Neville Goddard Lectures: “What Must We Do?”

12 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “What Must We Do?”

10/14/66

Tonight’s subject is concerning your willingness to accept the one who is sent. “What Must We Do?” is the title of tonight’s subject. If you’ll believe me and apply it, I promise you, you cannot fail. For all that I have told you since I started has been by a confession of faith in terms of experience, that’s all that it has been. I have experienced scripture.

So here tonight, what must we do to be doing the work of God? And Jesus said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent” (John 6:29). It starts with believing in him whom he has sent. Given that, all parts…but that is the fundamental and foundational thing; you must start on that foundation. It doesn’t mean that a man like the speaker is saying to you, believe in me, the speaker. No, “Christ in you is the hope of glory” (Col.1:27). He is speaking from within you, and the entire story as told in scripture is the God in you telling you to believe in him.

Well, how did he put it in a way that I can really understand it? “You will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he” (John 8:24). To sin is to miss your mark in life, I don’t care what that mark is. All things are possible to him, all things; no limitation is placed upon this presence within you. All depends upon your willingness to believe in him. Who is he? “You will die in your sins unless you believe that I AM he.” That’s the name of God. But humanity’s tragedy is the tragedy of looking and following, looking for and following after other gods. Even when the whole thing is revealed, we find the most perfect born of woman, who had not experienced scripture, making the statement, “Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?” (Luke 7:19). Still looking for something on the outside, still looking for some being that could save him. There is no Savior but God and God’s name is I AM…all within you…that whole being is God. Either believe in him or don’t. If you believe in him, nothing is impossible, but nothing.

So what must we do? All that you do to do the work of God is to believe in him whom he has sent. “If you will not accept my testimony concerning earthly things, how can you accept my testimony concerning heavenly things?” (John3:12). If I tell you that by assuming that I am wealthy I become wealthy, and you won’t believe that, even though I tell you story after story of those who did, what would you believe if I took you out of this world completely and told you of heavenly things? What would you believe?

I have the Sunday Times from New York every week. It comes usually on a Thursday. In the magazine section of this week, here is a picture of a single cell in the human brain. The scientists claim there are one hundred billion cells in the human brain. They photograph and magnify it 3,400 times, and here is this little cell you could not see with the normal eye. Under the microscopic camera magnified 3,400 times, it’s the perfect tree. I have it at home. A perfect tree in winter, winter in the East, or the North, I should say, where every leaf, every blossom, everything is shed, just a skeleton—one hundred billion of those in the human brain. So when Blake saw it, and I saw it, he said, “The gods of the earth and sea sought through nature to find this tree, but their search was all in vain, there grows one in the human brain.”