18 Jul Neville Goddard Lectures: “All Things Are Possible to Him Who Believes”
5/12/69
We are told in scripture and this is the 9th chapter of the Book of Mark, “All things are possible to him who believes” (9:23). There is no limit set upon the power of belief. Then in the 19th chapter of the Book of Matthew we are told, “With God all things are possible” (19:26). So here we see God equated with the believer. In other words, you seated here tonight, you believe you’re here, don’t you, and you believe you are what you think you are? Well, that is God. All things are possible to him who believes, and with God all things are possible, so God is equated with the believer. Well, I believe I’m here, I believe I’m in this room, but can I go beyond what my reason and my senses dictate? Because all things are possible to him who believes must I limit my power of believing to what reason dictates and what my senses dictate? That’s entirely up to me. Will I really believe what scripture teaches, that all things exist in the human Imagination? For if I believe it has to be in my Imagination. If I go beyond what reason now dictates it can only be my Imagination that could take me. Well, if all things now exist in my Imagination, can I go beyond what at the moment my reason dictates and my senses dictate?
Now, here we just had this eruption in the Christian world concerning the little icons, the little nonsenses that people have made over a thousand years and worshipped. Now let me turn you to the 115th Psalm, “Your idols are silver and gold. They have eyes, but they do not see. They have mouths, but do not speak. They have ears, but they do not hear. They have hands, but they do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and no sound is heard in their throat. Those who make them are like them, and those who trust in them are like them” (115:4).
Now you may make a million dollars a year and trust in the little icon that you place—made by human hands—in the front of your car. You might have read it in today’s paper this very famous actress and she in her Rolls Royce had a little accident. The car was smashed; she was injured, but not fatally. She attributes her life to the little St. Christopher. She’s just like the one who made it and sold it to her, but she doesn’t know it. So you have a million dollars, so what? Don’t judge anyone by their little possessions in the world. They got it by belief. Well, they do not know who to believe. They do not know that their very being is the one who created everything in this world. She believes it was her little silver or gold (she could afford gold) a little gold medal that saved her from a fatal accident. Not a thing saved her but her belief in that stupid little thing that is man-made for profit. She bought it not knowing who really was the one in whom one should trust.
So all things are possible to him who believes with God all things are possible. So here we equate God with the believer. Well now, you certainly are a believer…when you go home tonight you expect to find the place that you left, and sleep in, and expect to rise in tomorrow morning. You believe you will, so you do believe. You believe you’re clothed right now. And so, this capacity to believe is God and there is no other God in the world. Your own wonderful human Imagination is God. There never was another and not in eternity can there be another.
Now, can we go outside of the restriction that we ourselves placed upon us? What restriction?—the body that I wear, the body of my senses, the body of my reason. Reason tells me that I’m here and I’m not elsewhere. Reason tells me that I have so much and no more, and can’t get any more unless I make a physical effort. But I could wish I had more, couldn’t I? Well, let me tell you what faith is. “Without faith it is impossible to please him” (Heb.11:6). Faith is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. “I wish” that’s a hope, that’s a wish. Now, faith is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope: what would it feel like if it were true? Just how would it feel? Can I assume that state? That assumption is faith if I really can believe it. Can I believe in the reality of my assumption? I assume that I am what at this very moment my reason and my senses deny, but can I really believe it? For all things are possible to him who believes. Can I persuade myself that though my reason denies it and my senses deny it that my mere assumption makes it so?
Blake in his wonderful Marriage of Heaven and Hell said he had an intercourse with Isaiah and Ezekiel, and he asked them if a strong persuasion made a thing so. Isaiah replied, ‘The poets”—that is the prophets, they were the poets—“the prophets believed that it did, and in ages of Imagination a firm persuasion moved mountains. But many people are not capable today of a firm persuasion.” They can’t believe it…yet everything in this world was once only believed. What is now proved was formerly only something that one desired and believed. The building, the clothes I wear, everything here was once only believed, and then it came into being. But you will say, “Man made an effort.” I’m not denying that. Let man make an effort: you believe that you are and you name it. It may take a million men to prove it. Alright, so they’ll work for you without knowing they’re doing it for you. You don’t have to persuade them to do it. You assume that you are what you would like to be, and then let the whole vast world, which is yourself pushed out, go to work to make possible that which you’ve assumed that you are, and you will become it…for all things are possible to him who believes.
