<TITLE>09. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 Now, God never done anything, never asked a man to do anything, that He didn't do Himself. He pronounced death upon a man when he sinned. God come down and took the death of a man upon Himself, and died the death of a sinner man, that He might redeem him back. That's the only way He could do it. God in Spirit, He couldn't suffer. God was made flesh in order to suffer to take the penalty of sin upon Himself.
Now, when God was going to adopt His own Son, He taken three witnesses of the earth: Peter, James, and John. He brought the three witnesses of heaven, and Jesus was transfigured before them. And there He stood out. Watch this ceremony. And He was overshadowed, and His raiment shining like the sun. He was placing His Son, like in the Old Testament. And Peter got all excited, and he's just like me and the rest of us. He said, "Lord, you know it's good to be here. Here stands Moses, and here stands Elijah, and here's Jesus." He said, "Let's just build three tabernacles up here; let's make three denominations. Let's have all those that wants to keep the Sabbath, and don't eat meat, and keep the law. Let's just build a tabernacle for Moses and let him lead his group." And said...

L-36 Now, Moses represented the law, and by the law no flesh is saved. You can't be saved by the law. The law was only a schoolmaster; it only pointed sin. The law could point out sin, but it didn't have the remedy for sin. Moses represented the law.
Then what did Elijah represent? Elijah represented the justice of God. Elijah was the stern representation of God's justice. He had a revelation from God, a vision, went up and set on a hill. Here king sent fifty men; raised up, and he said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." Down come the fire: justice of God, transgressor must die in the presence of it.
The king said, "That just might have been a thunderbolt pass through. I'll send up another fifty."
So when they come up on the hill of fifty, Elijah raised up said, "If I be a man of God, let fire come from heaven and consume you." And down come the fire and consumed another fifty: justice.

L-37 Oh, we don't want justice. Would you dare to say that you want justice? Would you dare to try to go to heaven on your own keeping of laws and legalistic things you'd do? If that was all right, Christ died in vain. The law is not a remedy; a law is the magnifying glass to show you sin. It's the one who can put you in prison; it's the law. But it has no redemption in it.
Look where we're standing then, when Peter spoke that, "Let one keep the law, and let one do this, and one that." Oh, I'm so glad that there's Somebody else to look to. When we're standing in the realm of law and legal, all by it we're all condemned, and all flesh is condemned by the law. And we were all borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, without a--or not even a chance, we don't have it. How could we stand the justice of God?


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