00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 15th of October 2015 titled Man Pleaser or God Pleaser. Man Pleaser or God Pleaser? Brothers and sisters, this is a very critical issue because we live day to
day, we live among people, we work with people, we do things. And we are not supposed to go and hide away somewhere and all.

00:28 You know, sometimes people say the end of the world is coming. And some groups, you know, take them to the mountains and stay there and then finally find out this has happened over the years. Then they stay there and then they find the end of the
year didn’t come and then the end of the world didn’t come and then they break up.

00:43 And then all kinds of problems goes on in such groups whereby they begin to say it must go and live away. Now Jesus says this, we are in the world, but we are not of this world. Those followers of Jesus Christ must understand that we are still in
the world, but we are not followers of this world.

01:02 We are not of this world means we are not part of this world. We must be within people. Otherwise, how to minister, how to bring the goodness of Jesus Christ to everybody cannot be.

01:15 You have to mix with people. Brothers and sisters, do not run away and hide away anywhere and be a small group or whatever, because Jesus wants us to go and meet people and tell them about Jesus. But of course, wisely, there are certain rules there.

01:30 For instance, do not throw pearls to swines in case they trample on the pearl, turn around and tear you to pieces. So you have to hear the word of God. You have to hear the voice of God.

01:44 The spirit of God must move you. You must be led by the spirit of God. Brothers and sisters, today the issue is men pleaser or God pleaser.

01:51 And this is critical why we get under pressure. Children get under peer pressure. They’ll say in schools, in colleges, if the boy, after a certain age, they don’t smoke, then finish, the other fellows will shun the boy and all that.

02:06 The boy will start smoking because peer pressure with these girls, they don’t hide. And you know, they suddenly, you know, teenage girls, suddenly they bring their school uniform. They hide the outside clothes in the back or even put the school
uniform over their outside clothes.

02:27 And then they skip classes, take away the school uniform and run away and go to city mass and go and loiter around with boys and all that. And if they some girl, your child doesn’t want to do that, there’ll be peer pressure, serious peer pressure.
And finally the child end up Doing it.

02:43 And the child, the girl, this girl child been tormented, torn between right and wrong, right and wrong. She. That is why we have to watch our children when they come back from school, have some chat, have a word with them, have discussion and see
their countenance.

03:02 Is the countenance all right? If the countenance suddenly a bubbly boy, a bubbly girl, suddenly goes quiet for a few days, then you begin to understand something is going wrong. So, brothers and sisters, there is this effort. There is effort.

03:17 And you yourself may be tired and finished and fatigued and exhausted and enough pressure in the office and all that. And you tell yourself how to do this. How do I come back and do this thing now I have to watch over my children.

03:32 You may be a working mom and then come back and take care of the home. How do you do this? By the grace and mercy of Christ, we can do this. We can do this.

03:43 We have to do this. Brothers and sisters, if we do not do this, we will suffer later because here we endure. We endure and look after our children.

03:54 Otherwise we will suffer because the devil will steal the children. The whole world is now under the sway of Satan. That means Satan influences the world.

04:04 And our children go to school. They are part of the world. So.

04:08 But we do, when we come back, we watch and we guide, we teach, we pray with them. We pray casting out everything, even in your office, you quickly can take time. If you don’t have a room, you quickly go out, maybe in the park, in the lunch hour, and
cast out everything in the name of Jesus Christ out of our children.

04:27 Brothers and sisters, this is very critical. That is why our Christian children also suffering because of pressures, fear, pressure so much these days. And then finally from smoke, from cigarettes, they end up with drugs and all that goes on.

04:42 I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Mercy for us, Lord. Mercy that each of our persons who are listening to this will take up the cross, deny themselves and pick up the cross.

04:55 The cross is. We deny ourselves, deny our flesh, crucify our flesh in the name of Jesus Christ and begin to do what is necessary. Your grace and mercy, Lord, I release your grace and mercy and strength into each of us to be able to live this life
day to day, pleasing to you, pleasing to you, which keeps us safe.

05:15 In the name of Jesus Christ. I pray now, brothers and sisters, this question of man pleasing or God pleasing is an important question. Colossians 3, 22, 25.

05:25 I’m reading from the Amplified Bible now. The Amplified Bible. There are two Amplified Bibles in the Bible Gateway.

05:33 One is Amplified Bible, the other one is classic edition. Today I am reading from the classic edition. 22 Colossians 3.

05:40 22. Servants, obey in everything, those who are your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you as pleasers of men, but in simplicity of purpose, with all your heart, because of your reverence for the Lord and as a sincere expression of
your devotion to Him. Now, when the Bible says obey in everything, means of course it’s understood, obey in everything that is right.

