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And we'll again welcome.

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I'm glad you're here.

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It's going to be a good day
as we go through the third part

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of a four part series.

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And this series is called,
Seeing the Unseen Hand of God

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through the book of Ruth.

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It's really a story of providence.

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Things together for the good.

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Those who love him.

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It's a foreshadowing of Romans 828.

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And we're going to get into all of that.

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But before we do,
I just wanted to give you a,

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snapshot, an idea of some,
some good things that are happening

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in the context of this church,
given the fact that it is now full.

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And I have the privilege

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and the honor of coaching
with the varsity staff at the high school.

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And I got,

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I have the opportunity
on behalf of the church.

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It's not part of of of the school
district, so.

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So I didn't put them in a position to
approve or deny that to the team, though.

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It's for the team. But I've started,

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Friday afternoon, chapel

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service for our varsity
football team now, of course.

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Yeah.

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We've, we've curated we've curated meals

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that optimize energy and hydration.

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Truly,
it's all, it's all it's all programed.

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And then we do a chap.

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I do a chapel service
for the guys who want to come.

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It's there's nothing mandatory about it
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It's just if you want to come,
this is what we're doing.

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And so this Friday was our first one

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because it was our opening season. And,

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Ivins took care of all the meal,
and they paid for everything

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and made it all and,
and and put together this beautiful meal

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that we've planned for everybody.

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And we didn't have every.

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But nearly everyone on the varsity
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and, yeah.

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And, and so it was a great time

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to just kind of be together,
but then to open up the Bible,

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and make some,

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correlations between football and faith.

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football is the ultimate team sport.

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And we talked about it truly is.

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And we say, you don't believe me?

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I'm being serious right now.
You think I'm joking?

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And we talked about how it's we over me
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the front of the jersey is more important
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And in order to be successful,
you have to put others ahead of yourself

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and you have to submit and serve one

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to the detriment of yourself oftentimes.

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And that's exactly what Jesus did for us.

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Philippians said, leaving heaven,

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he took the form of a servant,
become obedient to death as a slave.

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He put wi over me

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and he served us not for his benefit,

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but for that's what you understand
I'm saying.

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And so there were three of those things
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Open up the Bible.

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And it was it was so beautiful
because then as the team gathered together

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before the meal, after I get the chance
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ups on the field, and then they
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talking about in chapel service
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And so it's just a it's just a great
opportunity where we get to be like light

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and be that witness
to our huddle, literally.

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And so it's a great honor and a privilege
that we get to do that.

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And I get that opportunity.

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And so thank you, church,
for being a place where that happens.

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And I know that there are other,

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families who have decided
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and help do the meals and stuff,
but it really does have an impact.

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young men,
the great young, great young men,

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as they embrace faith.

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with other players who don't know
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but who are open to listening.

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So anyway, it's a lot of fun, man.

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It's a lot of fun.

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So just keep that.

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Keep that in prayer.

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I'm not asking you to pray for,
winning season.

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The of our championship would be awesome.

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But just for the if, you know, for the

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this chapel idea,
our coach has been very gracious

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and give me permission to ask the boys
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To be a part?

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And he's on board with that.

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So it's been real fun.

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The book of Ruth.

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It's right at the beginning of the old,
like, Genesis.

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Exodus of the next number,
your honor, for judges.

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Ruth.

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So we're eight books
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It's four chapters
long. We're in chapter three today.

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We'll wrap up the book
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I want us to understand this.

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All of the Bible

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is the story of Jesus,

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of of the father.

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The Bible is a historical record,

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but it's not just a historical record.

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It is not, as some have heard,

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biblically basic instructions
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That's not what it's about.

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and the love of the father.

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It's the story of God and his Messiah,

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another word Redeemer,
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owned by another, in this case,
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Jesus by death on the cross.

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by sin and separation.

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three of Ruth is a love story

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between a man and a woman,

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and more deeply,
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It's also a beautiful revelation

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of how God works in the world.

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And we've talked about this
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in the way of providence,
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for we know that God

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together
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and who are called
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We talked about this last week that
when we know that God works, providence

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then what that does is it

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creates a great deal of confidence.

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might not go
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somehow God supernaturally

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working through the natural course
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The natural course of things
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the proof that I believe
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is that I'm content

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if I don't believe,
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go wrong, I'm very discontent,

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very upset, very frustrated.

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right now because somehow I don't see it.

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I understand it can't explain somehow

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God is going to work this together
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is for the good of those who love him.

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It's not a blanket
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is our obedience to the commands of God.

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That's the proof.

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We can't say we love God
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If you love me, you'll obey me, right?

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accepting the forgiveness he's
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to give all that his grace would allow,

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we live in obedience that way.

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and our life, we have confidence that

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all things together for good.

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I'm I have incredible confidence

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and I have incredible momentum in my life.

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You follow that's the book of Ruth
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before us in the context of this
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who trust the providential hand of God,

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God now has a holy obligation

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for you to work things together for good.

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to fulfill His Word?

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God accepts a holy obligation

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to work right now for my good.

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He's obligated to it.

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I hope you understand the force of that.

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Not that he owes us anything,
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to fulfill what he said in his word,
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Ruth in my Bible, Ruth three.

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Ruth two, I think it's the same in yours.

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And in Ruth two, said Billy.

