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I Am the Lord Jesus Christ

A 46-minute talk by Neville Goddard, restored from an archived recording

Neville Goddard argues that every individual is a son of God who chose to descend into human form as an act of mercy. He equates the biblical "daughters of men" with one's own identity or emanation. He claims that awakening to one's true nature as Jesus Christ occurs through experiencing the scriptural pattern in oneself, not through external belief.

Filed under Everyone is you pushed out, The Promise and Self-concept.

Key passages

“We are told, I and my Father are one.”

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“Eternity exists and all things in eternity independent of creation which was an act of mercy.”

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“God became as we are, that we may become as he is.”

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Claiming Divine Identity

Trying over the weeks, months, and years to convince me that you really are the Lord Jesus Christ.

I'll try many angles.

Tonight I'll try another.

We are told, I and my Father are one.

At that, they took up stones again to show him.

And he asked them for what good works were they going to show him.

And they said, not for any good works, but for your blasphemies.

Because you being a man, make yourself God. God.

Then he said to them, is it not written in your law, I said your God?

And scripture cannot be broken.

If then he called them God, to whom the word of God came, then he who is consecrated by the Father and since, is he blaspheming when he claims, I am the Son of God?

This you will read in the tenth chapter of the book of John.

Sons of God and Daughters of Men

Now let us take a very interesting statement from early Genesis, the sixth chapter of Genesis.

Here we are told the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair.

And they took to wife such as they chose.

And the Lord said, my spirit shall not abide in man forever. ever.

For he is flesh.

The sons of God fell in love with the daughters of men.

If you take it on the surface, you will think a bunch of women and these gods fell in love with them.

But the word translated daughters is then.

The word then means son.

That's the first definition of it.

It also means everything related to man.

A robber, a soldier, a hero, a nation, a condition.

Look up the word in your concordance if you have one.

I'm using strong, which I consider the best concordance of the Bible.

Then what of the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took to wife such as they chose?

May I tell you who these daughters are?

Humanity.

This is God's emanation.

Yet he's white till the sleep of death is past.

You fall in love with whatever now you call yourself.

You call yourself Ray, call yourself Jan, call yourself Natalie, call yourself Neville.

These are emanations.

Now listen to this said in vision.

God Became Man So Man Becomes God

This is a true vision of Blake called the vision of the last judgment.

Eternity exists and all things in eternity independent of creation which was an act of mercy.

Can you conceive of everything in the world that man could ever do, or ever think of doing.

Existing now.

Eternity exists, and all things in eternity, independent of creation, which was an act of mercy.

Now he tells us of that act of mercy in one simple little statement.

And this is the act of mercy.

God became as we are, that we may become as he is.

Here is humanity, part of the eternal structure of the world.

And God, to raise it to the level of Godhood,

God had to descend.

It could not itself ascend, only that which first descended would ever ascend.

So the sons of God, and the sons of God, make God.

For the word God is true.

Elohim is made up of his son.

His sons are the power and the wisdom of God.

So I will not let my spirit, which is my son, abide forever in man, for he is blessed.

But my sons must be redeemed.

Now what is he telling us in the statement?

Listen to it carefully.

God became as we are, that we may be as he is. this implies that man is not naturally God. But that God mercifully becomes man. That man may become God. You are the God spoken of. You are the God that came down and you took as wife your choice. Whether you be male or female, you are the son of God. And you choose to play the part of John, Peter, Mary, call it what you will. You know exactly what you're going to go through. You saw the horrors of it all, but you are immortal. You are an immortal man. So you choose the part. I, I chose this. And I have gone through all the horrors of the world.

And the joy too. Because joy and pain and sorrow are woven fine. Are garments for the soul divine. So I chose it. And all the little things that it had to go through. I took it through. I did all the suffering, him. As Blake brings up again, they say there is no God. But who says that? The fool says in his heart there is no God. Or son of God. But I know thee. And he speaks now of the son of God. And he calls him the human imagination. They say there is no son of God. But I know, O divine body, O human imagination, when you arise upon my very eyes, every morning you feel it come back.

Don't you feel it come back when you wake in the morning? If you take a little nap in the day, don't you actually feel something return? For who is returning? It's you, the immortal you, the divine divine body of God is your own wonderful human imagination. So I tell you, we are the sons of God spoken of that saw humanity and it seemed so clear to us. Being immortal, we knew we could come down. And we chose the one we would call wife. So this is my wife. Neville is my wife. I have a wife in the world of Caesar. I now call her Bill, and together we bore a daughter. But my real wife is this thing called Neville.

