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Recognizing the Sovereignty of God; The need of a Mediator; and Pointing to The Redeemer.
JOB Chapter 18 –Listen to us; you are among the wicked; you have brought this on yourself.
Bildad: “Builds and Adds” to Job’s suffering as he describes the worst of mankind – the wicked.

• How long will you ignore our words and regarded us as stupid (beasts)?
• The light of the wicked goes out; the flame of his fire does not shine; It’s dark in his tent and his lamp (light) is put out.
• You’re frightened; you are weak; you’ve got horrible skin problems; this is the result of your wickedness.
• You’re dried up and withered, paraded before the doors of death.

Job, this is your wake-up call!

• When the wicked dies and he’s forgotten like he’s chased out of the world.
• This is the place of the one that doesn’t knowGod.

JOB Chapter 19:1-23 –Job’s Horizontal Thoughts: Why do you persecute me as God does?

What Job Feels – What Job Knows:

• There is no justice.
• God has hemmed me in.
• God has stripped me of my glory and honor.
• God has destroyed me and taken my hope from me.
• God counts me as one of His enemies.
• God has removed everyone from me – even my wife’s tenderness.
• I’m repulsive to everyone, though I beg for mercy. 

JOB Chapter 19:23-29: Job Turns from Horizontal Thoughts (dwelling on the problem) To Vertical Proclamation of Faith:

When we get our eyes off of the problem and onto the One who holds the solution we find strength to make it through the trials. In the midst of trouble – turn your eyes upon God’s Word (The Truth) and the eternal things!

• Job looks for a redeemer (go’el).  God is a living God.

We know from scripture that this redeemer is the vindicator; the blood avenger; had the responsibility to “buy back”, “restore”, and “redeem” the lost inheritance of a deceased relative.  Read about the “go-el” in the book of Ruth.  

''If a man dies, shall he live again?'' (Job 14:14)

Job’s understanding about the go’el may be dim, but he looks for the One that can help him.  He is not a stranger.

''How shall man be just before God?'' [Job 9:2]

The Redeemer in this passage points to our Savior, Jesus Christ, who justifies us through His blood sacrifice on the cross and presents us blameless before the throne of Heaven if we are covered by His blood – if we have believed Him (by faith) and by His grace are saved from our sins.  Job did not know the Redeemer – the Redeemer was not yet born, but from scripture we understand that Job knew about a Redeemer.

• Job knew that he would see God for himself.  “After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God” (v26) … Where soul and body come together after death and in the presence of the Lord.

JOB Chapter 20: Zophar’s retaliation!

LET ME WARN YOU! The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is temporary.

• Theirpride and arrogance are excessive even to the point of thinking that they are God.

Note: this makes me think about the Tower of Babel – “come let us build ourselves a city and make a tower with its top to the sky.  Let us make a name for ourselves”

• They’re going to die and people will ask, “Where is he”?
• They love evil, and their appetites are never satisfied.
• God’s judgment waits for the wicked man.

JOB Chapter 21: The wicked.

Job responds -

• This is the crisis – the deep struggle – between Job and God, “Where is God”?

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