Narcissism is Nothing New

Narcissism is nothing new, it began in the garden of Eden when Eve was convinced to defy God and be like a god herself.

The devil whispered in her mind that she didn't have to obey God. The devil convinced her that she could be just like God and was just as important as He.

It is the devil that convinces people that they are so good and so great that they don't have to listen to anyone including God.

Notice in the time of Jesus Christ on earth it was the "religious" leaders who hated Him the most. He challenged their false humility and phony traditions that elevated them above God.

The world is a system of narcissism, every man for himself is the mantra of the world. The more we live for Christ the less we will be associated with those who hate our God, those who love this world and rage at those who will not follow them.

John 15:18-25
Disciples’ Relation to the World
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake because they do not know the One who sent Me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates Me hates My Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
25 But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’"