Chuck Smith explores the profound need for a mediator, or 'daysman,' as expressed by Job in his suffering. He emphasizes Job's isolation and despair, highlighting the contrast between God's greatness and man's insignificance. Smith reveals that the ultimate answer to Job's cry is found in Jesus Christ, the one mediator who bridges the gap between God and humanity. Through Christ's sacrifice, believers can access God and experience a personal relationship with Him. The sermon calls for a submission to Christ, recognizing Him as the only way to approach God.

I TIMOTHY 2:5 "NEEDED, A DAYSMAN" I. THE MAN JOB. A. Stripped to bare individuality. 1. First possessions; oxen, Sabeens; sheep & servants by fire; camels by Chaldeans. 2. Next children. 3. Companion in faith - wife. 4. His friends. a. I admire his friends; Eliphaz, Bildad, Zephar and Elihad. 5. The very sense of the greatness of his own personality. a. In the beginning of the calamity "Naked came I in." b. Now he curses day of his birth. 6. Sense of God's justice. B. Background of text. 1. Bildad argued that God is lust. a. Job began his reply by agreeing, "Of a truth I know this is so but," b. Job responds with a question, "how should a man be lust with God?" c. Word of law court - how can a man argue his case before God so as to justify himself? II. THE NEED OF A DAYSMAN. A. One who could stand between. B. The need of a daysman came out of a double conscience. 1. The greatness of God vs. 5-11. 2. The nothingness of man. 3. David faced same double conscience "When I consider the heavens" "What is man, that God is mindful of him?" David - How can so great a being deal with man? Job - How can so small a being deal with God? 4. Man needs a daysman - arbiter - go - between. a. One who could stand between us and touch us both. C. This cry of Job, an elemental cry of nature, and expresses an abiding need. 1. Man cannot know life in the full sense of the word apart from conscious dealings with God. a. God deals with man. b. Belshazzar "The very God in whose hand thy breath is." c. Paul "In Him we live, we move, we have." Ill. THE ANSWER TO JOB'S CRY. "There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus." A. Job cried "There is no daysman." N .T. answers "There is a mediator." 1. One who can lay His hand upon God for He is one with God yet. 2. One who can lay His hand upon me for "The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us." He knows humanity not only by omniscience, but also by experience. "The man Christ Jesus." B. N .T. continues "Who gave Himself as a ransom for our sins." 1. Here in is a revelation of that which separates man from God. a. Isa. "God's arm not short." 2. Christ by His death removed our sin, and has thus made access for us to come to God. 3. Do not seek to approach God through your intellect. "Who by searching, can find out God?" 4. Submit yourself to Christ, ask Him to come into your life.