<TITLE>25. Par 224-232</TITLE>L-224 Now, now, there's one way to get into the body. How's this body controlled? Now, watch real close now and you get your pencils ready. Here's the gate on this side that goes into the body: one, two, three, four, five. Now, you got that drawed? Now, the first gate over here is, see, smell, hear, and taste, and touch or feel (either one it wants to be, doesn't matter). Now, that's the senses in the body. Is that right? How many knows that? Six senses control the body. Now, we got a soul after you get through this. The senses is outside; that's the outer system.
Now, in here there's one, two, three, four, five, five attributes in the soul. Now, you want to write them down? The first one is imagination, imagination. The second one is conscience. And the third one is memory. And the fourth one is reason. And the fifth one is affection.
Now, did you get them all? If you don't, then let me know now. You got them all down? See, taste, feel, smell, and hear: the body, that's the open to the body.
The soul is imagination, conscience, memory, reason, and affection, is the senses or the attributes, or like the senses of the soul. And the soul is the nature of the spirit that's on the inside, 'cause the soul only puts out an atmosphere of what's on the inside of you. It takes the place of sanctification, the soul is, sets in the same category there. All right, now, every--everybody got that all down? All right.

L-228 Now, to this gate there's only one, one gate, that's called "self will." You're the boss of what goes in there. And what does it do? What is this? The body must be washed, the laver; sanctified, at here; filled with the Holy Spirit here, and this becomes God's judgment seat again, where God sets in your heart, and if you do something wrong, say, "Oh, my, I did wrong."
Some people say, "It don't condemn me to--to wear short hair," the women. "It don't condemn me to wear manicure or makeup," or whatever it is. "It don't condemn me to go to dances. It don't condemn me to tell a little white lie. It don't condemn me to play bridge at my bridge party." You know why? You ain't got nothing to condemn. "That don't hurt my conscience." You got no more conscience than a snake has hips. So you just... You ain't got no conscience; there ain't nothing there will hurt you. You're of the world.
But I challenge you to let Jesus Christ come in here and try to do it one time. Brother, you'll be so condemned you'll back off and shake your head from that thing just as certain as I'm standing here, 'cause He's holy. Listen, I'm quoting the Scripture, "If you love them things (That's the world.), things of the world, it's because the love of God's not even in you."

L-231 How did it? Self-will. "Why will you call that self-will, Brother Branham?" Because it puts a man and woman back again just like Adam and Eve at the garden of Eden, On what? The two trees? Self-will, this one is death. This one is Life, self-will. Immoral... Free moral agency... God placed the first man, Adam and Eve, right here on free moral agency. He places you the same place. And the only way that you can get this thing fixed in here is your own self-will. Hallelujah. Your self-will. You have to will to do God's will. You have to get rid of your own will to let God's will come in, for this is the only channel that leads to the heart.

L-232 Oh, you can join church, you Baptists and Presbyterians. And you Methodists and Pilgrim Holiness can come to sanctification. But you have to will to do God's will, self-will, to let the Holy Spirit come in here to bring forth: "These signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall lay their hands on the sick, or take up deadly things, and so forth. These signs shall follow them that--that has let their will become My will, and the works that I do shall they do also." I hope you don't miss it. There's a will to do God's will. You see what I mean?


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