<TITLE>08. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Now, is that the way you accepted Jesus? Jesus don't want to come in like that. When He's knocking at your heart [Brother Branham knocks two times--Ed.], when He comes in He wants to be your Lord. "Lord" is "rulership." He comes into your heart, knowing that He made that heart for Himself. All the rest of the body you can have, but the heart is the control tower; and He wants to come to this heart, so He can lead you, be a Lord. You want Him as your Saviour but not your Lord.
So many people say, "Oh, I want Him as my Saviour; I've accepted Him as my Saviour."
That's good, but have you accepted Him as your Lord, to be ruler over you, to rule you, to guide you, to walk into that door of your private life and clean the closet out? Take His own Blood and paint it on the walls...

L-23 Then right next to that is another little door called pride. Oh, that's a terrible one. Everybody wants a little pride. If you can't let Jesus in and take over pride, then Jesus won't stay. He will get right out. If you think that you're better than the Joneses, you drive a better car, or eat a better meal, wear better clothes than the Joneses, then you're stuck up. Then Jesus will leave that heart at the same door He come in at.
Oh, this day of fantastic, fancy put-on... I'm glad for a people who has and a way that a surrendered heart, that Jesus can come in and be Lord, and God, and Saviour, and Controller. When you get Jesus into your heart, all the pride will go out.
I'll tell you what it will do for you. A good, old fashion baptism of the Holy Spirit will make a pair of overalls and a tuxedo suit put their arms around one another and call each other another brother. It'll make a calico dress and a silk one hug one another and say, "Sister." That's what Jesus does when He's Lord. But He's just Saviour, well, that's not enough. If He's a Saviour, He must be Lord also to guide you to His salvation, if He's a Saviour.

L-24 There is another little door just around the corner. It's the door of faith. Oh, there's many of them. Let's talk of faith just a moment.
"Now, I'll let you in, Jesus, but I've got my own faith."
Well, He can't do much for you. If you've got your own faith, I don't want no faith. I want His faith. My faith is no good. The faith of God is what we need: God's faith in us. My faith is no good; your faith is no good; it takes Christ to come in and stand in that door of faith and be Lord, Lord over your faith.
When you read in the Bible, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever," your faith will say, "That's impossible."
But His faith will say, "Amen, I am."
If the critic says the days of miracles is past, the faith of God will say, "He doesn't know what he's talking about."
If the critic says Jesus doesn't heal, the Holy Spirit standing in the door of your faith will say, "I'm the Lord that healeth all of thy diseases."
If just makes such a difference to let Him at that door of faith. You know, the Scripture we was reading awhile ago said that you are naked, and you are miserable; you are poor, wretched and blind, and don't know it. That's the condition that the church will come to, naked...


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