05/19/24 EXTREMELY INORDINATE

05/19/24 EXTREMELY INORDINATE

I have seen people become so thoroughly self centered, so full of pride (inordinate self esteem) that I thought they might need medical help.

Sin can take you to the point that you need medical help. When a person does not listen to the word of God, they open themselves up to demonic and emotional and mental delusion. Medical help does not save from sin or deliver from demons, but when a person loses their mental faculties they might need some specialized help to get to a place they can make right choices.

Another problem is that the totally deluded might need medical help to convince them that they are abnormal and need to make a drastic change.

Narcissism (extreme pride, arrogance, self-contentedness) is an example of a person who might benefit from medical and/or psychological consultation. Remember, I am not approving of any humanistic psychology as a substitute for faith in Christ. An alcoholic, a pedophile, a kleptomaniac, an habitual liar, a pyromaniac or anyone who has sinned so completely that they have lost control of their natural faculties may need specialized medical treatment or counsel.

Sadly, by the time a person gets to this level of delusion they are almost unreachable by any means.

A person does not get to such an extreme state of mind over night, unless it was the result of a physical brain injury or a chemically induced condition. However, sin and rejection of truth as well as demon activity can lead to a state of a "mental breakdown," as in the case of Nebuchadnezzar, and the demoniacs of the New Testament.

Medical treatment, psychiatry and psychology are not the answers to spiritual problems. But when the spiritual problems have resulted in medical, mental and emotional disasters, then the victim might need such help as a last resort, in order to bring them to a point that they can actually reason on a normal level.

Yes, I know this is much more complicated than this short article addresses. However, it should serve as a warning to people, not to let their spiritual problems take control of their lives, because getting your life back in control may take more than a simple prayer and faith. Consider what many folks have had to go through, when their extremism took control; such as legal action or mental and emotional and medicinal therapy.

Don't play with God. It will not turn out well.

RESPONSE to "REPLY."
Yes, good point .... We are accustomed to the idea of drug addictions needing to be dealt with through natural means. Those addictions lead to mental, emotional, personality and social problems.

And, it works the other way around. Both aspects can stem from spiritual needs, but when it is an emotional, personality, filthiness of the spirit (rather than a filthiness of the flesh) it usually flies beneath the medical, medicinal radar.

Sin is a spiritual malady, but since we are psycho/physical totalities sin impacts the whole person, at different levels, and the answer to these problems is a right relationship with God, through Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:17-7:1
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.