Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation

Quiet Talks on the Crowned
Christ of
by S. D. Gordon

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QUIET TALKS ON THE CROWNED Christ of Revelation BY S. D.

GORDON
Author of "Quiet Talks on Power", "Quiet Talks on Prayer", "Quiet
Talks about Our Lord's Return"

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PREFACE
Crowning the Christ is an intensely practical thing, whether taken in the
personal sense or the world sense. He has been crowned in the upper
world. With wondrous patience and graciousness He pleads for the
personal crowning in our lives. Some day--no one knows just
when--He will begin to act as the crowned Christ in all the affairs of
our earth.
The initiative of all action to-day on the earth is in man's hands. Some
day the initiative of governing action on the earth will be in the hands
of the crowned Christ, even while the personal initiative of each man's
life will still be in his own hands.
God is intensely practical. Jesus was never concerned about speculation
nor mere discussion; He was too intent on helping people. The Bible is
wholly a practical book. It is concerned only with helping us. It does
not tell us all the truth there is; we shall be constantly learning more in
the future life. But it does tell us all we need to know now. And its

purpose in telling us what it does is wholly practical,--to urge us to
right choice, and to lives that square with the choice. This is the
purpose that decided just what truth should be told in the Book.
There is one book of the sixty-six devoted wholly to this subject of the
crowned Christ,--"The Revelation of John." Every one of these books
touches Him at some angle, and finds its deepest meaning in what He
was to do and did do, and yields up its secrets only under the touch of
His hand. But this book, the closing and climax of all, the knot in the
end of the inspired thread, this deals wholly with the action of the
crowned Christ.
No book of the sixty-six has seemed so much like a riddle and set so
many a-guessing. And without doubt much of its meaning will be clear
only as events work themselves out. Events will prove the only
expositor of much. But it is with the deep conviction that this is wholly
a practical book, written wholly from a practical point of view, and
concerned wholly with our practical daily lives, that I have ventured to
take it up in this series of simple, wholly practical, Quiet Talks. And it
is only this side of its teachings that will be dealt with here. The Book
is a street leading into the true overcoming life the Master would woo
us to.
It is only after many years' study of this Book of the Revelation, and a
special study the past three years and a little more, that I have ventured
to put these talks together. And now they are sent out with the earnest
humble prayer that others may find some little practical help in
prayerfully reading, as I have found much in prayerfully studying,
under the Master's gracious faithful touch.

CONTENTS
I. THE CHRIST CROWNED, THE FACT 9
II. THE CROWN BOOK 39
III. A SIGHT OF THE CROWNED CHRIST 63

IV. A MESSAGE FROM THE CROWNED CHRIST 97
V. AN ADVANCE STEP IN THE ROYAL PROGRAMME 127
VI. A CLEARING-UP STORM IN THE REALM 151
VII. THE CROWNED CHRIST REIGNING 215
VIII. WATCHING THE HORIZON 235

I.--THE CHRIST CROWNED, THE FACT
"When God sought a King for His people of old, He went to the fields
to find him; A shepherd was he, with his crook and his lute And a
following flock behind him.
"O love of the sheep, O joy of the lute, And the sling and the stone for
battle; A shepherd was