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“In Him [the Lord Jesus] is no sin” (1 John 3:5).
“The devil sinneth from the beginning…in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil” (1 John 3:8,10).
In our two verses for today we have a description of the two families of people that are in this world. Either we belong to the family of God, or we belong to the family of the devil. Some people would be insulted if they heard this, but it is true. Everyone in this world belongs to one of these two families. There is no such thing as a third family.
The Lord Jesus could not sin, for He has a nature that cannot sin. Those who are saved have also been given a new nature—a nature that cannot sin. But the devil cannot do anything but sin, and those who are not saved have a nature characterized by sinning.
Somebody may ask, What happens then when a true believer sins? How does that happen? We will see tomorrow.
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