06:08 When your earthly masters ask you to do wrong, you cannot obey because your obedience first is to Christ, to God Almighty, to His Word. But here now, servants obey in everything, those who are your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on
you as pleasers of men. Men pleasers.

06:26 That means when they’re looking at us, we do. When they’re looking at us, we do. When they don’t look at us.

06:32 I worked in the world before, you know, before I’m a pastor, I worked in corporate appointments, senior corporate appointments, and ran my own business later. And we find these people when you’re looking. Oh, people, fantastic.

06:49 Put on a big show when the boss is not looking. These people will just do one thing and do all kind of rubbish. But you will not do that.

06:56 God is saying you, when the boss is looking, are not looking. You will do, complete with the simplicity of purpose, with all your heart because of your reverence for the Lord. You revere our Lord.

07:08 We reverence our Lord, awe and reverence for our God. He suffered for me, died on the cross and rose for me. Took my sins away and gave me power over Satan, gave me power over even my heart and mind.

07:20 He gave me power because I. In his name, in his name, name, I can command my heart and mind. Therefore I will work full, whether my boss is looking or not. I will work full out of reverence for my God, for my Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

07:36 Now, reverence. Many Bibles will use it. That’s why I use the classic today, because they use the word because of your fear for the Lord.

07:44 And this has created a lot of misunderstanding. The fear for the Lord is actually reverence of the Lord. Reverence for the Lord.

07:52 Fear. God says what? There’s no love in fear. But perfect love has no fear.

08:00 We love him. We are not afraid of it. When he chastises us, we are not afraid.

08:06 It’s punishment. We welcome his chastisement because his chastisement is not burdensome and all that. We just do his commands and he gives us power.

08:16 Yes. What we sow we will reap and all that. But then he will not allow his children to be condemned.

08:24 We are his children. We are the apple of his eye in the palm of his hand. So whenever he chastises so we are not afraid of our God.

08:32 We are not fear of God in the sense that the world fears punishment and this and that. We fear our God because that is reverence for reverence. I don’t want to grieve my Jesus Christ anymore.

08:42 I don’t want to grieve the Holy Spirit anymore. Brothers and sisters, this is the important thing you have to remember now in 23 whatever may be your task, work at it heartily from the soul as something done for the Lord, not for men. 24 knowing
with all certainty, or all certainty, knowing with all certainty that it is from the Lord and not from men, that you will receive the inheritance.

09:14 25 for he who deals wrongfully will reap the fruit of his folly and be punished for his wrongdoing. There is no partiality with God, no matter what a person’s position may be, whether he is a slave or master. God Almighty, Jesus Christ, the Son of
the living God also is one in God.

09:33 God, Father, and He are one. They don’t show partialty. They don’t take sides.

09:38 They are just fair brothers and sisters, this scripture is important. Now you may understand. There is a reward also.

09:45 There are many rewards. I attached so many other scriptures today. Galatians 1:10 for do I now persuade men or God? Apostle Paul asking, do I now Galatians 1:10 for do I now persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men? For if I yet please men, I
should not be the servant of Christ.

10:05 As servants of Christ we are not here to please men. We are not men pleasers. We want to help, take care, support, serve everybody, care for them, love them.

10:17 But when it comes to make a decision, when something you have to do what the man wants, you can only do what God wants. If it’s different, what the man wants is opposite to what God wants. You cannot do what man wants.

10:31 That’s a man pleasers. Do not be a man pleaser. God says, be a God pleaser.

10:36 And when you are a God pleaser, Proverbs 16:7 says, When a man’s ways pleases the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. One benefit, can you imagine? One powerful benefit. Even though the man may say, do this, do this, do this,
and you don’t want to do this.

10:53 And because you know your God is not going to be happy with this. You’re not going to please Jesus Christ. You say, sorry, sir, I cannot do this because I’ve taken an oath.

11:01 I’ve taken an oath with Jesus Christ, the son of the living God. I’ve taken an oath with my father God that I will not do this. And if I do this, I will be cursed.

11:12 That’s how I get out of this. 20 years now I get out of this. How do I get out of this? When people ask me to do something, I will tell them the truth.

11:23 The truth is I have made a covenant with Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The truth is this is the oath, a covenant I’ve taken. Now, because of the covenant, if I do things that are wrong, I told God I do not want to do anything that’s wrong anymore.

11:37 That’s covenanted. We follow Jesus Christ. We do what Jesus Christ tells us.

