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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Matthew 22:42
‘What think ye of Christ?’
Read Matthew 22:15-46
Most people go to hell asking questions about religious matters. One of Satan’s most deceptive snares, whereby the souls of men are blinded to the glory of Christ, is religious curiosity. The Herodians asked, ‘Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar?’ The Sadducees were Curious about the resurrection body. The Pharisees asked, ‘Which is the great commandment in the law?’ The point is this: most people avoid dealing with the real soul-searching issues of the gospel by giving themselves up to vain questions about religion. Religious people are still asking the same questions as the Herodians, Sadducees and Pharisees. Who will be the greatest in heaven? What kind of body will we have in the resurrection? Who are the guests at the marriage feasts? What does the law say? And they are, like their predecessors, going to hell, because they miss the one issue which is of eternal consequence: ‘What think ye of Christ?’
We must have a biblical answer to that question. We think that Jesus Christ is the perfect and eternal God. We think he is the perfect representative man. He came to this earth with a mission to accomplish. He came here to save his people. The God-man was born at Bethlehem to die at Calvary. We think that Jesus Christ actually accomplished the redemption of his people, through his one sacrifice for sin. We think, according to the Scriptures, that he now sits upon the throne of glory as the sovereign Lord of all things. To think anything less than this of Christ is to think contrary to God’s revelation.
But our text speaks of more than mere doctrinal knowledge. We must have an experimental answer to this question. How do you think of Christ? Those who are truly born again have been taught of God and learned to think properly of Christ. We think that Christ alone is precious. Christ is our only hope of acceptance with God. We think of Christ with all confidence, expectation and desire. He is all. Christ is all to be trusted, all to be loved, all to be preached, all to be hoped for. He is all in earth and all in heaven, all in time and all in eternity.
