Ye Are Gods?
Someone I know was recently reading some articles
on this website and coming one one
of our articles concerning heretical teachings concerning Christ’s
blood and Christ’s death on the cross not being able to redeem
us. She was quite stunned and decided privately not to simply
accept our word for these charges that were leveled against
what has been openly taught by Kenneth Hagin Kenneth Copeland
and the myriad of their word of faith clones.
So
in obedience to God’s word she decided to:
1Thessalonians 5:21 Prove
all things and rightly
seek there matters out for herself to see if these things be
so. So she went online, and apparently some enterprising
fundamentalists have put together some websites that now include
audio clips and video clips of Hagin, Copeland and some of their clones preaching and
teaching everything damnable heresy we spoke and many other
things that are equally disturbing.
This person wrote me that one of the most disturbing things that
they found among these Hagin and Copland
audio and video clips was their preaching and teaching that they were gods. In reflecting on our conversation
I felt of the Lord to respond to this particular issue.
John 10:33-35 The Jews (This was one of the many religious
schools listed in the Gospels like the Pharisees, Sadducees,
Scribes and the Lawyers, all of which had seats on the Sanhedrin.) answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for
blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is
it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the
scripture cannot be broken; (First we should note to whom Christ is speaking this. – We need here
to ask also, Are these “deeper life”
and “word of faith” people going to also embrace for themselves
in this same passage Christ’s rebuke to the Scribes and Pharisees?
– Not on your life. Because these all have an unspoken rule
that is contrary to the whole of scripture that is: All that
is good and kind and all the blessings God or Christ spoke are
theirs. And all the bad and harsh things and curses that
God and Christ spoke , well those are
for the unsaved or someone else.)
This is utterly contrary to how Christ rebuked
and chastised the apostles, this is
contrary to Christ speaking to the seven churches in revelation.
Hebrews
12:5-7And
ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh
unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening
of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth
with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth
not? (What is taught
in the bible believing churches of this hour is largely fantasy.
– Rather than teach the uncompromising word of God -- these
men and women preach and teach how they want their God to be.)
Christ
observed this same kinds of teachings between the different
schools of bratty rabbis 2000 years ago, and today we have much
the same activity among bible believing churches.
Luke 7:32 They are like unto children
sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and
saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have
mourned to you, and ye have not wept. (Its all about manipulation and control)
This notion about all the blessing of God are for us and all the
curses of God are for some one else is also contrary to the
way God spoke to Israel in the wilderness when they were all
chosen to be kings and priests before him of them one man understood
by the Spirit what God meant except Joshua who abided by Moses
and the tabernacle continually – As with the children in the
wilderness the Lord gave opportunity for the people not to seek
him up close and personally but from afar Christ also gave his
disciples and all those that heard him the opportunity to not
seek him up close and personally but from afar so that the sheep
might be manifest from the goats. So that when God put wards
and markers around the mount Joshua followed Moses up the mount
beyond the place that Aaron and the Elders perched themselves
and when God by sin forbade all of Israel to approach the tabernacle
except Moses and the priests Joshua abided by the tabernacle
even when Moses when home to his wife and tent. – This things
I was not taught in bible school or by books or by tapes but
I speak that which I have heard of the Lord as it is to be for
all that follow after Him and seek the Lord with all their heart.
So when Christ spoke to the party that called themselves “The
True Jews” And said ye are god’s we see that none of the
Apostles understood that Christ was teaching his people entering
into God-ship or becoming Co-Gods with God and Christ
Psalm 82:1-6
God standeth in the (Midst of the)
congregation of the mighty; he judgeth
among the (People that would declare or show themselves
to be) gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly,
and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 (Have I not commanded you to) Defend
the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy:
rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 (Yet these who would call themselves gods and show themselves to be
gods among the people) They
know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness:
all the foundations of the earth
(The foundations of the congregation)
are out of course. 6 I have
said, (Gross
Translator Error! Have I ever
said) Ye are gods; (To those who say there are God’s or shew themselves to be gods among
the congregation) and (Much less to) all of you are children
of the most High. (In the congregation)??? (The answer is a resounding NO!!!)
Exodus
22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods (Hebrew Elohim Genesis
Let US make man in OUR image), nor
curse the ruler of thy people. (This
referring to The Angel of the Lord –that was leading them in
the wilderness.) – Psalm 82 is mistakenly linked to this passage)
Exodus
23:20-21 Behold,
I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to
bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware
of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not
pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Genesis
3:5 (serpent)
For God doth know
that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye
shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil. And shall begin judging everything according
to your own eyes and corrupt hearts)
It
was the serpent in Genesis that first suggested that by eating
of the fruit that the woman might attain to Godhood and become
co-equal with The Most High and rule and judge as He.
She apparently did not like the order the
household, and sought to circumvent Adam in her relationship
with God. So that we can see that there was a perversion
in the heart of the woman in this very area that the serpent
played at. And rather than being horrified by this evil and
perverse suggestion, the woman was enthralled with the though
of herself being so elevated.
Psalm
82:7 But(Therefore) ye shall die like
men, and fall like one of the princes. (The angels that followed the serpent)
Here plainly God declares that all that would present themselves
as gods or show themselves to be gods and all that would
follow them shall be fall unto destruction as the devil and
all his angels.
The Apostle John
declares these Anti-Gods (Those who would stand in the place of God) to be Anti-Christs (Those who would
stand in the place of Christ.)
Knowing these very things all
the writers of the Epistles including the Apostles take no special
honor upon themselves regarding themselves and their position
in the body of Christ and so they address themselves as ministers
and servants of Christ