Neville Goddard Lectures: “Fulfillment of God’s Promise”

08 Apr Neville Goddard Lectures: “Fulfillment of God’s Promise”

March 27, 1972

I think we’re all aware that this is the most dramatic week in Christendom. And yet I dare say that not 1 percent of those who call themselves Christians really understand what it is all about. It’s the story of the fulfillment of God’s purpose. That’s the week. The triumphant march into Jerusalem, the crucifixion, and then the resurrection. And it’s told as though it took place on earth. That’s how the story is told, or as Tennyson said, “truth embodied in a tale shall enter in at lowly doors.”* So, men cannot think abstractly. So, it’s told in the form of a story and man has mistaken the story for the reality. So let us now look to see who the one is spoken of in Scripture. They say his name is Jesus. You may not believe me, but I’ll tell you who Jesus is. Say I am. That’s Jesus. Don’t say I am Nan or John or Peter, or anything just, I am. That’s Jesus. That’s God. That’s the Lord, God, Jehovah. The crucifixion is already over. That was in the beginning of time, a deliberate act on the part of God. It’s all over.

The resurrection took place and is taking place and will continue until everyone is awake. So, you say, I am, that’s Jesus. Now it begins with the march. Mark tells us that he took the twelve and then he walked ahead of them. And the way Mark states it, it’s as if he were one whom a dream had possessed and who went forward to fulfill all that the prophets had foretold. For he said, “I have come to fulfill Scripture.” The only purpose. Now, not a man on the outside, fulfilling Scripture. This one, which is God, is buried in you when you say I am. You may not be aware of it, aside from dreaming the dream of life, which is this, he also is dreaming the fulfillment of his purpose. And the day will come, you are going to reproduce within yourself, all that is said in Scripture, concerning Jesus. Then you will know who Jesus is. It is said that when he told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem and all that was written of the Son of man by the prophets will be accomplished.” And then the evangelist adds, “They understood none of these things.”

This saying was hid from them and they did not grasp what was said. Only the risen Lord can interpret Scripture. Only his finger could trace the ambiguous phrases of Scripture and extract their heavenly meaning. It’s a pattern in Scripture that only when he rises in you, as you, can you take the Old Testament and simply follow the pattern. You know what the pattern is because you’ve experienced it. And the whole thing unfolds, and the whole thing is told to you in the Old Testament. But it’s a pattern. It’s told you as though it’s history. Ancient history is divine history. And that history, not page after page, but a pattern goes through the entire thing. And then that pattern unfolds within you. And when it unfolds within you, you know who you are. You gain the certainty as it unfolds within you, you actually gain that certainty, that I am he. There is no other way you’ll ever know it until it unfolds within you. Now God came and comes into human history. And now we’re going to give him a name in the person of Jesus, but the Jesus in you, in me, in every child born of woman. That’s the only Jesus in eternity. I am—that’s he.