The Missing Link
Job 9:25-35
1. Problematic Reality
Life is short and Not so sweet
2. Potential Remedies
Pretend everything is ok, website recommendations
Purge himself, try to make himself clean, hindu
3. Painful Realization
What is needed is something we don’t have
Job knew the only way was if God were a man, if there were a mediator
God did become man, God did provide a mediator
Attempts to find and identify the missing link between man and ape runs in a predictable pattern. First, a press conference is announced. The discovery of an ape-like "ancestor" is revealed with an artist's impression of what the creature looked like. The discoverer becomes famous, earning money on lecture tours. The actual fossil bones are few and far between, but the imagination runs wild. Later, when more evidence is found, the "ancestor" turns out to be totally human or totally ape. Once this find is removed and no longer considered the missing link, you can expect another great discovery to save the day. And so on….
These scientists hope to link us to apes, but what people really want is to be linked with God. Scientists are trying to link us to our subordinates, but throughout history men have been trying to find the missing link to our superior. That is what religion is. It is man searching for God and trying to reach Him. Man, in every century, has been aware of his desperate need for this missing link.
The Spanish have a story about a father and son who became estranged. The son left home, and the father set out to find him. He searched for months without success. Finally, in desperation, the father turned to the newspaper for help. His ad simply read, “Dear Paco, meet me in front of the newspaper office at noon on Saturday. All is forgiven. I love you.” On Saturday, 800 young men named Paco showed up looking for forgiveness and love from their estranged father. The world is desperately longing for reconciliation. Man has been aware of this need to reconnect with other people, but mostly to God. And a wise man is aware that this is a problem. A wise man understands that there is a missing link.
Turn with me, if you will, to the book of Job. I’ll be focusing on Chapter 9, verses 25-35.
But let me start you off with some history on Job. Most of us know the basics of his story. Job 1:1 says that he was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. The text goes on to say that Job had a nice big family and a pretty good amount of wealth. 1:3 says he was the greatest man among all the people of the East. The Lord Himself said of Job, “There is no one on earth like him.” If there was a word for entirely sanctified back then I’m sure people would have thought of Job when they heard it. He was devout, though he was aware of no sin in his family, he prayed for his sons just in case.
One day, however, disaster struck. To make a short story shorter, he lost his wealth and his children very quickly. Some of his wealth was stolen. Some was burned up. His children were all together in the house of his eldest son when a pulverizing wind arose and knocked the house down on top of them, killing them all.
What did Job do? He fell on the ground and worshipped! What? Why? You see, Job was the cream of the crop. This was a man close to God. This was an extremely Godly man. But Job knew that no matter how good of a man he was, he was still in complete need of a merciful God. He was in need of a God who could be fully just, yet allow a fallen man into His presence. He was in need of the missing link between a holy God and a fallen race. How did He come to have this great sense of need?
Firstly, Job recognized the PROBLEMATIC REALITY. Life is short and not so sweet. Verses 25-26 show this:
My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy. They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their pray.
I take those two verses to mean that life is short and not very sweet.
Henry Kissinger became a household name during the Nixon administration. His brilliance was tapped by world leaders who readily recognized his genius. But, possibly, his wisest pearl did not come from politics. In a moment of contemplation he said, “What has most surprised me about life is how quickly it passes.”
The fact that life is short is not really a deep theological truth. The average man in the United States lives 73 years. The average woman lives 79 years. This begs the obvious question, who do the girls nag for their last six years? No, I’m just kidding. Girls don’t nag! But the fact is that 70 plus years is not a whole lot of time. It’s a dot on the timeline of world history. Sometimes I can hardly believe that my time here at Bethany is almost over. It seems like just yesterday Pres. Medders had a nice and full head of hair.
