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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Job 9:33

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I TIMOTHY 2:5
I. THE MAN JOB.
A. Stripped down to bare individuality.
1. First his possessions, oxen-Sabeans sheep-servants-fire camels-Chaldeans.
2. Next his children.
3. His wife.
4. His friends.
5. The sense of the greatness of his own personality. "Naked came I."
a. Cursed the day of his birth.
6. Sense of God's justice.
B. Background for text.
1. Bildad argued that God is just.
a. Job began his reply by agreeing, "of a truth I know that is so."
2. Job then responds "How can a man be just with God?"
a. How can a man argue his case with God so as to justify himself?
II. THE CRY FOR A DAYSMAN.
A. The realization that the only way a man could have dealing with God.
1. Double consciousness.
a. Greatness of God "He moveth mts." etc.
b. Littleness of self.
c. Expressed also by David.
"When I consider the heavens."
How can so great a being deal with man?
How can so little deal with God?
2. Out of double consciousness sense of need.
a. One who could stand between - touch us both.
b. This cry of Job Elemental cry of nature and expresses an abiding need.
3. Man cannot have life in the full sense of the word without conscious dealings with God.
a. God has dealings with every man.
1. Belshazzar.
2. "In Him we live..."
III. THE ANSWER TO THE CRY OF JOB.
"There is one mediator between God and Man."
A. "There is no daysman." "There is one mediator."
1. One who can lay His hand on God for He is one with God. Yet -
2. One who can lay His hand on man because of His own humanity. He knows human nature not only by divine omniscience-by experience.
B. "The Man Christ Jesus" "who gave Himself for our sins."
1. Revelation of that which separates man from God.
a. "God's arm not short."
C. Job 11:7,8 - To try to comprehend God intellectually has always ended disastrously.
D. Christ by becoming a ransom for sin removed barrier and made access.
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