 Hey man, so we're going to be continuing through John chapter 10. We're going to finish out the chapter and there's a little bit of a confusing statement that Jesus gives at the end of John chapter 10 that I want to explore in detail this evening and show you what Jesus is trying to say there. But look down at your Bible in John chapter 10. We're going to start out in verse number 25 tonight. So we've already looked at the parable of the sheep and we've already looked at how you know the sheep, they hear the voice and they won't forget the voice. We've looked at how that's an analogy, not an analogy, but that's a parable explaining how once you know Jesus, once you've believed on Jesus, you're not going to stop believing. You're not going to forget that. You just know the Holy Spirit is going to keep you in that knowledge. We looked at that last week, but look down at verse number 25. Now that we have that knowledge, and let's continue here, this is quite a complex chapter actually. When you look at what Jesus is talking about to the Jews here, everything kind of builds upon the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. And it really shows you the depth of God and the depth of God's word here. Look at verse 25. It says, Jesus answered them, I told you and you believe not. So the problem is he's talking to these Jews and they are not believing who he is. The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. He said, even because of the miracles, you're not believing me. He healed the blind man. They even admitted that no one had seen any kind of miracle like that before in the history of the world yet they still didn't believe him. But you believe not verse 26 because you're not of my sheep. Then again, referring to the parable that he gave at the beginning of the chapter, as I said unto you, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. And then in verse 28 and verse number 29, but mainly verse 28 and 29, Jesus gives these two, this phrase basically that is probably in the Bible the biggest proof of eternal security. I mean, eternal security is all over the Bible, but the most clear one, at least to me, when I was exploring eternal security, when I was trying to figure out what was true in the Bible, when I was listening to the gospel and looking at the Bible. John 10, 28 is really hard to get away from in the Bible if you're trying to disprove eternal security. Look at verse number 28, Jesus says, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man plucked him out of my hand. So first of all, who is them that he's talking about? He's talking about the people that he has been describing in the parable earlier, the sheep that know his voice. He's saying somebody that hears the voice of Jesus that believes him, and not the opposite of what he's talking about, believe not up in verse 25. These are people that believe Jesus, and he's saying, I give unto them eternal life. He says three different ways here. I mean, he literally says an all-encompassing statement three times. He says, I give unto them eternal life, look, that's enough right there. Why does he keep saying something? If I give you eternal life, do I need to say anything else? Do I need to describe that you're not going to end up in hell, that you're not going to get the second death? He says, I give unto them eternal life, but then he says it a second time, and they shall never perish. So he covers the other side of it too, meaning they will never spiritually be thrown into, they're never going to go to hell. They're never going to get the second death of revelation. Then he says it a third time, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. So he says, I give them eternal life, they will never be damned, and no man can ever change that. He says it three different times. What do you do with that if you think you can lose your salvation? How do you, I mean, how do you, this was what I was up against. Eternal security was my one hang up as a Lutheran. I give unto them eternal life. Because of all, just the fact that it's called eternal life right there, we're done. Eternal life, everlasting life, how many times do you have to get that? You say that at the door all the time to people, if you get eternal life today, how many more times do you need to get eternal life? I mean, an eight year old would tell you one time because it's eternal. And they shall never perish. I mean, again, never. They shall any man pluck them out of my hand, including yourself. You're a man, including any person, even including the person themselves. So three times he says it, and then in verse number 29 he puts this cap on it. He says, my father which gave them me is greater than all. So now he's saying there's even someone more powerful than me, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand. So then he seals it with the father, with the guarantee of the father. I mean, it's just eternal security through and through. And it's a great proof of eternal security in those two verses. The thing about eternal security and the doctrine of it, and I'm not going to preach any more on it after these two verses right here, but the thing about eternal security that you need to understand, and maybe you haven't seen this if you