"who's Your Father" Series

“Sin will take you further than you want to go; it will keep you far longer than you want to stay, and it will cost you far more than you want to pay.”

bb.) “Now a slave has no permanent place in the family” (8:35a.)

bba.) These Jews just claimed to be Sons of Abraham.

bbb.) Jesus declared that rather than sons of Abraham they are slaves to sin which means they are slaves to Satan.

bbc.) Therefore, if they are merely slaves instead of sons, they would have no part in the blessings, nor the sonship that comes from Abraham through Jesus the Christ.

bc.) “A son belongs to it forever.” (8:35b.)

bca.) To have Abraham as their Father could only come through a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.

.01) Galatians 3:26-27

.02) Galatians 4:4-5

D.) “How can you say that we shall be set free?” (8:33b.)

ca.) “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” (8:36)

cb.) Jesus is taking them back to his earlier statement in verse 31.

cc.) Jesus Christ alone will bring spiritual freedom from sin.

cca.) These individuals still did not get that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation comes only through him.

II. JESUS CLAIMED THE JEWS (AT LEAST THE JEWISH LEADERS) WERE CHILDREN OF SATAN (John 8:42-47)

1.) You are doing the works of your father. (8:41a.)

A.) “We are not illegitimate children” (8:41b.)

aa.) The King James, New American Standard, and English Standard versions all translate this as: “We were not born of fornication.”

ab.) These words were a direct dig and attack on Jesus and his birth.

aba.) Jesus had been calling them children of the devil.

abb.) Even though Jesus had been born over thirty years before this, the rumors were still being circulated on the circumstances of his birth.

abc.) When Jesus confronted them, they basically came back “Oh yeah, well we know who our father is. Unlike you we were not born in fornication.

.01) It was an insinuation that although Joseph had been gracious enough to wed Mary that nobody really knew for sure who the father of Jesus was.

.02) It was a statement for which they had no proof but was a means of retaliating against Jesus for calling them children of Satan.

B.) “The only Father we have is God himself.” (8:41c.)

C.) “If God were your Father you would love me for, I have come from Him.” (8:42)

ca.) A few months after this, near to the time of Jesus’ crucifixion, Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father.

cb.) Jesus answered the request of Philip in John 14:9-11.

cba.) In the same way if these Jews truly had love for God, they would also have love for Jesus because the two are one.

D.) “You are of your Father the devil.” (8:44a.)

da.) “You want to do the desires of your father.” (8:44b.)

db.) “He was a murderer from the beginning. (8:44c.)

dba.) Although the religious leaders would repeatedly deny it to Jesus, they had for several months been seeking to put Jesus to death.

dbb.) The very actions they had been doing were proof that these Jewish leaders were more connected with Satan than with God.

.01) Jesus went on to say:

dc.) “He is a liar, and the father of lies. (8:44d.)