by Dr. William Ward Ayer
What Think Ye?
W hile the L ord has asked many questions of mankind, there is not one so important as that which concerns His own Son, “What think ye of Christ?” In Matthew 22:41-46 we read, “While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. Jesus saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. If David then called him, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.” Christ challenged the leaders of Israel to whom He presented Himself as Messiah and King. They argued with Him and finally rejected and crucified Him. They rightly answered that the Messiah would be the de scendent of King David. This had been prophesied through the Old Tes tament. Yet, in the face of all the evidence, they refused God’s love gift, as men have down through the cen turies. We can, and should, bring this ques tion now to our own day. Let me ask you, “What do you think of Christ and His deity?” Never a man spake as did this One. “What do you think of his power?” He healed the leper, raised the dead, gave sight to the blind. “What about His character?” He was the perfect Man. He dared to say, “Which of you convinceth me of sin?” No human being in his right mind would dare to ask that question. Jesus was the sinless One “What do you think of Him?” Look at His mira cles. “What do you think of His hu manity?” Christ was born a Jew but is now a member of every race. He leaped all the barriers of time, race
and culture to come down to our own day as the Son of God as well as the Son of man. “What do you think of Christ?” If you haven’t decided, you must. Jesus declared, “I go my way, and where I go ye cannot come. Ex cept ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” In John 5, the Saviour asked the question, “Wilt thou be made whole?” Here was the healing of the lame man at the pool of Bethesda. There was a tradition that certain times an angel came down and trou bled the waters. Whoever got in first after this was made whole. A multi tude of impotent folk waited for just such a miraculous moment. Then Jesus came and found a man with an infirmity which had lasted nearly four decades. The Lord knew he had been there a long time seeking to be the first one in the water. Yet, due to his illness, he was never able to make it. Christ, ignoring the legend, asked, “Wilt thou be made whole?” The piti ful answer was, “Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool. While I am coming, an other steppeth down before me.” Jesus said unto him, “Arise, take up thy bed and walk.” Immediately the man was made whole. Now, this miracle can be applied to our own day. The whole human race is like that man at the pool. We all need healing for the world’s awful disease of sin and its accompanying destruction. So many seek cleansing in the wrong way. False religions and philosophies con tinually hold man to the bondage of his diease. The prophet said in Scrip ture of Christ, “By his stripes we are healed.” This applies to things of much deeper consequence than phys ical infirmities. It cures that which can never be remedied by the apothe cary of science or the surgery of man. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can
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