The Pattern Man-1

The Pattern Man 1

Neville Goddard

Tonight’s subject is, “The Pattern Man.” Paul, in his final letter to Timothy – when he felt that he was about to depart this world, he wrote Timothy, and he said, “Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me. Guard the truth which has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.” (II Timothy 1:13, 14)

Paul’s letters were written twenty-odd years before any other part of the New Testament. The earliest Gospel is Mark; that came twenty-odd years after the letters of Paul. It was in Paul that the entire story unfolded itself. Paul said, “When it pleased God to reveal His Son in me, I did not confer with flesh and blood.” (Galatians 1:16, 17) To whom would he turn? And he spent his last days, as told us in the book of Acts, expounding the matter to them, (Acts 28:23) “trying to convince them about Jesus, then from the law of Moses and from the prophets. And some were convinced by what he said, while others disbelieved.” (Acts 28:23, 24)

He found the Pattern. Like everyone, we are looking for a man – some strange being coming out of space to save humanity, and he was one of those who looked for a man. Then he found it was not a man, but a pattern that was buried in man, that God had prepared the way for His sons to return, and the way is buried in man as a pattern.

When that pattern unfolded in man, then the one in whom it unfolds realized Who the Coming One really was.

If you take the 39 books of the Old Testament, although they are written across the centuries, they form one book, and events that are widely separated in time are welded into a pattern, and that pattern unfolds within the individual, forming what we call in Scripture “Jesus.” Jesus, then, is the pattern. I call Jesus the Pattern Man.

The first one to use the word “Jesus” is Paul. The first one to use the word “Christ” is Paul. He speaks of Jesus Christ. Well, “Jesus” has the same root as the word “Jehovah” – the Lord God Jehovah, the same root as that of Jesus, and the word “Messiah” and the word “Christ” are one and the same. So, when he speaks of Jesus Christ, he is speaking of the Lord God Jehovah and His Messiah.

Now, where did he find it in the Old Testament? In the 2nd book of Samuel, the 7th chapter, we read these words, “Go to my servant David, and say to David, ‘When your days are fulfilled, and you lie down with your fathers – which is a euphemism for Death – when you are dead and you are buried with your fathers, your forefathers, “I will raise up your son after you, who will come forth from your body… I will be his father, and he shall be my son.” (II Samuel 7:12, 14)

Here He tells David that He is going to raise up a son that will come forth from his body, and that He the Lord will be the father of that boy. That son will call Him “Father.”

Now, everyone was looking for the physical descent of someone called David, because they did not understand the great mystery of Scripture, David symbolizes Humanity. The whole vast world of man is symbolized as David, and he will raise up out of man That which will be the Son of God.

Well, you are a man. I am a man. Regardless of our sex, generically we are all Man, whether you be male or female, so, I will raise up out of Man a son that will come forth from his body, but I will be his father, not the man out of which he is raised! I, the Lord, will be his father.