Neville Goddard Lectures: On the Law: Test Yourselves

10 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: On the Law: Test Yourselves

11/18/1968

You’ll find this a very practical night, something that you can prove in the immediate present. We are told in scripture to examine ourselves—this is the 13th chapter of 2nd Corinthians, “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” (verse 5). Now, what is the test, for I’m supposed to examine myself.

So here is a story, a true story. This nurse and her little charge, eight years old, and they are on a beach, and she said to the little boy, having watched the waves and all the things, she said, “Come now, it is time to go…you’ve been looking long enough at the waves, and everyone’s going home.” He said to her, “You see what I see, but you do not see what I see. Oh yes, together we both see the waves, but you do not see what I see.”

Many years ago, my wife had this vision. She found herself in a grove of trees with a wonderful clearing. At the end was this man and on the sides were people. One person entered and this was a woman bearing a book, and the title of the book was The Credence of Faith and the Forgiveness of Sin According to Judaism. Then came another woman bearing a book with a similar title, the same title, and she went toward the same man, and she read from the same book only it was According to Christianity. My wife said, “As I heard it, I always thought it was so much more difficult to be a Jew than to be a Christian; but when I heard what this woman read, I realized it was infinitely more difficult to be a Christian than to the a Jew.”

Now, let me show you the difference. One of our truly great men in the world of Caesar, Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, said “Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism.” These are the words of this prominent, prominent Jew. Now let me show you the difference. Christianity as practiced today is Judaism. I don’t care what you call it…you go to the Catholic church, the Protestant church, or any other church, it’s all Judaism as practiced today because it’s all external worship. I keep certain days of the year…as Paul said, “I notice that you observe days, months, weeks and years! I am afraid I have labored over you in vain” (Gal. 4:10). So they both keep days called holy days. They observe certain functions, certain dietary rules. Recently the Catholics have begun to relax fish on Friday and other little nonsense’s in the world. But all of this is external worship.

Now here is the difference between Judaism and Christianity. Judaism practiced by the Jew, the Mohammedan, the Christian, is an external observation. That is Judaism, and all the Christians practice it. I go and I take a little wafer and I ate the body of Christ. I drink it down with a little wine and I drank his blood. Now I’m all good for the day. Regardless of what I do today or what I think today, I am just completely perfect now…I took it this morning…just perfect. So all those who practice this nonsense, they are part of that faith called by any name. If the Mohammedan turns towards Mecca in the course of a day and bends and prostrates himself a half dozen times, he has fulfilled the law. In the interval he can do anything he wants and think what he wants.