1 00:00:02,666 --> 00:00:03,833 We're in the book of Ruth. 2 00:00:03,833 --> 00:00:05,966 We started this series last week. 3 00:00:05,966 --> 00:00:08,966 It's a four week series because there's four chapters in Ruth, 4 00:00:09,133 --> 00:00:12,433 and I've titled this series The Unseen Hand of God. 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,666 We have a Bible and brought one with you. 6 00:00:15,666 --> 00:00:18,033 Go to the book of Ruth. 7 00:00:18,033 --> 00:00:20,633 It's right after the Book of Judges. 8 00:00:20,633 --> 00:00:21,333 So goes. 9 00:00:21,333 --> 00:00:22,366 Genesis. Exodus. 10 00:00:22,366 --> 00:00:24,100 Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. 11 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:25,433 Joshua. Judges. Ruth. 12 00:00:25,433 --> 00:00:28,433 So it's right there at the beginning of the Old Testament, 13 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,500 and the book of Ruth is a book 14 00:00:35,366 --> 00:00:38,566 about the providence of God, though it doesn't use that word. 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,433 We see what's called the providence of God all throughout the book of Ruth. 16 00:00:44,133 --> 00:00:46,466 And I want to help us understand the 17 00:00:46,466 --> 00:00:48,800 what providence is. 18 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,733 It's different than the miracle of God. 19 00:00:50,733 --> 00:00:53,000 There's the problems of God on the miracle of God. 20 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,566 And God is active in both most of the time. 21 00:00:56,566 --> 00:00:59,133 And this is just a recap for those of you who were here last week. 22 00:00:59,133 --> 00:01:02,800 Most of time when we want God to move in our lives, we want a miracle of God. 23 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,400 We want him to step in right now, 24 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,666 do something miraculous, solve it, fix it, add it, change it, whatever. 25 00:01:09,833 --> 00:01:11,366 While God does that, 26 00:01:11,366 --> 00:01:14,666 that's not God's normal mode of operation. 27 00:01:15,366 --> 00:01:17,666 Even in the book of acts 28 00:01:17,666 --> 00:01:21,066 I cover some 30 years of time. 29 00:01:21,066 --> 00:01:23,233 There's about 30 miracles in the book of acts. 30 00:01:23,233 --> 00:01:25,233 That's only one a year. 31 00:01:25,233 --> 00:01:27,033 That's not a lot. 32 00:01:27,033 --> 00:01:29,900 We read it as though that everybody 33 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:32,900 walking around the church got a miracle, and it just didn't happen that way. 34 00:01:33,533 --> 00:01:36,466 Though that still happens. 35 00:01:36,466 --> 00:01:38,900 God's normal mode of operation, 36 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:41,900 this world is through his providence. 37 00:01:41,933 --> 00:01:45,600 And his providence says this that God orchestrates 38 00:01:45,933 --> 00:01:48,933 supernaturally the natural. 39 00:01:49,533 --> 00:01:53,266 So God takes our natural world, our decisions, our mistakes, our success, 40 00:01:53,266 --> 00:01:53,866 all that. 41 00:01:53,866 --> 00:01:57,266 And he supernaturally mixes those together for good. 42 00:01:57,766 --> 00:02:01,133 The Bible says for the good of those who love God. 43 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,733 And that's an important thing for us to stand to us to understand. 44 00:02:04,866 --> 00:02:06,466 So the providence of God, 45 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,366 for those who are disobedient, 46 00:02:10,366 --> 00:02:15,633 the providence works in alignment for those who are obedient. 47 00:02:16,133 --> 00:02:18,466 Providence of God works for blessing. 48 00:02:18,466 --> 00:02:20,133 Here's what I mean. 49 00:02:20,133 --> 00:02:22,500 The Bible promises us that 50 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:25,700 we know Romans 828, that God works all things together 51 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:28,700 for the good of those who love him, 52 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:30,900 and were called according his purpose. 53 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,633 Jesus will tell us in John 1415 54 00:02:33,633 --> 00:02:37,000 that you'll know you love me if you obey me. 55 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,800 So part of the litmus test of loving God is obeying God. 56 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,033 It doesn't mean being perfect, but it does mean when I realize there's sin 57 00:02:46,033 --> 00:02:50,900 in my life, I repent, I confess it, I repent of it, and I do it God's way. 58 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,100 That's living in obedience. 59 00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:59,400 For those who live in obedience, God's providence works and creates blessing. 60 00:02:59,966 --> 00:03:01,200 That's the promise of Scripture. 61 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,200 But for those who don't love God, guess what? 62 00:03:04,366 --> 00:03:06,000 Prophecy doesn't work that way for you. 63 00:03:07,133 --> 00:03:10,133 Providence of God works for alignment, 64 00:03:10,533 --> 00:03:13,533 for the blessing of those who do love God. 65 00:03:14,333 --> 00:03:17,033 Because the Bible says 66 00:03:17,033 --> 00:03:19,700 God providentially works together, all things together 67 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:21,300 for good, for those who love him. 68 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:24,866 So for those who don't love him, God is still providentially in control. 69 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:29,800 But those lives work in alignment for the blessing of those who do. 70 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:33,066 I look at the book of Ruth 71 00:03:33,066 --> 00:03:33,866 in the book of Ruth. 72 00:03:33,866 --> 00:03:36,633 This whole providence of God, 73 00:03:36,633 --> 00:03:40,166 the Book of Ruth is a story about Ruth and her mother in law, Naomi. 74 00:03:40,166 --> 00:03:43,966 Naomi was married to a man named Elimelech, and they had two sons. 75 00:03:45,133 --> 00:03:47,666 God's providence did not work 76 00:03:47,666 --> 00:03:50,666 for the blessing of those three men. 77 00:03:51,166 --> 00:03:54,166 They all died 78 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:57,066 in a foreign land. 79 00:03:57,066 --> 00:04:02,200 But it did work for the blessing of Naomi, and especially Ruth, 80 00:04:02,733 --> 00:04:07,366 who came back to faith and came became women of faith. 81 00:04:08,166 --> 00:04:10,366 Loving God 82 00:04:10,366 --> 00:04:13,000 and God, providentially working these together for them. 83 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Do you understand what we're talking about here? 84 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:15,900 Yeah. So? 85 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:20,333 So it's not like like just everybody just happens to get, 86 00:04:21,033 --> 00:04:21,600 you know, 87 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,866 I mean, there's the common grace of God that the rain falls on the just 88 00:04:24,866 --> 00:04:25,633 and the unjust. 89 00:04:25,633 --> 00:04:28,000 You know, the sun rises and falls for everybody. 90 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,266 You know, like the common grace of God, 91 00:04:30,266 --> 00:04:32,366 we all get free air to breathe at this point. 92 00:04:32,366 --> 00:04:35,166 They haven't taxed that yet. So we all get the, you know, 93 00:04:36,266 --> 00:04:37,833 but but God's hand of 94 00:04:37,833 --> 00:04:40,833 providence works for those who love him, 95 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:43,866 but for those who don't love him, God aligns 96 00:04:43,866 --> 00:04:46,866 their lives to work on behalf and for those who do. 97 00:04:47,466 --> 00:04:49,433 And and so and so. 98 00:04:49,433 --> 00:04:53,633 I want you to understand how this Providence thing works. 99 00:04:53,633 --> 00:04:57,200 And so one of the ways we say it is this, that, that God's hand 100 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,200 seems most powerful when it is most unseen. 101 00:05:01,333 --> 00:05:03,966 And the providence of God we don't see from the front windshield, 102 00:05:03,966 --> 00:05:07,066 we see in the rearview mirror, we can look back and see, 103 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:10,633 hey, God was doing something, and this is how he orchestrated things. 104 00:05:10,633 --> 00:05:13,366 We don't see it looking through the front windshield, 105 00:05:13,366 --> 00:05:16,833 but those who believe in and trust the providence of God 106 00:05:17,066 --> 00:05:19,166 can look through the front windshield. 107 00:05:19,166 --> 00:05:21,900 Unknown of what's going to happen in the future, 108 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:27,100 and go into that unknown with confidence and assurance, because they know 109 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:30,400 that the providence of God is working on their behalf. 110 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:33,400 You follow fast. 111 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,166 So let me just 112 00:05:35,133 --> 00:05:38,166 I think God gave this to me right before the first service started. 113 00:05:38,166 --> 00:05:39,700 It was sitting right down here 114 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:42,133 and I got out this posted on our job to this down 115 00:05:42,133 --> 00:05:43,766 because it just kind of hit me all of a sudden. 116 00:05:43,766 --> 00:05:46,766 Let me just let me just tell you. 117 00:05:47,466 --> 00:05:49,266 Contentment. 118 00:05:49,266 --> 00:05:51,433 Contentment is proof 119 00:05:51,433 --> 00:05:54,433 that you trust God's providence. 