The First Glimpse of Jesus (Genesis 3:15) | Worship Service

Isaiah 9 and the Call to Worship

That song is longer than I remember, that's okay. Welcome to Kootenai Church. Would you please stand with us this morning? As we begin our song, and prior, we're going to open with a call to worship from Isaiah 9.

The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. Those who live in the land of the shadow of death, the light will shine on them. For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us, and the government will rest on its shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

There will be no end to the increase of his government or of peace on the throne of David and over his kingdom to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore.

The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will accomplish this. This morning, let's begin our worship and sing joy to the world.

Jersey, Christ is born, rejoice, Christ is born. In the Christmas season, we're going to learn one new song.

For our congregation, and that's How Low Was Our Redeemer Brought.

The king who held the star and pressed again while she came The air of joy you share would stumble. We just have two announcements,.

Both of which are related to the parking lot, and this was announced last week, and this is the last time. This will be announced before somebody is the recipient of some money that was found in the parking lot after the Child's Fair.

Nobody's claimed that yet. You should know if you lost that how much it was approximately, and you can come talk to me or Miss Kathy after the service if you wanna claim that, and if not, it'll go to the, well, finders keepers.

It'll go to the person who found it. It wasn't me, so I'm not profiting off of that, but that's how it's gonna work out. And then second, I would just remind you during the winter months to park probably 10 feet off of the side of each building because there's ice still dripping off of the roof up there, and if you show up after a big snowfall, don't park along the edge of the building at all unless you don't mind just being without your vehicle till March because once that big roof sheds that snow, it'll be March before you figure out what kind of damage is done.

Genesis 3 and the Fall of Man

Speaking of the fall, I'll turn to Genesis chapter three for the scripture reading. Genesis chapter three, and we're gonna read together this entire chapter. Genesis three, beginning of verse one. Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

And he said to the woman, indeed, has God said you shall not eat from any tree of the garden? The woman said to the serpent, from the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said you shall not eat from it or touch it or you will die.

Servant said to the woman, you surely will not die for God knows that in the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil. When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate and she gave also to her husband with her and he ate.

Then the eyes of both of them were open and they knew that they were naked and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, where are you? He said, I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself. And he said, who told you that you were naked?

Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? The man said, the woman whom you gave to me to be with me, she gave me from the tree and I ate. And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done?

And the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate. The Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you will go and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel. To the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.

In pain you will bring forth children, yet your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you. Then to Adam, he said, because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying you shall not eat from it, cursed is the ground because of you.

In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life, both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face, you will eat bread till you return to the ground because from it you were taken, for you are dust and to dust you shall return.

Now the man called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all the living. The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.

And now he might stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever. Before the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

So he drove the man out. At the east of the garden of Eden, he stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. Will you stand with me as we pray?

Let's bow our heads. Our Father, this passage reminds us of your curse upon Adam's race for his sin and that in him we are all guilty before you, justly damned for what the head of our entire race has done to this creation.

And even the songs that we sing here at this time of year remind us of the thorns and the thistles that plague us, the effects of the fall and the curse upon us in this world. And yet we also have the hope that you have given that the seed of the woman has crushed the head of the serpent and will someday bring about a complete restoration and recovery of all that has been marred and lost in the fall.

We thank you for your blessed grace, for your plan of redemption, for Christ Jesus, our Lord, who came into this world, left the glory of heaven and the worship of angels and his throne to take upon himself human flesh that he might die in our stead and live in our place.

So we thank you for the servant of Yahweh who has done that on behalf of his people. We thank you for sending your son to die for us. We thank you, Lord Jesus, for dying in our stead and taking upon yourself our sin and giving to us your righteousness.

We are grateful for that great exchange. We are grateful for the salvation that we have because of it. And we pray that you would fill our hearts with joy and wonder at the thought, such an incomprehensible thought, that our great God would die for such a helpless race of rebels, sinners, and people who were hating you and had enmity with you.

And so we pray that we would be filled with joy over that and that you would cause our hearts and our minds to focus upon Christ and what he has done today and the blessing and benefit that that has brought to untold millions and to us who are your followers.

Be honored and glorified here through our worship, we pray in Christ's name.

Amen.

2 Corinthians 5:18-21 and Reconciliation Through Christ

Let us worship, come let us adore Jesus, Messiah, our Savior is born Carol his glory and sing his sweet name Thanksgiving and joy with us, creation rejoicing this morn The glory of God the Lord is in heaven above

2 Corinthians chapter five, verses 18 to 21, it says, now all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting their transgressions against them and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

So then we are ambassadors for Christ as God is pleading through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

We're gonna end our music this morning and sing Once Upon.

Heaven's song broke through Peace and goodwill toward men Born now in Bethlehem, the sovereign son of God Breathing the dust of earth

Christmas Season, Old Testament Promises, and Progressive Revelation

Before we begin, let's ask the Lord's blessing upon our time, let's bow our heads. And Father, we pray that you would teach us now from your word that your blessing might rest upon this time as we study your word that we may behold the face of Christ in what is written and that you would teach us about our savior today from this passage and that you'd be honored and glorified through our meditation and our response to your word.

We pray this blessing upon us this morning because we know that it is your will for us to know your word and to know the savior. And so we ask it in his name, amen. Well, we have officially entered the Christmas season now since we are past December 1st.

Some people start to celebrate Christmas earlier than that. But since I'm not a sociopath, I wait until December 1st. Not that I judge those who celebrate earlier than that. Don't judge sociopaths, that's one of my life rules.

So for this month, we're gonna be looking at some promises from the Old Testament concerning the Messiah. And we've given considerable consideration through to some of the Old Testament passages as we've been working our way through the book of Hebrews.

We have noted again and again, one of our constant themes that we as the recipients of the new covenant and who stand under the new covenant, we are the beneficiaries of blessings and promises that were foretold long ago and now they have come to us.

And we get to bask in the light of that. We have revelation and understanding and insight that saints of old did not have. And I mean, saints prior to the coming of Christ, simply because we have seen how those promises have been fulfilled.

And though they waited throughout the course of their lives, they did not see the fulfillment of everything that was promised to them. That's not to say that the promises failed, but it is to say that they were not yet fulfilled.

And so viewing them with the eye of faith as though not substance, they were counted as substance. They anticipated and look forward to that, believing that God was faithful to do what he had promised to do.

And still today, we are not yet living in the fulfillment of everything that has been promised to us. There are still promises yet to be fulfilled that we, like the Old Testament saints, look forward to with great expectation and anticipation, knowing and believing just as they had to that God will fulfill and keep his word, all of it.

We have the benefit of hindsight that they did not have. And so as we go back into some of the Old Testament passages to look at the promises made of the coming Messiah, we're going to obviously be reading those passages and understanding those passages in light of the fulfillment that is entirely proper.

And we will do that as we reflect upon some of these, we're gonna bring to bear on our understanding of those passages. Some of the things that we know from how those passages have been fulfilled. So let me give you a little bit of an understanding of the course ahead over the next couple of weeks.

We are going to go back into the Old Testament, look at some of those promises. Today, we're gonna look at the very first promise of a Redeemer in Genesis chapter three. Next week, we're going to go into the Old Testament and look at the humanity of Christ that was promised and predicted.

And then the following week, we're going to go back into the Old Testament and look at the divinity, the deity of Christ, as it was prophesied and predicted. And then on Christmas Eve, which is a Sunday this year, we're gonna, in the morning service, look at the announcement of that Savior.

And then in the evening service, the arrival of that Savior. Now, let me give you a couple of introductory remarks here before we jump into our text. First of all, as I mentioned, we're going to be going into some Old Testament texts.

Our focus is going to be the Old Testament promises, at least for the next three Sundays, today and the next two. And then we're gonna look at the fulfillment of that on Christmas Eve. Second, we're going to be covering multiple passages per Sunday, not today.

Today, we're gonna be focusing on one passage, which is my standard sort of typical approach to preaching. And I'm not one of the guys, not that there's anything wrong with this or sinful, but you will notice that typically my pattern is not to go bouncing around to like a Bible drill every passage that has to do with this, having you turn from one place to another.

That's not how I feel comfortable preaching. So my focus is usually on one passage and we zero in on that, reference others. But for the next two Sundays, next Sunday and the following one, we're gonna be turning to multiple passages of scripture.

So it's gonna be a little bit different as we look at multiple promises from the Old Testament concerning the Christ. Today, we're just focusing on Genesis chapter three. So if you're not there yet, you'll need to open your Bible to that passage.

Genesis chapter three, we're gonna begin with the very first promise of a Redeemer. First, as it appears in scripture, this is the first as you, if you're just reading through the passages of scripture, beginning in Genesis 1 .1, this is the first time you encounter a promise.

It's also first chronologically. And just keep in mind, sometimes when you're reading scripture, what you see first is not always the first reference to that thing. So there's a difference between what you read in scripture and what happens chronologically in scripture.