never were in a place for years where you didn't believe eternal security, but if you don't believe in eternal security, I'm going to give you this Bible methodology tonight, Bible reading and interpreting methodology. If you don't believe in eternal security, if you don't accept this doctrine, many, many, many parts of the Bible will not make sense to you. The only way where the entire Bible comes together and everything fits and makes sense is if you believe eternal security. That's not an accident. That's on purpose. All right? And I'm going to give you that Bible reading tip and Bible interpreting tip just a little bit later. I kind of gave it away there. Anyway, turn to John, or look at John chapter 10 of verse number 30. Then Jesus says this. He says, I and my father are one, so much for Jesus never claiming to be God. He says, I and my father are one, so He says, I give unto them eternal life, they will never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand, and my father who is greater than me. And then He says, I and my father are one. So look, Jesus is, what He means here is that Jesus is God. He's claiming the same divinity as God the Father. They are both God. All right? Jesus is subservient to the Father, but they are both 100% God. You see, it's basically what we're looking at here in verse number 30 is two persons of the same God. That's what you're looking at. And look, separate wills, always obedient though. You say separate wills and people freak out. They're like, what? No, it's, look, you saw when Jesus was in the garden and He asked God, you know, if it be, you know, your will, remove this cup from me, and then, you know, it wasn't God's will that that cup be removed from Him. So He went through it. He just asked, what you saw was the humanity of Christ. You saw the pain and the stress and the suffering, and I believe that that was necessary for us to see that if it was in the Bible. But always subservient, same God. You're like, I don't understand that. Well, ask Jesus when you get to heaven how it works. I mean, you know, we don't have to get all, you know, crazy. A lot of people just drive themselves insane trying to understand something that we probably just can't completely understand as human beings. Alright, look down at John chapter 10 in verse number 31. So He claims to be equal with the Father. You say equal in what sense? I thought He's subservient to the Father. Equal in the sense that they are both God. Jesus is not a lesser God. He is as much God as God the Father. Same God, three persons. Alright, look at verse 31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, many good works have I showed you for my Father. For which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered Him saying, for a good work we stone thee not. But for blasphemy. Again, I mean, Jesus was killed for this. This is why He was crucified. Of course, He was crucified for the sins of the world, I get that. But from the legal perspective, the Jews were after Him because He was claiming to be one with God. And because thou, being a man, makest thyself God. It didn't say makest thyself a God, He was making Himself God. He was making Himself equal with God the Father. Jesus answered them, and this is really what I want to get at tonight, the next two verses. Jesus answered them and says, is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods. If ye called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken, say ye of him, of whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, thou blasphemous, because I said, I am the Son of God. You're like, what in the world, what's he talking about? Turn to Psalm 82. And this is what we're going to look at tonight. We're going to look at what Jesus is talking about. If you open your Bible up right in the middle, you'll be in the book of Psalms. And look at Psalm 82. This is what Jesus is quoting here to the Pharisees. And I want to show you why Jesus is quoting this specific quote to the Pharisees. In verse 34, I'm going to read it for you again. You're turning to Psalm 82. Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods. Referring to the law, he's talking about the Bible. He's talking about the Word of God. I mean, this is what Jesus is constantly telling the Pharisees, is just like, don't you know the Bible? Have ye not read? Have ye not read? Have ye not read? How many times has Jesus already, just in the book of John, just said, like if you would have believed the Bible, you would have believed on me. You don't believe the Bible, and that's why you don't believe me. Because Jesus is literally the Word of God. All right? Now, let's look at chapter 82. This is what Jesus is quoting when he says, ye are God. So he says to the Jews, the Pharisees, the Jewish leaders here who are trying to kill him, he says ye. So what is he talking about? He's talking to the whole group of them. Ye being plural. He's saying ye are gods. But look at Psalm 82. You're like, that's weird. The Bible says this. It says, God standeth in the congregation of the mighty. He judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Silah. So in verse number one, the Bible here says that God judges among the gods. Lowercase G. Look at verse number