120 00:05:55,933 --> 00:05:58,200 Let that sink in. 121 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,200 Your contentment right now 122 00:06:01,633 --> 00:06:04,633 is your proof that you trust God's providence. 123 00:06:05,133 --> 00:06:07,800 Because if you know that you love God 124 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,000 and he's working things right now together for your good, 125 00:06:12,666 --> 00:06:14,633 there's a lot of contentment in that. 126 00:06:14,633 --> 00:06:16,700 You understand things now. 127 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:19,333 So let's turn that coin over 128 00:06:19,333 --> 00:06:22,333 discontentment in your life right now 129 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:25,400 is proof that you do not trust 130 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,400 the providence of God. 131 00:06:28,666 --> 00:06:29,333 Do you understand? 132 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:33,000 And so 133 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,933 when we start talking about doctrine and sound doctrine, 134 00:06:36,933 --> 00:06:40,866 like the providence of God, it has profound implications 135 00:06:41,066 --> 00:06:44,300 on how we live and how we view our lives 136 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:47,300 and the world. 137 00:06:47,866 --> 00:06:50,366 It's easy to be it's easier. 138 00:06:50,366 --> 00:06:55,433 It's easier to be content when I trust that 139 00:06:55,433 --> 00:06:59,466 whatever's going on right now, God is working it together for my good. 140 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:03,100 If I don't trust him, his heart or his hand, 141 00:07:03,866 --> 00:07:06,866 discontentment is soon to follow. 142 00:07:08,333 --> 00:07:09,533 You got it? 143 00:07:09,533 --> 00:07:12,366 Yeah. 144 00:07:12,366 --> 00:07:13,833 This is why Christ followers 145 00:07:13,833 --> 00:07:16,833 and relationship with the father 146 00:07:17,433 --> 00:07:20,433 should be the most contented people on earth. 147 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,000 Because we know 148 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 that all things. 149 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:31,900 We're good. You. 150 00:07:33,066 --> 00:07:34,733 So I'm not to verse one yet. 151 00:07:34,733 --> 00:07:36,633 We'll get there. 152 00:07:36,633 --> 00:07:40,133 Let me just recap a little bit to the story of 153 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,166 the book of Ruth is a story of providence and redemption. 154 00:07:45,066 --> 00:07:46,100 And we're going to talk about 155 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:49,100 what redemption is and how it's fleshed out in chapter two. 156 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,333 But Ruth, the main character, there's only two books in the Bible 157 00:07:52,333 --> 00:07:55,366 named after a woman, Ruth and Esther, both in the Old Testament. 158 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:58,500 So the book of Ruth named after this, 159 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:01,833 the the heroine in this story, Ruth, 160 00:08:03,066 --> 00:08:05,233 she's not a Hebrew. 161 00:08:05,233 --> 00:08:09,166 She's not from the Promised Land, from a land called Moab. 162 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,900 And how she got to the promised land in the story of God 163 00:08:13,233 --> 00:08:16,800 is that this man Elimelech, whose name means 164 00:08:18,566 --> 00:08:20,633 God is my king, 165 00:08:20,633 --> 00:08:22,833 didn't live like it and didn't trust God. 166 00:08:22,833 --> 00:08:25,133 He was married to a lady named Naomi. 167 00:08:25,133 --> 00:08:28,900 And in the land of Israel, during the time of the judges in the Bible, 168 00:08:29,133 --> 00:08:30,666 there was a famine that hit. 169 00:08:30,666 --> 00:08:32,033 It wasn't a natural famine. 170 00:08:32,033 --> 00:08:36,100 It was a judgment of God against them because they had rejected 171 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:37,633 God as their king. 172 00:08:37,633 --> 00:08:41,100 And so God allows this famine to happen in in this famine, Elimelech 173 00:08:41,433 --> 00:08:44,900 and his wife Naomi and their two sons decide to move 174 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,833 to the land of Moab because things were tough in Jerusalem. 175 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:53,600 Actually, there in Bethlehem, Ephrathah, the very place where Jesus was to be born. 176 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,033 So way before Jesus is born, that there's famine. 177 00:08:57,033 --> 00:08:59,633 And so they it's hard here. It's difficult. 178 00:08:59,633 --> 00:09:01,300 And so they, like us, 179 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:04,866 have to solve their problem and not wait on God to do anything. 180 00:09:05,833 --> 00:09:08,833 And so they move to Moab. 181 00:09:08,966 --> 00:09:12,900 The thing with Moab is, Moab was a land of the people 182 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:16,500 who came about by an incestuous interaction 183 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,100 between the lot, the nephew of Abraham and his daughter, 184 00:09:21,533 --> 00:09:23,133 and he got her pregnant. 185 00:09:23,133 --> 00:09:27,366 And this nasty old story and her son 186 00:09:27,366 --> 00:09:30,366 out of that into incest, was named Moab. 187 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,533 So all these people come from that lineage. 188 00:09:33,533 --> 00:09:37,000 And so God said that whole thing is just evil and bad. 189 00:09:37,166 --> 00:09:40,633 I want my people to stay away from that people 190 00:09:40,633 --> 00:09:43,633 because they're going to corrupt you and lead you away from me. 191 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:47,766 And so there were all these rules and curses on like, don't go there. 192 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:50,466 And so that's where they go. 193 00:09:50,466 --> 00:09:51,833 They're experiencing difficulties. 194 00:09:51,833 --> 00:09:56,266 So they leave the promises of God and they go to that place they shouldn't be. 195 00:09:56,266 --> 00:09:58,900 And while there, they're looking for greener pastures. 196 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,500 Elimelech and their two, 197 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:04,500 now with two sons, die. 198 00:10:05,666 --> 00:10:06,800 Naomi's two, 199 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,566 two sons are married to these Moabite girls that they met in this land. 200 00:10:10,566 --> 00:10:12,333 They were there for over a decade. 201 00:10:12,333 --> 00:10:14,633 And so now Naomi is forced with this decision. 202 00:10:14,633 --> 00:10:18,100 Do I stay here in this Moabite land or do I go back? 203 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:21,000 Do I return to God and His people? 204 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,033 She starts hearing that God's doing great things amongst his people. 205 00:10:24,033 --> 00:10:26,300 And she says, I'm going to go back. 206 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:29,866 And she tells one of her daughters in law, Orpah tells them both, 207 00:10:29,866 --> 00:10:31,300 just stay here with your people. 208 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:34,000 Orpah says, yes, I will stay here with my people. 209 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,533 And Ruth says, beautiful, beautiful sentiment. 210 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,700 No, Naomi, where you go? I will go. 211 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:43,200 Your people will be my people. 212 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,133 Your God will be my God. 213 00:10:45,133 --> 00:10:48,733 Where you die, I will die and they'll bury me there, she says, 214 00:10:48,733 --> 00:10:53,633 I want to I want to convert to this this God that I hear you talk about now. 215 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:59,000 And so Ruth and Naomi make their way back to Bethlehem, Ephrathah 216 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:00,866 in the Promised Land. 217 00:11:00,866 --> 00:11:03,233 Now that was all. Chapter one. 218 00:11:03,233 --> 00:11:06,900 And so chapter two is like, they're here now in the Promised Land. 219 00:11:08,066 --> 00:11:08,366 And we 220 00:11:08,366 --> 00:11:12,333 start to see this story, both of Providence and redemption. 221 00:11:12,333 --> 00:11:17,600 Redemption is when you buy something back, you redeem it and make it whole. 222 00:11:18,033 --> 00:11:22,333 And we'll see in chapter two, these types, we're going to be introduced 223 00:11:22,333 --> 00:11:23,400 to a man named Boaz. 224 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,133 And Boaz is a type of foreshadowing of Jesus the Messiah. 225 00:11:27,866 --> 00:11:30,600 And Ruth will become his bride, 226 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,600 a Gentile bride, 227 00:11:33,966 --> 00:11:38,833 just like the churches, the the non-Jews, the like the Gentile bride of Christ. 228 00:11:38,833 --> 00:11:41,833 We're going to see these types of this great story of of redemption, 229 00:11:41,866 --> 00:11:45,500 but we're also going to see the redemption of this broken 230 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:49,300 woman named Ruth, this broken outcast named Ruth. 231 00:11:49,533 --> 00:11:53,100 And we're also going to see the redemption of our hero, Boaz. 232 00:11:53,466 --> 00:11:55,500 It's an amazing thing that God does. 233 00:11:55,500 --> 00:11:56,833 And we'll I'm going to say that for the end. 234 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,133 But this is where we are. 235 00:11:59,133 --> 00:12:02,866 And right at the end of chapter one, it says, they came back. 236 00:12:02,866 --> 00:12:06,400 They just happened to come back right at the barley harvest, right as the 237 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,400 the as the as as the, as the, 238 00:12:10,366 --> 00:12:12,900 the produce was coming back 239 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:17,133 as, as, as the famine in this part apparently was being lifted. 