Is my emanation. It's my emanation, yet my wife, till the sleep of death is past. The day will come, all of a sudden, I awake from the dream of life. Because I will not let my spirit abide in man forever, for he is flesh. So I came down into this and chose this. I take it through all the things of this world. And not one moment will I simply avoid the doing. I can't avoid it. When I come down into it, everything that relates to this thing called Neville, I must actually go through and play. And you go through it and you play. In the end, you will come out. And when you come out, you are still the son of God.

Redemption Through Identification

And collectively, as sons of God, we are God. But I am telling you from my own experience why you are here before you come out. Begin to claim it. I am not misleading you. I am telling you what I know from experience. Because you have the power while still in the garment of life, while you abide in your choice, you have the power to change things in the world you see. And you can do it. Anyone can do it if you believe that he really is that son of God. Now listen to these words. He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Now you have united the being that you are claiming as yourself to you.

So you say, I am Jan. All right. I am this. I am that. Now that's united to the Lord because you are the You were to lift up that conscious existence. You came down to this world to actually redeem humanity. The whole vast world is waiting eagerly, waiting for the revealing of the sons of God, as we are told in the eighth chapter of Romans.

I do not consider the sufferings of this present time worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us. Now the whole creation groans and waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God, for the sons are buried in the creation. And we, the sons, are going to bring up, having once identified ourselves with our choice, which is called in Scripture our wife. And the two shall become one.

I will not stop until we become one. And when you awake, may I tell you, you are conscious of the being that you are now. When I awoke in the grave of my own star, I was still conscious of being Neville. But how do I know that that was the Lord Jesus Christ? Because everything that is written encrypted concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, from then on I experienced it as myself.

I did not know at that moment that David would ever stand before me and call me father. I had no idea that that ancient character of scripture was contemplated. I did not know that the veil of the temple really was related to me. As told in the book of Hebrews, and the veil was torn from the top to the bottom, and that veil was his own flesh. Well, it is your own flesh, because your whole body is torn in two.

I had no idea that the doubt spoken of in scripture that actually would light upon my hand and smother me and remain with me, and then the whole thing will fail, or rather fail while it's remaining with me. So everything said of him I explained. Then I know who I am. Yet I'm still conscious of the fact that I Neville, I am taking him up with saying, I came down to redeem man.

You came down, we all came down, we are the gods. We are the sons of God. And to us, everything concerning man seems fair. But we call it God. But the word is Ben. And the word Ben means son in scripture. My son, Ben is my My son. That's what the word means. It also can be translated. As daughter. But when you take all the definitions. It means the nation. It means the condition. It means everything related to man. And I took upon myself. Everything related to man. Willingly.

No one takes away my life. I lay down myself. I have the power to lay down. I have the power to lift it up again. And so I laid it down and died. Died in the sense I completely forgot who I am. And believe I am the choice that I made. I believe I am Neville. But I will not leave him behind. I will lift him up and take him with me. For when I awoke within me, I was still Neville. Then all the things that happened to me bore witness that I am the one spoken of in Scripture that is called Jesus Christ. Yet I am aware I am Neville, I did not leave him behind. I place myself, I will redeem him.

Because if God became as we are that we may be as he is, does that not imply that we as man are not naturally God but that God's merciful act in becoming man that man may become God redeems man. We are the gods that came down and assumed these limitations to be deemed men. Because men will be helpless in themselves. Think of the whole vast world frozen and time -tending still. Everything frozen. But all that could ever happen to men already worked out. Every tear, every smile, every horror, everything worked out completely. And in spite of all of it, you and I as the gods, the sons of gods, who together make up God the Father, and we made our decision.

And you chose that, I chose this, and we chose it, and we came down. And actually assumed it. And then we go through the harvest. as told us in Isaiah I will now test you and try you in the furnaces of affliction for my own sake I do it, for my own sake for how shall my name be proclaimed my name I will not give to another for his name is I Am and now I say I Am Never so I have to make never myself to give it my own I did not drop it behind me when I walked within my town I was still nervous for I had the innate wisdom to know what to do for who is the wisdom of scripture Christ as we are told in the first chapter of Corinthians Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God now that wonderful 8th chapter of Proverbs which is a hymn in praise of wisdom.

It was with God in the beginning. As you are told, start it from the 22nd verse and go to the end. And this is all about wisdom. And wisdom is speaking. God possessed him at the beginning of his ways. For take this now not in terms of, say, time, but of ideas. The first idea. The pattern of redemption. That pattern is a pattern man. The pattern man is Christ. Now we are told that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. And Christ is in you, you're told. If God is in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and Christ is in us, is not God in us? Now the pattern is the pattern man.

