen. 17:15-17
¶ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall
her name be. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a
mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and
said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is
ninety years old, bear?
Gen. 17:19
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will
establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Gal. 5:16-18, 22, 23
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against
the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot
do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. ... But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such
there is no law.
Deut. 32:9-12
For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and
in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his
eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh
them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
him.
Ps. 37:18, 19, 24, 34 (to :)
The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be
ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. ... Though he fall, he shall not
be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. ... Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,
and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:
Ps. 37:39, 40
But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord
shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they
trust in him.
John 9:1-3
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him,
saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither
hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John 9:6, 7
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the
eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by
interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
I Pet. 1:3-5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the
power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Col. 3:23, 24
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall
receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Heb. 1:1-5
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person,
and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on
the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time,
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to
me a Son?
Isa. 51:1
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye
are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Gen. 1:26, 27
¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them.
SH 211:19
It should no longer be said in Israel that “the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth
are set on edge.” Sympathy with error should disappear. The transfer of the thoughts of one erring mind
to another, Science renders impossible.
SH 321:3
As Paul says, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.”
SH 336:25 God
God, the divine Principle of man, and man in God’s likeness are inseparable, harmonious, and eternal.
The Science of being furnishes the rule of perfection, and brings immortality to light. God and man are
not the same, but in the order of divine Science, God and man coexist and are eternal. God is the parent
Mind, and man is God’s spiritual offspring.
SH 29:30-32
Man as the offspring of God, as the idea of Spirit, is the immortal evidence that Spirit is harmonious and
man eternal.
SH 63:5
In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin
is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to
reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the
law of his being.
SH 267:3-5 (to 1st .)
The offspring of God start not from matter or ephemeral dust. They are in and of Spirit, divine Mind, and
so forever continue.
SH 264:32
The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings, and its government is divine Science. Man is the
offspring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind. Man understands spiritual existence in
proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their
affections and aims grow spiritual, — they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain
some proper sense of the infinite, — in order that sin and mortality may be put off.
SH 265:10
This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into
Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought
and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.
SH 332:4 Father-Mother
Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation. As
the apostle expressed it in words which he quoted with approbation from a classic poet: “For we are
also His offspring.”
SH 289:31-32
Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, — of Life, not of matter.
SH 289:25
The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and
therefore the material must be untrue. Life is not in matter. Therefore it cannot be said to pass out of
matter. Matter and death are mortal illusions. Spirit and all things spiritual are the real and eternal.
SH 396:25 efface
. Keep distinctly in thought that man is the offspring of God, not of man; that man is spiritual, not
material; that Soul is Spirit, outside of matter, never in it, never giving the body life and sensation. It
breaks the dream of disease to understand that sickness is formed by the human mind, not by matter
nor by the divine Mind.
SH 399:27
The one Mind, God, contains no mortal opinions. All that is real is included in this immortal Mind.
SH 400:9
Mortals obtain the harmony of health, only as they forsake discord, acknowledge the supremacy of
divine Mind, and abandon their material beliefs. Eradicate the image of disease from the perturbed
thought before it has taken tangible shape in conscious thought, alias the body, and you prevent the
development of disease. This task becomes easy, if you understand that every disease is an error, and
has no character nor type, except what mortal mind assigns to it. By lifting thought above error, or
disease, and contending persistently for truth, you destroy error.
SH 539:27
The divine origin of Jesus gave him more than human power to expound the facts of creation, and
demonstrate the one Mind which makes and governs man and the universe. The Science of creation, so
conspicuous in the birth of Jesus, inspired his wisest and least-understood sayings, and was the basis of
his marvellous demonstrations. Christ is the offspring of Spirit, and spiritual existence shows that Spirit
creates neither a wicked nor a mortal man, lapsing into sin, sickness, and death.
SH 592:5-7 1st the (to 1st ;)
Mortal Mind.
the belief that man is the offspring of mortals; the belief that there can be more than one creator;
SH 315:16
The likeness of God we lose sight of through sin, which beclouds the spiritual sense of Truth; and we
realize this likeness only when we subdue sin and prove man’s heritage, the liberty of the sons of God.
SH 228:11-13
The enslavement of man is not legitimate. It will cease when man enters into his heritage of freedom,
his God-given dominion over the material senses.
SH 535:15
When will man pass through the open gate of Christian Science into the heaven of Soul, into the
heritage of the first born among men? Truth is indeed “the way.”