Our pastor is going through the book of John with us on Sundays and it is just amazing how many times Jesus confirms and outright states not only His divinity, but His equality with the Father, and His perfect sync with the Father’s will.

Melissa, I just love the way you articulate truth. Thank you! ❤

You are a treasure. You are putting yourself out there and getting it done!

Thanks Melissa for being faithful in using your gifts for His Glory and our benefit.

This was a very well-articulated explanation of that verse. Thanks Melissa! God bless

The day before you published this, my husband and I were having a conversation about this very thing. He believes that men are gods, and I tried to explain to him that what I glean from Psalm 82 is that the passage was about judges who are misusing/abusing their power. This was so timely! Thank you for sharing!

Excellent explanation Melissa, loved it. 🇬🇧🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for getting to the point and keeping it short. I got away for a while due to 60 and 90 minute videos.

Excellent little lesson well spoken!

Love your video dear sister

Thank you for this important thought this morning.

You’re so well versed. Thanks

Excellent as usual….Thank you Abba & Melissa 😊

Good explanation Melissa!💗 🙏❤️✝️❤️💕

Thanks so much. Truth

Amen! I believe! Praise the Lord, He’s brought me out of utter depravity! 😇🙏🙏🙏

Thank you. That was quoted all the time in Religious Science! Is the word used in that passage elohim? I’ve been taught that elohim is used in a variety of ways in scripture - that its sort of a generic term for “god” or “gods” and is even used to refer to human earthly political rulers - like a “lord.”

Thar was excellent! "Jesus claimed exclusive divinity" ... good note to write I. My Bible! Thx!

THANK YOU MELISSA!

Well put, God bless you.

Keep up the awesome work, I am learning each day!

Mahalo's for your articulation Sis....Go girl Go! Glory be to Christ!

Melissa > Thank You for your work.

Thank you for rightfully defending and promoting the word of Jesus Christ!

Thank you for that message. Typically it’s people who don’t read the entire Bible with prayer for understanding that can take a single verse and make a false doctrine out of it. I see it all the time where even evangelical Christians take a couple of verses that seem to say one thing, yet the biblical teachings as a whole say just the opposite.

Thanks for sharing something that may be easily misconstrued

Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” Jeremiah 10:11

Melissa, your comment about not being reformed made me wonder: what are your thoughts on John Piper? I was introduced to TULIP by a camp counselor when I was in high school, and to be honest, it CRUSHED me because it made God seem like a cold, callous being who isn't actually concerned with the eternal destiny of individual people. Taken to it's most extreme, it makes God look like He's more concerned with His own glory even above loving people, to the point where He arbitrarily chooses individuals both to enlighten and to send to hell. For the next few years after that, I really struggled in my relationship with the Lord, feeling He was distant or wondering if I was really one of the "chosen" ones. At this point, I would say I'm a 3-4 point "Calvinist," just based on my interpretation of what the Bible has to say. After lots of digging into the Word and watching videos on what different apologists have to say (Mike Winger, for example), I feel more secure in what I believe. And I can see God's love all throughout Scripture as He reaches out to those who don't know Him, so that helps me to believe that He is truly a God of compassion and of mercy who cares about individual people. Still, I think it's a shame that the Calvinism debate causes so much division in the church. It seems like a distraction from what is really much more important: sharing the Gospel and making disciples. That's how I see it, anyways. So all that to say, with your background, do you see anything "cult" like with John Piper...? Or just where he's adding things or perspectives to Scripture that aren't necessarily there? Just curious of your thoughts.

I know you weren't trying to preach there per se, but sister - that was some good preaching!

A real 💎 ❤ Amen

(Lionoffireraw)recommended this channel and he is right, this is teaching what is in accordance with the truth. Glory to God.

Melissa over here just comin out with B A N G E Rs left and right. Keep up the videos! I love hearing you talk about ideas even when I disagree

It is absolutely misunderstood by many! I also put it forth to the newagers: if you are god, then how disappointing is that definition, in comparison to Yahweh who literally created all things and is perfectly merciful, etc?

I’m wondering what happened to Steven Bancarz

You have a red light on one side and a blue light on the other side, and a round crystal of some sort on the shelf. And the picture looks somewhat magickal, for lack of a better term.

I still don't get it, is the old testament wrong?

See Psalm 82:1 & Strong’s 430 and 2 Corinthians 4:4 & Strong’s 2316. Theologically interesting.

I love how people look down on and recuse themselves from being called reformed.

