The aim of God, I know it sounds incredibly presumptuous to talk about the aim of God,

but this little book here called the Bible, this book is, I believe, the word of God from which I will take all of my insights and answers

tonight the God who inspired it what's he about in creating the universe what's he about in creating the universe? What's he about in running history the way he's

running it and sending his son into it? What's the point? Here's my answer to that.

God's aim or the aim of Jesus Christ or the aim of Christianity

is to maximize your pleasure and to magnify his greatness.

To maximize our pleasure,

and I'm thinking quantitatively,

to maximize our pleasure

qualitatively and quantitatively and to magnify

his son, Jesus Christ, and magnify is a tricky word because there are two ways to

magnify something with a magnifying glass or with a telescope or a telescope or

say a microscope or a telescope. They magnified exactly opposite ways. A

microscope magnifies by making little things look bigger than they are, so you can see them.

And a telescope magnifies by making huge things that look little to the naked eye look more like they really are.

It's very different.

A star looks little to the naked eye. It's very big. A telescope magnifies by making that

little thing to the naked eye look like what it really is.

Whereas a microscope takes a thing that really is teeny weeny

look like what it isn't, mainly bigger. Now if you do the the latter with God that is if you try to

magnify God with a microscope you blast me. You can't make God look bigger than he is or greater than he is.

He's always greater than we think he is, and our job is to try to see him for what he really

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