3. Unity Through The Cross: When Humility Leads To Harmony (Phil. 2:1-18)
On December 13, 2003, the world was stunned by the news that U.S. soldiers had captured Saddam Hussein in Iraq. News agencies delighted in repeatedly showing pictures of this man being checked out by a doctor for head lice. The soldiers who captured him mockingly told him “President Bush sends his regards,” and the world laughed in derision. The man who once defied nations, who once lived in pompous extravagance, who once disposed of people like worthless animals, was displayed to the world, disheveled, dirty, and disgraced, hiding in a hole in the ground.