Couch Potato Christians

The one man pastor system of the apostate church has created "couch potato Christians."

So many people will not seek Christ for themselves, they would rather just hear a short sermonnette Sunday morning, believe what is said without cracking their Bibles and go home satisfied.

When someone comes along who challenges them to look into the word on any particular matter, they become hostile and mocking, their response might be "what makes you know, you didn't go to Bible school."

You see this mentality places the teaching of men above the teaching of the Holy Spirit. It creates idols in the form of men and women who say they know but are often wrong about their teachings while truly ignorant of much of what is in the Bible.

The Bible never teaches for one man to be the leader of a gathering. God teaches in His word that there should be a plurality of leadership, with every man preaching and teaching as led by the Holy Spirit.

The services most people attend today are not Biblical, they are man's traditions.

John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."

God placed the Holy Spirit in every believer, therefore every believer has everything they need to speak about the Lord, obey the Lord and make decisions based on His Word.

No man should be following man made rules, every decision should be based on the Word of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit and these two must agree.

The Holy Spirit will never tell us anything that is not already written in God's Word. There is a principle for every situation that comes upon us, no situation is new and no situation is without an answer or principle.

If you want to know God's Will, know His Word! If you want to be led by the Holy Spirit, then ask Him and question everything any man will say to you, running to get your Bible when what a man says does not sound familiar from the Word.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 "21 but test all things. Hold fast to what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.…"

Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding."

Trust the Lord in all things, not in man.

Proverbs 3:6
"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

Psalm 9:10
"And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you."

Philippians 4:12-14 "…12 I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. 14 Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.…"

I see no verses in the Bible that tell us to trust in any man.

Psalm 146:2-4 "…2 I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.…

We are Living as in Noah's Day

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Philippians 1

When we are of one mind in Christ, we will think alike, we will interpret things in terms of the Bible and not according to our own desires.

It's Not About Gifts and Cards

Honor and respecting parents has nothing to do with birthday gifts and cards.

When we honor our parents we are careful not to argue, fight or rage at them just because we may disagree about something.

It is dishonoring to parents to act as though you know more than they do, after all, they are the ones who changed your diapers as well as every other need you had as you were growing up. Of course there were exceptions to this, there have been evil parents, but even then, we are never to treat them with contempt.

Contrary to popular opinion, parents are not stupid, in fact the one who treats their parents as though they are, are wicked and possibly assigning stupidity to their parents when it really belongs to them.

Wise children see the value of their parents, even taking seriously any correction or instruction their parents might have. Adult children do not have to "obey" their parents but according to God they must listen with interest and consider what is being said.

Children who devalue parents as under them, are displaying contempt and rebellion against God.

Anyone who validates an adult child who disrespects his parent through arrogance and arguing, is validating the disobedient one.

Our culture no longer follows the laws of the OT, however those laws show us just how serious rebellion and haughtiness against parents is to God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear."

And, we can see from the chaotic nature of our culture, that rebellion is on the rise as parents place the commands of their children above the commands of themselves and of God.

Honoring Father and Mother According to God's Standard

Ephesians 6:2 "1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3“that it may go well with you and that you may be long-lived on the earth.”…"

Written to young and adult children alike. Showing disrespect to parents is a death nil to the spiritual growth, it may even mean a shortened life.

What are some ways that adult children honor their parents, keep in mind this is applicable to both father and mother, not one over the other, but both.

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End Times Narcissism on Steroids

When a narcissist sees you, they are really looking at themselves, you are merely an object to be used. If you do a kind act, the narcissist will assign an ulterior motive to it because if they did that same act, they know they would be showing off, so they assume you are showing off.

When the narcissist accuses you of anything, that you cannot figure out why they are thinking that of you, then you know they have assigned to you their own traits.

If a narcissist accuses you of lying, then you know they are lying or about to lie to you.

When the narcissist says you are angry, and you don’t feel angry, their purpose is to assign to you their own feelings of anger, or they want you to become angry so their feelings of guilt over the mistreatment of you will be justified or go away entirely.

