Christ All in All: Christ is our Way

I'm reading a series of sermons by Philip Henry (Matthew Henry the Bible Commentator's father), and thought I would share some quotes as I go along. Using the book "Christ All in All" as a devotional, I'm reading just one sermon a day, but each one is full of rich doctrine!

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

                                                                                                                            —JOHN 14:6

To say Christ is the way to the Father is as much as to say He is the way to heaven. Heaven is a place, a city, a city that has foundations. Now every city has a way to it, and so has this city—and that way is Christ. There our Father dwells and keeps court. When we come thither, we will see Him and enjoy Him, only by Jesus Christ.

Adoption is that that makes us the children of God. We are by nature the Devil's children, branches in the wild olive, and our fruit is accordingly. Adoption cuts us off from that stock and grafts us into a better stock, a good olive, puts us into God's family. Now how is this done? Only by Jesus Christ. He is the way, and on us receiving of Him, it is done immediately.

Christ is both a broad way and a narrow way.
A narrow way—we cannot walk in it and have elbow room for out lusts. The strictness of the divine precepts is the hedge compassing this way about, both on the right hand and on the left, which must not be transgressed and leaped over by those that intend Christ for their way to the Father.
A broad way—in respect of the true spiritual Christian liberty which they have that walk in it.

[Christ is] a beaten way, and yet but few walking in it. But few at one time and in one place, here and there a traveller. But beaten by the multitudes that have been in all ages, and are and will be, as will appear, when they will all come together.