The Marks of Jesus – Neville Goddard (04‑13‑1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures the marks of Jesus April 13, 1965 if you're keeping tight score at home, you know what this is about. Tonight's subject is the marks of Jesus. Next Friday we will take inner talking. But this week, because Christendom speaks of it as Holy Week, I thought I would take this subject tonight. The marks of. Of Jesus. Paul said, henceforth let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus. Paul had attained to an assured. I know no longer to walk by pure faith, but by experience. Paul experienced in his holy body the entire drama of Jesus Christ. You can say of him, he is Jesus Christ. And you can say of it, of everyone who bears the marks of Jesus. And everyone will bear the marks of Jesus. So he was very critical about just what we're doing today. After 2,000 years, we're now celebrating a Holy Week and Holy days. This is April 13th, so we're in the Easter period. This coming Thursday will be Maundy Thursday, where the Pope will wash feet of a few and others will simply do the same thing. Maundy. Excuse me. M A U N D Y Maundy. Many ministers will do it then come Sunday, which is Easter. And were you in New York City on Easter? If the day permits. But even in the most inclement weather in the world, you will see hundreds of thousands of people parroting, parading, excuse me. Their finery coming out of their churches. One dressed more expensively than the other, then others advertising all kinds of things at the same time. All the pickpockets in the world are out. I tell you, that's the Holy day. And all the cops disguised as detectives, all people in civilian clothes to protect those who are simply displaying their finery. But every pickpocket in the east, you'll find them right there on Fifth Avenue this coming Sunday. That is the Holy day. So Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, made the statement, you observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid I have labored over you in vain. 4, 10. For he knew if you started one day as a holy day, set it apart, you wouldn't stop there. You'll go on to a second day and a third, and finally you'll make it a week. Then you're going to have a month, then you're going to have a holy season, then a holy year. A few years ago we had what was called a Marian Year. That was a Holy year. Something apart. Good Friday. The story of speaking of an entirely different subject. Inner talking but this coming Friday, it will be three hours. I recall a few years ago, I went to a bank between the hours of 12 to 3 in Beverly Hills. I go there once a week, twice a week. And I knew the guard well. So when I got there at one, he said to me, why aren't you in church? And he meant it. He was serious about it. He was being a very holy person coming to a bank. Yet the employee, too, and everyone in the bank, they were clothed for one purpose. For a showcase. For a bank has but one purpose in this world. To make money. When the sun is shining, they loan you an umbrella and call it, and call for it when it starts to rain. And they all do it all over the world. What's the policy of a bank? They're only for one purpose, to make money. Hey, it's Caesar, Caesar and his ways. And so he is giving me a lecture. Why aren't you in church? And he represented. And he representing as a guard at the bank, didn't know a thing, not the slightest thing about the crucifixion. So when Paul asks. Excuse me. So when Paul speaks of bearing the marks of Jesus upon his body and in his body, he is not speaking of any stigmata. For I'll tell you from experience, there is no blood flowing from the hands, no blood from the skull, no blood from the feet, and no blood in spite of all the churches from the side. It's the most delightful experience in the world. Exclamation point. He said, I have come only to fulfill Scripture. And so the 42nd Psalm is the fulfillment. One night, it started last Sunday, that was called the entrance into Jerusalem. And I went with the throng and led them in gay procession into the house of God. Verse four. That's. Well, that's into Jerusalem, the house of God. And Jerusalem is within you. That is blank space above you, your wonderful skull. And here there were glad shouts and sounds of thanksgiving. And then he spoke of this festival, a multitude keeping festival. And that's true, an enormous multitude, all dressed in the most colorful clothes. And you do go, and you lead them in procession to the house of God. They're all looking for a king. But a voice, a voice of authority describes the king not to their liking. It describes a quite different king. And they do not like the king that the voice describes. They are looking for a king who would save their souls and lift them high. The voice describes the king that has no pomp, no pomp and circumstance, no earthly origin of royalty. Something entirely different. A king that is The King of Kings, that is God himself. The voice describes this king of Kings as one who so loved you that he laid himself down within you to sleep. And as he slept, he dreamt a dream. He's dreamed, yes, He. He's dreaming that he's you. That is the entrance into Jerusalem. And the same night that he leads them in procession into the house of God is the night of his crucifixion. Not separated by any six days as the so