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there's all kinds of things
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is Ruth just happened to stumble afar
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She's a more abiding for Israel
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as she happens,

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happens to come upon this field owned by
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Just happened.

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and are called according to his purpose,
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the providence of God.

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I just happened to go
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and I just happened during that service,

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the college Sunday school class.

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this young lady who quoted a Bible verse

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that we were talking about
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That's awesome. Whatever.

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at Mooney Grove Park.

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Invites. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

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but it just happened to agree.

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And I happened to be coerced into a church
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There's nothing
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I happened to get coerced into

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and I happened to be in short centerfield.

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You know, and there happened to be
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I just happened to be coerced
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to go to an all youth lock in junior
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same girl that was in the same school
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And who was working with the junior
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that the next day,
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Bible study at her house.

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So happened that we started talking
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and it just so happened

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that she could hold a conversation with me
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I don't know if any of you can know,

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but this one could.

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and it just so happened

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that 33.

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Yeah, we have three sons
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It doesn't just happen.

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Do you understand?

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I'm saying it doesn't just happen.

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It's the providential hand of God.

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And so that's what we're running into
in Luke chapter Ruth chapter three.

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Let's go to verse one.

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Naomi, Ruth's mother in law, said to her,

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my daughter, should I not

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seek rest for you,
that it may be well with you?

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There's all there's
so much in this chapter.

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I'm going to take it real slow.

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I almost verse by verse through this

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when she says, my daughter,
should I not seek rest for you?

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This has

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this mother in
law's desire for her daughter in law

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since since the moment
roof's husband died,

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she tried surgically over it

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years ago, in the country of Moab,

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where Naomi and her husband Elimelech left

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Ratha

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because there was a famine
as the judgment of God, and went to Moab,

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a place that should have never been
with their two sons.

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And the two sons
married these two Moabite women,

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which they weren't,
should have never done.

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Those two sons died.

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Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died.

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You got these three widows in Moab,

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and we talked to her daughters in law.

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She says, ladies, please,
I beg you, go stay with you.

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I'm going to go back to to Bethlehem.

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You stay here, that you may find rest

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with another husband.

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And one of them says,
okay, I'll now never hear from her again.

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I don't know

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where you go.

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I will go where you lodge, I will watch.

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Your people will be my people.

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Where you die,
I will die and be buried there.

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Your God will be my God. And she go.
She comes back.

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But from the moment
that that her husband died in Moab,

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Naomi said, please, I want you to.

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She says it again in chapter three.

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My daughter, should I not seek rest?

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She wants her daughter in law to find rest

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in the context of a covenant marriage.

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She wants

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her to
find rest in the context of a godly man.

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It's been her desire from the is.

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I mean, honestly, parents, don't we?

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If we could pick our kids spouses,
isn't this every parent's dream?

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Yeah.

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I mean, sometimes they get it right

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and sometimes we just have to trust God.

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But she gets the opportunity
like I'm done on your behalf.

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I'm going to do what I can to orchestrate
this under the guidance of God.

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But my desire for you is
because this is what marriage should be.

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Marriage is designed between
a man and a woman who are loving God

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together to be a place of rest and peace

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and safety and comfort and provision

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and joy and contentment and fulfillment.

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Why? Because it's a picture

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of Christ and His church.

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Because the picture between Christ
and us is to be a relationship

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that is full of rest and peace

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and joy and protection and understand
this is what she's seeking for

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her daughter.

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And this is what honestly,
marriage is supposed to be for us.

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As a picture of this relationship,
which questions church,

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should I not see that it may be
well with you?

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Look at verse two.

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Is not Boaz our relative,
with whose young women you?

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He is winnowing barley tonight
at the threshing floor.

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So the first thing we learn about Boaz
personally

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is that he's a relative of Naomi.

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And because Ruth is Naomi's
daughter in law,

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he's now a relative of Ruth. Okay,

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bring to this, this, this relative.

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What she's saying is, look,
I want you see, Naomi tells Ruth,

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I want you to pursue this man, Boaz.

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She's kind of setting stuff up, right?

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I want you to pursue him.

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She knows what a man of integrity he is.

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She knows what a good like employee.

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Sure, he like he's everything
that she wants for her daughter or not.

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And she said, I want you to pursue him
not because

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he's successful,
but because he's a relative.

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Here's why this is important.

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In Deuteronomy 25, verses
five, six and seven,

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there's this Liveright law in place

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that says,
if a woman is married to a Hebrew

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and he dies, and his that her dead

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husband has has brothers,
the next in line is responsible

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to get this, redeem her,
and fulfill the obligations of

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his son in the it her dead husband's name.

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That was a law on the books
in Deuteronomy 25.

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Why? Because God is very concerned
with the family

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family line and with inheritance.

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And so God sets up this law

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very early in his people's orchestrates.

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If a woman's husband dies
and he has a brother,

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the brother is obligated by law

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to be a redeemer.

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He's a relative.

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So that that family name can continue
so that family doesn't die out in Israel.

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Because family is important to God,
still is.

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And so that the and

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that man and woman
is passed on to their children,

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because God is very concerned about his
people's land and the inheritance.

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And it passes on that generational
inheritance and generational security.

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And so it's very important to God.

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And so Naomi's saying, look,
we have one of these,

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as he's a relative of ours.

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Now, I'm going to come back to that
passage in Deuteronomy

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25 in just a minute.