You have completely control this and you walk and you suffer as Neville, as John, as Mary, as Ina, whatever it is, you're suffering with it. In the very end that peculiar eruption takes place and you awake. What you awake? And you're still Ina, you're still John, you're still man, you're still whatever it is, you awake. But you know now, Wisdom now comes to the fore. And exactly what to do. Where to put it. And what you do happens. And then you come out just as you know you would. And the whole thing happens just as described in Scripture. Now you know from the signs that are taking place one after the other who you really are.

Identity Preserved in Resurrection

But you haven't lost the identity of being God. Of being male. of being anything that was your choice when you chose it as your wife. You can choose anything. The wife simply means emanation. That was the emanation of God. This is an emanation. My emanation, yet my wife. Till the sleep of death is past. So I chose it. And what horrors I have gone through, but they have been removed until the end and then they will be as nothing. So I believe them because he could not believe himself. But I will not leave my spirit which is the spirit of power and wisdom to abide in man forever because he is flesh. I must bring him out as spirit for flesh begets flesh and spirit begets spirit.

So I must bring him out now as spirit. So Neville comes out as spirit and he is the Lord Jesus Christ because I who came down and assumed the limitations of this garden and was crucified on it waited until that appointed hour. I was promised in the beginning that the vision shown me in the beginning will one day ripen and it will flower. And if it seems in my sorrow to be long, wait, for it is sure and it will not be late. So I had to wait. And then that sudden eruption took place within me. And then I came out. And I hadn't lost any change of identity. I am still aware that I am the being that I was.

Only I know from the signs that follow, which brings who I know, who really am. I am no more than I was before I came down. Only augmented by the redemption of this thing that was part of the structure of the universe. So that's who we are. ¶I'm telling who you are. And before it happens to you, claim it. You're not making any false claim. Believe me. If you see that I'm arrogant in it, go back and read the tenth chapter of John. I and my father are one. And then there is a bit of stone. What stone? Stone from the street? No. The stone means the facts of life. We know who he is.

We know his hero. He's not his father Joseph. He's not his mother Mary. He's not her brothers, and they're named poor brothers. And they speak of sisters in the plural. And he dares to say God is his father. And he goes beyond that and claims that he is one with his father. Who men call God. What a blasphemy. So they take the facts of life and they throw the facts at him. not stolen from the streets, but all the facts. What can you do to the rational mind to appease them? What can you do? He's saying before now the prolification of a rational mind. And the rational mind said to him, because he now rules and he represents Jesus, Are you the king of the Jews?

And he said to him, do you know this of your own accord? Or did others tell it to you about him? And he answered, am I a Jew? He wasn't the purpose by that. He keeps on saying, my kingdom, he doesn't deny he's a king, my kingdom is not of this world. Then said he, so you are a king. Did you say that I am? For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth. No more do I I see that he is a king. He's not only king, he is king of kings. And Lord of lords. And that's you to be. ¶The crucifixion is over.

Completely over. I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me. This is out of first place. and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and became me. And so you are that son of God who fell in love with what you feel yourself to be now. You are that son of God and this that you fell in love with is crucified with you and so Neville is crucified with that which fell in love with him which was the son of God and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me became me so you fell in love with whatever you are now you may at moments to you, my Lord, why?

Why? How long? How long, Lord? But you fell in love with it. And may I tell you honestly, you wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. You would possibly like to enjoy some of the wealth that someone else has. But who on earth would really want to give up his identity for any other identity in the world? Can you conceive of any being in this world that you would like to be other in who you are, you would like to be comfortable as they are, but not at the expense of losing your identity. No one really would tell me honestly that I would like to be completely out of this thing and not ever be this thing and the other or other as far as wealth goes, but not at the loss of identity.

of it. That's your choice. You chose that. And then you came down and we all made our choice. Listen to the words. The sixth chapter of Genesis. And the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair. The new translation is that they were beautiful. And they chose as wise. Such as they wanted. Whatever they wanted. We had the choice. So I chose that time. Now I can't control it and move out and And experience anything on earth. I have to actually come down. And so I descend it. And in my descent. I have to completely forget. That I am the soul of God. And believe that I am never. And then go through all the things.

