Christian Narcissist: Christian narcissism. Let’s talk about it because the church never wants to talk about this. Some people go to church and read their Bible, but they are still narcissistic, or they’re full-blown narcissists. And we are going to look at some of the signs that you can spot, right? And why are we going to spot this? Number one, we need to spot Christian narcissists because if not, we’re going to be a victim. We’re going to fall into victimhood. We’re going to be abused in a cycle. Number two, we also need to look within ourselves and say, oh, I do have that narcissistic tendency. I have to figure that out with the Lord. So, the first thing we’re going to talk about is tears. The Bible tells us the power of tears.
Tears can be used to move mountains. Your tears can move God to change the trajectory of history in your prayers, okay? But tears can also be seeds of deception. They can be used as a tool for manipulation. And we’re going to talk about how the Bible shows us this. Have you ever tried to break up with somebody and, you know, everything was really great in the beginning, but then they tried, they started to show their true colors. You try to break up with them, and they start crying, and you feel compelled to stay with them, right? The Bible says to turn the other cheek. That means, hey, showing the person that hit you on one side of the cheek, you couldn’t affect me. I still love you. I can’t hate you because Christ is my joy.
Christian Narcissist: You don’t have the power to affect me like that. So, I’m going to turn the other cheek. But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to keep turning every other cheek and keep letting you hit me. We have to understand that the devil also uses people as God uses people in our lives, right? And we are not to be trampled over just because we are Christian. Right now, God’s word tells us that tears are, uh, they’re bottled. They’re bottled in heaven. God bottles up your tears. They’re very important to God. Now, Psalm 126, five through six, says those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. Wow. He who continually goes forth, weeping, bearing seed for sowing shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. Okay.
When you are praying over people or a situation and you’re, you have tears in your eyes. Typically, we pray, and we’re like, Lord, I please pray that you can help me with this. Okay. Thank you, Lord. Bye. When you show God that those passionate prayers are the prayers that move God, they’re the. I know that from experience when you are weeping before the Lord, like Hannah, remember she was barren. She came weeping so much. She couldn’t even speak. She looked like she was drunk. That was the prayer. And she prayed many times. She prayed many times. She prayed many times. She prayed many times before that. But that was the prayer that God answered because she showed him, I really, really want this. Right? Grown men cry. Okay.
Christian Narcissist: And we’re going to talk about some of the ways that tears are used for manipulation, but grown men cry. Now, you could be a grown man. You could be 60, 70, 80, or 80 years old, but you could still be very immature because you don’t have the spiritual maturity, spiritual knowledge, and wisdom. You can have wisdom because of experience in life, but spiritual wisdom, wisdom comes from God. Right? It is only given by God. You could be a CEO. You could have a million dollars, but you’re still not a man. If you do not bow your knee to the authority of God and humility, because if you’re living your life as your own God, you’re, you’re defying God’s authority, and only children defy authority. Only a little boy defies the authority of his parents.
Only a little boy defies the authority of teachers and the principal at school. Only a little boy defies the authority of his parents. Only a little boy defies the authority of his parents. Only a little boy defies the authority of his parents. Only a little boy defies the authority of the law, police, and judges and goes to jail. So, a man is not a man until he bows his head before the Lord. Jesus was the strongest man. And just because a man cries does not mean he is weak. It says in John 11:35 that Jesus wept. He didn’t just sympathize with people. He empathized with them. The Bible says we need to empathize with people, rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. So, crying is not a simple thing.
Christian Narcissist: It’s not a simple thing. It’s not a simple thing. It’s not a simple thing. Signs of weakness now tear a tool for manipulation. Listen to this, Hebrews 12:15-18: ‘Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. Okay, Esau, when he was crying before his father Isaac because he wasn’t going to bless him and this blessing was a big deal, because if he would have inherited the blessing, Esau as the firstborn, he would have been it would have been God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Esau. But he sold it for a morsel of food.
How many of us gain the whole world and lose our souls? We lose the birthright of being in here, in here of everything alongside Jesus, because we want to worship the world and worship our flesh and do whatever and sell our birthright for nothing for a momentary, uh, a moment of pleasure. So Esau wasn’t crying over his foolishness right and selling his birthright for a cup of porridge; he was crying because the consequences caught Up to him, so you need to discern between fake and genuine repentance. Okay, Second Corinthians 710, for godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
So there are two types of sorrow: godly sorrow that leads to repentance, the fruit is repentance, or worldly sorrow that leads to death. Why worldly sorrow? It’s regret or grief that stems from selfish concern, such as fear of consequences, loss of reputation, loss of faith, and loss of faith, and loss of faith, and loss of self-esteem, or personal discomfort; this type of sorrow does not lead to repentance or a change of action. It doesn’t lead to a transformation. It is driven by a desire to escape consequences. My husband, Lance Vantine, said this quote. It amazed me: people fear hell more than they fear God; they fear consequences more than they fear the almighty God
right, it leads to death because it does not lead to a transformation. It does not lead to genuine repentance and reconciliation with God or a relationship right somebody could say oh I’m so sorry for cheating watching pornography. Still, they keep doing it that’s not genuine repentance. Okay, that. That’s a worldly sorrow. They’re sorry That they got caught; godly sorrow always produces repentance, so we read in the book of 2nd Kings that Hezekiah. He was gonna die, and Isaiah came and said, ‘You’re gonna die,’ and he was sick, but once he cried, the Lord said to Hezekiah, ‘I’ve seen your tears, I’ve heard your prayer, I’m gonna heal you right so your prayers can move mountains.
Okay, your prayers can move mountains, but before I go there, I want to say this: if somebody is showing you signs of saying ‘I’m sorry, you know, ‘I’m sorry, I gossiped about you, sorry’… but they keep on doing it, that’s a sign that they have, they are a Christian narcissist. Repentance is necessary. For salvation, okay, so if someone who is a Christian narcissist claims to be a Christian can never own up to their wrongs against you, it is questionable whether they are walking the straight and narrow to heaven; repentance is a part of the gospel. It’s part of salvation if they can’t repent when you bring something up to them there is it’s questionable whether they and this is a perpetual thing because sometimes we can have pride. Still, when it’s a perpetual thing, it’s questionable whether they are truly walking with the holy spirit because also the holy spirit convicts
that’s one of the things he does. He convicts The world of sin and judgment, so, uh, your tears can move mountains. God sees your tears; He loves you; He cares about you; and if somebody’s been hurting you, He saw it; He knows. And don’t give up, don’t give up praying. I prayed and prayed and prayed. I remember I prayed for a friend, and I prayed for years, and I cried and cried and cried. And she just kept rejecting Jesus. Guess what? She came to know the Lord Jesus Christ later, and she is strong in the Lord now. So your tears matter to God, and it’s those prayers of passion that move the mountains.
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