Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
assure us, is our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who died for us
and rose again. When lately the vast dam of the Nile was
completed, with all its giant sluices, there needed but one touch
of a finger on an electric button to swing majestically open the
gates of the barrier and so to let through the Nile in all its
mass and might. There was the simplest possible contact. But
it was contact with forces and appliances adequate to control or
liberate at pleasure the great river. So faith, in reliance of the
soul, the soul perhaps of the child, perhaps of the peasant, perhaps
of the outcast, is only a radiant look, a reliant touch. But
it sets up contact with Jesus Christ, in all His greatness, in His
grace, merit, saving power, eternal love. H. C. G. M'oule.
513. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God;" i. e. s
we enter into the state of peace immediately. "Peace is sown
for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." And
he is a rich man who has a thousand acres of corn in the ground,
as well as he who has so much in his barn, or the money in his
purse. They have rest and peace in the seed of it, when they
have it not in the fruit ; they have rest in the promise, when they
have it not in possession ; and he is a rich man who has good
bonds and bills for a great sum of money, if he have not twelvepence
in his pocket. All believers have the promise, have rest
and peace granted them under God's own hand, in many promises
which faith brings them under; and we know that the truth and
faithfulness of God stand engaged to make good every line and
word of the promise to them. So that, though they have not a
full and clear actual sense and feeling of rest, they are, nevertheless,
by faith come into a state of rest.
THE KINGDOMS
Flavel.
514. God has never been without a kingdom. "Thy throne,
O God, is for ever and ever" (Ps. 45:6). "By me kings reign"
(Prov. 8:15). God is the almighty ruler, the "Lord of lords,
and King of kings."
Most relative Scriptures allude to God's kingdom in a more
limited sense. God established a kingdom amongst the Israelites.
"Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all
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