But life being short wouldn’t be such a bad thing if it were sweet. But is it sweet? The evidence suggests otherwise. Look at Job’s life. If any man deserved a peaceful time on earth it was this guy. But he lost his whole estate and his family. And I didn’t even tell you about his health. After his family and wealth were gone, his health was taken away too. He was afflicted with sore boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Life was not sweet for Job and it is not sweet for any of us. We’ll never rid ourselves of pain and agony. The effects of the fall weigh heavy on us throughout our lives. Has a close friend or relative of yours died? Have you forgotten where you placed something very important? Are the consequences of a past sin, even a forgiven sin, still affecting you? We all live in this world of pain. In fact, the problem of pain is the biggest objection non-Christians have to our faith. Pollster George Barna surveyed a cross section of men asking what one question they would ask given the opportunity. The number one answer was “Why is there pain and suffering in the world.”
Life is short and it is anything but sweet. This is the problematic reality that Job faced. The next five verses show man’s response to these problems. Man comes up with some POTENTIAL REMEDIES. They’re shown in verses 27-31:
If I say, “I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile, I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent. Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain? Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with washing soda, you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.”
Basically what Job is saying is that there are two ways man can try to compensate for the problem of life being short and not sweet. He can either pretend everything is OK, or he can attempt to purge himself, wash himself and make himself right before God.
First man can try to forget his complaint. He can try to forget that life stinks and put on a big fake Bethany Chorale smile and make it through each day. It doesn’t sound like Job really even tried this option. He knew it was stupid. There is no way to forget our troubles. No healthy way at least. But so many people are trying this today. They try to forget their pain. I saw a web site this past week that was incredibly sad. It contained an article called…well, I’ll rephrase the title, it was called, How to Forget Life is not good. Here’s what the article said:
How many times have you said this to yourself? Things just are not good, people are stupid. You haven't washed in a while and are probably better off dead. Here are some methods of passing the time until you die. They have been tested and proven to work. No guesswork involved here... have fun.
The article then goes on to discuss different ways of forgetting about the problem of pain. It suggests multiple ways to go on like everything is OK. These methods included: sleeping, using foreign substances, finding companionship, going to clubs, hitting your head against the wall, getting a job, making fun of other people, playing on the internet, staring at the wall, and killing yourself.
Suprisingly, many people attempt to use these methods to forget about pain. To forget that everything is not OK. They try to pretend long enough and hope the problem ends with death. But Job sees right away how foolish this attempt is. There is no way to truly ignore pain. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. Job says he would still dread all his sufferings. He can’t avoid them. They are too real. He knows the life is full of pain.
Job realizes that you can’t just pretend everything is OK. Everything is not OK. He realizes that he is guilty before a holy God. Even though he is seemingly clean he misses the mark of God’s perfection. In his eyes, there is no hope for him even after death.
The only other option Job ponders is trying to make himself right before God. Trying to purge himself or wash himself so that he will be clean and justified. Now let’s remember that Job was an honorable man. He was the cream of the crop. It is astounding that he saw himself as such a filthy being before God. This should make us take a close look at ourselves.
Arminian theology speaks of sin in the ethical sense. It is a willful and voluntary violation of a known law of God. I believe this is a proper view of sin. But what we must not forget is that even if we stop willfully violating God’s known law in our lives, we still fall short of His perfect holiness. You see, our fallenness not only violates God’s law. It is also misses the mark of God’s perfection. I think this is a danger is our theology.
It could be that some people look at our ideas regarding the age of accountability in the wrong way. I think it was viewed correctly at first, but now it is being mishandled. We must remember that an infant or a small child does not go to heaven because they are acceptable to God in themselves. We believe they go to heaven because God does not hold them accountable for the sinfulness. There’s a big difference there. We believe that God’s grace accepts them as covered by the blood of Christ. Without that grace they would not go to heaven.
But people in this fallen world are constantly trying to purge themselves.
A total of 36,000 Hindu holy men were part of the estimated crowd of 40 million attending the two month Kumbh Mela festival in India last spring. One of the activities during the festival is a river bath. One man in South India explains the purpose of the ritual bathing in the river, "They come for forgiveness of sins and salvation. Some thousands come stark naked--some of them rolling on the rough roads for miles, believing the festering sores on their bodies would earn them salvation...Hundreds have kept one arm lifted up for years until the arm gets shriveled with dry gangrene...others have stood on one leg for years, hanging on to a suspended sling while sleeping...all these are done to appease angry gods."
