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I want to start off by asking a question.

What is the ambition of God? What is the great ambition that God has?

What is his desire? You know, we're taught in Western culture especially that our desires, our

passions, our ambitions, our dreams. We're taught that that's very important i mean you can go down to any bookstore or get on amazon and some of the top books that are for sale right now have to do with you accomplishing your desires dreams and ambitions and there's nothing wrong with that there's a place for it and we know that god put that inside of us as as believers we know And there's nothing wrong with that. There's a place for it. And we know that God

put that inside of us as believers we know. So there's nothing wrong with that, but how many

understand if we, if we disattach that or are not attached to the ambition of God, then all of that

means nothing. And so I think it's a good question for us to ask is what is the ambition of God?

What is he ambitious about?

What does he want?

I want you to imagine with me, let's go back in time to where there was no time.

And God was sitting there or floating.

We're not sure what God was doing, but he was there.

And he was sitting in darkness and void and empty.

There was nothing in existence that we're aware of.

And he's just sitting there.

And, you know, you can't, I don't know how this works with God, but he had an idea.

Now, I actually think it wasn't just on a whim. I actually think

God was stewing on this for some time, although you can't say time yet because time wasn't created.

But God was stewing over this idea of creation. And I want you to imagine with me in the emptiness,

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