called holy Week can commemorated that very night. When the voice describes this king of Kings who sleeps in you as God, then you actually will feel the sensation of being nailed to this body. And your hands become vortices, your head a vortex, your side of vortex and your feet. Vortices. I can't describe in words and I can't convey to you the emotion that accompanies this act, but it's sheer ecstasy. No pain. Sheer, sheer ecstasy. I have to say something real quick. When my teacher harpooned me in that dream I had where I literally, whatever body I was in, it transformed, it died, it was no longer alive, period. And then I went into a new ghost self, I guess like Neville when he had. When he, When Neville birthed himself out of his head, he was in the room and they couldn't see him. But in my case, when my teacher shot me with a harpoon, two points I want to make. She shot me right, left of my belly button. To me looking down, it's on the left of my belly button. And that killed that body that I was in. Don't know why I was a harpoon. They haven't figured out that symbolism yet. But I just realized something else. One other point was that I can actually start communicating with about seven different people that were present. And we were above each other communicating. So there was a physical version of the people that were in front of me on the scene of me that just got harpooned and killed. But then above that was an instantaneous, simultaneous conversation with all seven of them at once. And I was completely aware of what was being communicated back and forth in each of those simultaneously. But the funny thing about this is that this idea of the vortices is that when she punctured me with this huge harpoon and it went through my body, I gave her a bunch of business the following class too. I was like, man, you know what you did? But the funny thing is about these vortices and about the hands, the six, right? There's two feet, there's two hands, there is the side and I believe. The head, I believe. Okay, so there's six. So I actually have a birthmark left of my belly button. And somewhere in all the years of metaphysics, somewhere in my studies, I did read somewhere that that's a leftover from a previous whatever you want to say, incarnation. I don't buy that. But the idea is it's there. And it's funny, in hindsight, I didn't realize that's right where the harpoon got me that vision. It was full blown lucid vision I was experiencing when she nailed me with a harpoon. It literally came right through me. And I think it stuck in me. Basically. Definitely killed that body I was in. And it was my teacher shooting me with that thing. She was not ecstatic about that. When I told her that in class, she was just like, what the heck are you talking about? Oh. But that brings it all back. And I finally kind of putting that together a little slight bit right there. I'm telling you a lot of these things. Write down, share them, record them, because later on they'll come. This was years ago when I shared that in class. That would be 2007, somewhere in there. I have it in my binders over here. Continuing. So this leading into the holy city called Palm Sunday and the crucifixion. There are two supernatural events that take place the same night. And they precede by years the great resurrection. Not by simply a few days, as we're going to celebrate it this week, for we're going to celebrate the resurrection on Sunday. And we tell of the entrance of last Sunday. We're going to tell of the trial this coming Friday and the washing of the feet this coming Thursday doesn't come at all. And so these two events, separated as we keep it alive by almost a week, come the same night. Then years later, the marks of Jesus begin to appear in your body. And that begins with the resurrection. That's the first great mark when you awake within yourself to discover the whole thing is about you. When you break the shell, your own skull and roll that stone away and you come out and you are born, born from above. That's another mark. All these marks follow one after the other until you come to the very end, or the seal of approval, the Holy Spirit. Now, we are told in scripture, that seal would be the dove, the descent of the dove and the. And the affection of the dove upon you, kissing you all over. Now, we are told in scripture, the disciples did not understand anything that he did until after the resurrection. So he washed their feet and said to them. What I am doing now, you do not know, but you will understand afterwards. John 13:7. That understanding did not come until the marks began to appear in them. For, said he, I tell you what I know and bear witness to what I have seen, and you do not receive my testimony. If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ever ascended into heaven but he who descended the Son of man. John 3:11 13 and so what does it mean to us? What did he tell them of the earth that they could not and would not believe? It is answered in the drama that we are going to celebrate this coming Friday. One said to him, are you a king? And he answered, pilate, you say that I am. Do you say this of your own accord, or do you say it because others told you about me? John 18:34 and then he said, for this purpose I was born. For excuse me. For this purpose I was born. And for this I came into the world