<TITLE>22. Par 241-248</TITLE>L-241 My Jesus has come to this city many times, and you pushed Him in the corner. You've talked about It, said, "It was the devil." Said, "It was mental telepathy." Said, "There wasn't nothing to it." Shame on you, hypocrite. Jesus will make you pay for that some of these days, at the day of judgment. He comes to the city, He knocks at the door. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] He performs things, and people look and say, "Oh, It's nonsense," push It away. And every night, in your church, is praying for a revival? Pharisee, actor, you want it the way you want it. Christ comes in the way that He wants to come. He might embarrass your theology. But there He sets, after He's been invited, and He's come.
How many times has these old cold formal morgues around here prayed for a revival? The other day, they're praying all over the country for revival. Billy Graham and Jack Shuler, and a bunch of them, going across the... praying for revivals. And then here come the Holy Ghost down, and you mark It as apostasy. Hallelujah. He comes down with the same signs and wonders, and everything, and proves that He's there, and you call It the devil. Hypocrites, you'll die in your television one of these days, and go to hell in the same thing.

L-243 Acting like, going on with a lot of a bunch of theology from some seminary: actors, hypocrites, never darken the door. Say, "I ain't going over there to church. You remember what..." Oh, you hypocrite.
Jesus, setting, Jesus with dirty feet. They call Him "Jesus," in Germany: Jesus with dirty feet. It does something to me to say it. God, Jesus, the invited Guest, the Prince of glory, the fountain of Life, and unwelcome, with dirty feet, setting there with dung on His feet from the road, amongst all the rest of them, all polished and smelling good. And there He set with droop, weary face, the sweat stains on His beard, eyes drooped down, unkissed.

L-245 Jesus wants to be kissed. There's a Scripture in the Bible, said, "Kiss the Son, 'lest He be angry." That's right. Jesus wants to be kissed. Did you ever kiss Him? Sure, you can.
He's setting there, unwelcome, dirty feet: Jesus with dirty feet. Oh, don't that make you feel funny? Jesus, dirty feet, unwelcome...
Look what you do with Him, today. Instead of bringing Him into your big fine church, you push Him off in some little mission down on the corner, where the grocery man really didn't even have a grocery. It's so contaminated. It's down there, a little old mucky place, down in a basement somewhere. And you pray for Him to come, and put Him in the dirtiest hole you can find. God, be merciful.

L-248 But blessed be His Name, He comes anyhow. Say, "What's that up there on the corner, a little old holy-roller tabernacle?" He come anyhow. "There ain't nothing goes up there but the poorest." Well, that's all right, He comes anyhow. Make Him welcome.
Yeah. He tries to get to your big church, but you won't let Him. You know too much. You're too busy with the affairs of the church. You hypocrite, standing there. You invited Him. What did you pray for? He said what would take place when the Holy Ghost come. On the day of Pentecost It proved what He would do when He come. And He will come to your church, and you'll throw It out. You Pharisee, you actor, you're only trying to act what they've drummed into you up there at the seminary somewhere.


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