God Is In Christ, Reconciling - Neville Goddard (03-23-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures God is in Christ Reconciling March 23, 1965 this is one year before my birth. It's awesome to fathom in three months my mom will become pregnant with me and my twin brother, us being Esau and Jacob, of course, myself being Jake. Esau, my brother twin, was stillborn. It's just fascinating as we get closer and closer to my actual birth in this drama. If you opened the Bible and you opened to the page and read this simple little God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, would you grasp it? God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. What would it mean? 2 Corinthians 5:19. Who is in this God? And who is this Christ? And who are we that we entrust? And who are we that he entrusts to us this message of reconciliation. When you open the Bible, you're really opening the greatest mystery in the world. It's not something you can pick up and then just say, well, I read it. And this is something like reading the morning's paper, a little news item. So you follow me closely and you see how it works with us. There it is. I will now quote the most quoted psalm that is quoted in the New Testament, the 110th. And the Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever. After the order of Melchizedek. Psalm 110:14. Now this is the most quoted psalm in the New Testament. When it's quoted in the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, the words are quoted by Jesus Christ. Naturally, after the Gospels are over, it could only be quoted of him, not by him. And so we find it in Acts, in Romans, Corinthians, in ephesians, in Colossians, 12 times in the Epistle to the Hebrews. We find it in the Epistle to Peter and in the very last book, the Book of Revelation. And Here is this 110psalm. What does it mean? And the Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. Now here he introduces three characters, seemingly for here is the great poet, the inspired poet, David. And David is speaking, and he speaks of the Lord, the creator of the universe. Then he speaks of my Lord, something entirely different. What is the difference between David the Lord? Who is the. What is the difference between David, the Lord, who is the creator of the universe. And then David's Lord, speak of it as my Lord. He says to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. Now he's entrusted to me the message of reconciliation as I quoted in the beginning of Corinthians. So I must this night explain to you this passage. For what is Christ in the world doing? He does not come to change governments. He doesn't care whether the government is one of democracy or tyranny. Really, that is not his purpose. When Christ begins to awaken within man, he has no desire whatsoever to change forms of government. He doesn't care if the government is government of democracy and one is one of communism and one is one of something else. Hasn't a thing to do with governments. He comes only to fulfill Scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in me. Luke 22:37. So beginning with the law of Moses and through the prophets and the Psalms, he interpreted to them all that was written about himself. Luke 24:27. So everything is written about me. For the Christ of Scripture does not differ from the Christ in you. The Christ in you is your own wonderful human imagination. That's Christ. So divine imagination is limited in man as man's wonderful human imagination. Now we go back. The Lord, that's yod hey, vow, hey. The grand I am says to my Lord, that word is adonoi, which is often used as a substitute for yod Heh, vow hey. Same thing. They do not differ in substance. Do not differ in anything other than one is keyed low. God keys himself low, empties himself of his divine being, and becomes man. Man's wonderful human imagination. Philippians 2:7. And that limited state is called Christ Jesus. So he comes down and becomes man. And this is Christ Jesus in man. Now sit here at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. Well, the right hand is the only place of honor. Excuse me. The right hand is only the place of honor. That's all that it is. Even today in 1965, you have a dinner party and your guest of honor is seated at your right hand. If you now went to the White House, the most important member of the Cabinet is at his right hand. If you went to Buckingham palace and you were invited there, you could look around the table and see the most important at that gathering, based upon her concept or their concept, is going to be seated at her right hand. All it means is simply the place of honor. So here, seated at my right hand. Well, now, who's going to do the whole thing. Listen to the words carefully. The Lord said to my Lord. Two entirely different states seemingly sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. So who is going to do it now? The Lord is going to do it. Not my human imagination. For this is Jesus Christ. Is it really Jesus Christ? Well, scholars have argued over the centuries as to what it means, my Lord. And they said David meant the ruling king of the day. Well, he could have not. Well, he could not have meant the ruling king of the day. If you take it historically, because he was the king. If you take it as he wrote it when he was a child, then Saul was the king and Saul was rejected by the Lord. David was called and anointed by the Lord. So you can't say Saul was king and you can't say there was another king, because David reigned until his end. He didn't die a king and someone resigned. He didn't die a king and someone reigned. That is, he didn't find himself