CHILDREN
OF THE DEVIL

Text;
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.

Introduction;
Because of the depraved nature of man, lies are more often believed
than the truth. Men will often accept a colossal lie rather than a
simple truth. The more bizarre and outlandish is the lie, the better
some folks like it. That's one reason so many 'conspiracy theories'
abound and will not die.

Because
of this quirk in human nature, confidence men, fortunetellers,
medical quacks, religious charlatans, and politicians are with us and
thriving. The greatest liar and most prolific teller of untruths is
the father of lies, the devil.

I.
A few of the devil's offspring;

A.
Definition of a lie. Anything said or done with intent to deceive.

B.
Regardless of their intent, lies are against God.

Heb
6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for
God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for
refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

1
John 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth,
but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

C.
Lies, like all living creatures, multiply.
[Oh,
What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.-
scott]

D.
Being against God and having the ability to multiply, makes even the
smallest lie, something to shun. Ezek 35:13 Thus with your
mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words
against me: I have heard them.

E.
Even Truth, when mixed with error, becomes a lie.

Rom
1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
Amen.

II.
Meet a few of the devil's children. Like all proud fathers he would
desire that everyone accept his family.

A.
His firstborn. Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the
woman, Ye shall not surely die: This one is still around.

B.
In imitation of Adam, this firstborn has a brother. Gen 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Isa
5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter!

C.
'The Rebel’ You can be your own god! This one caused Moses
problems; Judas to betray Christ; false churches to multiply; and
he's still stirring up fusses in the Lord's churches.

D.
The child called 'Broken Vow’ Acts 5:3 But Peter
said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy
Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Eccl
5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he
hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

Eccl 5:5 Better
is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and
not pay.

C.
The child called ‘‘Miss Goody Two Shoes” Self
righteous, Salvation by works etc.

Isa
64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the wind, have taken us away.

D.
The son called 'Church Hater'. He has many aliases.

1.
"Church of your Choice.'

2.
'Don't need-a-Church'

3.
Sometimes he joins a church and then changes his name to 'It's none
of their business what I do.

4.
'Miss Snooty' She keeps looking for a church worthy of her and her
great talents.

E.
'No Hell' this is Satan's child who hasn't a care in the world
because he thinks this is all there is.

F.
Mr. Not Now. This is the procrastinator of the family. His intentions
are to somehow do better someday.

III.
You must either break away from Satan's family or become one of the
bunch.

IV.
The only effective weapon against this family of lies is Truth.

John
8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.