Most people in our culture today base all they think and do on their emotions. They are ready to justify mean behavior merely because they felt a certain way without evaluating what actually happened or the feelings of another person.
2 Timothy 3 tells us what these people would be like, one of the traits is a lack of natural love toward one another.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 "But realize this, that in the last days difficult (ragingly insane) 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."
When we think with the mind of Christ we see how monstrous these mentalities are but those who are not born again think they are perfectly normal and justified in their own eyes. They will even have a form of religion but do not know Christ.
With the 2 Timothy 3 generation, we see that no one else matters, only themselves full of self-worship that justifies anything and everything if it causes them to feel superior or special.
We see this in the rioters in the streets recently, no conscience and full of rage about nothing! The devil is using them to ruin the lives of others and they enjoy the power they feel from it.
Everything bad that happens to the 2 Timothy 3 type, is someone else's fault. Those who will speak the truth of the Word of God will be treated with contempt continually by those who refuse to hear anything from God.
These people will argue feelings, justifications, circumstances and when those arguments do not work they will resort to character assassination to demean the one who loves truth. But they never consider the truth to be able to repent.
There is hope for anyone, even the narcissist if they will confess their sinfulness and trust in Christ. While it is unlikely that a full-blown narcissist will evaluate themselves, there are some people with narcissistic tendencies who are able to feel the conviction of sin and could become born again.
Those who are full-blown narcissists have a seared conscience, the inability to feel sadness or regret over what they have done.
1 Timothy 4:1-2 "1 Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. "
The more someone resists confessing their sin the less likely we are to ever become born again. God will not cleanse someone who refuses to admit their sin. Those who refuse to admit sin in their heart will grow deeper into bitterness preventing them from ever confessing to becoming cleansed.
1 John 1:9 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
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