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JOB 9:32,33

"THE NEED OF A DAYSMAN"

I Timothy 2:5.
Intro: Bildad had argued the justice of God vs. 8:3 Job affirmed his
       belief in justice of  God vs. 2.

I. "HOW CAN A MAN BE JUST WITH GOD?" "HOW CAN A MAN PLEAD HIS OWN
    CASE BEFORE GOD?"
        A. Double consciousness.
                1. Greatness of God.
                        a. vs. 5 removeth the mts.
                        b. vs. 6 shaketh the earth.
                        c. vs. 7 commmands the sun.
                        d. vs. 8 spread out the heavens.
                2. Smallness of man.
                        a. How can I speak of strength?
                        b. Davids same awareness (Ps 8..
                                1. How can God be mindful of man.
                                2. How can man reach God.

II. THE NEED OF A DAYSMAN vs. 32, 33.
        A. The distance between God and man too great.
                1. Not a physical distance.
                        a. "In Him we live and move and have our being."
                        b. Daniel to Belshazzar "The God in whose
                           very hand thy breath is."
                2. Moral distance.
                        a. Two men on same panel (miles apart).
                        b. God dwells in the spiritual plane. Man in the
                           psychic plane.
                        c. In psychic plane man will never reach God.
                                1. Zophar, vs.11:17 - "Can you by
                                   searching find out God?"
                                2. "The natural mind discerneth not the
                                    things of the Spirit neither can it
                                    know them."
                        d. Man's intellectual quest for God ends in 
                           agnosticism.
                        e. Problem is not on God's side. "God's hand is
                           pot short that He cannot save." Your sins have
                           separated between you.
        B. A bridge is needed between the finite and the infinite. "That
           He might lay His hand upon us both."
                1. One that could understand human weakness and suffering
                   lay His hand on me and says I understand.
                2. Yet one that could also lay His hand upon God in His
                   absolute purity and holiness.
                3. The infinite holy God could not touch the finite
                   sinner.
                4. O how I need a daysman who can teach me of God and
                   somehow bring me to Him.
                5. Fundamental cry of nature.

Ill. THE DAYSMAN "THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE MEDIATOR (DAYSMAN) BETWEEN
     GOD AND MAN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS" WHO GAVE HIMSELF A RANSOM . . ."
        A. "In the beginning the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."
                1. He came to bridge the gap between the psychic and
                   spiritual planes.
                2. He was God. "No man hath seen God at any time" ....
                   "the Word was God... the Word became flesh." "I and
                   the father are one."
                        a. He can lay His hand upon the father.
                3. He became man.
                        a. "Who being in the form of God ... but made
                           Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him
                           the form of a servant and was made in the
                           likeness of man."
                        b. He can lay His hand upon me.
                4. And so man and God can meet in Christ Jesus. The gap is
                   bridged! How?
                5. He took the responsibility for my sin & died in my
                   place.