11:42 Now sir, if I do this, then not only will be cursed, Almighty God will take the curses will move to everybody. That is why first of all, I shouldn’t do this because I don’t want to be cursed. And two, I don’t want the curse to move on, to pass to
other people.

11:59 Those who told me to do also will be cursed. No need, sir. I cannot do this.

12:03 If I do this, not only I will be cursed, others will be cursed. So I don’t want this and I don’t be cursed. So I took this covenant.

12:09 I took this oath with Jesus Christ. Now it has worked them, brothers and sisters, they’re telling the truth. This is the truth.

12:16 I took a covenant now and the curse is true. What you sow will reap. I’ll be cursed.

12:22 And the curse moves on. And God said, offenses will come. But woe to the one who brings the offenses.

12:28 The person who brings you the temptation. Woe to the one he says. So the curse will move there also.

12:33 So you begin to tell this to get out of this problem. Now, there are many instances. For instance, let’s say you’re working somewhere and the boss wants you to fix the books.

12:42 That means put false entries in the books because you’re an accounts person or whatever you cannot do. Then you will be cursed and they will be cursed. So you will say sorry.

12:53 Humble. Humble. Humble, brothers and sisters.

12:55 Humble, Humble, you say? Sorry sir, I took a covenant. I cannot do all this. If I do all this, I will be cursed.

13:02 And then the curse also will move on to others. Please, sir. Now what God says, when you do what is pleasing to the Lord, he will make his enemies to be at peace.

13:12 With you. I have seen it repeatedly when people in the congregation, I tell them, when they come for counseling and they say this is the problem. And I tell them go and do like this, depending on Jesus Christ.

13:21 Your faith in Jesus Christ, not in the faith in me. I’m just counseling, thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And then they go and follow.

13:29 They find the bosses change, they let them go. Now there are other instances. For instance, a wife, husband is a drunkard.

13:39 This happens. These are cases when I’m doing these cases, they all actually over the period of time I’ve come across this. And there are people who are listening this, they will witness to this because they are, some of them are actually were
affected with this.

13:50 The husband wants to drink, drink, drink. And then these wives only working, you know, the husbands are because jobless and all because they have been addicted with drunkenness. Now I’m not condemning anybody.

14:01 I was a drunkard myself. So now when they go and ask the wife money, the money, wife gives money because she’s afraid the husband may shout and angry or violence or whatever, or just fear, just fear, you know what they will think. And then she gives
the money.

14:20 Finally there are several women over the years, I have to tell them, sorry, sister, if you trust Jesus Christ, you will not give. Because why, when you come to Jesus Christ, you surrendered all. You surrendered all and everything owned by Jesus
Christ.

14:36 And actually, whether we surrender or not, we know everything is owned by Jesus Christ. Everything was made by him, through him and for him. And then of course, it’s a struggle for these sisters.

14:46 Struggle, of course I understand. Then they say, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus. And say, I cannot give you because you’re only harming yourself.

14:50 I cannot give you this money. But they don’t go to, I now follow Jesus Christ. Everything belongs to Jesus Christ.

15:01 So I will not give you money. Now some sisters without understanding the scriptures and I did this and got even more trouble. Don’t be humble.

15:10 Then of course, thank Jesus Christ they changed. Be humble and say, sorry, I cannot give you. You’re only harming yourself.

15:17 I don’t know, I cannot let you harm yourself. And I also be accountable to God for letting you harm yourself. So I cannot.

15:24 Then of course some hoo ha will take place. But you hold on to the faith in Jesus Christ and then the thing will pass. And finally you find that you have become more and more bold in pleasing God.

15:36 Not man pleaser, God pleaser. Now take other issues. A son, a mother, maybe a single mom, throwing tantrums, throwing tantrums and she gives in.

15:48 Gives in, Gives in. Why? She fears this boy because he’s a teenager, big fellow. After a while when she counsel no, you have to stand in faith in Christ.

15:57 Then when she begins to do that, then she begins to find. She gets boldness. And that boy also changes.

16:04 The sun changes then. Otherwise it will not change. It will get worse and worse.

16:08 Brothers and sisters, let’s be God pleasers today, not men pleasers. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every spirit that making us please men get out of us in Jesus name. Get up.

16:20 Get up. Now sisters, the same thing. Sisters working for some company and then they’re telling you oh, dress like this, come to this function, come to the evening, entertain my clients.

16:30 Sisters cannot. Because you will end up pleasing man but not pleasing God. You actually end up into sin.

16:36 Sisters, please. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every pleasing of man spirit. Get out.

16:38 In the name of Jesus Christ. And I release every spirit of us, every portion, every cell of our being to please God Almighty. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray.

16:52 Amen.