You know, don't just work to make yourself look good in front of men, that's what
someone that's a man pleaser would do. Work to make God look good. When you work hard, man,
at your jobs, you're making God look good. If they know you're a Christian and they know you work hard
and that they're going to look at you and go, hey, that guy believes in the Lord
and he's a hard worker. That's a good testimony. And when you when you work your, you know, work,
so work your daily job and do a good job for the fear of the Lord and not for the fear of man.
Now obviously you should fear your boss to a certain extent because they hold your job in
your hands, in our hands, right? So, but a man pleaser is this. A man pleaser is one who's
motive is to please men or the world rather than God. So instead of wanting to please God,
you want to please the man more than you want to please God. God's saying, hey, obey them because
I want you to please me. That pleases God when you work hard for your boss. So look at verse 23,
it says, and whatsoever you do, do it heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men. Okay. Very
important to get this. Whatsoever you think, whatsoever thing you do, whatever you're doing,
do it heartily with all your heart, right? As unto the Lord and not unto men because God
is making it very clear right here that he wants you to work like you're working for him because
you really are. Do your job as if you're doing it for God, all right? And this includes church work.
This includes church work. You know, at all places that we should, you know, do our best is in
church work, right? And look, there's physical things that have to be done around the church.
Not everything is a spiritual thing. Not everything is a spiritual application for us.
Sometimes when God says, hey, I want you to work, he really needs to pick something up
and work. Pick up that Coke can. Pick up the Dixie cups that are torn to pieces. You know,
pick clean up your pew, whatever it is that you're supposed to be doing. You know,
let's make God's house look good. You know, did Solomon's house look like, you know,
like a Dixie cup paradise when people, when the queen of Sheba came? No. It looked like, you know,
everything was in great order. She was super impressed with how the house of the Lord was
kept because they did a great job. Okay. All Solomon's servants, all Solomons. Everything
that was done was done so awesome that she was like, she had no spirit left in her. You know,
I didn't even put this in the verse, in my notes, but I mean, that's how impressed she was. And
that's how impressed people should be when they come to our church. They should be impressed with
the way our church looks and with the way our people work at our church. Okay.