to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is, every one who is of the truth hears my voice. Listen to that. When you heard Neville for the first time, that's what was happening. And you are attracted. That's what was happening. Everyone who listen to the quote, for this purpose I was born, and for this I came into the world to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. John 18:37. If you've heard Neville, that's what it's about. You believe him. Pilate said to him, what is truth? Didn't answer. He turned to the crowd. He. He said, I find no crime in this man. But you have a custom at the Passover. One man is released to you. Shall I release the king of the Jews? And they said, no, not this man, but Barabbas. Then he adds, and Barabbas was a robber. Here is the king that is sound asleep in man. Can you release him? You can't release him. He's not yet awake. Can't release that. Because mortal mind, mortal eye cannot see him. They don't know who he is. They're looking for him coming from without. It doesn't come that way at all. He tells you his kingdom is not of this world. It has not earthly space. It doesn't come with any pomp and circumstance, no fanfare whatsoever, no proud, strange earthly aristocracy. For when these marks begin to appear within you, and I'll tell you now, and I'll prophesy for you, you'll meet no one on the face of this earth before whom you will bend a knee. You will see no one, regardless of claims of society, claims of country that you will think for one second a member of the true aristocracy. You will recognize no aristocracy except the aristocracy of the spirit. But no one by the actions of the physical but no one by the actions of physical birth could in any way cause you to blank space when you begin to bear the marks of Jesus in your body. It's the only aristocracy in the world, the aristocracy of the spirit. So here he's on trial. Trial where? As it will be reenacted this year. No, that's not the trial that comes now into this level when they begin to discuss the releasing of a man called Barabbas, who was a robber. Barabbas was a robber. And here is one, the king of kings, but not of this world. And they want Barabbas released. It's a good statement. It's a very wise request. Release Barabbas, but don't release the savior of the world. Well, what would you say? Excuse me. Well, what would save me tonight if I discover him within me? And he laid himself down within me to dream as he told me that he did? Well, these are not words I read in the book. These are not the words that I ever heard from the lips of any man who walked the face of this earth. These came directly to me when I led this crowd in this gay procession into the house of God. And the voice described the king that no one was, was looking for an entirely different king. Then the voice said, he laid himself down within me to sleep. And as he slept, he dreamed a dream. And I knew exactly with the end of that sentence, he's dreaming that he's me. That's when I felt the great vortices that nailed me to this body. But they laughed at it. They laughed at the possibility of this king. They laughed at the possibility that he could be in me. And when the voice said yes, in the act of waking, she became hysterical. The one who was at my right became hysterical, could not for one second believe it. To come down to this stage. Well, she couldn't believe it. So this crowd was asked if I had not become emotional and found myself nailed and jumped from the state of procession into the crucifixion, I would have heard the entire drama. Release Barabbas. Well, Barabbas, tonight, if I am in search of a goal and I'm not quite attaining it, if I have an objective, if I have a goal and I'm not attaining it, I must release Barabbas Who's Barabbas? That state of consciousness that tells me I am not now the man I want to be the robber. For Jesus Christ is the answer. He is the yes to all God's promises. So God promised me, whatever I desire, believe that I have it and I will. Whatever I desire, believe that I have it and I will. Mark 11:24, that's his promise. So I will assume that I am the man that I want to be. Reason denies it and my senses deny it, as I accept the evidence of my senses and not that which I am assuming that I am. Then I'm entering. Excuse me. Then I'm entertaining Barabbas. I must now release Barabbas to pass over, to pass from my present state, desiring into the state of the desire fulfilled, I must release the state that now binds me. That's my Barabbas. That's the thief and the robber that robs me of the man that I could be. For I can be the man that I dare to assume that I am. So if I assume that I am it, and having assumed it, reason now disturbs me and pulls me back into what it dictates. I am keeping company with Barabbas. So the story is, release Barabbas, but do not let me go now that you have found me. Hold on to me, but let all these go. Let Barabbas go. So everyone here can take this and put it into a practical state. Tonight you don't have to wait till Friday. For every moment in time is this crossway in life. And so tonight you come to crossway A. You know exactly what you want as against what you have. Release what you have and hold on to what you want to be until it becomes present, it becomes something that is now and something that is here. So we take the dream