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But just keep that in mind.

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Naomi says, you were with all these women

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that were,

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that were,

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in the field working.

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And if you after work, this was the
this was the,

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the welfare system in ancient Israel
that the, the, the farmers who owned land

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as the harvest is, as the harvest would,
would start to be harvest the, the,

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the workers were not allowed to
to harvest the edges

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in the corners of the field

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all through the field.

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They were allowed
one time to go through the field

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and pick all the grain
they could, any grain that was left

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or any grain that fell on the ground,
they had to leave there

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so that the orphans, the poor,
the widows could go through the field

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and pick the grain on the edges,

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in the corners and everything
that was left on the ground.

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It was their welfare system, and it was

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because it forced those

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who had to be generous up to 20%

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of what could be harvested
was left in the field, 20%.

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So it forced those who had to be generous,

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and it forced those
who didn't have to work for it.

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Because it was protecting their dignity.

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And did you know this,

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that in cultures

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where you have to work to eat, their life
span is much longer than in cultures

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who retire and coast

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much longer, so much value and hard work.

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And so that was the system.

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And she says, this guy, Boaz,
you've been working in his field gleaning,

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see, he is

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he is winnowing barley tonight
at the threshing floor.

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So they would gather all these crop,
all this barley in this.

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And there was the seed and

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all this stuff around the seed,
the chaff that was good for nothing.

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And to winnow it,
they would throw it up in the air

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and let the breeze blow
that nasty stuff away.

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And the seed,
which was heavier, would fall down.

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And that's how they would separate
the wheat and the chaff.

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And they did it at the threshing floor.

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The threshing floor
was at the highest peak of whatever area

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they're in, because at the highest peak
is where the wind goes.

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Didn't stand.

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So they throw it up in the air,
the wind's blowing,

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it blows all the nasty away,
and the seed falls down.

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So they're winnowing this at the threshing
floor now.

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Oh, your Bibles.

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Because, you know, in judges
six, it's the story of Gideon.

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And the Bible says in judges six
that Gideon was threshing

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the grain at the winepress.

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The winepress is at the lowest
elevation. Why?

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Because liquid runs downhill.

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Squeeze the
grapes, it runs downhill to the lowest.

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And so Gideon is at the lowest elevation,

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threshing wheat where there's no wind,
just getting all nasty and cover.

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Why was he being so dumb?

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If you know

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he was hired?

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He was scared to death because there was
an enemy coming after him.

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So when the angel shows up, because he.

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Gideon's mighty warrior,

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you know, kind of jerking his chain,
it's like I'm not a mighty warrior.

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I'm a coward is like, right, so you're
going to do something great for God.

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So, so this whole threshing floor or
a winnowing the strength, the threshold.

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This is an important deal.
This is why they did it.

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And so she says,
look, he's he's he's doing that.

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He's there.

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Watch what she says.

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This is it for any of you who are single.

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This is great dating advice right here.

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Not seriously.
Now, now, don't go to Tinder.

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Go to the Bible.
It'll tell you how to date.

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All right, so I'm just saying.

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All right, so pay attention.

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Verse three.

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She saw this. Naomi is so practical.

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She's telling her daughter in law

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to get a man.

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I picked the man for you.

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I'm gonna tell you how to get him now.

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I did, I let a great Jewish mother.

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Wash.

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Therefore,

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you know you've been working in the field.

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Go take a shower,

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wash, point yourself

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and put on your cloak
and go down to the threshing floor.

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But do not make yourself known to the man
until he is finished eating and drinking.

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Let me just unpack this
now. Please, ladies, don't get offended.

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This is the way.

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This is just the way.

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Like she's like, look, here's the deal.

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You don't have to do any of this,
but I'm going to I'm gonna

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some wisdom men.

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Men are visual animals.

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Yeah.

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And how you present yourself to
them is important.

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You're more than
welcome to come in from the field

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and your hair like a rat's nest
and smell like a dockworker.

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You're more than welcome.

466
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But you would serve yourself well.

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Take a shower, pretty yourself up.

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We understand that, don't we?

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Like guys?

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I'm not being chauvinistic.
Don't be offended.

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But you understand this, right?

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Right.

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Good gracious. Come on.

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Look, just.

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Just like you want
to put your best foot forward.

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What she's saying,

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what she says.

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Don't make yourself known

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to the man
until he's finished eating and drinking.

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Now, this isn't just a man female,
a male female thing.

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This is just how people.

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If you

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ever, like, come
home from work or like, all day something,

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and you walk through the door and
whoever's there is just a little, little

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and sometimes like, look, just don't,

486
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I don't know, just stop.

487
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Let me collect my thoughts for a moment.

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Don't hit.

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I come through the door.

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Anybody you feel that way?

491
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Like just slow down.

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Have you ever heard the idea that, the way
to a man's heart is through stomach?

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And so I was like, look, listen, I know
you got all this stuff in your mind.

494
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Don't unload on the man.

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He's worked
all season long this afternoon.

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He is exhausted.

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He is hungry.

498
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Just let him have some space.

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And it's not necessarily
male female thing.

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It's just how some people

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are. You married men or women

502
00:25:13,133 --> 00:25:13,766
or some of you?

503
00:25:13,766 --> 00:25:16,000
You like
when you wake up in the morning like,

504
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,766
oh, I have all these thoughts for the day.