I don’t have to go out and make the physical effort. I go to the end…that’s where I start in this world. As we are told by the late Robert Frost, “Our founding fathers did not believe in the future, they believed it in.” And the most creative thing in man is to believe a thing in…to believe it in. That’s what scripture teaches. He said, “Our founding fathers did not believe that the mere passage of time would produce this country as they desired it to be.” They wanted some wonderful democracy, not a monarchy. But sitting down and waiting for it and hoping it would come wouldn’t do it. They had to appropriate it and so they believed it in. How did they do it? Well, faith is the appropriation of the hope. How do I appropriate it?—the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. I would like to be and I name it, say in San Francisco. Well, I can’t afford the time, I don’t have the time, but I would like to be there. I don’t have the money, I don’t have this, I don’t have that, so I sleep where I slept last night because I can’t afford it. Yet I am told to ignore the present moment and dare to subjectively appropriate the objective hope. Your objective hope is San Francisco. Well, if I really appropriate it, where would I sleep this night? If I really am in San Francisco and I fell asleep, though physically here, how would I see the world? Would I not see it through the eyes of one who is sleeping in San Francisco? Would I not fall asleep and see the whole vast world as I would see it if I were there? That is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. Now I wake tomorrow morning and I’m in Los Angeles. But all of a sudden in my sleep things happen, and I’m compelled to make the journey whether I have the money or not. I will make that journey to San Francisco where I have appropriated that subjective state, which is nothing more than my objective hope.
So here, all things are possible to him who believes and with God all things are possible. We don’t question that second statement, because man believes that God created the world and God does all things; but he doesn’t equate God with himself the believer. And the Bible teaches man to equate God the creator of everything with himself who has the capacity to believe. Belief need not be determined or restricted by the evidence of our senses. It need not rest where my reason dictates, I may go beyond it. But everything in this world tells me I had to go outside of reason. This little light tells me that sometime man had to go outside of lighting a candle and lighting a little oil lamp and lighting a little gas lamp and finally came to this. Now he goes beyond that. He will go beyond it to the point where he doesn’t need any light, for he is the light of the world. He’ll go outside of everything in this world and he is God who is the light of the world, who is infinite love, who is infinite power, who is infinite wisdom. That is what he is expanding into, these states, breaking through the barriers of reason, breaking through the barriers of his senses.
So here this night, take the challenge. The Bible challenges you: “Examine yourself, to see whether you’re holding to the faith. Now test yourself and see” (2Cor.13:5). Test what? Test Jesus Christ. Well, who is Jesus Christ? Jesus Christ is the power and the wisdom of God…that’s who Jesus Christ is. As told us in the 1st letter of Paul to the Corinthians, “Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1:24) and I am called upon to test it. Will it work? Well, doesn’t cost you anything…just try it.
Now, we are told that God, who is my own wonderful human Imagination, speaks to me and speaks to you through the medium of dream, and reveals himself in vision (Num.12:6; Job33:14-16). One night it was shown me so clearly how to do it. I found myself in New York City on 5th Avenue at the turn of the century in one enormous mansion. And here in this mansion there were two generations, but they spoke of a third. The third was invisible…that was the grandfather. They spoke of grandfather or father depending upon which generation spoke. Here, this enormous mansion…everything that money could buy is in the mansion. This is what they said—I am invisible to those who are present—and they said, “I remember what grandfather would say while standing on an empty lot, he would say, ‘I remember this empty lot.’ Then he would go from there and he would build in his mind’s eye the most fabulous building that he wanted. Then he would say, ‘I remember when this was an empty lot.’” He remembered when it was and it still is, but he would build in his mind’s eye what could be done with this lot. In his mind’s eye he constructed the scene.
Then the scene shifted and came back and repeated itself. “I remember when” and here’s this fabulous building now, an actual building is standing there, and he said, “I remember when this was an empty lot.” Scripture teaches that if the dream repeats itself it means that God will shortly bring it to pass (Gen.41:32). It was teaching me the most marvelous technique. Who was the grandfather?—I was the grandfather. I was also the second generation and the third to pass it on to other generations. This is how you do it. You stand in a barren state (you have nothing) and say, “I remember when it was barren.” If you say I remember when it was barren, you are implying it is no longer barren. You construct in your mind’s eye exactly what you want for the scene, and it comes to pass in that manner.
