Foundation Stone - Neville Goddard

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think you will find tonight a very interesting one.
Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians
that no other foundation can anyone lay than that which
is laid, which is Jesus Christ. There is no other foundation.

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And you read it in you wonder that what are
you talking about? May I tell you it's just like saying,
there is no other foundation other than God and his Son.
For Jesus is the Lord, and Christ is the son

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of the Lord, has tell Us in Revelation. And the
kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our
Lord and of his Christ. So Jesus Christ is simply
the father's son relationship. So no other foundation could anyone

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lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now,
he tells us, do you not realize that Jesus Christ
is within you? So in the scripture you will find
a strange reversal of order. The normal order would be

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that birth pre sees death. You were born, and you're
moving towards the inevitable, which is death. The Bible reverses
the and death pre sees birth. He tells us in

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his next letter to the Corinthians. We're always carrying with
us the death of Jesus in our bodies, that the
life of Jesus may be manifested in our bodies. Oh wait,

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this thing has gone off, hasn't it. You can't hear me,
but all of a sudden that residence is gone. Oh well,
if you can hear me, it's perfectly all right. I
do not know how to do these things this. I

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don't know what I mean. The whole thing sounds dead
to me right now. Suddenly it went off. However, is
it better now? No, it's perfectly all right, perfectly all right.
So let me go back and tellify that point. We're
always carrying with us, the death of Jesus in our bodies,

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so that the life of Jesus may all to be
manifested in our bodies. Now we are told a story
in scripture. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the
earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies,

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it bears much fruit. It must die in order to
be made alive. Blake in his wonderful Poem of Jerusalem,
say it, unless I die, speaking now, and these other
words of the Lord speaking. Unless I die, thou canst

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not live. But if I die, I shall rise again.
And thou with me. So God dies, He is within us,
and we are carrying his death within our body, and

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he remains in the grave until he awakes within us.
When he awakes within us, we awake as the Lord.
So the foundation's tone is Jesus Christ, and you cannot
at any other foundation's stone. There is no other foundation stone,

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Jesus being the Lord, and Christ being his son. His
son is David, and Jesus is your own wonderful I
am nest when you say I am. That's the Lord Jesus,

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and Christ is his son who bears witness to the father.
The father died, but the son also died, and then
he sends his son into the world. You are acting
in the world as John, as Jan as Bill, as Philip,

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as anything. You do not know that that is the
son in action. In the end, the son will return
of victor to his father, for whom he has undergone
the entire adventure. When he stands before you, the severed

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head of the enemy of Israel is placed before his father.
That was the father's command to the son. And David
returns with the severed head of the giant. And here

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the father looks at it and knows that David has
fulfilled his will. So we are told, I have found
in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my
own heart, who will do all my will. And Jesse
means Jehovah exists. Jehovah means the self existence, the eternal.

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The eternal is I Am, that is the son of
I Am. And he stands before you. And here is
this enormous head severed from the body that David brings
and presents to his father. And that father knows his

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son has fulfilled his will, and that together is Jesus Christ.
That relationship is in every child born of woman. And
until it's completely fulfilled, the journey is the noble. It's

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something that is completely imposed upon man. And when the
individual fulfills the conditions imposed about him, that individual is,
in Biblical terms called righteous, and righteous is the crown.

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And Paul said, henceforth is laid it for me, the
crown of righteousness. Or he said, prior to this, I
have fought the good fight, I have finished the race,
I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is ladi for me,

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the crown of righteousness. So all righteous, Father, let them
at last know that all is true that I have
told them that you did send me, that they may

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know that you sent me, and that the name that
I gave for you is not mayor poetry, but fact.
And I gave you the name. His name is father.
It is father. But you do not know you are
the father, not until the son reveals you. And when

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you look at the sun and know he is your son,
then you will know you are the father. And that
son is Navy, and Jesus is the father. He who
sees me has seen the father. How then can you
ask me to show you the father. I am the

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father a one. But now in the office of the Sin,
I seem to be inferior to myself, the center. So
I will say, I and my father are one, but
my father is greater than I, because in the office
of the sink, I am the son. Yet I am

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both the saint and the center. I am returning to
myself the center. And so I leave the world and
go back to my father. But I and my father
a one, having completed the work that my all that
gave me to do. Now I returned as the father.