But this is the first promise of a Redeemer, both the first we encounter in scripture as well as the first in history. We're gonna go back to our first parents, Adam and Eve, back to the garden right after the fall, shortly, I believe, after creation.

And with that in mind, there's something to keep in mind regarding Old Testament promises and particularly early ones like this one in Genesis chapter three. And that is that not everything that you might expect to have revealed about the Messiah is to be found in Genesis chapter three.

This is something that was characteristic of early revelation. It was not nearly as developed as later revelation. So we're going to read Genesis three. We're gonna read it through the lens of Christ in the New Testament, yes.

But we also have to understand that not everything about Christ is revealed early in human history. It's much later that other things would be revealed. And this is the nature of what we call progressive revelation.

That is to say, after Adam and Eve sinned and the Lord confronted them in the garden, He didn't just hand them a Bible with all 66 books and say, here's it, here's everything you need to know. Start reading this and you'll find out about the hope that is to come.

Revelation was given progressively, book upon book, line upon line, prophet after prophet over the course of time. And what we find is not that later revelation cancels out earlier revelation as if, yeah, I promised you a kingdom, but hey, some things have happened.

We're not gonna do the kingdom. We're setting that aside. We're gonna spiritualize or allegorize it. That's not the approach. And it's not as if God gets it wrong in the beginning, but then later on He has to come back in and correct it.

It's that in the beginning, we have laid out some general principles, some shadows, and then as time moves on through Scripture, we have more and more information that is added to that as things become clearer and clearer over the course of time.

And that's what we find here in Genesis 3. We don't find here, for instance, a mention of a king or a kingdom. We don't have in Genesis 3, any mention of a royal lineage that the Messiah would rise from the dead, of a promised resurrected body, of a betrayal by a friend named Judas for 30 pieces of silver, of His birth in Bethlehem, that He would be a miracle worker, that He would have a church.

We don't have here mentioned His rule or His reign. We don't have here mentioned His death on the cross specifically for sin, or that soldiers would gamble for His garments or a hundred other things about Christ that we might add to that list.

So the details here in Genesis 3 are scant, but here's what we do have to remember and keep in mind. Adam and Eve, this is key. Adam and Eve were told everything that was necessary for them to place their hope in God for a coming Redeemer.

Everything that they needed to know, to hear, and to trust for hope in this Redeemer is revealed in Genesis 3 .15. Adam and Eve did not have to wait till later on when they would find out that this Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, Micah 5, or born of a virgin, Isaiah 9, or that He would be wonderful Counselor, mighty God, the Father of eternity.

They didn't have to know all of that. What they had to know was what is promised to them in Genesis 3 .15, and that was enough. And if Adam and Eve would place their faith in that and believe that God's Word is true, they would be justified, declared righteous, and taken to heaven on the basis of the information that God gave them.

He gave them enough for them to place their faith in Him and to believe upon Him for that coming Redeemer. So now let's read the passage, and we're not going to read beginning in verse one with the fall, but we're going to get down to the curses that are given to the serpent, then to the woman, and then to the man.

So let's pick it up in verse 14, though we're not gonna focus on every verse in this passage. We're just gonna zero in on verse 15, but we'll catch all the context here. Verse 14, the Lord said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field.

On your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life, and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel.

To the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children, yet your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you. Then to Adam, he said, because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, you shall not eat from it.

Cursed is the ground because of you. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you will eat bread till you return to the ground because from it you were taken, for you are dust and to dust you shall return.

Now the narrative surrounding this is a familiar one. It is after the fall of man. This is obviously after creation. I don't believe that there was a long period of time that passed between the creation of Adam and Eve and the fall and thus the judgment.

I think it happened rather quickly. Scripture doesn't tell us exactly how long it took, but there seems to be no indication that a long period of time, certainly not thousands or millions of years, have passed between the finishing of creation and the fall of man.

The serpent was right there doing his thing that he does, deceiving and lying and twisting God's word in order to ruin our first parents. Adam and Eve were created in perfection, moral perfection, with the ability to sin, the choice to sin, something you and I do not have.

We are born in Adam only able to sin and to do nothing else, but Adam and Eve were born in a state of moral perfection, able to sin, but morally perfect and without any imperfection in their righteousness.

They were provided with everything that they needed, everything in the garden. This is something to keep in mind. Adam and Eve were given everything that they needed. They had no wants. They had no needs.

There was no lack of provision. Everything was provided for them. They had the entire creation and a lush garden, all of the produce, all of the food that they could want. It was all there. No bacon, I grant you, but everything else was there.

They had no want and no need at all. And in that state, they fell. Now compare that just for a moment with the Lord Jesus Christ, who in his temptation went 40 days without food and had none of those luxuries.