240 00:12:17,466 --> 00:12:19,733 It was a time of great abundance. 241 00:12:19,733 --> 00:12:20,900 They just happened to. 242 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:23,600 Have you ever had those moments in life when you look back and like, 243 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,600 you know what, I just happened, 244 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,300 but it sure worked out well, right? 245 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:31,800 Yeah. Right. I just happened. 246 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,266 They happened to be here at the right time. I happened to be there for Adam. 247 00:12:34,266 --> 00:12:37,266 I happened to make this vision and it just happened to. 248 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:39,900 That's the providence of God. 249 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:40,700 If you love him. 250 00:12:42,766 --> 00:12:44,233 And so, 251 00:12:44,233 --> 00:12:47,966 right at the barley harvest, let's pick up chapter two, verse one. 252 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,366 Now, Naomi had a relative of her husband's, 253 00:12:52,366 --> 00:12:56,400 a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. 254 00:12:56,866 --> 00:12:59,866 So this woman, Naomi, her name means pleasant. 255 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:02,666 She has lost everything. 256 00:13:02,666 --> 00:13:06,200 She's going to change her name to bitter because she's lost her husband, 257 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,200 her sons, her possessions, her land, our home, everything. 258 00:13:09,766 --> 00:13:12,633 She had a relative back in Bethlehem, 259 00:13:12,633 --> 00:13:15,833 Ephrathah a relative of her husband. 260 00:13:16,033 --> 00:13:18,000 This is going to be a really, really important. 261 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 And I'll unpack it as we go through this process. 262 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,366 Just remember that this guy Boaz is a relative 263 00:13:23,866 --> 00:13:26,833 of her late husband, 264 00:13:26,833 --> 00:13:29,266 and the Bible says he was a worthy man, 265 00:13:29,266 --> 00:13:32,300 literally a wealthy man, a man of great wealth. 266 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:34,466 Both. 267 00:13:34,466 --> 00:13:37,466 Okay, so during this time of famine, 268 00:13:38,266 --> 00:13:41,266 Elimelech, Naomi and their two sons leave 269 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:45,200 because obviously they don't trust God in times of trouble. 270 00:13:45,633 --> 00:13:48,566 So they leave. 271 00:13:48,566 --> 00:13:51,566 But obviously everybody didn't leave. 272 00:13:52,133 --> 00:13:55,133 Boaz stayed. 273 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,366 Boaz stayed where God had placed him. 274 00:13:58,666 --> 00:14:02,600 He stayed in the promises of God in the presence of God 275 00:14:02,766 --> 00:14:05,600 and in the presence of God's people. 276 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,433 And the Bible says specifically that he was a wealthy man. 277 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:11,800 He has a lot of fields. 278 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,266 He's a farmer. 279 00:14:13,266 --> 00:14:16,966 How does a farmer become a wealthy man 280 00:14:16,966 --> 00:14:19,966 in a time of famine? 281 00:14:23,566 --> 00:14:26,933 By the grace of God and his providence, 282 00:14:26,933 --> 00:14:30,166 working things together for his favor. 283 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:33,500 Right. So here's what happens. 284 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:38,366 We get in these times of famine and difficulty and pain, 285 00:14:38,433 --> 00:14:41,733 and we think God isn't doing anything. 286 00:14:41,833 --> 00:14:43,933 I have to go. 287 00:14:43,933 --> 00:14:45,833 I have to leave. 288 00:14:45,833 --> 00:14:49,500 I need to solve my own problem rather than just staying. 289 00:14:49,633 --> 00:14:52,533 And trusting this almighty, providential 290 00:14:52,533 --> 00:14:55,633 God to work things together for good, right? 291 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:58,800 Right. 292 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,366 They left, 293 00:15:01,366 --> 00:15:04,166 and three of them died 294 00:15:04,166 --> 00:15:06,900 and she lost everything. 295 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:09,400 Boaz stayed 296 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,400 trusted 297 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,166 God's heart and God's hand 298 00:15:14,166 --> 00:15:19,100 and increased his wealth in a time of famine. 299 00:15:19,133 --> 00:15:20,700 Amazing. 300 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,700 Absolutely amazing. 301 00:15:24,366 --> 00:15:27,366 Don't chase Moab. 302 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:31,066 Some of you need to listen to me right now. 303 00:15:31,066 --> 00:15:34,500 Well, don't chase Moab. 304 00:15:35,766 --> 00:15:38,766 Stay. 305 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:41,333 I don't know how you translate that. 306 00:15:41,333 --> 00:15:43,366 You're old right now, but you need to hear this word. 307 00:15:43,366 --> 00:15:45,900 Stay. 308 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:48,800 Praise God. 309 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,800 They don't chase Moab. 310 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,733 Stay. 311 00:15:56,733 --> 00:15:58,666 Trust his hand. 312 00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:00,600 Trust his heart. 313 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,600 Trust his providence. 314 00:16:03,766 --> 00:16:06,766 Stay. 315 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,200 Like a verse two and three. 316 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,966 And Ruth, the more I said to Naomi, let me go to the field and glean 317 00:16:14,966 --> 00:16:18,800 among the ears of grain after him, in whose sight I shall find favor. 318 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:21,500 And she said, or go, my daughter. 319 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:23,533 So she she set out. 320 00:16:23,533 --> 00:16:27,300 Ruth set out, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, 321 00:16:27,533 --> 00:16:30,866 and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, 322 00:16:31,133 --> 00:16:32,766 who was of the clan of Elimelech. 323 00:16:32,766 --> 00:16:34,166 Let me just unpack this for a minute. 324 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:36,500 This idea of 325 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:40,600 gleaning this was God's welfare system for his people. 326 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,400 In ancient Israel. 327 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,933 The law of gleaning comes to us from Leviticus 19, verses 328 00:16:45,933 --> 00:16:47,700 nine and ten, and I have it on the slide. 329 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:52,600 I want to read it for you when you reap the harvest of your land. 330 00:16:52,633 --> 00:16:55,966 He's talking to the, the, the, the farmers. 331 00:16:56,266 --> 00:17:01,800 When you reap the harvest, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, 332 00:17:01,966 --> 00:17:05,266 nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 333 00:17:05,266 --> 00:17:09,533 Go to the next slide, and you shall not glean your vineyard, 334 00:17:09,533 --> 00:17:13,833 nor, shall you gather every grape of your vineyard. 335 00:17:14,066 --> 00:17:17,400 You shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. 336 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:18,666 I am the Lord your God. 337 00:17:18,666 --> 00:17:20,466 So this is what he's saying, 338 00:17:20,466 --> 00:17:23,800 he saying, you farmers have, you know, barley, wheat, grapes, whatever. 339 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,300 When you go to harvest the crop, 340 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:30,233 you don't harvest the edges and you don't harvest the corners. 341 00:17:30,766 --> 00:17:32,466 Leave those. 342 00:17:32,466 --> 00:17:35,300 And as your harvesters move through the field, 343 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:37,633 if they drop something, they're not allowed to pick it up. 344 00:17:38,666 --> 00:17:40,966 Okay. Why? 345 00:17:40,966 --> 00:17:43,500 Because God knew that there were widows 346 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:46,666 and orphans and the poor amongst his people. 347 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 And he said, you and foreigners, okay? 348 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,133 And he said, you have to leave what's there so they can come through 349 00:17:53,133 --> 00:17:56,133 and pick up what you drop and what you leave behind. 350 00:17:56,766 --> 00:18:01,300 It's estimated that up to 20% of the farmers production 351 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:06,066 was left on the field for the poor and the needy, and the foreigner. 352 00:18:06,966 --> 00:18:09,833 And what God is saying is twofold. 353 00:18:09,833 --> 00:18:13,200 One of the things that he's saying now, pay attention here is that you 354 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:16,300 who have be generous with it. 355 00:18:17,733 --> 00:18:20,233 You're leaving 20% behind. 356 00:18:20,233 --> 00:18:23,366 You and Boaz willingly 357 00:18:23,366 --> 00:18:26,366 left 20% on the table. 