Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Promise Fulfilled”

30 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Promise Fulfilled”

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Tonight’s subject is “The Promise Fulfilled.” Now, here we are gathered together, and I daresay if I asked anyone here, including myself, the speaker: Are we really known in the world? I think we would all admit, “Only to a very small circle, our relatives,” and then we could think of those who are so publicized the world over throughout the ages, and you might think that you are not really known, that not a thing is ever mentioned about you in any book ever written. But I want to tell you that the greatest book ever written is all about you. The Bible is your biography. It is also your autobiography, because you inspired it. It is you who dictated it, and it’s all about you . . every word in it.

You came here for one purpose, and one purpose only . . to fulfill it. You came into the world to fulfill your own prophecy! So, you are far better known than anyone in this world, for when we speak of the “outer man,” it vanishes and his little accomplishments, but your accomplishment is to come down into the world and conquer it, and actually rise out of the grave and return to the Being that you were, only enhanced by your victory over death. That’s the thing that you really are.

Now, I am not making this up. I tell you what I know, for I have had the experience. I am not alone. The Bible is my biography, for I have fulfilled it. It is your biography, and if you have not yet fulfilled it, you will. That is the story of Scripture.

The One spoken of in Scripture . . he said, “All the promises of Scripture find their ‘Yes’ in Him.” You might think this refers to someone other than yourself who lived two thousand years ago. It is said of Him, “He is clad in a robe, in blood, and the name by which He is called is ‘The Word of God.’”

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt within us,” (John 1:14) “born not of blood, not of the will of the flesh… but of God.” (John 1:13)

The Bible speaks of two births in the world. It’s told in the most glorious way. Paul tells it in the book of Galatians. But we will go back to the Promise as we find it in Genesis, for this is the basic promise in Scripture, a promise made to Abraham. Now, the word “Abraham” means “the father of the multitudes.” He was old. This is the story . . a hundred years old, and had no heir, although he did have a son, and the son was called Ishmael. It was said of Ishmael that he was a wild ass; his hand was against every man, and every man’s hand against him. But he was born of a slave, Hagar, in the household of Sarah. Sarah was barren, and she was ninety and “it ceased to be with her after the manner of women,” (Genesis 18:11) being ninety years of age, and Abraham was a hundred, and there was no offspring from that union. The word “Sarah” means princess. And they prayed to the Lord for an heir, not one born of a slave, and the Lord granted their prayer, and said, “You will have a son, and the son will be the heir, and you will call his name Isaac.” “Isaac” means “he laughs.” But they laughed at the very thought that at their age they could have a child. And then the question was asked: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14) And Abraham replied, “No.”

Abraham believed all things were possible to God. At the appointed hour the child was born, and they called him as the angel said, “Call him Isaac . . he laughs.” That is the story.

Now the story, as explained to us in the book of Galatians, which is considered the earliest book written in the New Testament, [it was written twenty-odd years before the earliest gospel, Mark] and in this he tells the story. “The promise was made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, offsprings, referring to many, but, referring to one, ‘And to your offspring,’ which is Christ. (Galatians 3:16)