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Reading John 8:31-42

Jesus is still confronting the clueless religious leaders of his day. Now he challenges their ancestry. He keeps talking about their father, and they indignantly reply that Abraham is their father and then that God is their father.

Christ, however, has another father for them in mind: Satan. How does he know? He knows because they do his works. They are trying to kill him. We are all children of God or of Satan. It is our works that reveal our ancestry.

However, Christ has made a way for us to change fathers. He has opened up the way to adoption by God by his righteous life and sacrificial death. After our adoption, we begin to reveal our new father. We now do his works because we enjoy pleasing our father.