of the future and something of a distance, and we bring the there here. And we bring then now and hold onto it and fix ourselves in that state. So that's on this level. So he tells us. And this should comfort everyone in the world who would read it. This is the fourth chapter of the Book of Acts. Truly, truly, in this city there were those against the holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel. Verse 26. Now he names all. You can't go beyond it. All Gentiles would be everything outside of the people of Israel, regardless of race, regardless of nationality. They would be the heathen relative to Israel. Then he includes Israel and all the people of Israel. He includes the leader of the Gentiles, Punctius, Pilate. He includes the leader of Israel, Herod, the one who spoke for Israel, having put them all together, opposing thy child, thy holy child, Jesus, whom thou didst anoint. But now what were they gathered to do? Gathered to do whatever thy hand and thy plan had predestined to take place. Verse 28. How could we take this up this coming Friday and blame anyone in this world when the whole vast world is gathered together to be pitted against this holy child that thou hast anointed? They're doing it now according to your plan, according to your hand that you had predestined for it to take place. Can you reach any other conclusion than that? Something that is taking place in you that no power in the world can stop. If the whole vast world is arrayed against it, they can't stop it. So you bring the entire world, the Gentile world, the whole world of Israel and their leaders, and pit them against the Holy Child. And the Holy Child would not be stopped, could not be stopped. He has to be born. But it takes all of this pressure to oppose him, to bring him to birth. Listen to that statement. And these are the marks in the body of Jesus. You will bear them in your body. Let's call those birthing pains. Oh, boy. Those who are not interested. All right, they aren't interested, but they will eventually become interested. I take it for granted that you are here because you are interested. And if you have not yet borne one of the marks, you'll bear all the marks when they start to appear in your body. They come one after the other, and you can say with them, henceforth, let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus. Galatians 6:17. No gaping wounds in my hands, no blood running. The only blood you will ever see is a glorious blood of refined gold. Pure, pure alloy or alloy. And there you will see it as you see it. You will know I am it. And you fuse with the blood of God. It's yours anyway. You are the life of God, and the life is in the blood. And you behold it. As you behold it, you become one with it. And up you ascend. As told in scripture, no one ascends into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. You ascend as the Son of Man. Therefore you must have descended. He has descended. He has descended. And now he's sound asleep in every being in the world, dreaming dreams, noble dreams sometimes, and horrible dreams at other times, because all dreams proceed from God. So whether it be a waking dream called the daydream, or whether it be the dream of the night, there's only one origin, and that origin is God. God is the dreamer in man. Your own wonderful human imagination. That's God. He's the dreaming. Excuse me. He's dreaming every dream in this world. Most of them are nightmares, horrors. But in the end, he will awake and it will be like a dream in the night. The whole thing vanish from sight as you awake and you are he. Just listen to that last sentence. The whole thing is a horror. This is like a dream of the night. When he awakes in you, you are awake. This was a dream that he was dreaming. There is no way you could feel alone ever. If anybody is here. I think maybe we all have had the feeling at one time or another. But in the comfort of this now, knowing if you have gone through all these videos so far, you now know you can't be alone. There is no alone. There is no alone. You're never alone. It's a wonderful, wonderful feeling. So here, this wonderful drama hasn't a thing to do with a special week of the year. I agree. It could come any moment in time. You can lead them in procession to the House of God. It could come in the middle of July, it could come in cold December. It need not fall on a Friday at this season of the year, because the night you're going to lead them in procession would be the very night you're going to be crucified. And then you will see what glory it is to be crucified. It's a joy beyond the wildest dream of man. Can't describe it. It's sheer. Sheer ecstasy, that's what it is. I have a book by an artist. It's a small book he put out in the 80s by the artist named Raymond Ginn. His pen name was Raymond Pettibone, but he didn't want to be known as Ray Ginn back when Reagan was the president. So he called himself Raymond Pettibone. He drew all the art for his brother's band, his brother being Greg Ginn. But he had on one of his books, one of his small booklets. They were like a. They were like a. He made them by hand and he folded them, he stapled in the middle, and there was a little booklet of art. And he did all the flyers for that band, for his brother's band and became very well known. Very, very interesting art. On one of those