<TITLE>17. Par 165-172</TITLE>L-165 Oh, that stern, sturdy, old father, with the wood and a sack across his back, leading a donkey (My.), little Isaac walking in front of him, "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief." It was becoming to him.
For Abraham said himself, "I received him as one from the dead, and I'm fully persuaded that God's able to raise him up again." Amen. It was becoming to Abraham to fulfill all righteousness. He knew what he was talking about. He knew his God. He knowed what God said, God's able to perform. What promise God made, God's able to keep His promise, regardless. So it was becoming to Abraham that he fulfill all righteousness.

L-167 It was becoming to the disciples at Pentecost to go to that upper room. Why? Why was it becoming? Because they had met a Man, a Carpenter, known to the world, a Galilean Stranger with a bad name: illegitimate. But they had seen that Man raise the dead. They'd seen that Man open blinded eyes. They had heard that Man preach the unadulterated God's Word. And they knowed that He was Messiah. They'd seen all the signs around Him. They'd heard God speak back from the heavens. They'd seen that Pillar of Fire hanging over Him. They knowed that He was the Messiah. And when He told them, "It's expedient for Me that I go away; but I want you to go up there to the city of Jerusalem and stay up there. Just wait there."
"How long?"
"Until."
"How long will that be, Lord?"
"Just until, until you're endued with power from on high. Then you'll be My witnesses."
"How long will it last, Lord?"
"Unto this generation, and to that generation, and as many as the Lord our God shall call: to Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the utmost parts of the earth. But before you go, I want you to wait. I'm going to do something for you."

L-170 It was becoming to them that they went in the upper room, because they had seen His power. They'd knowed that He died, dead, died so dead that even the moon and stars witnessed He was dead; they hid their face and wouldn't shine. The earth knowed He was dead, until it rocked with a nervous prostration. The rocks belched out of the ground, that'd been in there since the antediluvian destruction. They knowed that was Messiah. They knowed that His Word was, that He was to send back the Holy Ghost. They knowed that was a promise. They knowed that they had to wait up there for It. They had seen Him. They knowed He was dead; they knowed He was risen. They had seen Him; therefore, they knowed what they were talking about.
Until a man knows what he's talking about, he can't say very much. But when you know what you're talking about... If you think this is excitement, come get It once, then you'll know what you're talking about. It's not excitement. It's the power of God unto salvation. It's the Holy Ghost. I know what I speak of. Everyone has received Him, knows what they speak of.

L-172 It was behooving to the disciples; it was becoming them that they should keep His Word to wait up at Jerusalem. So they went up to wait at Pentecost, until they received the Holy Ghost. For then they knowed their ministry could not go on until they had received the Holy Ghost to bear record of Him. They knowed they were helpless. But they had to have His Presence, so they went to wait for It.
It was behooving to Peter... After Jesus had met them, in Mark 16, said, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe: In My Name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents; drink deadly things, it'll not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."


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