Neville Goddard Lectures: “Baptism Into One Body”

08 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “Baptism Into One Body”

11/24/67

Truth cannot be told so as to be understood and not be believed. It is my hope that I will tell the truth of scripture, for that’s what he meant. When he spoke of the truth he meant the word of God, no other truth. But it cannot be told so that it is understood and not be believed. Tonight, we’ll take a few words of God and try to tell it so that it is understood. But, may I tell you, whether it is understood now or not I know from experience there are multiple ways of still telling that truth; for he’s planned everything as it has come out and as it will be consummated.

So here, we have this in scripture, “As many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Then we are told, “I baptize with the water for repentance, but there will come one after me who is mightier than I; and he will baptize with the Holy Spirit” (Mat 3:11). So there are two baptisms spoken of in scripture. It hasn’t a thing to do with the little baptism that you and I experienced when we didn’t have any awareness, as little infants, when some minister or priest baptized us. It hasn’t a thing to do with that. The first baptism is for repentance. So I must now explain so you can understand what is meant by repentance. And if you accept it, and put it into practice, and then prove it in performance, then you are really baptized for repentance. Repentance means “a change of mind, a radical change of attitude towards life.” That’s what it really means and nothing else.

A chap wrote me this week—he isn’t here tonight—but he said, “Every year we have in Anaheim this convention for all those who deal in computers, and my company is now demonstrating a million-dollar computer. It was delivered on Friday to be ready for the opening of the show on Tuesday, Tuesday morning. On Sunday, here the computer, there are parts missing and parts that are not functioning. Now we have sub-contractors all over the country, all over the nation, who made these parts that are now not functioning. When I arrived, they sent me over to the convention on Monday morning. When I arrived there, I think I was the only one calm and collected; they all expected a disaster. Here is a million-dollar system. But I simply began to apply what I heard concerning Imagination, and I simply imagined that it was Tuesday morning and everything was going perfectly. Then I began to look around to find out who made these parts that are not functioning and to my delight, within fourteen miles of the center were the two companies that made these particular parts. So they came over and repaired them. We got all things together and it opened on time, and was a perfect demonstration of this million-dollar system.

“Another one was, a salesman sold a computer of ours. It was an old model and this one was down in the basement or in the storeroom, and no one took the time to check it out—take an inventory of the parts, all the things. Here comes the day of delivery…almost the day of delivery. Again I went into this application of this principle and applied my Imagination towards this end that everything was perfect. And here were two most vital parts that were missing. We called all the states, because there are sub-contractors all over the nation, and not one knew anything about these missing parts. Here I sat lost in contemplation, seeing the end. The salesman who made the sale came into the place and he saw a little package not more than ten feet from the computer. He picked it up and he said, “Here are parts…all kinds of parts”…and there were the missing parts! No one to this moment knows how they got there. There they were, within ten feet of the computer.”