expelled from the throne. He reigned until the very end. So how can scholars say he is speaking of the king? Another scholar said he was speaking of a visionary being, some visionary figure. In other words, the Messiah of his dream. That comes closer. But this is not secular history. This is something entirely different. Then who is he speaking of? This is a mystery. There are three characters. There's David, the Lord, Yod hey vow hey, which is I am, and then my Lord, which is David's Lord. Well, who is David's Lord? The Old Testament is one grand question mark to which the New Testament gives the answer. To find the answer to this, you go to the New Testament. So we go first to the last books. We go to the 22nd chapter of the Book of Matthew. You can find this in the 22nd of Matthew, the 12th of Mark, and the 20th of Luke. Same story. And the words are put into the mouth of Jesus Christ. He's discussing resurrection, the breaking of the last barrier in this world for the last enemy to be overcome is death. So he's telling the world that you don't really die, that those who are resurrected, they die, not more. You die and you're revived and you die and you're revived until that moment in time when you're resurrected and then you die no more. So you're part of an entirely different age, a different world. You are now the Son of God, and therefore one of the resurrected. Then he quotes the greatest of all commandments, the Shema, Hear, O Israel, and the Word now used is yao adonoi, which is the same word used in this statement. My Father, which is called my Lord. So he tells us, hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Deuteronomy 6:4. They agree with that, for that is fixed in the minds of all who understand God's word. No one asked the question, so he asked the question. This is where the whole mystery is unfolded, if one can get it. He. He said, what think ye of the Christ whose son is he? And they answered, the Son of David. He said, why then did David in spirit call him Lord? Saying in the Psalm, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son? Now he shows us the relationship of this question asked and stated in the 110th Psalm. He quotes the 110th Psalm. Now my Lord is an expression used of a slave of its master, of a wife of her husband, of a citizen of his king, by the Son of his Father. He asks the question concerning the relationship of Father, son. So he sets it up that David is asking and stating about his Father. He identifies himself with the statement, my Lord, why did David call me? He's telling us, my Lord, and being my son, he's calling me his Father. If David calls me my Lord, how could I be his son? For here is Christ speaking. He said, what think ye of the Christ whose son is he? And they answered, the Son of David. Well, then, why did David in the Spirit call him Lord? And then he quotes the 110th Psalm. For David in the spirit said, the Lord said to my Lord, which is to my Father, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. If David thus calls him Lord, which is my father, and how can he be his son? He's revealing the great secret, this reversal of order, which to this very day people do not grasp, even though they hear it from the lips of one who has experienced it. They still will not accept it because of two centuries or 2000 years of prefabricated misunderstanding of the mystery. So we set the whole thing up, tells us how it's done. Now he is my own wonderful human imagination. Do I do it? No. He puts me through the paces. Who? The Lord the grand. I am the Lord said to my Lord. The divine imagination said to my imagination, sit at my right hand, take the place of honor, till I make of your enemies your footstool. And then I am put through the paces. I have no choice in the matter? None whatsoever. But I am one. But I am one with the One who is putting me through. We are one. He keyed himself low in me for this purpose, to expand his creative power. And when the victory is over, I as a man didn't gain the victory. I am united with the victor. Because we are one. We are one in the beginning, we are one in the end. He is simply working on himself. So he keys himself low in me. He keys himself low in us, works on himself the very end. And when the victory is won, I'm united with the victor. And that's the mystery. And why is it keyed low in us? Would you give a loaded gun to a little kid? Would you give unadulterated sheer power to a little kid? If you're raising a young child, you're not letting them run amok into the street. You're not letting them run amuck into a crowded Disneyland to get lost or picked up or whatever. That's giving sheer power. So we're keyed low on purpose. And look what we're doing, even with that. And I mean both positive and negative here. So in this 110th Psalm, well, how does he do it? Listen to this one now. He says, I've come only to fulfill Scripture. I fulfilled the law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms. So while we're on the Psalms tonight, we'll take another one. We'll take the 24th Psalm. