Man originated in God. Although dormant, the seed of God, His genetic code, remains within man. Peter wrote about the fact that we were born not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible – the word of God that lives and abides forever. (1Pet 1:23) Incorruptible seed – think about that. This seed might have been separated from the tree of its origin, it might have been trampled under foot … but it is incorruptible! The logic of its origin remains in tact. There is an environment that can cause this seed to germinate. There are words that contain the spirit environment that causes this spirit seed within man to germinate and produce resurrection life. A person might have no interest in God, and could have been in this state of spiritual death for many years. Oh, but when words of life enter, the very death or tomb in which he lives, becomes a womb; a womb that incubates the very life of God.

Often people speak about ‘children of the Devil’ and ‘children of God’ as if God and the Devil are on the same level as creators. Ridiculous! There is only one Creator, one God and one Father of us all (Eph 4:6). And in the previous chapter Paul writes: “I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.” The only thing Satan ever gave birth to is lies. Throughout the centuries man has adopted this foreign ‘father’ by submitting to his way of thinking, thereby adopting a foreign identity. Yet submitting to this lie did not change the truth of mankind’s origin, nor did it make the Devil an actual creator or father. It is in this context that Jesus said: ‘You are of your father the Devil’ referring to their actions and their way of thinking, immediately qualifying it in the next sentence by saying: ‘he is the father of lies’. I love the way in which the Message translates John 1:12:
But whoever did want him,
who believed he was who he claimed
and would do what he said,
He made to be their true selves,
their child-of-God selves.