three. So then he's saying, he's like, they're judging, whoever these gods are, they're judging unjustly. They're accepting wicked people. They said instead, he says in verse number three and verse number four, he gives this command in these next two verses to these lowercase gods. He says, defend the poor and fatherless. Do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy. Rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand. Now he gave commands to these gods. Then in verse five he says they know not, neither will they understand. Talking about the gods again. They walk on in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are out of course. So there we are. We are to get kind of a clue there where these gods are, they're in the earth. I have said, this is what Jesus was talking about, ye are gods and all of you are children of the most high, but ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth, for thou shall inherit all nations. Turn to Psalm 95. So Jesus says, or Jesus, the Bible, God is kind of lecturing these gods, whatever these gods are. All right? We already kind of saw a clue that they were people that were in the earth somewhere. Look at Psalm 95 in verse number one. The Bible says in Psalm 95, 1, O come, let us sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. That's of course Jesus. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise unto him with Psalms. For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all God. So notice how in verse number three it talks about the kingship of Christ. So we see that Christ, I mean one of the roles of Jesus, yes he's God, yes he's the savior of the world, but he's the king of what? He's the king of kings. So when Jesus rules in the millennial reign he's going to rule with a rod of iron, but yes there's going to be many people ruling and reigning with him, but he is the king of kings. So he is the king above all gods. So when I'm trying to get you to see tonight, turn to Jeremiah chapter two, turn to Jeremiah chapter two. When you see the lower case God word in the Old Testament, you must take context into account. You can't just say look at you know G-O-D, lower case G-O-D in the Bible and say oh that means you know false gods and idols because it has different meanings in the Bible. It even, I hate to even say this, but even going back to the Hebrew word of Elohim, I think it's E-L-O-H-I-M, it's used many different places talking about different things, but you must take into account the context that it's used in. It's used for God Almighty and it's also used for what I'm going to explain to you this evening. Look at Jeremiah chapter two. So here's what we know it can't be referring to because the Bible says that like false gods, idols that people worship, these are things, these are just wood, stone, these are dumb idols, they don't exist. They're not things that are real. So people that you know that worship some you know sun god or whatever, you know you could say okay that's a demon or whatever, but that God doesn't exist. It's not real. Okay, it's just a piece of rock, it's a piece of wood. Look at Jeremiah chapter two verse 11. The Bible says, hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods, but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. God is talking about a nation that has left God to go worship gods that aren't gods. They're not real, they're not there, they're just idols, they're just rock, they're just marble, they're just whatever. It's fake is what he's saying. So that can't be what Psalm 82 is talking about because those gods are not real. God is specifically talking to something, someone that is real in Psalm chapter 82. Now go back, actually go to 1 Samuel chapter 28 and let me give you another example that kind of points us in the direction of what Psalm 82 is talking about. So the answer to the word gods in the Bible, lower case gods in the Bible is that context must be taken into account when you see that word. Again just see that word and just assume that it means something, you must look at the context that it's used in. Alright, look at 1 Samuel chapter 28 verse number 13, 1 Samuel 28 verse number 13. This is kind of a big clue right here, it says, and the king said unto her, be not afraid for what sauce thou. This is King Saul when he goes to the witch and when he hears from Samuel. And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth. He has this vision and she sees these gods ascending out of the earth. What are they? They fake gods? And he said unto her, what form is he of? And she said, an old man cometh up and is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel and he stooped his face to the ground and bowed himself. So here we see that the gods in this case were men. It was men of authority. So the general term where context matters in Psalm chapter 82, go back to Psalm chapter 82, Psalm chapter 82 is God talking to rulers. He is talking to men that have authority. In verse number 1 it becomes clear now, it says, God, this is the Lord God Almighty standeth in the congregation of the mighty. Look, this is, he's standing in the congregation of these powerful people, but God is the mightiest of course. He judges among the gods. So if there are no