The great and ultimate goal of God in all of history and in all of history and in all of creation and in all of redemption is the exaltation and the

communication of his glory.

And yesterday we saw that there is a way of life

that does that. Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel. I argued that worthy of the gospel means living in such a way as to show that you esteem the gospel as infinitely worthy, infinitely valuable.

Your life reflects the infinite worth or value

of Christ and the cross and all that was achieved when he died and rose again.

And so the ultimate goal of God and the life that points to it.

And then we saw that this life of living

so that you show the gospel as valuable had two parts to it that Paul drew out in

verse 27 and 28 of chapter one and if you have a Bible I hope you'll open it. We're going to keep going into Chapter 3 in just a moment.

And those two things were the unity of love in the cause of the gospel and the fearlessness in the gospel

before adversaries. So we called it the fearless unity of love.

That's the life that is lived worthy of the gospel

or draws attention to the value of the gospel or draws attention to the value of the gospel in your life.

And then we saw three roots of that fearlessness and that unity and those were humility,

counting others more significant than yourself

and devoting yourselves to the lives, to the interest, to the welfare of others. Now, as we enter chapter 3, we encounter two obstacles or Paul encounters two obstacles to living this kind of life and even

being right with God so that he could make any headway at all in living this kind of life.

And Paul's not the only one that encounters these obstacles.

We're exactly like him in essence.

What are the obstacles?

We'll tell you what they are and then we'll read it and you'll see them for yourself.

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