<TITLE>09. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 How would you try to keep the law? No man is justified by the law; no flesh can be saved by the law. The law had no salvation. The law was a prison house. The law come and told you you was a sinner and put you in jail, but it had no power to bring you out. So I wouldn't want to be a prisoner. And that's what the law does, shuts you up, condemns you. And said, "Thou shall not, and if you do it you're in prison," there's no way of getting out. So I wouldn't want the law, but Peter wanted to build a denomination and call it the law worshippers. "Let's build a tabernacle for Moses."

L-34 And then let's look on the other side. And he said, "Let's build one for Elijah." What did Elijah represent? The justice of God. And we do not want justice. I don't want justice. I want mercy, not justice. Elijah was that stern line of God's justice. God gave him a commission. He goes up on the mountain, and the king sent for him; he would not come. He had a commission from God to set there. And the king said, "That old fanatic, we'll just go bring him down." And he sent fifty soldiers and a captain. And when he come into the presence of Elijah, Elijah raised up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And the fire come down, justice, and wiped the fifty out.
Well, the king said, "You know, 'course the days of miracles is past; that was just a lightning happened to strike that group of men. So I'll just send up another group."
And he sends up another group, and when they come in the presence of this old prophet, he raised up under the power of justice, and he said, "If I be a man of God let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And another fifty went out. God knows we don't want justice; we want mercy, always mercy.

L-35 Now, let's turn our head the other way. Peter was trying to tell us about this, but there was a voice from heaven come. Let your denominations go. What did He say? "This is my beloved Son; hear ye Him." What did He represent? God's love. That's what I want, not justice, not judgment, not law; I want God's love and mercy on me. "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." I'm so glad of that. For what Moses could not do, what Elijah could not do, Jesus could produce.
God wanted to bless His children and He couldn't do it under the law, neither could He under judgment and justice. But the only way He could do it was under the love of His Son, Christ Jesus. "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased; hear ye Him." What is it? All the law is finished; all the judgments is finished. "This is My beloved Son; hear Him." All those other things are done; this is Him.

L-36 Today, we want to hear everything else but Him. You want to hear rock-and-roll; you want to hear all these other things; but you don't want to hear Him. That's what God said, "Hear ye Him." And I say to this group of people in this arena tonight, "Hear ye Him." And He said, "Except a man be borned again he will in no wise enter into the Kingdom." Hear ye Him.
He's the Great Physician. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with his stripes we were healed." Hear ye Him. If the doctor says you got a cancer and you're going to die, the man's honest; that's all he knows about it. All of his medical sciences prove that it cannot be cured; they haven't got nothing to cure it with. But "Hear ye Him." He said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases."


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