Neville Goddard Lectures: “Justified States”

08 Apr Neville Goddard Lectures: “Justified States”

April 3, 1972

Tonight, we will take both the Law and the Promise. Just a little while on the Promise, that you may not be concerned. For I do know that so many people tell us that we must do this, that, and the other, or else. Well, you forget it.

God planned everything as it has come out and as it will be consummated. It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. You do not earn it; it’s not your due; it’s not a reward. It’s simply a gift, unmerited. And therefore, you cannot lose it. This gift is irrevocable. So, no man can take it from you; no man can give it to you. So let no one frighten you. It is yours and it’s coming on time. And the gift is nothing less than God Himself.

When He gives you the Kingdom, He gives you Himself. For the Kingdom is not a realm. The Kingdom is a character. It’s a body. And that body is perfect. And wherever you are, clothed in that body, everything around you is perfect. No matter where you go, were you in the Petrified Forest, it would burst into the foliage. Were you in the desert, it would simply blossom like a rose. Were you in the midst of all broken members of society, they would all be in harmony. If you came into a world where they were blind, lame, halt, withered, instantly, as you glide by, eyes that were missing would come out of the nowhere and fill the empty sockets. Arms that are missing, feet missing, everything will be made perfect because you are present. That is God’s gift, which is the gift of himself, which is his body.

One day you’ll be clothed with that body. So set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ within you. That is the unfolding within you of God and his Son. And this is the hope that makes it wisdom to endure the burden of this long, dark night of time. For as Paul said, “I consider the sufferings of this present time not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.”

We are told we are justified by his grace. Well, justification in Scripture is divine acquittal. You are completely acquitted, no matter what you have ever done, you are acquitted. So, when we are told, “Those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son; and those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.”

So, justification is simply divine acquittal, and glorification is the gift of God Himself to you, so that man then matures when he becomes his own father. So, we say, “It is the Father’s good pleasure to give us the Kingdom.” In giving us the Kingdom, He gives us himself. In giving us himself, man becomes his own father. So let no one worry you; let no one in any way suggest that you’ve got to do something to earn it, you cannot earn the Kingdom. You cannot earn this gift. This is a gift, unmerited, and it’s not your due. Were it your due, then it’s not a gift. It’s not given as a reward. You are made fit for the Kingdom, and your fitness for the Kingdom is the consequence, not the condition, of his gift. The minute he gives you himself, you are fitted for the Kingdom, and you wear the body of God. And everything in your presence, while you wear it, is made perfect. But, having given us the Promise, the Promise comes first in Scripture, then, we are told, he gave us the Law: the Law to cushion us, while we, as pilgrims, walk through the furnaces. And so, we have a Law. Man is not aware of the Law. Even the wisest of men, they’re not aware of it