<TITLE>07. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Knock at the door. "Lo, I stand and knock: if any man will hear My voice, I'll come in, and sup with him, and he with Me." Now you say, "Brother Branham, I've already done that, long time ago. I let Jesus in a long time ago." So many say that, but, brother, sister, when Jesus comes in you're willing to let Him be your Saviour, but... That's good, I appreciate that, but when He comes in, He wants to be welcomed. He wants to be your Lord. "Lord" is "rulership, ownership." He comes in, not to be Lord, to dictate your life, but to give you the best that there is for you. You'll let Him come in; you don't want to go to hell, but you won't let Him be your Lord. You let Him be your Saviour but not your Lord.
And then I find, that in the human heart there's a lot of... After He's got one door open to come in... Would you feel welcome at my house, if you knocked on the door, and I said, "Step in."
And you said, "Brother Branham, could I be welcome?"
"Oh, no, you stand right here. Tell me what you want."
If I come to your house, and you welcome me in, say, "Brother Branham, welcome in." Oh, I'd come in, take off my shoes, set down, and put my feet up in the chair, go out to the ice box and get me something to eat, go lay across the bed and eat it. I'd feel welcome if you told me I was welcome.

L-27 And when Jesus comes in He wants to be welcome. But we've got little secret doors, little bitty doors in our heart, that we don't want Jesus in. Over to the right-hand side of the human heart, after Jesus gets in, is a little door called "pride." "Oh, I will receive Him as Saviour, but don't you try to tell me the way I have to dress, and the way I have to do. Oh, if I have to let my hair grow out, if I have to stop smoking cigarettes, or quit going down to the pool room, I don't want nothing to do with it." Don't worry, He won't stay long. Pride...
There's another little heart door in there called "your own private life." You don't want nobody dilly-dallying with that. "I live my life. I do this, that, or the other. It's nobody's business what I do." Haven't you heard that old proverb? But I tell you, you are not your own. You are bought with a price, and you belong to God. You have no right to your own privacy. God should know everything, and He does know everything that you do. And He should have the right to that door.

L-28 And there's another door in there, and that door is called "faith." Oh, that is a--quite a door. You say, "Now look, oh, I've accepted Jesus as my Saviour, but I don't believe that the days of miracles are today. I just can't believe it." He wants to get in that door. If He could ever open that door and stand there as Lord, brother, you'll believe every word God wrote in His Book. But how you going to do it, when you got some kind of a church laws, tacked up on the door. "Stay away, Jesus. Don't You try to tell me any of that old stuff that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. You can stand there. I don't want to go to hell. I want to be popular in church. But You can't control me, because I knowed better. I'm a scientist."


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