358 00:18:26,433 --> 00:18:28,066 Do you know why? 359 00:18:28,066 --> 00:18:31,066 Because he knew that what he had wasn't. Is. 360 00:18:31,566 --> 00:18:33,000 It was by the grace of God. 361 00:18:33,933 --> 00:18:36,300 So for those of us who have 362 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:39,500 the implication command here is be generous with it. 363 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,600 Don't hoard it. It's not yours anyway, 364 00:18:42,933 --> 00:18:45,700 the other implication here in Scripture 365 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:49,433 is if you don't have be willing to work hard, 366 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,766 the welfare system of this country is broken 367 00:18:53,766 --> 00:18:56,766 and is created a nation of beggars. 368 00:18:57,233 --> 00:19:00,233 The welfare system and God's economy was this. 369 00:19:00,933 --> 00:19:05,966 You have must leave some on the ground for those who don't up to 20%, 370 00:19:06,166 --> 00:19:09,466 but you who don't have to be willing to work to get it. 371 00:19:09,866 --> 00:19:12,300 You don't get free handouts. 372 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:17,100 What it does is give provision for the poor and dignity to the poor. 373 00:19:17,633 --> 00:19:21,700 There's nothing dignified of walking up to the government with a handout. 374 00:19:22,666 --> 00:19:24,766 It robs people of their dignity, 375 00:19:24,766 --> 00:19:28,900 a rostrum of their personhood, and it makes them beggars and slaves. 376 00:19:29,966 --> 00:19:30,466 And God 377 00:19:30,466 --> 00:19:34,233 says, I do care about the poor, and I want to take care of the poor 378 00:19:34,233 --> 00:19:37,233 through the people through whom I have given much to. 379 00:19:37,366 --> 00:19:40,533 But the poor must work so they keep their dignity. 380 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:43,433 They understand 381 00:19:43,433 --> 00:19:45,600 that's the law of gleaning. 382 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,700 And so Ruth is sitting here. 383 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:49,266 She has no idea of this law. 384 00:19:49,266 --> 00:19:51,000 She's been in motion, raised in Moab. 385 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,366 And on their journey back, I had just imagined Naomi telling Ruth 386 00:19:55,366 --> 00:20:01,466 all the glory of this gracious God, that she's coming back to his providential 387 00:20:01,466 --> 00:20:04,900 hand, his miracle and his goodness and his grace and his favor. 388 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:08,833 And so when they get back there, she asks her mother in law, 389 00:20:08,933 --> 00:20:11,966 May I please go to work? 390 00:20:12,633 --> 00:20:15,633 I love this woman. Yes, 391 00:20:15,966 --> 00:20:18,966 she she virtuous, 392 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:22,033 honorable, hardworking. 393 00:20:23,033 --> 00:20:23,966 She's in need. 394 00:20:23,966 --> 00:20:25,200 And she doesn't just stay home. 395 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,866 And I'm just going to pray and ask the Lord to intervene. 396 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:31,500 I'm sure she did that. 397 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:36,566 And then she went out and worked to understand she had a need. 398 00:20:36,866 --> 00:20:37,566 Yeah. 399 00:20:37,566 --> 00:20:43,333 And she's so gracious to honor her mother in law and ask permission to go work. 400 00:20:43,333 --> 00:20:45,600 She had every right to. 401 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,600 But she honored those over her. 402 00:20:49,033 --> 00:20:52,033 May I please go? 403 00:20:54,266 --> 00:20:57,933 I want you to understand, I'm going to talk about this. 404 00:20:58,366 --> 00:21:01,366 I'm going to talk about this later, but I just want to introduce it here. 405 00:21:01,533 --> 00:21:04,200 When you trust the providence of God, it 406 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,200 creates confidence and produces momentum. 407 00:21:07,966 --> 00:21:08,933 Just keep that in your heart. 408 00:21:08,933 --> 00:21:11,466 Don't show that slide yet. 409 00:21:11,466 --> 00:21:14,466 I'm not there. 410 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:15,500 Just think about it. 411 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:17,666 You guys are doing great now. Thank you. But hold on. 412 00:21:18,633 --> 00:21:20,933 Just keep this in your mind. 413 00:21:20,933 --> 00:21:23,066 When you believe in trust the promise of God, 414 00:21:23,066 --> 00:21:27,933 it will create confidence in you and it produces positive momentum. 415 00:21:28,633 --> 00:21:30,233 And both are super important. 416 00:21:30,233 --> 00:21:33,233 Now listen. 417 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,100 If you have children, 418 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:39,100 you need to teach this to your kids. 419 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,900 The providential hand of God, 420 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:45,966 because it will create in them a great deal of confidence 421 00:21:46,166 --> 00:21:48,433 and it will produce a great deal of momentum. 422 00:21:48,433 --> 00:21:51,900 Nothing will slow them down, not because of who they are, 423 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:54,900 but because of the hand of their God. 424 00:21:55,366 --> 00:21:58,000 Your kids, my kids when they're young. 425 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,800 But why is this happening? Why does that happen? 426 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:00,700 And how come I don't? 427 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,033 How can they do I don't there's why don't the 428 00:22:03,033 --> 00:22:04,833 and that's what they're supposed to do. 429 00:22:04,833 --> 00:22:06,566 They don't know they're ignorant. They're children. 430 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:08,500 And so 431 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:11,766 those of us who are not ignorant, who know God. 432 00:22:12,566 --> 00:22:15,133 So listen, relax. 433 00:22:15,133 --> 00:22:18,100 It's God's providential hand. 434 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:20,866 You trust him as all over your life. 435 00:22:20,866 --> 00:22:22,966 It's not going to go like you expect. 436 00:22:22,966 --> 00:22:25,500 That's okay. Yeah. 437 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:27,600 And it creates this incredible 438 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,766 confidence when things don't go well 439 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:35,566 and this incredible momentum that though this didn't, it's not going to deter me. 440 00:22:36,166 --> 00:22:38,133 Do you understand? 441 00:22:38,133 --> 00:22:41,100 And so here's this woman, Ruth. 442 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:42,400 She's lost her husband. 443 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:43,566 She's lost her family. 444 00:22:43,566 --> 00:22:46,166 She's lost everything that she knew growing up with. 445 00:22:46,166 --> 00:22:47,533 And she's here in this land. 446 00:22:47,533 --> 00:22:51,033 And she's not deterred, she's not downtrodden. 447 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:54,466 It's just like, hey, can I go work now? 448 00:22:54,466 --> 00:22:57,700 What incredible woman, incredible faith. 449 00:22:59,366 --> 00:23:02,066 And she just happened 450 00:23:02,066 --> 00:23:04,633 to come to the part of the field belonging to God just happened. 451 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,633 Can you look back at the. 452 00:23:08,633 --> 00:23:11,633 Just happened times 453 00:23:12,233 --> 00:23:15,233 time and time again? 454 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:18,900 Listen for those walk in and faith that Jesus, nothing just happens. 455 00:23:19,466 --> 00:23:22,366 It's Amen. 456 00:23:22,366 --> 00:23:25,366 Look at verse four. 457 00:23:27,566 --> 00:23:29,666 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. 458 00:23:29,666 --> 00:23:32,400 And he said to the reapers, and the Lord be with you. 459 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,266 And they answered, the Lord bless you. 460 00:23:35,266 --> 00:23:38,266 Now this is a job site. 461 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:41,700 Have you ever worked construction or in the fields? 462 00:23:42,566 --> 00:23:45,566 This is not usually how people talk. 463 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:47,566 Your foreman shows up. 464 00:23:47,566 --> 00:23:49,800 The Lord bless you 465 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,466 and all the good stuff here and the Lord be with you. 466 00:23:52,466 --> 00:23:54,600 And I just like this. 467 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:55,566 But this guy. 468 00:23:55,566 --> 00:24:00,300 But he's just, he's a he's larger than life is good and he's a faithful man. 469 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,933 He's a man of God, is a man of integrity. 470 00:24:03,933 --> 00:24:06,900 And in the time of the judges, when everybody was running away 471 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:10,866 from doing all that through this cultural moral relativism, nobody cared about 472 00:24:10,966 --> 00:24:14,200 this was the one guy, the shining light, 473 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,333 the standard of a godly man. 474 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,066 Who leads 475 00:24:21,066 --> 00:24:24,300 with God, who leads from the place of faith. 476 00:24:24,833 --> 00:24:26,433 He's going to run his business this way. 477 00:24:26,433 --> 00:24:29,433 He's going to treat his employees. This way. 478 00:24:29,433 --> 00:24:31,633 And in response, they love him back. 479 00:24:31,633 --> 00:24:32,633 It's just this guy. 480 00:24:32,633 --> 00:24:35,633 It's just amazing. 