Neville Goddard on Acts 20:20-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 20 in context

Scripture Focus

20And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

21Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 20:20-21

Biblical Context

Paul states he did not withhold anything profitable, teaching openly and from house to house, and testifies that true turning involves repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ for both Jews and Greeks.

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul's words reveal that the kingdom you seek is a state of consciousness you must publicly claim in your own mind and privately rehearse until it becomes real. Repentance toward God is not sorrow for the past but a turning of attention, a returning to the Source, the I AM that you are. Faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ is simple trust in that living presence within, not in distant dogma but in the immediacy of awareness. The Jews and Greeks are but two parts of you—the will and the emotion, the idea and the sense—both invited to testify to the truth in your heart. When you practice, you do not withhold any profitable insight from yourself; you teach publicly in your inner dialogue and privately in your nightly revising. In time the inner proclamation becomes outer reality, as belief becomes certainty and sight follows from the conviction that God is your I AM.

Practice This Now

Assume you are already the teacher of all parts of your mind, publicly and privately speaking their truth. Feel repentance toward God and faith toward Christ as real now, letting that conviction color every thought.