Neville Goddard on Hebrews 3:7-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 3:7-19

Biblical Context

The passage warns against unbelief and hard-heartedness in the wilderness of life, showing that only faith allows entering God's rest. It calls believers to support one another daily and hold fast to their initial trust in Christ.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the Holy Ghost as your living awareness, not a distant deity. The provocation is your mind clinging to old stories of lack; the forty years symbolize the length of time you refuse to let go of unbelief. When the heart remains hard, you invalidate the inner rest that is always available in the I AM. But if you hearken to 'to day' as a call to awaken, you revise your sense of self from doubt to confident presence. Holding the beginning of your confidence stedfast unto the end means you persist in the initial assumption that God is now, that you are the embodiment of that living word. Exhortation becomes inner practice: speak to yourself daily, remind your mind that you hear, and let sin—your temptations to fear—fall away as you choose alignment with the divine memory within. The rest is entry into your own abiding nature, not a distant promise; you enter in exactly in the moment you stop resisting.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly for a few minutes and declare inwardly, 'I hear the voice of God now; I am in my rest.' Then feel the assurance of I AM settling into every corner of your mind.