The Cross by Neville Goddard (05-17-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 lectures the cross May 17, 1963 blank space. Very practical and yet you'll find it very spiritual, which to me is the most practical. When you see a cross, do you think of suffering and you hear someone say he was crucified. Do you think, as the world undoubtedly thinks, that it is a suffering state? And if I told you that the cross is a spiritual wedding ring, would you believe it? When you see someone wearing a wedding ring, you know that there's a union, there's a marriage, and there should be love in that state. There should be. But may I tell you, when you see the cross hereafter, think of a spiritual wedding ring. For it really is. For the cross is the symbol of God becoming man, that man may become God, and that's the cross. The central teaching of the Bible is the cross. He actually becomes us, nails himself upon us, for we were dead and he was alive. And so. And he so loved the creature that he became his own creation to convert it, to transform it, like a Pygmalion and a Galatia into himself. Now, we are told in Genesis, a little man is given seemingly to another. But all the commands in the Bible are to God, by God, for man was not alive. And he commands man to leave everything and cleave to his wife, and then they become one flesh. So when we read the Bible and saw the bodies, male, female, you might think when you read of a woman, that it means a female. No, it doesn't. When you read of a man, it means a male. No, it doesn't. Whether it be male or female, it is speaking of us and woman, we are told in Paul's first letter to Timothy, and woman will be saved by the heat, by the bearing of children. If you take that phrase, the bearing of children, and go to the bottom of the page, it should be in your Bible. It is in my Bible, in all my Bibles. I have many. There's a little note at the bottom of the page which tells us that that phrase bearing of children, literally means by the birth of the child, definitive the child. So woman is saved by the birth of the child. 2, 15. Well, I am that woman. I am a man, a male. I have sired two children. My children live in this world. I'm married. But I am the woman spoken of in that passage, the last verse of the second chapter of Paul's first letter to Timothy. I am the woman. God is the husband. Listen to these words carefully. Sing, O barren, it begins, Isaiah 54. Sing out, you barren one, for you will be more fertile than those who are married. Verse 1. In the same chapter, Isaiah 54, 5, the statement is made. Your maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. My maker is my husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. Now I am told he has to become me and cleave to me, for I am his wife. He had to leave everything and forget everything, and so cleave to me. We become one flesh. Now Paul tells us, in the very end, when he completes the Job, Paul makes the statement. Henceforth let no one trouble me, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. Galatians 6:17. Not little holes through here, or a crown of thorns on my head, or a gash in my side, or. Or holes in my feet. But everything said of him you experience seemingly in your body. You go through all the experiences and it takes place in your body. His birth, his fatherhood. Everything in the world takes place in you. So you bear on your body the marks of Jesus. I can vouch for this. I am telling you from experience. It happens in here. Now. In the meanwhile, let us now turn to what came after this comment was made to man. It came. If you read Genesis, it's only 400 years. If you read Exodus and the letters of Paul, it came 430 years after the promise. And this is what he calls the law. He said, no man is justified before God by law. Yet here was the law, and God gave it to us because of transgression. It pays to the nth part, to the most simple iota of one's transgression, whatever it is. And here, use it. But you can't be justified by it. But learn the law. For we are told in the first chapter in the book of Psalms, blessed is the man who delights in the law of God, for in all that he does, he prospers. That is a promise. Dwell upon it. It's not the real promise. But this is a promise concerning the law of God. The real promise preceded it by 400 years if we read one book, and 430 if you read another book. But regardless, it precedes this law. Neville's saying right here that the promise precedes the law. Most of us are watching anything to do with Neville because we want to understand how to wield the law consciously. That's what we're trying to do, is learn how to manifest by our imagination. That's learning the law. But understanding what Neville's saying right now is the promise came before the law by 400 plus years. But blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord, for in all that he does, he prospers. That's right there. You can't fail in the law. You can't fail, fail in the law. There's no failing. Just keep at it. Persist, persist, persist. But no matter how wisely you exercise your talent, which is the use of law, it doesn't in any way qualify you for the marks of the body of Jesus. That is grace. That's the gift. Just because you're using the law doesn't mean you get more qualified. It doesn't mean you jump to the front of the line to receive the promise. It's nothing to do with that. That's grace. That's the gift. It will happen regardless of what you do in this world. Not one person in this world will fail. It can't fail because you personally are not doing it. You are the bride of God. It is God who is doing it, and God is doing it on us. One of the reasons I started this channel and I'm doing this work is because I believe we all have a total inbuilt right to be married, in love and happy. That's my goal with you. If you're here and you want to, and you're single and you don't want to be single, and you want to be happily and married and