Clean from Unclean

January 17, 2007

Job 14:4 KJV
(4) Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Job said some amazing things. As I work through his words, I have to stop to make sure, read it slowly, not because it is boring, but because I want to make sure that I find those nuggets.

Job makes a statement that his friends ignore. And at first glance it looks like most of us would also. I mean, clean out of unclean, what is he talking about here? Obviously water that is unclean can not be clean right. And an unclean animal, one that by God's law could not be eaten. There are two possible things that it could mean. But Job is questioning God here. He is asking God why He istorturing Job. Man will sin. Why? Because he is unclean, and when he joins with an unclean woman, the result will be unclean. Job is saying, look, you made us this way, why the problems.

Now we know that Job was not getting punished by God. But what he had to say is true. And it is the reason that Jesus had to come. Only a clean God could conceive a clean Son. And only that Son could die for us so that our sins would be gone. Job was showing us that Jesus was to come in his own little way.

Read through the Bible in Historical Order
Today
Job 14:1-16:22
Tomorrow
Job 17:1-20:29