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July 6, 2016 at 3:18 pm #1804

spencel

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‘Present your bodies a living sacrifice’ I never gave much thought to this powerful statement. Thank you for expanding on it.

I love the citation in our lesson from I Peter 2 : 5 , “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

Many translations state that “lively stones” can be also “living stones”

“Christian Science, rightly understood, leads to eternal harmony. It brings to light the only living and true God and man as made in His likeness;” Science and Health p. 338
These lessons have given me such a new sense of the living God and the importance of recognizing this fact.

Living: vital functions in operation; not dead. Producing action, animation and vigor, opposed to stagnant.
Dead: Perfectly still; motionless. Empty; vacant; Unemployed; useless; unprofitable. Dull; inactive; (Which Elijah proved Baal was)