in love, and you want to manifest that for yourself, that's the purpose of me and this channel with you. And it's mainly because of what we just read right there. Not one person in this world will fail. It can't fail because you personally are not doing it. You are the bride of God. It is God who is doing it, and God is doing it on us. You are already married. You are already playing the part. Call it bride, it doesn't matter. The host of hosts is your husband. You are the bride. Whether you have an Audi or an innie. Get past that part. You're already the bride in the most wonderful marriage ever. When you feel that and sense that already in you, then you can go ahead and manifest it. Out here you are already in the ceremony, married, done, complete, it is finished. He or she, you have risen. He fell in love with us, as told us in the first chapter of Ephesians. He chose us in himself before the foundation of the world. So I was his choice before the foundation of the world. He selected me as a man will go out to find a woman that he wants, and he wants her with all of his heart to bear his name. And bear children. If he can have children in this case, only one child God is going to have from you. Only one. Only one. As told you in the third chapter, the 16th verse of Galatians, there will only be one. Everyone's going to have one. To prove that God loves you and became you, the one is going to be God's child. And it's going to be your child, because that child is going to call you Father. Although I am his bride and seemingly female, in this state, a wonderful statement is made. We shall all be one in Jesus Christ. And the phrase in Greek, all be one. In Jesus Christ, all will be masculine. Why they didn't use it, I will never know. But there it is. We shall all be one. And that phrase, all be one. Literally translated, all be masculine. One is the masculine number. Even numbers are feminine, odd numbers are masculine. He fell in love with man. Generic man in a capitalized sense. Though in this level, we're all split in two, male and female. We're in the world of duality. Two is the number of duality. It's also a feminine number, which makes us the bride. Us. Now we come back to the law. In all that you do do, you will. In all that you do, you will prosper if you abide by the law. The law is what we've been talking about in every single video. Your imagination creates your reality. And the law is just as simple as this. As I stand here now, I could in 12 seconds be in 12 different states of consciousness. I can think of. You think of, you think of the other one. Then all of a sudden, everything I think of, that's a state of consciousness. I could be in as many states as there are seconds in time that I am thinking. But the state that I'm going to externalize and objectify and make real in my world is the state that I occupy more than I do the others. That state to which I most constantly return constitutes my home, my true self. And so I go into a state. If tonight you want wealth, let no one in this world tell you you shouldn't want it. Just wanting it is fine. There's nothing wrong with wanting anything. If you want health, let no one tell you you shouldn't want it. If I don't care what you desire in this world, you may, after you realize it, tire of it. We know that in the world there are people who build a home, spend a fortune on the home. They're in just a matter of moments. And they tire of it. They're in it just a Matter of moments. And they tire of it. Not just the home alone, but family relationships in the home change, and they don't want any part of that home because it blank space, the relationships that occupy it. They don't want the home, they don't want the relationships, and they don't want any part of it. And yet they wanted it seemingly forever when they got it. That's life. There is no static thing in this world because man, at every moment in time could change a state. So when you know what you want, I don't care what it is that you want. You want to be happily married, perfectly all right. There are people all over this world today, many of them are in the limelight, running for the highest office in the land, who wanted a change of marital relationships more than the highest office in the land. Because if they wanted it more than that change, they would have subjected themselves to what they considered the unlovely relationship in the hope of fooling the voters tomorrow. Because they wanted it. No, they wanted a change of this relationship more than they wanted the highest office in this land and did it So I say there is no static picture in this world tonight. Let no one and ask no one if you should want it. For let me quote one of the truly great awakened minds of all eternity, Blake. I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state, but to be simply states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil, the vision of the last judgment. So I fall into a state, it seemed to me, good, and it's good because I hungered for it. I am in it. I may tire of it in a matter of moments or in a matter of 30 years or in a matter of some other length of time. It was neither good nor evil, simply a state. There are infinite states in the world into which man falls. But when you come here, you shouldn't fall into states. You should deliberately enter a state even though you think, well, now this is a state, but don't fall into it with your eyes wide open. I want to be wealthy as you conceive wealth to be. All things being relative, what you and I consider a normal income. To live graciously in our present world would be a millionaire's income in most of this world. If you think X number of thousands you require to live well in this world we live in. But you go to 90%, maybe 95% of the world. If you had that sort of income, you would be a king of kings in their area. So all things are relative. A very profound point. When I went in the Navy, it was 1984 and that's