by David Long
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it" (John 8:44).
Is your father the devil? The people to whom Jesus was speaking claimed God as their father (John 8:41). But their attitude and actions said otherwise. If God was their father they would have loved Jesus but they didn't (John 8:42). If God was their father they would have obeyed Jesus but they didn't (John 8:47, 51). Like them we have a choice, we can make God our Father by submitting to Jesus or have the devil as our father by disobedience (Acts 13:8-10).
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