1. Job 9-10

2. Job Tells Bildad not meeting need Makes it very clear Not even in the field of problem Job knows he can't defend himself None of us can do so before God

3. Job 9-10 Job We will hear Job's heart cry Is there an intercessor? Someone to plead for me? Is there? Who?

4. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:1-2 So yes, what Bildad said is true But Job still has a need not met No one has spoken to the need So how can I be just with God?

5. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:1-2 Job surely needed gospel now Needed to know man can be just Job wants questions answered Friends not answering questions Who will answer our questions?

6. Job 9-10 Job John 16:30 Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.

7. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:3-4 Job says he's not pretending Not putting up a front before God Knows he cannot contend w God Cannot answer God's questions But he wants God to answer him

8. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:3-4 God seems far removed Ever felt this way? Is God far removed? What about when we suffer?

9. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:5-8 Tremendous picture of God God as Creator Job knows Him as Creator But doesn't know His tender mercy Can we lose sight of it?

10. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:9-10 Knows something of the stars Possible astronomy here But not astrology

11. Job 9-10 Astrology? No! Job “is not attempting to say that he is in misery because he was born under a certain star. This is without a doubt one of the most foolish things men say.”

12. Job 9-10 Astrology? No! “Shakespeare had the answer to that when Mark Antony said, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

13. Job 9-10 God Job 9:11 Job knows God is Creator of all Also knows God is spirit Job cannot see Him at all

14. Job 9-10 God Job 9:12-14 Job knows wouldn't stand a chance Not in the presence of God Were God to ask questions of Job Job wouldn't know how to answer

15. Job 9-10 God Job 9:16-19 Job thinks God not listening to him Not sure if God would listen Can we feel that way? Is that really true?

16. Job 9-10 God Job 9:16-19 Can we hear God better? How can we hear God better? But is that even the issue here?

17. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:16-19 Job thinks he could not plead case Can anyone, before God? How then do we have standing?

18. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:20 Job admits his sinful nature But later on we see Job has high estimation of himself He will say he is pretty good man Still knows can't defend himself

19. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:20 “Many today who, because they do not know the Word of God, feel that they will be able to stand before God and meet His standards and are actually well pleasing to Him.”

20. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:21-22 Job says wicked often prosper So friends are not correct Obeying God does not necessarily lead to prosperity Wicked & righteous alike suffer

21. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:23 Job is discouraged Thinks God is ignoring him Has God forgotten Job? Has God forgotten you? What gives you hope?

22. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:24 Nation ruled by wicked is blind Astounding true statement We see it in our day, in our land

23. Job 9-10 Job Job 9:25-31 Several ways of expressing despair Job is losing hope Frustrating when friends fail Just not finding answers right now Needs hope

24. Job 9-10 God Job 9:32 Job says, “If God were a man, I could talk to Him” Is God a man? Did He become a man?

25. Job 9-10 God Job 9:32 “This is the reason that God became a man, my friend – so man could talk to Him and walk with Him and realize that he cannot meet God's standards. The only Man who ever met God's standards was the Lord Jesus Christ.”

26. Job 9-10 God Job 9:32 Some plays/movies = curse Insinuate Jesus was sinful man! Liberalism saying this for years Cannot find it in Word of God Jesus was without sin

27. Job 9-10 God Job 9:33-35 Job longed for mediator between God and him There is! 1 Tim 2:5: One God, one mediator, Christ Jesus

28. Job 9-10 Job Job 10:1-2 But Job still in his circumstances Still bitter pill to swallow He is plain and honest about it Is it ok to be honest before God?

29. Job 9-10 Job Job 10:1-2 God will answer him God will show Job something about himself Something that we all need to know about ourselves

30. Job 9-10 Job Job 10:3 Can't understand why he suffers While so many wicked prosper That can frustrate you & me But in time, God deals w all Bible faces up to questions of life

31. Job 9-10 God Job 10:4 Job wonders if God even sees him But Jesus does understand He was a man, like we are He knows what it is to suffer He knows how you feel

32. Job 9-10 Job Job 10:5-18 Job begins defending himself Now friends dig hole deeper (v 17)‏ So what is the point of all this?

33. Job 9-10 Job Job 10:19-22 Job is back where he started Wanting life to be over Stays there part way through book

34. Job 9-10 Soul Sleep? Job 10:19-22 Not taught here! Job 19:25-26; Lk 23:24 “I know that my Redeemer lives!” “In my flesh I shall see God” “This day you will be with Me...”

35. Job 9-10 References J. Vernon McGee Commentary