Let There Be Light: Who's Your Daddy? (John 8:42-59) - Richard Rieves

Downtown Church: Memphis, TN

Today's Scripture John 8:42-59

“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires.”(John 8:44)

The Principle is this: you do what your father says.

Main idea: Relationship with your spiritual father either produces good or evil in and through your life depending upon if that spiritual father is the devil or God! So, the question is, “Who’s your daddy?”

I. When your father is the devil, you live his lies.

“We don’t need answers from God, we need attachment with God.” (Waymaker, Voskamp, Ann)

The primary lie that the devil wants us to believe is “You are a fool to trust God."

Reference (John 8:31b-32)

Reference (John 8:39b-42)

Reference (Genesis 15:5-6)

Reference (John 8:44-45)

II. The Devil is a familiar father.

Reference Ezekiel 28:13-17

“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." (I Peter 5:8)

“…who accuses them day and night before our God (Rev. 12).”

III. The truth will set you free, but such freedom comes only as we bring the lies we believe into the light.

Reference (II Corinthians 12:2-3)

Reference (James 4:7-8)

1. Identify the lies that have taken root in your own heart.

2. Counter by speaking the truth of God’s Word into your heart.

3. Be still and know He is your God (Ps. 46:10).

“So the Jews said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.’” (John 8:57-58)

“As long as Christ remains outside of us, and we are separated from him, all that he has suffered and done for the salvation of the human race remains useless and of no value for us…All that he possesses is nothing to us until we grow into one body with him.” John Calvin