Neville Goddard Lectures: Divine Acquittal: When Christ Awakes In Us
10 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: Divine Acquittal: When Christ Awakes In Us
11/29/68
In Paul’s letter to the Romans he said that Christ was raised for our justification (Rom. 4:25). That means when he rises in us—for “Christ in you is the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27)—that we are completely justified in the sense that we are divinely acquitted for any part that we ever played on earth. It’s divine acquittal when he rises in us. We were his servants and he was the dreamer in us. When he rises, he and the being who serves him become one, so we are told in the Old Testament in the Book of Daniel. Now the Old Testament is a blueprint of the life of Christ in man…it’s a foreshadowing.
Now here we are told in the last chapter of Daniel, “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall arise. And I said, ‘How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?’ and I heard him swear that it shall be for a time, two times and half a time. I heard it but I did not understand. And he said, ‘Go your way Daniel, for the words are closed and sealed until the time of the end’” (Dan. 12: 2-9). Now, when you read it you think of those who are in cemeteries or in grave plots of the world…but no. We are told in the 2nd chapter of the Book of Genesis, “And the Lord God made man of dust from the earth” (2:7). The bodies you and I wear are the bodies of dust in which the Lord himself sleeps; so, “Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall arise.” I tell you, everyone will arise, because the Lord God is housed in everyone, and their departure from this little sphere that we call death doesn’t mean a thing. It’s simply like moving out of this room into another room. They’re still clothed in a body of dust from the earth. It is a mortal body, but the one housed in it that is dreaming the dream of life is the Lord Jesus Christ. So we are told, “When will it be? How long for the wonders?—a time, two times and half a time.” Exactly 1,260 days from the beginning of the first wonder.
Now, here in our world we call ourselves mostly Christians. Of the 200-million of us, I would say maybe 190 million would consider themselves Christians. And yet we concentrate and put our attention on the pre-resurrected and pre-ascended Christ, which is not Christianity at all. What happens to a little man as he walks this earth from the cradle to the grave is not important. Whether he plays the part of a lawyer, a banker, a baker, whatever part he plays, plays the part of the harlot that is not important in this world. It is the resurrection that is important, because the minute he rises in us then we are justified. For many a banker this night if judged by his actions—what he did behind the scenes that would impoverish unnumbered people in this world but he lives outwardly in a grand manner, yet behind the scenes he is the thief of thieves. Many a person who is selling armaments and making a fortune, and so he’s a grand man, but behind the scenes what is he doing? Nevertheless, no matter what he does or they do, they’re all justified when Christ the dreamer in them rises. When he rises, they are justified, exonerated completely, the divine acquittal. No matter what they dream and had to externalize it, he rises in us. As he rises in us we are one…we are the Lord Jesus Christ.