the year I graduated. And after about 15 months of serious education and I mean a lot of studying, a lot of very intense electrical, I became an electrician. But I went around the world twice, the USS Enterprise and we visited a lot of countries, 10 different countries, several different times. And the poverty level was immediately apparent in most of those countries, 80% at least. And it was profound to a 19 year old person. By the time I visited the first time around the world, it was mind blowing. The poverty level and what we were considered just by being servicemen. And believe me, in comparison to where we were from our paycheck, being a military member was, was peanuts, you know, but you had the room and board, of course, but the whole idea was it really didn't afford you a whole lot in the civilian world. But yet when you were on the ship and you visited these other countries, you were a king. I mean you were a king. Anything you could give if you donated to people with their hands out on the street was a big one. It was a big wow. I mean it was an amazing lesson at a very young age. Yes. So what he says right here is very profound. You would be a king. And just get your. There's a lot of YouTube videos of guys who are expats, I think that's what they call them, and they go and they take just their Social Security income, nothing else, and they go to Mexico or they go to the Philippines or they go to Thailand and, and they live like kings. And what we think here is not enough income because the requirements, Caesar's requirement here is different than Caesar's requirement there. So the abundant minded person who. There's a couple, there's even a guy that's a Neville coach that I forget where he's living, but he's. I think he's in the Philippines maybe or Thailand. He bought a whole house. He bought a house. He just paid a whole. He was going to pay a year in rent, but he just went ahead and bought the house, I think. Or he paid the whole year in rent. I saw a video, saw this video about a year ago, but it was very, very. So everything's relative what Neville's saying here. And it's very fascinating because the abundance mindset is what we're talking about. If you think X number of thousands you require to live well in this world we live in. But you go to 90%, maybe 95% of the world if you had that sort of income, you would be a king of kings in their area. So all things are relative. So where you are, what do you want? And you name it. Well, when you know exactly what you want, listen to the words blessed is the man. This is a beatitude. Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord, for in all that he does, he prospers. You can't fail if you delight in the law of the Lord. You don't feed your mind with anything other than the image desire to be externalized in your world. Right there. Do you turn on the tv? Is it feeding you what it is you want to be in your world? You don't feed your mind with anything other than the image desired to be externalized in your world. What are you feeding your mind morning, noon and night? Very, very important point. Point right here. If today reason denies the image, you deny reason, if anything in this world. If your senses dictate that these are the facts of life, but they are in conflict with the image that you want to externalize. You deny your sense completely deny the senses and reason and entertain the image. For this is God's creativity. It doesn't matter how tiny the image is, entertain that image. And so I live this night in the assumption that I am the man that I want to be. Even though everything reason and senses deny it. But I live in it and I'm speaking from experience. Then at the end of the not distant future, I begin to crystallize it and externalize. Doesn't matter how single you are. It doesn't matter how not in a relationship you are. It doesn't matter that you think you don't know anybody that you could be in a relationship with. You go to sleep. You entertain your mind with romance movies, with rom coms. You don't feed your mind anything that doesn't entertain the idea of where you want to be. You want to be married. You watch movies where people fall in love and get married. And there are all kinds of lackadaisical crazy stories because that is exactly how life works. You need to get yourself. If you want to be married and you're single, you need to get yourself the Hallmark Channel and just watch it. Watch every romance movie, no matter how corny it is, because that's what you want to experience. So then you entertain yourself with that imagery that feeds the possibility in you. The possibility in you goes to bed with the image of you experiencing it. The you experiencing it gives the subjective impression. You wake up before you know it you're meeting someone, you're going on a date, you're having coffee, you're talking, whatever, you're chatting, who cares? Whatever it is. More than most of the time I my experience most of the time when I see people get together, hook up, whatever, it's usually with somebody they already know. But it's up to them to make the decision that they want to be in a relationship. It usually ends up being with somebody that's already in arm's reach. So consider that once you make up your mind, the world then reflects it back to you and then opens up because it's been there the whole time. You don't have to go searching on a mountain or in a valley or across the world. It's right in front of you 99% of the time in what I've seen. And then I begin to crystallize it and externalize it and then I duplicate it. I tell the story to others and they begin to duplicate it and they tell it to others. At the end of a few years we have hundreds and hundreds of witnesses to this principle. Does it matter what the world thinks? Does it matter what anyone in this world would tell me about it? If I can duplicate it and prove it by experience? Well, that is God's law. The law is conditional. I can't be