481 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:36,833 Verse five. 482 00:24:36,833 --> 00:24:39,833 Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, 483 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:42,000 whose young woman is this? 484 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Now the difficult thing in the Bible, we don't have inflection. 485 00:24:45,366 --> 00:24:47,466 We just read in his words. 486 00:24:47,466 --> 00:24:50,266 And it could have been he sees the new woman gleaning 487 00:24:50,266 --> 00:24:53,266 because he knew who was gleaning and was like, hey, who's the new one? 488 00:24:53,366 --> 00:24:55,533 I got to keep track on the ledger. 489 00:24:55,533 --> 00:24:58,533 Could be that or 490 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,400 it could be like the. 491 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,200 You know what I'm saying? 492 00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:18,833 Like, who was this young chick over there? 493 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:21,900 Right? 494 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:23,033 I mean, let's just be real. 495 00:25:23,033 --> 00:25:26,033 Let's not get too spiritual. 496 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:29,100 Who is this woman? 497 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:29,600 Verse six. 498 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,766 And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, 499 00:25:31,766 --> 00:25:35,466 she is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. 500 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:39,000 She said, please let me glean and gather among the she's after the reapers. 501 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,266 So she came, and she has continued from early morning 502 00:25:42,266 --> 00:25:45,266 until now, except for a little, you know, ten minute breather. 503 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,433 This servant. 504 00:25:47,433 --> 00:25:50,533 Now, I told you already in the book of Ruth we have these typologies. 505 00:25:51,066 --> 00:25:54,066 Boaz is a type of foreshadowing of Jesus. 506 00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:58,366 Ruth is a type of foreshadowing of the Gentile bride of Christ, 507 00:25:58,366 --> 00:26:01,866 the church, this unnamed servant in the Old Testament. 508 00:26:01,866 --> 00:26:06,433 We have a few different instances when the an unnamed servant does 509 00:26:06,433 --> 00:26:09,433 the bidding of the master to go 510 00:26:09,433 --> 00:26:12,600 look for and prepare a bride for the master. 511 00:26:13,033 --> 00:26:17,333 The unnamed servant is the type or a foreshadowing of the Holy Spirit. 512 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,233 What we know in the New Testament from Jesus is he says, the Holy Spirit 513 00:26:21,233 --> 00:26:22,633 will not testify about himself, 514 00:26:22,633 --> 00:26:27,433 won't talk about himself, but only what he hears from the father about the son. 515 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,400 So the the Holy Spirit, who never talks about himself, 516 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,500 only points people towards the master. 517 00:26:34,866 --> 00:26:38,100 The unnamed servant doesn't talk about himself, only points 518 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:40,733 the one who will be a bride to the master. 519 00:26:40,733 --> 00:26:44,033 This is the Holy Spirit's role in our world and in our lives 520 00:26:44,766 --> 00:26:49,033 leads us to the one we're to be betrothed to. 521 00:26:49,633 --> 00:26:53,666 Reports to the one of the condition of his bride. 522 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,066 We see the Holy Spirit here. 523 00:26:58,600 --> 00:26:59,400 And she is the one. 524 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,300 And she asked if she may glean amongst the others. 525 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,633 I love this because what she could have done, 526 00:27:05,633 --> 00:27:08,500 she had a legal right to this Leviticus 19. 527 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:12,000 She had a legal right, and she could have come to the servant. 528 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,866 And Boaz the servant, said, hey, I'm gleaning I have a legal right to. 529 00:27:15,866 --> 00:27:17,400 I have a legal right to this. 530 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,200 You can't deny me of my rights. 531 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,333 You better not try to transgress a marriage. 532 00:27:21,333 --> 00:27:23,833 This is my legal right. I'm asserting my rights. 533 00:27:23,833 --> 00:27:26,833 A right, because after all, 534 00:27:27,433 --> 00:27:30,433 that's what good all Americans do. 535 00:27:31,133 --> 00:27:32,566 I have a right. 536 00:27:32,566 --> 00:27:34,200 You have no right to. 537 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,200 You know, cost me on this. 538 00:27:37,433 --> 00:27:40,333 And though she has a right, 539 00:27:40,333 --> 00:27:43,166 she leads with gentleness and honor. 540 00:27:44,533 --> 00:27:46,800 A virtuous woman. 541 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,800 She is Proverbs 31. 542 00:27:50,133 --> 00:27:53,133 And so she has a right. 543 00:27:53,266 --> 00:27:56,266 She says, I will honor you and your authority, 544 00:27:57,733 --> 00:28:00,733 and I would like your permission. 545 00:28:01,933 --> 00:28:04,533 Please pay attention 546 00:28:04,533 --> 00:28:07,533 to the virtue of this woman. 547 00:28:12,866 --> 00:28:13,500 Verse eight. 548 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:14,833 Then Boaz said to Ruth. 549 00:28:14,833 --> 00:28:16,033 Now listen, my daughter, 550 00:28:16,033 --> 00:28:19,500 not really his daughter is just a like a real tender language here. 551 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:20,966 Do not go to glean 552 00:28:20,966 --> 00:28:24,366 in another field, nor leave this one, but keep close to my young women. 553 00:28:25,466 --> 00:28:30,166 Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping and go after them. 554 00:28:30,166 --> 00:28:32,600 Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? 555 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:33,866 And when you are thirsty, 556 00:28:33,866 --> 00:28:36,400 go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn. 557 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,233 So this is is doing. 558 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,133 We have to understand. 559 00:28:39,133 --> 00:28:42,366 He's saying, look, stay with me 560 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:46,100 and stay with my people. 561 00:28:46,166 --> 00:28:48,566 You're safe here. 562 00:28:48,566 --> 00:28:50,666 Stay here. 563 00:28:50,666 --> 00:28:53,100 Don't look elsewhere. 564 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:56,100 And this is exactly what Jesus would say to us. 565 00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:59,100 Stay with me. 566 00:28:59,233 --> 00:29:01,800 Don't look elsewhere. 567 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,200 Don't wander off. 568 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,200 Stay with me. 569 00:29:07,266 --> 00:29:10,266 Boaz knows 570 00:29:10,366 --> 00:29:13,500 the goodness that he will give this young lady. 571 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:16,333 She doesn't know it yet, but Boaz does. Listen. 572 00:29:16,333 --> 00:29:18,900 Jesus knows the plans. 573 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:19,900 He has for you. 574 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,266 You don't know it yet, but he does. 575 00:29:22,266 --> 00:29:25,500 And his word to us is stay with me. 576 00:29:26,966 --> 00:29:29,800 Stay with me. 577 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:30,900 Do you hear this? 578 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:33,900 Yeah. 579 00:29:36,133 --> 00:29:36,800 And honestly, 580 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,200 I think one thing like this is also the first indication of there's a, 581 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,033 there's a budding attraction between Boaz and and Ruth happening right now. 582 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,666 And Boaz, his role as a man 583 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,933 is to provide and protect. 584 00:29:50,933 --> 00:29:53,666 That's what he's doing here. Stay with me. 585 00:29:53,666 --> 00:29:57,133 Follow the Reapers you will glean along the way. 586 00:29:57,133 --> 00:29:58,300 I want to provide for you. 587 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,466 And I've commanded the guys not to mess with you. 588 00:30:00,466 --> 00:30:01,200 I want to protect you. 589 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,700 Now, listen, men, this is biblical masculinity. 590 00:30:07,133 --> 00:30:07,800 Not because 591 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,033 women are ineffective or can't provide for themselves for comfort. 592 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:12,333 None of that at all. 593 00:30:12,333 --> 00:30:15,033 This is just a reflection of the heart of the father. 594 00:30:15,033 --> 00:30:18,900 To provide and protect those God has given to us. 595 00:30:19,433 --> 00:30:22,200 This is biblical masculinity. 596 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,933 Ladies, please, if you're married 597 00:30:24,933 --> 00:30:27,933 and your husband says, sweetie, I just don't like you driving at night. 598 00:30:27,966 --> 00:30:29,400 He's not being condescending. 599 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,966 He's being protective. 