They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
I speak what I have seen with my Father, not hearsay, not hypothesis, but the exact counterpart of eternal truth itself. You do what you have seen with your father; and since there are but two families in this world, God's and the devil's, your works declare your parentage as plainly as mine declares mine.
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Commenting on John 8:38-47
To be Abraham's children means to have his spirit and to imitate him. They clung to mere descent while refusing to acknowledge they imitated another father entirely; they obstinately pretended not to understand because the truth condemned them.
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Regeneration always plants love for Christ in the heart; where that love is absent, there is no new birth and God is not Father. I came forth from the Father and was sent by Him as Mediator to obtain redemption for His people, and all who are born of God must love me on both accounts.
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