<TITLE>22. Par 238-248</TITLE>L-238   Now, that still, little Voice that knocks at your heart's door, it might knock so many times till it may be very faint right now. But let's just be honest, just honest with God and ourselves, for just one minute. That little knock, way down there, that said, "I better curb my ways. I'd better be different. I'd better straighten up. I know there's things in me. I look here, I examine my life with this Word, and I see I'm wrong in many things." Look around, see how good; it's His goodness that knocks at the door.

L-239 No matter what we done, how much we've sinned, how much we've turned It away, how much we said, "Later on we'll do it," He is still, in the midst of all that, knocking. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit--Ed.] "And if any man or woman will just open your heart, I'll come in and sup."

L-240 Let's see what He wants this morning, will you, while we bow our heads? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-241   "Oh, my Jesus, I love Thee, I love Thee. Oh, for grace to love You more, Lord."

L-242 "What is that little something keeps telling me, in my heart, that, 'I must come a little closer to Jesus'? What is that?" Do you want to open the door to That, this morning?

L-243 Now, with every head bowed, and every eye closed, please. Down in your heart, be real honest, just one minute.

L-244 You have such a little knock at your door. I'm going to pray, just a moment. And, sincerely, you'd like to know what that little mysterious something in your life is, that you'd like to let--let in. Would you want Him to come in, this morning? Say, "Brother Branham, pray that I'll have the faith and grace just to open my heart and let It come in. I want to know what This is, knocking at my door. I know there is something knocking there. Maybe it's a closer walk. Maybe it's a different ministry. Maybe it's to surrender myself. Maybe it's to receive the Holy Spirit."

L-245   Would you raise up your hand to God, and say, "Here I am, Lord." God bless you. That's it. Oh, it's just everywhere. "I have a little knocking at my heart's door." I guess, sixty or seventy percent of the people.
With our heads bowed.

L-246 Now, our Heavenly Father, "There is a Fountain," as the poet said, "that's filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the Flood lose all their guilty stain. That dying thief rejoiced to see that Fountain in his day, and there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away."

L-247 Now, Father, we're grateful for these people. And some of them may, no doubt, has professed Christianity a long time, but they've got the--the real conviction enough to raise their hands. What, Lord, if they didn't even have the conviction to raise their hands? Then they are past redemption. Think of that place, that a wandering soul could wander out into darkness, and miserably blind and doesn't know it. And they hear the knock of God, and grieve It so many times until finally It never knocks again. And they pick up a creed or something, and live by it the rest of their days, to find themselves disappointed at that Day of the Judgment.

L-248   I'm grateful, Lord, for these people who would raise their hands and say, "Be merciful to me, Lord. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, and reveal Yourself to me today. And I'll give You my life. Here am I. If there's anything in me that's not right, Lord... And I look at my own life, and I see that there is plenty that's wrong, then take me into Your great molding house and--and mold me, and take from me all that's worldly and ungodly. And I thank You, Lord, that I haven't got to the place that I've crossed that line, that can, where you cross and can never return again; grieve the Spirit of God the last time, and now there's no way at, all back." Like Judas Iscariot and them, sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver. And we do today, for popularity, and the cares of the world, and religious organizations and denominations, and creeds. We just sell Him for anything.


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