Inner Christ Rising: Acts 17:3

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Acts 17:3, the claim is not about a distant historical event but about the inner work of your consciousness. The 'Christ' is not a person but your I AM, the living awareness that must experience the motion of suffering—contraction of old beliefs—and the subsequent awakening into resurrection—the revelation that a new life is already present in you. When the speaker insists that Christ 'must needs' have suffered and risen, he is pointing to the law of inner movement: every old idea about lack, fate, or separation must go through a dying and a rising in your imagination until your awareness witnesses the truth of your wholeness. Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ: the Christ you hear in the sermon is the Christ you can become, here and now, by assuming the state of that consciousness. Your world is not separate from this inward drama; your experience of pain or disappointment is the crucifixion; your present moment of insight is the resurrection. The key is inner acceptance and the courageous revision of belief until 'there is no longer I, but Christ in me.'