600 00:30:30,966 --> 00:30:33,966 To understand this. 601 00:30:35,533 --> 00:30:36,200 And he says, honey, 602 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,366 I would rather work two jobs than borrow money from anybody. 603 00:30:40,766 --> 00:30:42,500 He's not being arrogant. He's. 604 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:45,500 He wants to provide. 605 00:30:46,133 --> 00:30:49,466 And any man that doesn't lead with provision 606 00:30:49,466 --> 00:30:52,466 and protection has a broken soul. 607 00:30:53,666 --> 00:30:55,200 This is biblical masculinity. 608 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,733 And this is hard wired in the in the core of a man 609 00:30:58,833 --> 00:31:01,866 and women in or moms in your sons. 610 00:31:02,666 --> 00:31:04,700 This is who your sons are. 611 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:06,333 And that's why sometimes they blow up 612 00:31:06,333 --> 00:31:09,333 because they're figuring out how do I be a protector? 613 00:31:09,333 --> 00:31:10,766 It's okay. It's good. 614 00:31:11,833 --> 00:31:15,000 Like nurture that in biblical, godly ways. 615 00:31:16,066 --> 00:31:19,066 This is a godly man says, I'm going to provide for armor, protect you. 616 00:31:20,533 --> 00:31:21,033 You just have. 617 00:31:21,033 --> 00:31:23,400 And I commanded the young men not to mess with you. 618 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,933 This is the first anti-sexual harassment law we have on the books, 619 00:31:27,366 --> 00:31:29,466 and I am I might just go something like this. 620 00:31:29,466 --> 00:31:32,400 Just go with me. In my mind, like Boaz is big old guy. 621 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:32,733 He's. 622 00:31:32,733 --> 00:31:33,733 He's got all this, 623 00:31:33,733 --> 00:31:37,500 you know, this farming system, this big conglomerate he's in charge of. 624 00:31:37,766 --> 00:31:41,400 He rolls up on the fields and is, you know, in his F-250 625 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,100 or whatever is okay, come on, team meeting. 626 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:45,766 Get over. Come on. Get over here right now. Good. 627 00:31:45,766 --> 00:31:46,466 Stop it! Get. 628 00:31:46,466 --> 00:31:49,233 We got to get together in. Listen. 629 00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:54,300 We all know the new girl. 630 00:31:54,700 --> 00:31:55,266 All right. 631 00:31:55,266 --> 00:31:57,866 No eyes over here. Quick! Look in her eyes. Over here. 632 00:31:57,866 --> 00:31:59,633 All right. Right here. Yep. 633 00:31:59,633 --> 00:32:02,633 Listen, don't mess with her. 634 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,666 You don't talk to her. 635 00:32:05,666 --> 00:32:07,833 You don't touch her. 636 00:32:07,833 --> 00:32:10,833 You don't even look at her. 637 00:32:10,933 --> 00:32:12,000 I'm at. I'm saying. 638 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,533 Listen, you see, all these fields I own, they will never find your body. 639 00:32:22,033 --> 00:32:24,300 I just see it going down like that. 640 00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:25,800 You know what I'm saying? 641 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,366 A little sense of an archetype. 642 00:32:27,366 --> 00:32:31,500 You know, you're like a, you know, because a big on knife on the size, 643 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:34,500 like this. 644 00:32:36,333 --> 00:32:37,066 What's he doing? 645 00:32:37,066 --> 00:32:40,066 He's providing for just protecting her. 646 00:32:42,766 --> 00:32:43,866 Boaz has such great 647 00:32:43,866 --> 00:32:46,866 things planned for her that she doesn't even imagine right now. 648 00:32:46,933 --> 00:32:49,500 So does God for you. 649 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,066 Just stay in that, 650 00:32:53,866 --> 00:32:55,100 I don't know what verse I'm on. 651 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:56,933 Well, now on ten. 652 00:32:56,933 --> 00:32:58,833 Then she fell on her face down into the ground. 653 00:32:58,833 --> 00:33:01,633 She's an act of of of honor and said them. 654 00:33:01,633 --> 00:33:04,800 Why have I found favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me 655 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,566 since I'm a foreigner? Let me just say this. 656 00:33:07,566 --> 00:33:09,233 But me, I'm going to read more. Let me run! 657 00:33:09,233 --> 00:33:13,266 But Boaz answered her, all that you have done 658 00:33:13,266 --> 00:33:17,133 for your mother in law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, 659 00:33:17,566 --> 00:33:21,733 and how you left your father and mother and your native land, and came to a people 660 00:33:22,233 --> 00:33:25,600 that you did not know before the Lord repay you for what 661 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,133 you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, 662 00:33:29,133 --> 00:33:32,133 the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge. 663 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,866 Then she said, I have found favor in your eyes, 664 00:33:34,866 --> 00:33:36,966 my Lord, for you have comforted me 665 00:33:36,966 --> 00:33:40,733 and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants. 666 00:33:40,733 --> 00:33:45,466 Listen, she has lost everything to her husband. 667 00:33:45,666 --> 00:33:47,966 Like I said, her family, she's in a foreign land. 668 00:33:47,966 --> 00:33:50,400 She lost everything she had in her homeland. 669 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,800 She's living with a bitter, bitter, bitter woman. 670 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,400 Rightly so. 671 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,066 This woman, Naomi, has left all of her family. 672 00:33:58,066 --> 00:34:01,000 She went to a land, lived there for over a decade. Her son died. 673 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,600 Her husband died her once a night. 674 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,300 Her other son died. She lost everything. 675 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:05,833 No doubt she's bitter, right? 676 00:34:05,833 --> 00:34:07,833 I mean, we can understand this. 677 00:34:07,833 --> 00:34:12,600 And Ruth is living in this nasty, bitter, dark environment. 678 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,233 Lost everything. 679 00:34:14,233 --> 00:34:19,066 And has she ever asked the question, Lord, why all this bad? 680 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:27,100 The only question she's asked. 681 00:34:29,133 --> 00:34:32,133 Is why all this good to me? I'm. 682 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,200 Do you see that? 683 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,866 Most of the time when you and I go through deserts and seasons 684 00:34:40,866 --> 00:34:43,866 and pain, our first question is, what? 685 00:34:44,866 --> 00:34:46,933 God, why? 686 00:34:46,933 --> 00:34:48,666 Yeah. 687 00:34:48,666 --> 00:34:49,900 Yeah. 688 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:52,900 And Ruth's question is. 689 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,600 I'm a foreigner to you. 690 00:34:56,666 --> 00:34:59,666 Why the grace to me? I'm. 691 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:02,933 The are attitude. 692 00:35:02,933 --> 00:35:05,233 God, I was once outside your family. 693 00:35:05,233 --> 00:35:08,233 You've been so good. 694 00:35:08,233 --> 00:35:11,233 Why would you be so gracious to me? 695 00:35:11,866 --> 00:35:13,400 Do you understand? 696 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,733 Yeah. 697 00:35:15,733 --> 00:35:17,866 Profound for me. 698 00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:18,733 See? And this is what? 699 00:35:18,733 --> 00:35:20,700 Now you pulled that slide. This is what I'm saying. 700 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:25,766 Providence creates confidence and produces and creates 701 00:35:25,933 --> 00:35:28,800 positive momentum. 702 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,866 This is what it does. 703 00:35:30,866 --> 00:35:31,800 I don't know why, and 704 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,533 I don't like what's going on right now, but I trust the providential hand of God. 705 00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:37,666 And when I'm 706 00:35:37,666 --> 00:35:42,300 living in that realization, it creates incredible confidence. 707 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,500 I don't like what's in front of the windshield, 708 00:35:45,933 --> 00:35:48,600 but I have confidence. 709 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,533 I don't like what I'm living in right now, 710 00:35:51,533 --> 00:35:54,300 but it's not going to slow me down. 711 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:58,700 Momentum is so huge for it, so huge to have here. 712 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:00,700 Here's the thing about momentum. 713 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,100 Momentum is so powerful. 714 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:05,833 You take a big locomotive and put a three inch wood block in front of its wheels, 715 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,400 and a three inch wood block will stop a locomotive 716 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,400 from moving because it has no momentum. 717 00:36:12,833 --> 00:36:17,200 But you take that same locomotive and get it up to its top speed. 718 00:36:17,733 --> 00:36:20,733 It has so much momentum that you put a three foot, 719 00:36:21,733 --> 00:36:24,733 concrete wall in front of it and it won't stop it. 720 00:36:25,166 --> 00:36:26,733 That's the power of momentum. 