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The Lighthouse Digital Library
Christ's Object Lessons
ByEllen G. White
Letting the Light shine
Lighthouse Publishing, IncAbrams, WI 54101
Version 1.0
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1998
 
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Contents
Teaching in Parables .....................................................................3"The Sower Went Forth to Sow" ...................................................9"First the Blade, then the Ear" .......................................................28Tares .............................................................................................32"Like a Grain of Mustard Seed" .....................................................35Other Lessons from Seed Sowing ..................................................38"Like unto Leaven" .......................................................................44Hidden Treasure ............................................................................49The Pearl .......................................................................................58The Net .........................................................................................62"Things New and Old" ..................................................................63Asking to Give ..............................................................................70Two Worshipers ............................................................................78"Shall Not God Avenge His Own?" ...............................................87"This Man Receiveth Sinners" .......................................................98"Lost and Is Found" .......................................................................107"Spare It This Year Also" ..............................................................115"Go into the Highways and Hedges" ..............................................120The Measure of Forgiveness ..........................................................132Gain That Is Loss ..........................................................................138"A Great Gulf Fixed" .....................................................................142Saying and Doing ..........................................................................150The Lord's Vineyard ......................................................................158Without a Wedding Garment .........................................................174Talents ..........................................................................................183"Friends by the Mammon of Unrighteousness" ..............................211"Who Is My Neighbor?" ................................................................217The Reward of Grace ....................................................................225"To Meet the Bridegroom" ............................................................234
 
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Teaching in Parables
In Christ's parable teaching the same principle is seen as in His own missionto the world. That we might become acquainted with His divine characterand life, Christ took our nature and dwelt among us. Divinity was revealedin humanity; the invisible glory in the visible human form. Men could learnof the unknown through the known; heavenly things were revealed throughthe earthly; God was made manifest in the likeness of men. So it was inChrist's teaching: the unknown was illustrated by the known; divine truthsby earthly things with which the people were most familiar.The Scripture says, "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude inparables; . . . that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,saying, I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things which havebeen kept secret from the foundation of the world." Matt. 13:34, 35. Naturalthings were the medium for the spiritual; the things of nature and the life-experience of His hearers were connected with the truths of the writtenword. Leading thus from the natural to the spiritual kingdom, Christ'sparables are links in the chain of truth that unites man with God, and earthwith heaven.In His teaching from nature, Christ was speaking of the things which Hisown hands had made, and which had qualities and powers that He Himself had imparted. In their original perfection all created things were anexpression of the thought of God. To Adam and Eve in their Eden homenature was full of the knowledge of God, teeming with divine instruction.Wisdom spoke to the eye and was received into the heart; for theycommuned with God in His created works. As soon as the holy pairtransgressed the law of the Most High, the brightness from the face of Goddeparted from the face of nature. The earth is now marred and defiled bysin. Yet even in its blighted state much that is beautiful remains. God'sobject lessons are not obliterated; rightly understood, nature speaks of herCreator.In the days of Christ these lessons had been lost sight of. Men had well-nighceased to discern God in His works. The sinfulness of humanity had cast apall over the fair face of creation; and instead of manifesting God, Hisworks became a barrier that concealed Him. Men "worshiped and served thecreature more than the Creator." Thus the heathen "became vain in theirimaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." Rom. 1:25, 21. So in
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