Monday, May 6, 2019

Christ the Only One Who is Good

Some of the bullet points come from another video I watched. Because I don't agree with some of the things in the video I took from it things I have observed for myself. You may be able to add to these lists. One list are character traits of the manipulator and the other list are qualities of the good person.
Traits of evil people: They must be seen as perfect, even though everyone knows no one is perfect....oh except the evil person. Appearances are far more important than truth to this kind of person. If they cannot fool you to believe they are perfect, they will treat you with contempt.
1. Deny truth when it doesn't make them look good.
2. Withhold information to deter others from the truth.
3. Twist events and facts to make themselves look better.
4. Mislead others through gossip.
5. They lie constantly using "plausible deniability", in other words they lie in such a way as to cause confusion about what was really said.
6. Never sorry for their actions, only angry when caught.
7. Avoid responsibility for their actions. Deny their own bad attitudes.
8. Never loyal as a friend. They use people, abuse them and claim it was justified while lying to others that they did.
9. Manipulative for their own benefit.
10. They live double lives, only kind to those they wish to impress and mean to those for whom they have no respect, and, they only respect those who praise them.
11. They are controller, they only respect those whom they can control and love no one.
12. Evil people cannot grow and learn, they think they know everything and anyone who attempts to help them understand another way will be treated shamefully.
13. Evil people never give compliments because it elevates someone else temporarily, they cannot tolerate this. They expect compliments for every little thing they do.
14. The wicked person thinks they know everything. They cannot tolerate being corrected or disagreed with, they must be seen as the all knowing and perfect one.
Character Qualities of good people.
1. High level of confidence. They are not afraid to be themselves, admitting good and bad.
2. They share their thoughts and feelings as a way of sharing themselves. These people enjoy and value feed back from others so they can grow and learn. They are not afraid of being imperfect.
3. These people are not embarrassed at compliments and readily give compliments.
4. Good people enjoy acknowledging the accomplishments of others. They are far more focused on the relationship with a person than on being special or above.
5. Good people love to listen to respond. They love deeper conversations in which they and others can learn new things from one another.
If you want to be a good person and not just "seen" as one, then the way to do that is to confess your sinfulness and ask Christ to change you into a new creation. It is only through Christ that anyone can be truly genuine.
We have within all of us the propensity to think of ourselves in a good light, while denying our fallen humanity. Those who have been changed into a new creation by Christ can easily and readily say, "I know I am not perfect, in fact without Christ I am nothing."
The prideful evil person will say; "I'm a good person", even without any evidence of that, they will choose to believe it and become angry if someone else tells them differently.
Romans 3:23
"23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
Do you think you are special? I am here to tell you that you are not special and neither am I. It is only Christ Who is special. When we trust in Him then He gets all the glory for any good that is in us. That good is not based on deeds but on character that lead to good deeds.
Hallelujah its not about me its about HIM!!!!

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