Waiting, watching, near heaven's harbor, |
SERMONS.
DECIPHERED FROM THE PRIVATE STENOGRAPHIC WRITINGS OF REV.
R. EVERETT, D. D.
THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST.
- WINFIELD, Nov. 20, 1835.
Col. 1: 19." For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell."
To him who feels his need of a Savior, whose conscience is awakened to take a view of the evil nature of sin and its certain and everlasting consequences, such a declaration as this must be momentous and interesting. For here is all our hope; what Christ is, and our relation to him; on this is based all our hope. The apostle dwells, in this paragraph, upon the excellency of Christ, and the various relations which he sustains to his people. Several particulars are named, touching the divine and mediatorial glory of Christ. Read some of the preceding verses—12, 13, &c. Sinners, while they remain in a state of sin, of disobedience and unbelief, are in Satan's power; so easily is man tempted to acts of disobedience to his Maker, that he is led by Satan at his will. But, by the renovating and regenerating grace of God,
