<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 Take the nation's attitude, take Phoenix's attitude. If President Eisenhower, or Mr. Nixon, our lovely Vice President, would come to Phoenix and go visit your house and knock at your door, it would be on international news. And he would get praises for humbling himself. All the poor people in your neighborhood and around the country would appreciate knowing that that great man humbled himself to come to your door or my door.
And yet, Jesus knocks night after night even to bootleggers, prostitutes, harlots, and He's cast away as some fanatic. What's the judgment going to be?
Oh, you might say to me, "Just a minute, preacher. I've already accepted Jesus into my heart."
Maybe that's just what you done. Accepted Him into your heart, but did you know when He gets into your heart, how welcome is He after He gets in?

L-20 If I come to your house, and you--I knocked at your door and you give me the right hand of fellowship and told me to come in, and then said, "You stand right there. Don't you go to meddling around in my house."
Well, that's about the way some people accept Jesus. You know, there is more than one door to the heart. There's doors, little compartments, in the heart. That's where you live at, in these little compartments. And then when--what if we'd look over some of them compartments and see what they are?
Now, think of it, what if you come to my house, and that you knocked at the door, and I'd come open the door; I'd say, "Come in." And you come in, and I'd say, "Now, looky here, I don't want meddling around in my house. You stand right there and tell me what you want, but don't go to fooling around in my house." You wouldn't feel very welcome. I wouldn't feel welcome at your house.
If you welcome me in, I expect you to say, "Come in, Brother Branham. So glad to have you. The house is yours, take over, do what you want to. Oh, I'd just do that. Come in, take off my shoes, and lay across the bed, go out to the refrigerator and get me a great big sandwich and lay there and eat. I'd feel at home.

L-21 That's the way Jesus wants to do in your heart. He wants to feel at home. But we got Him closed off to a lot of things.
"Now, Jesus, I'll tell You why I'll let You in my door. I don't want to go to hell. I want to be saved at the end of the life. You can come in the door, but now, don't You go to meddling around."
When you get in the human heart, let's think this; that over on the right hand side there's a little closet, a little door. That's a hard one, that most people don't want anyone meddling with, and that's called, over that door, "The door of my private life."
"Now, Jesus, I'll let You in. But don't You go to meddling with my private life. If I have to stop my card party, if I have to give up the--the pool room bunch that I run with, if I have to be called old fashion, because I don't smoke cigarettes with the rest of the women, if I have to burn up my shorts and can't wear them like the rest of the women, You stay right there, don't meddle with me." That's the way lots of Christians accept Jesus. He wouldn't be welcome in your heart.
"Don't You interrupt any of my... I drink a little sociable beer. And I don't want You to bother with that, only I--I'll let You in because I don't want to go to hell."


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