What is the relationship between the believer community and the world?
The believer community and the world are two total opposites, engaged in constant warfare as two opposing forces. This mirrors the believer’s internal struggle between the Holy Spirit-driven new nature and the old nature rooted in Satanic powers. Satan never gives up and will use even good things to keep people from the truth.
Les explains that just as every believer has a constant warfare between the two natures—the new nature driven by the Holy Spirit and the old nature rooted in the Satanic powers of the curse—so the believer community in general is set against the world in general. They are two total opposites, and we are up against two forces constantly. The persuasion to return to legalism did not come from the Holy Spirit who brought them out of paganism, but from the same evil spirit that held them in paganism. Satan never gives up and will use good things to keep people from the truth.