Out of the nowhere this thing happened within me telling me exactly how this law works. Go and tell it to everyone who will listen to you. So they have nothing in the world, but nothing, what does it matter? If all things are possible to him who believes and the one to whom you speak is a believer, he can believe. He may believe the most stupid thing in the world but he can believe. He can believe in that silly little thing called St. Christopher’s medal…but he can believe. It’s a stupid little thing. Forty of them have been demoted, but it served a purpose. Now they’re coming to the point where they’re trying to get over to the sheep that what they formerly believed to be outside of themselves must now come into themselves and now believe in self. That’s what he’s trying…to bring man into the fold. It took a long time, one thousand years believing in the nonsense. I think he’s very big in this day and age to bring it now to the point where the individual who comes to church doesn’t have to cover your head any more. That is not necessary and yet for all these years it was necessary. Was it ever necessary? You don’t have to believe in St. Christopher saving you when you go on a journey. Was it ever necessary? Maybe it was. Maybe man in his child-like state couldn’t believe in himself, and he had to believe in something created by the human hand. So he created out of silver and then he made it out of gold that was more precious, so those who could afford it bought the gold and believed in it.
Well, it produced results: belief produces results. But did it produce it? No, the believer produced it. “All things are possible to him who believes, and with God all things are possible.” Now we equate God with the believer. Well, what is God’s name?—his name forever and forever is I AM. Don’t you know that you are? Certainly you do. Knowing that you are, don’t you say that “I am”? Before you can say John, if your name is John, you say, “I am John.” I say, “I am Neville.” I may not always say “I am” but if you say, “What’s your name?” I may say “Neville.” But before I said Neville, I was aware of being, and then I place upon this awareness of being a name called Neville. So I didn’t have to repeat the words “I am,” but I was actually aware that I am. That is God and that is the believer, the only God in the world. There is no other God, none whatsoever.
So, all things exist in the human Imagination, all things, not just the good things, all things. Listen to the words, “See I am he, even I, am he, and there is no God beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand.” Read it in the 32nd chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy (32:39). Who can kill but God? We say, “I did,” well, that’s God. “I killed him,” well, that’s God’s name. You killed him because you didn’t know who you were. You hurt…that’s God…because you didn’t know who you were. For, “I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there’s none that can deliver out of my hand. See now that I, even I, am he; and there is no god beside me.” There is no other God. As you are seated here you have the capacity to believe and you do believe. You may this very night believe the most stupid thing in the world, but you believe it. And may I tell you, it’s going to work.
The one we speak of as God is our mightier self yet our slave for purposes of his own. “He waits upon us as indifferently and as swiftly when the will in us is evil as when it is good.” He conjures images of good and evil just as though they’re equal. The same being that is now my mightier self is my slave; and allows me to imagine anything in this world, and he projects it upon the screen of space, and I experience it. I actually come upon it and don’t even realize that in my thoughtless moment I planted the seed. Here I’m confronted with my own harvest and I don’t recognize it.
So here is the being that you really are: the God of scripture is your own wonderful human Imagination. There never was another God and not in eternity will there be another God. When you say “I am” that’s God. Well, can we go out this night in the deep, deep conviction that we are what we would like to be by assuming that we are? That assumption is simply the appropriation subjectively of the objective fact…and that is faith…and without faith it is impossible to please him. So I walk as though it were. When I go home tonight I will ride home with my friend by sight. We will pass certain streets, certain familiar objects and go home. Well, when I walk by faith I do not walk by sight; I walk by an invisible setup. Now how would I see the world if it were true that I am what I would like to be? I set that up. And that’s when I walk by faith, ignoring completely everything in my world, no matter what it is, that would deny that state. Then I walk by faith and not by sight. As Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans, “Let us walk by faith and no longer by sight.” So we all know what it is to walk by sight, we know our way home if we go by sight, but we’re called upon to break the spell and go outside of the sight and walk by faith.
