<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 But oh, there has never been a knock on the door like there is when Jesus Christ, God's Son, knocks at the human heart. If the Queen should knock at your heart, your door, of your home, you would open the door, say, "Come in. I am honored to have you. Take anything that's in my house. I'll give you anything that you desire as a souvenir. Or anything that I might do to show my respect of you coming to my home, I'd gladly do it."
The German soldier would've likewise, no doubt, fallen prostrate on his face and said, "Great fuhrer, enter into my house, and anything that I have in my possession is yours, because you are the fuhrer of Germany." Or you are the Queen of England... Or you are the President of the United States, one of the highest honored men in the nation... President Dwight Eisenhower, you would give him anything that he desired in your house. And if you would not open up your house completely, he would not feel welcome.

L-10 But Jesus can stand and knock, there's no one as important as the King of kings, to humble Himself to come to a low, degraded, sinful heart and knock at that heart to try to gain entrance into that heart. And we in return, turn Him away. Oh, you say, "But Brother Branham, I opened my heart to the Lord Jesus long ago. He came into my heart years ago." But I'm speaking now to the Church. But when He comes into your heart, is He welcome?
You know, in the heart there's many little doors, like there is in your house. If the President come to your house, and you said, "Now, Mr. President, you may set here at the door. But don't you go in that room or this room. I don't want you in there." He would not be welcome.
And if any man that I think enough of to open the door of my house to let him in, he's my guest, and he's welcome to anything there is in my house. If I come to your house and didn't feel that welcome, I would not feel like I was welcome at all.

L-11 But Jesus comes inside the door of the Christian's heart, but we've got little apartments in our heart that He cannot come in. Oh, you say, "I'm willing for Him to be my Saviour. I don't want to go to hell, but I want to be saved. Jesus, You can be my Saviour."
But He wants to be more than your Saviour, He wants to be your Lord. Lord is ownership, ruler. That's why the Church gets in its lukewarm condition. It accepts Christ as Saviour, but not as Lord. Christ wants to be the Lord of your being, to rule and to guide you. That's why He knocks at the heart, to come in for that purpose, is to be your spiritual Guide, and to be the ruler of your welfare.
But in our hearts we have many little apartments. I wish to speak now on some of these little apartments. One of them is a little closet over on one side that many people who call themselves Christian, yet they would not dare to let Jesus in that little compartment, because it's the apartment of selfishness. Now, you notice among so called Christians, you're right, selfish motives. "Oh, it's all right, if it's for me and my denomination, it's all right. But if my denomination has nothing to do with it, then I don't want anything to do with it." That's a little apartment of selfishness that all Christians ought to open the door and say, "Come in, Lord Jesus, and be Lord of my heart."


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