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place. Then comes the response. He who has clean hands and a pure heart. Psalm 24:1 3 4. But how do I do it? Do I go about making my hands clean? How do I do it? I don't have to think for one moment how to do it. Because God is working on himself. That's all. He puts me through all the paces that man could ever conceive. And I fail. I flunk every test that he's ever gave me when I was keyed low. Then he breaks the spell and he expands me. And then I come forward with the answer to every test that in the beginning I flunked. I don't have to test myself. How do I have clean hands? How do I have the unclean hands? Well, the unclean or the stained hand is the hand that takes a bribe. The hand that commits the act of murder, the hand that steals, the hand that has the greed for gain. That's the stained hand. And the same is true of the impure heart. If you read the 15th chapter of the book of Matthew, he mentions all these qualities. For everything that is unclean proceeds out of the heart. Everything I couldn't murder unless it was first part of me. And the words mind and heart are the same in Hebrew. And so I couldn't murder unless first I entertained the thought. I couldn't steal, I couldn't take the bribe. I couldn't have that intense greed for gain at the expense of others. I gotta tell you, I completely agree. When it's not in you, it's just not in you. You can't even conceptualize it when it's not in. And I've been around people that it's in, it's definitely in them fully. Not the murder part, but the other aspects. Did it not come out of the heart? Out of the mind? So he tells me, those who have a pure heart, they can scale the heights and see God. Those who have clean hands. Well, do I go about trying to purify myself? No. God does. Is God who set us up, which is himself. The story of Job all over that. You and I here, we had no choice in the matter. We are victims of this cruel experiment. But the end will justify the horror of it. For in the end you are united. All of us will be united with the author, the creator of it all. We are God in the end. So here he sets it up in a simple way. Let me give you one simple little story told me only yesterday. Friend called me up, called my wife up. And she is very sweet and kind to us. We don't drive, we haven't a car. And so she calls us every week and offers transportation for anything we want to do. So this friend and my wife went off shopping. My wife had occasion to stop in at the supermarket for some small little item. And so she bought it. It only came to 98 cents. A little lady, excuse me, a lady just next to her before, instead of ordering what she wanted to order, she had to justify her purchase, which was chopped round. There was something 38 cents. So she had to say, I want this for my dog. Well, the person knows exactly who's going to eat it anyway. So why go to all the trouble of saying, I want it for my dog. So she bought a pound of this 38 cent meat for her dog. And the butcher knew exactly who was going to eat it when she took it home. So the butcher simply did this. Simply did this. And then my wife said, I'll have A pound of top sirloin. Ground top sirloin. Well, that was 98 cents as against 38. So the butcher, having written this thing out, 38, he took the pound, wrapped it up and then put 38 and gave it to my wife. She saw the mistake and she said, I think you made a mistake, didn't you give me what I ordered? I saw you take it from this thing. And he said, I did. Well, then you only put down 38 cents. It should be 98 cents. He thanked her, took it back and then wrote 98. That's how the Lord speaks to my Lord, My imagination. You sit here and I'm going to put you to the paces. You don't test yourself when you least expect it. These things are placed upon you. A simple little thing like this, it is very much like this. I can't tell you how many times I've been handed too much change and simply, wait, wait, you did something wrong. Take a look and it gets corrected. No big deal. But it's wired in me personally. And recently I was somewhere and I had lunch and for some reason it appeared I had two stops. And it appeared that at my second stop it looked like I had more money, but it didn't make any sense that the previous stop that I had been given too much change because I remember actually seeing the change. But at the next stop I had too much money, I had more money, more of the wrong type of bills in my pocket and I. And I was already past the second stop, looking at my money, going, wait a second, something's not right. Where did this happen? When? On this second stop, I didn't even use the cash, I used the card. And I was beyond being able to go back to the first stop. I had already left that area, I couldn't go back. And it would be too much confusion, literally considering. But in the moment, I've always sat there and go, oh, of course, look it. But when it's way later, it's hard to even tell, did that actually happen there or somewhere else or am I just tripping what happened here? I feel like there's too much. But in every single moment when it actually has happened live and I see the money is obviously wrong. It's such a simple act. No, look, you gave the wrong amount and they go, oh, thanks. Boom. Gets corrected. Simple, wired in. His intuition flies into my intuition when you least expect that these things are placed upon you. A simple little thing like this, very, very, very, very true. You don't earn it by merit. You earn it by grace. Now, may I tell you, and I hope this doesn't sound like holier than thou. It's not bad at all. It's just like a wiring. It's like being wired a certain way. Some people are wired to fight, and they want a fight. Some people aren't wired to fight, and they don't seek a fight. But it's funny. The people who seek the fight, they find the fight. They're just wired that way. Now, may I tell you, it isn't because my wife could have not used the extra 50 cents we have in little Barbados supermarkets. My family, we have three huge supermarkets. And the wealthiest people in the island, socially prominent. And we know who they are. They come in and they are shoplifters. It's the wiring man. But their husbands know it, and they make no complaint. We never.