In recent years, the new age and occult have trumpeted the message of “you are gods.” Men are attempting to achieve divinity through occult practices and transhumanism and will probably continue. But they are only following in the footsteps of their father the devil who said, “I will be like the most high” in the first place.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.
-Isaiah 14:14, NKJV
But did you know that their attempts at deification are nothing more than a cheap counterfeit of what we have been legitimately given in Christ? Paul wrote that we are to…
…try to be like God, because you are his own dear children.
-Ephesians 5:1, WE
And not only are we told to be like God, we actually ARE like God! According to Jesus, we are little-e elohim! When the Pharisees accused Him of blasphemy for saying that He and His Father were one, He responded by saying:
Isn’t it written in your Scriptures that God said, “You are gods?” The Scriptures cannot be denied or found to be in error. So, if those who have the message of the Scriptures are said to be “gods,” then why would you accuse me of blasphemy?
-John 10:34-35, TPT
The word god here is the Greek word theos, but Jesus is quoting from Psalm 82:6, which uses the Hebrew word elohim. That word is defined as: judges, rulers, or godlike ones! I love what my friend, Connie Woods, often says: Jesus didn’t come to be an example for us but of us!
For he knew all about us before we were born and he destined us from the beginning to share the likeness of his Son. This means the Son is the oldest among a vast family of brothers and sisters who will become just like him.
-Romans 8:29, TPT
Here we see that Yeshua is the firstborn among many brethren. In other words, He was the first among many God-men: us! The moment you were born again, you entered a realm that is outside of time, and you really did die with Christ. You became one spirit with Him, so that His resurrected and ascended life could flow supernaturally through you. We are called to literally be Him in the earth… not just in spirit, but in tangible manifestation!
…as He is, so are we in this world.
-I John 4:17, NKJV
Lucifer and his followers are still seeking divinity apart from God, which, of course, they will never achieve. In order to walk in legitimate divinity, you must be born again… of the seed of God. And in order to do this, you must humble yourself and become as a little child, laying down both your good works and your sins. We know that in our flesh, as Paul said so well, dwells no good thing (Romans 7:18). But we also know that because of the miracle of redemption, we have become God’s very offspring. So, if you have been born again, because of the cross and because of the blood, you are a little-g god. You are elohim, a God-like one. And as you grow into the fullness of your oneness with God (that includes dying to self and the flesh, by the way), you will enjoy the tangible benefits of that divinity. Our divine nature flows out of our oneness with God by way of the crucified life.
From “not I but Christ” emerges “Christ in me the hope of glory!”
What lucifer has tried to achieve, in his pride, apart from God, is our inheritance in Christ. And that is the key issue: IN or APART FROM Christ!
This is an excerpt from my most recent book, Restoring The Ancient Paths: Reclaiming Divine Technologies. You can order on my website HERE or on Amazon HERE.
Jesus, thank You for ALL You have given us, Let nothing go to waste in our lives!
Virginia