feeling sorry for myself and expect to call some practitioner who will push a button leaving me as I am and then produce results for me. I have it all the time. Someone will call up and say, will you do so? And so he's referring to somebody calling him and asking him to imagine lovingly for them so they don't have to do any work. And he sets a good man at self persuasion. The purpose of it all is to produce a change in the individual, not just a change in the circumstances roundabout where it vanishes like a snow when the sun comes out. It's to produce in the individual a change that sustains the change when it externalizes itself in the world. But someone will say, you know, my people aren't paying the rent. Three of them are now in arrears. They owe me three months. And they want you in some strange way produce some little miracle where they all put their money down. He's talking about somebody seeking him, Neville, for imagining lovingly for them so their renters would catch up on their rent versus him having to deal with it, having to deal with the change here where responsibility really lies, responsibility is always at home. They are not paying their rent. Well, three of them, right, Right. Here it's always back to responsibility. Always back to responsibility. Three of them are now in arrears. They owe three months and they want you, in some strange way, produce some little miracle where they all put their money down and they remain just as bitter as they were prior to the loss of the three months. They remain just where they were prior to the call and think that the little pushing of a button is going to produce a change in their life. That call will come through day after day, week after week, month after month, year after the year, until you can produce in them the caller a change in their own heart when you produce it in them. They need not call you ever again for the simple reason that the change in them externalizes itself in their world. And it works that way. What's the quote? And I'm not very good at memorizing every quote out of scripture, but there's a quote. Why are we calling upon someone else to help us when it's in us that we can turn to? Why are we calling on God out here to help us when it's in us that we should be turning to? Something along those lines. Very wonderful quote. So if there's a practitioner here, you don't blank space, push buttons. You produce changes in them. And may I tell you, you don't need the income from any being in this world. If they pay you all well and good, but don't depend upon any person's income in this world. You don't need to. Your own consciousness of wealth will produce wealth. You'll have everyone in this world and it will simply flow like a river toward you. Don't depend upon anyone. No one is your source of supply. The only source is God. And his name is I am. That's God. There is no other God. So if they call, let them call. Try to persuade yourself that they have changed their attitude toward self, toward life. That change in them will automatically result in a change in their lives. They can't help it. But when someone makes them feel and hear. I tell you this because of a recent call. Where in the city. Three different ones from different groups, not all in the same so called ism. Different ism. And they tell her forever, you will have to depend upon me to produce these things for you. Well, here this poor child believes it. And so she sends her X number of dollars every month to this one, this one, the other one, and then she calls the speaker. I've always warned her, don't you send me one penny, which she doesn't have a dime. Don't you send me a nickel. I want to produce in you the change. But she so completely believed that they could influence her that unless she calls upon them, these things will recur. But they recur and recur and recurrence. How to get her to really believe in God? The only God in the world is her own wonderful I am Ness. Now here is the story. He loved her. He loved her more than any man in this world could ever love her. I love my wife. And she and I together produced in this world this glorious child. And we revel in the daughter that we have. But I could not, in eternity as a man love my wife to the degree that God loves us. God so loved her, he became her. And he's one with her. And his name is not Neville. His name is I am. That's his name. He's anchored upon her, crucified upon her. She was but a thought. That's all she was to him. And he so loved her, he nailed Himself upon her and completely forgot his divinity. He actually cleaved to her. And he will not let her go until they become one. Not two. They were two in the beginning, God and this one that he loved. In the end, only one. And to him he is so lost in his identity that when he rises in her, it's she. It's not another. It's just the individual that he fell in love with. 1. He gives his name to her. She had none. He gives his name and she bears the name. And its name. I am Blank Space. And she wakes. Now, henceforth, let no one bother me. Don't let them trouble me. For I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. And these are the marks of Jesus. You aren't going to find them, as the religious world tells you, when with the stigmata, bleeding hands and bleeding head and bleeding side and bleeding feet. They are not the marks of Jesus. I have had these and they're marvelous. It's a thrill beyond the wildest dream when you feel yourself sucked in like a vortex or a series of vortices sucked into this body. I've had that. But they're not the marks of Jesus. The marks of Jesus are all written out in dramatic form in scripture. The first mark of Jesus, but the very first one is the resurrection. That's the first mark. How do you mark that? When the individual in himself awakens from a profound sleep to find he really, prior to this moment, was dead. For he awakes in a grave and no one but the dead are interred. So you enter them. Excuse me. So you Inter them. And if a person is now in a sepulcher, the holy sepulcher, he awakens to find himself awake and alive, but he's in a grave, then he must have resurrected. That's the first mark. The second mark is his birth. He comes out of it. And he comes out of that sepulcher just as a physical child comes out of a physical womb. And then come the other marks in discovery. Then you look at it. When the fullness of time had come, God sent the spirit of His Son into the heart. Excuse me, into my heart, crying Father. When the fullness of time had come, when the nine month pregnancy is over, nine months could be nine ages. