"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? -M ATTHEW 22:42 [KJV] The religious and self-righteous Pharisees surrounded the Lord on this occasion with malice in their heart to destroy Him. We read in Matt hew 22:15 that "they took counsel how they might entangle Him in His talk." The religious came at Him with many needless and unnecessary questions about religion and politics [ M ATTHEW 22:17 ] , about future events [MATTHEW 22:25-28 ] and about the law of God [ M ATTHEW 22:36 ] . The Lord Jesus Christ put them all to silence with this one heart searching and all important question, "What think ye of Christ?" I trust that everyone of us will seriously ponder this question and ask our sovereign Lord to give us honest and scriptural thoughts of Him. So then, what do you really think of the Lord Jesus Christ? Consider these things about Him: 1). What do you think of the Lord Jesus Christ in His blessed person ? Can you say with Thomas that He is my Lord and my God [JOH

"I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him." -EZEKIEL 21:27 [KJV] Are there not seasons in our experience when we can lay down our souls before God, and say, "Let Christ be precious to my soul, let Him come with power to my heart, let Him set up His throne as Lord and King, and let self be nothing before Him?" Well, we utter these prayers in sincerity and simplicity, we desire their fulfilment; but oh, the struggle! the conflict! when God answers these petitions. When our plans are frustrated, what a rebellion works up in the carnal mind! When self is cast down, what a rising up of the fretful, peevish impatience of the creature! When the Lord does answer our prayers, and strips off all false confidence; when He does remove our rotten props, and dash to pieces our broken cisterns, what a storm—what a conflict takes place in the soul! Angry with the Lord for doing the v