80th Post Jesus on Eternal Life Con't - John 5: 39 - 40

John 5: 39 - 40 This passage is further rebuttal to the previous post and passage John 5: 24. The Jewish leaders were looking for ways they could have eternal life in the Scriptures, the way they were going about it was all wrong. They were looking for ways they could earn eternal life. They did not understand, what is required is a personal relationship with God by submitting your whole life to Him. The Jewish leaders were doing it all on their own understanding, not on understanding God. Before you start calling those people dumb, look at your relationship with God. We are the same as them, we tend to make the same mistakes. Why don't we help others who are in need? We say we don't want to get involved. God is jealous, He wants you, and all of you. Not just what of yourself you are ready to share. The Jewish leaders thought they were sinless. Since they were sinless, why did they need a Messiah? So they never looked for the Messiah to save them. This is why they did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. They instead searched the Scriptures and found all of the apocalyptic verses and studied only those, because they thought the Messiah was to come to throw the Romans out of Israel. Their own understanding again, not God's. Are you suffering from the same thing, trying to find God through your own understanding? Ask God to come into your heart and give you His understanding. He will ,if you will!