Neville Goddard Lectures: “We Have Found Him”

29 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “We Have Found Him”

By Neville Goddard November 12, 1963

___(??) I wondered if I should start with what most people need ___(??), the normal sphere of how to get a house or how to get a better job or how to get a fortune. I said no, time is short as far as I am concerned, so I must tell you what I have discovered. And so, in the course of time, you will know how to get a house and a better job, and more money and all these things ___(??), but for an opening night I thought I couldn’t compromise and I had to tell you about him. For I have found him. I have found him of whom Moses and the law, and the prophets wrote. Yes, I have found Jesus Christ. So when you find him, if he is all that you feel that he is, you can’t keep him to yourselves, you must share him. And so I want to share him with you.

So we are told, “If anyone ever says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it” (Mark 13:21). And that I will endorse. If anyone, no matter who he is, says to you, “‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.” And yet this night I’m going to share him with you. But I can’t point to another and I can’t point to myself, and yet I will share him with you.

The first book written in the New Testament was written by Paul. Scholars are divided whether this book was Galatians or Thessalonians, but both were written by Paul, so it doesn’t really matter. But they all are agreed that Paul wrote the first book in the New Testament. In the letters of Paul there is no trace whatsoever that man can find an historical Christ as we today use the term, none whatsoever. Yet, if man wants to see Jesus Christ, he’s always sure to see him more clearly if he looks at him through the eyes of Paul. For Paul saw him clearly. Paul saw, also, the deep mystery of its meaning.

Now, to Paul it’s about a mystery. He said, “Great indeed we confess is the mystery of our religion.” A mystery is not a matter to be kept secret but a truth that is mysterious in character. So I will reveal the mystery; so look at it now through the eyes of Paul. Paul made the statement that “The gospel that I have preached is not man’s gospel. For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ” (Galatians 1:12). Revelation to Paul was an act of God in self-revealing. God revealed himself. So, Jesus Christ to Paul was God himself, not a man. He said, “I regard no one from a human point of view; even though I once regarded Christ from a human point of view, I regard him thus no longer” (2 Corinthians 5:16). No one from a human point of view, no, not Jesus Christ. Well, then who is he and where is he? How can I share with you my discovery of Jesus Christ, and not point to another; and not point to any being in this world, and make no image of him? Well, how can I show you who he is? Well, that’s my task this night, and I hope I succeed in showing you Jesus Christ.