721 00:36:26,733 --> 00:36:30,733 And Christ followers ought to be living with the most confidence and momentum 722 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,500 in anybody on the planet. Why? Because we know 723 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:37,466 the providence of God. 724 00:36:37,466 --> 00:36:40,466 You follow well. 725 00:36:42,833 --> 00:36:45,833 And if you've learned that, you darn well better teach it to your children. 726 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:47,100 Yeah. 727 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:50,100 And if you haven't learned it, it darn well better learn it. 728 00:36:51,266 --> 00:36:55,366 And I love this about Ruth, that she is more amazed. 729 00:36:55,733 --> 00:36:57,800 And this is what happens when I trust God's providence. 730 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,333 I'm more amazed by the grace given to me than I'm bitter 731 00:37:01,333 --> 00:37:04,333 about what's taken from me. 732 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:06,266 When I understand 733 00:37:06,266 --> 00:37:09,266 the providence of God, let me move through this. 734 00:37:09,866 --> 00:37:11,766 Just a few more verses. 735 00:37:11,766 --> 00:37:13,066 And that meantime Boaz said, 736 00:37:13,066 --> 00:37:15,666 come here and eat some of the bread and dip your morsel in the wine. 737 00:37:15,666 --> 00:37:19,633 So she sat beside the reapers, and he pastored, to her roasted grain, 738 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,033 and she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. 739 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,500 When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, 740 00:37:26,766 --> 00:37:30,433 let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her, and also 741 00:37:30,433 --> 00:37:33,700 put some out from the bundles for her, and leave it for her to glean, 742 00:37:33,966 --> 00:37:35,733 and do not rebuke her. 743 00:37:35,733 --> 00:37:37,500 So we invite her to dinner, 744 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:41,433 and my Bible says, when she she ate till she was satisfied. 745 00:37:41,433 --> 00:37:44,233 The literal translation is that she kept some back 746 00:37:44,233 --> 00:37:46,500 so she didn't eat everything on her plate. Why? 747 00:37:47,566 --> 00:37:49,533 Because some 748 00:37:49,533 --> 00:37:49,833 know. 749 00:37:49,833 --> 00:37:50,900 Because it's a first date. 750 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:53,900 And ladies, you don't clean your plate on a first date. 751 00:37:54,566 --> 00:37:56,400 You don't. 752 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,766 You don't ask for a second. 753 00:37:58,766 --> 00:38:01,766 I'll have salad. 754 00:38:04,266 --> 00:38:06,266 Right 755 00:38:06,266 --> 00:38:08,700 now, she's also thinking about Naomi. 756 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:09,900 She's like, I don't want to eat at all. It's. 757 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:11,400 I gotta take some home. 758 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,400 I just like the way I think more. 759 00:38:15,866 --> 00:38:17,500 But she's virtuous. And. 760 00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:20,233 And Bill says, let her glean amongst the sheaves. 761 00:38:20,233 --> 00:38:21,900 The sheaves after the harvest 762 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:24,666 is come through, and they gather and they bind it up. 763 00:38:24,666 --> 00:38:25,666 That's a sheaf of. 764 00:38:25,666 --> 00:38:27,900 And then they drop it on the ground, 765 00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:30,200 and they let the others come by and pick up all these sheaves. 766 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,733 And so he says, listen, yes, she has a right to the edges, in the corners. 767 00:38:33,733 --> 00:38:35,500 And this has a right to what's just fallen. 768 00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:38,500 But let's, let's go beyond what is legal, 769 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,566 let's grace her, let her glean, even amongst what 770 00:38:42,566 --> 00:38:46,033 we've gathered, and even take some extra and throw it out for her. 771 00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:49,933 She Boaz could have said, look, God, I'm right before you 772 00:38:49,933 --> 00:38:53,600 because I've done what you asked, I obeyed that was it I but 773 00:38:54,933 --> 00:38:57,166 but Boaz knows 774 00:38:57,166 --> 00:38:59,833 that what he has is come from his, and it comes from God's. 775 00:38:59,833 --> 00:39:03,000 And so he can be extraordinarily generous. 776 00:39:04,133 --> 00:39:07,133 So he goes above what is required. 777 00:39:07,333 --> 00:39:08,300 He doesn't do it here. 778 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:11,366 He goes up by beyond what he gives more than 779 00:39:11,366 --> 00:39:14,366 what is requested by God and commanded by God, 780 00:39:14,866 --> 00:39:17,100 because he knows 781 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:20,633 he's been given so much by the gracious hand of God, 782 00:39:20,633 --> 00:39:23,333 so he can extend that same grace to others. 783 00:39:23,333 --> 00:39:24,266 Do you understand that? 784 00:39:24,266 --> 00:39:27,533 So he becomes this incredibly generous man, because he knows 785 00:39:27,666 --> 00:39:33,066 that God will use to measure to him what measure he used to give out. 786 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:36,533 He wants a lot 787 00:39:36,533 --> 00:39:41,833 from God, and so he gives a lot because that's what the Bible says. 788 00:39:41,933 --> 00:39:44,933 Yeah, it's just beautiful. 789 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:48,700 It's interesting to me to that. 790 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:52,766 Just let me just say this, that Boaz had no idea what hung 791 00:39:52,766 --> 00:39:55,766 in the balance of his obedience and generosity. 792 00:39:55,900 --> 00:39:57,833 Boaz knew this was the law from God. 793 00:39:57,833 --> 00:39:58,833 I'm going to be it. 794 00:39:58,833 --> 00:40:00,466 And God's been gracious and generous. 795 00:40:00,466 --> 00:40:01,700 I'm going to be gracious and generous. 796 00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:05,000 He had no idea what was hanging in the balance, what was hanging in the balance. 797 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,433 His bride. 798 00:40:07,433 --> 00:40:08,933 He wasn't saying, look, 799 00:40:08,933 --> 00:40:12,000 if I be obedient and I'm gracious, God's going to give me a beautiful woman. 800 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,100 He didn't know that. He didn't say that. 801 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:15,900 He said, I'm going to be obedient. Oh, God says, 802 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:18,166 and I'm going to be generous with that. 803 00:40:18,166 --> 00:40:19,300 He's giving me. 804 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:21,000 He had no idea what hangs in the house. 805 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:21,733 Listen, my friends, 806 00:40:21,733 --> 00:40:24,733 you have no idea what's hanging in the balance of your obedience. 807 00:40:25,433 --> 00:40:28,433 You have no idea what's hanging in the balance of your generosity. 808 00:40:29,266 --> 00:40:30,933 Do you understand what I'm saying? 809 00:40:30,933 --> 00:40:33,766 You have no idea what the providential 810 00:40:33,766 --> 00:40:37,200 hand of God is orchestrating right now on your behalf. 811 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:42,400 Moving heaven towards you and for you in response to your obedience 812 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,400 and your generosity. You have no idea. You 813 00:40:45,933 --> 00:40:48,633 so stay. 814 00:40:48,633 --> 00:40:51,466 Be obedient 815 00:40:51,466 --> 00:40:54,466 and go beyond what's expected into grace. 816 00:40:55,966 --> 00:40:58,966 Follow my. 817 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:01,066 So she gleaned in the film till evening. 818 00:41:01,066 --> 00:41:02,533 Then she beat out what she had gleaned. 819 00:41:02,533 --> 00:41:05,100 And it was about an ephah barley that means a whole bunch. 820 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:06,966 And she took it up and went into the city. 821 00:41:06,966 --> 00:41:09,000 Her mother in law saw what she had gleaned. 822 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000 She also brought out and gave her what food 823 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,566 she had left over after being satisfied because she kept some back. 824 00:41:13,566 --> 00:41:16,666 Because she didn't want to, you know, look like a porker eating on the first day. 825 00:41:17,166 --> 00:41:18,833 And her mother in law said to her, 826 00:41:18,833 --> 00:41:21,133 where did you glean today and where have you worked? 827 00:41:21,133 --> 00:41:23,166 Blessed be the man who took notice of you. 828 00:41:23,166 --> 00:41:26,366 So she told her mother in law, with whom she had worked 829 00:41:26,566 --> 00:41:29,800 and said, the man's name, with whom I work today is Boaz. 830 00:41:29,933 --> 00:41:34,166 And Naomi said to her daughter, May he be blessed by the Lord, 831 00:41:34,166 --> 00:41:37,966 whose kindness has not forsaken, the living or the dead. 832 00:41:37,966 --> 00:41:42,700 Naomi also said, the man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers. 833 00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:44,600 This is really important for the rest of this book. 834 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,000 In the next few chapters, 835 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,200 the Hebrew word is called goel, and it means that kinsman redeemer. 836 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,766 The Old Testament law was if a woman was left husband less than the 837 00:41:55,766 --> 00:42:02,100 someone from the close family had the obligation to redeem her 838 00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:06,900 out of her poverty and singleness and redeem her into a family. 