Neville Goddard Lectures: “Feel Chosen”

08 Apr Neville Goddard Lectures: “Feel Chosen”

1972

I want to ask you to feel that you are wanted, that you are chosen, that you are the elect. As we are told, he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world. But man will not believe it, he will not believe that he is that important. So, we are speaking now of the Lord, the creator of the universe who chose us in him before the foundation of the world. So, tonight I will try to convince you that you are the chosen.

The most controversial verse in Ecclesiastes, the most disputed, is the 11th verse of the third chapter: “And God has put eternity into the mind of man. Yet so, that man cannot find out what God has done from beginning to the end.” This is the only time in the Scripture that the word is translated eternity. In the King James version, it is translated the world. The other books, say, Moffatt, James Moffatt. And he translates the word as mysteries. “To the mind of man, he appointed mysteries. Yet so that man cannot fathom God’s own purpose from beginning to end.” Paul comes on and he tells us he waited for the fullness of time. “And when the fullness of time came, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into our heart crying, Father.”

And that he is made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in him both in Heaven and on earth. Now, the word translated eternity or world or mystery is the Hebrew word olam. Now this is the only place in the entire book where it is translated the world or eternity or mystery. And yet, it is used hundreds of times in the Bible. The word is olam. Here is one. “And when you go to the people of Israel and they ask you, who sent you, simply say, I am has sent me unto you. This is my name forever.” The word forever is olam. When you read the word everlasting in scripture, in the Old Testament, it is olam. And you read all of these, it is olam. Here in the 136th Psalm, there are twenty-six verses and each verse ends with the same statement: “Thy steadfast love endures forever.” And that forever is olam. Now, he put olam into the mind of man. Remember his name endures forever, “which is my name forever.”