other gods talking about divinities out there, we know that. So look at verse number 2, it says, how long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked, Sila. So here he's looking at people, he's looking at these gods, these rulers, he's saying, why are you accepting these wicked people? Why are you allowing these wicked people to do what? To afflict the poor and fatherless. To afflict the poor in the needy, he says in the next two verses, but he's saying instead do justice. He's lecturing these gods, he's lecturing these rulers. He's lecturing these rulers saying do justice to the poor and the needy, the poor and the fatherless and save them from the wicked. Now let me ask you this, where are the wicked and where are the poor and needy? And the fatherless, they're on the earth. He is talking to rulers on the earth that should be following the Word of God. That is who he is talking about. Look at verse number 5. Now he goes back and he's just like, they know not. Why don't they know, by the way? They know not because they're not listening to the Word of God. And Jesus is going to explain that in John chapter 10 in just a minute, I'll show you that. He says they know not, neither will they understand. They walk on in darkness. Look again, you have to kind of have your Bible reading and not your modern English ears on here. He says neither will they understand, meaning they don't have a will to understand. Meaning they don't want to understand. What is the problem that Jesus is having with the Jews right now? What is the problem that Jesus is having with the Pharisees? It seems like they don't want to understand. It seems like they don't want to listen to the Word of God. It seems like they don't care what kind of miracles that they see. No matter what they see, no matter what they hear, they do not have a will to understand. You're starting to see why Jesus quoted Psalm 82. I have said verse 6, you're gods and all of you are children of the most high. What does that mean? Turn to John chapter 1 and verse 12. Turn to John chapter 1 and verse 12. So you see in the first six verses of Psalm 82, God is lecturing these rulers. You're saying you should be doing just things and you are not. You are giving over poor, helpless people to wicked people. By the way, what do we see rulers doing today? Same thing. John chapter 1 verse 12, all of you are children of the most high. That's what the Bible, that's what God says in verse number 6, you're gods and all of you are children of the most high. In verse number 12 of John 1 it says, but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, sons of God. So anyone who believes on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ becomes a son, turn to Galatians. Actually go to John 3.16, go to chapters over. So the saved become sons of God, lower case S. You're like, I don't know, are we going to be Mormons here pretty soon? We become sons of God, that's true, become daughters of God. But look at John 3.16, the most famous verse in the whole Bible, it's got this super important word in it that maybe we skip over too much. The Bible says for God's soul of the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believe with him should not perish but have everlasting life. So yes, when someone believes on the Lord Jesus Christ they become a son of God or a daughter of God. In what way? Turn to Galatians chapter 4. But there is only one begotten son of God. There is only one begotten means born of a woman. There is only one person who was, look, you weren't born saved. You weren't born automatically adopted by God. You were born until you were aware of your sin, you weren't condemned, but you were not born adopted into God's family, you were not born a son of God. There is only one begotten son of God. There is only one begotten son of God that is equal with God, that is just as much God as God the Father. It's talking about just like through procreation, God the Father through Mary, Jesus, there's only one. They are spiritual sons of God. Look at Galatians chapter 4. Galatians chapter 4. I know this isn't like Bible 101 here but it's important to understand because it's always these complicated things that Jesus says that are used to teach crazy things. Look at Galatians chapter 4 and verse number 3. The Bible says even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son, that's that only begotten son, made of a woman, see that's the begotten part right there, made under the law. It was God the Father with Mary. That was how Jesus was begotten. Joseph was not Jesus' father. And because he are what, I'm sorry, to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the what, this is how we become the sons of God, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you're sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba, Father. So you are an adopted son. You're an adopted part of this family, not physical, not begotten. Turn back to Psalm 82. Turn back to Psalm 82. So you are not the begotten son of God, you are a spiritually adopted son of God and guess what? According to Psalm 82, you should be, you know, those children of God. That's what God wants these rulers to be. God wants these rulers to not be these people that just accept wicked