Luke 7:11-23
You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Verse 14 says, "Then Jesus went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still." I want to take a strange twist on this text and for a little bit of time talk from the subject as the Holy Spirit shall lead and guide of, "I’m sick and tired of people pleasing!" "I’m Sick And Tired Of People Pleasing." I know you don’t understand it but stick with me cause i’m going somewhere. Jesus was a radical man of God. Jesus was the kinda brotha that would always do the wild & unexpected. Jesus was the kind of guy that was always going against the grain of what others always thought he should do. He was different. He didn’t feel the need to fit in with everybody else, to be popular, to be accepted by others. He didn’t suffer from low self esteem or self worth, or feel like he had to "Be a part of." Yes, Jesus was radical, he was different, and he was secure about himself and who he was. He didn’t feel the need to people please, but he felt the need to please his Heaveanly Father. He did the unpopular, hard things, and he was not really liked by many at all. Even his own disciples forsook him but he still did what he had to do to please the father. He kept it real. Yeah, Jesus was a "Real" brother who didn’t switch up, front, or stunt for anybody. He wasn’t fake, he wasn’t phony, but he was real!!! Somebody oughta shout real!!!
And my Brothers and my Sisters, that’s our problem today. That’s our problem. We, we spend far too much time trying to please everybody else, that we lose ourselves and our identities with God. I think I need to say that again. We spend so much time trying to please everybody else, that we lose our self identity and our identity with God. Awww somebody help me up in here. You don’t even like baggy Tommy Hilfiger jeans, but you wear them to please everybody else, because that’s what’s "In". You don’t like looking like a yo boy, but you do it any way to fit in. You can’t even afford the highest, newest, most popular cars, jewelry, or fashion, but you’ll break your neck and go bankrupt trying to fit in. And just as soon as you obtain that new trendy car, fad, or fashion, ohhhh baby, the trend changes, y’all ain’t likin’ me up in here!!!!! You’re sooo busy trying to make your boss happy and breaking your neck working overtime but it’s never good enough, so busy trying to make your husband or your wife happy by giving in to thier every little need, Trying to make your children happy, your mother happy, your father happy,your girlfriend, your boyfriend, all in the name of acceptance, but what I wanna know is, what are you doing to please the God you say you serve???!!!!!!!
Ohhhhh, we want so badly to fit in, not realizing that we’ll really never fit in, because this is not our eternal home. And the real problem with people-pleasing is that people’s expectations are always changing, they’re fickle and they’re wishy washy, and so just when it seems like you’ve reached a person’s expectations, their bar of excellence just moves up a little higher, so that the truth of the matter is that you will never be able to please people, because people are always changing, can I get a witness up in here? But how many people know that God’s expectations never change, they are the same yesterday, today, and, and forevermore. "I am the Lord your God and I changest not!" Y’all ain’t hearing me. People can be so phony & so fake, frontin’ & stuntin’ all of the time, What you need is somebody, just one body, who is committed to keeping it real with you no matter what! I’m tired of fakeness & phoniness, tired of fronters & stunters, I wish I had somebody up in here, who wanted somebody to just be real!!!!!!!! People pleasing puts you in bondage, because you’ll always be competing against them and trying to be all that they want you to be. People pleasing puts you in bondage because as long as you’re not living up to thier standards, you’ll feel low about yourself, you’ll havw no self esteem or worth, and people pleasing puts you in bondage because it makes you insecure. Yeah, it makes you insecure.
So what are the keys to deliverance from people pleasing? Well the first thing is that people pleasing causes you to be insecure. It causes you to be insecure. Because as long as you’re not meeting up to thier standards you’ll keep on feeling like you’re a nothing & a nobody, like you’re a failure, like you can’t do anything right. One of the benefits of being delivered from people pleasing is that you won’t be insecure about yourself anymore. Because you’ll know who you are in God and when you know who you are in God you can begin to live up to his standards and not some standards and expectations of medocrity. Then you can begin to live out and walk in your life’s purpose. Jesua was secure about who he was. He knew who he was and what was his life purpose. Ohh, you don’t believe me?? Look at the text, Luke chapter 7, verses 20 through 22. John sent some to ask Jesus, "Are you the one who was to come? Or should we expect somebody else?" And notice Jesus keeps on doing what he was doing and then he says, "Now go back and report what you have seen or heard." Jesus was so secure in himself, that even when questioned he kept on doing what he was doing. He didn’t have to stop and doubt or think twice, it was natural!!!!! Jesus was secure of himself!!!! And that’s what will happen when you stop people pleasing.
