| Consequences of Sin and Forgiveness: Lesson 10: Need For Intercessor 1/08/2014 by turtle Job 9:13-35 KJV (13) If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. (14) How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? (15) Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. (16) If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. (17) For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. (18) He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. (19) If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? (20) If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. (21) Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. (22) This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. (24) The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? (25) Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. (26) They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. (27) If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: (28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. (29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; (31) Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. (32) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. (33) Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. (34) Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: (35) Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. Our own way of taking care of sin is to correct the problem and make amends. If I break child’s GI Joe then I must replace it and the problem is solved. No, the child want that same GI Joe and child can tell that the other is new, and declares it not the same. When I was around age four I had been taught not to take things from strangers. Well I got my finger smashed in the car door and it bleed. Guy at the company picnic my family was on said he had some bandages. I refused to accept help. My mother finally found a strip of cloth to use in the car. It pacified me. Many religions have pacifiers for guilt, for sin. Many have band aids but not the correct one. Not the one that will satisfy. One might be able to replace a worker who evil, one might be able to make a mends with a band aid, but the covering is not good enough. See evil worker will just go to another job and mess it up. You can try to fix the worker to enable him to do a better job, or you can fire him and hopes maybe someone else will fix the problem of the guy. The error of sin is you can resist temptation or you can put a band aid on it to resist it, but the temptation will remain until the temptation healer is applied. This generation is full of self help books and improvement helpers. Yet the only one I know that seriously take care of the problem is Jesus. The only one that can wash us white as snow is Jesus. We might fix the problem temporarily but as soon as the right conditions are meet temptation becomes to great to do what not right again. Jesus is application that is good once for salvation from sin, but must be reapplied in the since of the word for sanctification process. Job speaks of being able to wash his own hands of filth, but failed to be able to be made whole. So it is with replacing of the GI Joe, but the guilt for breaking it often remains. Your band aid is the replacing or fixing of the problem. No matter how good the solution is that band aid never makes things whole. Our memories are reflection of our mishaps, our memories flood our minds of past guilt and pain. Those pain not always are fault, but definitely a part of us. God at the time of Job was the only one that could make him white as snow. Job could do the right sacrifice but guilt would remain, only God could remove the guilt of stain left behind. Job a righteous man of faith, but was in need of intercessor for he could not figure out what he had done to cause his turmoil. He knew that his punishment had to do with sin. After all sin lead to punishment and always will. He wanted someone to talk to God for Him, because nothing he said seemed to be the right fix. Nothing he said seem to get an answer from the Lord. He knew he could not justify himself that only God could. However the need for that intercessor was great. He needed someone to talk to God to find out what he done. He gone through all his past sins and there fixes. He found himself in need of Savior. Job need someone to make him whole before God. To make him whole because whatever he done had cost him his family, his home, his life, as he knew it. This punishment was great upon Job’s life and he knew whatever was wrong needed fixing. He could not find a way to justify himself before the Lord. His friends were offering band aids to his problem that was not the solution. He needed the band aid that came from God. He needed a robe of righteousness to cover his sins, and their was none to be found. After all he done all the traditional sacrifices and even sat in sack cloth and ashes, to no prevail from the torment. His body racked with boils that fester. He desire for God to mend him what ever was the problem, he desired it to be fixed. Jesus is our problem solver. He is the only one that will do. He is the only one that can intercede on our behalf. We might be able to fix many of our problems, but we can not fix all sin. Put tooth paste on a baseball bat and try to stick it back in the tube only finding it impossible feet, for some would still be left out even if you got some back in. There is no way a human being can fix everything. One he can do is believe in the one that can and that is Jesus our justifier and our go between to God. Job relied on the fact God could make him whole again. God could heal him. The end of Job story, God not only heals him, but restores him. Job was given a new family and plenty of livestock to replace what he had lost. God’ s restoration makes one whole. After punishment comes restoration. Dear Heavenly wash me and make me white as clean as snow. Purge my sins and make me whole. Thank you for giving us intercessor to you that when we sin, we can rely on Christ to defend us. To say I paid for that. In Jesus precious name, Amen. http://www.turtle30cshell.com _ |
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