Sunday, August 28, 2011

Bible Truth #254 - John 8:44

John 8:44
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

I talked about this passage in Bible Truth #23 but I now want to bring up a different point.

I want to use this verse to help prove man does not have a free will. This passage came right in the middle of Jesus’ stinging rebuke to the Scribes and Pharisees after they brought to Him a woman caught in the act of adultery. But there is a phrase here that most people read and pass right over. To which phrase am I referring?

“...and the lusts of your father ye will do.”

These are Jesus’ words and they are irrefutable. He was speaking to lost men whom He just identified as being of their father, the devil. And since He also just said (verse 42) by implication that God is NOT their Father, He made it very clear that every human being ever born is either of God, or of the devil. But did you catch what He said? The lusts of your father you WILL do.

Jesus did not say they may do what the devil wanted them to do, He did not say they had a choice to do what the devil wanted them to do. Jesus said the lusts of the devil they WILL do. This reconciles perfectly with Romans 6:17-18 where Paul writes that before we were saved, we (Christians) were slaves to sin. This is supported by Genesis 6:5 where God tells us that EVERY thought a lost man has is ONLY evil, continuously.

Since we always did what the devil wanted us to do before we were saved, will the Arminian tell me the devil wants some people to get saved because he is making them believe in Jesus? Then when they believe in Jesus God saves them? I don’t think so. I’m not a Bible scholar but I’m certain that is not in God’s Word.

We become children of God NOT by human decision (John 1:13), it’s God’s decision and He made it before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

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