These Hindu’s are doing there best to make themselves clean before God, to make themselves worthy. If only they knew they were not even close to being acceptable before God.
Job realized the truth. He knew that man’s efforts could never reach God. It is a vain pursuit. Job came to the PAINFUL REALIZATION that what was needed was something apart from himself. He needed God to, in some way reach out to him. Let’s look at verses 32-35:
He is not a man like me that I might answer Him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
Job understood what was needed. He knew that the only way man could ever be acceptable before God was if God was a man, or something like an arbitrator linking divinity and humanity together. Job knew what he needed was this missing link. Only then could he boldly approach the LORD.
Now Job lived very early in human history. Many scholars believe Job is the oldest book in the Bible. Some place his life shortly before Abraham’s. Job didn’t have the light of Christ yet. But even before Christ came to this earth, Job recognized the need for Christ. Just as we look back to the cross for our salvation, Job looked ahead toward it.
And how awesome it is when we see how completely the cross has fulfilled our needs. Job said what was needed, and the Person of Jesus Christ fulfilled each of those needs. Job said, He is not a man like me that I may answer Him. Well, Jesus Christ became a man like Job. He became a man like you. He became a man like me, yet without sin. He was a perfect man. He was THE perfect man. John 1:14 says The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. Philippians 2:6-7 says that Jesus, Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Job also said, If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand on us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that His terror would frighten me no more. Well, Jesus Christ is that arbitrator. He is a mediator, THE mediator. He became that by taking the rod that Job, you, and I deserved. By taking the terror of God upon Himself. 1 Timothy 2:5-6 says, For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for many.
Job knew that if there was God-man, a missing link, a mediator reconnecting divinity with humanity, then, and only then would he be able to speak to God without fear. Well, because of Jesus Christ the Bible says we can now boldly approach the throne of grace. Hebrews 4:16 says, Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. The blood of Christ covering our sins has reconciled us to God.
Job was not yet ready to receive the light of Christ. He didn’t know that God would provide this God-man, this missing link. He knew without the God-man he couldn’t approach God. He said, but as it now stands with me, I cannot. But all of us here have received the light of Christ. I ask myself and I ask you this afternoon. Where does it stand for you now? Can you approach God boldly? Do you? Are you at peace because God has justified you in Christ? Or are you still pretending everything will work out in the end? Are you pretending that everything is OK? Can you come to God and be accepted? Or are you still hoping that you will be good enough when that day comes? Are you still trying to make your goodness outweigh your badness? Are you still trying to clean yourself?
Recognize your need. Know for certain that only The God-man can provide us an answer to our problem. Only He provides the link from us to God. We are totally dependent. We need Christ utterly, and only in Him are we saved to the uttermost. And only in Christ can we ever approach the throne.
If you take one thing from this sermon let it be this short phrase: WE NEED CHRIST! He is the only answer to our problem. He is our only link to the Father. He is the only missing link. Job recognized this need before it was met chronologically speaking. We need to recognize it now. WE NEED CHRIST.
Most of us in this room are going to be leaders in the church. As leaders we are responsible for preaching, teaching, and sharing this truth. It is not whether or not a person can quit smoking, quit drinking, or work things out with their wife. It is not how many verses they can memorize or how well they understand fifteen letter theological terms. It is whether or not they have been justified. Whether or not they have accepted Christ blood as a covering for their sins. It is whether or not they recognize their NEED FOR CHRIST and act on that need. It is whether or not they have accepted the missing link.
This passage in Job has become one of my favorite in all of Scripture. Now that the foreshadowing has been fulfilled, it is an amazing passage!
He is not a man like me that I might answer Him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
Well, as it now stands, we can! Yet still not with us alone…only with Christ as our missing link!
