<TITLE>05. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Oh, you say to me then, "Brother Branham, I different with you right here, because I have already let Him in." Well, that's very good. I'm so happy that you did that, let Him in. But then, you know what? It seems to be that after you let Him in the door, you've got a whole lot of--of little--of little apartments in your heart. And you'll welcome Him in the door, "Just stand right here, but don't look around over my house."
Could you imagine telling the Fuehrer that he could come in, but he couldn't look over the house. "Now, Fuehrer, you can stand here at the door, Mr. Hitler, but don't you look in this closet. Don't you look over here. I've got some little secrets that I don't want you to know about."
That's the way we sometimes, who call ourselves Christians, treat Jesus. "You can step in. Yes, I'll believe that You are the Son of God, but don't go to meddling in my business." See? That's the danger line. You got little places in your heart, little doors that enter into little secret closets in your heart. Christians have those, and many who let Jesus in is not willing to let Jesus have His way. He is not altogether welcome.

L-20 If I come to your house and you welcome me in, I feel like I am your brother, and I can go anywhere I want to, if I'm really welcome. If I come to your house, I feel like that if--if you said, "Welcome in," that means that I'm welcome anywhere in the house. I just go right on through. If I want to lie down awhile, I'll go in the bedroom. And if I want to--to eat awhile, I'll go at the kitchen. I'd just feel like I'd be welcome.
And what if you come to my house or I to your house, and you say, "Now, you can stand right here, but don't you dare to open that door. Don't you go here." I wouldn't be very welcome.

L-21 Well, that's the way it is today with people who call themselves Christians. You say, "Oh, I belong to the church." That's good. But you see, the reason there's so much trouble in the church, the reason there is so much confusion in the church, so discontentment in the church, is not because that Jesus isn't there. It's because that Jesus can't gain access to the places He wants to go.
We have those little compartments, and we say, "Oh, no, don't touch that. Now, you can come in, but oh, that's far enough. I'll join the church; but otherwise, let me run my own business." Jesus wants to be the supreme Ruler of your being.
And the only way that He can bless you is when He becomes your Lord. Lord is rulership, ownership. Who made you? Jesus. Who has a right to every place in your heart? The Creator. Have no secrets before Him. Open up your heart.

L-22 Now, let's speak just for a moment or two on some of these little doors. One of them is a little door of selfishness. Oh, we find that so much in the professed Christian's heart: selfish. Oh, you... I... "It's for me and for my group. As long as it's in my denomination, it's all right. But if it's outside, if it's not a Baptist church, or it's not my Presbyterian, or my Pentecostal, if it's outside the Assemblies, or so forth, it's no good." Then you see, Christ can't have the rulership. He can't be Lord. If He's Lord, He's Ruler.
And if you say, "Well, I--I like for Him to do a certain thing for me, but if it's a... if I can get so much out of it. I'll go to church if it'll make the people in my community think better of me." But you won't open this little door.


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