<TITLE>10. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 And when He set them up there and He manifested Himself... Now watch, Peter got all inspired again, and he wanted to have a real fellowship. He said, "Let us build here three tabernacles." He was going to really have some denominations. He said, "Now, we're going to build one for Moses, and one for Elijah, and one for You. We'll just have a segregation here. We'll just have... We'll have three different churches, and we'll have three different denominations all represented here." Peter thought he was just doing fine when he did that.
And we notice. Look at this. Then a shadow came down, or a cloud, and they looked at Jesus and His garment shined like the sun, God manifesting His Son, setting Him apart, setting Him apart from Moses, setting Him apart from Elijah, setting Him apart from denomination. He set Him up there, and they looked back and saw Jesus only (Amen.), and a Voice from heaven saying, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him."
Look. Moses represented the law. No man can keep the law. The law was given to Israel because they required it. Exodus 19 was the greatest mistake that Israel ever made. After grace had provided a Lamb, provided a Saviour, and they said, "Give us something to do."

L-35 That's the way man try to do today, is to merit their salvation. And there's not one thing you can do about it. It's all amazing grace. Oh, I love it. Nothing you can... Not by works, but by grace are you saved, that unmerited grace. God through the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ has saved you, and called you by His own grace.
There Moses represented the law. No man is saved by the works of the law. But yet Peter wanted to build a denomination around it. Said, "We'll just build three tabernacles. We'll build one for Moses because--let those who want to keep the law, keep the law. That's all right. Let them keep the law." Then he said, "We'll build one for Elijah."
And Elijah represented, not the law, but he represented God's purity, His holiness, His judgment. God... Elijah represented God's righteousness for--His stern righteousness, for where the... Elijah, they sent to him fifties, and he called fire out of heaven and burnt them up. He must be... So we don't want God's judgment. We don't want God's law.

L-36 But now, while we see standing there, how could we stand as sinners in the Presence of God's--of God's judgment? We could not do it. They sent men after Elijah upon the mountain, and God judged them by Elijah calling fire out of heaven, said, "If I be a holy man of God, let fire come from heaven."
Oh, my. There stood Moses, tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye. How could we ever stand by the law when no flesh is justified by the law? How would I ever stand in the fiery judgments of God? I couldn't do it. Certainly, we'd be lost and condemned and gone.
But now, let us shift our eyes over here. And they saw then Moses' law, and Elijah, his judgment had all passed away, and they saw Jesus only. He represents the love of God. It's not judgment that I call for; it's not law that I want to keep; it's Thy mercy and love, Lord, I plead for it day and night. For it's the merits of His love that I am saved today from the law and from the wrath and from the judgment. Love of God, that in what the law could not do, that what fiery judgment could not do, the love of God constrained us to Christ. Not what the denominations could do, not what these other things could do, but the love of God...


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