<TITLE>09. Par 31-35</TITLE>L-31 Look at Moses, the law. No man can be judged justified by the law, 'cause no man ever kept it outside of Christ. Then here, Mo... or Elijah... What did Elijah represent? Elijah represents the justice of God, the line of God's justice. He went up on the mountain and set down. And they sent attachment of fifty. And he raised up. They were interfering with God's program. He said, "If I be the man of God, let fire come from heaven and consume you." And down come fire and consumed them. So the captain probably said to the king, said, "It was just an accident. It was an act of nature."
So we'll send another captain. So he sent another captain and another fifty; and when he got up to where he was, he said, "If I be a man of God, let fire come from heaven and consume you. And down come the fire. Oh, my. Who would want to stand under the justice of God? I certainly don't plead for His justice. I plead for something else, for His mercy.

L-32 Don't hear Moses any more, your self-righteous rags won't stand anyhow. Don't plead for justice, because you are--you don't even have a chance. You were borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. You don't have a chance. So it's not justice that we plead for.
But I'm so glad as they looked at that dark picture, turn this a way. And they looked and they saw Jesus only. What did He stand for? The love of God. Where everyone has a chance. The love of God, Jesus stood for. "Hear ye Him," not a laws, or creeds, or affiliations of the denominations, but the love of God.

L-33 And men today is constrained by the Holy Spirit to come and love Him and serve Him, for He's seeking such to do that. God is looking for somebody who will stand out on the front line with love, not with no education. I'm not trying to support my ignorance, but I am trying to say that it doesn't take scholarships. It takes a surrendered heart that God can make love. You don't know the Bible half as good as the devil does. So what good would it do you to...?...
Someone said not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, you're mixed up. You ought to teach it this way."
I said, "Sir, I may not know the Word very well, but I know the Author real well." Not to know His Word is Life, but to know Him is Life. To know Christ is Life, know Him in a personal experience. The Word opens up to a new look to you.

L-34 My wife... The Bible is a love letter. My wife writes me. And I love my wife. And she writes me a love letter, and she says, "Billy, I was setting down the children tonight and so forth..." And I can see what's on the paper. But I love her and she love me. And it's such a connection I can read between the lines. I know what she's saying, for it's a love affair. In--in her word she is projecting to me, and if the word knowing...?... we have, we love each other so we can read between the lines.
Oh, I am so happy that Christ said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast hid this from the seminary (I--I mean,) the wise and prudent (excuse me)...?... and has revealed to babes such as would learn, that nurse from the mother, from the Word." It's a love letter. You read between the lines. There's where you find it. It's not a law, not a sound of...?... It's a love of a kind heavenly Father Who loves.

L-35 When I leave home, my wife, thank God for her, in the honor of the Lord's work, I trust. And when I leave home to go overseas and I don't take Mrs. Branham...?... and say, "Now, looky here, my dear lady; I'm going to tell you something. When I go overseas thou shalt not have any more husbands. You don't want to make any love to any other man. Thou shalt not do this and do that."
Then after I give her all of her laws, then she'd say, "Just a minute, my young fellow, thou shalt not have any other wives while you're gone. Thou shalt not take any other woman out to dinner." That isn't it. We don't even think of such a thing.


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