Inner Baptism: Death to Self
Romans 6:3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Romans 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse states that those baptized into Christ are baptized into his death, signifying an identification with the old self’s end and entry into a new life.
Neville's Inner Vision
Romans 6:3 asks us to see baptism as a word spoken to consciousness, a declaration that I am identified with Jesus Christ's death. In the Neville Goddard sense, you are not performing a rite on your flesh; you are consenting to a state of awareness. The 'death' means the old self—fear, lack, separation—dies in your inner life, liberating you to live from the risen center of your being. When I acknowledge that the I AM within me has already embraced that death, I am simultaneously aligned with a new life that has always existed as possibility. The crucifixion imaged in the verse becomes a constant atmospheric shift in mind: you no longer identify with scarcity or doubt, but with the life that arises when consciousness refuses to concede to the old story. Thus the outward becomes the natural echo of an inner truth: you are the I AM, and through this inner death you awaken to real, practical resurrection in form.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and say I am the I AM; the old self is dead in consciousness. Then feel the risen life as your present reality.
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