I once heard of a preacher in Chicago who advertised three sermons on the devil.  The titles of the sermons were grammatically strange, but guaranteed to get attention: “Who, the devil, he is,” “What, the devil, he does,” and “How, the devil, he does it.” I am not trying to emulate that preacher, but only trying to make some sense out of Jesus’ dialogue with His audience in the 8th chapter of John.  You recall that immediately after Jesus told His listeners that “The truth will make you free,” they protested that they were descendants of Abraham and, therefore, had never been in bondage to anyone.  As we saw in the previous sermon, that was not literally true.  But Jesus was talking about a deeper kind of bondage.  “Everyone who commits sin is the slave to sin,” He said.  Then Jesus accuse…