<TITLE>21. Par 231-239</TITLE>L-231 Look, when our President comes to the city, look how they welcome him. Why, the President would come to this city, they--from the train to the hotel where he stays, is strewed with flowers; the flags are all out; bouquets are throwed in the streets; flower girls go before; the band beats; the music plays; the singers sing; everything to make the President feel welcome.
But Christians, Jesus comes, and you won't welcome Him. Oh, you'll give Him a little place in the closet once in a while, a little closet over to one side. You're ashamed of Him, before your company though. Wouldn't call Him to prayer. Oh, He'd take a little place in the clos... Maybe up in the attic, he might take Him up in the attic, once in a while. When He comes, take... "Oh, I know he's here. I will slip up in the attic, so nobody will hear me pray." Uh-huh. But what's the good part, He comes anyhow?
"Jesus, will You take second place?"
"Yeah."
"Will You take third place, Jesus?"
"Yeah."
"Frankly, I will just take any place you give Me."

L-233 But you'll welcome the President with everything. You'll welcome your neighbors and cook a big dinner. You'll clean the house. You'll do everything. But when Jesus comes, He takes what He can get. You take Him in the old dusty attic, down in the basement somewhere.
Remember when you went to church one time, 'fore you was a real Christian? About once a year. Oh, you put on your most gorgeous dress; it was Easter, the little bonnet on the side of your head. You complained because the preacher preached twenty minutes. But He didn't rebuke you for it. He accepted it. You went home, put up your new dress, and said, "Boy, that's enough religion for a year." But He didn't fuss at you about that. He just accepted it. That's all He could get from you. Sometimes He ain't getting that from you. You give Him any place.

L-235 What part has He got in your life today, Christian? Has He got the best part, are you just giving Him the attic, or just a little prayer now and then? What about it? What kind of place you giving Him?
There set Jesus, sitting over by him. His disciples couldn't come in; they wasn't invited. All of them standing around, looking on. And there set Jesus over there, very uncomfortable, smell of the road on Him, dirty feet, unanointed face, not kissed welcome, just setting over to one side in the corner head down. The old Pharisee, why'd you invite Him for, you hypocrite?

L-237 That's the way it is with your church. You'll pray for a revival; when the Holy Ghost comes, you'll push It off; you'll never make It welcome. Somebody gets healed, or something another, or filled with the Holy Ghost, you'll go around talk about it, push Him off. You don't want the Holy Ghost no more. You don't want a preacher that preaches the Holy Ghost and sanctification. You don't want it no more. You want some classical little half-wit, all polished up with a lot of mental theology, with real good grammar and stuff like that. Give me the old fashion, God-sent, Holy Ghost, God sent Bible preaching, where Jesus is welcome.

L-239 He will bless your heart. And you'll set and choke it down. You won't make Him welcome. He wants to be praised, but you won't praise Him. But you'll holler, "Hello, Mr. President, how do you? I ain't seen you for a long time." And Jesus comes, you push Him over in the corner, unwelcomed.
You pray, and pray, and pray for a revival, and when the revival begins to break out somewhere, you say, "Huh, not in my church. Have nothing to do with that over there." Oh, you actor: pride, head up in the air, hypocrite. Shame on you.


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