Matthew Stuckey here and I wanted to give you another psychopathic trait from a
biblical perspective and in this video I want to talk about grandiosity or a
grandiose sense of self-worth. And a grandiose sense of self-worth, you know,
according to this website, says psychopaths have an inflated view of
themselves. They see themselves as important and entitled. They often feel
justified to live according to their own rules and they think that the laws don't
apply to them. And so a grandiose sense of self-worth is essentially someone who
thinks the world revolves around them. They believe that they are the most
important person in the world. They believe that their feelings are more
important than anybody else. They feel like what they want is more important
than anybody else. They feel like they're better than everybody else. They feel
that, well, without me everything would fail and I'm so important and I'm so
good and I'm the best at everything. And so being very arrogant is part of this,
but it's really that you believe the world revolves around you. And this is a
common trait they see with psychopaths and this is a very bad trait, but one
character we see this exhibit this one psychopath in the Bible is Haman. It says
in Esther 5 verse 10,
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself and when he came home he sent and called for
his friends and Zaresh his wife. And Haman told them of the glory of his
riches and the multitude of his children and all the things wherein the king had
promoted him and how he advanced him above the princes and servants of the
king. So Haman is around his wife and his closest friends and all he's doing is
talking about himself and how the king has promoted him above anybody else
which includes the people that he's talking to and he's like look at all the
money and riches I have and I'm above all the princes and servants and he's
literally telling a group of people that are supposed friends how he's better
than them as well. And this is the guy who clearly thinks the world revolves
around him. It says Haman said moreover, yea Esther the queen did let no man come
in with the king under the banquet that she had prepared but myself. He's like
I'm the only one who was able to come into the banquet not even you guys were
able to come to the banquet. That's his attitude and tomorrow am I invited onto
her also with the king. So all he's doing is talking about himself he's like I I
I I I. One thing you're going to see with people that are psychopaths is
they're always talking about themselves and look whether someone's a psychopath
or not these kinds of people are annoying when they always talk about
themselves
it's all about them it's I this I that I'm going to do this I'm going to do that
all they think about is themselves all they care about themselves is themselves
and what that is is a grandiose sense of self-worth. We as Bible believing
Christians should care about other people and not just care about ourselves
and even the average unsafe person should have the attitude that other
people's feelings matter too. It says in verse 13 yet all this availeth me nothing
so long as I see Mordecai the Jews sitting at the king's gate and Haman
says I'm the second most powerful man in the world but it does not matter to me
as long as Mordecai is alive and he seeks to kill Mordecai and all of the
Jews simply because Mordecai will not bow down to him and what this is called
is a grandiose sense of self-worth where Haman believes he is more important than
anybody else. He believes he's better than anybody else and he doesn't believe
anybody else's feelings or lives matter at all. This is a common trait of
psychopaths. You look at the most extreme example which are probably the serial
killers in this world and clearly they don't care about other people's lives
they believe their desire to murder someone or to rape someone or
harm a child
it shows they don't care about other people and their families in their lives
all that matters is their own emotions and their own feelings. Now of course
that's the extreme example but psychopaths exist in all walks of life
and when you see people that are just always talking about themselves and they
only care about themselves and they don't seem to care about others feelings
at all there is a chance that you're dealing with a psychopath. Well what does
the Bible say about having this attitude? Well in Philippians chapter 2 verse 3 the
Bible reads let nothing be done through strife or vainglory but in lowliness of
mind let each esteem other better than themselves. See the Bible says that we
should be lowly in mind and esteem other people as being more important or better
than ourselves. Other people matter more than ourselves. That's kind of the main
lesson in Christianity is that our lives are not about ourselves. You know a lot
of people have this idea well what matters is what I want and my desires
but the reality is the world does not revolve around you. The reality is that
if you were not existing if you did not live the world would move on. The company
that you work for would move on. Whatever you're doing in life it would move on
okay the world does not revolve around you. The Bible says don't allow this
attitude to creep in your head where you think you're better than other people we
should actually esteem others better than ourselves. Then it says look not
every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others. The
Bible says don't just look on your own things and the things that matter to you
but look and care about the things of other people. Then it says this in the
next verse let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. See when Jesus
Christ was here he lived his life caring about other people more than himself. The
Bible says that he didn't come to be ministered onto but he came to minister
to other people to be a servant to other people. It says that he laid down his
life for us and he even talked about throughout the Bible to love as I have
loved you and he said that before he died on the cross. Now of course there is
that example that greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his
life for his friends and he would end up doing that but he commands us to love in
the same way that he has loved us because in a symbolic sense he laid down
his life every single day to care about other people more than himself. But see
the psychopaths in this world are the exact opposite. They don't care about
anybody else's feelings. All they care about is themselves. So with the psychopath the
only time that they would appear to care about other people more than themselves
or to appear to care about other people's feelings is if someone is
actually paying attention to what they're doing so they're trying to do
their works to be seen of man. Of course the the psychopath is not going to want
to look like they're a jerk and they're obnoxious and they're arrogant and
prideful. So what you'll see is they will appear to be extremely generous in some
situations when there's people around but otherwise it's just all about
themselves. If there is no benefit for them in a situation then it's just all
gonna be about them. It's I, I, I, me, me, me. Now the sad reality is that in this world even
though the vast minority of people are psychopaths we are becoming a world
where it's all about me it's all about I. This is a wicked trait and what the
world has realized is this is a very common trait amongst psychopaths and do
we see that in the Bible? We do see that in the Bible with Haman. He had a grandiose
sense of self-worth where he thought the world revolved around him and he's the
only one that matters but the Bible tells us to care about other people more
than ourselves.
Anyways thank you and God bless.