<TITLE>09. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 Oh, yes, there's a door of pride. And then, let's look to the next door to it right right quick: is "my own private life."
Now, you know, everybody wants to live his own private life. Now, you don't want Jesus fooling with your private life. See, just so much different from what He desires in the Bible, but you got your own idea about it. You're not supposed to use your own idea about it. You ought to let Him have His idea about it. Let the mind that was in Christ be in you.
But that little private life. "Now, I'll have my own little card parties, I'll do just... Now, if Christianity takes that away from me, then I don't want nothing to do with your church." See? There it is. That's the door--one of the doors that the so-called Christian today keeps the door shut on Jesus.

L-33 Oh, there's just a lot of those doors. Let's find the door of faith over here on the side. "Now, I have faith. But don't you go to fooling with my faith." There's only one faith, and that's the faith of God. That's right.
The door's all closed up, because that you don't want to fool around that door, or let Jesus around there; because as soon as He stands in that door, He will scream out, "I'm the same yesterday, today, and forever." And your creeds will bar that door. But He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You'll come to a church and watch the signs and wonders of God be performed; you won't pay attention to that, because the creeds has locked that door of faith in you that--and made you think that that is a faith. And there is only one faith, that's the faith of God. And the only One can bring the faith of God is Jesus Christ, His Son, that comes into your heart.
He's knocked at you heart through signs, wonders, and miracles. But you keep that all penned up. "I don't want nothing to do with that."
Oh, if He could only stand, and you'd open up that door, it wouldn't be two minutes till you believed every Word the Bible wrote, and say "Amen" to every bit of It; if you'd just open up the door and let Jesus come in, give you the faith that He has to give you. You've took the faith that some creed has give you. You locked the doors upon Christ's faith. When you take Christ's faith, then you can recognize Him.

L-34 Now, there's another little door right beside of that. Oh, there's several of them. We won't take them all. But there is another door there I'd like to speak on just a second or two. That door is "spiritual sight." You just only want to see one thing, that's what the intellectual sees. But when you let Christ come into that spiritual door, then He will open up your spiritual sight and show you Himself. You'd never called a discernment of spirit... You'd never call that Beelzebub if you had Christ standing at the spiritual door of your heart giving you spiritual sight. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. That's right. Now, there's a natural sight and a spiritual sight.

L-35 Long ago we used to live in a little... When I was a boy, lived in a little bitty old cabin, and they had just a loft upstairs. Had one bed downstairs, and papa and mama slept on that. And there was four of us children at that time, and we had a--like a straw tick laying down with a--a feather tick laying on top of that. And then mama used to take and put blankets over us at night, and all the coats. And then she'd take a big piece of canvas and stretch over the top of us, because great big cracks in the side of the wall, and old clapboard shingles was almost off the house. And when it would snow or rain, we'd get wet. And we little Branhams would have to duck our heads under that piece of canvas like a rabbit going under a brush pile, when it'd start raining or something. And we were... And at nighttime sometimes, the draft through there would give us cold.
And mama would holler at morning. I could hear her say, "Oh, Billy, get up and come on down here. You got to get ready go to school; you and Edward, come on." The little fellows could sleep later.


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