But not only that, when you stop people pleasing you’ll start breaking the rules of others, but not breaking the rules of God. Awww, I need to say that again because I don’t think that you all got it. When you stop people pleasing you’ll start breaking the rules of others, but not the rules of God! Can I make it plain for you, ha, look here in the text ha, down around verse number 14. It says that "Jesus went up and touched the coffin". Now any of y’all Bible scholars know, ha, that Jesus was a priest, a minister, a man of God, and Leviticus 21:11 says, "That a Priest must not enter the home of nor touch the body of a dead man." Well if you look at the text, Jesus went on and did it anyway, ha, but notice he didn’t touch a dead body, ha, he touched the coffin, ha, i’m going somewhere stick with me, ha, the dead man wasn’t in a house, ha, but the text says that the body was being carried out of the city", ha, can I help somebody right now, ha, a lot of our problem is in how we interperet things, ha, how we percieve things, ha, our perception is all jakked up, ha, we wanna see things ha, the way we wanna see em’, ha, and not how God sees them, ha, Jesus mighta done wrong, ha, by the interperation of man, ha, but he did right,. ha by his father, ha. He broke man’s rules ha, but he did it ha, to please, ha, the father, ha, I feel deliverance in here, ha, I’ve got one more point, and then i’m getting up outta here, ha, i’m not preaching long today, ha, but i’m trying to help get somebody delivered, ha,
not only will you not be insecure no more, ha, not only ha, will you start breaking some rules ha, but I just want to encourage you, ha, once you get delivered ha, and set free from people, ha, and you figure out, ha, your purpose, ha, just keep on doing, ha, what you’re doing for the Lord, ha, NO MATTER what, ha, look at the text ha, Jesus, ha, in verses 21-23, ha, was questioned by the disciples ha, but he kept on going on ha, and didn’t let ha, what people said effect him ha, keep on ha, going on ha, keep on, ha, trucking on ha, anyhow, and don’t let what people say ha, or people do ha, deter you ha, but you just keep on preassing ha, keep on moving ha, keep on going ha, higher, ha, well now, ha, I feel like having church, ha, i’ll come back and preach on next week, ha, but I feel like having church ha, on this week, ha, i’m going back to my seat, ha, but can I keep it real for a minute? ha, God wants to take you, ha, to another level ha, but as looooonnnnnggg, ha, as you keep trying to please people, ha, and not God, ha, you’ll never make it! ha, Can I get a witness, ha, and so after tonight, ha, somebody, ha, is gonna be deliveredc ha, from people pleasing, ha, somebody, ha, is going to be released ha, from the bondage ha, of others, ha, somebody ha, is gonna have a new outlook ha, on life, ha, and the things that used to matter, ha, just won’t matter no more, ha, somebody, ha, is going to be delivered ha, from themselves ha, because the truth be told ha, that a lot of us ha, are in bondage ha, because of our own ha, way of thinking ha, but that’s another sermon ha, maybe i’ll preach that, ha, on next week, ha, but this week ha, as I go on home ha, I just wanna encourage you, ha, you don’t have to people-please ha, any more ha, you don’t have to live up to anybody’s expectations ha, anymore, ha, you don’t have to fail ha, any more, ha, just please God, ha, and stop trying to fit in ha, with everybody else, ha, and I came I came I came ha, to speak deliverance ha, in to your life ha, to break chains ha, and break yokes ha, so that people may be ha, set free!!!!!!! Ha, so I dare I dare I dare ya, ha, put your hand ha, over your head ha, lay hands ha, on your own self ha, you don’t need me to do it ha, this is personal, ha, and say "After tonight ha, I will no longer ha, be subject ha, to other people’s ha, expectations ha, I’ll no longer ha, be held captive ha, by somebody else’s standards ha, no one but God, ha, has power over me, I am somebody ha, and I REFUSE ha, to live under a lie and a fantasy anymore ha, just to fulfill ha, your standards ha, I’M FREE!!!!!!! ha, I’M FREEEE!!!!!!!!!!! IM FREEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Im FREEE!!!!!!! IM FREE!!!!!!! Ha, shout halellujiah!!!!!!!!! I dare you ha, to go on home ha, tell that boss ha, that husband ha, that wife ha, those children ha, those parents ha, that preacher ha, that boy friend ha, that girlfriend ha, whoever, ha NO MORE!!!!!!!! ha, NO MORE!!!!!!! ha, THE BUCK STOPS HERE!!!!!!!! AND IF YOU CAN’T GET ME, HA, TO FOLLOW GOD’S RULES ha, TO GET ME CLOSER TO GOD, HA, TO HELLLLLLL WITH YOU, HA, I’M SICK & TIRED OF YOU, HA, HAVING CONTROL OVER ME, HA< TRYING TO RUN HA, MY LIFE, HA, SO GOD BLESS YA, HA, BUT SOMETIMES, HA<, YOU’VE GOT TO GIVE HA, SOME NEGROES HA, THE BENEDICTION, HA, SO DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU, HA, WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YOU!!!!!!! I DARE YOU TO BLESS HIM!!!!! I DARE YOU!!!!!!! I DARE YOU!!!!!!!! YOU’RE FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! YOU’RE FREEEEE!!!!!!!!! Ha, AND "WHOM THE SUN SETS FREE, HA, IS FREE INDEED!!!!!!!!!! Ha, I DARE YOU TO BLESS HIM!!!!! HA, I DARE YOU!!!!! I DARE YOU!!!!!!! HA, SSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOUUUUUUUUTTTTTTT GGGGGGGGLLLLLOOOORRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m done... I’m done. But some of y’all need to stop allowing people to control you. And then not only that, but get out of your own way! Two of the greatest deliverences you can experience in life. One is from people. Two is, is from yourself. I said from yourself. Ha ha. I’m done. I’m closing the book. You may be here todasy...
