Neville Goddard on Galatians 5:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Galatians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

3For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Galatians 5:1-4

Biblical Context

Paul warns that clinging to external works and circumcision keeps one in bondage. True liberty comes through grace, by awareness of Christ within.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Paul, 'liberty' is not a license to do as you please, but the recognition that you already are free in the I AM. The yoke of bondage is the habitual identification with law—trying to prove yourself by what you do. When you believe that circumcision or any external rite makes Christ profit you, you have severed grace from your life and fallen from its state. But the kingdom is within: the moment you acknowledge that God’s grace is your own awareness, you become the uncircumscribed self; for Christ is the inner motive power, not an external ordinance. If you insist on the letter of the law, you declare yourself a debtor to the whole law and you shut out the vivifying presence of grace. Your only task is to return to the realization that you are already loved, whole, and free, here and now. Now, the practical step: assume the feeling of being free here and now, and consciously revise every image to reflect that you are the I AM that cannot be bound by rules.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and say, 'I am free now by grace.' See yourself stepping from a cage labeled 'yoke of bondage' into a sunlit chamber where the I AM reigns as your constant reality.