Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 18:18-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 18 in context

Scripture Focus

18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

19Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:18-19

Biblical Context

Ezekiel 18:18-19 contrasts a father's oppression with a son's own obedience. The son's life depends on his own right actions, not the father's iniquities.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture your inner world as a stage where the father's cruelty is a stale, oppressive habit of mind and the son's right conduct is a living, choice-filled state of awareness. God, the I AM within you, declares that life follows the state you inhabit. The message is not genealogical guilt but personal responsibility: you are not defined by another's sins; you are defined by the quality of your present choices. When you identify with past hurts or inherited blame, pause and assume a new state - one that keeps all inner statutes and acts accordingly. By feeling as if you already live in that right state, you align with the divine law and begin to experience life as the living proof of that choice. Your consciousness softens, your circumstances rearrange, and you discover that the son within you can live now by your own lawful acts, independent of a father's transgression.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling: I live by the inner statutes; I am the son who keeps them. Hold that state and dwell in it for a few minutes, revising any memory of inherited guilt.