Neville Goddard Lectures: “Consummation”

08 Apr Neville Goddard Lectures: “Consummation”

April 28, 1972

No one knows how many civilizations must rise and fall before the end of the historic process on earth. But I can assure you that when it does come to its end, the consummation will be Jesus Christ, the pattern man. But no one knows how many convulsions will take place in this world before that end, but it will all be consummated in Jesus Christ, the pattern man.

Now, tonight, I want to share with you what I have experienced. I want to share with you what I’ve been sent to tell you and tell you I must and will. When we are taught in Scripture, that he who now is called Jesus Christ is here only for one purpose, and that is to fulfill the Scripture. Not to change governments, not to get involved. He leaves everything as he finds it. He’s only telling of a pattern, a pattern that must be fulfilled in the individual to bring this historic process to an end within him. The Scripture must be fulfilled in me. Now, the only Scripture spoken of is the Old Testament. The New was not written. So, he’s only speaking of the Old. Now we go back to the Old.

And here you read, “All the people of Israel came to David, and they said to him we are your bones and your flesh. And the Lord said to you, you will be”—bear the tense—“you will be the shepherd over my people, Israel. I have made a covenant with you that is everlasting, but you will be the shepherd over my people Israel, and you will be their prince forever.” You’ll read that in the second Samuel fifth chapter. It’s also repeated in the book of Kings and also Chronicles. But the second chapter, the fifth and the second book of Samuel, the fifth chapter will give it to you. Now comes the thought of David as he’s leaving the world. And these are the last words of David: “And the spirit of the Lord speaks by me and his word is upon my tongue.” Now, here is David speaking. “His word is upon my tongue. He speaks by me.”

Now we turn to the New Testament, which is the interpretation of the Old. He is not called David. He is called in the New Testament, the Christ. And in the New Testament, in the 14th chapter of John, he makes the statement, “The words that you hear are not mine, but the Father who sent me and the Father is the spirit”—the identical thought is conveyed in that statement. Prior to this claim that he makes, he said, “The day is coming, it hasn’t yet come. The day is coming when you will know that I am in the Father and the Father in me and that I am in you.” That day is coming. Then he goes on to say, “I will manifest myself to you.” Then Judas—not Iscariot, but a Judas; he doesn’t say who Judas is—“and he said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?” And he replied, “He who keeps my commandments, my Father loves and I love, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who has my commandments and keeps them.”