505
00:25:17,766 --> 00:25:20,433
Do you this, this, this, this, this,

506
00:25:20,433 --> 00:25:23,733
you're married to someone is like,
can you just not say anything?

507
00:25:25,266 --> 00:25:27,733
Can you just, I'm.

508
00:25:27,733 --> 00:25:30,733
I'll be here later today.

509
00:25:32,066 --> 00:25:33,966
I need to wake up.

510
00:25:33,966 --> 00:25:35,600
I need to not be achy.

511
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,700
I need to have a couple cups of coffee.

512
00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:42,033
I need to look at the new fit
to rattle stuff, like just

513
00:25:43,366 --> 00:25:44,800
on my lion.

514
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:45,833
Okay.

515
00:25:45,833 --> 00:25:48,133
And so this is so practical.

516
00:25:48,133 --> 00:25:49,200
Naomi says, look,

517
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,433
you need to present yourself
really, really well,

518
00:25:51,433 --> 00:25:54,433
but don't lead with everything
that's on your mind.

519
00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:56,966
Just keep your mouth shut for a minute.

520
00:25:56,966 --> 00:26:01,166
Let him eat and impress

521
00:26:02,233 --> 00:26:05,233
men. Women, all of us.

522
00:26:05,533 --> 00:26:08,533
You might have to just slow down,

523
00:26:08,933 --> 00:26:11,933
let the other decompress a little bit.

524
00:26:12,766 --> 00:26:14,166
Here's what we have to understand. I'm.

525
00:26:14,166 --> 00:26:16,700
I'm going to download a bunch
of practical stuff for you right now.

526
00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:19,700
Now, listen.

527
00:26:20,433 --> 00:26:20,833
Wrong

528
00:26:20,833 --> 00:26:23,833
decision at the wrong time is disaster.

529
00:26:24,033 --> 00:26:26,833
Would you agree? Okay.

530
00:26:26,833 --> 00:26:31,100
The wrong decision at the right
time is a mistake.

531
00:26:31,866 --> 00:26:33,433
You get it?

532
00:26:33,433 --> 00:26:34,033
Hey, listen.

533
00:26:34,033 --> 00:26:37,500
Now, the right decision at the wrong time

534
00:26:37,866 --> 00:26:40,833
will be unaccepted.

535
00:26:40,833 --> 00:26:43,833
The goal is to make the right decision
at the right time.

536
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,200
Boaz was the right decision,

537
00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:49,766
but she had to wait for the right time.

538
00:26:49,766 --> 00:26:51,633
You follow? Yeah.

539
00:26:51,633 --> 00:26:54,433
And you can only wait for the right time

540
00:26:54,433 --> 00:26:57,600
if you trust the providential hand of God.

541
00:26:58,233 --> 00:26:59,233
Because if you don't

542
00:27:00,533 --> 00:27:04,333
push your agenda at your time, you need

543
00:27:05,433 --> 00:27:06,600
to understand.

544
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,100
Yeah.

545
00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:12,000
Trust in the providential hand of God
doesn't just make stuff better

546
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:12,700
for your life.

547
00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:15,700
It makes stuff better
for everybody lives around you.

548
00:27:24,433 --> 00:27:26,333
But when we're only.

549
00:27:26,333 --> 00:27:27,900
That's only three verses.

550
00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:30,200
But when it. Verse four.
When he lies down.

551
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,066
Observe the place where he lies.

552
00:27:32,066 --> 00:27:34,566
Then go and uncover his feet and lie down.

553
00:27:34,566 --> 00:27:37,566
And he'll tell you what to do.

554
00:27:38,366 --> 00:27:41,366
Now he says, listen,

555
00:27:42,966 --> 00:27:45,733
at some point this is a huge celebration.

556
00:27:45,733 --> 00:27:49,133
All the harvest is in and
and when the all the harvest

557
00:27:49,133 --> 00:27:52,133
was at night,
they would have this huge celebration

558
00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:53,666
and all this grain.

559
00:27:53,666 --> 00:27:54,866
It's all out in the open.

560
00:27:54,866 --> 00:27:56,133
There's no warehouses back then.

561
00:27:56,133 --> 00:27:59,266
It's all out in the open
and all this greenery piled up in a heap.

562
00:28:00,466 --> 00:28:03,466
The men would sleep around the grain,

563
00:28:03,466 --> 00:28:07,500
their heads next to the grain
and their feet pointed out.

564
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,966
So like spokes in a wheel,
it all sleep around all the men. Why?

565
00:28:12,366 --> 00:28:14,133
To protect it.

566
00:28:14,133 --> 00:28:17,266
You got thieves and marauders and animals.

567
00:28:17,266 --> 00:28:19,100
And so they all slept around it.

568
00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:21,966
And so what is their going to eat?

569
00:28:21,966 --> 00:28:24,533
He's going to drink
like he's going to be relaxed,

570
00:28:24,533 --> 00:28:27,633
and then they're going to go to sleep
as they normally do.

571
00:28:27,833 --> 00:28:31,733
When that happens,
she says, watch where he lies. Why?

572
00:28:32,066 --> 00:28:35,066
Because you don't want to approach
the wrong person.

573
00:28:37,733 --> 00:28:38,400
Men, women.

574
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,433
You're single.