1. Problematic Reality
Life is short and Not so sweet
2. Potential Remedies
Pretend everything is ok, website recommendations
Purge himself, try to make himself clean, hindu
3. Painful Realization
What is needed is something we don’t have
Job knew the only way was if God were a man, if there were a mediator
God did become man, God did provide a mediator
Attempts to find and identify the missing link between man and ape runs in a predictable pattern. First, a press conference is announced. The discovery of an ape-like "ancestor" is revealed with an artist's impression of what the creature looked like. The discoverer becomes famous, earning money on lecture tours. The actual fossil bones are few and far between, but the imagination runs wild. Later, when more evidence is found, the "ancestor" turns out to be totally human or totally ape. Once this find is removed and no longer considered the missing link, you can expect another great discovery to save the day. And so on….
These scientists hope to link us to apes, but what people really want is to be linked with God. Scientists are trying to link us to our subordinates, but throughout history men have been trying to find the missing link to our superior. That is what religion is. It is man searching for God and trying to reach Him. Man, in every century, has been aware of his desperate need for this missing link.
The Spanish have a story about a father and son who became estranged. The son left home, and the father set out to find him. He searched for months without success. Finally, in desperation, the father turned to the newspaper for help. His ad simply read, “Dear Paco, meet me in front of the newspaper office at noon on Saturday. All is forgiven. I love you.” On Saturday, 800 young men named Paco showed up looking for forgiveness and love from their estranged father. The world is desperately longing for reconciliation. Man has been aware of this need to reconnect with other people, but mostly to God. And a wise man is aware that this is a problem. A wise man understands that there is a missing link.
Turn with me, if you will, to the book of Job. I’ll be focusing on Chapter 9, verses 25-35.
But let me start you off with some history on Job. Most of us know the basics of his story. Job 1:1 says that he was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. The text goes on to say that Job had a nice big family and a pretty good amount of wealth. 1:3 says he was the greatest man among all the people of the East. The Lord Himself said of Job, “There is no one on earth like him.” If there was a word for entirely sanctified back then I’m sure people would have thought of Job when they heard it. He was devout, though he was aware of no sin in his family, he prayed for his sons just in case.
One day, however, disaster struck. To make a short story shorter, he lost his wealth and his children very quickly. Some of his wealth was stolen. Some was burned up. His children were all together in the house of his eldest son when a pulverizing wind arose and knocked the house down on top of them, killing them all.
What did Job do? He fell on the ground and worshipped! What? Why? You see, Job was the cream of the crop. This was a man close to God. This was an extremely Godly man. But Job knew that no matter how good of a man he was, he was still in complete need of a merciful God. He was in need of a God who could be fully just, yet allow a fallen man into His presence. He was in need of the missing link between a holy God and a fallen race. How did He come to have this great sense of need?
Firstly, Job recognized the PROBLEMATIC REALITY. Life is short and not so sweet. Verses 25-26 show this:
My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy. They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their pray.
I take those two verses to mean that life is short and not very sweet.
Henry Kissinger became a household name during the Nixon administration. His brilliance was tapped by world leaders who readily recognized his genius. But, possibly, his wisest pearl did not come from politics. In a moment of contemplation he said, “What has most surprised me about life is how quickly it passes.”
The fact that life is short is not really a deep theological truth. The average man in the United States lives 73 years. The average woman lives 79 years. This begs the obvious question, who do the girls nag for their last six years? No, I’m just kidding. Girls don’t nag! But the fact is that 70 plus years is not a whole lot of time. It’s a dot on the timeline of world history. Sometimes I can hardly believe that my time here at Bethany is almost over. It seems like just yesterday Pres. Medders had a nice and full head of hair.
