Man's Inner Word is God's Word

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• 2 Samuel 23:2
• Isaiah 45:5

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But you will say, “This is the Lord speaking, and certainly the Lord can do that.” Well, now, let me quote the last words of David as said in the 23d chapter of II Samuel – and these are the last words of David: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, his word upon my tongue.” The “Spirit of the Lord” – he never had that revelation until that moment. He realizes now that all along everything on his tongue was the Lord speaking! “The Lord speaks by me, and his word is upon my tongue.” The word “Lord,” as we told you earlier in this series – if it in any way conveys the sense of an external something, external to your own being, you have the wrong lord. If the words “Jesus Christ” convey the sense of an existent something outside of man, you have the wrong Jesus Christ! For Jesus Christ is in us, and if He is in us, and by Him all things are made and without Him was not anything made that is made, and He is called the “Word of God,” and you understand that the very word was created by the Word of God – and David tells us that God is upon his tongue. The very Word of God is upon his tongue. Then we are told: “I am the Lord. There is no other god. Beside Me there is no god.”

Neville teaches that the 'Lord' and 'Jesus Christ' are not external beings but the indwelling consciousness and creative power within man. David's realization that 'his word was upon my tongue' means that man's inner speech is the 'Word of God' itself, the ultimate creative force.

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