The Most Precious Gift

Neville Goddard

Tonight’s title is: “The Most Precious Gift.” If He Who created the Universe and all within it gave it to you, and with the whole vast universe owned by you, you would consider that the greatest gift in the world. And, yet, He gave you something far greater than that. He gave you Himself! God actually became as you are, that you may be as He is.

If you owned the Universe and it slowly – through unnumbered trillions of years – should melt away and you could not recreate it, though it’s a marvelous gift, it could not compare in any manner whatsoever to the gift of Himself to you that could recreate it. For, God actually became as we are, that we may be as He is.

Now, how do we know this? Scripture reveals it – literally tells us how it happens in us. It is revealed in Scripture that God is a father. That’s the ultimate revelation of God to man. It started off as God Almighty.

“I made myself known unto Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty – El Shaddai, but by my name, the Lord – which means, ‘I AM’ – did not make myself known to them.” (Exodus 6:3)

Now, He is speaking to the character called “Moses,” but ultimately He reveals Himself as God the Father.

If He gave Himself to me, and God is a father, then I, too, must be a father – but not just a father; I must be the Father – the very father that God is! And if God is a father, there must be a child to bear witness to His fatherhood, and Scripture reveals the name of that son. We are told, in the book of Samuel (I Samuel 7:12) that He will actually raise up out of him a son, and he will be the father of that son. And the son, coming out of Samuel, will be His son, as we are told in the 7th chapter of I Samuel.

This is now confirmed in the last chapter of the New Testament, “And I Jesus” – the Lord “have sent my angel to testify unto you to declare … I am the root – being the Father – “I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star” (Revelation 22:16, RSV2). He is both the father of David and David’s son. He did not say he was David. He was the father of David and David’s son, so the grandfather and the grandson are the same Being.

“David” is the symbol of Humanity. The whole vast world of man is symbolized in a single being, and his name is David. Jesus Christ is God the Father! “He who sees me,” said he “hath seen the Father.” (John 14:9)

“How then can you say, Show us the Father? Have I been so long with you that you do not know me, Philip? He who hath seen me hath seen the Father.” (John 14:9)

Here is God the Father, the Creator of it all, Who actually gave Himself to us in the most literal sense, and He is the Father, and David in Scripture calls Him, “my father, my lord.”

So, in the 2nd Psalm David said, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.” (Psalm 2:7) Here David tells us that the Lord said to him, “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.”

So, the question is asked in the book of Luke, and they answered when he asked, “What think ye of the Christ, whose son is he? And they said, ‘The son of David,’ and then he answered, ‘Why then did David in the spirit call him, my Lord?’ If David thus calls him, my Lord, how can he be David’s son?” (Matthew 22:42, 43) He is David’s father! (Matthew 22:44; Luke 20:41-44)