Neville Goddard Lectures: “Believe Him In”

15 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “Believe Him In”

By Neville Goddard (4/2/63)

Tonight’s subject is “Believe Him In,” which begins with believing in him. Believe him in only as you really believe in him. When Paul tells us in Romans, the 10th chapter, the 13th through the 17th verses, he makes the statement that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. No one is excluded. “Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.” Now you might think, based upon your training, your conditioning, that it means calling upon Christ Jesus or calling upon a name called Jehovah or calling on some other name. May I tell you, it is not. There’s only one name for God, and that name is I AM (Exodus 3:14). When you speak of the word, when you use the word Jesus, Jesus means I AM; Jehovah means I AM; Jesse means I AM. It’s his only name forever and forever. So everyone, not just a few special individuals, but everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

But now he goes on, he makes the statement, “But how can men call upon him in whom they have not believed?” Well, I promise the whole vast world would come under that heading. They have never believed, really, in I AM. How could men call upon him in whom they have not believed? They believe in God, they believe in the president, believe in the power of this country, believe in their money in the bank, and believe in everything outside of I AM. So how will men call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him in whom they have never heard? The average person never heard that this is the name of God. And how can they believe in him of whom they have never heard?

I could take my own family. Go to Barbados tonight, and they are an enormous family, with three generations, and they all believe in God, but they’ll call him by some other name. They will never think of him as I AM, so how could they believe in him in whom they have never heard? They have read about it. My books are home, closed, completely closed, never opened. Neville wrote it, so what would I read of—Neville wrote it? So we’ll keep it here as a little memento because he did write it. But they’ve never read it. So there it is. Multiply them by the entire world. You sign the name Neville… one chap in Australia, he signs five or six degrees behind his name, and so when he received my book just simply signed Neville, he closed it. There was no power of authority behind that name. He wasn’t a man of letters, just plain Neville. What could he say to me, a man who was a great professor, the head of a certain great university? So he closed it. And he was offended when he saw all through that book, which was Your Faith Is Your Fortune, just the words I AM, I AM, I AM, page after page. That meant nothing, so he closed it. But he would pray to God and address him as “Thou art” and speak of him as “He is,” and then in conversation use the words Jesus Christ, cross himself all over, and bow. But he doesn’t know the name that he would call on.

So let me go back, “Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved,” but everyone. No one is left out, everyone, if he calls upon the name of the Lord. But how can men call upon him in whom they have never heard? And how can men believe in him of whom they never were taught about this being? How can they actually call upon him and believe in him? And how can they believe without a preacher? And how can there be a preacher unless he’s sent? Therefore, faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the preaching of Christ. So I tell you, I’m speaking to you from experience. No one can be called and ___(??) and become one with the body of God and remain there. He’s sent. To be called at the same time involved as it were being sent, for to be called or to be rescued from something carries with it being sent to do something. And the being sent to do that is to tell you who he is, and he’s your own wonderful I-am-ness. That’s God.