And yet he resisted the temptation from this same serpent. The contrast there is striking. Adam had everything and he abandoned it, rolled the dice and fell, ate what he should not have eaten. The Lord Jesus Christ had none of those things and yet he was tempted and he stood strong.

So Genesis 2, 16 -17, the Lord commanded the man saying, from any tree of the garden, you may eat freely, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. From the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.

That was the statement, real simple. One tree, you have everything else in the garden, one tree, don't eat from it. They could walk up to it. They could observe its beauty. They could tend it. They could look at it.

They just weren't supposed to eat from it. That was the one thing they did. They had one job. They had one job and they failed at that one thing. The serpent comes in and casts doubt on God's word, questions God's motivations for even giving them the prohibition.

And so Eve sinned by eating the fruit and Adam followed her and ate the fruit. The scripture says that Eve was deceived but Adam was not deceived. I think he ate willingly. And immediately they realized that they were naked as something had changed and they hid from one another and they hid from God.

Genesis 3, 11, God confronted him and said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? Now the Lord knew what had happened. Obviously it was more than just an observer who was there for the whole thing.

He knew what had happened but the question is intended to design to elicit from Adam a response. It's intended to make Adam reflect upon what he had done and how he had violated the command. And so rather than just charging Adam with his crime, the Lord begins to question the man and the woman in order to bring forth a confession of their own guilt.

And of course, Adam does what every man has ever done since the beginning of time. He blames his wife. What have you done?

She did it.

And then he turns to the woman. What have you done?

The serpent did it.

Notice the shifting of blame. This happens in relationships and this is what we do so naturally. It is so innate in us that when confronted with something, we shift the blame. We skirt it, try and avoid it, blame somebody else for it, make an excuse.

This is what they did. And so this of course brings a curse upon all three parties. You'll notice in verses 14 and 15 that the Lord begins with the curse upon the serpent. I think that that is significant.

It goes from the Lord confronting Adam who really was the responsible party for all of this. He confronts Adam and then moves to Eve and she blames the serpent. And then the curses unfold in the opposite order.

The Lord addresses the serpent and then the woman and then finally with the man. So there is a chiasm there, a progression that goes from the man to the woman, to the serpent, from the serpent to the woman, to the man.

As the Lord addresses them and curses them in opposite order. Each curse, and this is something you should observe, is uniquely suited and attached to the creation mandate and to the role of each, the man and the woman.

So for instance, the woman's curse is that she would bring forth children in pain and with difficulty, and that there would be this conflict between the man and the woman. So whereas the woman was supposed to be submissive to the headship and the leadership of the man by virtue of the fact that the man was created first and God had ordained him with a position of authority as the head of the home.

Now, because of the curse, there would be this conflict that would exist within the home and between the man and the woman. The woman would desire to have that position of authority and did not submit to it.

And the man, of course, would rule over the woman. He had this conflict and strife that begins at the beginning and now it has worked out in every relationship that has ever existed between men and women since the beginning of time.

The man's curse is uniquely suited to his role and responsibility, which is his work and his provision. So man now would have to work and provide, and this task would be toilsome and taxing and exhausting and frustrating, and labor would no longer be as fulfilling as it once was.

So now it is by the sweat of his brow that man brings forth what is the fruits of his labor to provide for his family. This would now become difficult, and it wasn't difficult before the fall. Work was before the fall, what it will be in the new creation when we get to work, it will be ultimately fulfilling and we won't have to deal with any of the thorns or the thistles or the curse that comes upon us.

And then now the serpent is cursed with crawling as a vile and disgusting and despised. I mean, even today we use the term snake in the grass to describe somebody who is devious and deceptive and untrustworthy and duplicitous.

And so now the curse is upon the snake as well. Verse 15, this is our focus. And now we've gone past our context here to our verse. These words in verse 15 contain the first promise of a redeemer and Charles Spurgeon, this verse is called, verse 15 is called the proto-gospel or the beginning of the gospel, the first message of the gospel.

And that's a good description of it, it's what it is. Spurgeon has rightly noted that this is probably perhaps the best sermon ever preached because he says Yahweh himself is the preacher and the entire human race is the audience.

Now granted, it's only two people, but it was the entire human race. The entire human race is the audience as well as the serpent. But Yahweh himself is the one now who is promising a redeemer. And if you believe as I do, that every revelation of God in the Old Testament was the second person of the Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is speaking to them, then what you have here is the Lord Jesus Christ foretelling to Adam and Eve, to the serpent, in the presence of Adam and Eve, what he would come to do.