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent the spirit of His Son into my heart, crying Father. So in my being, when the fullness of time has come, His Son comes and calls me Father. Do you see what he's saying here you are pregnant with his being in you, waiting for the fullness of time to come as you came from the mother, your mother, after the fullness of that time. So he is waiting as you're waiting for the fullness of time, for your new birth to be one with him. So in my being, when the fullness of time has come, His Son comes and calls me Father. That would be David. If he calls me Father. God's work on me is complete. For he used me as his bride. He cleaves to me and wouldn't let me go. But he had to produce his creative power. And he had to produce it by producing a son. He produced in me a son that calls me Father, after the fullness of time had come. So when the fullness of time had come, if you want it, the fourth chapter, the fourth verse of Galatians. When the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son forth into my heart, crying Father. And then the Son calls me Father. His work in me is complete. One more step to bear the marks of Jesus. But he takes it. And this is now the 10th chapter, 20th verse of Hebrews. And he strips me down from top to bottom. And it's called the curtain that separated man from God. There's one little membrane to be severed. And that which separated man from God is now split right down the middle. And it's called the curtain that is his flesh. You feel it all on your body. Everything that I am talking about, you actually feel it is taking place here, but it's not on this. But you feel it here. For this is the shadow of the real body. So it Actually in some way has all the effects that you get in the depths. The real body, the immortal body, casts its shadow upon this and you feel it is taking place here, but it's not. It's in the soul, the real you. I can't help but think that recent electrifying feeling that I had recently was this experience. And I tell you, some of these experiences, they're difficult to chalk up and classify or categorize or define. But I can't help the more I read about this splitting is that electrical feeling that I had several nights ago. It's in a previous video that it was this actual event because it was most electric and it literally ran through me. It has to be this experience. Excuse me for this, I'm awakening like you are, because it literally came from the bottom of me to the top of me like a bolt of lightning. And as time goes by, the unfolding of the experience begins to widen in my definition. And as I read more and more about that part of these mystical experiences, the more I see that this very event that happened to me several nights ago, a handful of nights ago, maybe a week or two already, it feels, the more I read these descriptions, it feels like this is what that was because it was an electric current. Being an electrician, I know what electricity feels like. Accidentally, of course. It was like an electric current from the base of me, through me. I mean, it woke me out of my sleep. I was just minding my own business, sleeping, and all of a sudden, bam. Full blown realization in that moment too, about manifesting, about what we're studying together here. So instantaneous, the real body, the immortal body, casts its shadow upon this. And you feel it is taking place here, but it's not. It's in the soul, the real you. When I was sleeping, I was the fourth dimensional. You, me, us. I was in that, not physically. Here. This is the shadow I was in, the fourth dimensional. Me, the soul. So here you could this night wisely apply God's law. And no being in the world can stop you from becoming what you want to be. No, as a matter of fact, every being in the world is going to help you. You have to see that every being in the world is an automaton that works for you. Because everything is you pushed out. Everything is you pushed out. If you stop for one moment and look over the roster of the world, take all the big so called, intelligent, wise, wonderful men in the world, all the great politicians of the world, any of them go back, oh, just so, a short time, and you Will see, they were all just as you are now. They had no reason in the world to believe that they are what they are today. But none, no one, excuse me, not one, is endowed with any more intelligence, with any more power. Undoubtedly, 99% of them stumbled into these states. I don't want you to stumble into it, which is why we're talking together. Okay? I don't want you to stumble into it. I want you to go deliberately into these states. That's the goal of us together, is to become consciously active in choosing your states. I want you to go deliberately into these states. If you stumble into a state when the convulsion takes place as it always does in the world, and you are emptied from that state, you may not know how to get back into it because you didn't go into it deliberately. If you go into these states deliberately, it wouldn't make any difference what convulsion took place. And they will take place. They always take place. How to go back into that state? If it's a comfortable state to be in, you may go into any state in this world that you want, any state. But if you don't know you are in a state