Are you gods?

Jesus said in John 10:34, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”. 

This comment provoked a failed stoning attempt by the authorities. What exactly did Jesus mean? 

Actually Jesus was quoting Psalm 82:6 where Asaph said “You are gods, And all of you are children of the Most High”. 

Moses even quoted God as saying in Genesis 1:27, “God made man like Him”. 

Even man in his present sinful situation Jesus’s brother said in James 3:9 “Man is made like God”.

In Genesis 1:26, Moses said that Man was made to have authority over all of God’s earth. 

However, in Matthew 4:9, Satan told Jesus that Satan had authority, and Jesus didn’t expose that comment as a bluff. 

In James 3:8, James went so far as to say that people can’t even control their BIG MOUTH much less all the earth!

In Psalm 82:6-7, Asaph said that man had fallen from a god-like position, lost his prince-like authority under the Most High God, and would die. 

In Romans 8:3, Paul said that God sent His Son into the world as a man to be a substitute for our sins. 

In John 5:19, Jesus said that He personally had no power by saying 

“I can do nothing by myself”. God was simply doing His works through Him.

In Romans 8:15, Paul said that through surrendering to Christ we are restored to our relationship, and we can even call God Daddy (Abba). 

Furthermore, in Romans 8:28-30 Paul said that those who belong to Christ, God’s plan is to make us like His prototype, Jesus.

In Matthew 28:18, Jesus said that “all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth”. 

In other words, what man lost, Satan stole, and then Jesus won back through His death on the cross, burial, and resurrection from the grave. 

In 2 Corinthians 5:17, we are a new creation in Christ (when we yield to the ownership of Christ). The past is gone. The new is come.

In Romans 10:9, Paul said that 

if you will confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord (Owner) and believe in the heart God has raised Him from the dead (He is risen to change you). 

You will be saved (from evil impulses and the resulting punishment).

If you surrender the control of your life to Jesus, Jesus said in John 20:17, 

I am going to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.

You, too can be like God. 

Furthermore, in John 14:7, Jesus said, “I’m coming back for you!”