839 00:42:07,366 --> 00:42:08,333 That was the law. 840 00:42:08,333 --> 00:42:11,333 And so Boaz is one of those people. 841 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,800 It's the kinsman redeemer. 842 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,866 It's the Hebrew goel issues 23 times in four chapters. 843 00:42:17,033 --> 00:42:21,100 It's the most often, Ruth is uses 844 00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:24,133 that word more often than any other book in the Bible. 845 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:26,500 Per capita for chapter. 846 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:28,133 So this is an important thing. 847 00:42:28,133 --> 00:42:30,733 And we're going to you're going to learn about this a lot next week. 848 00:42:30,733 --> 00:42:32,500 So but keep that in mind for next week. 849 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:34,766 He's a he's a redeemer is a kinsman redeemer. 850 00:42:34,766 --> 00:42:37,133 Verse 21 Justin up. 851 00:42:37,133 --> 00:42:41,266 And Ruth the Moabite said, besides, he said to me, 852 00:42:41,366 --> 00:42:44,933 you shall keep close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest. 853 00:42:45,033 --> 00:42:49,900 And Naomi said to her, Ruth, her daughter in law, it is good, my daughter, 854 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:55,066 that you go out with this young women, lest in another field you be assaulted. 855 00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:58,100 So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, 856 00:42:58,100 --> 00:43:00,666 gleaning until the end of the barley, wheat, and the harvest. 857 00:43:00,666 --> 00:43:03,200 And she lived with her mother in law. Listen, 858 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,033 she said, it's good 859 00:43:07,033 --> 00:43:08,166 for you to go out with him. 860 00:43:08,166 --> 00:43:12,000 Don't leave him and his people, 861 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,000 because wherever you go, outside of him 862 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,000 and his people, you will be assaulted. 863 00:43:18,033 --> 00:43:20,433 Listen, dear friends, 864 00:43:20,433 --> 00:43:24,466 stay close to Christ and his people. 865 00:43:26,366 --> 00:43:30,133 Everything outside of that will assault you. 866 00:43:31,566 --> 00:43:32,233 Do you understand? 867 00:43:32,233 --> 00:43:32,766 You hear me? 868 00:43:32,766 --> 00:43:35,766 Right now? 869 00:43:36,466 --> 00:43:37,900 Boaz. 870 00:43:37,900 --> 00:43:42,300 The picture of Jesus redeeming a Gentile bride, the church. 871 00:43:43,133 --> 00:43:46,000 But also this is the story of Boaz. 872 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,666 How many of you know who Boaz is? 873 00:43:47,666 --> 00:43:50,666 Mom was. 874 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,000 Joshua to a lady named Rahab. 875 00:43:54,333 --> 00:43:56,866 Rahab was a Gentile, 876 00:43:56,866 --> 00:44:00,466 a non Hebrew in Jericho, who was a prostitute. 877 00:44:01,866 --> 00:44:05,733 When God's people came into Jericho, before the walls came tumbling down, 878 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,100 they two spies met this lady Rahab. 879 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,300 This lady Rahab has a sensitivity to the God of the Hebrews 880 00:44:15,766 --> 00:44:19,566 and promised to hide the spies, God's people. 881 00:44:19,966 --> 00:44:22,733 So God could do his work. 882 00:44:22,733 --> 00:44:25,466 Out of that agreement, Rahab 883 00:44:25,466 --> 00:44:28,500 was saved, adopted into God's family. 884 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:33,400 A former prostitute adopted into God's family redeemed her life. 885 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:37,500 Out of her life came this little boy she called Boaz. 886 00:44:38,366 --> 00:44:41,033 Boaz stayed in the land of God's 887 00:44:41,033 --> 00:44:44,033 promises, stayed with God and with his people. 888 00:44:44,166 --> 00:44:49,466 And God providentially orchestrated his life to be a man of great wealth 889 00:44:49,466 --> 00:44:54,300 and prominence, to then be so comfortable with broken lives, 890 00:44:54,500 --> 00:45:00,166 to meet this other little foreign woman of a broken life and redeem her. 891 00:45:00,866 --> 00:45:03,833 If God can do that through a broken man, 892 00:45:03,833 --> 00:45:08,233 a broken prostitute in Jericho, and a broken little boy, 893 00:45:08,233 --> 00:45:11,766 the son of a prostitute, what can he do in your life? 894 00:45:12,533 --> 00:45:13,266 Amen. 895 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,400 Oh, Redemption. 896 00:45:18,333 --> 00:45:20,800 Dennis. 897 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,266 And so, Naomi, 898 00:45:23,266 --> 00:45:27,266 whose name has been changed to bitter, says, now this is good. 899 00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:31,533 And she begins to recognize the unseen hand of God. 900 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:35,200 And that realization starts her transformation. 901 00:45:37,300 --> 00:45:40,300 And Naomi's advice to Ruth is, what? 902 00:45:41,966 --> 00:45:43,366 Stay. 903 00:45:43,366 --> 00:45:46,366 Why don't miss this? 904 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,400 Why does she encourage Ruth to stay? 905 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,766 Because Naomi didn't stay, 906 00:45:52,766 --> 00:45:55,666 and she knows the peril and the destruction 907 00:45:55,666 --> 00:45:58,666 of walking away. 908 00:45:59,566 --> 00:46:03,166 And she says, dear sweetie, please don't go down that road. 909 00:46:03,166 --> 00:46:05,700 I've been there 910 00:46:05,700 --> 00:46:08,366 and walking away from Christ and walking away from 911 00:46:08,366 --> 00:46:11,800 his people is so much pain and destruction. 912 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,800 You don't want to invite that into your world. 913 00:46:15,866 --> 00:46:17,866 Stay. 914 00:46:17,866 --> 00:46:20,866 God's doing something good. 915 00:46:21,033 --> 00:46:24,033 Stay there. 916 00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:30,533 Trust God's providential and unseen hand 917 00:46:31,266 --> 00:46:34,900 because we know what Romans 828 says, I know the plans, 918 00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:37,633 and they are for your good. 919 00:46:37,633 --> 00:46:40,000 All things together. 920 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,066 And we know what Romans nine says, that those who hope in 921 00:46:43,066 --> 00:46:46,066 the Lord will never be put to shame. 922 00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:49,733 And when you're living like that, 923 00:46:49,733 --> 00:46:52,700 confidence and momentum, 924 00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:54,566 we got a good God. 925 00:46:54,566 --> 00:46:57,566 Good stay. 926 00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,866 Father, thank you for this day. 927 00:46:59,866 --> 00:47:02,233 You are a good God. 928 00:47:02,233 --> 00:47:05,233 Encourage us more and more and more to stay. 929 00:47:06,266 --> 00:47:08,566 You know, some of us have walked away. 930 00:47:08,566 --> 00:47:09,800 You know who we are. 931 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:10,966 You love us anyway. 932 00:47:10,966 --> 00:47:14,233 Thank you, thank you. Love us though we are. 933 00:47:14,233 --> 00:47:15,766 But you call us to change. 934 00:47:15,766 --> 00:47:18,766 You call us to trust. 935 00:47:20,166 --> 00:47:20,666 In father, 936 00:47:20,666 --> 00:47:23,666 thank you that we can trust your providential hand. 937 00:47:24,533 --> 00:47:27,533 I want to give you an opportunity right now. 938 00:47:28,300 --> 00:47:31,300 To trust God's providential hand. 939 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,966 To move from discontentment to contentment. 940 00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:37,500 I don't know what that means in your world. 941 00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:39,066 I don't know what you're going through right now, but I. 942 00:47:39,066 --> 00:47:41,966 But my guess is 943 00:47:41,966 --> 00:47:44,966 that if you could correct God, you would. 944 00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:48,700 And maybe this is the day where you say God, 945 00:47:49,766 --> 00:47:52,766 I don't want to offer you any advice. 946 00:47:52,900 --> 00:47:55,900 I don't want to give you any direction. 947 00:47:55,933 --> 00:47:58,933 I just want to trust your providential hand. 948 00:48:00,833 --> 00:48:03,233 I choose you today. 949 00:48:03,233 --> 00:48:04,633 You you. 950 00:48:04,633 --> 00:48:07,633 Even when it's hard, I choose you. 951 00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:11,500 And I trust you to work all things together for good. 952 00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:14,533 Because I love you. 953 00:48:14,533 --> 00:48:17,400 Father, I thank you for the promise of your word. 954 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,700 Encourage us with it. 955 00:48:19,700 --> 00:48:20,366 In your name we pray. 956 00:48:20,366 --> 00:48:22,200 Amen. 957 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,866 You okay now? 958 00:48:23,866 --> 00:48:26,866 All right. Yeah. Listen. 959 00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:29,933 Read Ruth two this week 960 00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:34,166 with an eye towards the providence of God and trusting him. 961 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,100 And to read Ruth three for next week. 962 00:48:38,933 --> 00:48:41,266 It's an awesome chapter, 963 00:48:41,266 --> 00:48:44,000 and it will tell you, young ladies, how to get a great husband. 964 00:48:46,633 --> 00:48:49,366 Are you ready to sing Ali? 965 00:48:49,366 --> 00:48:52,633 I. That's.