Psalm 82

He dust me off, pulled the civilian out of me in the military and built me up spiritually, physically, and everything strong.

But the verse that you were talking about where God's above all the gods, is that Psalms 82 verses 1 through 8? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

He stands above and eventually he's going to call all the nations to his inheritance.

And part of being so interested in new thought and new age was for me to hold up that mantle of this false idea that I can control the universe.

She referenced a scripture that me and her actually didn't dive into, but ye are gods is what she said, which is Jesus in John 10, referencing Psalm 82, 6.

And is that one that is referenced in New Age and New Thought a lot to back that we're divine?

Yeah, so that is one that is referenced a lot.

And it is this idea of Christ consciousness, right? Like we're all here to realize that we have the same potential as Jesus Christ.

Now, this is what they believe in New Thought and in New Age.

The Christ consciousness thing, I want to go back to Psalm 82, 6, just to see like what you would have said as a New Thought pastor.

But the Christ consciousness thing is confused me a little bit, is literally like Jesus, just a person that discovered that we all have this capability? Or was there something a little special about Jesus, even if he was just a little bit like us, but he was like a leader or like most of us wouldn't match up to him? Or is he literally just a dude that stumbled upon this and is telling us, yes, you're exactly like me.

Oh yes.

Psalm 82, Psalm 82 verse one, God stands in the congregation of the mighty.

He judges the gods.

How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? And then look at verse 6.

We could explore this one forever.

Hang on.

Psalm 82.

Hang on.

Amen.

Our scripture reading today is 2 Chronicles 22 and Psalm 82.

2 Chronicles 22 Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place.

For the band of men who came with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older sons.

So he was hidden with them in the house of God six years.

while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

And now Psalm 82.

The 82nd Psalm, a Psalm of Asaph.

They die...

And I'm not 100% sure that while I do think that there are some Elohim that are going to die at some point, because if you take like Psalm 82, it's like, I have called you gods, but you're going to die like men.

Yeah.

Um, so there, there is, I do think that there's coming a time anyway, when some of them, uh, and what does that mean to die like men? You know, does it mean that they're going to be just ultimately destroyed? They're not going to exist anymore or are the, the bodies that they have right now, they're not going to work anymore.

And so when I teach on, for example, I preach on the judgment seat of Christ in the New Testament, and I talk about how we are given a crown of life or a crown of righteousness, and it's those crowns that we lay before Jesus.

That is in the context of a... of a divine council worldview or a Deuteronomy 32 redemptive estrangement worldview, or it's in the context of Psalm 82, where there is a, there's judgment on false rulers and we are laying our crowns before the Lord as righteous rulers with the righteousness of Christ.

And we will rule and reign with Christ properly in the way that the, the fallen sons of God did not.

And so, and then, so people will come up to me and be like, okay, you were preaching on like this other topic.

And then you mentioned the, what Psalm 82 and the fallen sons of God, what were you talking about? I'm like, aha,

I gotcha.

And so then I talked to him and my wife, my wife and I drive separate to church because she knows I'm going to stay around talking to people.

um, to, to, uh, to God, to Yahweh, to like give a report or give an account.

Where did it go? What happened? So yeah, there was a conspiracy, especially surrounding this title Sons of God.

And the reason why is because Jesus was claiming to be the Son of God, citing Psalm 82.

They knew exactly what he meant.

It was a supernatural title that harkens back to these angelic beings.