John 8:38 (ESV) I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.

Jesus addressed the people who rejected him. HE says that HE obeys HIS father the that they obey their father. Jesus indicates that in this world that there are two distinct groups of people with two different fathers.  Clearly there is no middle ground. To be born of God is to be safe from the power of the evil one. Not to be born of God is

to be wholly under the power of the evil one.