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This is a mystery, But her mystery is not a
matter to be kept secret. It is the truth that
is mysterious in character. So let me share with you
an experience of a friend of mine who was here tonight,
and the one of whom she speaks is here tonight.

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I will take the one of whom she speaks next Monday,
that is her stylic, but the one who actually had
this experience. So when I gave this huge party, and
this lady was the honored guest, as I went up
to her, she was dressed in this lovely gown in

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sorl of a purple road that they're all in polls,
and she wore on her head a golden crown. And
I say to her, why that is exactly like mine,
And he took off her crown and gave it to me.
I said, come and see, and I took her into

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a dressing room, and there on the dressing table was
the little figurine not more than four or six inches
stall with the same poles in that carved onyx. It
was a white onyx. But the little crown that she

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took off her head, that is a big bound, suddenly
turned into something not bigger than a ring. And on
the head of this little figurine was that identical golden crown,
and it was my figurine, and it was my crown.
I took off my crown and placed hers on it,

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and I say to her, you see, is exactly the
same crown now she is. I cannot tell whether I've
replaced her crown or my crown on it. I only
know it was the identical crown. So Paul, in making
the statement, he does not say a crown, he uses

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a definite article. Henceforth, there is lader for me, the
crown of righteousness. There's only one crown, and all will
wear it when the sun returns from that condition imposed
upon him to destroy all God's other than the God.

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So any belief in the God outside of your own
wonderful human imagination, your own wonderful I am this that
the false God. So David brings down all false gods.
So when he goes to face the Great Deliath and
Saul will put upon him all the armaments of man,

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he said, I cannot wear these. I'm not accustomed to these.
And he goes clothed only with the spirit of the Lord.
Should I come in the name of the God of Israel,
no other garment would he wear. And then he brings
down the giant and takes the giant's sword and severs

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his head and brings the head back. Then he stands
before Saul. And here is this enormous head. And may
I tell you that it's literally true in spirit, for
when I saw him and he stood before me, here
before me was it the enormous head of the giant,

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completely severed from its body. And here is my son David,
leaning against the door, but an open door that led
out into the most beautiful pastoral scene. And here was
David leaning against it, and the head before me. And
I am looking at my son, just drinking in his

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beauty and looking at the accomplished fact that my son
had completed. That man to do my will, and my
will was to destroy all the enemies of Israel. And
he brought bed the head which symbolized all the false

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gods of the world. The day will come, You're going
to have this experience. Brandling whether he actually had the
experience or was inspired by the sixteenth chapter and the
seventeen chapter of the first Book of Sandal, but he
wrote a poem called Saul is the story of Saul Telling,

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That is the story of David telling Saul about the
coming of Messiah. And David stands before Saul, and he said,
alsoul of faith, like my face shall receive thee a

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man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved
by forever. A hand like this hand shall throw open
the doors of new life to thee. She the Christ
stands and David is looking into the face of Saul

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and telling Saul, who was demented, look at me and
see the Christ stand. But Saul had not yet been transformed.
You and I are Saul before we meet David and
know he is the Christ. He is our son. And

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it takes the Son to reveal us as God the Father.
So the whole vast world is King Saul in a
state of well. He is demented because he's forgotten who is.
He is suffering from amnesia, as all of us are,

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until that moment in time when the journey is over
and David stands before us and reveals us as God
the Father. So Paul is right. No other foundation can
any one lay than that which is laid, which is

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Jesus Christ. No one can say Jesus is Lord except
by the Holy Spirit. And who is the Christ, the
Son of the Living God, the son of the Lord.
So if he is Father, then there is a son.

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And if there is a son, where is that son.
I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said,
unto me, thou art by son. Today I have begotten
they to whom did his feet. He spoke to David.
And David stands before you in the end of the journey,

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when you have born the burden, the allotted span. At
the very end, these exposures will take place within your
own wonderful scull. For the drama began in the great suffolker,
the human skull, and I will come to its climax
and its fulfillment in the great suffulcher. The whole thing

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is within the skull of man. And this is the
dream of life, and you and I are dreaming it.
It is God in man dreaming the dream of life,
and the Son is executing the dream. So the son
goes through hell in this world. He's putting through all

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the furnaces of affliction, but he always obeyed the Father's will.
I have found in David a man after my own
heart who will do all my will. And he is
the son of the self existence, the Living God called

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in scripture Jesse, which means Jehovah exists, and one day
you're going to have it. And when it happens to you,
may I tell you so many within the sphere are
happening now, all coming up. Like my friend who had
the story of the Crown, it's happened to her, the

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one of whom she had it, It has happened to her.
Many are happening, and suddenly it will happen in many.
Like hatching out eggs, the hen lays eggs over a
period of time, but when the period of hatching comes,
they all hatch out within a matter of the same day.

