<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Now, people don't want Jesus fooling around with any of their pride. Now, they got their own prestige, and they must be sure they keep up with the Joneses. "So if accepting Jesus is going to take me off of that scale, then I don't want Him fooling around in that door. Stay our of there, Jesus! You're my Saviour, but don't go in there; because I'm a great man. I'm a self-made man." That's what's the matter with you, is the "self-made."
"Now, I've got my own societies that I attend, and I--I've got my own prestige in my neighborhood, and I've got my own dignities that I have to look after. So don't bother that door."
But Jesus has got to come in there, if He's going to be Lord. He's got to look around.
To some of the ladies with pride... They say, "Now, look. If going down there... Now, Jesus is my Saviour, all right. But when He tells me how I'm going to dress, You keep out of that room." But you see, He's got to be Lord over your dressing too. You say, "Now, if it's going to interfere with me wearing shorts, I don't want nothing to do with that kind of a religion." See, you won't open that door of pride. You're all stuck up. "If I can't wear manicure..." What is it, lipstick, or that stuff they put on their face... "If I can't wear that, well then, I look so pale." Huh. Max Factor's does... God brings the real thing to your face.

L-29 But you see, pride... The rest of the women. "If I have to let my hair grow out..." Now, I'm not saying this, that, or the other; I'm just talking about the Bible. See? The Bible said a woman that cuts her hair cuts her--she cuts away her glory. Right. She dishonors her husband when she does it. Used to be, you full Gospel women, all wore long hair. What happened? "Why," you say, "that's my American privilege."
But if you're a lamb... If you are a lamb, a lamb sacrifices everything that he's got. A lamb hasn't got nothing but wool. But he lays right there and let them shear it off of him, and says nothing about it.
The Bible can shear everything, all the pride and everything else out of you. You'll--if you're a lamb, you'll say nothing about it. But you try a goat one time. You'll have a fuss kicked up right quick.
But that's what's the matter. We won't open that door. We want to be like somebody else. When you accept Jesus, let's be like Him, the way He says.

L-30 I was speaking on something of that not long ago. And a lady said to me, she said, "I don't wear shorts."
And I said, "Well, good for you."
She said, "I wear slacks."
I said, "That's worse."
It's the truth. The Bible said... And God is infinite and cannot change, "It's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man."
You see that door they keep closed up? If Christ could come in there, He'd make it different. You say, "I'm a Christian," but you keep that door shut. "He's not welcome. He can't be Lord." Even get mad at the pastor if he preaches against it. See? So that's true. Then I'd better leave that alone.

L-31 And the men, they got a lot of pride too, you know, a lot of it. "If I have to keep away from the pool room, and with the gang, and all these other things, oh, no, none of that for me." See? They have to keep up with the rest of them.
But if you let Jesus come into your heart, He--and open up that door, He will make you a different creature. Amen. He will do it.
You said, "I can't quit smoking, Brother Branham. I smoked all my life." Let Jesus in there one time, see what takes place. There'll be something so much greater that you'll never desire another smoke. You see it on the televisions and to be popular. Get out of that.


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