Neville Goddard Lectures: “We Are God Himself”

05 Nov Neville Goddard Lectures: “We Are God Himself”

10/24/69

To tell you who you are would really shock you. Here we sit in this world of ours frightened, scared to death, and here we are God himself, the very God who created the whole vast universe and sustains it. And to tell you that, well, the first thing you do you resist it, because it seems impossible and the one who utters it must be insane.

It tells you, “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself…and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation” (2Cor.5:19). Has he really entrusted to us the message of reconciliation? Yes. As he awakes within us he entrusts to us that message and we tell it to our brothers who are equal with ourselves. We are no better off, we’re no greater, and you can’t be greater than God. You tell it to those who are still waiting and are confused by reason of the dream and of the sleep into which they have placed themselves. When it happens to a man he is called in the mysteries, Paul. He resisted everything in the world. Then it happens in him…a plan awakens within him…and then he said, “From now on we regard no one from the human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from the human point of view, we regard him thus no longer” (2Cor.5:16). No longer? Then what did he believe Christ to be? What the whole vast world still thinks that he is…they think he was a man, something divorced from them, something distinct, and something on the outside that came in some unique manner. They do not see Christ as God’s plan of salvation. God prepared the way for his sons to return to himself and Christ is the way.

Why should we be disturbed and be surprised when we read in scripture that a serpent spoke? We take that for granted. We read that the serpent said unto the woman so-and-so; then Balaam’s ass spoke; then in Daniel a tree became a man…and we read all these things. But then you hear that Christ is a plan that also has a voice and that everything is personified in scripture. So when you read, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one cometh unto the Father except by me” here is a plan (Jn.14:6), the only road to God, with a voice, a plan is speaking, and the plan is in man. Why should I be surprised if a plan takes a voice and not be surprised if a serpent speaks? This is scripture and this is something entirely different from anything that you would sit down to write.

So, God was in his plan reconciling his sons to himself. He banished his sons for a purpose. You and I are the sons, all of us are the sons. “He has set a bound to the people of the earth according to the number of the sons of God” (Deut.32:8). Not one child can be born that is not simply a mask that a son of God wears. No one can be born who is not the mask that God’s son wears. So he has set a bound to the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. Now, he is in his plan. Christ is called “the plan of God.” He prepared a plan for his sons to return to himself. Returning to himself he has given them what he really wanted always to give: he wanted to give his sons himself. God’s plan is to give us himself.

He couldn’t give us himself until he first banished us, and we were sent out into this world, a world of death, a world of horror, a world of despair. But he had prepared the plan before that the world was, that when he brought us back by this plan that we would be God himself. Because, really, there is only God. “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one” (Deut.6:4). There’s “only one body, ultimately, only one Spirit, only one hope, only one Lord, only one faith, only one baptism, only one God and Father of all” (Eph.4:4); that in the end, all constituted the one body, the one Spirit, the one hope, the one Lord, the one faith, the one baptism, and the one God and Father. So in the end there is only one.