<TITLE>13. Par 51-53</TITLE>L-51 If you're orthodox in your belief, it doesn't matter. So we'll just have the Mohammedans and the Buddhas, and we'll have them all together. Peter said, "It's good for us to be here, and let us now build three tabernacles. We'll build a seminary here for Moses. We'll build a seminary for Elijah. And all that want to worship under the law, and so forth, let them worship."
And now, we notice they looked and Peter and them watching Moses... Moses represented the law. God gave the children of Israel the law because that they wanted the law. God didn't want them to have it. That's man's choice. In Exodus 19, they said, "You give us something to do to merit our salvation." We'll keep a law if You'll give it to us, in other words. But it never was God's plan. It's better just to quit planning yourself and just use His plans. I find that much easier to take His plan.

L-52 There stood Moses, the law. Peter said, "Well, some of us keep the law." Now, there's no flesh justified by the law. So next after God's law stood there, the next stood was Elijah. That's how they come in numerical order. The next stood was Elijah which come after Moses. And Elijah represented God's justice, the prophets. And Elijah represented His justice insomuch that Elijah pulled fire out of heaven and killed the fifties. And he was representing God's justice.
So Peter wanted God's law and God's justice. No man can be saved by the law. And if you fail, to transgress the law there's only one thing left and that's death. That's God's justice. God--God demands that. His righteous law must be ju--have justice.
So then while Peter's speaking, wanting to build these tabernacles, and ask God if he could do it, then they looked back and saw Jesus only. The law had failed.

L-53 Let us, this morning, cast our eyes away from self righteousness or something that we have done. I do not plead for law. I cannot be judged by the law, because I'm lawless. No man kept the law. They could not keep the law. And neither can you save yourself. Neither can you heal yourself. And if the law by your own man-made will, you wanted to project that to the plan, then there's only one thing required by the law if you fail, that's justice. And justice is to be condemned and die forever. It requires a total annihilation, because he that breaks one point of the law is guilty of all the law. So you must die.
But God, as we look at God's law and we look at God's justice... Let's cast our eyes the other way. Look over here. There stood Jesus represent God's love, not law, not justice, but in Him was met the fulfillment of both law and justice. "This is My beloved Son." No more self-made stuff, listen to your tutor. That's the reason Peter could say, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Law and justice was met in Christ, and it's God's love to the human race. God's love... God so loved the world.


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