That never must go through. It was all written. And then I play the part. And then in the end. and that hour comes a sudden eruption takes place within me and memory returns for I have saved Neville. Now I've raised him to the level now taken him back so I am augmenting the power of God and the wisdom of God by experiencing that state called Neville. And in the end everyone is forgiven. children. Everyone is Christ. For we are the sons of God. Let no one tell you that the son of God is something of the outside. The son is made up of the sons of God. Listen to these words carefully. I say you are God.

Son of the most high. All of it. Nevertheless the lips. You shall die like men and fall as one man, O ye princes. That you will find in the Revised Candidate Version of the Bible. Normally it does not have fall as one man, but the literal translation of the Hebrew is you will fall as one man. So one man fell. That one man is called Jesus Christ. But it's fragmented. The sun's out. Because the one is made up of the many. The word is Elohim. It's a compound unity. One made up of many. So all are now scattered and we're the fragmented beast. And you chose what you are now wearing. I chose what I am wearing.

And who knows what anyone has gone through. So don't judge. We do not know what we have done, what we are doing, and what is in store for us. Not until the end. And the end comes, and then the sun begins to come out. For I will not leave my spirit. The spirit is the sun. I I will not leave my spirit in man forever. For he is fled. He has to redeem it and come out. I must have my son back. So now send out the call. Call my son from afar. And call my daughter from the ends of the earth. For the call now is to call us all back. And we're being called back.

And what a rejoicing when we all return. So I tell you, I know you in eternity. I know you more intimately than anyone in this world knows you. Because I know who you and I were before the descent. And coming back I will know you enhanced by reading of the choice you made and the part you played. All these we are playing. It's a play. The most glorious play. And so I will choose a garment made of white skin, one made of black skin, one made of one made a yellow skin, ourselves a nation, and all is simply our choice as life. And down here these are the battles of God, because he's forgotten who he is.

So if I have been united with him in a death like this, I shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like this. Now see the change in him? The crucifixion is over. If I have been united with him in a death like this, I shall be united with him in a resurrection. That's the piece of him. So he tells in his second letter to Timothy that there are those who are saying that the resurrection is over and past. They are misleading the people and turning them from their faith. The crucifixion is over. For you are crucified now. You've made your choice. And the minute you made your choice and became one with the thing that you chose, call John, call Mary, call what it is, that crucifixion is over.

Crucifixion Over, Resurrection Ahead

This is the cross. But the resurrection is in the future, and it's taking place every moment of time. So all have been resurrected but all are already crucified. You are going to be crucified. You are crucified on this garment of pleasure and you're going to be resurrected and when you're resurrected you are the Lord Jesus Christ because you are going to be resurrected as the being you really are. Start claiming it now. You believe all things are possible to Christ? Well start claiming it now. I'm telling you that you really are now. Before your resurrection you are the Lord Jesus Christ. And if all things are possible to him, start now to assume it. Just assume it.

If you would dare to assume that you are now. The one you want to be. I tell you, you will become if you persist in the assumption. For you will see what the visionary meant when he said that God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is. And you can see by that statement he implies that man is not naturally God. But God mercifully becomes that that man may become God. So you mercifully became what you are now. You actually have an absolute mercy. Eternity exists. and all things in eternity independent of creation which was an act of mercy. And that act of mercy was when you made your choice. And you came down to redeem that which could not redeem itself.

And take upon yourself the weaknesses and the limitations of the thing that you now wear and call yourself. And the day will come, you will awaken. As that being. And the truth will become one. And you will attain with it. Attain with it. And come back. As the ones we know. And knew. Before that the world was. And that was. We are all brothers. Always brothers. There will be almost one grand hilarious moment. The part to be played. But we are all extended. By reason of the part to be played. For we did upon ourselves the limitation, the contraction that was at the limit of contraction. And then we broke it. And then we started moving and expanding.

We moved back into a fantastic expansion beyond what we were. There is no limit to expansion. But we set the limit to contraction. No limit to translucency. We set the limit to opacity. And then we took upon ourselves the minutes. And then one day, having suffered all, done all, that lengthening, for hatching life, we break the shell. And everything saved in that story, you experience. You don't have to talk about it. I talk about it morning, noon, and night. But it doesn't really matter. ¶One. You may not be given the courage to talk about it. I can't stop talking about it. I talk about it in my dreams. I talk about it at dinner. I talk about it to myself if you don't want to come to talk about it.

