<TITLE>05. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 So He knocks at the heart. But because of the devil that's perverted righteousness, keeps the people away from Christ. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, just a minute. I want to differ with you just a little bit. I let Jesus in my heart twenty-five years ago, or a year ago." I appreciate that. Any minister would appreciate that, you letting Jesus in.
But I want to ask this church tonight a question. And I want you to get it real good and straight. When you let Him in, on what conditions did you let Him in? Did you let Him in just to save you from hell, or did you let Him in to be your Lord? Now, there's quite a difference.

L-22 What if I come to your house and knocked at your door, and you said, "Brother Branham, come in." And I walked into your house and--and you said, "Brother Branham, you are welcome at my house." Why, I'd feel at home. I'd go over, and if I was hungry, I'd get the icebox and make me a sandwich. And--and if I felt like I was a little tired, I'd take off my shoes, and lay across the bed, and eat this sandwich, and I--I'd just feel at home. I'd take your word for it.
But if I went to your house, or you come to my house, and you knocked at my door, and I let you in, but I said, "It's all right, sir, you can come in, but don't you go any further than this door. You stand right here." Now, that's the way too many Christians today let Jesus in. They don't want to go to hell. But they're afraid to let Him be Lord. Lord is rulership, to take over everything, and to rule you, and to govern you, and to take full possession of everything you are. That's the way He wants to come in.
And there's too many of you Pentecostal people that's just letting Him in like that. We'll dig into it just in a minute.

L-23 Now, we find out that when Jesus comes in, and you tell Him, "Yes, don't let me go to hell, Lord. But I..." When He gets into the heart, did you know there's many little doors inside that door? Oh, the whole wall's full of little rooms all around your heart.
And the first little door, when you get into the heart, we would say, let's--let's put it on the right hand side when you walk into the heart. There's a little door there that's called, "my private life."
Now, you let Jesus in, "But don't have nothing to do with my private life." Now, that's the way too many Christians let Jesus in.

L-24 Sometime ago, I had the privilege of shaking hands with your state evangelist here, wonderful man of God, Billy Graham at Louisville, Kentucky.
And I was listening... I was at his breakfast with Doctor Mordecai F. Hamm. You all know that I come a Baptist myself. And Dr. Hamm was... Billy Graham is his convert to the Lord Jesus.
And Dr. Hamm and I were setting together eating. And Billy got up to speak, and he said, took the Bible and he said, "Here is the example." He said, "When Paul went forth in his day and had a convert, then he came back in a year, and that convert had made thirty." He said, "I can go into a city and..." I wouldn't say the figures, 'cause I don't remember just how many he said.


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