No Partiality
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer. I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.
Job 32:20–22
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No Partiality
Elihu ends his opening monologue by swearing an oath. “For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.” He professes to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.” He wants to show not partiality. This is a noble sentiment; one we hope we can exhibit. Yet too often we do just the opposite. We give no qualms about taking side. When we are right, we are right and we will let everyone know, whether they asked or not. Yet there is One who truly does show no partiality. When it comes to sin, God refuses to make excuses for it or to look the other way. No matter who we are, our sins condemn us before God. And we deserve nothing but death (Romans 6:23). God also showed no partiality to His own Son when He took upon Himself our sins. The wages of sin is death. Christ took on our sins and carried them to the cross. And there on a desolate hill He died. God did not spare His own Son, so that our sins would be atoned for, so that we would have a relationship with Him once again. And there was no partiality shown on whose sins Christ bore. “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world” (1John 2:2). So now by grace through faith we are part of God’s family, first born sons of the Father, coheirs with the Son (Romans 8:17).
Job 32:20–22
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No Partiality
Elihu ends his opening monologue by swearing an oath. “For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.” He professes to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.” He wants to show not partiality. This is a noble sentiment; one we hope we can exhibit. Yet too often we do just the opposite. We give no qualms about taking side. When we are right, we are right and we will let everyone know, whether they asked or not. Yet there is One who truly does show no partiality. When it comes to sin, God refuses to make excuses for it or to look the other way. No matter who we are, our sins condemn us before God. And we deserve nothing but death (Romans 6:23). God also showed no partiality to His own Son when He took upon Himself our sins. The wages of sin is death. Christ took on our sins and carried them to the cross. And there on a desolate hill He died. God did not spare His own Son, so that our sins would be atoned for, so that we would have a relationship with Him once again. And there was no partiality shown on whose sins Christ bore. “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world” (1John 2:2). So now by grace through faith we are part of God’s family, first born sons of the Father, coheirs with the Son (Romans 8:17).
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