Neville Goddard Lectures: “Scripture Must Be Fulfilled In Us”

27 Feb Neville Goddard Lectures: “Scripture Must Be Fulfilled In Us”

6/22/65

Tonight thrills me, really, because I have been waiting for confirmation since the first day of January, 1963 and now I have the confirmation. Been waiting for it! You see, scripture must be fulfilled in us. Everyone must fulfill scripture. And so you know your scripture and you wait for certain signs after the work is completed in you. But you yourself can’t evoke it in the other; yet it takes a seeming other to fulfill it for you. They are the witness to what has happened in you.

I tell you from experience—as I told it in the little book called He Breaks the Shell—having named the things, the experiences that I have gone through, I confessed at the end of it that I am relating my own experience of the great Christian mystery that you may know the truth concerning this mystery. It is the message of salvation as I myself have experienced it. In it, I made the statement in the beginning of the little pamphlet that we are resurrected one by one to unite into a single man who is God. It may strike one funnily, how could all of us be united into a single man who is God? But having had the experience I state it. Whether those who would read it for the first time would grasp it or not, it didn’t really matter. I had to tell it. So I tell you, history is under the control of but one God; therefore, I can state that it has an ultimate unity, one body, and you and I wearing that glorious body without any loss of individuality. No loss whatsoever of our individuality, and yet wearing the one body. For we are told, all have drunk from the supernatural drink. You read this in the 10th chapter of 1st Corinthians, all of us, we drank from this one supernatural drink, and the drink is from a rock. We drank from the same rock, and the rock was Christ. Everyone drank from that rock and we become what we feed upon.

Now, I have been waiting for this confirmation, as I told you, since the first day of January, 1963, when the dove descended, to confirm the unveiling of the image. But I had to wait for something. Now we take the earliest of the gospels, it’s the gospel of Mark. The gospel of Mark begins with this wonderful note, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.” It’s the shortest of the four gospels, but it ends on a negative note. The 8th verse of the 16th chapter is the legitimate ending of it, although scribes have added to it. But all scholars are agreed that these additions have been inserted. They are not written by the unknown author called Mark. And the very last verse of the original script (so we have it in manuscript form) is, “For they were afraid”…for they were afraid. It does not mention the resurrection. There is no account of the appearance of the risen Jesus. Here you tell a story, the most glorious story in the world, and you end it on a note that is negative. Why “For they were afraid”?

It tells us that a woman, or rather, there were women, they went early in the morning to the tomb and they found it empty. And a stranger on the inside of the tomb said, “You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see where they laid him. See the place where they laid him. And they fled from the empty tomb, trembling with fear, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.” That’s how it ends. Now we have two endings supplied us which are not written by the author of the Book of Mark. One runs twelve verses and one runs two. They tried to give it an ending, like an unfinished symphony. Many musicians have tried to give a real end to the unfinished symphony, but they can’t match the original. This is not unfinished: We have to finish it. That’s why I have been waiting for the confirmation that I couldn’t do; it had to come from a seeming other. For here, there is an unwritten page that is left for all of us, each of us, to write. It is our record of what Jesus has said and has done in us. And so, this has to be to complete the package.