After performing many mighty miracles among the people, Christ was standing in the temple in Solomon’s porch. The doubters began to surround Him and said, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense. If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Then He said to them, “I have already told you that I am He by the miracles that I have done in My Father’s name. They speak and bear witness of Me. But you don’t believe that the Father lives within Me and that it is He that does the miracles. You don’t believe because you are not of My sheep. You are of another herd and cannot hear my words. As I told you before [John 8: 42-44], when I spoke to you plainly: You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do…there is no truth in your father, the one you are following…for he is a liar and the father of all lies. Your father is a liar, and you are born of lies and are liars yourselves.”
Christ continued. “No, you are not of my flock, for they hear my voice and believe and follow me. And they will never perish, for they have eternal life. The Father has given them to Me. And no one can take them from Me, for I and My Father are one.”
“Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.”
Seeing their anger and the murder in their hearts, Christ said, “I have showed you many miracles from the Father. Which miracle are you stoning me for?”
“We are not stoning you for a miracle that you have performed, but for blasphemy because you are a man, and you are making yourself out to be God.”
And it was at this juncture that Christ dropped a bombshell on them, saying, Wait a minute. Is it not written in your law, the law that you take so much pride in, where I said, ‘You are gods.’ The Father called them gods. The very ones to whom He was sending His word back in the days of the patriarchs and prophets–those He called gods. The very ones who needed a Savior, who needed the law and the testimony, who needed help from their Creator to get right–those He called gods! And now you are going to tell the one who the Father has sanctified and made holy and sent into the world–you are going to tell Him that He blasphemes because I said that I am the Son of God?
But there was no reasoning with them. They “sought again to take Him, but He escaped out of their hand” [John 10: 22-39].
Christ was too much for them. They could not understand Him, for “had the princes of this world known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
The Mysterious “Ye are gods” Statement
This confrontation is the backdrop for one of the most enigmatic statements that God-with-us ever made. “Ye are gods.” What does He mean that we are “gods”?
We must first go back to the passage of scripture that the Savior quoted in Psalm 82: 6. The word “gods” is translated from the Hebrew word elohim (#H430 in Strong’s Concordance), also translated “God” in hundreds of places. Christ said, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are the children of the most High.” He’s saying that some had a spiritual existence with Him in the beginning. He’s saying that there is more to the sons of Adam than just their earthly purposes.
Man, a spiritual being, created by God to house Him fully, in vain tries to live a fulfilling life by the acquisition of earthly things, when earthly things cannot suffice a human being, a being designed to be the glory of God, who is an invisible Spirit.
Yet, unregenerate man slugs on in the slop of misguided desires and lusts. These passions are for things that will not satisfy nor endure.
The sons and daughters of God, however, realize that they were put here by a Being that is not of this earth. They see their reality is not earth-based. They realize that they cannot see true reality by looking through earthly eyes. Man can only endure by seeing things other than earthly things.
It is a heavenly vision, a heavenly faith, a heavenly destiny, a heavenly plan, a heavenly purpose, a heavenly blueprint, a heavenly design, a heavenly way, a heavenly thought of a heavenly Father, who is above all this on earth and is in us whom He has called.
To even get out of the old and to get into the new life, we must believe in a spiritual being who does the saving. We have to believe in a Being we cannot see with our earthly eyes. We must believe in someone who is invisible, who is not of this earth, someone who calls us somehow with a calling that is not of this earth, calls us with a heavenly calling, and urges us in mysterious ways to appear to choose His heavenly way against the ‘better’ judgment of our earthly unbelieving senses—a someone who brings us into a place where we will repudiate all that we see here on earth and “count it all as dung” that we may win an invisible race for an invisible heavenly spiritual Supreme Being.
An enlightened man takes in this light—light that nothing earthly is as it seems. Everything is tricky here, slippery, treacherous, hypocritical, deceiving. Man is crooked, undependable, self-centered and prideful.
Nevertheless,there is a group of human beings who are beginning to realize that this walk here is a spiritual thing and not an earthly thing. They realize that they are in the world but their spirit is not of the earth. They realize that they are really strangers here on earth, that they are not really from the earth, that they are heavenly and spiritual, that they have become blind to the earthly desires and temptations.