But life being short wouldn’t be such a bad thing if it were sweet. But is it sweet? The evidence suggests otherwise. Look at Job’s life. If any man deserved a peaceful time on earth it was this guy. But he lost his whole estate and his family. And I didn’t even tell you about his health. After his family and wealth were gone, his health was taken away too. He was afflicted with sore boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Life was not sweet for Job and it is not sweet for any of us. We’ll never rid ourselves of pain and agony. The effects of the fall weigh heavy on us throughout our lives. Has a close friend or relative of yours died? Have you forgotten where you placed something very important? Are the consequences of a past sin, even a forgiven sin, still affecting you? We all live in this world of pain. In fact, the problem of pain is the biggest objection non-Christians have to our faith. Pollster George Barna surveyed a cross section of men asking what one question they would ask given the opportunity. The number one answer was “Why is there pain and suffering in the world.”
Life is short and it is anything but sweet. This is the problematic reality that Job faced. The next five verses show man’s response to these problems. Man comes up with some POTENTIAL REMEDIES. They’re shown in verses 27-31:
If I say, “I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile, I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent. Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain? Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with washing soda, you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.”
Basically what Job is saying is that there are two ways man can try to compensate for the problem of life being short and not sweet. He can either pretend everything is OK, or he can attempt to purge himself, wash himself and make himself right before God.
First man can try to forget his complaint. He can try to forget that life stinks and put on a big fake Bethany Chorale smile and make it through each day. It doesn’t sound like Job really even tried this option. He knew it was stupid. There is no way to forget our troubles. No healthy way at least. But so many people are trying this today. They try to forget their pain. I saw a web site this past week that was incredibly sad. It contained an article called…well, I’ll rephrase the title, it was called, How to Forget Life is not good. Here’s what the article said:
How many times have you said this to yourself? Things just are not good, people are stupid. You haven't washed in a while and are probably better off dead. Here are some methods of passing the time until you die. They have been tested and proven to work. No guesswork involved here... have fun.
The article then goes on to discuss different ways of forgetting about the problem of pain. It suggests multiple ways to go on like everything is OK. These methods included: sleeping, using foreign substances, finding companionship, going to clubs, hitting your head against the wall, getting a job, making fun of other people, playing on the internet, staring at the wall, and killing yourself.
Suprisingly, many people attempt to use these methods to forget about pain. To forget that everything is not OK. They try to pretend long enough and hope the problem ends with death. But Job sees right away how foolish this attempt is. There is no way to truly ignore pain. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. Job says he would still dread all his sufferings. He can’t avoid them. They are too real. He knows the life is full of pain.
Job realizes that you can’t just pretend everything is OK. Everything is not OK. He realizes that he is guilty before a holy God. Even though he is seemingly clean he misses the mark of God’s perfection. In his eyes, there is no hope for him even after death.
The only other option Job ponders is trying to make himself right before God. Trying to purge himself or wash himself so that he will be clean and justified. Now let’s remember that Job was an honorable man. He was the cream of the crop. It is astounding that he saw himself as such a filthy being before God. This should make us take a close look at ourselves.
Arminian theology speaks of sin in the ethical sense. It is a willful and voluntary violation of a known law of God. I believe this is a proper view of sin. But what we must not forget is that even if we stop willfully violating God’s known law in our lives, we still fall short of His perfect holiness. You see, our fallenness not only violates God’s law. It is also misses the mark of God’s perfection. I think this is a danger is our theology.
It could be that some people look at our ideas regarding the age of accountability in the wrong way. I think it was viewed correctly at first, but now it is being mishandled. We must remember that an infant or a small child does not go to heaven because they are acceptable to God in themselves. We believe they go to heaven because God does not hold them accountable for the sinfulness. There’s a big difference there. We believe that God’s grace accepts them as covered by the blood of Christ. Without that grace they would not go to heaven.
But people in this fallen world are constantly trying to purge themselves.
A total of 36,000 Hindu holy men were part of the estimated crowd of 40 million attending the two month Kumbh Mela festival in India last spring. One of the activities during the festival is a river bath. One man in South India explains the purpose of the ritual bathing in the river, "They come for forgiveness of sins and salvation. Some thousands come stark naked--some of them rolling on the rough roads for miles, believing the festering sores on their bodies would earn them salvation...Hundreds have kept one arm lifted up for years until the arm gets shriveled with dry gangrene...others have stood on one leg for years, hanging on to a suspended sling while sleeping...all these are done to appease angry gods."
