<TITLE>13. Par 131-139</TITLE>L-131 Yeah, it was becoming to Noah; it was becoming to Enoch, that they fulfill all righteousness.
Then I want to speak of another man here. There was a man named Daniel. And he lived in a day of critics. You know, the Children of Israel had been taken from their homeland down into Babylon, and there they were sad, and for some seventy years they'd been down there. But there was a young prophet that went down with them by the name of Daniel.
And he and a little group, just a little handful of brethren, had got together and had vowed themselves to God, that they were not going to defile themselves with the--with the modern trend of that day. They wasn't going to fool with the king's meats. They wasn't going to drink his strong drinks. They wasn't going to attend his parties. But they were going to keep themself holy and dedicated to God, for thus it was becoming to them.

L-134 It was becoming to Daniel, because he was a prophet, that he stayed with the Word.
Any true prophet that knows the Word of God, that... If he don't know the Word of God, then he's not a true prophet. A true prophet stays with the Word. Whatever the Word says, they stay right with It. No matter what the trend of the day, or what the--the modern church says, or what someone else says, or somebody else does something else, the true prophet stays right with the Word.

L-136 And Daniel knew, that if he stayed with the Word, what it cost him. It's going to cost him his popularity. It was going to cost him his fellowship with the rest of the brethren. It was going to cost him a lot of things. But they made an issue, that, they was going to pray to a certain god, then after that they could go back and pray to any god.
But you know, something about God, we don't compromise with God. There's no compro--compromising, with God. God just stays God. He don't expect us on Sunday to be Christians, praising Him and worshipping Him, and on Monday, wishy-washy and take it down, and all kinds of thoughts, that, "Maybe I was wrong, and I ought to have done this or that." We stay right centered on God's Word, and lay right to It.

L-138 So we find that, Daniel, it was becoming to him, as a prophet to stay with the Word, regardless. So there was a decree went out, and said, "That whosoever will worship any other god, besides the god that they had selected..." In other words, "If you don't cooperate with us, we'll just throw you into the lions' den." Well, it was becoming to Daniel; it was becoming to him that he fulfilled all righteousness, that he worshipped no other god, or entangled himself with the world; only to God only. So he just throwed back the shutters and threw up the sash, and opened up the curtains, and looked out towards the east, and prayed three times a day, just like he always did. Why? Not slip off somewhere and hide to do it, but he opened up the windows, let anybody see, that wants to. He wasn't ashamed of his religion.

L-139 Because it's becoming to a Christian not to be ashamed of your religion. As Paul of old said, "In the way that's called heresy  (crazy), that's the way I worship the God of our fathers." See? "I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ," he said, "for it's the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes it." That's right. Not ashamed of the Gospel, it's the thing that holds in the hours when the ship is a-rocking and every star's out of sight, and the moon and stars, and storms a-blowing. It still holds, for it's the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Daniel was faithful. It was behooving to him.


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