Neville Goddard on Mark 7:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 7 in context

Scripture Focus

6He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

8For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Mark 7:6-9

Biblical Context

Jesus exposes hypocrisy: people honor God with their lips while their hearts remain fixed on human traditions. Worship becomes vain when the commandments of God are laid aside for ceremonial routines.

Neville's Inner Vision

Mark 7:6-9 calls you to observe the gap between voice and heart. The scribes and Pharisees speak honor to God with their lips, yet their inner disposition clings to traditions of men. In Neville's terms, the inner man is the I AM, the living decision that laws of life are created by consciousness, not by external washing and ritual. When you dwell as the one aware, you discover that the commandment of God is not distant law but the inner ordinance written on your heart. The energy of belief flows from the center of your being and reorganizes your experiences to match the state you hold. If you cling to forms while resisting the living commandment, you contract your reality to the sum of those outward acts. But when you revise your sense of self to be the embodiment of that commandment—loving, faithful, unshaken by tradition—your heart aligns and the outward shows forth what your inner state has become. Begin now: assume you are the very commandment of God within you; feel the unity of your mind with that law, and watch the outer world respond.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume you are the living commandment of God in your heart; feel it as a present reality, then revise any sense of separation so that your outward actions flow from that inner state.