Narcissists are Screemers

I just have to share this, my posts about marijuana have set off a firestorm of antagonism. My character has been maligned and my delivery attacked in an effort to intimidate me into silence.
This is absolutely classic in the study of narcissism. Not on my page but others looking on have come against me. Wrong thing to do, the more I am persecuted for righteousness, the more staunch I become.
 
Those who don't want to hear the truth, while indulging in their favorite sin, will use these very techniques to manipulate us. Keep this in your mind for the next time you encounter a "screemer." 
 

I am going to call them "screemers" because they are the ones who, if in your presence physically, would be raising their voice in anger, using intense and even defamatory verbiage while demeaning you as a person.
 
You see, we are only allowed to be respected and loved if we "say nothing, do nothing and be nothing, so that the screemer can be top dog. We also forfeit any blessing of love and care if we do not sheepishly admit we have no right to our own opinion especially if we use the Word of God to support it.
 
Do you see how it works? The liberal media and politicians have been using these tactics for years to motivate people to think and move the way they do. If their tactics of manipulation and intimidation don't work they will use mocking to undermine your resolve while turning others opinions of you in their direction.
 
The study of narcissism has helped immensely in controlling the effect narcissists have on us. If we don't know their tactics, we might be tempted to think something is wrong with us, which of course is their aim.
 
2 Timothy 3:1-5

Legalizing Marijuana is Foolish at Best

Another lie of the devil concerning the legalization of Marijuana!

It helps the economy!!!!  How stupid is that!!!!!

This is an age old ploy, if we say it helps the economy people jump on board. But what does that say about the people? It tells us everything is about money in the hearts of the people who will accept something just to help the economy when morally and physically in the long run it harms everyone in one way or another.

Killing babies has "helped the economy" too, all those abortion doctors have more money to spend and so do the woman who have killed their babies, since they no longer have to support a child. 
Sorry friends, "it is good for the economy" just will not fly, unless nothing else matters.

Christmas is a Pagan Holiday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6p2zbyc9qw

I find it interesting that in these last days of apostasy the Christmas celebration has become completely out of control through materialism, revelry and secular celebrations among believers. Whenever a holiday or event is widely accepted and enjoyed by pagans, we can be sure there is something seriously wrong with it.  Paganism has been incorporated into the culture so much so that Christianity has only a small part of the church services.

Notice too, that along with the growing apostasy, the over indulgence in the Christmas season, we also see more warnings from those who have learned the origins of the holidays that have become the fabric of American apostasy. As the paganism is growing so are God's warnings from those who desire to remain faithful to the Bible.

I once attended a church that was legalistic about a woman's length of hair, the use of wedding bands, dresses for women while placed a 20 foot Christmas tree in their lobby every Christmas.  I felt that there was the practice of straining out a nat and swallowing a camel in this church that prided themselves on all their unBiblical legalistic rules, that God never commanded, while at the same time indulging in paganistic practices.

Narcissism Rules Nearly Everyone Now

We are living in the times of 2 Timothy 3:1-5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WozUI_8VPU

Living in Narcissistic Times

Psalm 12

"1 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

2 They speak falsehood to one another; With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things;

4 Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are [d]our own; who is lord over us?”

5 “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

6 The words of the Lord are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

7 You, O Lord, will keep them; You will preserve him from this generation forever.

8 The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of men."

Do Not Judge Depression

Those who base their judgements against us on whether or not we have depression are lacking in empathy and kindness. They have a far too elevated view of their own spirituality.

I would like to say here that depression does not define who we are or our spiritual walk. It can be a sign of sin but not always, our bodies are fleshly and fallen, it misfires often, that includes our emotions.

In these final days of apostasy believers will be hit with sadness because of loneliness,... while living godly lives honoring Him. The problem of depression is fleshly, we are spiritual.

Romans 7:15-120 "15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me."

If we are in the Holy Spirit as believers, we will ask ourselves if there is sin that is causing depression, however I think as believers we will already know if sin is doing it. When we are walking with the Lord and depression or sadness hits, it is not an indication of our walk with God, but more a body that is malfunctioning or the result of the evil we see around us.

Anyone who can live in this world as a believer and be unaffected by the rampant debauchery all around them, is in my humble opinion, lacking empathy without understanding the gravity of sin. They may also have no concern for the lost. When we understand the sinfulness of sin, coupled with the fact that many people we know are on their way to hell, it would be impossible to ignore this. Going our merry way enjoying ourselves is an indication of someone who does not love God's way and perhaps has never been born again.

Indifference is a form of demonic hatred.

Isaiah 42:20 "You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears. "

Matthew 13:15 "FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.' "

Do Not Harden Your Heart

Deut. 28:47-48 "Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you."

When we defy God, refuse to acknowledge Him in our schools and public places, He will come against us in ways we never thought of, even the natural consequences of our own sin will pile on us, until we repent, if we do not repent then we will see harsher and harsher judgments, devastating misery while hardening our own hearts with each one.

When we harden our own hearts, God sees fit to harden them even further until we have no chance to return to repentance.

Matthew 4:7 "Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

As a culture we have sorely tested God, time after time after time, refusing to see the wickedness of our ways. Now that we are suffering the consequences of broken marriages, broken children and now rebellion everywhere we look, we want the Lord to bail us out. We want Him to bless us with peace, happiness and prosperity when we are not willing to confess, admit openly our sinfulness, even defending our evil as though it were good.

Exodus 8:32 "But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go."

Exodus 9:12 "But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and just as the LORD had predicted to Moses, Pharaoh refused to listen."

First Pharaoh hardened his own heart with each plague, finally God hardened it permanently. When we refuse God continuously, eventually He will move to make our hardened heart permanent.

Hebrews 3:8 "DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,"