Psalms 7:14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. I listened to a very helpful podcast this week by Dr. Les Carter. He discussed narcissism as an addiction, comparing the narcissist to an addict. One point in particular which he made…
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Reviler is the biblical word for an abuser. Other words are used in Scripture to describe the evil that abusers do, but this title “reviler” gets to the heart of it. You see that little root in the word – “vil” – which reminds us of related terms like “villain,” or “villify” or, hmmm…. “vile.” A reviler is vile. Anyway, what a reviler does is to make the innocent be the villain. And they do this by accusing. Revilers are accusers and that evil is part of the very nature of the devil himself:
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. If you will pardon the personal illustration, I would like to talk to you about how revilers, abusers, sociopaths, and narcissists STEAL not only from their targeted…
Read MoreOur brothers and sisters in Christ at graphicspaces.com have made several new posters that I will be hanging in our church building. You can buy them for yourself at their website. https://www.graphicspaces.com/collections/posters-christian/products/poster-christian-be-who-you-are-galations-2-20 Here is another one: https://www.graphicspaces.com/collections/posters-christian/products/poster-humbling-the-proud-daniel-4-37 And another: https://www.graphicspaces.com/collections/posters-christian/products/poster-enter-by-the-narrow-gate-matthew-7-13-14
Read MoreDESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN.”(Romans 3:16-17) RASNs (revilers, abusers, sociopaths, narcissists) are like a tornado. You no doubt have seen the path of a tornado in the news media or perhaps even in person. You can see where it…
Read MoreWhen they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel.(Acts 19:28-29) Paul's experience at Ephesus…
Read MorePsalms 109:1-5 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise! (2) For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. (3) They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. (4) In return for…
Read More1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. (8) Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Most of you know that RASNs (revilers, abusers, sociopaths, narcissists) are…
Read MoreThey make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.(Galatians 4:17) Revilers, abusers, sociopaths, and narcissists never give, they always take. Just as the Apostle Paul warned the Galatians, RASNs flatter, but only so that they can…
Read MoreColossians 4:6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. The RASNs (reviler, abuser, sociopath, narcissist) words are anything but gracious. In sooo many ways they are, as Paul puts it in Romans, the poison of asps,…
Read MoreMalachi 1:1-2a The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. (2) “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” Malachi 1:6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is…
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