Neville Goddard Lectures: The Name Of God, I Am, Is Synonymous With God

10 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: The Name Of God, I Am, Is Synonymous With God

11/22/68

A man’s knowledge of himself depends upon his knowledge of the revealer, so tonight we are looking for the revealer. The Psalmist said, “Those who know your name put their trust in thee” (Ps. 9:10). Well, the name of God is synonymous with God himself. So if I know his name, I will put my trust in God, for the name and God are one. It is first revealed to us in the Book of Exodus, the 3rd chapter: “And when I come to the people of Israel and I say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me,’ and they ask, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say? And the Lord said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me unto you…and this is my name forever throughout all generations’” (verses 13-15).

Now you be the judge. No one judges you…you are the judge of whether or not you put your trust in God. Or do you have something other than your own wonderful I-am-ness? Do you completely trust God or do you have some other thing? It could be, well, it could be the stars, or it could be some creation of his. Now listen to the words carefully, “I am the Lord your God.” That’s like saying, “I am the I AM that is your I am”…same thing. “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods besides me. Make no graven image, no likeness of anything that is in the heaven or that is in the earth or below the earth in the water; and bow before none of it” (Exodus 20:2-4), but none of it.

Well, a letter came last Monday…in fact she gave it to me here. This lady was raised in the Catholic faith, a devout Catholic. She’s been exposed here to this teaching concerning Christ. First of all, she thanks me for sharing with her the story of a friend (who is here tonight) who taught his seven year old son how to revise, so when he is hurt he goes to the end as it ought to be. So she said, “On my job I lift a typewriter every day…but it’s a very normal thing. But this day there were obstructions…boxes and packages and all kinds of things…and undoubtedly I got it at a very odd angle, and it strained a muscle in my lower back, and I was in great, great pain. Remembering what this father said to the seven year old son, I revised it, completely revised it, and without any outside assistance in a little while this whole thing subsided and it was perfect.

“Now this part is a dream,” she said. “I had a dream. I took a little boy seven years old into a Catholic church. But instead of entering in at the front door and coming down the center towards the altar, I entered from the side and walked across the entire church to the opposite side without genuflecting. As I got there the Mass is over and they’re all leaving towards the entrance where I entered…so they are making their exit there. So I started, but I had to get in line, and I heard a voice say, ‘Now you will have to face the altar and get on your knees, because a priest is looking at you,’ and he was all robed in black. I said, ‘No I will not. I do not believe in anything on the outside; I believe only in myself!” And then she woke.