and you think, well, now, this is simply a natural thing based upon my birth, well, then, when you are emptied from that state, you may never find your way back into that state. You think it's all an accident. It's not. It's all a design, and he's playing all the parts. Well, then, when you are emptied from that state, you may never find your way back into that state. But you can. Everyone in this world could go into the state of his choice. I'm speaking from experience. When I have over 900 letters at home, each testifying to a deliberate entrance into a state from people who knew nothing of this before, but they simply decided to take a state into which they would go. They entered that state, viewed the world from it as though it were true. And then, in a way that they could not consciously define or devise, the state appeared and became real in their world. Everyone can do it. But don't forget, don't fall into it. Go into it deliberately. Tonight, if I would be, and I name it, anything in this world, then let me assume now that I am the man that I want to be remaining in it. Let me view the world and see it mentally as I would see it were it true. If I do, I am delighting in the law of God. And in all that I do, I prosper. No one can stop it, but no Matter how I do it, I cannot earn the grace because the grace cannot be earned. The grace is a gift. Because it is a gift, it is unconditional. And that's my glorious concept. In this world, no one can fail. No one can fail. So if tonight you be a pauper of paupers, when in the fullness of time God is calling you, you'll receive the kingdom. And the greatest in this world does not compare to the least in the kingdom. The greatest in this world doesn't compare to the least in the kingdom. So you may be at so you may be at the moment when you are called unknown, poor as a church mouse, with not a thing in this world to support your entrance, but you don't need it. You become heir, the heir of God at that moment when the fullness of time has come. But in the interval, waiting for the fullness of time, use God's law. Someone was recently complaining to me about taxes. Or somebody mentioned this to me about a year ago, and I think we were speaking about moving to Italy or Portugal or Spain or France or whatever. And they said, well, over there, you pay this or you have to pay that. I whipped. I whipped back. Everywhere you are, Caesar is. So what's the difference? And in what we're learning together, who cares what Caesar? It does not matter what Caesar's demands are. That doesn't matter. When you use the law, you will prosper. Caesar will get his share because you'll be happy to give him his share. It's nothing but a thing. But in the interval, waiting for the fullness of time, use God's law. God's law will never fail you. But it doesn't qualify you to receive his grace. Remember, just because you're using the law wonderfully, doesn't mean it puts you in the front of the line for his grace. If you could qualify to receive his grace, then it isn't grace. For grace means unmerited gift in quotes, something given without merit on your part. It is love in action that isn't earned by the one to whom it is given. You couldn't earn it. On the other hand, if you've done something of which you are ashamed. May I comfort you? The 11th chapter of Romans. God has consigned everyone to disobedience that he may have mercy upon all. Verse 32. Were it not for divine mercy, no one could be saved. But Divine mercy chose us in Himself, before the foundation of the world. He chose me. He chose you when he emptied Himself upon me. I do not remember. I have had moments where I have had remembrances of the thrill. It was a thrill. May I tell you, it wasn't pain to me, whatever. It was to God, who nailed Himself upon me, that I do not know. But to me on whom he nailed Himself. For I am the cross. This is the tree on which he hangs. And when he nailed upon. And when he nailed Himself upon me, the tree became alive. Excuse me. And it was a thrill. There was no pain whatsoever, as far as I'm concerned. It might have been a pain to him who so loved me that he hanged Himself upon me. It may be. And so we're told by Blake. The gods of the earth and the sea sought through nature to find this tree. But their search was all in vain. There grows one in the human brain. Songs of experience. So here on my brain he is nailed, and the extension is right on this body. For as far as I'm concerned, it was no pain. It was ecstatic delight, supreme delight when he made me alive. And then he cleaved to me, remained faithful to his love, and then he awoke me. Today I can say with Paul, I now bear on my body the marks of Jesus. The. The birth from above. The memory of it is so vivid. The resurrection from the grave is so vivid. The discovery of David is so vivid. The splitting of this body from top to bottom and the ascent up the spinal cord into my skull are so vivid. All these marks of Jesus I bear upon my body. So I know that this is the last time he has completed his work in me. And he had to bring forth only one child. Listen to the words. Third chapter, 16th verse of Galatians. And here he promises to bring forth one. The Greek word really means seed. And the King James Version translate the word as seed. But to give it meaning, in the modern translation, the Revised Standard Version, they translate the word seed as offspring. And so we're told in Galatians 3:16 that this offspring. And they said he does not say offspring meaning many, but offspring meaning one, which is your offspring, which is Christ. Now, when you hear the word Christ, you think automatically, if you're a Christian, of Jesus Christ. The word Christ in Greek is the identical word of the word Messiah in Hebrew, identical. The word means anointed. So I bring forth Christ, my offspring. And you think only in terms of Jesus Christ. Go back, anoint him. This is he. Go back into the ones, into first Samuel. And who is spoken of, that is he. Rise and anoint him. He is my chosen one. 1612. It's David. Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee. Psalms 2:7. He is the anointed. It is David who appears. David is the anointed. Well then, who is Jesus? God is himself, you are He. For when God succeeds in giving you Himself, who gives you himself. Therefore you who began in time, when he, your husband, your maker, is your husband. The Lord of hosts is his name. The husband must leave everything and cleave to his wife until they become one. When you become one, he who was your maker, who so loved you, who became the husband. When you become one, you have an offspring. The offspring proves to you who you are. But the offspring is God's only begotten son, who is the anointed David. And then you see him. Everyone will bring forth only one. And that one is God's Son. People can't quite see the mystery that Jesus. The word Jesus means Jehovah saves. That's what the word means. It really, it is really Jehovah. And Jehovah's name is I am. And so when the child appears, he is the son of I am. In the Old Testament, it's revealed to us in the most marvelous way. But man can't quite believe the word Jesse means I am. We have all kinds of Jesse's in the world. People name themselves Jesse, Jesse this, Jesse that, Jesse that. And to them it's a name. The word Jesse is I am. Well, whose son are you? I am the son of Jesse. That's what David said. And who is Jesse? I am. So when you come forward, you come forward. Because he so gave you himself. You are one with God. But how will I know it? Wait, just wait a little while. And then a child will be brought from you. When the child comes, you'll know him. He will always. He was always the Son of God. Now he's your son. Therefore you are God. So the purpose of this whole fabulous, wonderful drama is to bring forth his predetermined purpose. And the purpose is to give himself to me, to you, to all of us, as though there were no others in the world. Just you and God in the beginning. And finally, only you as God. That's the great sacrifice. He completely gives himself to you. There aren't two anymore. The only heaven is your own. The only heaven is your Son, bearing witness of your fatherhood. And the son is David. Listen to this piece back here. I am the son of Jesse. I am the son of I am. I wanted to interject that, but I didn't want to stop the paragraph because a profound flow that was going in that Paragraph. But that is. I am the. That's what David says. I am the son of Jesse. I am the son of. I am. When you see the son, you're seeing the son because you're the father. You're. I am David, who you bear witness to now, who calls you Father. And his father is Jesse. His father is I am makes you I am. Jesse's telling you I am the son of I am. You're my father makes you I am. I am. What is that name? That's the name of God. But in the meanwhile, we apply the principle of his law. Blessed is. Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord. For in all that he does, he prospers. And the law is conditional. No respecter of person. You could be the wisest, the loveliest, the kindest person in the world. You begin to feel sorry for yourself. And you're entering the state that will bear the fruit of that state. And you'll have every reason in the world to feel sorry for yourself. Listen to the words. You begin to feel sorry for yourself. It could be at any moment. It isn't as if you're just in this state all the time that you're in. And all of a sudden you feel sorry for yourself. And you don't fall into that state. No, you can fall into that state. Right when you start feeling sorry for yourself. Then you'll start bearing the fruits of that state, seeing all the reasons why you should feel sorry for yourself. Don't envy anyone. They're only in a state. They're either in that state deliberately, knowingly, or they entered it unwittingly. I ask you to enter every state knowingly. You can be healthy, you can be wealthy, you can be famous. And you can be anything in this world. And there's no man in the world based upon the state that he occupies today who is worthy of your admiration. No person in the world. Someone is in a state where he's acclaimed as a great person. It's only a state. And people bow before the state and make of it a God. There's only one God, and his name is I am. So someone goes by. I have seen it a few years ago in San Francisco. And may I tell you, I admire General MacArthur. A marvelous. To me, he's a grand, wonderful man. I admire him as a true, great American and a leader of men. No question about it. He entered this country after years abroad. A friend of mine in San Francisco, a very able lawyer. He acted like a little child of about three You've never seen such devotion, such complete hypnosis. When the General drove by, the crowd was hailing him for what he'd done for our country in the last war and in the first war. But this man, he would have followed him right straight to a gallows and put his neck in the place of the General. You've never seen such worshipfulness. And. And I wondered, I said to myself, what is it all about? He's been coming to my meetings for years. And he can't see a state moving by. Recognize the state of greatness. Recognize a state. But to identify the individual as a state, he could tomorrow fall from that state. And the same one will wonder what happened to his hero, not knowing it was a state. Where is Stalin? Where is Hitler? Where is Gering? Where? Mention all of them. Trujillo, with all their statues and cities and towns named after them to be perpetuated forever. Suddenly the state is vacated and the little occupant is decapitated. Blank space. These are all states. So don't worship any being in the world. Worship only God. God is really your husband. Love the man whose name you bear. Love the woman who bears your name. But in the end, they are shadows of the relationship of God and man. These are only shadows. Your