So what would it be like this night if we, as we are seated here, were now the embodiment of the man, the woman that we would like to be? I tell you it is possible to do everything that you want to do. For the believer—and you’re a believer—and God of the universe are one…they aren’t two. All things are possible to God and all things are possible to him who believes…so they are equated. So don’t now divorce yourself from God. Well, who is God? Say “I am,” that’s he. “Unless you believe that I am (is) God, then you’ll remain in your sin,” (Jn. 8:24). Sin is called “missing the mark.” You’ll miss the mark—the mark is simply a goal in life, that’s what the mark is. You’ll miss it because you do not believe that you are already the one you would like to be. It’s just as simple as that. I’m not saying that it’s the easiest thing in the world, no, I would not tell you that; but I tell you, you and I must practice. If I took the greatest violin in the world and put it in the hands of a great artist, he could lift me to the nth degree of joy, in the hands of the artist. Put the same violin in hands of one who cannot play, he’d drive me insane. Lock the doors, and I would really rather die than continue to listen to what he’s doing with that violin, the same violin. Out of the same violin one brings the most beautiful harmony and the other brings the most horrible discord, same violin. So, I kill and I make alive out of the same instrument. That instrument is my own wonderful human Imagination. I can make all the discords in the world until I learn to play it.
Here we are in a world I call educative darkness learning to play the instrument which is God; and God is your own wonderful human Imagination. Now reason’s going to deny it, I know, so what? You’ll simply assume that you have it. And you may say, I don’t know anyone in this world who can give me, say, $10,000. I have no relative who is alive that could ever mention me in his will; I have no one to whom I could turn, so what? Are all things possible to God? Yes! Oh, you’ll say yes to that right away. Well, do you believe that God is your own wonderful human Imagination? “Oh, hold it a minute, no, I can’t believe that, because God is all love and I can imagine the most unlovely things in this world. I have and still do, so that couldn’t be God.”
Then, therefore, God is not all powerful. If you can imagine something that he cannot, because of your own stupid concept of what God is, then he can’t produce a discord. He is not as good as that violin…he can’t produce a discord, and if you can produce a discord you transcend him. You can hit, even by accident, a chord that is beautiful, well, you did it, it’s a harmony; and then you strike a discord, but he can’t strike a discord, you are greater than God because he can’t hit one. Well, you can’t be. Therefore God: “I kill, I make alive; I wound, I heal; and none can deliver out of my hand” (Deut.32:40). All things come out of me, whether they be harmonious things that give me joy or the most frightful discords in the world. No matter what I do in a discord, when I really learn the instrument I can resolve it into a dissonance. I can take any discord if I know how to play, which I do not, but if I knew I could resolve it into a beautiful dissonance to the ear that is trained to appreciate a dissonance. So everything can be resolved, even though in our learning we make the most horrible mistakes in the world. So don’t condemn yourself for anything that you have ever done or that you’re doing or that you may do. Learn to play this instrument. The instrument is God himself and that instrument is your own wonderful human Imagination, and there is no other God. There is no other creative power in this world.
What is now proved in the world was once only imagined. I went in to my tailor and I said, “Let me see a few suit lengths.” Louie—he’s been my tailor for thirty-odd years—so he brings me out these things. He knows I like conservative colors, so he brings out simple things. I picked out this that my wardrobe needed and something else, I picked out three, and then using his Imagination he took the material and executed three. But it first had to be imagined before he could cut the cloth. He didn’t take his scissors and start cutting cloth hoping something would come out…he imagined it. When I go to my dentist he looks at my mouth and sees what ought to be there instead of what is there. Well, I’m not saying it’s going to grow out of my mouth. He has to first conceive what ought to be there, and then he goes about his business of doing what he feels ought to be done. But it first had to be imagined. So everything in this world had first to be imagined before it could be executed into what is called a fact in this world.
You can imagine and that capacity to imagine is God. That is God himself. Now we do not observe imagining as we do objects, because we are the reality that is named imagining. We don’t observe it; you observe the thing created. I observe this room—this was once only imagined—but I don’t really observe the creative power that is conceiving it all. I only observe the things created…but not the creator. It takes one being to reveal that creator. You’ll never know him until that one being, which is set up all in scripture, appears before you and calls you Father. Then and then only do you really know who you are…that you are God the Creator. For here stands his only begotten son before you, and when he stands before you at that very moment, not a split second past it, then for the first time in this long, long pilgrimage you know who you are. You are God, God the Father. Here he stands before you, this beauty beyond the wildest dream of man. As he stands, he knows that you are his Father, and you know that you are his Father, and you also know that he is your son. So you’ve gone through the entire gamut, coming towards that point, and when you arrive at that point, you know the creative power of the world is your own wonderful human Imagination.
