Neville Goddard Lectures: “Have You Found Him?”

25 Apr Neville Goddard Lectures: “Have You Found Him?”

3/26/65

Tonight’s subject is “Have You Found Him?” This is the question I would like to ask of everyone in the world, really. But asking it here, it is my hope that everyone could reply, “Yes, I have, I have found him.” This is a strange presence of whom we speak here. Naturally, we speak of Christ, but when I speak of Christ, I do not make a mental picture of a man that walked the earth 2,000 years ago. Like Paul, “I do not regard Christ from a human point of view; even though I once regarded him from a human point of view, I regard him thus no longer” (2 Cor. 5:16 RSV). Something entirely different takes place in us.

We are told in the Book of Matthew, in the 16th chapter, that the Pharisees and the Sadducees came to him and to test him they asked him for a sign (verse 1). Well, that was customary if someone said he was sent from God. If a prophet appeared in the world, and he claimed he was a prophet and said he was sent from God, then it was necessary to ask him for the sign. He said to them, “There would be no sign for this adulterous generation except the sign of Jonah”…that’s the only sign (verse 4). What does it mean “the sign of Jonah”? Well, the only message that Jonah brought to the world was repentance. He said to Nineveh, repent and be saved; if you do not repent, you will be destroyed (Jonah 3:1-5). They believed him. He had no credentials, none whatsoever, yet they believed him and were saved. Repentance is not regret, not remorse, but a radical change of attitude towards life, towards everything in the world, a radical change. If I change the inner attitude of my mind, I will bring about corresponding change in the outer aspects of my life. That is law. It is entirely up to me to change the inner attitude of my mind. If I succeed in doing it, no power in the world can stop the corresponding change in the outer part of my world. So, they believed and it happened.

But Jonah means more than one who taught repentance. Jonah is the Hebrew word for dove, and dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. As we are told, “We are sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.” This you read in Paul’s one letter to the Ephesians, the very first chapter (verse 13): Sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. Now, that, too, is a sign. He’s only asking for a sign. So tonight, I want to tell you that everything is a sign. There are two kinds of signs; but all signs follow, they do not precede. So when I use the law of repentance, signs will follow. If what I tell you is true, they must follow. But there is another series of signs, the signs of salvation. Man should think in terms of the supernatural character of this series of signs that come at the end of his journey.