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2161 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 18.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of Christ these lessons had been lost sight of. Men had well-nigh ceased to discern God in His works. The sinfulness of humanity had cast a pall over the fair …
2162 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 18.3 (Ellen Gould White)
Christ sought to remove that which obscured the truth. The veil that sin has cast over the face of nature, He came to draw aside, bringing to view the spiritual …
2163 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 19.3 (Ellen Gould White)
Thus Christ interpreted the message which He Himself had given to the lilies and the grass of the field. He desires us to read it in every lily and every spire of grass. His words are full of assurance, and tend to confirm trust in God.
2164 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 20.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… was Christ's view of truth, so extended His teaching, that every phase of nature was employed in illustrating truth. The scenes upon which the eye daily rests …
2165 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 20.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… ministry, Christ had spoken to the people in words so plain that all His hearers might have grasped truths which would make them wise unto salvation. But in …
2166 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 21.1 (Ellen Gould White)
Again, Christ had truths to present which the people were unprepared to accept or even to understand. For this reason also He taught them in parables. By connecting …
2167 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 22.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… education.” Christ might have opened to men the deepest truths of science. He might have unlocked mysteries which have required many centuries of toil and …
2168 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 23.1 (Ellen Gould White)
Christ did not deal in abstract theories, but in that which is essential to the development of character, that which will enlarge man's capacity for knowing …
2169 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 23.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… was Christ who directed the education of Israel. Concerning the commandments and ordinances of the Lord He said, “Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy …
2170 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 25.1 (Ellen Gould White)
Christ's purpose in parable teaching was in direct line with the purpose of the Sabbath. God gave to men the memorial of His creative power, that they might …
2171 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 26.1 (Ellen Gould White)
And Christ has linked His teaching, not only with the day of rest, but with the week of toil. He has wisdom for him who drives the plow and sows the seed. In the plowing …
2172 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 33.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… sower, Christ illustrates the things of the kingdom of heaven, and the work of the great Husbandman for His people. Like a sower in the field, He came to scatter …
2173 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 33.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… was Christ's God-given right to heal the woes of a sinful race, and He now rebuked disease, and diffused around Him life and health and peace.
2174 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 34.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… about Christ until there was no room to receive them. Then, speaking a word to the men in their fishing boats, He stepped into the boat that was waiting to take …
2175 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 34.2 (Ellen Gould White)
Beside the sea lay the beautiful plain of Gennesaret, beyond rose the hills, and upon hillside and plain both sowers and reapers were busy, the one casting seed and the other harvesting the early grain. Looking upon the scene, Christ said—
2176 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 34.4 (Ellen Gould White)
Christ's mission was not understood by the people of His time. The manner of His coming was not in accordance with their expectations. The Lord Jesus was the …
2177 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 35.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… :37. Christ had come, not as a king, but as a sower; not for the overthrow of kingdoms, but for the scattering of seed; not to point His followers to earthly triumphs …
2178 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 35.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of Christ's parable, but to them its lesson was unwelcome. They affected not to understand it. To the multitude it involved in still greater mystery the purpose …
2179 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 35.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… will,” Christ said, “he shall know of the teaching whether it be of God, or whether I speak from Myself.” John 7:17, R.V. All who come to Christ for a clearer knowledge …
2180 Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 36.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… . So Christ, the heavenly Sower, went forth to sow. He left His home of security and peace, left the glory that He had with the Father before the world was, left His …