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Introduction:
Pray.
1.
The Plight of Man (vv.23-24)
Job was suffering (v.23)
Listen to His plea for help!
Job is being crushed by his affliction.
He feels the weight of the crushing judgment of his friends, his family, his neighbors, even little kids that jeered at him as they saw him.
Job’s friends blamed him for what was happening
Job lived in a fallen world just like us and suffered under the effects of it
He begs to have his words permanently memorialized.
Isn’t it cool that God actually did permanently preserve his words by writing them down in the Bible?
We all suffer and have a common plight of living life in this fallen, broken world.
Illustration:
Jesus encountered a man that suffered, like Job, from life in a fallen world (John 9).
He was born blind and had lived his whole life that way.
Can you imagine what this man had to endure?
He couldn’t take care of himself very well.
He couldn’t get a normal job or provide the basic necessities.
He was probably very dependent on his parents to take care of him, even as an adult while they were alive.
Jesus encounters the man along the road and the disciples asked Jesus who had sinned to make this man be born blind.
Do you see how terrible that was?
They thought that this man might even be being punished by God for his parents sins!
Application:
Jesus pointed out that it wasn’t either of them.
It happened so that God might be glorified in this man’s healing.
Did you know that God is glorified in suffering?
How you and I respond to suffering can bring glory to God.
This is what Jesus did with the suffering He endured.
He went to the cross first of all to glorify God.
Salvation is a work of grace that God accomplishes to bring glory to Himself.
That may sound weird to you, but He is God.
Who else is He going to glorify that is greater than Himself?
However, we are the beneficiaries of that glorifying, because in the process of Jesus bringing glory to God through His suffering, He is lavishing His love on us at the same time, and we are being saved by what Jesus did.
I need to explain myself for just a moment.
You might not think you needed to be saved.
If we go back to our passage with Job, the truth is that Job is guilty of sin and he lives in a fallen world.
So do you and I.
You ask, “How do you know we’ve sinned?”
God has given us His commands as a mirror to us to show us.
How many of you have ever lied?
Then you are a liar.
How many of you have ever lusted?
Jesus said if you lust in your heart you have committed adultery.
How many of you have stolen something, no matter how valuable or worthless it was?
That makes you a thief.
How many of you have ever taken God’s name and used it as a curse word.
You wouldn’t do that with your mother’s name, because it is treating it with dishonor.
When you do this with God’s name, it is a sin called blasphemy.
It was punishable by death in the Old Testament.
The point of all of this is that by these standards, if you are like almost every breathing person on the planet, you are a lying, thieving, adulterous, blasphemer at heart.
You have to stand before God on the day of judgment.
Will you be innocent or guilty?
Will you go to heaven or hell?
Job understood the plight of man and that He needed some help.
That brings us to the second point.
2. The Resurrected Redeemer (v.25)
Job says in verse 25
He declares His faith in the midst of his brokenness.
“My Redeemer, the One who will pull me out of this pit, He lives.
He will stand upon the earth.
It’s clear that Job believed His redeemer was no mere man.
His redeemer was none other than God Himself.
He believed he would stand upon the earth.
God would come down and rescue Him.
This is faith.
It is a confidence in a reality that has not yet happened for Job.
Now remember, Job is looking forward into the future with confidence.
In some ways I think Old Testament saints had it tougher than we do.
We get to look back at the completed work of Jesus, the Redeemer, on the cross.
We don’t have to guess if He will really come or not.
We can see that He did come.
And, He is coming again!
Just like Job believed and it came to pass, we have a promise that our Redeemer will one day set foot on this earth again.
This next time, though, He’s not coming as a Lamb to the slaughter, but as a King to the spoil.
He’s coming to conquer.
Illustration:
Now, this idea of a Redeemer is actually the Hebrew word for Kinsman Redeemer.
Have you ever heard the story of Ruth.
Ruth married a Jewish guy whose mother’s name was Naomi.
Naomi’s husband died and so did her two sons and she had tried to get her daughters-in-law to go back to their own people.
One did, but not Ruth.
She said, “Your God will be my God, and your people will be my people.”
She went with her back to Bethlehem and then she gleaned in the fields until one day a kinsman redeemer by the name of Boaz noticed her.
The kinsman redeemer was the next closest relative that would take in a bereaved wife and care for her as a part of his family.
Without the kinsman redeemer, the wife would have no one to provide for her.
It would be a miserable life.
In fact, before Ruth met Boaz, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said, “Just call me Mara, which means bitter, because the Lord has dealt bitterly with me.
Well, Ruth was redeemed and Naomi with her.
Ruth actually became the great-grandmother of the famous King David and way down the line of her descendants, the ultimate Kinsman Redeemer would be born, His name is Jesus Christ!
Application:
You and I are like Ruth and Naomi and Job.
We are in need of a redeemer to rescue us from our sin that has separated us from God.
We need a living redeemer, not a dead one.
The dead man cannot help us.
The living one can.
Jesus is that Redeemer and He will rescue you and redeem you if you will come to Him.
3. The Promised Resurrection (vv.26-29)
Not only was Job confident of a Redeemer that would come, but also that He would see him in the flesh
He sas in vv.
26-27
Job believed in a personal, bodily resurrected.
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