575
00:28:40,433 --> 00:28:42,933
You're approaching the right ones
because there's some yuks out there

576
00:28:42,933 --> 00:28:44,466
you don't want to approach.

577
00:28:44,466 --> 00:28:49,366
Be very eyes wide open. Then

578
00:28:49,366 --> 00:28:51,933
going uncover uncovers feet and lie down
and he will tell you what to do.

579
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,666
So they're sleeping outside

580
00:28:56,666 --> 00:28:59,666
and she says, go lie down at his feet.

581
00:29:00,566 --> 00:29:02,300
He'll be sound asleep.

582
00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:05,300
Why does she say, uncover his feet?

583
00:29:06,233 --> 00:29:09,100
Think they're sleeping outside?

584
00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:11,100
It's going to get cold.

585
00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:13,433
Lie down at his feet and uncovers
feet. Why?

586
00:29:13,433 --> 00:29:16,433
What happens in the middle of the night
when your feet are cold?

587
00:29:16,633 --> 00:29:19,633
You wake up right?

588
00:29:20,433 --> 00:29:21,266
Covers feet.

589
00:29:21,266 --> 00:29:24,100
And guess who's going to be there?

590
00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:26,100
You see this?

591
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:28,600
So why wise woman?

592
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,600
She's like a puppet man.

593
00:29:35,066 --> 00:29:35,433
Observer.

594
00:29:35,433 --> 00:29:38,000
Please realize. Go on. Covers.
Don't lie down.

595
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,833
He'll tell you what to do.

596
00:29:40,833 --> 00:29:41,966
Remember I said the Bible

597
00:29:41,966 --> 00:29:44,966
is the story about Jesus.

598
00:29:46,066 --> 00:29:46,800
Understand?

599
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,033
Lie at his feet.

600
00:29:49,033 --> 00:29:52,033
He'll tell you what to do.

601
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,400
Lie at the feet of the master.

602
00:29:58,866 --> 00:30:00,833
And the master to. Do

603
00:30:02,166 --> 00:30:05,166
you understand?

604
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,600
Submit yourself to the feet of the master.

605
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,200
He'll tell you what to do.

606
00:30:13,866 --> 00:30:16,866
That's what this is about.

607
00:30:20,433 --> 00:30:22,733
Tells you what to do.

608
00:30:22,733 --> 00:30:25,733
Do all that he says.

609
00:30:28,266 --> 00:30:30,933
She reply at verse five

610
00:30:30,933 --> 00:30:31,700
to Naomi.

611
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,700
I'll do exactly what you said.

612
00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:37,066
This whole

613
00:30:37,066 --> 00:30:40,066
chapter three, please understand this.

614
00:30:40,566 --> 00:30:43,566
The here's the big idea

615
00:30:43,566 --> 00:30:46,566
that your setbacks,

616
00:30:46,566 --> 00:30:49,566
providence meet,
your setbacks can be God's set ups.

617
00:30:50,833 --> 00:30:53,833
And that's what's going on here.

618
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,666
Rather than roof looking at everything
that's going on saying

619
00:30:56,666 --> 00:30:58,433
I just one setback after another.

620
00:30:58,433 --> 00:31:00,600
Have you ever been there

621
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,300
after another?

622
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:04,300
I can't catch a break.

623
00:31:05,333 --> 00:31:08,333
Providence means those setbacks.

624
00:31:09,066 --> 00:31:12,000
They could be God's setups

625
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,833
and that's what's happening.

626
00:31:14,833 --> 00:31:16,800
And so stay at his feet.

627
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,100
He'll tell you what to do.

628
00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:21,900
And when he tells you
what to do, do all that he says.

629
00:31:23,433 --> 00:31:24,966
Do all that he says. Why?

630
00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:27,966
Because he's trustworthy.

631
00:31:28,333 --> 00:31:31,633
I'm going to submit myself to this, to him

632
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,600
because I know I can trust him.

633
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,266
Listen, you're not going to trust
the trustworthiness of God if

634
00:31:40,433 --> 00:31:43,433
firmly set in your mind and heart.

635
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,500
When I trust the providential hand of God.

636
00:31:52,833 --> 00:31:55,833
I can believe that is trustworthy.

637
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,166
And so what he says to do,

638
00:31:59,166 --> 00:32:02,166
I want to.

639
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,033
Verse six.

640
00:32:06,033 --> 00:32:08,100
So she went down to the threshing floor
and did

641
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,066
just as her mother
in law had commanded her.

642
00:32:10,066 --> 00:32:13,200
And when Boaz had eaten and drunk
it doesn't say, and was drunk.

643
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,200
I just want to make that clear.

644
00:32:17,333 --> 00:32:18,433
And his heart was Mary.

645
00:32:18,433 --> 00:32:21,733
He went to lie down at grain, remember,
like the spokes of the wheel

646
00:32:21,733 --> 00:32:23,166
we talked about.
That's what's going on. That's it.

647
00:32:23,166 --> 00:32:24,333
That's what this looks like.

648
00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:27,033
Then she came
softly and then covered his feet.

649
00:32:27,033 --> 00:32:28,266
At midnight.

650
00:32:28,266 --> 00:32:31,200
The man was startled. Why did he wake up?

651
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,400
His toes are cold.

652
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,400
It's like, what the heck happened?

653
00:32:38,033 --> 00:32:40,433
And he turned over and

654
00:32:40,433 --> 00:32:41,266
his feet.

