Repentance A Gift From God E-Book

Neville Goddard

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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Experience the life-changing power of Neville Goddard with this unforgettable lesson.

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Repentance A Gift From God

Feb 28, 1972

Neville Goddard

I think you will find tonight’s message a very practical one, something that all should really have and apply. The whole of life is just the appeasement of hunger, and the numberless states of consciousness from which the individual can think and view the world are purely a means of satisfying that hunger.

I say this because your state of consciousness is always being externalized. If you know how to move from your present state, if you dislike it, to the state you would like to externalize, then you have the secret. That is what I attempt tonight to tell you. For there are only states of consciousness pushed out – everything in this

world – and all are contained within the individual.

Now, in the Bible we speak of prayer, and prayer to the world means begging, but not in the Bible. It’s thanksgiving; it’s praise. It’s not petition! We speak in the Bible of repentance, and the world thinks that it means to regret, to be remorseful. That’s not what the Bible teaches. Prayer and repentance are almost synonymous terms.

We are told to bear fruit that befits repentance. Then they say of the central character of the scripture: “You and your disciples eat and drink with sinners.” And he replied, “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Leave the righteous alone. They are so self-satisfied. They like themselves, so leave them alone. The word ‘sin’ hasn’t a thing to do with breaking any moral code. The word ‘sin’ means to miss the mark. That’s what it means. You have a goal in life and you haven’t achieved it, well then, you are sinning. You may have a billion dollars, and still are hungry for another. Well then, if you don’t have the other, you are sinning.

You may keep all the so-called codes of the world imposed upon you by the priesthoods of the world – that would mean nothing as far as the scriptures go. To repent is simply a radical change of attitude. That is what repentance means. For if I radically change my attitude towards life, I will then view the world and see the world from that change of attitude. And that change is a change of consciousness,and that change will be externalized in my world.

Now, repentance is at once man’s responsibility and a gift of God. Now, let us show you what I mean by it. He said, “I and my Father are one, yet I go to my Father for my Father is greater than I.” “We are one . . . yet my Father is greater than I . . . so I go to my Father.” How do we arrive at this strange, peculiar statement, and how . . . what does it mean?

In the office of the Sent I am not inferior to my essential being, the Sender; but only in the office of the Sent I am restricted and must live by faith. Faith in what?

Faith in the Sender. It is myself, the Father, for I and my Father are one. But when I am sent into this world to experience death, and to experience the restriction of man, I am seemingly inferior to myself, the Sender. So, when I repent, I go to the Sender – I first do what I have to do. So I say that repentance is at once a responsibility of man and a gift from God.