Neville Goddard Lectures: “God’s Purpose”

06 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “God’s Purpose”

11/22/71

God became as we are, that we may be as He is. That is God’s purpose. That is His plan which He set forth in Christ for the fullness of time. But God Himself never left them, and therefore God cannot return. “I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Therefore, God has never left humanity, and therefore He cannot return. And yet, in the promise of the Holy Spirit, the coming of a definite Divine Person is promised. Scoffers will come in the last days, scoffing and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.” So, a definite person is promised.

Now, this is my theme tonight: God and man are permanently made one in the person of Christ. God became as I am; but without Christ revealing it, I would not know it. God became every child born of woman, and yet that child would go through the ages and never know that God became it. The purpose is that he may become God. He will not in eternity know it, unless he knows it in the person of Christ.

Now, this is what I mean. I’ll take now the first book of the New Testament—the book of Galatians. Not in its canonical order, but in its chronological order. It was the first book written—either that or First Thessalonians—but it’s a toss-up within a year or two. And this is Paul’s …biography, his confession. He said: “I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached is not according to man. For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.”

He was not speculating, trying to set up some workable philosophy of life. This is something that came through revelation. Revealed truth is that which you cannot logically prove. It is something that is entirely different. It’s as real as this room—more so—but it’s something that reason cannot put its teeth into. Now this is my theme.

You mean God became me? And through the centuries I have walked with God within me, and He never left me—not for one moment. Not even in my dreams at night. He is the Dreamer in me, and the Waker and the Dreamer are one. I hear, He never left me, not for one moment, and I didn’t know it until Christ came. But Christ comes to us individually, not collectively. He comes to the individual and reveals to the individual who that individual is.

If you study the scriptures—for when it came to me, I certainly was the most startled person in the world. I was awed. I could hardly believe that the man I know so well—that did many things of which I am ashamed, and possibly today I am still capable of doing similar things—still, in spite of that, He came to me and revealed to me the Being that I really am.

Well, who is this Christ? As Paul said, he did not receive it from a man; he was not taught it by a man. I make the same confession: I did not hear it from a man. I was not taught it by a man. It came through revelation. I had never known for one moment anything about this revelation until the night that it happened. Oh yes, I had heard of Christ. My mother taught me Christ. In school, I was taught the story of Christ. But then I went out into the world; I saw pictures on the wall and they told me, “This is the artist’s concept of Christ painted under inspiration.” And here they are: forty or fifty different pictures of Christ, no two looking alike, each claiming it was inspired by the original Being. That is not Christ. What the churches teach concerning Christ is not Christ.

The Christ of scripture is daily. That is the Christ. There is no physical description of Jesus in scripture. There is a physical description of David in scripture. And when he comes, you know him instantly. There is no uncertainty as to who you’re looking at, and no uncertainty as to the relationship between you and the one that you’re observing. And then you go back, stunned, the next day and you search your scriptures to find that it was always there. He is the anointed one. He is the “Christed” one. He is the chosen one. “Rise and anoint him, this is he.” And then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily from that day forward.