Question:
“What think ye of Christ?” (Matthew 22:42).

Answer:
This is the most important question each one of us will ever be asked,/because it is only our personal acceptance and trust in Christ, as to who He is and what He has done on the cross of Calvary, that determines our eternal welfare. The Lord gave a clue to the answer to His question by also asking in that same verse: “Whose Son is He?” The answer is that He is God’s Son, the second Person of the Divine Trinity, who is God the Son. Various answers are given to this question by different people in the Scriptures, and here are some that were mentioned in the Bible study:

–The Pharisees said that He was a “deceiver” (Matthew 27:63).

–Jude said that He is “our Saviour” (Jude 25).

–Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6).

–Paul said: “Christ…is our Life” (Colossians 3:4).

–Judas, after he betrayed the Lord said: “I have betrayed the innocent  blood” (Matthew 27:4).

–The centurion at the cross said: “Truly this was the Son of God” (Matthew 27:54).

–The demons knew He is: “Son of the most high God” (Mark 5:7).

–He ever was and is the Creator of all things (John 1:1-3).

–One of His names is “the Word” (John 1:1). Any word expresses a thought, and “He was made flesh, and dwelt among us” so He could express God to us (John 1:14).

–Jesus said: “I am the Door,” and “I am the good Shepherd” (John 10:9, 11). “I am the Light of the world” (John 8:12). “I am the Bread of Life” (John 6:35).

–Philip told Nathanael: “We have found Him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth” (John 1:45).
“What think ye of Christ?” is a very personal question, and the Lord is asking it of each of us. “What do YOU think of ME?”
If we know that Christ is God manifest in the flesh, and have trusted Him as our own personal Saviour, we will find a struggle going on inside of us between the “flesh” (our wills) and the Spirit of God who has come into our hearts the moment we believed on Him (Ephesians 1:13). “The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Galatians 5:17).
Paul tells of his own personal struggle in Romans 7. “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not” (Romans 7:18). The only way of deliverance is to turn from our own efforts to Christ. A picture of this struggle is when Jacob wrestled with “God face to face” (Genesis 32). God had to touch Jacob’s thigh to cause him to bow to Him so He could bless him. May we bow our hearts and wills to the One who loves us and died for us, so He can bless us as well.

Again, the Lord asks: “What think ye of Christ?” of each one who has not bowed his heart to the Saviour for salvation from sin and hell. Your eternal welfare depends on whether you have owned to God you are a sinner and trusted Christ as YOUR Saviour. He “is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). Come to Him NOW by faith with all your sins, and trust Him as your Saviour and trust the work He did on the cross for you. “Behold, NOW” is the time God will accept you; “behold, NOW is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).