John ends his first book with an odd closing: "Dear children, keep yourselves from idols." But what are idols but anything that takes our focus off of Jesus? John repeats the same thing over and over- that Jesus is the Son of God and to love God we must accept Jesus as His Son, and love others. Those who believe this message are told that they have overcome the world. This overcoming isn't by political power that lets us tell the world what to do. Rather, this overcoming is one that releases us from what the world does, because ultimately we will be freed from this world. Our citizenship is in Heaven, now. We are in the world, but not of it.
Satan sends those who profess that Jesus is just another wise man. He is fine with us respecting Jesus as long we don't profess him as the Son of God. When we believe in his divine nature, we give up our grip on the things that Satan uses to keep people under his control. With our eyes on Heaven, Satan can't get us to focus on his distractions.
Near the end of 2John, he says it very plainly, "We know that we are children of God, and that the wold world is under the control of the evil one." (vs. 19) Since we are children of God, and not of this world, the evil one has no claim on us. At all.
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