people. He wants these people to accept, he wants them to be adopted children of his. That's what God is saying in Psalm 82. They should be following the word of God. They should be listening to the word of God. And guess what? They should believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That is what Psalm 82 is talking about. All right, now look. Here's what it doesn't mean. Here's what it doesn't mean after I've showed you all that throughout the Bible. We could go to verse after verse and chapter after chapter about you being adopted into God's family and how we have this spiritual adoption and Jesus is the only begotten son of God. We could go to just verse after verse after verse and I could go and I could show you dozens of verses where God's talk about idols in the Old Testament or God's talk about and God's talking about, you know, rulers that are men in this case. All right? But here's what it doesn't mean. It doesn't mean that we are going to become equal with God and get our own planet one day. But that's what will be taught out of verses like this. Here's the Bible tip tonight. Here's the Bible reading and Bible interpreting tip on, like this is not super easy stuff right here to grasp. You know, you have to cross reference things and look at context. But the Bible tip is this, all doctrines should be based on clear scriptures. That's the first tip. And the second tip is this. When you look at a Bible interpretation and it doesn't match, like you look at Psalm chapter 82 and it doesn't match other clear scriptures in the Bible, the problem is you. Not the Bible. That is the second tip. So the first one is, base all your doctrine on clear scriptures. And the second one is, whenever you're reading something and you interpret it in a way where it just completely throws off, you know, other clear scriptures, like you interpreted it wrong. You know, where, oh, does that mean that we don't have eternal security? Well, clearly not. If it breaks John 10, 28 and 29, you made the mistake. Not the Bible. Right? Because there is a way to interpret the Bible, folks, where it all matches perfectly. And that's what you are looking for. You can't interpret the Bible to where this one breaks this one. You're doing something wrong. The problem's not the Bible. The problem is you. And look, if you get, if you get weird with Psalm chapter 82, if you get weird with just the word, God's in the Bible, you go, I mean, there's some crazy stuff. You can go down some weird rabbit holes right there. I mean, you talk about, if you talk about, you can even get weird with sons of God. You're going to get weird with sons of God and say, oh, that's not saved people. That's not children of God, even though it's clearly talking about children of God the same way in the Old Testament and the New Testament. I'm just like, I don't know. Where's the disconnect here? But what if we just call it angels in one verse? Now we can talk about giants and Nephilim and we can get all weird and go to Job and we can be like, oh, you know, like in Genesis they had these babies and they were 800 feet tall and all this and God had destroyed the world. I'm like, what are you talking about? It doesn't make any sense. Like when you start saying, and then all these false doctrines, this is like false doctrine methodology is what they do. They take obscure scriptures and they create a whole story or even a whole religion out of it. I mean, Mormonism uses Psalm 82 heavy, heavy. Because I mean, that's like, you can be a God just like Jesus. I'm like, OK, we have problems with like everywhere else in the Bible then. He accidentally turned us into Satan. Oops, because it was Satan that said, I can be like the most high. Instead, we'll create a religion out of it, out of one word that's used in multiple different ways according to the context it's used in, all right? And look, it doesn't even make any sense because when you look at the sons of God thing, like the sons of God, I mean, first of all, just because it says that we become adopted into God's family, we become sons of God, like that we would become equal with God, like how do you make that? How do you make that jump right there? Yes, it's true that as a son of God, we are going to have eternal life. It is true that as a son of God, and I mean, somebody might have even made this comment in the church, like when I was preaching about the millennial reign, we are going to rule and reign with Jesus Christ in the millennial reign, in our glorified bodies. People are probably going to look at us and be like, there's something different about that guy. Yeah, probably, but that doesn't mean we're God. That doesn't mean we become divinity, right? We are given eternal life as a gift. It's not like we're suddenly given this ability to become God, and God says, now you go rule your own planet, you know, and now we go into the YouTube cartoon where I could just create a religion out of that. