Lost and Found and The Living Water

By Cuthbert H Dawkins

This book is in two parts. Part 1, Lost and Found tells us that people rarely care about something somebody else has lost. Perhaps that’s harsh but that is what Jesus was faced with. Had God lost a comparatively worthless creature? Had He lost a trinket? Or had He lost the occupant of His heart? The Bible doesn’t quite put it like that, but the idea is not far wrong. So, what does God do to find what He has lost? Jesus taught that God acts with urgency. He acts with thoroughness. And He acts with love. This study is about Jesus teaching people, who do not know that they are lost, that God is looking for them. And Jesus teaches them the extraordinary pain and joy of God’s heart.
Part 2, The Living water, reminds us that we must never forget that a desert has no water unless you come to an oasis. Some of the vast deserts in the world are very, very dangerous places. You dare not neglect or by-pass an oasis. That would mean almost certain death. These studies indicate one more thing – there can be fruit trees, perhaps date palms, in an oasis! In slightly different imagery, Jesus taught these lessons of water ‒ when dying of thirst, and water to produce wonderful fruit bearing trees. The eternal supply of this water is the Holy Spirit of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Tree Publishing
• Release date: Feb 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781913950927

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About the book

This book is in two parts. Part 1, Lost and Found tells us that people rarely care about something somebody else has lost. Perhaps that’s harsh but that is what Jesus was faced with. Had God lost a comparatively worthless creature? Had He lost a trinket? Or had He lost the occupant of His heart? The Bible doesn’t quite put it like that, but the idea is not far wrong. So, what does God do to find what He has lost? Jesus taught that God acts with urgency. He acts with thoroughness. And He acts with love. This study is about Jesus teaching people, who do not know that they are lost, that God is looking for them. And Jesus teaches them the extraordinary pain and joy of God’s heart.

Part 2, The Living water, reminds us that we must never forget that a desert has no water unless you come to an oasis. Some of the vast deserts in the world are very, very dangerous places. You dare not neglect or by-pass an oasis. That would mean almost certain death. These studies indicate one more thing – there can be fruit trees, perhaps date palms, in an oasis! In slightly different imagery, Jesus taught these lessons of water ‒ when dying of thirst, and water to produce wonderful fruit bearing trees. The eternal supply of this water is the Holy Spirit of God.

Lost and Found

and

The Living Water

Two Bible Studies by

Cuthbert H Dawkins

Missionary in East Africa 1934-97 Founder of Trinity Fellowship 1963

Copyright © The Estate of Cuthbert H. Dawkins 2022

eBook ISBN: 978-1-913950-92-7

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Table of Contents

Cover

About the Book

The Author

Publisher’s Note

Part 1

Lost and Found

Three Parables in Luke 15

About Study 1

Chapter 1. The Lost Sheep

Chapter 2. The Lost Coin

Chapter 3. The Lost Son

A Favourite Hymn

Part 2

The Living Water

About the Study

1. It Quenches Thirst

2. It Makes Fruitful

About White Tree Publishing

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The Author

The writer of these studies, Cuthbert Dawkins (a missionary in East Africa for over sixty years) would encourage fellowship members to explore his Bible teaching with a companion or in a group. Members could be a resource for each other, and a correction sometimes. The riches of their imaginative efforts, that is the formation of their insights, could be balanced with sound sense.

Publisher’s Note

The main Bible passages in this Study are shown at the start of each Part. However, it may help if you have a separate Bible as you go through each Part, because with an eBook it is difficult to go back to the start of each Part to read the Gospel verses again, and return to the page where you left off.

If you do not have access to a printed Bible (and you may want to read the passages in a different version anyway) you can find free online Bibles of nearly every English version, old and new, on the Bible App you can download at http://www.youversion.com/ or find by entering