pieces of art. It was an image of it looked like, let's just say what we would think of Jesus being crucified. Like it was on the TV in the background. I'll have to find this. I have it somewhere. But what was interesting was the caption that read. And the ones there was three, let's say, raiment, you know, robes, and Jesus looking. I guess we know now it's got to look like you. It can't look like something else. But in this image, it looks like what would be portrayed as a picture of Christ on the cross. Then it looks like people who look like him are looking at him in celebration. And they're sitting there saying, while they're looking at him on the cross, oh, this is wonderful, wonderful. One of us made it. Just like one of our groups finally made it. And it always struck me as very curious. And I was super curious about that whole thing. And, you know, now that I consider what that comical display was about as I read this exact few lines. Very interesting. A lot of people who are artists really kind of have a different view than the rest of us, for sure. Where are they getting those inspirations from? Where do dreams come from? I thought it was very curious. I'll have to dig it out and see if I can make sure it says exactly that. And then you will see what glory it is to be crucified. It's a joy beyond the wildest dream of man. Can't describe it. It's sheer, sheer ecstasy. That's what it is. And then you will bear all the marks on your blank space because you feel it, you experienced it. He's only talking of what he experienced, of the drama of Jesus Christ. So the drama of Jesus Christ is an acted parable, as he stated it so clearly in his letter to the Galatians. We read it as secular history. It's not secular history at all. It's an acted parable that you reenact supernaturally just as though you went to the theater tonight and saw the whole drama unfold before you. Then you don't understand it. As he said, you will not understand these now, but you will understand afterwards. We are called upon, if sent into this world, to do it. We're called upon to read from the book, from the law of God clearly read it with understanding and give the sense as you read it, so that those who hear with understanding. Excuse me. Read it with understanding and give the sense as you read it, so that those who hear with understanding. And so how can you read with understanding if you're not reading from experience or Believe the one who has had the experience. If you're going to read it as millions of churches or hundreds of thousands of churches will read it this coming Sunday and tell the story of the Resurrection, they haven't the slightest concept of what it's all about. The Resurrection is not anything that took place in the Near East. No earthly tomb ever held him. The only tomb that ever held him is seated right here. And standing. This is the tomb. And standing here on this platform, these are the tombs that hold Him. And in this tomb, while I walk the earth, he rises not at the end of time, but within me. That's when he rises. Excuse me. Not at the end of time, but within time. That's when he rises. He rises within us, one after the other. There's only one being who rises, only Jesus Christ. But when he rises, you are He. When you awake, there is no other. I am He. So now he tells the story. I will tell you this before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe I am He. When you read these words, you think a man is talking to you, or the evangelist is recording a conversation between a man called Jesus and a disciple. That's not the drama. Listen to it carefully. Now I will tell you I'm in meditation. I am reading a book. It's the law of God. I'm trying to read it clearly with understanding so that I will understand what I read as I read it. It is telling me in the volume of the book, it's all about you. Psalm 47. So now I will tell you before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am he. John 13:19. Well, now he's going to tell me something that's going to take place. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. John 3:14. So that's what I've told you. So something in the depth of my soul is telling me that in the volume of the book, it is all about me. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must I, the Son of man, be lifted up. And when it happens to you, you'll know that I am He. For when it happened to me, I did know that I am He. Didn't happen to another. There was no other. It was all done to me. And so, having been done to me, then I am He. So I will tell you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you will know I am He. There's only I am. That's the name of God. So the whole vast world is looking for him to come, but they've forgotten his name. His name is I Am. So when he comes, it happens to Him. But it happens to Him. But it happened to me. Well, what's his name? I Am. So you can say as it happens, it is happening to me. Therefore it's happening to God. God, for that is his name. Excuse me. It is happening to God, for that is his name. His name is I Am. So we take all these stories and we read them. And as we read them, we try to understand them. And then we go back to these words. You don't understand it now, but you will. But I'll tell you now, before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe I am He. Well, tell me