The Spirit is My Witness and My Advocate!

Job 16

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, January 27.

Job responded directly to Eliphaz’s last speech with a rebuke, “Sorry comforters are you all” (Job 16:2b). Clearly, Eliphaz’s desire to bring words of consolation to his friend had fallen short. Rather than Job being comforted by his friends’ words, he felt accused and judged by them. Have you ever felt that way?

After rebuking his friends, Job returned his attention to God. He knew that his only hope for vindication (or comfort) would come from God, as he explained in Job 16:19-20, “Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. My friends are my scoffers; my eye weeps to God.” [emphasis added]

Did you know that Job was using legal terms? A witness testifies to what they know or have seen. An advocate acts as a representative on behalf of a person or cause. Jesus used these same legal concepts when He taught the disciples about the Holy Spirit in John 15:26-27:

When the Helper [Advocate] comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify [bear witness] about Me, and you will testify [bear witness] also, because you have been with Me from the beginning. [emphasis added]

Job cried out to God to be his witness and his advocate because his friends had tried him and found him guilty of being a sinner in the hands of an angry God. Whereas, Jesus, our “Advocate with the Father” (1 John 2:1), testifies to us through the Spirit that we are already “saved through Him” (John 3:17).

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