When narcissists cannot cause you to become angry or get you to respond in a way that makes you look out of control, they will move on to flying monkeys who listen to all their lies about you, even mistreating you because of what the narcissist tells them.
The flying monkeys need no evidence, they merely have the narcissist on a pedestal and cannot believe the narcissist would ever tell a lie.

Not only do the narcissists lie, they do it calculatingly to control the perception of others and to cause a break down in their target. If they can get their target to look bad by their defense of themselves, they can validate everything the narc said about you, in the eyes of all the flying monkeys.

We only have to look at the serpent in the garden of Eden to see that these things are so. The first thing the serpent did with Eve was to deceive her into believing God told her a lie. Then he worked on her ego with flattery to get her to believe she knew God better than He knew her.

The narcissist chooses to believe they know others they target for abuse. They say and do things that are not true but pass them on as evidence to others how enjoy the gossip too.

Keep in mind that the narcissist gets worse when they have been discovered. They will work harder than ever to discredit, demean and mock us to others when they cannot be around us to do it to us.

After the devil influenced Eve through deception to disobey God, she then influenced others to do the same. The devil is never happy just hurting others, he must get others to hurt us too. Destruction by the numbers has always been the way of Satan.
In our modern age of apostasy we can expect this treatment, while learning to be happy alone with Christ. We can trust people until they prove they can no longer be trusted, then we must move on and make our lives without those who are manipulated by the devil.

A narcissist thinks they are in control of their own destiny, they are not, the devil has them firmly in his grip, using their mouth and manipulating their minds to believe lies. These people are pawns in the devil’s hands.

We know that the devil places thoughts in the minds of people through the account of Peter when he denied Christ three times. At one point God told the devil while looking at Peter, “get thee behind me ‘Satan.’” If you doubt that the devil uses people look at the account of Judas, who betrayed Christ and then went out and killed himself. Scripture to support this is at the end of the article.

When you hear gossip from narcissists, it is best to dismiss it, unless it pertains to you, then you must check it out thoroughly and even talk to others who were gossiped about. If others refuse to discuss the matter, then they have made the choice to believe the lie. Avoid people such as this, there will never be anything resolved with them and everything you say will be twisted and maligned as though you did a terrible things, even though all you wanted was to clear the air and reconcile a relationship.

There have been so many of these people in my life, controlled by the devil’s minions working to destroy believers, truth and our witness for Christ. These people must be removed from our lives, it is better they know nothing about us than for them to spread half truths about us and others we love.

Matthew 16:22-24 “…22 Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to You!” 23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” 24 Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.…”
Luke 22:2-4 “…2 and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people. 3 Then Satan entered Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve. 4 And Judas went to discuss with the chief priests and temple officers how he might betray Jesus to them.…”

Not all narcissists are possessed of the devil but all are controlled and manipulated by him.

John 13:21-30 “21 When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will [a]betray Me.”22 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. 23 There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. 24 So Simon Peter *gestured to him, and *said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.” 25 He, leaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, *said to Him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus then *answered, “That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the morsel, He *took and *gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” 28 Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. 29 For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor. 30 So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.”

There are devils among us who seek our ruin. They may be those in a community or in family, but they are there and we must recognize who and what we are dealing with in order to remain unaffected by them.

Gray rock: Going gray rock a lot is helpful, that means that we show no emotion when we are attacked, we do not defend ourselves and we do not answer back any challenge, we simply remove ourselves. Remember…….one cannot reason with a narcissist, the more we talk to them the more food for their lies fodder for their plots and schemes.

We know we will be encountering this phenomena more intensely as the time grows near for the Lord’s return. Even the seculars are noticing an increase in the 2 Timothy 3 description of the wicked, and guess what…..this is a description in the apostate church, the world is even worse. The secular doesn’t know what it means or the answer to it, but they can describe it very well from their observations.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
“3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good,4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.”