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 lust.
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 . . ."
Ill. 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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Chuck Smith (1927 - 2013)
Pastor Chuck was used in the Jesus People revival where he was used along with others to minister to the hippy young people. They saw a work of the Spirit where many were added to the church and discipled. He has raised up many pastors who are a part of the Calvary Chapel movement now and where he pastors the large Costa Mesa church in California.The Calvary Chapel movement is based of simple principles that Chuck Smith taught over the years such as: The priority of agape love, Simple fellowship amongst the saints, the breaking of bread, the teaching of God's word chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And lastly and most importantly the principle not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord.