<TITLE>11. Par 100-111</TITLE>L-100 Jesus said, "Suffer that to be so." That is right. "But thus it behooveth us, or it is becoming to us..." Behooveth means "becoming." "It is becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness." Why? Jesus being God; John being the prophet. Quickly Jesus knowed when He said that, John being a prophet to who the Word come to, knowed he would understand it. Because, the sacrifice, according to the law, had to be washed before it was presented. And Jesus had to be baptized before presented. He said, "Suffer it to be so now. That's right. For thus it is behooving us, becoming to us, to fulfill all righteousness."

L-101   Oh, if we could take that for a text for a few minutes! That we see today, as--as believers in the Light in the hour that we're living in, it's becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness. It's becoming to a pentecostal church, that we fulfill all righteousness, seeing that we have been called by the Holy Spirit. It's unbecoming that we separate ourselves from other brethren. It's unbecoming that we denominate ourselves and won't have nothing else to do with our brother who has received the Holy Ghost the same as we did. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] It's not becoming to us. When we see God moving and performing, and doing exactly what He said, and because the person is not connected with our organization, that we misbehave ourself, that's unseemingly. It's not right.

L-102 We should be Christians. We should be gentlemen. We should be God-fearing people and men. We should be ready to reach across and give any man a handshake, and stretch the blanket on his side of the bed, too. Yes, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness. Now we know the...

L-103   That was because that He was the Sacrifice. And John knew it, because he seen that Light over Him. And John humbled himself, being the greatest man till that hour. But when he seen this great Lord Jesus coming, he said, "I have need to be baptized of You."

L-104 But when He told him, "It's becoming that we fulfill all righteousness."

L-105 Then John turned, knowing, as a servant of God, as a prophet, he must fulfill the Word of that hour, because he knowed That was the Sacrifice. He had just said so, "There comes the Lamb of God, the sacrificial Lamb that's going to take away the sins of the world." And the Lamb had to be washed in the laver before it was presented to the priest. Amen.

L-106 It's becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness, when you take on the Name of Jesus Christ. Let every man or woman, that takes the Name of Jesus, depart from sin.

L-107   Our confessions today has begin to come just like a--a I-don't- know-what, some riddle or something. We go down and pray a prayer about two minutes long, and get back up; do something wrong, say, "O Lord, You know I didn't mean to do that, but, hallelujah, I'm alright," go along. No, that's not it, brother.

L-108 You've got to be godly sorry. You've got to confess that thing. You've got to make it right. You cannot do it... Jesus said, "When you go to the altar, remember the brother has ought against you, go to him first before you offer your gift here, be reconciled with the brother." See? It's becoming us, to us, that we fulfill all righteousness.

L-109   And you women with short, bobbed hair, do you know what? It's becoming to you that you let your hair grow out and act like a lady. You that wear shorts; take them off, put on dresses. It's becoming to you that you act like Christians, that's right, 'cause the Bible said that's wrong. A woman shouldn't do that.

L-110 And you men that's smoking cigarettes, that's unbecoming. And you men that's letting your wives do that, and then say you're "sons of God," a man?

L-111 The great, the great vow that's took at the marriage ceremony, "love, honor, and obey," is gone. In America, the woman has the right-of-way. Well, everywhere she has got the right-of-way. The Bible said she would have it that way.


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