Neville Goddard Lectures: “Scripture Must Be Fulfilled In Me”
21 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “Scripture Must Be Fulfilled In Me”
10/17/69
According to a rabbinical principle what is not written in scripture is non-existent. The story of Jesus Christ follows this principle. “Scripture must be fulfilled in me” he said. “All that is written about me must be fulfilled. And beginning with Moses and the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scripture the things concerning himself. And they said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn…while he opened to us the scriptures?’ And then he said to them, ‘Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures” (Luke 24:27,32, 44).
The one who wrote these words, the unknown one called Luke—for they’re all anonymous—they were only telling their own experiences. It is the Christ in you of whom he speaks; he is not speaking of any Christ outside of you. That is the false Christ and false teachers talk about him as coming from without. So when they read in the scriptures, “Scoffers will come in the last days scoffing, saying, ‘Where is the promise of his coming?’ For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation” (2Pet.3:3). Why certainly they do and they will continue—graft, war, dirty politics, poverty, you name it—it will continue forever and forever in this age. So do not look for any sign in the outer world for his coming, because this age will continue. In the midst of poverty, in the midst of graft, in the midst of war, in the midst of everything that is unlovely he comes. He comes like a thief in the night suddenly, when you least expect him, within you. And then he awakes. He awakes within you.
“In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken unto us by his Son” (Heb.1:1). When the Son comes, he reveals God the Father. Until then man is searching and searching on the outside. He will find all kinds of things as to how things are made, but he can’t find the Maker. As you’re told in the 19th Psalm “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows forth his handiwork” (19:1). There is the handiwork, and our chemists and our great scientists are tearing it apart…going off into the heavens now. We’ve gone to the moon to bring back dead earth…never once anything lived upon it. Bring it back, analyze it to find it’s just dead; it’s been dead since the beginning of time. They’ll find it is all dead no matter where they go. It is here that is his handiwork, but you won’t find him no matter how you analyze his handiwork. You’ll tear it apart and think I’m finding the secret of life. Today someone, three fellow citizens, received the Nobel Prize for their great work in trying to analyze this wonderful land of ours. They’ll find many wonderful things about it, but they won‘t find the Maker. They will find the made, and they will find all kinds of things in this world that are made, but we will not find the Maker. He comes only when you find the Son, and only as you find the Son is the Maker who is God the Father revealed.
So the Bible is all about you: it is your own personal spiritual biography. Every child born of woman is written up in the Bible. No, your name is not written there as John or Neville or Brown; it is Jesus Christ. That’s your name, that’s the true being that you really are. So then you’re told in scripture concerning the things to come, for the Old Testament is nothing more than a prophetic blueprint of the life of Jesus Christ. So then you are told in the 9th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, “To us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called ‘Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace’” (9:6). So you read it and you wonder “What is it all about?” May I tell you, nothing could be truer.