<TITLE>12. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Then God always followed up every shadow and type with the antitype. Notice, He took His own Son before three witnesses: Peter, James and John: hope, faith, and charity. Took them before the translated, the resurrected, and God Himself, and there overshadowed Him. And He... The Bible said that His clothes glistened like the sun in its strength. And then God said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him."
Peter wanted to build three tabernacles. He wanted all the Sabbatarians and law keepers to have theirs. He wanted all the rest of them to have theirs. He wanted to break it up into denominations, but God shut it up, said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." And when they looked, they saw Jesus only. Laws and everything had passed away. Let's look into it just a moment.

L-41 Let's look at Moses. Moses represented the law. No man can keep the law. And no flesh is justified by the law. I'm glad that it's not good works that we have done, but it's by His grace, by His mercy, by His foreknowledge, that He foreknew us before the foundation of the world. Amen. And then I couldn't be saved by law. You can't be saved by law. So if the law was weak and could not do, God in due time sent His Son made after the likeness of sinful, by a woman born under the law, that He might redeem us from the curse of the law. So Moses--God shut him off.

L-42 There stood Elijah. What did Elijah stand for? Elijah was the line of God's justice. Elijah was a stern prophet, set upon the hill under the will of God, and they sent fifty men to him, the captain of fifty. Elijah stood up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." Away they went. The king sent another fifty. Elijah stands up, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven." And away went another fifty. He was the line of God's justice. Brother, I never want justice; I never want judgment; I want mercy. God's justice would kill us everyone tonight. He would demand it and we'd die of a shadow.

L-43 But now as we see the law pass away, and we see the justice of God pass away, the sternness of His judgment pass away, then let's look over here. "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." What was it? God's love. God's love stood there represented in Christ. "We've all sinned and come short of the glory." But God's love is represented in His Son. Said, "Hear ye Him." No matter what the law says, and what this other says, and what this says, and what the church says, "Hear ye Him." All other things will pass away. They're all works and carnal. Man can't save himself no more than a leopard could lick his spots off. No, sir. He can't do it. God has to do it.
And it's the works of God by grace, through foreknowledge that ordains you to Eternal Life and puts your name on the Lamb's Book of Life at the beginning. "And no man can come except My Father draws him. All that comes to me I'll give him Everlasting Life, raise him up the last day. Those who he has foreknew, he has called: those who he has called, he has justified: those who he has justified, he hath (past tense) already glorified," in glory. What you scared about? God calls you, your heart loves Him. "As the hart panteth for the water brook, so my soul thirsts after thee, O God." There it is.


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