I talk to myself anyway. For the whole thing is simply so much a part of me. I just can't stop it. I'm telling everyone who they are. I'm telling you, you really are the son of God. And you will know it. Others will know it too. Always be the seeker. You will see it. And so he asked when Pilate said to him are you the king of the deities? He said do you know this of your own accord? Did you have the revelation that I am the king of the deities? Or did you hear it from another. Then he said, am I a Jew? And I said, you have to be a Jew before you can be a Christian.

You couldn't possibly be a Christian unless you were a Jew. You may be an apple tree and not bear apples, but you can't bear apples unless you're an apple tree. So, So, Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. So if I am not a Jew, I can never bear the fruit. And the fruit is Christianity. It's the story, it's the pattern unfolding in man. Everyone is really a Jew. Or he could never in eternity be comforted. And the Christian is the fulfillment of Judaism. ¶I could be a Jew and not be a Christian, not be a fruit. But I can't be a Christian and not be a Jew. That's the story. Everyone here and in the world is one of the sons of God.

And collectively, they are Jesus Christ. And because we've been lifted up to the Father, and the father being father, there still must be a son to be father. And he looks out on the humanity that did his will. All the horrors to which he puts humanity. And collectively, humanity forms itself into one single unit he stands before him, and that is David. And he knows that David is his son. That is humanity. David is the one who personifies humanity. And God being the father of humanity, having gone through the drama, he sees now the result of what he's done. And it stands before him as his son. And it is David. Now tonight, take me to a situation.

Sleeping in True Identity

I'm not misleading you. I'm telling you what I know from its birth. You start dwelling on your true identity. Yes, you are still the being that you are. When you sleep at night, instead of sleeping in the context of being, say, John, Mary, sleep in the context of being the being you really are. You will not leave Mary behind. You came down to redeem Mary. But keep in the consciousness of being Jesus Christ. Because I do not think in the long, in the distant future, in the not distant future, you will actually explode. I'm quite sure that's why you are here. You'll be here. I'll be gone. And many of you, you'll simply explode. Many of you will see what I'm talking about and actually see that I am, see that I'm telling the truth.

Now let's go into the silence. I'm going to be silent. I'm going to be silent. I'm going to be silent. I'm going to be silent. Thank you. kunne kunne kunne kunne kunne kunne kunne kunne kunne kunne kunne The question is, God was not a protean being before he descended. The protean being to me means the capacity to be anything that one wants to be in this world. So he had to have that capacity. And so he chose to be you. It was you choosing that. Because you are that God who made the choice. You could have chosen to be this. You made your choice. I made my choice. Before we made our choice, we were brothers.

Protean Being and the Descent

Brothers in love. Infinite love we have for each other. You made your choice. I made this choice. And he chose us all in him before the foundation of the world. One being, is now going to fall. The fall doesn't mean a fall into the state of the world, but a descent in consciousness to the limit of you, the limit of this. I talked to a friend of mine today on the phone, telling that I'm coming to see him on Thursday afternoon. I reminded him of a vision that he had a few years ago where from on high he saw himself on the bed And he wanted, while he was about, to change the being that he knew himself to be.

But he couldn't do it from about. He had to come down. And in coming down, he had to forget that he was the being with the power who could change it. And change it while he was identifying with the being. He could not from about give an order and have that thing changed in any way whatsoever. And he knew it while he was from above. But he saw it on the day. And he knew it to be himself. The one with whom he identifies himself. And he had to come down. And in coming down, then he couldn't change it. He had to simply labor to change it. But above, it seemed so easy, but he realized he could not from above.

He had to come down. If he would do any changes whatsoever. So you and I came down, came down into this world and now we are wearing it. These are the causes. So the protean being is the capacity to be anything. So that's what proteus means. Proteus could assume the form of a fish, the form of a giant, the form of anything in the service of his god, Neptune. And so, he simply was a being capable of assuming any shape whatsoever. Say, in your dreams, you see all kinds of things and you must confess they do come out of you. In your dreams, you see animals, strange animals, known animals, all kinds of combinations, and they're coming only out of you.

You are a Protean being. But you made a definite choice and the choice is to be the one that you are. And if we are brutally frank with ourselves, I can conceive of giving up my identity for any being that ever walks, who walks or will walk the face of this earth. It would be nice to know him, but not to lose my identity. I can't conceive of that. When you are... That's how God feels. He says you're instantly restored to life. Does that mean you're instantly speaking out of life? No. When you're restored to life, you have not lost your identity. Oh no, my dear. If you drop the study moment, you'll restore to life in a world just like this.

It's three -dimensional. It's terrestrial just like this. But you are you. There is no loss of identity. And this will continue until the birth takes place. be carried is when God became man.