Question: “If man is a derivative man, would you give an
example of human beings deriving their identity and character from a spiritual
source, of either God or Satan.”
Response: We are derivative creatures. There is always a derivative “end result” to human behavior. Human beings are not independent selves but derive all that they do from one of two spiritual sources.
Who is your spiritual father?
In John chapter 8, Jesus clearly teaches that man
is derivative. He not only illustrates that the Pharisees were deriving their
behavior from their spiritual condition, the source being their spiritual
father, the devil but He also clearly reveals that He was deriving His life and
behavioral expression (character) from His Father. In so doing, Jesus gives us
insight into what it means to be a man as God intended man to be. Every human
being derives identity and character from one of two fathers, God or Satan.
Mankind had never seen a man functioning as God intended (until the incarnation
of Jesus Christ) because ever since the “fall of man” man was deriving from
their spiritual father the devil. Jesus is the first and only man that lived
His enter life dependent and derivative on God never doing anything of His own
intuitive.
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| Heavenly Father |
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| Your father the devil |
Jesus even went so far as to declare in John 5:30 that “I can do nothing on My own initiative.” John writes eight times in his gospel that Jesus was only deriving life from the Father not independently on his own initiative (John 5;30, 8:28, 8:42, 10:18, 12:49, 14:10). Those who refuse to believe that man is a derivative man are forced to confess that they believe that man is an independent self, which is the lie of Satan and delusional, as only God is independent as only God is the Creator.
John 8:38 I speak the things which I have seen with My
Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.”
39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.”
Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. 40
But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth,
which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. 41 You are doing the deeds of
your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one
Father: God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love
Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on
My own initiative, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand what I am
saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. 44 You are of your father the
devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in
him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar
and the father of lies.
Every man has a spiritual father, God or Satan. Who are you deriving
from? Who is your father?
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