Neville Goddard Lectures: “Love Endures”

11 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “Love Endures”

9/23/66

Tonight’s subject is “Love Endures.” I made you a promise when I started that everything I tell you from this platform I know from experience. I am not theorizing. When we are told, “He who does not love does not know God; for God is love” (1John4:8). The apostle John was not speculating. This is not a conclusion that he reached after years of philosophic contemplation. This was an act of God in self-revelation. If God had ever revealed himself as infinite love to man, I doubt that man could ever, with all the philosophy in the world, ever come to the conclusion that God is love. God is love, in spite of all the horror of the world. I tell you it is true; I know that from experience.

Another apostle tells us that “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am as sounding brass or tinkling cymbals” (1Cor13:1). Then he takes all the gifts of God and compares them to love, and if love is not present, I am as nothing. I may have all the wisdom in the world, all the power, everything in the world, if I have not love, it is as nothing. There is no gift of the Spirit comparable to love, and in the end love is the only thing that really will abide. It will abide forever. Faith will be realized, hope will be realized, these are attributes of God, but God is love. He’s not an attribute of God; God is love. When you stand in the presence of the risen Christ, you have no other emotion in the world, no other feeling, it’s simply love. God is love. And when love embraces you, it’s only love. And you wear the body, which is the body of the risen Christ, and it’s only love. So everything else will pass away, but love will endure forever. So he who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Now tonight, I will tell you several things that seem incredible, they are all scriptural. ___(??) aren’t true. We are told, “Let us be persistent in the race as we run it, looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was to be realized by him endured the cross, despising the shame” (Heb12:2). Embraced the cross and despised the shame. That’s true…I know that to be true. When he nailed himself upon this [body], I know that’s true, and despised the shame to which he would have to go as the speaker. When he did it on you, embraced it willingly with the joy, and despised the shame which he knew he would have to go through, that was love.