Neville Goddard Audio Lecture: I Am The Lord Jesus Christ

About This Lecture

This lecture pushes Neville's central teaching to its furthest point. He tells his listeners outright that they are the Lord Jesus Christ, fully anticipating that they will hear it as blasphemy, yet insisting it is the literal truth of scripture rightly understood. For Neville, Christ is not a single historical man to be worshipped from afar but the indwelling creative power, the 'I AM,' that constitutes the real self of every human being. The claim is deliberately startling because Neville means to dislodge the listener from the habit of looking outward and upward for a God who is, in fact, the very awareness reading these words.

Neville grounds the claim in the name of God revealed to Moses at the burning bush: 'I AM THAT I AM.' Your bare sense of simply being, your awareness of existing prior to any name, role, or label, is that very 'I AM.' This is not an abstraction but the most intimate fact of your experience; before you are tall or short, rich or poor, you are. Because that awareness is the only creative reality you will ever directly know, and the only true self you can ever lay hold of, Neville concludes that the divine being clothed in human form is precisely what scripture calls Christ. He leans on Paul's confession, 'Christ in you, the hope of glory,' and on 'I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,' reading them as plain statements that the indwelling I AM is the Lord himself.

The personal name you carry, he says, is merely a garment worn while walking the earth; the wearer is God. 'Neville,' 'John,' 'Mary' are costumes; the actor inside every costume is the same I AM. This is why the lecture reframes the gospel as autobiography rather than biography. The birth, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension are not chiefly past occurrences in Palestine to be admired at a distance; they are spiritual events destined to unfold within the individual's own consciousness, a sequence of inner awakenings through which the I AM remembers its identity and is reborn from above.

Practically, this dignifies the listener with both immense power and immense responsibility. If 'I AM' is the creative word of God, then whatever you join to it, in feeling and conviction, is what hardens into outer fact. 'I am poor,' 'I am unwanted,' 'I am sick' are not innocent descriptions; they are creative pronouncements that the world obediently confirms. To recognize yourself as the Lord Jesus Christ is therefore to take conscious command of the only name that creates, refusing to attach it to states unworthy of God and attaching it instead to the fulfilled life you desire.

Recognizing oneself as the Lord Jesus Christ is, for Neville, the awakening toward which the whole human drama moves, the moment of remembering one's true and only identity. It is not the inflation of the little personal self but its dissolution into the discovery of who has been wearing it all along, the one being, the I AM, who appears as all of us and yet remains, in each, the undivided Lord.

Key Scripture

Neville grounds this lecture in Exodus 3:14, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 1:27.