Rejecting the cultural Christianity I grew up with to embrace and enjoy a relationship with Jesus Christ. A place to come and share thoughts about almost anything. Especially things of the Lord. Please no Anonymous posts, I enjoy knowing who is writing to me.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The Gaslighting of Governments Toward the People
"Gaslight" is to manipulate someone's memory of an event. It is based on the movie "Gaslight" in which a husband attempted to cause his wife to go insane by claiming she was doing and saying things that did not actually happen.
Gaslighting is happening all the time now in our culture even in our churches. These public entities are claiming things about Israel that are not true.
We all saw the carnage Hamas did to Israel, murdering over 1400 people in Israel since this recent war. Hamas attacked Israel and these same people are attempting to convince the public that Israel was the aggressor when it was Hamas that perpetrated wicked atrocities against the people of Israel without any provocation.
Israel defended itself and resolved to chase Hamas and the Palestinians who supported Hamas out of the region that belongs and always has belonged to Israel.
I speak of this now because many people are beginning to be against Israel for defending themselves while demanding reconciliation. It is not possible to reconcile with a narcissist who cares only about completely destroying you.
Because of my experience with and study of narcissism I see all the tactics of Hamas exactly the same as any narcissistic person. They bully others and get angry when the victims fight back to defend themselves.
The bully always blames the victims and lies continually to convince others the victim was the perp when it was the bully who started it all and refuses to stop aggressing.
It is impossible for the victim of a bully to negotiate with them. They are taught to lie to win and once they have lied that they are willing to negotiate they will aggress again and again and again, over and over!!!!
Bullies cannot be trusted they must be eliminated from the lives of those they seek to destroy. Driving them away is the only answer to the problem of the narcissistic bully.
Bullies do not want others to live their lives in peace, they want to completely destroy their targets. There is no trusting those who have a lifelong pattern of bullying and lying to achieve their goal of annihilation of their target.
Now that we understand this principle of bullying and lying we can see it in the Scriptures where God said that all the countries surrounding Israel will be against them unjustly. The exciting thing is that God will fight for Israel and all the powers of the world will not be able to take her down.
Narcissistm is mentioned in 2 Timothy 3. We are living in the times of intense wickedness when lying is common all the time with almost everyone.
Have you wondered why you have few friends when you tell the truth and expose the lies while using the Scriptures to prove your assertions?
We are living in the last days as described in 2 Timothy 3. People for the most part are demonstrating these evil mentalities and gaslighting the truth tellers attempting to silence them. The gaslighters hate God and they hate the truth. Anyone who speaks the truth and loves God will be a target of the gaslighters.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Difficult Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, 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 people as these."
These people have a form of religion but deny God as the Power!!!
Do not be discouraged by these facts, we know they are prophesied and we can be excited that we are living in prophetic times watching God's word play out just the same as Moses did when God parted the Red Sea. Perhaps the prophets will want to enquire of us what it looked like to be living in the end of the end times right before Christ comes?
Monday, May 27, 2024
Lets Read the Whole Passage About Forgiveness
Let's read the rest of that passage;
Luke 17:3-4 "…3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
All forgiveness must be preceded by repentance.
We desire that relationships be reconciled but they can only be so if someone is sorry and someone forgives.
Believers have forgiveness in their hearts all the time, in order to pass it to the offender there must be a desire to have changed behavior and the realization that someone was harmed.
God tells us to avoid an angry man, this is a command that we cannot walk with those who continually offend without ever thinking they did anything wrong. Those who justify their sin cannot be forgiven.
Galatians 5:19-21
"Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Proverbs 13:20
"Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm."
1 Corinthians 15:33
"Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
When we make foolish people are constant companions we will become like them or at the very least we will enable them to stay as they are without guilt about their behavior or attitude.
Luke 17:3-4 "…3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
All forgiveness must be preceded by repentance.
We desire that relationships be reconciled but they can only be so if someone is sorry and someone forgives.
Believers have forgiveness in their hearts all the time, in order to pass it to the offender there must be a desire to have changed behavior and the realization that someone was harmed.
God tells us to avoid an angry man, this is a command that we cannot walk with those who continually offend without ever thinking they did anything wrong. Those who justify their sin cannot be forgiven.
Galatians 5:19-21
"Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Proverbs 13:20
"Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm."
1 Corinthians 15:33
"Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
When we make foolish people are constant companions we will become like them or at the very least we will enable them to stay as they are without guilt about their behavior or attitude.
How We Interpret What Happens To Us!
Everyone interprets what they hear according to their own biases and according to their own mindset.
An angry person will see an insult where there is no insult. They suspect others of being insulting because angry people are continually using rudeness to control the feelings of others.
The kind person may even blame themselves for somehow making someone else upset without knowing what they did to cause it. Kind people hate harming anyone, they will quickly evaluate themselves to make sure they were not offensive and even inquire to find out what they may have done or said that was offensive.
A wise person never offends to control others and they can see when someone is manipulating to increase a feeling of guilt in them or others.
Proverbs 1:4-6 "…4 To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young, 5 let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel 6 by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.…"
Proverbs 9:9
"Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning."
Proverbs 14:6
"A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning."
The purpose in knowing the tactics of unruly people is to be able to respond correctly while never allowing ourselves to become like them by replying in kind or in anger. Those who are confident about their ways have no need to defend themselves or become caught in the web of the narcissistic tactics of those who do not love God.
In other words, be the opposite of what the rude person is trying to goad you into becoming.
Ephesians 4:31-32
"Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."
It doesn't matter what anyone else is doing to us, we are responsible for replying in a calm respectful manner or to remain silent. A strong person can do this because they are confident in Christ, they never have the sense that they need to win anything in conversation with a wicked person.
Keep looking up! One day everything will be exposed and Christ in us already knows it all.
Emotional Response or Reasonable Explanation?
Our emotional responses say something about us. Those who respond with reason are operating from rational thought. Those who respond emotionally in rage are not thinking nor are they demonstrating love.
This tactic of accusing others of things that are not true often is a confession of the narcissist of what is in their own heart. Dismissing the reasons of others while validating only his own reasons was a tactic to antagonize someone into an angry response and even cause them to doubt themselves.
When we notice a person regularly and even continually dismissing our conversation to antagonize us, this is a person to avoid.
Proverbs 22:24-25
"Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go, Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul."
Those who use hostility to cause anger in others are themselves angry people. They know they are angry inside because of their attempts to make others seem worse than themselves by their strategy to cause emotional responses in their target.
God made it clear to avoid these people, they are controlled by the devil to cause God's people to fall into the sin of frustration and self-defensiveness.
If you have to be around someone because they are family then we must learn to ignore their tactics, be comfortable never explaining ourselves to them, and refuse to become emotionally enticed to respond just like them.
If a narcissist can cause anger in us they will count it a win and in their own mind will appear superior to those they aggravate.
Proverbs 22:24-25 "24 Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man, 25 or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.…"
Remaining silent is often the best course of action when we notice someone's attempt to provoke us to elevate themselves.
Proverbs 15:18
"A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute."
Proverbs 21:24 "“Proud,” “Arrogant,” “Scoffer,” are his names, One who acts with insolent pride."
Isaiah 16:6
"We have heard of Moab's pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty."
Never fear those who act in arrogant pride to antagonize those they hate. Our greatest weapon against such people is to remain unaffected and unemotional about their foolishness toward us.
To care what they think of us is what causes us to defend ourselves. When we care only what God thinks we have no need to explain ourselves to those who love to provoke others into annoyance.
Romans 12:19
"19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord."
Trust Christ in all things and we will have no desire to force a response.
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