real husband is God, and he's more faithful than any man in this world could ever be to you. And so they're married for 50 years and sired many. I think of one mentioned earlier. So after 30 odd years, leaving behind his many children, he marries another who has one, who has four children. No criticism. Perfectly all right. His father outlived his mother by a couple of years, and then he married a widow that he'd known through the years. Perfectly all right. And so he married her. God will never marry anyone other than you, but no one in this world he loves more than he loves you. And you are individually his only love. That's the mystery. He could never divorce you for another. And in his life, because he is life itself, you could never die, because he is life. He is wedded to you. And he's so wedded to you that he's determined to prove to you his love in the begetting of his son. And when he brings his son forth, it's your son, your boy. And strangely enough, in that little phrase, one person in Christ Jesus is a phrase used in Matthew. You're his father. For God is a father and the heart of a father. Though he picks you out as his bride, when he completes the process, you are he, but he wasn't a bride. He was father. That's the mystery. He trans. He transforms you into himself. And he was, before he wedded you, a father. And so he transforms you his bride. You are his emanation, yet his wife, till the sleep of death is over. When the sleep of death is over, you're transformed into him. And he was, before he wedded you, a father. And so you are a father, and there is your son. Now let us go into the silence. You're imagining lovingly, whether your eyes are still open or whether they're closed. You see a friend, you see a relative sharing the good news with you, and how they've never had so much and never felt better. And you're hugging them, shaking their hand, high fiving, congratulating them on their new success. Isn't it wonderful? Thank you. Good question. Inaudible the question is, I speak so often of the fullness of time. This is taken from the book of Galatians, the fourth chapter. When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were born under the law. Verse 4. Everything has its own appointed hour. All pregnancies in the world. At what moment in time. After the nailing of the cross within you, he impregnated you with himself to beget you in his own likeness. I do not know at what moment in time. No one could be animated in this world. No one in this world could live and breathe were it not because of God nailed upon him. The second chapter, the 20th verse of Galatians. I have been crucified with Christ. It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh. I live by the faith in the Son of God. There are two. One says, by the faith in the Son of God, and one is in his faith. So you can take your choice, either because of his faith or my faith having failed him. But I am crucified, for I have been crucified with Christ. So the act is finished. My crucifixion is through, yours is through, everyone's is through. Or we couldn't be here but at one moment after the union. For to me, a cross is a spiritual wedding. So it's done at that moment the wedding takes place. But when after the union, were you impregnated with himself? You know, you got to look at the. You got to look at the crazy hilariousness with which. Why the series of aliens, the movie, the first one and the second one, mostly I would say those first two were such good and amazing hits. And it's this whole concept right there that we're talking about. You were impregnated by him. But when, after the union, were you impregnated with himself? He animates you. I am alive. But when would I be impregnated? I rest assured, when the fullness of time has come, his son will come forward and call me Father. It has to. For the Son only has so much time between impregnation and externalization. So when will he come? Well, again Habakkuk. It seems long wait, for it is sure and it will not be late. For every vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens, it will flower. If it seemed long wait, Habakkuk two, three. So I cannot tell anyone. Was this the night that infinite love embraced me? Was it that moment in time when I stood in his presence and he embraced me and I became one with his body that he impregnated me? I must confess, it was infinite delight. It was sheer ecstasy when he embraced me and I became one with his body. Was that the moment of impregnation? I don't know. I know he knows. Today I bear the marks of Jesus on my body. So he can't impregnate me with anyone but that. And brings forward David to cry Father. Now, whether that was that moment in time, that doesn't go back very far. You know, I go back to the age when I was about 20, 21. And so this happened in 1959. And so it wasn't too long if that was the moment. But I cannot speak with authority. I know what's happened, but I cannot definitely state that that was the moment of impregnation. Prior to that, I lived as everyone lives in the world, and I am an animated being as well are, and as we all are animated beings. But was that the moment when I stood in his presence and answered correctly that love was the greatest thing in the world, for he can only bring forth love. He calls David, but the very word David means my beloved. And so was it that when he said to me, what is the greatest thing in the world? And I answered, faith, hope, and love. These three. But the greatest of these is love. Was that the moment then he embraced me and we became one, but really one, not two. And I was the body of the being who asked the question. And I stood in the presence of infinite love, who is God. So was that the moment of impregnation? I don't know if that was. Doesn't take long between blank space and fulfillment. Good night. Whoa. What a very, very powerful session. The lectures unre the cross May 17, 1963. And we're going to see you in the next one.