Neville Goddard Lectures: “Generation And Death”

02 Jun Neville Goddard Lectures: “Generation And Death”

4/21/67

This world of ours is a world of generation and death, and here, it is destined to end in the fulfillment of a book. That book is the Bible. Jesus, we’re told, is the faithful witness, the first that was raised from the dead. So we look upon this character as a divine reporter, who simply tells the story of the fulfillment of this prophecy. Everyone who experiences scripture is Jesus, everyone. There is only God in this world; there is only the Lord. The word Jesus and the word Jehovah you can just interchange them. There is nothing but Jehovah, nothing but the Lord God Jehovah.

So scripture unfolds itself in the individual, and he in whom it unfolds itself is simply the divine reporter. He tells a story that is of infinite concern to man. Not everyone will believe it, doesn’t really matter, but he tells the only true story in the world. In the Book of Zechariah, the 12th chapter, “They shall look upon me”—now listen to the pronoun—“they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn over him”—see the change in pronoun—“mourn over him as they would mourn over the only son, and weep as you would weep for a first born” (Zec.12:10-KJV). Now, see the change in pronoun. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and then mourn for him. Well, the world has taken it in that spirit, and so you and I are taught to believe in something outside other than God.

The Lord God Jehovah is the only reality in the world. There is no other savior: “I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior…and beside me there is no Savior” (Is. 43:3, 11). So when one comes to testify, then the world because he testifies thinks he is it…and that is not it at all. He is only a witness to the truth of the words of the Lord God Jehovah. So someone comes into the world and he experiences scripture. Having experienced it, he tells it. For in the volume of the book it is written of me, that I would experience it; as we’re told in the 40th Psalm, “In the volume of the book, in the roll of the book it is all about me” (verse 7). And so, he experiences scripture, and he tells it, and then people begin to worship it.

And so, they will look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn over him, the one who has fulfilled scripture, and think he is something important. There is no one important but God. There is nothing but God in this world. He is your own wonderful human Imagination…that is God. May I tell you, everything in scripture is true, but everything. The most stupid to the human mind insignificant little thing is all true. So you go into a synagogue, you go into a church and you see all this. May I tell you, behind it all, not known by the priests, not known by the cardinals, not known by the pope, not known by any of them it is still a symbol of something that is true. Every little thing, if they take it from scripture, it’s all true.

Now let me share with you a letter that came to me today. This lady writes me this story. Now she has gone through all the different channels. She said, “I was not baptized. I fell in love with a man who was a Catholic. When he heard I was not baptized, well, that was to him was simply, well, the unclean, so I had to be baptized. And so, first of all, before I met him I was a Baptist, and then I became a Presbyterian, and then I became a Christian Scientist, and then I became Unity,” and she mentioned all these isms. “But when I met him, he thought I should be baptized, so I went to the Catholic church and I was baptized, and then began to take all the instruction.”