From Past Gentile Ways to Inner Holiness

1 Peter 4:3-4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Peter 4 in context

Scripture Focus

3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1 Peter 4:3-4

Biblical Context

Peter notes that the past life of indulgence is finished and believers are now separated from those old patterns; others may reproach them for not joining in the former excesses.

Neville's Inner Vision

Peter’s words reveal that the so-called time past is a fixed state of consciousness you once wore as your identity—the lusts, revelry, and idols. In Neville’s terms, when you choose not to run with the past crowd, you are not abandoning people, you are shifting your inner premise. The world’s reproach is only the outer mask of your former self projecting outward. The new life you step into is a feeling, a certainty: I am the I AM in action, the divine life moving through me. Hold that holiness is already yours and let the old cravings fade like mist in light. You are not condemned by others; you are re-creating yourself into a more intimate alignment with God within. The path of separation becomes a voluntary re-creation of consciousness, not a punishment, and every outward reproach mirrors your inner transformation.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, breathe, and assume the statement I am the I AM, holiness now in action. If old cravings or others' judgments arise, revise them by affirming I have released the past; I am wholly aligned with God within me.

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