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Yet it took her days to gather her nest together.
And so she puts down a dozen or maybe two
dozen eggs, if she's big enough for it, and then
one comes out. But don't wait for any twenty one
days where it took her to get them together. No,
in one twenty four hours they all break and come out.

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Yet they were all laid at different times. So here
in this glorious story, unless a grain of beet falls
into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if
it dies, it bears much fruit. And so God dies,

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God literally dies in becoming man, and man is his suffricha.
And he so becomes man that he actually unites with man.
And man thinks that he is alone and that no
one cares. And yet the one who is suffering all
the time is the God in him and his son,

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who is doing all the work. So in the fourteenth
Psalm and the fifty third song, the fool says in
his heart, there is no God blake as to that,
nor son of God. That thou, O human imagination, oh

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divine body, art all a delusion. But I know thee,
o Lord, and thou arisest upon my weary eyes, even
in this dungeon and this iron mill. Thou also suffers
with me. Although I behold thee not, and then the

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divine voice answers, fear not. I am with thee Allas
only believe in me that I have power to raise
from death, Thy brother who sleepeth in albience, O trembling shade.

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So here man is stow, Ye never leaves. We can't
leave you, because your very breath is the spirit of God.
Your awareness is God, your wonderful, glorious human imagination, that
is God, that is the divine body of the Lord

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Jesus now you're allowed to misuse it if you will.
As you do, he forgives you for all the misuse.
But his son executes the misuse, so you misuse it.
And the sun fulfills the order. And in the end,

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even though he goes through hell in this world, all
the fires, in the end he will destroy the enemies
of Israel. The false gods are the only enemy that
man has in this world. You believe that he can
take from you, She can take from you. They can
take from you. The dictator can inslave you. And all

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he has to say is because why should I do
these things? You say to the dictator, because I determine that.
Now you'll chop off that head. You'll have no external dictator,
no external God, only the God who dwells with Indian

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And that God is your own wonderful human imagination. When
you say I am, that's God, that's Jesus, that's the Lord.
And when you imagine something it has to be executed.
That is then the Christ, the son of God, who
executes him. And they suffer together. And you say, but

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I am suffering, but that is his name. I am suffering.
So blake said thou also sufferest with me, sure, because
I am selfling that's his name. But I misuse the power,
which is the power of God. And what is the

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power of God, crypsotells us. It is Christ. Christ is
the power of God and the wisdom of God. So
he brings into this world only one foundation, and that
foundation is already placed in man. You may build upon it,
as Paul said, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, stubble or hay.

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But it's all going to be tried in the fire,
and if it's consumed, you will suffer loss, but you
yourself will be saved, but only as through fire. So
you build on it. This is all metaphorical. You don't
build a building of gold or silver or precious stones.

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These are all metaphorical expressions. You can build something noble
that could stand the fire, like goldville. You can put
it and melt it, but it still remains God. You
put wood into it, it'll burn and turn to ash.
It will not remain wood. But gold will remain good
even in this molten state, and you can cast it

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into any form after you bring it into the molten state.
Same is true of silver, and gold will not in
any way tarnish if it turned green and returned, but
it still remains gold. So build upon this foundation gold, silver,

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precious stones, wood, hay or stuffle. But remember, the fire
is going to try it, and if it is consumed
by the fires of experience, you will suffer loss, but you, yourself
will be saved because you are an immortal being. You
cannot be destroyed. No one can destroy you. You are immortal.

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If you drop this very moment, you are restored or
to light in a world terrestrial just like this. But
those who are here and those I've spoken to up
north in the east and other places, they are actually
being gathered now, and the journey is coming to an end.

