Neville Goddard Lectures: “You Find Jesus Christ In Yourself As Yourself”

23 Oct Neville Goddard Lectures: “You Find Jesus Christ In Yourself As Yourself”

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Last Tuesday, we tried to share with you what we have discovered about Jesus Christ. As you know from scripture not everyone finds him who sought him. Many found him because friends brought them and showed them Jesus Christ. The story of Philip, he brought Nathaniel; then Andrew brought Peter. So, many find him. And the one who finds him can’t keep it to himself he must share it. So having found him, I tried last Tuesday to share him with you. And you saw, if you were here, it’s not what the world believes Jesus to be at all…something entirely different…the creative power and wisdom of God (1Cor.1:24). Personified yes, but you are a person and you’ll find him in yourself as yourself.

The story of Jesus is an acted parable, an incredible prophecy of what one day will really be the experience of the believer. Everyone will experience the story of Jesus Christ; then you will know from experience who Jesus Christ really is. We are looking for the Father. The world believes that Jesus Christ is the Son. I tell you, Jesus Christ is God the Father. The whole vast world is looking for the Father. We are told in Peter’s first epistle, “If we say our Father to the one who judges every man impartially on the record of his deeds, then we must stand in awe before him while we live out the time of our exile” (1Pet.1:17). We’re all exiled, not because we have done anything that is wrong. This is a grand play. It is God who exiled himself. It is God in man who animates man. It is that God that you and I are seeking.

This is the tale as told in scripture. As the poet said, “Truth embodied in a tale shall enter in at lowly doors.” So we hear the story, and on this journey of ours, exiled as we are, some of us are too busy to stop to listen, some hear it eagerly and then forget it, others hear and it haunts them. They become hungry only for it, and then it steals in at lowly doors. This story…as Paul in his letter to the Galatians, he said, “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you ending with the flesh?” (Gal.3:1). That phrase “hearing with faith” in certain translations they take it and they translate it in this manner: “or hearing the story of faith, hearing the gospel? Did you receive the Spirit in any other way?” You heard it, and you stopped long enough to listen, and it interested you, and you went your way. As you walked your way suddenly within you the story unfolds.

To participate in “the age to come” depends upon God’s mighty act of raising the dead, called in scripture the resurrection. It begins there. So while you and I are walking this earth, not at the end of the journey where men call us dead, but within our own personal history it happens. Then the entire story unfolds within us and we go out to tell it. Only a man who has experienced scripture can really understand how perfectly wonderful it really is. Here is this most fantastic prophecy as we are told in Revelation, “The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy” (19:10). Listen to the testimony. From whom? Well, then read it. If no one has actually experienced it, read it. And as you read it, believe it. It’s all about you.