Judgment Begins in the House
1 Peter 4:17-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage says judgment begins with the house of God; if the righteous are barely saved, it highlights the accountability of those who claim obedience.
Neville's Inner Vision
Listen, you are not waiting for some distant judgment; the time is now, for you are the house of God and your consciousness is the stage of all events. Judgment, in this light, is the thinning away of false identifications—fear, guilt, and attachment to appearances—that you have unknowingly named as real. The righteous scarcely saved phrase becomes a note of encouragement: the discipline of faith redefines what counts as salvation, not as a future act, but as the felt realization in the present. The ungodly are simply beliefs that you have not yet invited into the light of your I AM; they vanish as you keep your attention on your true nature. So, if judgment begins with you, begin with your imagination. Stand as the I AM—calm, sure, irresistibly alive—and revise every sense of lack by declaring your life is governed by divine order. In that moment, the end of fear is seen; salvation is a constant, not a distant event, and it streams from within your own inner gospel.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly and declare, 'I am the house of God—the I AM within me now.' Feel the truth as if it already happened, and revise one troubling thought into its divine opposite.
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