What think ye of Christ?

It's a question we all must answer "What think ye of Christ?" (Matthew 22:42)

As the hymn-writer puts it,

What think ye of Christ? is the test
To try both your state and your scheme
You cannot be right in the rest
Unless you think rightly of Him

 Was He just a prophet? Was He just a man? Is He now dead? Do I have to worry about it at all?

This really is the key question when it comes to deciding your eternal future and scripture has more to say about Him than anyone else or anything else. When sin first entered the world through the disobedience of Adam, God promised "...I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; He shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush His heel" (Genesis 3:15)

There are numerous accounts given in the bible as to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, John's gospel starts with the following testimony,"In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God and The Word was God" (John 1:1)
 Here we can see that the Lord Jesus Christ was indeed God, the eternal Son always with the Father.
Another quotation tells us "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son" (Galations 4:4)

So that we can see He was God and He was also God's Son. This is part of the blessed truth of the Holy Trinity, one God, three distinct persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
He was God, but He became man!

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (John 1:14)

"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory" (1 Timothy 3:16)

This is the mystery, not that there is anything mysterious about it, but that it was now revealed.
So now we know that Christ was God and that He was also man. Not some sort of God-man being but fully God and fully man. The Holy Spirit has been very careful to record for us, the humanity of the Lord Jesus but not without reminding us at every stage that He was also God! Think about 2 instances in the Lord's life here on earth, that are fairly well known...

1. At the graveside of His friend Lazarus, He wept! That wasn't the only time that the Lord wept but isn't it remarkable that such an one would weep? He felt sorrow as we can feel at the lose of a loved one and He wept. But then, with full authority over the grave, He could cry "Lazarus, come forth!" (John 11:43) It's worth noting at this point that there are many in the world today who claim to perform miracles, but noone, apart from God has ever raised the dead.
2. When crossing over the sea of Galilee, He was tired and slept! He knew what it was like to be tired. Yet, when the disciples woke Him up, fearing for their lives, scripture tells us "...He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm" (Mark 4:39)
The disciples were left to fear and wonder "What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" (Mark 4:41)

Whenever someone was crucified, it was custom to break their legs to speed up death, but not so with the Lord Jesus, God's word had already prophecied, "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken" (Psalm 34:20)
The Roman soldiers, here, disobeyed an order but God the Father was in charge of this scene! In any case, scripture records for us "But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:" (John 19:33)
"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost" (John 19:30)

He was in total control, He voluntarily dismissed His own spirit, "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." (John 10,17 18)


"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13)

Today, as a believer I have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. He died that I might live but I'm not depending on a dead saviour! He's alive forevermore.
"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." (Matthew 28:6)
"..Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:" (1 Corinthians 15:3,4)
"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" (Hebrews 10:12)

He, for the present, has sat down, His sin-atoning work complete. He has paid the ransom in full.

No one was ever born like the Lord Jesus; no one ever lived like Him and no one ever died like Him.

God  "Hath in these last days spoken unto us through His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds;" (Hebrews 1:2)

So, how hath God spoken unto us through His Son? "...through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins" (Acts 13:38)

"...that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:15)

But the responsibilty now lies with us. The question has been asked "What think ye of Christ?"