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… Has it not been written in your law, I said you are gods? If he then called them, if he called them gods to whom the word of God came, the scripture can't be broken. Do you say of him whom the father set apart and sent into the world, you are blaspheming because I said I am the son of God? If you were to take your time to read Psalm 82, you would find that in that Psalm... God the Father reveals to the psalmist that the judges on earth were the Elohim of the earth. That's a Hebrew word meaning gods. They were considered the great leaders. They were considered those that spoke on behalf of God, the judges in the land. Now Jesus says, you had no argument with the judges being called gods. But I come having been sent from the Father, and I declare I have been sent from him. I am his representative. I am in fact God in the flesh. And all you have with me is argument. …
… I said you are gods. Jesus says, if he called them gods to whom the word of God came to people, mere mortals, do you say of whom the father consecrated and sent into the world, you are blaspheming because I said, I am the son of God. What's he doing? it's honestly difficult to really say. And I won't get into all the possible interpretations, but good scholars that I trust, you would know their names if I mentioned them. Good scholars that I trust, they get to the end of their sophisticated, theological, exegetical explanations for how Psalm 82 relates to John 10 and how Jesus is seeing those verses. They get to the end of all that sophisticated argumentation and they basically say, he was buying some time. He was buying some time. The argument, the scriptures sometimes call humans gods. So why would you stone me for saying I'm the son of God? That argument, it certainly doesn't prove that he's the son of God. And it doesn't really deal with the problem of blasphemy either because Jesus is over and over in the gospel of John. …
We have been going through the gospel according to St. John for over a year now, and we will continue that study this morning. As we look at the text in John chapter 10, beginning at verse 31, reading through verse 42, I would ask the congregation to stand for the reading of the Word of God. And then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy. because you, being a man, make yourself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods? If He called them gods to whom the word of God comes and the Scriptures cannot be broken, do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, you are blaspheming? Because I said, I am the Son of God. …