07.10.22 What Keeps People from Jesus John 5:30-47

John 5:30-47
Sunday, 7/10/22

What keeps people from Jesus…
1.  Desiring to do what I want v.30
2.  Growing tired of hearing people witness v.31-35
3.  Not accepting the valid work of Jesus v.36
4.  Being religious which is worthless v.37-40
Galatians 1:13-14, “For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.  I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.”
Philippians 3:4, “If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:  circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.”
Philippians 3:7, “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ.”
5.  Trusting the word of man over the word of God v.41-47