<TITLE>11. Par 104-111</TITLE>L-104   That's the picture we're looking at now. What does a man knock on a door for? What makes a man knock at a door? He is trying to gain entrance. He's trying to come in there. Maybe there is something he wants to talk to you about, or maybe he wants to speak to you about some business or something. Or--or, maybe he wants to give you something. There is some reason, or he wouldn't be knocking at the door. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] See? We'd only... The human decency would be only to open the door and see what the person wants. That's only just the human thing to do: open the door, ask the man, "Who are you? What do you want?"

L-105 He wants, maybe, he wants to visit with you, just to set down, say, "I'm your friend. I'd like to speak with you just a while this morning." Then set down, if he's a friend, talk with him. If he's some person that wants something out of you, you could talk it over. See?

L-106   Many great people has knocked at doors, down through life. Now, a whole lot of it depends, after you go to the door, who it is knocking. You got to know who that is doing the knocking. But you should, at least, go to the door. That's the only decent thing to do, is find out who is there at the door. Go there, if somebody is knocking, say, "Who is it?" Open the door. "Who are you? What do you wish?" Oh, many--many, it might be some great person. What if it's a great person? It'd be a great honor to you, if you opened the door for somebody that was a great person.

L-107   What do you think would have happened, a few years ago, when Adolf Hitler was the Fuehrer of Germany? What do you think of a little fellow living down in the alley, or down the street somewhere, if he heard a knock on the door some morning, you know. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] And he went to the door, and this little German footman standing there, and there stood Adolf Hitler standing at the door? Why, he was the greatest man in Germany at one time. See? Certainly. Why, he was a great man.

L-108 You know what that little footman would have done? He'd have almost fainted. He would have stood at attention, throwed his German salute up, said, "Great Fuehrer of Germany, enter into my humble home. Anything here that you desire, anything that your servant can do, just let me know. I'll gladly do it." Oh, what a honor!

L-109 You know what? Every newspaper in Germany would have packed that article, of great Adolf Hitler going down to a common soldier's house, and knocked at the door and asked for something. That Hitler would ask a footman for something, would come to his home, and--and honor his home, well, what a great thing that would have been! What, and the...

L-110   If you'd been in Italy, and in the days of Mussolini. And Mussolini was the dictator of--of--of Rome, of Italy. And what if some poor person down on the street would have heard a knock at the door some morning? [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] And there had stood Mussolini at the door. Oh, my! Their hearts would have quivered, "Well, great dictator, great honored sir, enter into my home." Quivering and shaking, "What, what could I do? Is there anything here that--that you would desire? Is there something your servant could do for you?" Oh, it would have been a great honor to any Roman to have had Mussolini at his house.

L-111   Or what if the queen of England, today, would come here into Tucson, and land out here in an airport, and would come to one of our homes here? One of our... We're just common people. And if the queen of England would come from England, all the way across the sea, land out here at the airport, at the--at the airport and would be brought in by taxicab, and come and knock at your door. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] And you, an honorable lady or gentleman, would walk to the door and say, "How do you do?" And there she stood there, just as an ordinary woman. And you would say, "How do you do? Who are you?"


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