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And so although there came a different moment in my times,
just like the eggs of the hymn, there came at
different moments in her time. But when the time of
hatching came, they all hatched together. And yet they came
into the world seemingly at different moments in time. So

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I've met one at one moment, one year, another year,
another year, scattered over years. But now the time is
coming to the head for the hatching, and so it
doesn't really matter. The hatching is on and they'll all
come out together, just a little while in between one
of them the other. But they're all coming to truition now.

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So Browning was right. Whether he actually had the vision
or he was inspired by the sixteenth and seventeen chapters
of the First Book of Samuel, I do not know.
He only said in his volume that that inspired him.
He didn't say he actually had the experience, But he

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is so close to it if he did not have
it prior to you to have written that as he did,
that here a face like my face shall receive you,
and a man just liked me shall love you, and

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you shall love forevermore. And a hand like this hand
shall throw opened the door of new life to thee.
And then he stands before him, and he makes a statement.
See the Christ stands. He's telling you he is the Anointed,

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has told us in the sixteenth chapter of pir Samuel
and the eighty ninth Psalm. With my holy oil, I
have a noted him, for when he asked that all
the sons we brought before him, the sons of Jesse,
and they marched the tall, handsome one first, And surely

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he is the Lord's chosen one. And the Lord said, no,
I have rejected him. Do not judge from appearances. Do
not judge from the height of his statue. The man
judge judges from the outward appearance, but I judge from

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the heart. So he was rejected in spite of his
major stick figure. And he was undoubted from all descriptions
of him, a tall, handsome, wonderful man that you would
have thought would be the selected one to be his
anointed king. Then came the second, then came the third,
and then he marched the sons before Samuel, and Samuel

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said he did not choose him either. Then Samuel asked
the Father, are these all your sons? And he said no,
The youngest is keeping the sheet. He said, go and
fetch him. He shall not sit down until he comes.
And were brought him from the poles, that brought him
little David. When David ended, the Lord said to Samuel,

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this is he arise and anoint him. And then he
took the horn of oil and anointed him. And the
spirit of the Lord came mighty upon David. From that
moment forward never departed from it. He is the anointed
of the Lord. The anointed one is the Messiah. He

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is the Messiah, and Messiah and Christ are the same words.
One is hebrave and one is Greek. So the Greek
Christ and the Hebrew Messiah are the same that chosen
the elect of God. And to David, he said, thou
art my son today, I have begotten there. And so

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I'm telling you what I know, not from studying scripture
and trying to extract something through some scholarly effort, no,
but all by revelation. It happened to me. I never
would have known it in all the years in studying
and reading scripture. It just happened. And what a shock

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to me when I discovered that I am the father
of David, my son. I have a son, and my
son will go. I trust my wife to tell me
that I did sire him, and I believe it one percent.
I've never doubted it. Yet I know more sure that

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David is my son that I know that my son
Joseph Neville Good It is my son. And yet I
do not doubt that he is my son. But I
have no uncertainty as to the relationship between David and myself.
And so if the son makes you free, you are free. Indeed,

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so no one is free until the son sets him free,
for he is the father enslaved until he finds his son.
And when the son returns, having accomplished all that the
father willed him to do, he comes back as a death,

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for he has actually done everything that the father willed
him to do. And was quite a journey he traveled,
and quite a furnace he went through, for he comes
out as the Son of God. He went into this
wonderful three dimensional world, and he was the son has

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told you in the story of Daniels. And he threw
three into the furnace. When they looked, they saw four,
and the form of the four was like the Son
of God. It's the presence of the Son of God
that makes the live and keeps alive the three dimensional world.

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Would he not in it, it all be a fat surface,
everything would turn into simply a sh shadow world, which
it is anyway. But his presence in it gives it
a cubic reality. And so wherever he is, it takes
on a cubic reality. So he was thrown into the

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furnace our three dimensional world, and made it alive and
kept it alive. And then the king said, we will
worship only the God of Israel from here on, whatever
gods must now take the vaccine, and from now on
we worship only the God of Israel. But who is
the God of Israel? I am? There is my name,

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forever and forever. Go and tell them I am essential.
This is my name throughout all generations, and by this
name I must be known. But man finds it difficult
to keep the tints, and he addresses God as thou
art and speaks of him as he is. When his name,

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forever and forever is I Am. So call all of
my sons from Afar, and my daughters from the end
of the earth, all those who have my name. Don't
you have his name? Now? His name is not Jehovah.

