He comes for your identity. And if you get it backwards, you will spend your entire Christian life winning small battles while losing the main one. Most believers think the enemy's primary target is their behavior — get them to sin, get them to compromise, get them to slip up publicly.
There is a difference between a man who makes it and a man who meets Him well. John doesn't write 1 John 2:28 to the lost. He writes it to believers. And what he says ought to stop every Christian who thinks showing up is enough — because a saved
They always show up with more — more knowledge, more experience, more spiritual depth than you ever got from that old narrow-minded church you used to sit under. And John's answer to all of it is one sentence. "This is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life." — 1
Sit with that for a minute — because it explains nearly every departure you've ever watched and couldn't make sense of. When someone walks out the door of a sound, Bible-preaching church — especially when they go out teaching something — the exit wasn't the moment of departure. It was the announcement of
The devil doesn't need your Bible. So instead, he fills your hands with good things — Christian things, even — until you are doing everything for God except sitting with God. It's not his power that gets you. It's his patience. He's not showing up with arguments. He's showing up with a