You Will be Mocked and Disrespected

Have you noticed those "laughing smiley faces? Now they are being used to mock Christians when we speak the truth.

Just so you know, don't be embarrassed by a narcissist when they use a laughing smiley face to mock you when you speak wisdom from God's Word.

I am the first one to want to discuss things with a person who cares about discovering the truth, but I have little patience with those who only wish to appear superior without a desire to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Proverbs 29:8-10 "…8 Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger. 9 If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution. 10 Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life."

Mockers are haters, God said if we so much as hate our brother we are a murderer.

1 John 3:14-15 "…14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer."

Narcissists don't know that mocking and ridicule does not make them right. They count themselves as winning because they think they have embarrassed the one they mock. They think they have embarrassed the one they mock because they would be embarrassed and devastated if someone mocked them.

Remember Christ was mocked, and all the apostles.

Matthew 9:24

"He said, “Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.” And they began laughing at Him."

Mark 5:40

"They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He *took along the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and *entered the room where the child was."

Mark 15:31

"In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes, were mocking Him among themselves and saying, “He saved others; He cannot save Himself."

Notice that it was the scribes, chief priests and elders who were mocking Christ, the educated religious leaders of that day. We see this same thing today in the churches, those who are educated by men think they are above others in the church and will not listen to correction from anyone.

Sadly once someone has been convinced of something that is wrong it is nearly impossible for them to consider the truth.

Notice too that when someone leaves the subject of the conversation and begins the mocking they have lost the argument because they do not have a rational answer so they just mock.

If we answer their mocking we have taken the bate. If we remain on topic in spite of their mocking we will not become like them. If we use mocking back to them, then they have control over us through continual foolish back and forth nonsense.

Proverbs 26:4-5 "…4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be like him. 5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he becomes wise in his own eyes. 6 Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.…"

We can stay on the topic, remain calm, and tell the truth and when we find out someone is acting foolishly we can exit the conversation. No good will come out of arguing with a fool who uses tactics to control the conversation.

A good conversation can go on for a long time between two people who want to listen and speak rationally. But nothing good comes from a conversation with a fool.

In a conversation a few years ago I mentioned that we must trust the Holy Spirit for our guidance. The "Christian" I was talking with laughed uproariously as though I had said something stupid. It extinguished the conversation, and from that point on I knew there would be no reasoning with a Christian who didn't know what it was to trust Christ.

These encounters with modern-day Christians are common in our day. We are living in the last days when Christ said that He would have to end it all because there would hardly be any faith left upon the earth. It's sometimes hard to believe we are at the point in history when Christ will take out His church and the world will soon be under tribulation like it has never seen before. God said we would see the signs and they are everywhere all the time now.

Luke 18:7-14 "7 now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them? 8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector

"9 Now He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:

10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

11 The Pharisee stood and began praying this in regard to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, crooked, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

12 I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’

13 But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

14 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Most Christians in our generation care very little about obeying the Word of God. It is because most were never born-again in the first place. They were cultural Christians basing their morality to some degree on the bible but negating more of it than they obeyed.

When we speak with cultural Christians today who negate the Bible we perhaps should give them the gospel once again and explain that Jesus Christ is the Word, the very essence of His Own Word, everything in the Bible is true and we should strive to obey it.