How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?
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… How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? That's a rhetorical question. You know what we do with rhetorical questions, right? Rhetorical questions don't have an answer stated because the answer is so easy. They expect you to give the answer. What's the answer? how can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from God? And the answer is you can't. How can you? You can't. As long as you think that the Messiah that Moses is hoping for supports your love affair with the praise of man, you won't ever know Moses and you won't ever know me. Moses will be a closed book and I will be a closed book. Ben Sasse said to the unbeliever, come join me in learning that the book of Romans and my cancer are mercifully intended by God to put a dagger through the heart of my self- idolatry, my love affair, with your praise, which belongs to God. And I want it! I want it! …
… two masters. You cannot serve two masters. Second, they don't believe because they lived to please man. They lived for the praise and approval of other people. This is John chapter 5, verses 43 to 44. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God. Why do people hate and reject Jesus? Because they live for the glory and praise of man. they care too much what other people thought of them. and they knew that it would cost them dearly. It would cost them socially to get into the boat with Jesus. They knew that. The reputation and the approval that they'd worked so hard to earn and build, it would be gone. And that vanity, that me-worship, that blinded them to Jesus. They loved what they saw in the mirror so much that they could not see the Messiah. …
… This morning we're in the fifth chapter of that gospel, beginning at verse 31, reading through verse 47. John chapter 5, verses 31 through 47. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another who bears witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. But I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in His light. But I have a greater witness than John's, for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the very works that I do bear witness of Me that the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself who sent Me has testified of Me. And you have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. But you do not have His Word abiding in you, because whom He sent, him you do not believe. …