Matthew Stuckey here giving you another trait of psychopaths and this is the second trait
under the lifestyle characteristics.
The last video we talked about a proneness to being bored or needing excitement or stimulation
in your life.
This one is part of a lifestyle characteristic is having a parasitic lifestyle.
Being a parasite basically not working yourself but using other people.
So here's what it says from the website about a parasitic lifestyle psychopaths may have
sobbed stories about why they can't earn money or they might often report being victimized
by others.
Then they take advantage of the kindness of others by depending on them financially.
They use people to get whatever they want they can with no regard for how a person may
feel.
And see what it says here is that psychopaths you know what they will take advantage of
other people and they take advantage of the kindness of people.
They will guilt people into giving them money you know what they often have these sad and
sobbing stories about like it's so tough for me.
This is why I cannot make it.
You know I saw from another website when it talked about the parasitic lifestyle that
with psychopaths even if they have the ability to do something on their own and make money
they would prefer to just steal it from somebody else.
And of course these are people whose conscience is seared.
They're bad people.
And you know what when you're seeing people that are always having these sob stories.
I can't make it.
It's not my fault.
And then they guilt you into giving you money.
You need to be very careful about that.
That could indicate that they're a bad person and you have no idea if that story is actually
true or not.
Now I've run into this before with people that I've given money to in terms of giving
money to homeless people.
And I remember this guy had this big sob story about why he had no money and he needed money.
I felt guilty because I thought hey you know what I have money I'm able to go to class
and able to eat.
And I gave this one guy ten dollars in college and I saw him like an hour and a half later
I was coming out of class and he got a bottle of booze in his his hand and basically I helped
him get drunk.
Now I'm not saying that means that guy is a psychopath.
I really have no idea but that is the sort of thing they do where they'll have this story
that makes you feel guilty and you know what it makes you feel like I should give them
money or I'm a bad person and they're actually just ripping you off.
And you need to be very careful about not just trusting people's words because it is
possible that they are trying to rip you off.
They're just being a parasite.
You don't know if it's actually real or not.
I would say that in terms of our churches in the Philippines the biggest problem we've
had is with people being parasites trying to leech on to our churches to try to get
money from people to try to steal money from people.
And it was happening at the very beginning of our church with people that were not part
of our church and would just kind of try to come in and leech off us.
And it's still something that you know we deal with and you know what every church deals
with this where people try to just get money from them and just be a parasite off them.
And the way they do it is by making people feel guilty.
This is a common thing that people do at churches because people at church are generally going
to be nicer than outside the church and they're going to feel like they need to do this to
help somebody out but they could be getting ripped off.
Now I do want you to realize it is possible for someone to be a parasite that is actually
saved because Second Thessalonians chapter 3 talks about you know the horrible sin of
a guy who refuses to work and the result is that he becomes a busybody.
And Paul talks about the fact that he's heard of people not even working.
Working not at all.
And look that's a terrible testimony of a believer to say that you're unwilling to work
and then leech off other people when you're fully capable of working.
You say brother Stuckey I mean is this how do you know that this really you know fits
with psychopaths though?
Well biblically speaking Judas Iscariot is a great example.
Why did Judas spend so much time with Jesus Christ?
I mean he didn't believe he wasn't saved.
What's the purpose?
Well he kept the bag of money and he was even when it talked about you know the woman who
anointed Jesus Christ Judas basically you know criticizes her but not that he cared
but because he kept the money and he wanted the money and he was using Jesus to make money.
Same thing happens in churches today and Judas Iscariot was a greedy dog as the Bible says.
He was a reprobate.
He was a psychopath and the whole reason why he attached himself to Jesus Christ was simply
because he was a parasite.
It was basically his way to make money.
Obviously you see these Pentecostal preachers that are these con artists.
They fake healing people and you think how could someone actually do something like that?
Well it's because they're a parasite.
They don't care about anybody else and they will leech off other people and steal their
money.
The Bible speaks about yea they are greedy dogs which can never have enough and that's
in Isaiah 56.
It's referring to reprobates that are greedy.
They're covetous.
They're ripping people off.
Balaam you know was all about money.
That's what the Bible speaks about.
He was a false prophet.
So this is something that you definitely see with in the Bible when it comes to people
that are reprobates where they'll be parasites and use other people for their own financial
benefit, take advantage of people.
This is a common thing you see in churches but you know it's a very common thing that
you see in the world with psychopaths.
When you look at people that are serial killers or these Bernie Madoff types that financially
stole from lots of people they will lie and rip people off and take advantage of them
just to steal their money.
And what is it called?
It's called being a parasite.
So look if you meet people in this world who basically always have a sob story about why
things aren't working out and what our natural reaction is to believe people when they say
something and you oftentimes try to give them a chance and everything but when six months
go by and a year goes by and two years go by and they always have a reason.
They always have this special situation why they can't make it and life's not fair to
them and you know what it's probably a strong indication that they are just a parasite.
They're just a bad person trying to leech off of people and this is something that churches
need to be aware of in 2021 because you'll often see the bad people take advantage of
the good people and it's a sad thing but it is reality.
There are parasites out there and one of the big traits of being a psychopath is a parasitic
lifestyle.
People that are just always trying to leech off other people and take advantage of them
because they refuse to work themselves.
They refuse to make it on their own and they just want to rip other people off even though
they are fully capable of working on their own and providing their own needs.
Anyways, thank you and God bless.