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SERMON TWENTY-SIX
THE RACE AND THE GOAL
This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, _and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize. —PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14 —
THE APOSTLE here is letting us see the secret of his own life and telling us what made him the sort of Christian that he was. He counsels wise ee concentration; and these are ms cess in any field of life.
I. MAKE GOD'S AIM YOUR AIM.
A. The Example of Paul.
1. The testimony of the immediate context. He regards the aim toward. which he strains as being the aim which Christ had in view in his conversion (Verses 12, 13b).
2. The summary of the teaching of the immediate context. He took God's purpose in calling and Christ's purpose in redeeming him as being his great object in life. God's aim and Paul's were identical.
B. God's Aim.
1. The aim stated. What, then, is the aim of God in all that He has done for us? The production in us of godlike and God-pleasing character.