Most of the people in the world believe they will attain eternal life by accumulating religious credits.

Most of the world believes that.

The only people who don't are Christians.

The rest do.

They are deceived.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Imagine that you're standing at the gates of heaven,

and you're asked to hand over a resume.

That's right. In order to enter paradise, what if you had to spell out your qualifications for eternal life and for a place in heaven?

What would you put on your resume?

Today on Grace to You, John MacArthur is going to show you what a resume like that should not include,

as he looks at religious credentials that don't impress God.

It's part of John's current study titled The Road to Nowhere.

And now here is John MacArthur with the lesson.

Philippians chapter 3 and verse 4.

Paul writes, although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh, if anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more circumcised the eighth day of the nation

of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, as to the law of Pharisee, as to zeal,

a persecutor of the church, as to the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

But whatever things were gained to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

More than that, I count all things to be lost in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ

Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in

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