Psalm 82

God stands in the congregation of the mighty.

The key verse in this Psalm is V 6.

I said, “You are gods,[b]
And all of you are children of the Most High.

How can we say we are gods.

John 10:30

30 I and My Father are one.”
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”

33 The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?[c] 35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 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’? 

37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe[d] that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” 39 Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

Here what happened is Jesus said " I and My Father are one"

And Jews are ready to stone Him.

The reason that Jews answered Him saying " We don't stone for your works, but for saying that you are God."

Now the Lord quotes Psalm 82 and says.

You are called god, because you received the Word.

V35 - God called them gods, to whom the Word of God came.

When the Word of God comes to a person and the Word is received, the deadness in thee person goes away and Life of God enters.

And He becomes like god. gets God like character.

You are called god, because you do the Works of Heavenly Father.

 V37 - you are called god, when you do what God does.

When a person receives the Word of God, he gets wisdom and understanding.

He doesn't react the way the world reacts, He doesn't do things how the world does, but because he is god, He does the works of God.

But, too often, although we receive Word of God, we don't behave like god, we don't do the works of the Father.

Genesis 3:9

9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

Here God is asking Adam, Adam you are the god in the garden, and you are also the god in your family, why did you do this?

12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

But Adam says in V 12 - I am not the god of my family, its the woman who gave me is the god in my family, she decides and I follow it.

Genesis 2 : 15, 16

15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

It is Adam, who received the Word, so Adam is god.

one good thing Adam did is, He passed on that Word to Eve after she was created, he passed on what God said.

But He couldnt't do the works of God, because he doesn't realize God kept him as god of the garden, god of the family.

Are you the god in your family?

Noah, is the god in his family. Even when the whole world is against him, because he received the Word of God, he stood for the Word, and did the works of God.

When a person is not a god, and he sins, only that person gets affected.

but when a person is a god, and he sins, the whole family gets affected.

Example:

Lots wife - God planned to bring whole family of lot because of Abraham and because of Lots own righteousness.

but lots wife own lust, she herself got destroyed, but the rest of the family was able to come out of sodom, because Lots wife is not the god of the family.

Jacobs wife Rachel - 

Also when Rachel brought the gods, and Jacob said , whoever has the laban gods. they should not live, and eventually after Benjamin is born, rachel died and she is buried roadside.

rachel is also not the god in the family.

But look at Achan.

when Achan sinned by bringing accursed things from Jericho.

things which God told not to take

Joshua 7:24, Achan, gold, silver, sons, daughters .. whole household got destroyed because, Achan is the god of the family.

Did God keep you as god by giving His Word.

When God keeps us as gods in our families, workplaces, wherever , do the works of Heavenly Father.

Exercise the authority as god, do the justice, never show partiality.

And especially defend the poor and fatherless and widows.

Psalm 81

This psalm - God says how He would care for a person who is obedient.
For God what matters is obedience.
We think many times that we can come to Church, we can give offerings. we can do lot of works.
But for God , only thing that matters is whether we are obedient or not.

God does lots of wonders , miracles for us.
When you cry out to God for an answer, He answers and before the you see completness you will go through a test.
V6 - He Removes the burden
V7 - In trouble you called, He answered
V8 - then comes the test.

Every time you call out to God, and God delivers you or blesses you, before it becomes a true blessing , there will be a testing period.

sometimes, we ask for a job, God blesses us a good job, but there will be a test there whether that job
we ask for a children, then we are tested whether we bring them in the fear of God or because of our busy.

V10:

I am the Lord God who delivered you out of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Subdue the enemies
Bless them with finest wheat
Satisfy  them honey


V 5 -  Testimony

On a little side track.

I want to share with you how to share your testimony.

What was my problem/situation/challenge you were facing?
How God Intervened?
What is the result of Gods dealing?

Keep it simple and short.

1) Don't prolong it too much with unnecessary things -

            for example: Bro.Robins testimony about their parents coming to USA.

He shared a a very good testimony saying,
My parents never traveled, this is my dream to bring them here.
and God Brought them here, and I am very happy about it and thanks to Ashish and Sonal who accompanied them.

Dear brothers and sisters, all of us have dreams, some dreams get fulfilled , some don't.
but in my life, from childhood on wards, every dream i get it is fulfilled.
this time also i had a dream of bringing my parents to USA.
then i told my parents to come. they scolded me , not only you went , but you are asking us also to come, then i told my brother to convince them, then i told my neighbors and relatives also to convince them but finally they agreed to it, and then started the struggle. i don;t know how to apply visa, then i went to cecil bhai and asked him how to apply, you know when i went to their house, it was so big, crystal has made delicious food, but i learned how to apply.
but when my parents are going to visa, there was repair for the car.
and they have to wait 2 hours.
and the visa officer was so nice, although woh ghora they are like relatives,
but i thank God, God brought them here finally.

Leave out unnecessary things.
Be Generic - 
when you share your work related testimony, don't get into the work specific things.
like a software engineer may say" you know what during the development, the database server was down, but there is no fail over server, and even after they recovered the tables, were not there, even the webserver is also on the same server as database and all the code on the webserver is gone,

Most important, tell thing where God is glorified.

write down your testimony and read it on the paper.
I hope this will be helpful , because many of us are not used to holding a mike and speaking in front of public.


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