But it is addressed to the serpent. And Adam and Eve, before they ever get a glimpse at their own curse, get a glimpse at this hope. Spurgeon said this, these words were not directly spoken to Adam and Eve, but they were directed distinctly to the serpent himself and that by way of punishment to him for what he had done.

It was a day of cruel triumph to him, such joy as his dark mind is capable of had filled him for he had indulged his malice and gratified his spite. He had in the worst sense destroyed a part of God's works.

He had introduced sin into the new world. He had stamped the human race with his own image and gained new forces to promote rebellion and to multiply transgression. And therefore he felt that sort of gladness which a fiend can know who bears a hell within himself.".

That was good. Everything Spurgeon said is good. And that's particularly good. Here on the very soil of Satan's alleged triumph, which is the garden, is the very place where the Lord confronts him and reminds him that what he has begun now will only end in his ultimate and final destruction.

And it is in the context of that, the Lord's curse upon the serpent that Adam and Eve hear the words of hope. Before they hear their own curse, before they hear their own sentence, before they hear of their toil and their pain and their suffering, their struggle, and ultimately their death, that they will return to dust, before they hear any of that, they hear of the ultimate triumph that one will come who would destroy the serpent.

And Adam and Eve were ripe for judgment. They deserved at that moment to be executed and cast into everlasting damnation with the serpent and to be forgotten for all of eternity. That is what they deserved.

They were ripe for judgment. They had rebelled. They had taken everything good and spoiled it for themselves, for the creation, and for all of their posterity. And if God had judged them at that very moment and cast them into hell, he would have done them no wrong.

He would have given them what they justly deserved. But he doesn't do that. Instead, he unfolds for them a promise of redemption, a promise of grace. These are words of mercy in verse 15 that are not addressed to Adam and Eve, but Adam and Eve hear this because it is addressed to the serpent whose destruction is promised.

And Adam and Eve hear the promise of grace. And I have to think that that is intentional. Well, I know it is intentional because the Lord doesn't do anything unintentionally. So I know it is intentional for Adam and Eve to hear the promise of hope before they ever hear of their judgment.

You see, God could have just told them pain, suffering, death, disease, destruction, and ultimately dust is what you deserve. And that is what you have coming. And you could have abandoned them there and let them live out centuries before He ever gave them a word of hope.

But the Lord doesn't do that. Instead, the Lord gives them a message of hope and mercy in the midst of what He is addressing to the serpent that Adam and Eve get to hear before they even hear of His judgments.

That is a merciful thing. So this is the promise that there shall arise in the future, in the fullness of time, a champion, a victor, who though he suffers, shall destroy the devil, crush his power, and crush the serpent's head.

Genesis 3, verse 15, this is our passage. And yes, we're finally there. "'I will put enmity between you and the woman "'and between your seed and her seed. "'He shall bruise you on the head "'and you shall bruise him on the heel.'".

In those words of hope, we're gonna notice three things about the coming Savior. First, His virgin birth. Second, His vicarious suffering. And then third, His victory over Satan. Notice first the promise of His virgin birth.

It is in the phrase, the seed of the woman. Genesis 3, verse 15, "'I will put enmity between you and the woman "'and between your seed and her seed.'". Now, the Lord here is not talking about the literal, physical serpent, the snake.

You get the idea, the impression, and it is a right one, beginning in verse 15, that the Lord is now addressing the spiritual entity that is behind the snake's deception. It is Satan himself that is being promised a destruction here.

The word seed that is used there is often translated as offspring. It means offspring or descendants or child or children. It's also used of literal human semen, but that is not its meaning here. Here, it is not used literally in either case, either of the woman or of the snake.

Now, you'll notice that the passage says that the serpent has a seed and that the woman has a seed. And that does not mean, of course, that Satan has literal, physical progeny, descendants or offspring, as if he is able to reproduce in some way, he isn't.

But it does mean that he has spiritual children or spiritual descendants. Scripture talks about those who belong to the devil and that they are not those who belong to God. You either belong to the devil or you belong to God, but you don't inhabit any kind of middle ground where you belong to some third entity.

There are children of the Lord and there are children of the devil. And you are born into this creation, a child of the devil, a child of wrath. And you must be born again and adopted into God's family if you are to have redemption.

John 8, verse 44, Jesus said to the Pharisees who were trying to kill him, you are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. See, this is what makes us naturally born his children.

We desire to do his will. He, that is the devil, was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there's no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

He's the father of liars as well. In 1 John 3, verse 10, we read by this, the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious. Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God nor of the one who does not love his brother.