Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Cup of Foaming Wine”

07 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Cup of Foaming Wine”

5/31/68

First, let me remind you we will be here every Monday and Friday until we close the end of June.

We’re told in the Book of Psalms, “In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, with foaming wine, well mixed” (Ps.75:8). I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. This cup is man’s fate; the wine is well mixed. It’s not all bitter and it’s not all sweet; it’s mixed, foaming wine, well mixed. One being takes it and in that taking, “Shall I not take the cup which the Father has given me?” (Jn. 18:11). So one being takes it and we are contained in the one being, but we were contained before the foundation of the world. As we are told in Scripture, “God called us in Christ before the foundation of the world. He destined us in love to be his sons…according to the purpose of his will” (Eph.1:4, 5).

From that moment on there was no turning back. And it was a play. And we are all controlled by a power beyond ourselves who has fixed us in a vast and firm pattern. Nothing happens that is not his doing. He has a time for everything, and everything happens exactly on time. We play all the parts, and in the very end, we come out and we are God. It’s the only way that God could give himself to us, that we would know we are God. This is told in the parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk.15:31). He said to him, “Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting that we make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and he is alive; he was lost and he’s found.” But the first son could not understand that. If I owned the earth, I could die of starvation for the want of a little food, though I owned it all, if I didn’t know that I owned it. Until we come out from the Father, and separate from the Father, and go through the play, we do not know we are the Father.

So to give me himself I must separate from the Father. And when man separates from the Father, at that very moment there is a tragedy and a triumph, a fall and a beginning of a new creation. Because complete incarnation is essential to individuality…yet this incarnation involves separation from God the Father, death, and descent into hell. We’re in hell now…this is hell. We have taken the cup and drained it. Well, we drained it in Christ Jesus…and bear in mind we are all crucified with him. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives within me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal.2:20). So all together came out, and all are being formed into the image of God, moving back as God himself.