These Hindu’s are doing there best to make themselves clean before God, to make themselves worthy. If only they knew they were not even close to being acceptable before God.
Job realized the truth. He knew that man’s efforts could never reach God. It is a vain pursuit. Job came to the PAINFUL REALIZATION that what was needed was something apart from himself. He needed God to, in some way reach out to him. Let’s look at verses 32-35:
He is not a man like me that I might answer Him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
Job understood what was needed. He knew that the only way man could ever be acceptable before God was if God was a man, or something like an arbitrator linking divinity and humanity together. Job knew what he needed was this missing link. Only then could he boldly approach the LORD.
Now Job lived very early in human history. Many scholars believe Job is the oldest book in the Bible. Some place his life shortly before Abraham’s. Job didn’t have the light of Christ yet. But even before Christ came to this earth, Job recognized the need for Christ. Just as we look back to the cross for our salvation, Job looked ahead toward it.
And how awesome it is when we see how completely the cross has fulfilled our needs. Job said what was needed, and the Person of Jesus Christ fulfilled each of those needs. Job said, He is not a man like me that I may answer Him. Well, Jesus Christ became a man like Job. He became a man like you. He became a man like me, yet without sin. He was a perfect man. He was THE perfect man. John 1:14 says The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. Philippians 2:6-7 says that Jesus, Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Job also said, If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand on us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that His terror would frighten me no more. Well, Jesus Christ is that arbitrator. He is a mediator, THE mediator. He became that by taking the rod that Job, you, and I deserved. By taking the terror of God upon Himself. 1 Timothy 2:5-6 says, For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for many.
Job knew that if there was God-man, a missing link, a mediator reconnecting divinity with humanity, then, and only then would he be able to speak to God without fear. Well, because of Jesus Christ the Bible says we can now boldly approach the throne of grace. Hebrews 4:16 says, Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. The blood of Christ covering our sins has reconciled us to God.
Job was not yet ready to receive the light of Christ. He didn’t know that God would provide this God-man, this missing link. He knew without the God-man he couldn’t approach God. He said, but as it now stands with me, I cannot. But all of us here have received the light of Christ. I ask myself and I ask you this afternoon. Where does it stand for you now? Can you approach God boldly? Do you? Are you at peace because God has justified you in Christ? Or are you still pretending everything will work out in the end? Are you pretending that everything is OK? Can you come to God and be accepted? Or are you still hoping that you will be good enough when that day comes? Are you still trying to make your goodness outweigh your badness? Are you still trying to clean yourself?
Recognize your need. Know for certain that only The God-man can provide us an answer to our problem. Only He provides the link from us to God. We are totally dependent. We need Christ utterly, and only in Him are we saved to the uttermost. And only in Christ can we ever approach the throne.
If you take one thing from this sermon let it be this short phrase: WE NEED CHRIST! He is the only answer to our problem. He is our only link to the Father. He is the only missing link. Job recognized this need before it was met chronologically speaking. We need to recognize it now. WE NEED CHRIST.
Most of us in this room are going to be leaders in the church. As leaders we are responsible for preaching, teaching, and sharing this truth. It is not whether or not a person can quit smoking, quit drinking, or work things out with their wife. It is not how many verses they can memorize or how well they understand fifteen letter theological terms. It is whether or not they have been justified. Whether or not they have accepted Christ blood as a covering for their sins. It is whether or not they recognize their NEED FOR CHRIST and act on that need. It is whether or not they have accepted the missing link.
This passage in Job has become one of my favorite in all of Scripture. Now that the foreshadowing has been fulfilled, it is an amazing passage!
He is not a man like me that I might answer Him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
Well, as it now stands, we can! Yet still not with us alone…only with Christ as our missing link!
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