现在我们来看第一项，为罪，使世人知罪自责。
罪的源头是魔鬼。在约翰八章四十四节，主对法利赛人说，“你们是出于那父魔鬼，你们父的私欲，你们愿意行。牠从起初就是杀人的，并且不站在真理中，因为在牠里面没有真理。牠说谎是出于牠自己的私有物，因牠是说谎的，也是说谎者的父。” 魔鬼既是说谎者的父，牠就是罪的源头。魔鬼的邪恶元素是罪，藉着死亡和黑暗在人里面作工，奴役人去犯罪。
我们众人都是从魔鬼那古蛇而生（约八44，启十二9）。魔鬼是罪人的父，人是魔鬼的儿女（约壹三10）。魔鬼是那古蛇（启十二9，二十2），罪人也是蛇类，毒蛇之种（太二三33，太三7）。
众人生来就有蛇毒。所有的罪人生来就是魔鬼的儿女，有蛇的毒（约三14）。魔鬼是蛇，有蛇的毒。所有的罪人都是从魔鬼而生，有牠的毒。在我们堕落的性情里，有古蛇魔鬼的毒。
所有的罪人都在亚当里生在罪中（约九34）。我们既是生在罪中，所以我们生来就是罪人。我们无须犯罪才成为罪人，因为我们生来就已经是罪人。
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The first item is concerning sin.
The source of sin is the devil. We see this in 8:44 where the Lord says to the Pharisees, “You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks out of his own self; for he is a liar and the father of it.” Since the devil is the father of liars, he is the source of sin. The evil element of the devil, working as sin through death and darkness within man, enslaves man to sin.
We all were born of the devil, the old serpent (John 8:44; Rev. 12:9). Because the devil is the father of sinners, sinners are “the children of the devil” (1 John 3:10). The devil is the old serpent (Rev. 12:9; 20:2), and sinners also are serpents, the generation of vipers (Matt. 23:33; 3:7).
All sinners were born as children of the devil with the poison of the serpent. The devil is the serpent with the serpentine poison. All sinners were born of the devil with his poison. In our fallen nature there is the poison of the old serpent, the devil.
All sinners were born in sin in Adam (John 9:34). Since we were born in sin, we were born sinners. It is unnecessary for us to commit sin to be a sinner, because we were born sinners.