another one. Well, I'll tell you another one. When you see me. And you just said I am He. Well, when you see me, you see the Father. Well, that's insane. All right, wait. I'll tell you before it takes place, and in a way no one knows. When you see me, you see the Father, but I don't have a child. All right, you wait. You will see the Father, and when you see the Father, you'll know I am He. But how can I see the Father? I stand in his presence and look at him. No. No one will ever know the Father, save through his Son. Only the Son knows the Father, and only the Father knows the Son. Therefore, only when the Son reveals the Father. One of those pieces of art, it was an image of the Father. And except that he reveals the Father, the Father remains completely unseen. Matthew 11:27. So I tell you, when you see me, you will know the Father. Wait for him. It will happen one night. It will happen in the way I've told you, only through the Son. The Son will come out of your own being. He will explode, stands before you. And then you know who you are. I am the Father, because here is my Son, and he's God's Son, God's only begotten Son. Psalms 2:7. So he looks into your face, and he calls you Lord. And Adonoi calls you my Father, the rock of my salvation. Psalm 89, 26. And you know it beyond all doubt. So there is another sign you bear on your body. The sign of the fatherhood of God. So it. I'm sorry it happened to you. Therefore you know who you are. You could go ask me another or tell me of the others. I must bear on my body. Well, you told me I would bear well, you told me I would bear in my body the death of Jesus. You'll tell me that I bear in my body the death of Jesus that I may experience the life of Jesus in my body. 2nd Corinthians 4:10. So I carry his death. He's so sound asleep in me that he appears to be dead. So I carry within me that I may have his life, which within me. And life is when these scars, these marks begin to appear within me. So now he tells me another one. When he seals you with his approval, seals you with the Holy Spirit. Does that happen too? Yes. I tell you before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am He. It's not going to happen to another. When it, when it, the dove comes down, it's going to light upon you and you will blank space. This being, he comes down on you and smothers you with affection, smothers you with kisses. Who is he smothering? He's smothering me. I am He. For if he descended only on this being, descends on me and smothers me with kisses, then I know I am he. So all of these are the marks of which Paul spoke. Let no one trouble me and argue about this point and that point. Don't trouble me, said he, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. If you must keep alive these little icons for days now and weeks and months and seasons and years, do it for after 2000 years we will keep them alive and still add to them here. A few years ago in Montreal, which is almost 100% Catholic, the Catholic Church brought action against the biggest department store in Montreal to force that store to close their doors on every Catholic holy day. Well, if you did it, the year isn't long enough because every day is the birthday of a saint or the birthday of someone else. So they fought it in court, and for business reasons, the judge brought in a verdict in favor of the department store, their biggest department store. Well, if they're closed for every church holiday based upon their so called creed, we would have no business at all. Luckily, the judge was a very honest man and a man not carried away by the arguments of the church. Well, this happened only a few years ago. So you start one day and you get another day, and you get a week, month, year and so on. So there aren't any holy days? No, he said that Sabbath was made for man, not made for the Sabbath. A few years ago you could do nothing on the Sabbath. Now today they almost all of us say we can do almost everything on the Sabbath. The blue laws are being ignored or taken from the books. Well, if they're not right today, they were never right, save in the warped minds of those who wrote them in blank space. New York City. A holiday can't start on Sundays until 2 and no bar can be open until 1. Why? Because people wouldn't go to church if a holiday could start at a reasonable, say, 11 o' clock in the morning. You couldn't get anyone in church. Oh, they'd be up in the ballpark, 65, 70,000 of them watching a good game. But to assure some attendance in church, they have a law and say you can't start the game until five minutes after two in New York City on Sunday and no bar can be opened till 1. Well, they may have a good thing in a certain way, but not everyone thinks so. But here is this holy day, holy week that they are now about to celebrate and keep alive. Fascinating Paul, the greatest apostle of them all. And I am convinced that the story of Paul from my own experience must be the story of every man and woman in this world. For when I was taken into the presence of the risen Christ, he asked the question that prompted the answer. In the words of Paul and a friend of mine who is now back east. I gotta make a comment about this. My wife and I were driving one time. We were driving, I think we were on the panhandle of Golden Gate Park. We lived in San Francisco area in our business at