<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 "I'll accept Him, but I won't let Him in this little place, because I've been this way since I was a child, and I feel like I'm just a little bit over them type of people. I'll let Jesus in, but I'll never go to one of them little old missions, one of those places where they all holler, 'Amen,' and 'Glory to God,' and 'Hallelujah.' I'll let Him in, but I won't--won't go to that." He isn't your Lord.
"My sheep hear My voice." Then He's your Lord; He's the Ruler. "I'll let Him in if they'll take me in the best church in the city." I don't care if they put... If I wanted to go into the barnyard, wherever He wanted me to go, I'd want to go, as long as He's calling me. I'll let Him in on the grounds that He's my Lord. Whatever He wants to do, let Him do it.

L-24 There's another little door called pride. Oh, what a horrible, little black devils is all pinned up in that heart of pride, thinking you're better than somebody else. "Well, I wouldn't send my children over there. They don't dress right. The people who goes there isn't in my class." If Christ is Lord in your heart, we're all one class, because of one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body.
Pride, feels just a little--a little complex you have. Oh, you don't want Jesus to touch that because it would degrade your social standing in the community. I'd rather degrade my social standing in the community than to rub my name off of the Lamb's Book of Life. But they won't let Him in. That little pride holds Him out.

L-25 "Oh, Jesus, yes, I'll join the church. I'll accept You; but oh, don't look in this closet, because You can set down in the chair by the door, but I wouldn't let You in this closet."
Then He can't be your Lord. He's got to have access to every room in the house, every compartment. All the little secret things of life, He's got to have access to every bit of it. Then He becomes Lord.
What does He want to come in your heart for? Is to be your Lord. He's knocking at the door to be your Saviour. And if you hold selfishness, and pride, and malice, and all these things in your heart, He can't be Lord, though you accept Him in, He can't be Lord.
When He's Lord, He's Lord over all. And that's what He's knocking for. [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] Oh, Lord...?... Let Him in. "I want to come in and sup."
What supping is, is fellowship, when you got fellowship one with another. How that the--the Lord and you are buddies. You're partners. And whatever you have, He has too. Whatever He has then, you have too. You see, He becomes you, that you might become Him. And everything is in common.

L-26 Then there is another little door in the heart I like to speak of this morning. And that little door is a door of faith. So many professed Christians don't want to open that door of faith.
Now, you say, "Lord, You can come in. That's right. But I don't believe that all the Bible is right." Uh-huh. "I will take what my church says, but I won't take the rest of it." How's the Lord ever going to bless you then? How can He be your Lord and Healer if He can't get your heart's door of faith open? If He can come in and you'll welcome Him, He will open that door, and He will walk into that faith of yours, and He will sup with you in the door of faith.
Oh, I want to welcome Him this morning to my heart, to every room. The all that I am, I want to welcome Him at every door, swing it open, and stand there and kiss the cup of blessings with Him in the door, and say, "Yes, Lord, all I am, and all I have, and all is Yours. Let's stand at this door, Lord, and commune with each other. Let's have communion at the door of faith, Lord. Let's have communion at the door of pride, Lord. Let's have communion at the door of selfishness, Lord. Take it all from me, Lord."


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