<TITLE>12. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 And that's what God was doing here for His son, because He had found Him... Hallelujah! He had found Him: "This is My beloved Son." God took Him up there on the mountain, brought down the witnesses from heaven, brought up the witnesses from earth. And what did He do? He dressed Him in a robe of immortality. His raiment shined like the sun. Hallelujah! (Don't let that scare you; that means "praise our God.") Robed Him in a robe of immortality, and spoke, "This is My beloved Son." What? "I'm placing Him. I'm stepping back from the picture. This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him."

L-43 Oh, it excited Peter. He was so excited, like men does get excited when the supernatural takes place. There's usually a mixed multitude like went with Moses, and like went with this last revival in the last days, a mixed multitude. It always creates that.
Peter got all excited when he seen the supernatural. People does that. And right quick, he wanted to make him some denominations and fix them all up. He said, "I'll tell you what we'll do." He said, "Let's build a tabernacle for all those that want to keep the law with Moses. And let's build another church over here, and make all that wants to keep the saying of the prophets." But I want you to notice, then he said, "We'll build another tabernacle over here for all that wants to believe in the grace of God, Jesus Christ."

L-44 But before he could get that out of his mouth, something took place. And I'm so glad that it did. What could the law do for me. There was no grace in the law. The law was a--a policeman that told me I was a sinner. It put me in jail, but it had no power to get me out. Oh, I'm so glad. Then the next was... Moses represented God's law, to say that you're guilty, and you're subject to death; and there's no mercy in it. It's the law. "The day you eat thereof, that day you die."
Now, what did Elijah represent? God's justice. I don't want justice; I want mercy. I don't care for His justice; I want His mercy. Christ met His justice for me. Amen.

L-45 Old Elijah went up there on the hill with a commission from God. And the king found him and said, "Take fifty men, and go up there, and bring him down. We'll get that holy-roller down here and teach him something."
And old Elijah set down on this rock by the brook Cherith...?... Had colored servants was serving him every day with--the crows bringing him bread and meat, and he was drinking. He was... Saying, "Poor old Elijah." He's better off than a lot of us. And there he set there, and...
And the first thing you know, he seen an army coming with fifty. And he raised up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume them." And down come the fire. And they were consumed; that's justice. They was forbidden on that ground.

L-46 "Oh," the king said when he heard about it, "there must have been an electric storm that day." And you know how people try to figure it out, you know. "It must have been lightning struck. I'll send another fifty."
And when old Elijah saw them coming, he raised up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume them." Down come the fire and consumed them: God's justice. He got tired sending fifties. Certainly. I don't want His justice; I want His mercy.


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