Let me begin by reviewing yesterday's message.

A preaching I said was the heralding of good news by a person or messenger sent by God.

The good news that God reigns, that He reigns to reveal his glory, that His glory is

revealed most fully in the glad submission of his creation and that

someday the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord echoing and reverberating in the glad submission of a redeemed

people, a ransom church from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

And perhaps the nub of the good news was that there is no final

conflict between God's goal to be glorified and my goal and your goal to be satisfied.

And the goal of preaching is both of those

because they are united in the response of faith and worship. The goal of preaching is the glory of God reflected in the glad submission of his people. Now today there are two massive obstacles standing in the way

of the achievement of this goal. One is the pride of man,

and another is the righteousness of God.

The righteousness of God is his unwavering zeal for the exaltation of his name or his glory,

and the pride of man is his unwavering zeal for the exultation of his glory.

I hope it doesn't surprise you that what in God is righteousness in man is sin.

This is the very point of Genesis 3, I think,

that sin came into the world through a tempter, and the essence of that temptation was,

you will be like God. The imitation of God on this point is the essence of evil.

Our parents fell for it.

In them we have all fallen for it. Now it is part of our nature and therefore every one of us, by nature, takes the image of God in us, which is intended to mirror

like reflect his glory,

we turn with it with our backs to the light of his glory,

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