From whom would you keep that knowledge? No one! Not everyone will accept it; they’d rather have the little icon. I’m quite sure tonight this Italian actress, if you saw it in this morning’s paper, who had this accident in her wonderful Rolls Royce, maybe a $40,000 Rolls, and she attributes her recovery from the accident to the little icon that man made with his hands. Well, she’s not alone. There are a hundred million tonight who will not give up the little medal. I saw where Cardinal McIntyre confessed that he had put his seal of approval on the reverse side of this little medal by the tens of thousands. Undoubtedly, they all received his blessing when he impressed on the reverse side this approval of the cardinal. On one side is a face that never existed, St. Christopher never existed, and he approved the reality of that which is not. He is a cardinal, speaking with the authority of the prince of the church. What nonsense! Stupid, ridiculous nonsense! But he can’t retract it now, it’s all done.
His own cathedral is no longer a ___(??), and here this saint never existed and they go blindly on in his nonsense.
But it works, why?—because they believe. Well now, it’s time for man to stop believing in something and start believing in the only reality in the world which is his own wonderful human Imagination. Stop all the outside icons, outside gods. “You shall make no graven image unto me” (Exod.20:4)…that’s the Second Commandment. Yet they go blindly on making all these graven images outside of ourselves. “Make no graven image unto me and thou shalt have no other God beside me.” Beside whom?—beside me, literally. You mean my own being? Yes. But I didn’t have anything when I was born. I have no education, I have no money, no social background, not a thing, so how could I believe? Believe…but go outside now of your reason, go outside of your senses, because all things are possible to him who believes and with God all things are possible. So the believer in you…well, who is believing…I am and that’s God.
Now, can you go outside of your senses and believe what your senses deny? Try it! Put it to the test…put it to the extreme test. And then if it proves itself in performance, what does it matter what the world thinks? If I have something to testify to what I have done, does it matter what anyone thinks? Here I have proved by my own testing that this thing works. Well then, I have found him. Having found him I will share him now with another. So I will go to Philip and I tell Philip. Well, who is Philip?—the “lover of horses.” Well, what is the horse?—the mind. He loves how the mind functions. So I will go to Philip and I will tell him. So he goes and he tells Philip, and Philip wonders, “Who did you find?” “I found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets spoke” (Lk.24:27). They spoke of him. Who is he? He is called the Messiah. Where is he? “I will take you to him” and then they take him. But they can’t find a man. I will tell you who he is. I’ll take you this night to see who the Messiah is. I have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote: Jesus Christ, the Messiah that was promised. Well, take me to him…I’ll take you to him: now say “I am”. “I am.” That’s he. “Oh, you’re silly, Neville.” No, I’m telling you the truth…that’s he. Say “I am” again. “I am.” Now say, “I am secure, I am wealthy, I am free.” “But I’m not!” I’m not saying what you are now based upon your senses, I’m asking you to repeat what I said. “I am free, that I am secure, that I am known.” All that you would like to be make it now a subjective appropriation of the objective hope.
Now, reason is going to try to tear from you what you have just done, but I ask you to play the little game with me. Go through the door and walk as though it were true. Sleep this night as though it were true. And if you do this night, you couldn’t go to sleep seeing the world as you saw it last night; you have to see it differently. If this day, factually, someone gave you a check for $20,000 and you deposited it to your account, you would not sleep tonight as you slept last night, would you? You couldn’t; you have $20,000 that you didn’t have last night. Well now, tonight without waiting for it to be fact, go to bed as though it were true, just as though it were true. Put him to the extreme test: if all things are possible to God and if all things are possible to him who believes, and you can believe, can you believe that? Try to believe it! I’m not saying you’ll succeed the first night, because you’ve been so trained to accept only what reason dictates, only what your senses dictate that you may find it difficult, almost impossible, to believe what really you could believe.
This morning coming through from the deepest, wonderful experience, here was a series like shadowy beings. The first one was blind and could see nothing in the world. And I’m the wearer of all these things. The second one could see what the first one couldn’t; the third could see what the second one couldn’t; the fourth one could see and hear and do what the third one couldn’t. I woke actually saying to my friend, Bob Crutcher, “Why, Bob, I have just seen a series of events that with your talent to write…this is not for TV, this is for movies…you could write this story with your talent. And I’m telling you exactly what you’ll get for it, you’ll get $300,000.” I woke actually thinking of my friend Bob with his talent to write and with my vision, put my vision—don’t give me a penny of it, I don’t want one nickel for it—I’m telling a series of them—as you put it on, you see what it is allowing you to see. When an actor plays a part, he must feel to some extent the part that he’s playing, and try to identify himself with the character that he depicts. Well now, all these were characters…all these were simply shadows, and I, the perceiving one, took one after the other, and I was limited by the state that I perceived. As I took it on I couldn’t see; the third one, I went beyond this one; the fourth, beyond that; the fifth, beyond…a series of them.
