Now he has to tell the unbeliever only one lie to control them, and that is that they don't have to come to the cross. The politically correct position in America is that there are many ways, all religions are about the same. That's the devil's primary lie. And as long as you believe that, you're probably safely in his territory. And he just has to have a maintenance program for you. That's not our problem or what we're concerned about here. We're concerned about what happens when you become a believer. Now, there are those, as we've said, who would say, if you're a good Christian, the devil can't do anything to you. I would say that when you become a Christian, you become the target. He only has to have a maintenance program for his people. But you, as a believer, can live to the glory of God, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Satan hates God. He doesn't want God to be glorified. So he's got to reduce you to what I call a level of spiritual mediocrity. This is like the children of Israel in the wilderness. They were still God's children. God was feeding them with manna. God hadn't disowned them. And they could say, look how God's blessing us with our shoes don't wear out and so on, clothes don't wear out. And that was true. God was blessing them. But where were they? In the wilderness. Where should they have been? In the Promised Land, they weren't conquering like they were supposed to be conquering. They weren't occupying the land as God had told them they should. They were in the wilderness because of unbelief and disobedience. Those are the two conditions of the covenant that they had broken. And that doesn't mean that God totally disowns you, but it does mean that you are now living at a level of wilderness Christianity instead of promised land Christianity. Instead of winning the victories and going from victory to victory in Christ, you're just existing from day to day and being thankful that God hasn't stopped the flow of food and other things to you.
The enemy wants to keep Christians living below where God wants us to live. He wants to keep us in our lies, fears, and troubles, but God wants to set us free.