I believe that, as you read the Bible, you need to retain a consistent point of view to your understanding of what it says. I like to take it as literally as possible, until the Holy Spirit highlights, or even shows me something in the Scripture that I am reading. As the Bible says, He is always the same spirit, Therefore He is not going to give any two of us wildly different meanings. Also, the Bible says that, "no scripture is of any private interpretation."

Yep!!! And by that response, Jesus made the acknowledgement of their own hypocrisy

Think of the story of Job. Psalm 82:1 refers specifically to the same council that sits with God in the story of Job as the acuser tries to convince God that Job will be unfaithful. From an ancient Hebrew point of view, the "angels" were lesser spirit beings that have been referred to as gods since then.

also many people use GODS grace and forgiveness for an excuse to live in sin. And see no need to repent to be forgiven

What an abrupt ending.

"He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God." - B. B. Warfield

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens. Ps:96:5 It's idolatry that is in many churches.

.......Psalm 82:6-7 King James Version 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. ....never humble.

can i ask a very personal question? your youtube channel came up on my feed so we looked for a couple of weeks we understand that having being in the life you had you wanted to warn people about your past experience BUT is that really what the LORD asked us to do?? Just an observation?

If we are told by God that we are gods, then we should trust that fact. If one does not believe it maybe they should ask God when, how, etc and for further understanding. Obey the Law! Wait, don't stop reading now. Please hear us out. Many of us seek the help of the Holy Spirit in our life. The Breath of God is the Holy Spirit. Remember we are told by Jesus that His words are spirit and they are life. Does anyone really think that we can go to a foreign land and never learn their laws, customs, rules or regulations etc.? Yet we all want to go to heaven or some say they are ready for heaven to come to earth with Jesus as our King. Well don't you think that if it does happen that He will never apply His laws or His Father's laws etc. to His Kingdom? We are to assimilate into His Kingdom and how do we do that if we have no acess to His laws, ways etc.? Remember those who teach against the law would be the least in the Kingdom. Him in you, you in Him? Jesus is The Word, John 1:1-5 The Word God spoke: Exodus 20:1 The Word God wrote: Deuteronomy 4:13 and The Word God made flesh John 1:14 Jesus is the law that hung on the cross as well as the law God wrote upon our heart. If Jesus is in you, you must get in Him. Our directions are found in Deut. 6:8-9. Be a disciple of Jesus and trust in no man. He is our anointing and is to go before us. (Anoint is the Greek verb chrio (from which we derive Christos = Christ = the Anointed One) occurs 4 other times in Scripture and all refer to Christ (Lk 4:18, Acts 4:27, Acts 10:38, Heb 1:9) The related noun chrisma describes the anointing with the Holy Spirit ALL believers receive when they receive Christ (1Cor 12:13) We all know it seems like we have been lied to in almost everything. It is time we seek God's truth for ourselves and allow Him to teach us in the way we should go. As Paul would say, "put on Jesus". Our instructions are found in the throughout the Bible. Don't stop seeking the Armour of God until your feet are armed in peace. We call the Armour, love bands, we pray that all will come to love the law as David and ourselves have. May our God go will us all and that all walk in peace and the grace of God. let's practice our religion, be doers of The Word. Are we ready for His Kingdom to come?

Psalm 82 is the foundation (along with the shema) which obliterates the mistranslation by JWs of John 1:1. The Word can’t be a god because all little g gods will be judged like humans.

Jesus was quoting from Psalm 82 which is about the "elohim" of the Divine Council - about actual created heavenly beings who rebelled. It's not about human judges in the Old Testament, as that would make no sense. First of all, nowhere is "elohim" applied to humans and Jesus is defending His two claims to be God right before and after John 10:34. It would not be a defense of His divinity if Jesus were saying humans in the scriptures were called "gods" therefore He can call Himself God. In Psalm 82, God is taking His place among the elohim of His Divine Council and declaring that they will meet the same fate as humanity, so they are not in the same category as humans or that declaration would make no sense either. Jesus appeals to this verse to show there are other categories that His enemies were aware of beyond the human.

"Trust me Bro, this is what Jesus really meant. No need to read the Bible, just buy my books and trust me bro" - Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, et al.

I really prefer Michael heiser 's view on Psalm 82 and John 10:34. That is, both of these are talking about the Divine Council in heaven. An assembly of divine beings, not human judges, not Jewish leaders. See Heiser on these two passages as part of his larger discussion of the Divine Council for a fulsome explanation. I think it fits better than the common idea of the gods being human judges

Jesus Said to them, if you See Me, then you have Seen the Father!!!