They realize that they are looking for their home which is a four square city full of light that has 12 foundations where it never gets dark. That city, the New Jerusalem, is their home, which one day will come down out of heaven and set down right here on earth. And they believe this having never seen it with their earthly eyes [Quoted from Chapter 8 of my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”].
In a word, they begin to “walk in the Spirit.” They begin to believe what the written Word says and not what sinful man says that it says. And it tells us that God has “blessed us with all spiritual blessings and chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world,” and that He foreknew us and has “predestinated us to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” And that He has called us, justified us, and glorified us (Eph 1: 3-4; Rom 8: 29-30). Yes, God’s faith in His ability to make all this happen is strong. It is such a sure thing in God’s heart and mind that our spiritual maturity culminates in our glorification with Him, even to the point of us sitting with Christ on the throne of God! That is faith! We need His faith in us working in our lives–not our puny faith where we try to muster up enough to do whatever. He believes that we will come to full fruition as His manifested sons and daughters. He believes and says that we are gods! Incredible faith!
At present, we are not in our full spiritual elohim state of being, “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38: 7). We in our spiritual state were with Him when the “foundations of the earth” were laid (38: 3-6). Those “sons of God” were the elohim–the “us” in “Let us make man in our own image.”
For the time being here on earth, He has “made man a little lower than the angels” in that we are mortal and can very easily die (Psalm 8: 5). “Angels” here is from the Hebrew word elohim again. Man is lower than our first spiritual estate with the Father because of our impending date with death.
And, yet, “you have crowned him with glory and honor.” It is a done deal in God’s mind. And you made him (Adam) to have dominion over the works of thy hands (v. 6). “Works” here are the “great righteous acts of Yahweh, the miracles and wonders. In other words, the sons of Adam, after their spiritual regeneration, have miracle working power. They have dominion over the same powerful acts done by Yahweh of old.
In Psalm 82, where Christ quotes “Ye are gods,” Yahweh is pleading with us the sons of Adam, to wake up to this high calling. He is saying:
You are not just human beings, not just a flesh body. You have a spirit in you that comes from Me. You are my offspring; Spirit brings forth spirit. You are elohim. I am Elohim. You are begotten of Me, and we now are all of One. The same great “works of my hand” shall you do (Psm 8: 6).
But look at you! You are scurrying about the earth as if you are just an intelligent animal! I stand in your presence. You all are My spiritual children and are a mighty congregation! But I am passing judgment on you elohim-gods today, for you are not acting like I act. You are not acting like Me, like I did when I was in the days of My flesh, when I judged righteously and justly. You act as if you are not like Me. We are one, but you act like you don’t believe that. You judge unjustly (v. 2) and you are partial to the rich and powerful and wicked of this earth.
Look out over the earth at all the poor and needy. These are they who do not have the spiritual riches of this knowledge that they are gods, like you do. But you don’t tell them. You don’t inform them of this truth. They are without Me, their Father, and you won’t judge to tell them the truth so that they can escape the clutches of the wicked (v. 3). My other children who are the earth-dwellers, who spend their years on earth with darkness as a constant cloak, without the knowledge and light that they are My spirit-children–they are lost and know not the way (v. 5).
Listen to Me. I have already said that you are gods (elohim), but if you do not change, you will die like the rest of the fleshly Adamites, who don’t have this spiritual knowledge. You are all the sons of the most High (v. 6 NIV). But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler (v. 7), if you don’t start walking like Me in human form. Rise up, my body of sons and daughters, my offspring, and judge the earth with Me, for I am the King of kings and the Master of masters. All the nations are your inheritance…..
He says that we are gods–that we are elohim. With the new heart and spirit that He has given us, we are coming back full circle–back to where we started in heavenly places in Christ. But we must “make our calling and election sure.” We must walk in full confidence after proving all things and study “to show ourselves approved” to be His heirs of the kingdom of God. The 100 fold sonship walk is for those of full age and maturity. It is time that we who are called to this walk put aside everything of the past and prepare our hearts and others’ for the coming of our great God and Savior Jesus/Yahshua, the Anointed One, the Christ. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
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