#347 – Don't Glory in Others (John 5:44–45)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

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Summary

We must value obedience to God more than the applause of men. Glorying in our Redeemer far surpasses the praise of men.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	John chapter 5 verses and 45.
0:10.0	How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
0:20.0	What a penetrating verse?
0:23.0	As Jesus speaks to a group of religious leaders who were not believing in him,
0:30.0	and he says to them the reason why what's keeping you from belief is you're seeking glory from people
0:38.6	instead of seeking glory from God.
0:51.1	I read this and I am so convicted of my desires for the applause of men, for others to think well of me.
0:57.2	We saw this sum in John Chapter 3 and I just see it again in John 5, I it in my own life I'm guessing I'm not alone in this
1:06.2	that we we oftentimes think a lot about what other people think about us.
1:15.0	As if that's what ultimately matters, that actually keeps us
1:20.0	from experiencing what God is designed in our relationship with Him.
1:24.7	We are intended to live with an eye fixed on Him.
1:28.9	His desires for us, his pleasure in us, which praise God is sealed by the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf.
1:39.5	We've been accepted before God.
1:41.5	He's called us his children as we saw in John 1. So we live for him alone.
1:47.0	Why would we live for anybody else? Sure, like live for others in the sense of wanting to love others and wanting to point others to God.
1:55.6	But in that our concern is not what they think about us.
1:58.8	Our concern is what they think about God.
2:00.7	Like we are intended to live with eyes fixed on the glory of God, not on glory that comes from people.
2:12.3	So God help us, we pray. I think about even what you said
2:16.1	oh Jesus when you were talking to these religious leaders and they were they were
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