655
00:32:41,266 --> 00:32:43,666
So it's dark.

656
00:32:43,666 --> 00:32:46,600
It's nighttime, it's cold.

657
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:52,100
She kind of sneaks in and he wakes up
and it startles him

658
00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:55,533
because women weren't supposed to be
a part of this thing was too dangerous.

659
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:01,500
They weren't supposed to be a part
like any this is going on.

660
00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:03,366
And he said, who are you?

661
00:33:03,366 --> 00:33:05,033
Remember, there's no light.

662
00:33:05,033 --> 00:33:05,833
It's not a factor.

663
00:33:05,833 --> 00:33:07,633
You don't have a flashlight.

664
00:33:07,633 --> 00:33:09,366
Like, who are you?

665
00:33:09,366 --> 00:33:11,266
She answered, I am Ruth, your servant.

666
00:33:11,266 --> 00:33:14,833
Spread your wings over your servant, for
you are a redeemer.

667
00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:18,766
Literally spread your garment over me.

668
00:33:18,766 --> 00:33:20,233
Here's what she's saying.

669
00:33:20,233 --> 00:33:22,566
Just to have a man's

670
00:33:22,566 --> 00:33:25,566
a person's garment over you
was there covering

671
00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:29,966
it was placing their authority over you
as a protection.

672
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,933
It was placing their identity over you.

673
00:33:32,933 --> 00:33:35,366
This is a marriage proposal,

674
00:33:35,366 --> 00:33:39,066
she said, I want to
I want you to cover me with your covering.

675
00:33:40,433 --> 00:33:41,933
If your authority, with your

676
00:33:41,933 --> 00:33:45,700
identity,
I want you to accept me as your own.

677
00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:47,166
That's what she's saying.

678
00:33:47,166 --> 00:33:48,833
She's proposing marriage to him.

679
00:33:48,833 --> 00:33:51,833
This is why Naomi said,
make sure you get the right one.

680
00:33:57,866 --> 00:34:00,800
For your a redeemer.

681
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,600
That word
redeemer is a Hebrew word called go.

682
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,900
Well, and this is a really important.

683
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:08,600
It's not Greek, it's Hebrew.

684
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,900
The redeemer is called goel.

685
00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:13,800
And what it literally means
is a kinsman redeemer.

686
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,300
Now we know what kinfolk are, right?

687
00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:17,400
We're from the Ranchos.

688
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,233
So? So a a relative who was.

689
00:34:20,233 --> 00:34:23,600
But it's someone close to us
who chooses to buy

690
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,600
us back from what owns us.

691
00:34:26,666 --> 00:34:32,100
Okay,
so what owned Ruth right now was despair.

692
00:34:32,666 --> 00:34:35,700
And being a widow and poverty.

693
00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:39,266
And so she was seeking a go. Well,

694
00:34:40,466 --> 00:34:41,866
buy her at

695
00:34:41,866 --> 00:34:46,366
in essence, pay the dowry,
if you will, to become his bride

696
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:50,100
to cover over her, his being,

697
00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:53,100
his person, his identity, his family.

698
00:34:53,666 --> 00:34:56,366
That's what that's
what she means when you are a redeemer.

699
00:34:56,366 --> 00:34:57,900
Now, here's the thing.

700
00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:00,466
This kinsman redeemer.

701
00:35:00,466 --> 00:35:01,733
Deuteronomy 25.

702
00:35:01,733 --> 00:35:02,733
If you read story

703
00:35:02,733 --> 00:35:06,266
25, verses five through nine,
you'll see this whole thing play out,

704
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:10,866
that when a someone needs to be redeemed,

705
00:35:11,033 --> 00:35:15,066
in this case,
a widow would go to their kinsman redeemer

706
00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:18,333
and say,
you are my kinsman Redeemer by law,

707
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:23,000
you to redeem me as your own.

708
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,200
The kinsman Redeemer
could make one of two decisions.

709
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,200
He can say, yes, I accept you, and I will.

710
00:35:30,533 --> 00:35:32,666
Or he could deny

711
00:35:32,666 --> 00:35:35,600
he didn't have to accept her.

712
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:36,600
It was his choice.

713
00:35:39,066 --> 00:35:40,633
And which

714
00:35:40,633 --> 00:35:42,633
is? If he decided

715
00:35:42,633 --> 00:35:45,700
not to redeem
the one asking to be redeemed,

716
00:35:46,433 --> 00:35:50,166
they would go to the city gate
where the elders all sat and did business,

717
00:35:50,666 --> 00:35:55,066
and she would say, I, he's my kinsman
redeemer, but he has rejected me.

718
00:35:56,133 --> 00:35:57,266
It's all in the Bible.

719
00:35:57,266 --> 00:36:00,266
They would take off his shoe and give it,

720
00:36:01,066 --> 00:36:04,300
and he would always be known
as the man who lost his shoe.

721
00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:08,700
And then she would spit in his face

722
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:11,700
like crazy.

723
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,066
And then she was free to go see

724
00:36:14,066 --> 00:36:17,066
if a nut next in line would redeem her.

725
00:36:17,933 --> 00:36:20,266
That's what she's referring to here.

726
00:36:20,266 --> 00:36:23,266
But my own a redeemer.

727
00:36:26,133 --> 00:36:30,200
So Boaz must choose to redeem her.

