<TITLE>10. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 And all... Now Moses represented the law of God. And by the law no man is saved. No flesh can be saved by keeping the law. The law was only a schoolmaster. The law didn't have any remedy. The law was the--the prison house. You would've never knowed sin if it hadn't been by the law. The law only pointed it out. The law was God's policeman that put you in jail. But it had no remedy to bring you out. Law does not bring you out.

L-49 Now, Elijah represented God's justice. He was a line of God's justice. Now, we see him when he went up on the hill with his anointing. And the king said, "There sets that old crank up there. Go up and bring him back to me." And fifty soldiers went up of the selected of the army.
And old Elijah raised up and said, "If I be the man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." Down come the fire and consumed them.
The king said, "It's just a storm passing by, I suppose. That just happened, so we'll send another fifty."
And Elijah raised up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire come from heaven and consume you." And another fifty went. The king kinda got weary about sending fifties. For he was the sternness of God's justice.

L-50 Now, no man can be saved by the law. And we know, brother... Who would plead for God's justice? I wouldn't want His justice. Neither do I try to catch Him by the law. I want His mercy, not His justice, not His law, but His mercy.
So there was Moses, the law of God; there was Elijah, the justice of God. Oh, what a dark picture.
But let us look over here. God had took His own Son before the witnesses of heaven, before the witnesses of earth as a confirmation. Moses and the law had passed away. And we look this a way. And He said, "This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him." What did He represent? The love of God, not the justice; neither did He represent the law, but He represented the love of God.

L-51 And, brethren, we have drawed little circles of laws and different things, and we're still never come to the real kernel. It's Jesus Christ the love of God, that God wants us to see. What a pity. Love is the greatest, most powerful weapon that this world has ever seen or knowed of. It's a dying for love. The church is perishing for love, the love of God's waters of grace to flow one to another. When confidence is restored, when justice is restored between us, the love of God that's shed abroad in our hearts by the denomination. Something sounded wrong there didn't it? The love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit, God's love to us...?...

L-52 I tell you... Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savour, it is henceforth good for nothing, but to be trod under the feet of man." And I say tonight, brethren, that the church when it lost its love, it lost its savour. And now we become a laughing block. No matter how many gifts we got, how many miracles we can perform, how many anything else... I Corinthians tells us that though I speak with tongue of man and angels; I can move mountains with faith; I'll give all my goods to the poor; and if I haven't got love I am nothing. You lose the salt when you lose the love. And salt is a savour if it contacts. There's only one thing left for the world--the church to do; that's to be salty, and God will make the world thirsty like you. That's right. They'll thirst to be like you if you'll just be salty.


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