<TITLE>18. Par 174-179</TITLE>L-174 It was behooving to Saint Peter, the old fisherman, didn't have enough education to sign his own name. But one day when he was going through the Beautiful gate that Solomon had built, there laid a man who was lame. His knees was weak, ankles; he couldn't walk. He'd been that way. He had no strength. A man about forty years old, he had no strength. But when Peter heard the cup rattle, and he looked down and seen a crippled man laying there, and Something pounded in his heart... He had been at Pentecost; he had the Holy Ghost. He had the promise of Jesus, so it was behooving, it was becoming to him, that he said, "Silver and gold have I none." He gave his testimony, "I have no silver and gold. But such as I have, I'll give it to you if you can receive it."
I can imagine the man say, "I can receive it."
Said, "Then in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand on your feet and be made well." And he reached down and got him to exercise his faith, and raised him up like that; and his ankle bones received strength, and he went, leaping, praising and glorifying God.

L-176 It was behooving him to do it; it was becoming to him. He should've done it, because he was anointed disciple. He'd been with Jesus. The whole world knew, the day before in the Sanhedrin Court, when they had him gathered up, him and John, both of them ignorant and unlearned; they knew they'd been with Jesus, 'cause they heard the way they were talking and the boldness they had. They knew that something had happened to them. And Peter knew that. So it was becoming Peter; it was becoming to him because that he had God's promise for that day.
"I'll give you power. I'll give you power. You shall tread on the heads of serpents and scorpions. Whatever you ask in My Name, that I'll do. If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt it in your heart, but believe that what you said shall come to pass, you can have what you said."
It's behooving to Peter then to believe It. It's becoming him. That's what he should do, because he knowed he lived in the day of that commission. That was the Light of the hour. The resurrection had just come; the Holy Ghost was there. It was becoming to him.

L-179 It was becoming to Saint Paul, after being a critic. And on his road down to Damascus one day, there that Pillar of Fire that had led Israel from Egypt into the promised land, that had been made flesh and dwelled among them and returned back to God, spoke to him. And he wondered, "How could this be Jehovah? How could it be? And there He is in the same Pillar of Fire, hanging yonder." "Lord, Who are You that I persecute?"
He said, "I am Jesus." Oh, my. He commissioned him, give him his ministry: commissioned Paul, give him his ministry.
Paul had been in the Presence of God; he'd seen the Pillar of Fire. He seen that Jesus that was once the Pillar of Fire, had been made flesh and dwelt amongst us, and returned back to a Pillar of Fire, and commissioned him to his ministry. Hallelujah. Nothing's going to shake him. It was becoming to him, when they took handkerchiefs off his body and sent to the sick. It was becoming to him, because he knowed he was the anointed apostle. He saw the visions of God, and God appeared before him and spoke, and seen it happen just exactly. Why, it was becoming to Paul, that when he try to help the people, fulfill the Word that he was commissioned. He was the Light of the day. He was the Light to the Gentiles. He knew it; God commissioned him to be. He was the Light in that day. So He was commissioned to Paul.


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