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. The whole Bible needs to make sense when you jump to a conclusion of something, all right? Now, what did Jesus mean? You probably already see what Jesus means here, but he basically referenced Psalm chapter, turn to Romans chapter 13. He basically referenced Psalm chapter 82 where God is lecturing these leaders. God is saying, you should be sons of God. You should be following the word of God. You should not be following the wicked. You should not be oppressed, you know, letting these wicked people. Look, I think that he wants these leaders to be saved. Don't you? He's saying, don't allow. I mean, he's literally talking to people who should be saved. I mean, wouldn't it be ideal if every ruler and leader that we had was saved and followed the word of God? I mean, you may be like, your head explodes even just thinking about that, and it's never going to happen until Jesus comes back and rules and reigns with a rod of iron because that's what it's going to take. But the point is, that's what God wants. God is telling us this is how to do it. This is how to rule properly. In Psalm chapter 82, he applies this to the Pharisees. He's like, look at the contrast between what you're supposed to be and what you are. God's already lectured people on this. And he just points them to the lecture that God gave these rulers. Look at Romans chapter 13. And look, now that we've interpreted God's as rulers that God is lecturing in Psalm chapter 82, let's see if it matches other parts of the Bible. Where God is lecturing rulers to follow his word, do the right thing, which what? It protects the poor. It protects the weak. It protects the needy. It protects the fatherless. It protects people that have no protection. He's saying, your job as a leader is to protect people that can't protect themselves and have no one else to protect them. That's your job as a ruler. Look at Romans 13. Romans 13, verse number one, let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God, but the powers that be are ordained of God. This, Romans 13, you have to read it like, this is what God wants rulers to be. You have to read it this way. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, it's saying follow these rulers that are doing what Psalm 82 wants them to do. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, it resistance the ordinance of God. And they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For, so you say, I'm supposed to follow every single ruler no matter what they do, ever. Look at the next verse. It says rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. This is saying these are the kinds of gods, lower case G, that God wants to be ruling, that God ordains to be ruling. You say the ones that are terror, they're not a terror to good works, but they're a terror to the evil. What is he explaining in Psalm 82? Quit being good to the wicked people. It's exactly the same thing. Romans 13 is exactly, I mean, Romans 13, 3, you should just have a line in your Bible that says, Psalm 82, because it's exactly the same advice. It says, wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good and thou shall have praise of the same. So God is assuming a good ruler in verse number one through three. He's saying this is a ruler. God is kind of lecturing you. He's kind of lecturing you in this case saying, look, rulers are put there to be a terror to the evil and to be good to, you know, that they're not a terror to good works, but they're a terror to the evil. They're there to like stop the wicked people. That's what the rulers are there for, and you should listen to them. Now some people will be like, you need to listen to rulers no matter what. I mean, it's like, what? No, and then he says, then he says in verse four, for he is the minister of God to thee for good. This is, it's assuming a ruler is doing Psalm 82 here, what God wants him to do. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain, for he is the minister of God. This is talking about a ruler who is doing what God has ordained him to do in Romans 13. A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Say, what about a ruler that's bad? Well, I mean, verse number one, let every subject be subject unto the higher powers. The highest power is always God. So this is assuming, this is assuming you have God and then you have this man-made authority. It could be, the chain could be five authorities long and then you're down at the end and they're all following what God wants. They're all being a terror to the evil and God is saying you should listen to that ordained authority. But obviously, if the ordained authority is like, hey, go kill all these people, then you're like, well, no, because God doesn't want me to murder people. It's easy, okay? It's easy to understand, all right? Unfortunately, every ruler is not like this. As a matter of fact, I can't think of one. However, Jesus is standing in front of the Pharisees here. When he references Psalm 82 and what God thinks of what? What God thinks of rulers? What God expects of leaders? He's saying you should be God's. You should be listening. You should be receiving God's word. You should be children of God. He's saying you should believe me. He's saying you should believe me. You're the leaders. He's literally telling them that he's saying you should be the sons of God through adoption. And then you're accusing me and you're coming at me. It's like you're not even doing what you're supposed to do as a leader in this community, in