Neville Goddard Lectures: “Christmas: Gospel Proclaims Event”

20 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “Christmas: Gospel Proclaims Event”

12/8/69

Here we are within a matter of days of the great event called Christmas. The gospel is the proclamation of a great event and we call it Christmas. It is an event which puts an entirely different light upon human life. It proclaims that man has been saved…that’s the proclamation. This is the one great divine event to which the entire world is moving. Everything is moving towards this one great event and we call it Christmas. But I question seriously that an nth part of one percent of those who call themselves Christians knows what this event is about.

Tonight we’ll take it…take it from my own personal experience. We’re told, “No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit,” no one (1Cor.12:3). The Holy Spirit is nothing more than one’s own personal experience of the event. As we are told in scripture, “I will send the Comforter, the Holy spirit, who will lead you into all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have told you” (Jn.14:26, KJV). Everything was told in the beginning. The Holy Spirit is only your own wonderful experience of the event that seems incredible. Then as you experience it, you will know from your own experience that Jesus is Lord. Well now, who is Jesus? We are told to call upon his name…call upon the name of Jesus and say, “In the name of Jesus”…and nothing happens. There are millions calling upon the name of Jesus and nothing happens. So who is Jesus? We’re told in scripture, “Say unto the people of Israel, I AM has sent you. This is my name forever. Thus am I to be remembered throughout all generations” (Exod.3:14-17).

There is no other Lord. Jesus is the Lord. But the word Jesus really means I AM. If you spell it in Hebrew which is Joshua it means “Jehovah is Savior.” That’s what the word actually means. Joshua is the Hebraic form of our word Jesus, and it means “Jehovah is savior.” “Our God is a God of salvation; and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death” (Ps.68:20). There is no other Lord than I AM. God actually became as we are that we may be as he is. God is buried in humanity. The God that buried himself in humanity to make man a living being is I AM. That same God will rise in man, individually, and that God is I AM. No other…just I AM. This is this one far off divine event to which the whole creation moves: the discovery of the God within himself and that God is his own wonderful human Imagination. That is God.

When he rises in us that’s the only resurrection spoken of in scripture. When he rises in us in our wonderful skull he comes out and that is the only Christmas, the only birth spoken of in scripture. I come out, I escape from the tomb, the sepulcher in which I was buried, and that sepulcher was my own skull. This is the immortal tomb in which man is buried. In the fullness of time he rises. So the event called Christmas is really although it seems to be a single event these are parts of this complex…or call it a single complex, because there are many events within the one event. So we call it Christmas. But we shouldn’t separate it…although we do; we separate Christmas from Easter by a few months. Then we separate these from ascension by a few months. Then we separate these many events…but they are really all part of a single complex.