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Thank you, Tim.

I'll be up front with you inside at one of my favorite Sunday's of the year to speak to and to celebrate is Christ.

The King it is today is the final Sunday about church year the cycle.

So we started a new year in the church, context Advent, Sunday.

Next week and Christ, the King is the culmination of Whitwell readings are narrative style storylines and festivals, have been leading us.

Christ.

The King isn't so much celebrated, his will Christ will be in the front is King when he returns Christ, always has been suffering.

So in not mocking something that is a new event but it's recognizing where all these different storylines, these different remembrances observances, we have throughout our church have been leading us Advanced talks about the coming of Christ and lead us towards the Christmas season.

The Incarnation of Christ, taking human.

Before we go through the The Epiphany the appearance of Christ.

The manifestation to the wise men from the East.

We have Jesus life is his that dedication.

His baptism.

His public Ministry, covid-19 in his pre-trial, the crucifixion and Resurrection.

The coming of the spirit panda cost and then we have a whole season to be focused on the life of the church.

That's what all the various different storylines that we follow and it walks us through the great biblical narrative, that is the gospel itself.

If you draw all those threads together and ask, where does this leave us?

It leaves us with this one, deep truth on the sovereignty of Christ who is Head and Shoulders Above All Else.

Christ.

The King is the celebration because Christ is uniquely qualified to do what he has done and is doing.

And will do, there is none to compare with him.

And we recognize that his worthiness is unparalleled and it is a source of both genuine or and true compass.

And devotion, we are entrusting ourselves to someone who has acted in this world in a way which just leaves us with a Saints beyond words.

So what style of celebrating Christ?

The King? It's a challenge to speak on because would become an adequate and we just begin to Glimpse greater truth.

So I'm using flight and change to me at number of images to try and help us to explore that thing this morning.

What are those images that kind to me this week about how we we just begin to Glimpse the touch on trees that are so deep that it's beyond our comprehension way beyond our ability to say yes I can see that clearly know we we glimpse a depth in a richness.

It's a bit.

Like I don't know where we are.

Find ourselves in our spiritual life, how spiritual journey sometimes it.

I feel as though I'm just didn't like the toddlers pull up and tells Mohawk guy for the toddler's pool, you know, the new extension you could get their face in.

We could even go out to a nice if you're a brave table and sometimes you got to be on the toddler's pool, we might go into a full pool that we can dive into and swim and I don't know whether you recall.

I can recall the first time going out of my depth and you go who I'm out of my depth.

And you think how long can I last day before you go back and get to a place where you can stand on tippy toes and have you hit about I'm not sure if you ever have you ever tried to swim in a diving pool, you know, the ones that are four or five meters deep, it's very disconcerting, cuz it's seriously deep and I'd stay long in a diving pool.

But that can pay is compared to snorkeling or diving offshore where you go for a reef and you suddenly get Beyond The Reef in his a whole shelf along that I've been seeing that I no longer where you go off, at beautiful Reef in the fishing.

You some look over the edge and you can't see the bottom.

It's sad to leave so deep, and that is just the fringes of the ocean.

Dips, we are surrounded day in and day out, 24 hours a day by an ocean that covers this world.

The majority of the ocean has never been glimpsed by any human.

It is so David, we glimpsed something that is part of a living experience, but it is so beyond our ability to even see the picture, what that might look like.

And that is just a glimpse of this universe.

What we Glimpse In this passage?

I would describe from Colossians 1. Today is like the diving pool.

It is deep, and it is such a breathtaking and exhilarating.

But we know we are just at the ages or something that is beyond our ability to name that have 92 picture.

So where does it take us in Christ.

The King it gives us a view of the truth about Christ and the greater reality the greatest reality about life and existence that can only piss be perceived Through The Eyes of Faith.

This is a spiritual view that in human terms is be on site and the contrast is saying in the first of all readings, sorry the Gospel, reading from Luke 23 way, we have Jesus viewed for the eyes of the world, in this case, the Ryman.

Well, as he was not allowed, as he was executed, in the most literally excruciating death, like a thing called, They put this parody of a sign about Jesus, the king of the Jews.

In three different languages.

And it wasn't that they actually believe that Jesus was any sort of nice, it will Cain.

It was more this pitiful figure on the cross.

The saying is this the best you can do by way of a king cuz he took me doesn't come pay with a Roman Empire or the Ryman That is how Jesus was viewed.

Through human eyes, socialize, he had no, I mean, he had no power.

He had no political movement.

There was no, palisil.

Finally, what sort of King is this?

It for the eyes of faith.

We see that same narrative that same figure so differently.

But lighter.

Now service, we're going to have a stipend to 5 based on Philippians 2 that though he was equal with God.

She had the fullness of God, he emptied himself and took on human form and not just human food in the form of a slave and not just on the form of us live at one who died, the death of us life, that is crucifixion.

This is someone who used his sovereignty and power for admission and a work that is unparalleled in history.

It is made a difference.

Unlike any other act in history, this isn't a cell phone or person who sits back and enjoys the trappings of power, but this is someone who is at work, using that Paulo and that Authority in a responsible way in a while, and which is honoring the mission and purposes of God, that Jesus was sent into the world that the field.

Butte for those eyes we see that work across in another, why you did that for me for us.

The contrast, the saying in the two criminals.

Why don't other side of Jesus one?

Who continue to that?

Mockery, I even self inside us.

Yet the other criminals.

So, Jesus differently.

He saw someone who was worthy of much greater than those who did not deserve the crucifixion, but someone to reach out to the play to beg. and so Jesus had these wonderful words of response to the the criminal who saw Jesus as a Heavenly being, Today, I say to you, you will be with me.

In Paradise.

Sorry, that's my wife, an introduction into the passage that I want to focus on from Colossians 1.

This is an incredibly rich and deep passage that takes us into dips that go beyond our ability to explain.

And one of these, just, I have, is in the iconography.

The imagery of Crystal Shrek Christ, the King.

It's a historic one that has gone right throughout the ages in different cultures of sorts of give expression to it.

With getting we are close to it here to Mathews an hour out loud.

Memorial wind die at the end of the century.

It's the reason the same did Christ that we C&L window there in his glory.

Allow crystals Rex what does have a crown on top of a child at the kingship, the sovereignty of Christ as well, and its various different ways in which I had his trying to convey something of the, the awesomeness of this figure of Christ risen descended.

And in glory, this is taken from her.

I love her and University in Indiana in the US.

And I love the imagery because mixed-media between a sculpture and the, the stained-glass behind it.

But if it is so complex and so rich and has so many different types to it that we be consoled, take a picture of it to do, justice to if you viewed it from different angles, and different directions.

And it's actually cool to Windsor like the winter morning lot that the different light that comes shows or when a different.

Why it's constantly moving and changing.

I love that complexity to it.

So this passage that we have in Colossians 1 is almost like this.

It's kind of you at other than looking, at individual Parts but to see how they come together and full my picture.

That is a picture of glory.

Some of the words themselves are coming.

This little section in Colossians 1, a probably early form of creative early church.

Probably recited these words to each other.

As like, we have the Apostles Creed.

This is probably a very early for him.

That might even have been set to music, we don't know.

But it has of a form that would have been familiar.