Neville Goddard Lectures: “No Other Foundation” [1963]

01 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “No Other Foundation” [1963]

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Tonight’s subject is “No Other Foundation,” and this we take from the 3rd chapter of 1st Corinthians: “No other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid.” Then it names the foundation and calls that foundation Jesus Christ (verse 11). So when you hear the word you might think of a man, something outside of yourself. The whole vast world does. I know the Christian world does, and the Jewish world does. The Christian world accepts this outside leadership, called Jesus Christ; and the Jewish world cannot accept Jesus Christ as the savior of the world. So here we have one billion people in the world who will, when they hear the word Jesus Christ, think in terms of an external leader. And yet this is the foundation of the world. Now, what is this foundation? “No other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” May I tell you that this foundation, Jesus Christ, is your own wonderful human Imagination, that that is Jesus Christ.

Let me now turn to a chapter that is not read, not very often, really. It’s from the 1st Book of Samuel, the 8th chapter. The people of Israel demand a king to rule over them, and so the prophet turned to the Lord and made Israel’s request. The Lord said, Give them what they want. They want a king to rule over them? Give it to them; for they have rejected not you, they have rejected me. Give them what they want; they have rejected me, they have not rejected you. But warn them solemnly what is going to happen to them by their choice of a king to rule over them. And then this is what the prophet was told by God to tell them. First of all, he will take your sons for the army, your daughters to become the cooks and the servants of the king, he’ll take your property, he’ll take your money, he’ll take everything that you possess, and when he’s taken everything, then he’ll take you. And in that day you will cry out to be saved from a king of your own choosing, but then I will have no ears to hear you. After he’s taken everything, you will cry to be saved from what you yourself decided on and I will have no ears to hear you (verses 4-18). Look into the world today and men want some external leadership, someone to lead them into paradise on earth. Then dictators rise, and here is the ___(??) save the world. The first thing he does gets them all into the army. They had no desire to be in an army. Then he appropriates and confiscates all property. Then he takes their money. He takes everything and reduces them to slavery. And then they cry…and there’s no one to hear their cry. This is eternally true as long as man thinks in terms of some external leader that is God.

The only God is I AM; there is no other God. “When I go to the people of Israel and they ask me, ‘Who sent you?’ what should I say?” The voice came back, “Say unto them I AM sent you.” Just I AM…I sent you. “When I say to them I am the one sent by the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Jacob, the God of Isaac, what then must I say?” “Just say I AM has sent you” (Ex.3:14). There is no other foundation in this world for anything I don’t care what it is. If you think some leader outside of yourself can save you, then you think in vain. You’re simply building up a picture in your mind’s eye which will lead you into a certain group that will one day want some dictator or something outside of self to lead you into some comfortable world. There is no being outside of self that could ever lead you into what you want. The only God in this world is your own wonderful human Imagination. When you say “I am,” that’s God.