Making Intercession For Men Of Error

Job 42:8
Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”


It is good to make intercession to God on behalf of those around you who do not speak forth the truthfulness of God. The truth of God comes to us through a book called the Bible. It is truly known and understood by us when Jesus takes His truth and teaches the reader by His Spirit.


Friends can come to us in the name of God and think they are speaking forth truth. When there is no source to turn to as the standard of truth it may appear that both parties are in the right. This is when the Word of God comes as the Judge. The Words of God are the Words of Truth.

Neither Job's friends nor Job had their Bibles open. If they would have then maybe God wouldn't have needed to come in a whirlwind. The Bible should have the same impact upon our understanding of truth and error as the Words of God did with Job and his friends. The Words of God cut like a knife, they discern truth from error. The Words of God showed Job that he was to function as a Priest on behalf of his friends. The Words of God showed his friends that they needed a Mediator.


We have a great High Priest who has entered into the heavens on our behalf. Jesus is our Mediator for all of the words that we have spoken forth in error. Job is a picture here of Jesus.


We are not Jesus, yet we as men of God ought to be lifting up to Jesus our friends who are still speaking forth error as truth. We as men of God need to be pouring into the Words of God so that we can bring His Word to cut like a knife to discern truth from error.