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His name is not Jesus, His name is not the Lord.
His name is not God. His name is I Am.
That's his name. But you do not know until the
sun stands before you that you are the one spoken
of in scripture as Jehovah, as the Lord, as God,

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as Jesus. Only when he stands before you and the
relationships is completed, do you know who you really are.
Then the crime of Rituss is yours. So you've fought
the good fight. You have finished the race, and you
have kept the faith. Henceforth, there's made up for you

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the crown of righteousness, that same crown that my friend
saw on the head of her friend Milly, and said,
it's the same crown that I have, And proving it,
brings her into the dressing room, and here is the
little figurine, and all the road the folds of the

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row were identical with that which he was wearing, and
the crown became the size of a ring. So she
took off the crown from the figurine and placed the
crown given her by Milly on the figurine, and it fitted.
It was perfect, the identical crown. So she couldn't tell
whether she had replaced her own crown or Millie's crown

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was left on it, because it's only one crown, the crown,
not a crown, the crown of righteousness. So in the
very end, when men actually fulfills the conditions imposed upon
him by this relationship of father son Jesus Christ, he
is called righteous. Every one in this world is going

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to be experienced. But everyone. So I say to you,
I know you're going to and those who are not
here present in the flesh, they're going to choose, For
he sent me for a purpose only a certain number
that any individual who is called and sent is called

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upon to bring back. Not the world. I pray not
for the world, said he, but for those whom thou
gave ust me. They were thine, and thou gave ust
their me. So under ten day of October in nineteen
sixty six, when I was commissioned to bear the burden

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only for a time, When I stood in a room
just about not quite the size, but squarel like this,
and I sat on the ground, facing twelve men, and
I was teaching them the word of God. And suddenly
one rose and hurriedly left the room. There's only one

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entrance into the room, and he left it to my left.
As he did this, I knew exactly what he's got
about to do. I knew he was going to tell
the authorities what I was teaching. I was speaking of
a king that was not of this world, and a
kingdom that not of this world. And he left and

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went through the door. He had no sooner gone through
the door than a very tall, handsome man, beautifully attired, entered,
and all of us rose, those who were seated, and
I was seated. We all rose to attention because of
his thought, and stood at attention, and he walked down
like a soldier, straight down. Then he turned at right

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angles and walked across to the other side. Then he
turned at right angles and walked down to the middle.
And then he turned and walked and he faced me.
And as he faced me, he turned to his attendant,
who gave him a mallet and a wooden peg, and

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he hammered it into my shoulder, blow after blow. I
felt every blow that went in, but it didn't hurt.
I could feel the impact and hear the blow. And
then he returned the mallet to the attendant. Then the
attendant gave him a knife, a sharp knife, and he
made one circular motion, crossed my shoulder and severed the

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entire sleeve from my shoulder. Then he took the end
of it this way and pulled it and detached it
and discarded it, leaving my arm from heir to my
finger tips bare. The whole thing was bare, my right arm.
And he stretched hisself up the way and he embraced

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me and kissed me on my right net on the
side here, and I in turn kissed him on his
right neck. And then as I did this, the scene
began to dissolve, and I was looking at that this
carded sleeve. There was a little tiny baby blue, I

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mean the shade of baby blue, made of the finest material.
Then the whole scene dissolved, and then we read in Isaiah,
who has believed our report, and to whom at the
arm of the Lord bimbvealed beyond being the power and

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the might of God. When we are told he drove
the pay into his shoulder in Isaiah, and on it
was placed all the burdens of Israel for a time.
So for a certain length of time, the burden has
been placed together those that are right, the seas that

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fell into the ground, that they may be made alive.
And so unless it falls into the ground and dies,
it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
And so the whole thing is now right for those
that he sent me to gather together. And now my

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departure can't be too long delayed. I'm sixty seven, and
the normal time it's three score and ten, and I
do not think I will reach three score and ten.
I have not no choice in the matter, because I'll
go on time. I came in on time, and I'll
go on time. But it is certainly not my desire

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to reach threescore and ten, but to do the job. Yes,
I've got to do the job, and I feel I've
done it, and so the hatching out will take place,
and all, even though they came at different intervals of time,
when the hacking begins, to all hatch out together