Job replies There is No Arbiter

 

Job 9:13-35

 

February 14, 2020

 

 

Job replies There is No Arbiter

 

“God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him? Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.  If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.   For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause; he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.  If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty!
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?  Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.   I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.  It is all one; therefore, I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’  When disaster brings sudden death,
 he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges—if it is not, he, who then is it?  “My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.  If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’ I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.   I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain? If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.  For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.  Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.  Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

 

Three needs of today’s Church

1.    A need to grasp the Love of God for you, and that He cares for you.

• That God loves you and is very near to you, you will find that in; Psalm 34:18: “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit” 
• Philippians 4:4-7: “The Lord is near, and we should present our requests to God through prayer and petition”
• Jeremiah 29:13: “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart” 
• James 4:8: “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you“

The question is to whom are you drawing near?

 

2.    The Church needs an understanding of Channel One and Channel Two.  Channel One is the deceptive channel, and Channel Two is the Spirit of God.  Many in the church list to too Channel One, it tells you deserve, or that you have no value.  Both are lies, you do not want what you deserve, and you have great value to our Lord.  

If only Job had known who had asked permission to make his life hell on this earth, to kill his family, to steal all his possessions, and attack his person.  Jesus has given us the Church a clear picture of who the thief is.  Jesus refers to Satan as the thief in John 10:10, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

3.     There is an arbiter between you and God.  You will find that Romans 8:34 says that Jesus “is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” In 1 John 2:1 we read that Jesus is our “advocate with the Father,” and from Hebrews 7:25 we learn that Jesus “always lives to intercede” for us.