The Devil and his Lies

Narcissists tell lies continually. This is devilish and exasperating for rational healthy people who understand reasonableness.

Christ and the apostles dealt with this all the time, the reason God authored 2 Timothy 3.

The devil is all about causing problems to create fear in those who are believers. If the devil can cause us to be uncertain and reserved out of fear of being wrong or accused of something, we will shut down and shut up.

When we see that someone does not want the wisdom of God from His word, then is the time to walk away and spend our energies on others who love to hear about Christ.

Praise the Lord we are not required to remain with those who do not love Christ and have nothing but contempt for us.

2 Timothy 3:1-17
"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, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."

All of these things are end times mentalities and events. We can expect it but not allow it to control our lives.