Satan is Yo' Daddy

We live in a day, friends, of chaos in society and confusion in the church. In society, evil is called good and good is called evil. And in the church, we have confusion about what true salvation is.

We think it is one thing, but it is quite another. This is so because there are not many churches that preach the true gospel of the Son of God, and therefore what you end up hearing is heresy. But because the majority are all preaching the same message, we are fooled into believing that it can't be wrong if the whole denomination is saying the same thing.

Well, maybe you need to leave that apostate denomination, friend, before it ruins and damns your whole family. Because big churches and big preachers are saying the same thing that salvation is one thing doesn't mean it's the real thing just because the majority is saying it. And if you swallow that heresy and then someone pats you on the back and shakes your hand and tells you you are now a Christian and you join the church and you do your level best to fit in and serve God in some capacity, and this is where many go astray because they believe it is in the capacity of their serving that this proves their salvation.

But a priest is very religious in serving God and is given great capacity to do so. But if he's trusting his works to save him, then he is lost. And many in our churches are lost just the same.

They believe because they are busy serving God that they possess eternal life. The Jews in the days of Christ were very religious to the letter, and you would be hard-pressed to find more devout men of prayer and service than the Pharisees. They crossed their T's and dotted their I's in all their religious duties, but they were religious men who were lost.

And when Jesus confronted them, he pierced through all their garbs of formal religious covering and called them out as frauds. And even worse than that, he said their father was not God after all, but their father was the devil. And that's the title of my message this evening, friends.

Satan is your daddy. Listen to me, friend. If Satan is your daddy, wouldn't you want to find that out now instead of joining him in hell when it's too late? Jesus talks about what eternal life is in our passage this evening.

It's found in the Gospel of John in chapter 8. You can turn in your Bibles there now, friends. And I'll say this right now before I begin my message. I believe there are some godly pastors in this land who love the Lord and who have God's seal on their ministry.

I'm very much aware of them. But I also believe that the majority of men standing in pulpits across this land have the devil for their daddy. They are unconverted men with seminary degrees, and they don't have a clue as to what eternal life means.

And they certainly don't possess it. They are blind guides just like these Pharisees in our text here tonight. And if you sit under their ministry, you will be spiritually poisoned because you will be swallowing heresy, and heresy will damn you for sure, friend.

Now you better sit up and pay attention to this message, friend, because your very destiny can hang in the balance. Read with me now. John chapter 8, beginning in verse 41.

Here now is the word of God, and God's word is truth. May the Spirit of the Lord bring conviction to hearts if that heart is unsound. Ye do the deeds of your Father.

Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication. We have one Father, even God. Let me pause here, friends.

Jesus is facing and dealing and addressing a bunch of preachers with letters after their names. They are well-versed in the scriptures and are considered experts of the law. But Jesus has a bone to pick with them because they are nothing more than religious frauds.

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me. Let me pause here, friend, because this is the dividing line between the sheep and the goats. This is the litmus test of true religion.

If God were your Father, ye would love me. Peter, do you love me? We love him because he first loved us. Do you love Jesus, friend? Now you better be careful here before you answer too soon and stick your foot in your mouth.

Jesus did not ask them if they professed their love for him. Your typical church member today will run all over town telling others how much they love Jesus. With their lips they testify of their love, but in their lives they deny him.

Now you chew on that for a while and let it sink in. Early in our text, in verse 39, Jesus tells these proud Pharisees that if ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. Well, what did Abraham do? He lived by faith.

He believed God. He followed God. He worshipped God.

He trusted the life's breath of his only son Isaac to God. He loved God enough to sacrifice his only son. Jesus is trying to make a distinction here, friends, between someone who has God as their Father and how that person would live their life as opposed to one whose daddy is Satan and who is in bondage to darkness and dead and sin.

You can be as religious as you want to, friend, and fool everyone you know and be promoted in your church and within your denomination, but you can't fool God. He knows if he gave you eternal life or not. Jesus tells these religious phonies, these religious lost men, three things about themselves.

Number one, he says that if God were your father, you would love Jesus. In verses 43 and 44, we see where the rubber meets the road of their lost condition. Number two, these religious men could not recognize the voice of God.

Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word, Jesus tells them. I've known men in ministry who are led by a demon rather than the Holy Spirit of God. Ye are your father, the devil, Jesus informs them, and the lust 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. Let me pause here, friend, in this solemn passage where Christ is addressing some very religious men, church men, so to speak, and they not only are unaware of their lost condition, they are also unaware of who is addressing them.

And this brings us to point number three. You can be religious and not know God. Look at verse 55.

Yet ye have not known him. Listen to me, friend, and listen to me closely. I was a religious lost man for years.

I had even earned two doctorates from two different seminaries. I was well-versed in my Bible, and I said with my lips that I loved Jesus, and I handed out tracts, and discipled men in my home, and taught Sunday school class in a big Baptist church, and my daddy was the devil. Satan is your daddy if you don't love Jesus and love him in your daily living.

Satan is your daddy if you cannot recognize God's voice when he's speaking to you, and Satan is your daddy if you don't know the living God of the Bible in an experiential knowledge of him. Now, that's what Jesus told these stuffed shirts of false religion. Now, when a religious lost person is confronted with such truths, he's going to get mad at you.

Look at the last verse of chapter 8 and see the response and reception of what they had been confronted with. Look at verse 59. Then they took up stones to cast at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

I will stop there. Most folks don't want me in their churches anymore because I stir things up too much by preaching the truth to religiously lost people, and they don't like it. They'd rather go out and hire them a man who will speak smooth things to them.

I've looked in some deacons' eyes after preaching in their churches, and I've seen hell, brother. They wanted to kill me if they could get away with stoning me, they would have. But I did not bring this message to you tonight, friend, to win you as a friend or a fan.

I don't care what your opinion of me is, but I want you to know that I do care about your soul, and I'm willing to upset you enough if you are yet dead in your sins and sitting in a pew at church and on your way to hell to be with Satan, your daddy. Only Jesus Christ can save you, friend. Jesus said, I am the bread of life.

He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Jesus declared, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man, no woman, no preacher or deacon, nor son of school worker or choir member can come unto the Father but by me.

Get to Christ, friend, and repent of your sins before the devil takes you out on a hot date of which you will never return. Let us pray.