<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Then there is the little compartment in the heart called indifferent. Oh, what a condition that thing gets into. A little indifferent. You love to be just a little indifferent towards others. You want your own way. You'd be willing to let Jesus in, but you want to continue to live in the same place that you always lived. You don't want to get away from your old associates. You just won't give them up. You think they're nice people, and you just don't want to give them up. So you want to be a little different. That's another bad apartment in the heart.
Then there's another little door called jealousy. I don't know whether you yankees know anything about it or not, but down south you have a lot of that. Oh, just a little inferior to the other man. Just a little better than the other church. If the Joneses paint their steps red, you got to have yours red. Oh, what a horrible spirit to be in a Christian. Why don't you let Christ come in and make Him Lord over that little spirit room of selfishness and indifference. Let Him gain the entrance to your heart and to everything that's in your heart. Just surrender your whole being to Him. Let Him be God and ruler of your entire being.

L-13 There's another little apartment that I'd like to speak on. And that is the apartment in there that's called faith. So many people wants to accept Christ as their Saviour, but they say, "The days of miracles is past." So they don't want to believe that the days of miracles are now. Christ can't get into that heart. If Christ could gain entrance to the heart tonight, of every person here, there would not be a feeble person among us in ten minutes. The faith is in you, but you're afraid to open up the door and let Him be Lord of that faith. You try to sympathize with a part of the Bible, say, "Some of it is right, but the other is not inspired."
What causes that, is perhaps maybe, some person not knowing any different, taught you that. All of God's Word is inspired. And if we'll open up our heart, and open up our door in our little room of faith, Christ come in and be Lord, He will show great and mighty works and signs, if He could only gain entrance to that heart of faith.

L-14 "Oh," you say, "I believe it to be that all these things passed with the apostles." See, you keep the door closed. Christ will come into the midst of the people and do signs and wonders on people. And they let that little compartment stay shut. "Oh, it might be all right for her, but for me, my case is different." There is no difference with Christ. He's no respect of person, none at all. Cancer or a toothache, it matters not with Him, if He can be Lord over the matter. You just don't open up that heart to let Him in that faith door, so He can be Ruler.
Now, they cast down reason. When you let Christ into the compartment of your heart as faith, then reasons die out.

L-15 Just recently, we had a--they had a great meeting here of the famous Billy Graham. When Billy Graham was in Louisville, I was at his breakfast. A great servant of the Lord, and he held up the Bible at the breakfast, he said, "This is the Example." He said, "When Saint Paul went somewhere and had a convert," Said, "the next year he went back and had fifty out of that one." But said, "I go and have twenty thousand in a city, and in a years time there's scarcely twenty."
Oh, how I wanted to say something. I just longed to say it. "Billy, what's the matter? They have an intellectual conception of Christ and never open up the heart and let Him be Lord."


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