728
00:36:30,366 --> 00:36:31,866
Who is Boaz?

729
00:36:31,866 --> 00:36:35,066
A picture of in the book of Ruth. Jesus,

730
00:36:36,566 --> 00:36:39,566
our Redeemer.

731
00:36:40,433 --> 00:36:43,433
Who's to redeem us?

732
00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:46,500
Not just keep that in mind
as we go through this.

733
00:36:48,266 --> 00:36:50,333
But verse was I on oh verse ten here.

734
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,433
And he said, May
you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter,

735
00:36:53,566 --> 00:36:57,266
you have made this last kindness greater
than the first, and that you have not gone

736
00:36:57,266 --> 00:37:00,800
after young men, whether poor or look

737
00:37:01,633 --> 00:37:04,633
like there's something about you.

738
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,266
He he was he was probably in his 50s.

739
00:37:07,266 --> 00:37:11,300
She's probably in her late 20s,
maybe 30, like, and he's saying

740
00:37:12,633 --> 00:37:16,433
you're such a woman of quality because
you're not chasing these young bucks.

741
00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:20,500
You're not just looking at the external

742
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,933
like you want the laws and the ways of God

743
00:37:24,433 --> 00:37:28,566
to drive your life,
and you're submitting yourself

744
00:37:28,666 --> 00:37:32,033
to the ways of God
rather than just chasing these young,

745
00:37:33,133 --> 00:37:33,400
he said.

746
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,833
There's there's a quality about you
that is so profoundly

747
00:37:36,833 --> 00:37:39,833
godly.

748
00:37:40,433 --> 00:37:41,700
So let me just

749
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,466
let me just say this again

750
00:37:44,466 --> 00:37:46,933
to you who are single.

751
00:37:46,933 --> 00:37:50,366
Last year before we had the privilege
of hiring Michael as our youth pastor,

752
00:37:50,366 --> 00:37:53,366
I got to do the teaching in our junior
high and high school group on a midweek,

753
00:37:53,766 --> 00:37:54,900
midweek services.

754
00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:56,600
And I told my son, I'm
I'm going to tell you,

755
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,600
I'm going to tell you
how to get the right person to marry.

756
00:38:00,433 --> 00:38:02,266
Three things you look for the moment

757
00:38:02,266 --> 00:38:05,266
I said that all the girls are like.

758
00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:08,900
The boys are like, are you kidding me?

759
00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:10,600
Let me tell you. Here it is.

760
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,600
There's three things
that have to be in place.

761
00:38:13,633 --> 00:38:15,400
The first one is they got to be fun.

762
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:17,300
They have to

763
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:20,300
be someone you can have fun with,

764
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:21,833
right? The same stuff.

765
00:38:21,833 --> 00:38:24,833
Or at least act like you
like the same stuff,

766
00:38:25,266 --> 00:38:26,633
right?

767
00:38:26,633 --> 00:38:29,633
Like if
if you don't like being around someone,

768
00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:32,733
a relationship is going to be terrible.

769
00:38:32,733 --> 00:38:34,866
You can do it.
There's going to be terrible.

770
00:38:34,866 --> 00:38:37,866
So you got to be fun and there's got to be
a physical thing to it.

771
00:38:38,566 --> 00:38:41,566
There's got to be like.

772
00:38:42,233 --> 00:38:45,233
There does a million.

773
00:38:45,466 --> 00:38:49,966
No. And listen, ladies,
you're so much more virtuous than us.

774
00:38:49,966 --> 00:38:54,066
Guys like you can
you can see something inside of us.

775
00:38:54,066 --> 00:38:57,333
We initially we

776
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,900
we don't see what's on

777
00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:02,266
as you we're just visual.

778
00:39:02,266 --> 00:39:06,700
And so there's got to be like, oh, like
physically there's something between us.

779
00:39:06,700 --> 00:39:07,900
There's got to be those.

780
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:09,933
Now, you can have a

781
00:39:09,933 --> 00:39:13,133
relationship in a marriage without those,
but it's going to be tough.

782
00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:17,500
But most people stop with those two, man.

783
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:20,500
They're fun and they're real.

784
00:39:20,833 --> 00:39:23,333
I think this is right.

785
00:39:23,333 --> 00:39:26,333
And they missed the third.

786
00:39:26,666 --> 00:39:29,666
They all start
with if fun, physical and faith.

787
00:39:30,433 --> 00:39:32,566
Yeah I know what I did.

788
00:39:32,566 --> 00:39:33,100
You missed it.

789
00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:36,100
That's all right.

790
00:39:36,633 --> 00:39:39,633
There's got to be the faith component.

791
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,400
And if there's not the faith component
though, they're fun.

792
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,100
And the physical stuff is there.

793
00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:50,100
If the faith component isn't there.

794
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,333
It's going to be work.

795
00:39:52,333 --> 00:39:52,933
It'll be work.

796
00:39:52,933 --> 00:39:55,933
Even with the faith component,
it'll be disastrous without it.

797
00:39:56,233 --> 00:39:57,266
Yeah.

798
00:39:57,266 --> 00:40:00,266
Listen, single people

799
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,600
becomes missionary marriage.

800
00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:06,700
And when you settle, boy, they're fun
and they're hot.

801
00:40:06,766 --> 00:40:08,100
And that's where you're looking.

