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Title: Quiet Talks about Jesus

Author: S. D. Gordon

Release Date: July 3, 2004 [EBook #12809]

Language: English

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Quiet Talks about Jesus

by

S. D. Gordon

Author of "Quiet Talks on Power," and "Quiet Talks on Prayer"

Contents

A Bit Ahead

I. The Purpose of Jesus.
1. The Purpose in Jesus' Coming
2. The Plan for Jesus' Coming
3. The Tragic Break in the Plan
4. Some Surprising Results of the Tragic Break

II. The Person of Jesus.
1. The Human Jesus
2. The Divine Jesus
3. The Winsome Jesus

III. The Great Experiences or Jesus' Life.
1. The Jordan: The Decisive Start
2. The Wilderness: Temptation
3. The Transfiguration: An Emergency Measure
4. Gethsemane: The Strange, Lone Struggle
5. Calvary: Victory
6. The Resurrection: Gravity Upward
7. The Ascension: Back Home Again Until----

IV. Study Notes

"Show me, I pray thee, Thy glory."--_Moses_.

"When I could not see for the glory of that light."--_Paul_.

"But we all with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord
are transformed into the same image from glory to glory."--_Paul_.

"The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ."--_Paul_.

"Since mine eyes were fixed on Jesus,
I've lost sight of all beside,
So enchained my spirit's vision,
Looking at the Crucified."
--From _Winnowed Hymns_.

A Bit Ahead

So far as I can find out, I have no theory about Jesus to make these talks
fit into. I have tried to find out for myself what the old Book of God
tells about Him. And here I am trying to tell to others, as simply as I
can, what I found. It was by the tedious, twisting path of doubt that I
climbed the hill of truth up to some of its summits of certainty. I am
free to confess that I am ignorant of the subject treated here save for
the statements of that Book, and for the assent within my own spiri