Section 7
he is a gentleman or a robber, has the human life, which is good, and the satanic life, which is evil. This is the reason that people can be both good and evil, both kind and devilish. No one likes to do evil things. But within us there is a person with a life that likes to do evil. Therefore, Paul said, "For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil I do not will, this I practice" (7:19). This means that it is no longer we who do certain things; rather, it is an evil person with an evil life within us who does those things.
Every human being is not only a son of Adam, but also a child of the Devil. In John 8:44 the Lord Jesus told the Jews, "You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to do the desires of your father." Everyone has two fathers, a human father and Satan as a father. One day after I had given a message on this matter in Shanghai, a brother asked me to stop saying that we are children of Satan. Telling him that this did not originate with me, I referred him to 1 John 3:10, which speaks of "the children of the devil." Since we are children of the Devil, then certainly the Devil must be our father. This was the reason the Lord Jesus said that the Jews were of their father the Devil. There fore, all fallen human beings have two fathers, each with a different life, the human father with the human life and Satan as their father with the satanic life.