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File Name: Lang - Parables of Jesus Droid MySword Version
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File Submitted: 08 Aug 2011
File Category: Books
Author: Cosmo Gordon Lang

This book provides a very detailed study of 13 parables: The Sower, the Mustard Seed and the Leaven, the Hid Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price, the Ten Virgins, the Talents, the Good Samaritan, the Barren Fig-Tree, the Unjust Steward, the Unprofitable Servants, the Friend at Midnight and the Unjust Judge / Importunate Widow, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Progidal Son, and the Lost Sheep.

THE SOWER
I. The seed is the word
II. The wayside soil
III. The thin-surfaced soil
IV. The choked soil
V. The good soil

THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN
I. The characteristics of the kingdom
II. The mustard seed
III. The leaven
IV. The kingdom in the soil
V. The kingdom in the world

THE HID TREASURE AND THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
I. The truth possessed
II. The truth attained by sacrifice
III. The nature of the sacrifice
IV. The hid treasure
V. The treasure at our feet
VI. The treasure found and hidden
VII. The pearl of great price
VIII. The quest of the pearl
IX. The value of the pearl

THE TEN VIRGINS
I. The divine advent
II. The lamp an outward sign
III. The inward spirit
IV. The times of sleep
V. The awakening
VI. The exhausted oil
VII. Vain is the help of man
VIII. The close of opportunity

THE TALENTS
I. The strict account
II. The use of natural gifts
III. The use of spiritual endowments
IV. The use of opportunities of service
V. The labour not in vain

THE GOOD SAMARITAN
I. Who is my neighbor?
II. The spirit of neighborliness
III. Priest and Samaritan
IV. Unselfish service
V. Thorough service
VI. Personal service

THE BARREN FIG-TREE
I. The divine disappointment
II. Conventional Christianity
III. The pleading of Christ
IV. Abiding in Christ

THE UNJUST STEWARD
I. A story of worldly acuteness
II. God or mammon
III. The secret of religious success
IV. The use of the mammon of unrighteousness
V. A discipline of fidelity
VI. A friend in the eternal tabernacles

THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS
I. The sense of duty
II. The limitations of the sense of duty
III. The need of an inward ideal
IV. The infinite claim of God
V. The perfect sense of duty

THE FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT AND THE UNJUST JUDGE
I. From man to God
II. The justice of God
III. The fatherhood of God
V. The importunity of prayer
V. The need of intercessory prayer
VI. The cry of the tempted
VII. The cry of the church militant

THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
I. The sense of sin
II. Our Lord’s treatment of sin
III. God as law
IV. God as Life
V. God as Love

PRODIGAL SON
I. The gospel within the gospel
II. The departure from home
III. The sojourn in the far country
IV. The return
V. The reconciliation
VI. The elder son

THE LOST SHEEP
I. The severity of the parables
II. The eternal compassion
III. The shepherd seeks
IV. The shepherd finds
V. The shepherd rejoices

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