If the greatest power a Christian has is the grace of the gospel, then it would make sense for Satan to attack us at that level.

To put all of his emphasis and force and focus on that, and I think he's winning.

Hear me out.

If you go to church or you think about the evangelical church, broadly speaking,

what are we emphasizing today? Are we emphasizing the sufficiency of Christ to save us,

to sustain us, and to train us? Are we thinking about how Christ is the one who actually

produces within a sanctification? Are we preaching sermons about the sufficiency of Christ for all of our life?

Or is it moralism, obedience, fear, how to improve pietism?

That typically is what we're hearing in the Christian messages in most churches and podcasts today.

And I think that's Satan winning.

Let me explain in the episode.

But that's what we're going to be talking about today.

The spiritual war as it relates to the attacks on the sufficiency of Christ and the gospel.

Before we do that, let's take a moment to encourage our hearts and look to Christ.

Somewhere along the way,

grace was taken from us, not denied, but replaced. It was exchanged for self-help, pietism,

immoralism. We were taught to look to our discipline for strength instead of to Christ for power.

We began to believe the Christian life is sustained by effort rather than by

grace. When grace becomes technique, joy fades. When grace becomes moral performance, hope collapses.

And when you forget that a real spiritual war is raging, we try to fight unseen enemies with visible tools.

Grace restores our sight. Grace teaches us that Christ himself is our strength. That purpose

is not found in our progress, but in his presence. That joy is not manufactured by effort, but received through communion with a living

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