the sin of assumed self-rule

Part 4 – Mankind’s Faux (false) Father – The Devil

Now we can better understand why it is that Jesus would speak to the religious leaders of Israel in His day saying,Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts (desire) of your father ye will do.(John. 8:44a) Israel’s leaders were only doing the will or “lust (desire)” of their faux father – the Devil. Jesus is thereby saying they had no nature of their own – they simply lived and expressed the fallen nature that came to them via Adam, the federal head of all humanity.