Christ at Hearts Door: The Message Version

Many Christians are familiar with the Warner Sallman painting “Christ at Heart’s Door”. It hangs in many homes, churches, and even on desks in cubicles of Christian workers. The painting is a visual image of the passage from Revelation 3:20: “Behold! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.”

Most Christians are also familiar with sermons based on this passage. The passage is often used during altar calls, and preachers plead with congregations to open the door to their hearts and let Jesus in. Most Christians, however, would be just a little shocked if they heard William Branham’s revivals as he led his listeners up to the “Christ at the heart’s door” part of his revival.

From 1957 through 1965, as William Branham prepped his crowd for the opening of hearts, Branham used Adolf Hitler as his example. In 1957 Branham preached a sermon entitled “I Stand at the Door and Knock”, and started what became a pattern in his revivals:

Quote:
What a privilege it would have been for a peasant, in the days of Adolf Hitler in Germany, the Fuehrer of Germany! If he would have went down to a poor man’s house, and would have knocked at the door, and the man would have went to the door and raised up the curtain and looked. And the Fuehrer of Germany, the great Hitler, stood at his door; the ruler, the dictator of Germany. He would say, “Well, I’m not worthy that such a man like that would knock at my door. Do you mean that Hitler wants to speak to me, a peasant?” 26 Why, he would throw the door open, and fell on his face, and said, “Hitler, enter my home. Sure. Anything that’s here is yours, great Fuehrer of Germany.” Certainly, he would have been happy to have done it. Not only that, but he would have been honored to done it, to think that Hitler would have come to his door.
- Branham, William. 1957, Dec 8. I Stand At The Door And Knock (57-1208)
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Adolf Hitler:https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/adolf_hitler