What did Jesus mean, quoting Psalm 82, when He said "you are gods"?

Well, Jesus is using Psalm 82 to answer the Pharisees. And Jesus uses this argumentation wherein He says, Hey, look, these kings back 1,000 years ago in David's time, God called them gods because they ruled the people. It's one of those words that depending on its context can mean a lot of different things. Elohim is used, as a matter of fact, it's the first time that God is addressed in Scripture, in Genesis 1:1. In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth. That word God there is Elohim. So it has a height, and then Elohim can refer to the gods of the nations, about, I don't know, it's like about 30 times in the Old Testament. The Elohim of the nations, not that they're real, but these are the gods that the people write about in their lessons for their children, their government, whatever. They have names for these gods, and they're called Elohim. Same as that attached to God Almighty, El Shaddai. So Jesus' argument is, if He can call them gods, and it's the same as what He calls Himself, why are you having so much problem if I call myself God? I mean, why don't you just start from that logical argumentation that the word God is thrown around in many different contexts in many different ways. And you're not even allowing me to take the lowest level. If I call myself a God because I can do miracles or I can control 5,000 people by giving them bread and fish, you're not even allowing me that kind of respect where you give me the lowest level of what Elohim means, where the gods of the nations were called gods and God tolerated that. You don't want me to have anything. And yet I do these miracles in front of you. And the people know that when miracles are done, divinity is present. They know that. And that's why you try to say, well, He does miracles by the power of Beelzebub. Because you have to explain the miracles. You're not going to be able to explain them away. We all know that, don't we? How does He do miracles? And of course, when you stoop that low to try to deny me my rightful place, that's called blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. And guess what? So if you want to take that risk and try to look good in front of the people and say, oh, well, He just does it by the power of Beelzebub, and think that it's over, that you've escaped their wrath and their scrutiny, it's for damn sure that you're going to hell and never get out. There's just only so many ways you can escape the reality that Jesus Christ is here and that He's doing miracles in front of the people. And every time you do something to try to make yourself look good, He trips you up and shows you right who you are so that you cannot win. Every time you try to trip Him up, He catches you in your own words. And now I even catch you. You're not even giving me the lexical leeway that I deserve with the word Elohim. You want to wrap all these things up so that I have no place to go, no place to hide, and every time you do, I catch you. Gosh, wouldn't you hate to be a Pharisee and wake up in the morning and have to confront Jesus? And you know that every time you've tried to trip Him up, He has just put you in your place like nobody's business. I mean, it's just amazing to watch Jesus work. And all that stuff that He does, like when He trips them up in their words. Like they try to catch Him not paying taxes, and Jesus pays the tax. They try to catch Him with the adulterous woman, and He says he without sin cast the first stone. They try to catch Him all these times and they just can't. He's just too wise. He knows men through and through. But He doesn't get that because He's God. It's one thing we need to realize about Jesus. Jesus is the God-man for sure. But Philippians 2 says He put His divinity on the shelf, as it were, when He came to deal with us, humanity. So when Jesus goes out to pray, for example, you'll read this in the Gospels. Jesus goes out to pray. And wow, what's He praying about? He's praying about the next day. And maybe God's telling Him what He's going to confront. And Jesus is contemplating it and He's saying, what shall I do? What shall I say to these Pharisees and Sadducees and whoever they are trying to trip Him up? And He comes up with these amazing sayings, let him who is without sin cast the first stone. He got it from His Father. Yeah, He's preparing to deal with these evil people in such a way where the crowds are amazed at what Jesus is saying. And they worship God and they come to God because of this fountain of wisdom that everywhere He goes and everything He says, it's just like God Himself who would say the wisest thing. But it's because He prayed the night before. He never goes into a situation naked, spiritually naked. He's been contemplating this with His Father, and the Holy Spirit helps bring it out. So again, that's why we said that if you blaspheme Jesus, you're blaspheming the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit's giving Him the power to do those miracles. So essentially you're blaspheming the Holy Spirit. That's what that sin is about. But as we saw, that's where the Pharisees will naturally have to go because they have to defend themselves in front of this wise man who catches them in everything they do. And so they have to have some kind of shield. Well, He just does miracles by the power of Beelzebub. And they think they've gotten away with it. They just dug their hole deeper. That's what an encounter with God will do every time. There's no escape. If men would just realize this.