Obey God rather than men

"Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you" (Lk:6:26), Jesus warned. Because man is under the influence of Satan, because he lives in Babylon, Satan's kingdom, he is in direct opposition to God's kingdom, all that is of God. So when unredeemed men speak well of us, we'd better do a check up. It was the false prophets who received the praise and honor of men. So when men praise us, when they befriend us, something's often wrong. "Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (James 4:4). He did say beware when ALL men speak well of you, when they seek to befriend you without changing their ways, without surrendering to Christ. It irks me to see so called "christian" leadership seeking to make peace with Muslims and others caught in a lie without ever rebuking them for their worship of false gods. We do not seek the praise of men but of God! We do seek to live peaceably with all men but not at the sacrafice of the Truth. Look at Romans 2:29 - "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart (he's embraced and entered into the New Covenant of the Blood of Jesus in the spirit and not just in letter), whose praise is NOT OF MEN BUT OF GOD". Don't we want to please God? We cannot please God and man at the same time. If we pleases one, the other will be offended. We should all be seeking God's praise and not man's. We should all be following the Apostle's example found in Acts - "Then Peter and the apostles answered and said - WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN" (Acts 5:29)./ I love the fact God says PETER AND THE APOSTLES, singling out Peter because He's so proud of him because he did have a problem with fear of man but he repented of it and overcame. This must become our mantra also, the very heartbeat of our walk with God. We must, in our heart of hearts, choose one or the other. I pray you choose God over man. If you choose God, he will teach you to love your fellow man in a manner that pleases him, not men. And when Satan comes to sift you like wheat, Jesus has already prayed for you and you will endure and overcome, just as Jesus did in the desert with his encounter with Satan.