Bob has the talent. And I heard someone say, “Well, $300,000 for a movie for that” and I thought of only one person, my friend Bob. I woke screaming, “Bob Crutcher you’ve got to do it.” Well, I mean, that is something that really is part of our world. Here is my wonderful friend a writer, he has all the ideas, I know he has them, but this is something that came to me from the depths. Here’s a series, something not done by any man: that man is simply restricted by what he wears. To play a part I must feel the part, and then to the best of my ability I must actually feel myself to be the character that I’m depicting. Well now, if the thing is blind, I’m going to feel myself all over the world and feel things. Then all of a sudden I put on another garment and it isn’t blind. Well, I can see so I don’t need the feeling. Then I put on another garment…and all of these were a series of garments.
As I came from the depths of my being, this interrupted my depth just for a moment, because I was coming back from a tremendous depth of my being where something entirely different takes place…nothing in this world…something outside completely. But I was interrupted by this series, and here I was thinking only of my friend Bob Crutcher. I was just about to tell him when I woke that the series is for a picture. It would be a fantastic picture, never mind if they will believe it or not. There are a few in the audience who will catch it, who will see he’s only playing a certain part. Now the part need not be something that was given you at birth, you could pick it up at any point in time. You could now play the part of a wealthy man when it was not given you twenty-four hours ago, and you never had it before, and suddenly it’s a part. It’s only a part and you play it. Well, what would you see if it were true? And you play that part just as though it were true.
This is scripture. All that I’m telling you tonight is from the Bible. “I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there’s none that can deliver out of my hand. I, even I, am he…and there is no God beside me.” Read it in the Book of Deuteronomy, the 32nd chapter. There is no other God, no other savior. “I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel; and besides me there is no savior,” the 43rd of Isaiah (43:11). But man will not believe it, he thinks that’s crazy. But these are the words of God revealed through his prophets in the Old Testament. The New is the fulfillment of the Old, and he comes in and he fulfills it all. He tells you, “Whatever you desire, believe you have received it, and you will” (Mark11:24). That’s the fulfillment. That’s how easily you apply it…for the assumption though false and denied by your senses if persisted in will harden into fact. I am telling you, you are God; there never was another God and the being in you is God. You and I are one because there’s only one God. There aren’t two Gods, there’s only one. So in the end you will know that you and I are one. You will know it by this wonderful Son.
But I’ll tell you the next time of another revelation: not the Son revealing the Father, but the Father revealing the Son.
Now let us go into the Silence.
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Q: ___(??). Is that a reasonable interpretation?
A: It is a very reasonable interpretation. The word Jonah does mean “dove” in Hebrew, but Jonah in the story of Jonah—a very short book—was the one who taught repentance. So he came to teach repentance and men would not repent. Repentance does not mean feeling remorseful, it doesn’t mean feeling regretful. It’s simply “a radical change of thinking.” That’s all the word repentance really means. The word is “metanoia” in Greek, and the word defined in the Concordance is “a radical change of thought.” So I see you and I don’t like the way I see you, well, I must, myself, not you, I must change my thought relative to you. I must change it to the point where I’m self-persuaded that this change is fact, and not what I formerly saw. That is repentance.
So when he went to Nineveh, the Nineveh-ites believed him and they repented, and so God did not destroy Nineveh. So this generation refuses to repent…they will not change their attitude toward things. They believe what their senses dictate and that’s all there is to it. But it does also mean in the ultimate sense “the dove.” The sign that you are going to get at the very end will be the dove. So Jonah does mean “dove” in Hebrew. And so when the dove descends upon you, it’s the physical symbol, the visible symbol of the Holy Spirit. So you’re perfectly right…that is the ultimate. But he did teach repentance, and Nineveh repented, and saved itself from destruction, while the evil generation refused to believe what their reason would not dictate.
Thank you.
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