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Book: Job
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JOB 9:2, 32, 33
I TIMOTHY 2:5
"OUR DAYSMAN"
Intro: Background to text. Bildad's first discourse, he argues the justice
of God.
I. HOW CAN A MAN BE JUST WITH GOD?
How can I plead my case before God?
A. Question arises from a double consciousness.
1. Greatness of God.
a. He removeth mountains. vs 5.
b. He shakes the earth. vs 6.
c. Commands the sun. vs 7.
d. He spread out the heavens. vs 5.
2. Smallness of man. vs 11.
a. I cannot see Him or perceive Him.
b. How can I speak of strength? vs 19.
c. David's awareness in Ps. 8.
1. God is so great how could He be
mindful of me?
d. I am so small and God is so vast. How could I
ever reach Him?
II. NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAYSMAN BETWIXT US. vs 33.
A. There is an unspanable gap between.
1. The finite and the infinite.
2. The mortal man & the eternal God.
B. The distance between God & man too great.
1. It is not a physical distance.
a. "In Him we move and live and have our being."
b. Dan. to Belshazzer "The very God in whose hand
thy breath is."
2. A moral distance.
a. Sinful man-righteous God.
b. Two men on same panel-miles apart.
3. A dimensional difference.
a. "God is a spirit & they that worship Him must
worship Him in Spirit..."
b. I live on plane of intellect or phyche.
c. Zophar "Who by searching can find out God?"
d. Paul "The natural mind discerneth not the
things of the spirit, neither can he know..."
1. Man's intellectual quest for God ends
in agnosticism. The need of a daysman.
2. Problem is not on God's side. "God's
hand is not short that He cannot
save...
B. A bridge is needed to span the gap. "That He might lay His
hand upon us both."
1. Someone who could understand human weakness and
suffering lay His hand upon me and says, "I
understand."
2. Yet someone who was absolutely pure and holy so He
could lay His hand upon God.
3. God could not touch me without destroying me. I could
not touch God without being destroyed.
4. My innermost being cries out for God, but I cannot
reach Him
5. O how I need a daysman to stand in that eternal gap.
Ill. "THERE IS ONE GOD, AND ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN THE MAN
CHRIST JESUS."
A. "In the beginning was the Word. . . and the Word was made
flesh and dwelt among us & we . . ."
B. He, Christ Jesus stands in this gap low enough that I can
reach Him, high enough that He can reach God.
1. He is God.
a. "And the Word was God."
b. "I and the Father are one."
c. He can lay His hand on the Father.
2. He became man.
a. And the Word became flesh.
b. And being in the form of God thought it not
robbery to be equal with God... took upon Him
the form of a servant and was made in the
likeness of man.
C. So I can come to God through Christ Jesus my Lord.
1. Man attempting to build bridges to God. God has built
a bridge.
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