<TITLE>07. Par 23-27</TITLE>L-23 Oh, California and them's had their meetings, but you people have been neglected, I feel, upon the east side here. They don't come, because there's not much money, and so forth, but we don't need money. What we need is God, and the door of our hearts open. And these New England States has been neglected, the little mountain countries and throughout here, there hasn't been a great display. They all seem to go to California, the preacher's graveyard, and there stay, Get indocumated out there with some of those fantastics, and away they go.
But, oh, I pray, God, shake this New England country again. And I'll say this in respect of the Gospel, and of the Lord Jesus: If this nation ever has a revival, it'll never have it upon intellectual theology. It'll take the real true, genuine, Holy Spirit power and manifestations to shake the people, until they'll long to see the glory of God. We need it so badly. And it's so badly needed here.

L-24 As I go through the cities of these great eastern countries and see, as everywhere, sin on every side... But God has eye salve, "Those that I love, I chasten and rebuke those; and be zealous and repent."
Now, I have wondered, when in the teaching, the Holy Spirit taking the Bible, Who wrote the Bible, Who gave the promises, that Jesus said, "The things that I do shall you also..." And then He will turn right back around, after explaining it Word by Word, page by page, Scripture by Scripture; and the Holy Spirit will turn right around and perform everything that He promised to do; and Full Gospel people will set as though nothing happened. We need to open our eyes and see the day and the hour that we are living in. What's the matter? You become common, it becomes a common thing to you.

L-25 Here some time ago, if you'd only notice, as I was going to say, crossing the country, seeing the goodness of God, how good He is to us, and how indifferent we treat Him. If I knocked at your door, and you didn't come out and let me in, but just peeped out the trellis, and looked, and said, "Oh, that's Preacher Branham, go on back out, I'll let him some other time." You'll have an awful time getting me back again.
And if I come to your door, or you come to mine, and I treated you that way, it would be likewise, but not our blessed Lord. He's so good. "I stand and knock, continuation. He that knocketh, not just pecking around, but knocketh, continually."

L-26 The great artist, I can't call his name now, who painted the famous picture of Jesus knocking at the door. I think he was a Greek. And when he met... Years of painting, studying... Every famous picture has to first go the hall of critics before it can go in the hall of fame. That is men who know how to criticize. And when one of the critics of the picture came to the painter, he said, "There is one thing you lack on your picture."
And he said, "What is it?
He said, "You have a door with no latch on it."
"Oh," the painter said, "the latch is on the inside."
Now, that's the way it is, you have the latch on the inside. And Christ cannot open your heart, being out of it, neither can He go in the closet when you've got yourself shut up in there. You've got the latch in your own power. But He's goodness to stand and knock...

L-27 Sometime ago, down in my southland, there was an old minister friend, and he was a wonderful old brother. And they had a colored brother there, a colored man, rather, and his name was Gabriel. And we all called him Gabe. He was a good old fellow, but we just couldn't keep him lined up with the church. He would just--wouldn't go to church. And we'd say, "Gabe, why don't you come on to church?"
"Oh, I's will someday."


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