<TITLE>10. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 That might help open up the eyes here natural. But we've had a cold spell too. Many Christians has got from under the cover, under the protection of the Lord Jesus. There's been a draft across the country saying that the days of miracles has passed, and healing services, and all this Holy Ghost stuff; there's nothing to it. You might've got caught in the draft, got your eyes all closed up to the things of God.
When the Angel of God comes here in the last day to reflect the light of the coming of Jesus, you might not be able to see it. I wouldn't prescribe coon grease, but I know there is some eyesalve that God has. It's called the Holy Spirit. God's anointed oil from God's throne, that will open your eyes, and you will be able to see that Jesus Christ is just the same today as He was yesterday, and will be forever. God's Holy Spirit today moving in from great healing services, coming down to the positive: Jesus coming among the people and performing and doing the same signs of the nearing of the end of this age, like He did to the Jews when He told Philip He was under the tree--or Nathanael was under the tree when Philip found him.
And he said, "Rabbi, how did you know me?" when He told him he was a honest man, an Israelite, no guile.
When Jesus told him where he was, he fell at His feet and said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel," because he had opened his heart to the Spirit of God knocking, that had been prophesied by Moses, their leader, saying, "The Lord, your God, shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me. And it shall come to pass that ever who will not this Prophet shall be cut off." And practically the whole nation was cut off.

L-30 God knocked. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] The church looked and said, "You know, that man's a fortuneteller, Beelzebub."
Jesus said, "You say that about Me; I'll forgive you. But someday, the Holy Spirit will come, and to speak one word against it will never be forgiven." Don't you see their church is cutting yourself off again, and not opening their heart, and letting the Holy Spirit come in.
Did not He say to the woman at the well, "Go get your husband." Samaria had never seen Him, but they were looking for Him.
And she said, "I have no husband."
He said, "Well, you've had five, and the one that you're living with is not yours."
Her heart come open; she said, "Sir, You must be a prophet. We know the Messiah's a coming."
Oh, my, that woman knowed more about God than a lot of preachers does. That's right. Though in her ill-fame, she had a heart that could open when God knocked at the door. She knowed the Holy Scriptures, that the day was at hand.
She said, "I know that Messiah cometh. We know that. And when He comes, He will do this."
He said, "I am He that speaks to you." Right into her heart He went.
Down through the city and said, "Come, see a Man Who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah? Did not this same Messiah said just before He returns, that the sign that was given to Sodom and Gomorrah would return again in the age of the Gentiles?"

L-31 And Christ knocks at the heart. [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] "Same yesterday, today, and forever," His Word speaks it; His Spirit confirms it among the people. Why not open up our heart and let Him come in and be Lord? He's so good to us; and yet, we are so cruel to Him.
We appreciate our churches, our pastors, our lay members, our deacons, our--all societies. We appreciate them. And they're doing a wonderful work, most of them. Thanks be to the Lord. But yet, it takes the individual.
The church can't open up your heart; you have to open your heart. The church cannot come into your heart; Jesus must come into your heart. Church cannot be Lord over you; Christ is Lord over you. Yet you belong to the church; that's His society. That's His way of doing it. But yet you must let Him in and then join with other believers. That's what does it.


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