Apologizing for not being Reformed or Cessationist. lol 😂

Since Gd is the one and only Truth and it is absolutely illogical for multiple truths to exist, it is therefore impossible for there to be more than one Gd. HOWEVER, there logically can be extensions of Gd. Extensions of Gd ARE Gd. But there are different parts and levels of Gd just like there are different parts and levels to humans. Gd is the head but believers are his body. Gd's offspring are inescapably innately also gds. But they are eternally completely dependent on the Father for all things. We are branches of Js vine therefore we are Js but he is the main vain.

For God so loved the world that he sent a book? Oh, no? Hmmm!

how in this verse is Jesus claiming exclusive divinity? He isn't claiming deity, He's claiming authority....by being the Son of God and fully submitted to the will of God. essentially, because Jesus is perfectly acting in self-denial and submittance, anything Jesus says or does is equal to it being said or done by God. to the point where Jesus even says, if you've seen Me you've seen the Father. He isn't claiming to be the Father or a deity/divine, He is claiming to be the Son of God, the promised Christ from the Davidic covenant as you said, Jesus was a monotheistic Jew. knowing full well that He isn't divine, but a man, the Son of God..not God Himself. If Jesus was claiming divinity then the pharisees would have been in the right to try to kill him for blasphemy. and Jesus probably would have agreed with that, because a monotheistic Jew could never and would never claim to be divine or God. Jesus literally never once claims to be God or claims to be the Father. it is however fully spelled out in scripture that isn't robbery for Him to be considered equal with God, because the reasons why i stated above. Jesus was perfectlly self-denied and submitted to the Fathers will, hence "the Father and I are one". this is echo'd all throughout John time and time again. John is such a misinterpreted book all throughout Christianity because of our greek, dualist driven minds. for some reason we view John almost like a different language, where its words are capable of contradicting everything else said consistently throughout scripture. that isn't the case.

2:09 "the father of the devil"? I think you misspoke

For reference, for those wondering, Jesus was quoting Psalm 82:6 🙏🏼❤️✝️👑

Christianity teaches SEPARATION from God (based on the writings of the ancient Latin/Catholic Church) ... Sadly, Christians don't recognize the Divinity within mankind ... because to the Church, God is OUTWARD instead of INWARD. Call me crazy, but I have to give some credit to the "New Agers" - they actually have it RIGHT in that one only has to look WITHIN to recognize Divinity. You are all created from the same Divine SPIRIT, of that which is called "God." - That means we are ALL one ... not separate as the modern Church teaches. Remember this the next time you criticize someone ... because you are only criticizing YOURSELF. The Christians were blinded a long time ago by the re-written Catholic scriptures ... that's why I recommend the original KOINE GREEK scriptures.

Good lord, what a horrible translation! This video helped me appreciate just how distorted the NIV is.

Does anyone else suspect that Jesus is actually the Father? The Holy Spirit is also the Father.

The interpretation you are using is not correct. This can be seen from the parallel that Jesus speaks. I'll simplify his words to make it more obvious. "If he called men gods, then why are you on me for saying I am the son of God?" This may seem like a broken parallel because it relates "god" to "son of God." It isn't. Psalms 82 says both "you are gods" and "sons of God". Jesus expects his audience to know that. The parallel only works if "god" in the first part has something in common with "God" in the second part. If your interpretation says that "god" in the first part means "mighty men" or "leaders" then Jesus' words become "If he called men mighty-men / leaders, then why are you on me for saying I am the son of God?" See how the parallel loses it's meaning under the interpretation you are using?

Is that Mormonism, or what?

God. A one-time mortal, next higher than Lord God ruler over all the people on earth, and in the lower heavens, for a season. Lord God. A one-time mortal, next higher than Lord, ruler over part of the people on earth and the lower heavens, for a season. Lord. A one-time mortal, ruler over part of the people on earth for a season. God said: I am, as any other spirit of the dead, a one-time man upon the earth, thy elder brother of tens of thousands of years' experience. Distinguish, then, that the twain God and The Creator are not the same one. No more is thy God than what thou shalt be in time to come, and all angels, the Gods and Lords and generals and captains and chiefs in heaven are but the brothers and sisters of mortals and the spirits of the dead; and none of these, however exalted, can create Life or Motion or an Individual or Person. These are from The Great Spirit, The Creator.

The concept of man becoming a god is not New Age. That's a lie. The Orthodox church has a doctrine called Theosis. You misinterpret the bible just not to accept the obvious meaning.