Inner Baptism and Resurrection

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, see this text as a map of your inner life. Christ’s suffering is not distant history but a turning of your consciousness toward truth: the just self laying down the old image of separation so the I AM can quicken it with divine life. Being put to death in the flesh and quickened by the Spirit translates into a deliberate release of your old sense of limitation and a rising awareness that you are already held in God’s life. The phrase that He preached to spirits in prison becomes inner preaching to beliefs that have bound you—the disobedient days of Noah are your earlier, flood-tested conditions of doubt. The ark is the inner vessel of faith you prepare by awareness, and eight souls saved by water points to a remnant awakening through fear’s flood. The like figure of baptism now saves you speaks of an inner cleansing, not the washing of the body, but a good conscience toward God, reached by the resurrection of Jesus Christ within you.