The Communicable Fulness of Christ.
I. Think first of the fulness of Christ referred to in the text. There is in Christ (1) all fulness of life, (2) all fulness of pardoning mercy, (3) all fulness of peace and comfort, (4) all fulness of spiritual strength, (5) all fulness of sanctifying grace.
II. How is all this fulness of Christ appropriated, so as to become ours? The answer is, by faith. Faith, on the strength of the Divine promises, carries the believer to Christ for every thing, and obtains every thing from Him. The believer, through faith, gives himself up to Christ, and, through faith, Christ is made of God unto him wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
A. D. Davidson, Lectures and Sermons,p. 243.
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