One of the most dangerous traps we sinners can fall into is to think about God, to relate to God, or to speak to God as if he were the creature and we were the Almighty. It is exactly this sort of attitude that Jesus confronts in John 5:31-47. In this passage, Jesus explains two actions that are rightly performed by the Deity toward his creatures but must never performed by creatures toward the Deity.
John 5:34, “I do not receive testimony from man.”
John 5:41, “I do not receive glory from men.”
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