What Is Truth 2

Neville Goddard 07-14-1970

Tonight’s subject is: “What Is Truth?” The Bible is the revelation of eternal truth, written without regard for secular history. “It is not concerned with secular history.” This is the world into which you and I were sent – all of us – for a divine purpose, for we are told, “He chose us in Him before that the world was,” and there was a purpose behind the choice. We were called His sons, and the purpose is to transform His sons into Himself. And the most incredible story ever told is that story; how to transform us, His sons, into Himself, and the only way that it could be done is to send us out. So, we went out into a world that was strange, and we are enslaved there, and this is that world. But the plan was “before that the world was” – how to do it.

So, He chose us in Him “before that the world was,” and made known unto us the very mystery of His will, according to His purpose, which is set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time. So, Christ is the plan. Man has completely misunderstood the mystery – that is, the plan, but the plan is in us, and that plan will unfold itself in us. Then we will know the truth concerning Scripture.

Now, in Scripture we come upon this scene between the external being called Pilate. Pilate is the rational mind. And here before him stands the personification of Eternal Truth, and Truth speaks. He says, “For this purpose I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth.” Pilate asked, “What is truth?” and there was a silence. He couldn’t discuss it, because truth on this level is one thing, and Truth in the New Age is entirely different.

So, here tonight we’re asking, What is Truth? He said, “I am the Truth,” “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life revealed.” “No man comes unto the Father except by me.” There is no other pattern; there is no other way. “I am the true and living way to God, the Father.” And the purpose of it all is to transform Man – humanity – into God the Father.

Now, just imagine that you and I were present “before that the world was,” and we cannot, for a moment, conceive it, but we trusted our Father, and He told you this – He is going to transform you into Himself.

Now, we turn to the 82nd Psalm, considered by all scholars the most difficult of all the Psalms. It begins “God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.” And then he said to the gods, “I say, Ye are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O ye princes.”

Put yourself into that state here now. We are present. We are sons of the Most High. We will leave His presence and fall as one man. That one man will become fragmented, into this world that is strange to us, and we will know what it is to die. And we will know what it is to lose the presence of the Father, and then, from then on, our search is to find the Father. How long, how severe, how frightening the anguish before we find Him was long to tell! But we will find Him, for that was the Promise. And all these promises find their “yes” – their fulfillment – in Jesus Christ.

So, the story is that the pattern, called Jesus Christ, is buried in us. And He will not fail; He will unfold the pattern in us, and the pattern is the story of man becoming God. So, God became man, that man may become God!

So, in this world we fight, one against the other, not knowing that we were “before that the world was,” we were brothers – loving brothers. We came down into the world for one purpose – to be transformed into God the Father.

When he was asked, “What is truth?” he was silent. You can’t tell it until it happens within you. Now, truth that is experienced is really the only Truth, for truth that I know from experience I know more truly – more thoroughly – than I know anything in this world. I may hear that truth stated, and it’s true, and I believe in Andrew’s statement. But I did not know it as I will know it after I have experienced it.