this nation, whatever you're doing. And then you're gonna look at me who's the only begotten son of God and accuse me. He's like, look at yourself. Psalm 82. He is saying that all leaders are accountable to God and they are failing at what they're doing. Look, and guess what, folks? Look at Romans chapter 14. I mean, what a complicated and brilliant way to lecture somebody on a Bible that they clearly don't know or believe when he points them to Psalm chapter 82. But he's saying that as leaders, you will be held accountable because you are not following the word of God, which, by the way, happens to be standing right in front of you. But guess what? I mean, what's the application for us? I mean, the application for us is a pretty simple one. The application for us is a pretty simple one is that, I mean, I know the Bible says, everybody knows this one and we go to this one a lot, but the Bible says that leaders, that pastors will be held accountable. That pastors will be accountable for what happens in the church. It says in Hebrews 13 that the pastor of the church, which is Jesus Christ, he's the under shepherd. He's the one that is just maintaining the church until the good shepherd, Jesus, comes back. But the Bible says that he must give account on what happened. And you know, a pastor should, the Bible says, should be able to give account with joy. A pastor shouldn't go in front of Jesus, you know, when he's standing in front of Jesus and Jesus asks him to give account on how he ran his church on the earth and a pastor shouldn't hang his head. I'm sorry, I know that I didn't do what you wanted me to do. No, a pastor of the Bible says in Hebrews 13 should be able to give that account with joy. So that means that a pastor that, you know, that's probably not gonna go well in a lot of different areas on the earth, but at least I'll be able to stand in front of Jesus with joy at that moment and say, you know what? I did the best I could, I followed your word, I did things the way you said that they should be done and then I can be joyful about that account. But guess what? In Romans 14, look at verse number 12, it says, so then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Uh-oh. The Bible is saying, look, let me tell you something, Psalm 82 applies to anybody that has influence in their life because that's what leadership is, is influence. You're like, well, I'm not a leader. Look, parents are gonna give account. Parents are gonna give account to Jesus Christ for what they did on this earth. You say, well, I'm not a parent, I don't have any kids yet, I'm just young and I'm single and whatever, I'm not a leader of anything. You know what? You have influence over whoever you're around. And you'll give account for that influence. This is the saved person. This is the person that gets saved at the door and then goes out and just lives their life with a bunch of unsaved people. You will give account for that. You will give account for that lack of influence that you should have showed. Instead, you are being influenced by people that were not saved, people that were not what? Children of God. Every single person will give account to Jesus in their life, what they did. Parents, husbands, wives. You will give account, mothers, you will give account on how you led your home, on how you led your children. You will give account on the lack of teaching the word of God to your children. You will give account to all the things that you missed. You will give account because you are someone that is influencing. You are someone that is put in place to protect. You are someone that is put in place to help the poor and the needy and the fatherless. And you are someone that if you have any kind of influence in your life, maybe you just have a group of friends, you'll give account to how you influence those friends. This is Psalm 82 and this is what Jesus was explaining to the Pharisees. And what the more influence you have, the more account you will give. He's talking about the kings of the earth, the powerful men of the earth and they will give the worst, the most account. This is why Jesus was so furious with the Pharisees. I mean, if you actually read the words of Jesus, he is screaming and furious with them. He's calling them names left and right. He's calling them vipers and children of Blile. And I mean, he's just, he's like, he's basically telling them they're sons of Satan. I mean, he's just yelling at them constantly. He's furious because they're leaders and they're damaging, they should be out there helping the poor and the needy and the fatherless. Instead, they're leading all those people in a wicked direction. They are the wicked people that Psalm 82 is talking about. The Bible here is telling, I mean, Jesus here, he is saying like, you're not doing what you're supposed to do. You're being the wicked of Psalm 82. And guess what? People suffered for it. That's why Jesus was so mad at these people all the time. He's saying somebody needs to deliver. And I mean, if you really want to read into it, Jesus was saying that someone needs to deliver all these people, all these poor, needy, fatherless people from you is what he's saying to the Pharisees. What's power heads? And have a word of prayer.