<TITLE>11. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 But do we really welcome the Lord Jesus, take Him at His Word? So, can He take us at our word? Now, let's look around some of these little doors in the heart for the next few minutes.
The first little door that you turn to the right (we'd say), and you go in the heart; there's a door there called pride. Oh, my. You know, you don't want to know Jesus standing in that door, 'cause He takes all of it out of you. He swings that door right open. Oh, if you could...
You say, "Now, wait a minute, Jesus. You can save me, but don't you go to messing around with my pride. Now, if I'm going to have to stand up there and act like some of those people do, I couldn't do that." Then He's not welcome. And let me say this: He won't stay very long either; you can just depend on that. I wouldn't stay if you told me that. You wouldn't stay if I told you that. So He won't stay if we tell Him that. Pride...
"Well now, I tell you, Brother Branham, if I'm going to have to get down there on that altar, cry out, make my girlfriend hate me, my boyfriend turn me down, my wife tell me I'm a holy-roller, my husband say I've lost my mind... Now, if You're going to do something like that, stay out Jesus." That's just exactly what they say, so much. "I'll not do it."

L-36 Here not long ago, I was talking to a--here in Oregon, to a little lady that come to interview me. And she had a--a little book in her hand, and she was going to interview for the paper.
And I said, "Have you been to the meetings?"
She said, "I was there last evening."
I said, "What was your conception of the meeting?"
She said, "I never heard so many idiots in all my life."
I said, "Are you... I know now that you're not a Christian." And she told me what kind of a church she belonged to. And I said, "I'd like to show you, my sister, that in the Bible that your goddess, Mary, that you pray to, that woman had to come up to Pentecost and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost and stagger under the impact of it, like a drunken person before God would ever let her come to heaven. And if God made the blessed virgin Mary do that, how are you going to get there anything short of it?" She gave birth, a virgin birth to the Lord Jesus. But yet, she could not go in, until she had been filled with the Holy Spirit.
I put my finger on the Scripture, and the woman not even the audacity to look at it. Talk about uncouth...

L-37 There, when she turned and looked at me, and she said, "I don't believe that."...
I said, "Do you believe the Bible? The Bible said that Mary, Saint John, Saint--all the other saints, Peter and all of them, had to go up there and remain until the Holy Spirit fell. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin stammering with their lips, and then begin to speak with other tongues, and acted in such a way until the audience on the outside said, 'These people are full of new wine. They are drunk.'"
See, we want; take Jesus to be our Saviour, but not our Lord. That was not the apostles acting that way; it was Christ in them acting. The Acts of the Holy Spirit in the apostles... The apostles were men like you are and I am. But the Holy Spirit made them act different, because He had become full Ruler in their life. They had no more prestige and pride.
Look at Nicodemus came by night and said, "Lord, we know that Thou art a Teacher comes from God for no man could do the things that You do except God be with him."
Jesus said, "Except the man be borned again, he cannot even see the Kingdom of God."
Pride... What was holding the Pharisees out from making Him Lord? They believed He was the Christ, but it was their pride.
You say, "Well, I belong to a church that does..." I don't care; that's fine. Remain in that church, but let Jesus be Lord in your heart. Let Him have control. It's not you no more; it's Him. And then, let's leave that door. We could stay there a long time.


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