one time and it was a 49er game, obviously, but we don't, we didn't. We don't, we don't take too much. We don't take into, you know, take to the sports. We're driving down the panhandle, I believe, and we're passing a bar and it just seemed to be full to the rafters with people in 49er jerseys just hooping and hollering and just having a time of it. So when he described all of that, I don't know what time of day that was. I can't remember at all. But it was definitely on a Sunday. I'm sure because of the, you know, the football game schedule at the time. This is about the year 2001. I just remember seeing this crowd stacked and packed inside of that side of that bar just like, wow, look at that. The fervor of it all. Just the madness. So it's a hilarious thing that they had some blue laws in New York City that you couldn't start a game till after one or nobody Would go to church. That is funny. Back to the book. For when I was taken into the presence of the risen Christ, he asked the question that prompted the answer in the words of Paul and a friend of mine who is now back east. A young chap used to come here all the time. He's now back in New York. And when he had this mystical experience, it was in the words of Paul that he answered. He quoted the 20th verse of the second chapter of Galatians, I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh. I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. So it was in a classroom in a mystical sense, where he saw this board with a series of questions. No one, excuse me. With a series of questions on one and a series of questions on the other. He had to answer a few based upon that, to the right hand. His answer was as he wrote it out. It was based on the words of Paul. In my own experience, it was the word of Paul that I answered when the risen Christ asked me to name the greatest thing in the world. Just remember, this is the only answer you got to remember. You got to plant this one in there. From Corinthians, the 13th chapter of the First Corinthians, I answered, Faith, hope and love. These three abide. But the greatest of these is love. And with that answer, the risen Christ embraced me. Risen love, infinite love. Excuse me. And as he embraced me, we fused and became one. One. So I could state that I mean it from experience. Everyone will awake and everyone will be incorporated into the holy, excuse me, into the body of Christ. So in the end, there is only Jesus Christ, one being containing all without loss of identity. You got to figure when you're born, he's crucified upon you in that instance. So there's only one right now, before you're awake, even. No loss of identity. And still only one being. Jesus Christ. This fragmented God, blank space of Jesus Christ and his doctrine. And when I be lifted up, you will know who I am. I am He. So when you are lifted up, you know, I'm the one being lifted up. I am He. So everything said of him is so everything said of him. Man is going to experience, but everything. And then in the end, you leave this age. Sayonara. I was reading about John today, and in one passage by the exegesis, first time seeing this word ever. I'm gonna just pronounce it as it Reads exegesis. I was reading about John today, and in one passage, by the exegesis, it made the statement, of course we know that the word messiah, when you use the word Christ, mean the same thing. Then the. And then we use the word devil instead of the Hebrew word satan, as we use the word Christ, which is the Greek for messiah, which is Hebrew, but a word which we use the blank space, meaning the age, an infinite measure of time, called that age, as against this age. And it's the Greek blank space, but it's used in place of the Hebrew olam. And olam means eternity. Olam is called the world. And God put olam, you can call it that age if you want, call it eternity. But he put olam into the mind of man yet, so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11. So only the end, the eschatology brings it to the surface. When it comes to the end, the doctrine of the end, the marks begin to appear. And only then do you know what God put into the mind of man, put that new age into the mind of man. And when he's ripened after all the horrors of this dream, then he breaks the shell. And then all these marks begin to appear within him. The birth, the resurrection, the discovery of the fatherhood, the ascent of the Son of man, and this descent of the Holy Spirit, all these begin to appear within him. They come only at the end. He speculated. He tried to find out through reason, and not a thing happened. Only when it came to the very end. And then he broke it. It wasn't what the world was looking for. That's not the king that they sought. I wanted some mighty being to come charging through and slaughter my enemies and lift me up on high. It doesn't come that way. His kingdom is not of this world. So the most perfect man, born and raised on earth, he said, is not equal to the least in the kingdom of God. He said, among those born of women, none is greater than John the Baptist, yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Matthew 11:11. Here is John, trying to acquire merit by being, excuse me, by doing violence to his appetites, say neither eating nor drinking, and living the life of a hermit, simply suppressing every normal natural inclination.