Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Name of God”

28 Feb Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Name of God”

11/5/65

___(??) naturally it is “The Name of God.” The name of God is the key to the understanding of the doctrine of God. In the Bible the great question is not does God exist but who is our God? Today unnumbered so-called wise men question the existence of God. We do not question the existence of God; we only ask, “Who is our God?” And the whole secret is in his name. We’re told “My name is in him.” Now you listen carefully this night. It will take you from wherever you are to where you want to be. There is only God in this world; there is nothing but God. Really, God only is. And you listen to that carefully, God only is. “Let us to him who only is give decision”…he only is.

Now, we turn to the greatest book in the world, the Bible. “When you go to the people of Israel, you say unto them that the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent you.” “And he said to him, But if I say to them that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob sent me, and they ask me his name, what should I say?” He said, “Say unto them I AM has sent you.” That’s all, I AM has sent you. “That is my name forever, and thus shall I be known throughout all generations” (Ex. 3:13-15). That’s my name. I am in them. “Do not touch him, for my name is in him,” as we are told throughout scripture. The full significance of this name is apparent only in the light of its consummation when the name of God is manifested by him who is the Word made flesh. The Word made flesh…and it will come into this world clothed in a garment dipped in blood (Rev. 19:13)…and his name shall be called the Word of God, the Word of God.

The Bible is called the Word of God. You mean he’s called “The Bible”? Yes, he’s come to fulfill it. For we are told, My word shall not return unto me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and it shall succeed in that for which it is sent (Isaiah 55:11). It cannot return unto me empty. Are you dipped in a garment of blood? You certainly are. Are you not clothed in flesh and blood? Is this not a garment that you wear? This certainly is not the speaker—this is a garment that he wears. I’m not addressing you as I see you; you are, too, dipped in a garment that is dipped in blood, so you are flesh and blood. But you the wearer, you are not flesh and blood; for these things disappear, they disintegrate; they become seemingly nothing, returned to dust. But you, the being that I address, you are the Word of God, and the Word of God cannot return to God empty, and the Word and God are one. As we are told, the Word is the seed and seed is the Word. It’s himself he plants in these garments dipped in blood; and they must return unto him bearing that which he sent them to accomplish.

Now, what is the being in man? It is I AM. There is nothing but God, and God is I AM. Now when I am told to call upon his name—call upon his name and I will accomplish anything in this world—how can I call upon his name? Well, his name is I AM. And yet when the whole vast world calls upon the name, they say, In the name of God, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of this, that and the other. That’s not his name. His only name is I AM. Well, how would I call upon his name? I don’t call upon his name—I call in the name. If I would call this night and conjure wealth, I would say, “I am wealthy.” Though everything in this world denies it—my senses, my reason, everything denies it—if really I believe in the name of God and believe his name is I AM, and that with God all things are possible, I would call in the name of God by assuming that I am what I want to be. If I don’t do it, I can pray forever and nothing happens; only as I call in the name of God, and his name is I AM.