Bible Verse of the Day Saturday March 25th, 2023

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, ’I have said you are "gods"’?

The discourse in the tenth chapter of the Gospel of John finds Jesus in Solomon's Colonnade at the Temple. The Jewish people surrounding Him ask Him to tell them now in plain language whether or not He was the promised, long-awaited Messiah that would take away the world's sins. This dissertation from Christ Jesus stated that He was the "Good Shepard" that had come to earth, left His deity in heaven, and came to lay down His life so that all who believe in Him might have eternal life. This revelation had two different effects that day, one that must have thrilled the hearts and souls of those that thought He was the Savior of the World, God in the flesh, and the others that wanted to stone Him for committing blasphemy. But, on the other hand, his opponents accused Him of claiming He was God even though He was a mere human being.  

 

Our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, responded to those accusing Him of blasphemy by using scripture from the writings of their Prophets, which had all told of the coming of the promised Messiah. He pointed them to Psalm 82:6, stating that He had called them gods. In some incidences in the Old Testament, the Hebrew word for "god" is Elohim defined as human judges. These human leaders of the Jewish people were known as gods, (with a small "g") because they ruled overt the people in a theocratic society (Exodus 4:16; 7:1),

Christ Jesus was far more than a human being called to be a judge of the Nation of Israel; He was God in the flesh. He was the promised Messiah that had first been promised in the Garden of Eden and prophesied by God's appointment throughout the Jewish people's history up to that point. Using the verses from scripture that He did, He was unmistakably displaying a difference between the dishonest and perverted leaders of the Nation of Israel during the dispensation of the Law and Himself, who had come to earth to set up the New dispensation of Grace. The greatest act of love accomplished that humankind had ever known up to that point or which the world will ever know. Jesus did this by voluntarily going to the Cross and joyfully taking on the shame, humiliation, and pain of the cruelest execution ever devised by mortals (Hebrews 12:2).  

 

Even today, many misguided humans have misunderstood and misused the scripture from Psalm 82 to feed their prideful lust for fame and fortune. This act is most assuredly blasphemy, where some humans fall for the same lies and manipulations Satan spoke to Adam and Eve in the Garden when He told them they would be like God (Genesis 3:5). 

 

Christ Jesus is, without a doubt, one with the Father, and His Word, the Bible, is the truth, and all of His promises in scripture are as sure as the sun's rising and setting until the true Son returns to this earth. Christ Jesus came to this earth to suffer and die on an "Old Rugged Cross" so that all that accept His as their personal Lord and Savior will never die but have eternal life.