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[4892.02 --> 4892.56] The first one?
[4894.02 --> 4895.96] So that's hard to see and make sense of.
[4895.98 --> 4896.76] And that's kind of the point.
[4897.88 --> 4899.92] But there's dots there.
[4901.16 --> 4904.50] Those dots on their own aren't that impressive.
[4904.50 --> 4908.28] But when you zoom out.
[4908.38 --> 4909.18] Show us the next one.
[4911.00 --> 4916.54] Those dots come together to paint a beautiful picture.
[4916.72 --> 4920.78] This is a painting called A Sunday on Le Grand Yat.
[4920.84 --> 4925.42] It's by French painter from the 19th century named Georges Serrat.
[4925.42 --> 4927.98] And the art form is called pointillism.
[4929.22 --> 4933.32] So everything you see there is an individual dot.
[4934.32 --> 4937.26] That comes together to make a picture.
[4938.92 --> 4939.46] Right?
[4939.60 --> 4942.02] That's what's happening when the church gathers.
[4942.14 --> 4946.06] And sometimes it's hard for us to see how our little dot matters.
[4946.06 --> 4954.28] But in the whole picture, even angels are astounded by what is taking place here.
[4956.54 --> 4958.10] That's why we gather.
[4960.26 --> 4967.64] And then let's lastly look at 2 Corinthians 3.18.
[4969.44 --> 4970.80] There we read.
[4970.80 --> 4995.80] As we land this together, here's the last thing I want us to see about why we must gather.
[4995.80 --> 5002.40] Because, you see, the local church is an embassy of the high king.
[5004.22 --> 5007.16] The local church is an embassy of the high king.
[5007.24 --> 5011.26] Now, maybe you're not familiar with how embassies in different countries work.
[5014.44 --> 5020.60] If you visit an embassy, the simple understanding is that when you enter the property of the embassy,
[5020.76 --> 5022.56] so say you're visiting the embassy in Canada,
[5022.56 --> 5026.14] as soon as you cross the property line, you are on Canadian soil.
[5027.50 --> 5029.24] Now, it's a little bit more complicated than that.
[5029.34 --> 5033.56] And behind it is the principle of involliability.
[5034.88 --> 5035.98] Now, that's a complicated word.
[5036.04 --> 5040.02] But what it means is the host country cannot interfere with them
[5040.02 --> 5043.08] or take legal action against the embassy or its personnel
[5043.08 --> 5047.50] in the same way that they can in local institutions or in their own land.
[5047.50 --> 5055.12] Part of why we gather how the church functions as a local embassy of the high king
[5055.12 --> 5059.16] is that here in this space and in this place as a church,
[5059.32 --> 5061.00] which is a body together,
[5062.00 --> 5067.18] you are protected from the powers and principalities of this world.
[5067.94 --> 5072.92] This is holy ground where the kingdom of heaven has broken in
[5072.92 --> 5076.48] and redefined the very world you live in.
[5078.10 --> 5078.90] Jesus says,
[5079.04 --> 5081.46] where two or three are gathered in my name,
[5081.82 --> 5083.06] there I am among them.
[5083.36 --> 5087.32] Now, he's picking up on a long Jewish tradition
[5087.32 --> 5091.10] of needing two or three witnesses to establish the truth of something.
[5091.86 --> 5094.80] But the witnesses who establish the truth of something
[5094.80 --> 5098.26] here are establishing the truth that Jesus is among us.
[5098.56 --> 5099.64] The king is here.
[5099.64 --> 5105.38] We gather because he is here and he has called us to this place.
[5105.52 --> 5106.40] The king who has said,
[5106.74 --> 5109.54] all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
[5110.26 --> 5114.20] The king who we read in Colossians is the image of the invisible God,
[5114.30 --> 5116.24] the firstborn over all creation.
[5116.40 --> 5117.24] For by him,
[5117.34 --> 5119.62] all things were created in heaven and on earth,
[5119.72 --> 5120.70] visible and invisible,
[5120.98 --> 5123.62] whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities.
[5123.94 --> 5127.38] All things were created through him and for him.
[5127.38 --> 5129.44] And he is before all things.
[5129.56 --> 5130.14] And in him,
[5130.20 --> 5131.64] all things hold together.
[5131.76 --> 5133.78] And he is the head of the body,
[5133.86 --> 5134.28] the church.
[5134.40 --> 5135.34] He is the beginning,
[5135.72 --> 5136.88] the firstborn from the dead,
[5137.24 --> 5138.42] that in everything,
[5138.70 --> 5140.52] he might be preeminent.
[5141.56 --> 5142.36] For in him,
[5142.68 --> 5145.22] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell
[5145.22 --> 5147.66] and through him to reconcile to himself
[5147.66 --> 5148.66] all things,
[5148.78 --> 5150.34] whether on earth or in heaven,
[5150.72 --> 5153.08] making peace by the blood of the cross.
[5153.16 --> 5154.36] This is our king.
[5154.36 --> 5157.30] This is our king.
[5157.36 --> 5159.54] And he has called us to this place.
[5160.98 --> 5161.92] And in fact,
[5162.32 --> 5166.94] even as we stand now on embassy ground,
[5167.28 --> 5169.10] we long for that one day
[5169.10 --> 5171.60] where the kingdom of heaven will spill out
[5171.60 --> 5173.42] and cover the whole earth.
[5173.84 --> 5173.92] Right?
[5173.96 --> 5175.48] The final vision where we began
[5175.48 --> 5177.28] says in Revelation 19,
[5177.58 --> 5178.50] verse 16,
[5178.62 --> 5178.78] it says,
[5178.78 --> 5180.56] on his robe and on his thigh,
[5180.66 --> 5181.68] he has the name written,
[5181.86 --> 5182.88] King of Kings
[5182.88 --> 5185.24] and Lord of Lords.
[5185.34 --> 5186.68] The gathering of the church
[5186.68 --> 5188.82] is an outpost of heaven.
[5190.00 --> 5191.16] That's why we gather.
[5192.18 --> 5193.94] The local church is an embassy
[5193.94 --> 5195.50] of the high king.
[5196.58 --> 5196.70] Right?
[5196.70 --> 5197.60] This is why we gather.
[5197.84 --> 5198.82] And it's amazing
[5198.82 --> 5199.82] and mysterious
[5199.82 --> 5200.90] and miraculous.
[5200.90 --> 5202.14] And I pray