802
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,600
You're asking for trouble.

803
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,566
You understand that?

804
00:40:15,566 --> 00:40:18,566
And that's why back in 1990,

805
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,966
when I can have a young lady

806
00:40:20,966 --> 00:40:23,966
about the Book of Lamentations.

807
00:40:27,066 --> 00:40:28,533
I don't know many of you hear that.

808
00:40:28,533 --> 00:40:30,400
I get it at this point in your life.

809
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,400
And I did with this little gal who was 20.

810
00:40:40,433 --> 00:40:42,300
OS she's in.

811
00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:45,300
Ruth is this godly woman of virtue.

812
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,100
She's Proverbs 31.

813
00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:51,100
Before Proverbs 31 was written,

814
00:40:51,766 --> 00:40:55,800
and the way he got a Proverbs 31 woman

815
00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:59,333
because he was a Boaz type of man.

816
00:41:00,433 --> 00:41:03,433
So men, you want a Proverbs 31

817
00:41:03,433 --> 00:41:06,433
woman be a Boaz type, a man.

818
00:41:08,333 --> 00:41:10,766
Women don't settle for someone

819
00:41:10,766 --> 00:41:13,766
who's not a Boaz type of guy.

820
00:41:16,633 --> 00:41:17,566
He says you want

821
00:41:17,566 --> 00:41:20,566
the things of God to rule your life
more than

822
00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:21,200
physical.

823
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,600
All this external stuff,
he said, you are so beautiful.

824
00:41:27,633 --> 00:41:29,900
And watch what he says.

825
00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:33,900
And now, my daughter, verse 11, do not
fear, I will do for you all that you ask.

826
00:41:34,133 --> 00:41:37,300
For all my fellow townsmen
know that you are a worthy woman,

827
00:41:37,833 --> 00:41:40,500
like you're virtuous,

828
00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:43,500
profoundly evident
to everybody around you.

829
00:41:44,133 --> 00:41:47,133
Everybody knows.

830
00:41:47,233 --> 00:41:51,000
And now it is true that I am a redeemer,
yet there is a Redeemer nearer

831
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,800
than I remain tonight
and in the morning, if he will redeem you.

832
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,900
Good. Let him do it.

833
00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:59,400
But if he's not willing to redeem you,
then as the Lord lives, I

834
00:42:00,433 --> 00:42:02,033
lie down until morning.

835
00:42:02,033 --> 00:42:05,033
Here's what he's saying.

836
00:42:05,066 --> 00:42:07,200
He's saying,
I don't want you to worry anymore.

837
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,566
You've asked me.

838
00:42:09,566 --> 00:42:11,033
You've asked me to redeem you.

839
00:42:11,033 --> 00:42:14,033
You've asked me to accept you as my own.

840
00:42:14,733 --> 00:42:17,400
I will do all that you ask.

841
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,133
What he's saying is this.

842
00:42:19,133 --> 00:42:23,533
You have any effect on my redeeming you?

843
00:42:24,033 --> 00:42:25,500
I will do all the work.

844
00:42:26,633 --> 00:42:27,500
Do you hear that?

845
00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:29,700
Do you hear Jesus in that?

846
00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:31,866
This is the story of Christ.

847
00:42:31,866 --> 00:42:36,600
And he's saying you can do nothing to work
your own redemption.

848
00:42:37,033 --> 00:42:40,033
I will do it all.

849
00:42:40,433 --> 00:42:44,066
Just come to me,
lay at my feet and make the request.

850
00:42:44,066 --> 00:42:45,600
I will do all the work.

851
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,533
Religion says, work your way to God.

852
00:42:48,533 --> 00:42:51,300
Jesus says, I am going to come to you.

853
00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:52,866
I will do the work.

854
00:42:52,866 --> 00:42:55,166
That's the story that's going on here.

855
00:42:55,166 --> 00:42:57,866
And he says,

856
00:42:57,866 --> 00:43:00,433
he says there is someone

857
00:43:00,433 --> 00:43:01,933
that's nearer to you than I am.

858
00:43:01,933 --> 00:43:04,933
And so the way this whole thing worked,

859
00:43:05,433 --> 00:43:08,800
the brother,
the man who died the next in line in

860
00:43:08,933 --> 00:43:12,333
the family would have the first
right of refusal, if you will.

861
00:43:12,733 --> 00:43:14,266
And so Boaz is somewhere down here.

862
00:43:14,266 --> 00:43:15,933
You said there's one who is closer.

863
00:43:15,933 --> 00:43:18,633
And if he will redeem you, so be it.

864
00:43:18,633 --> 00:43:19,366
But if not

865
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:21,600
fully, and

866
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,600
in my mind, this is where my mind goes
as I read that

867
00:43:25,333 --> 00:43:27,433
there's

868
00:43:27,433 --> 00:43:29,700
in our world,

869
00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:33,500
when we're just coming into
this realization that there is a God

870
00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:36,500
and we're not right with him
and want to get right with him.

871
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:41,700
The first, the first in that
wrong of trying to is our own behavior.

872
00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:43,100
We try to be good.

873
00:43:43,100 --> 00:43:46,900
It's called religion,
and it's so close to every person

874
00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:50,233
because we all know at some level
that we've messed stuff up.

875
00:43:50,666 --> 00:43:54,600
And we all know at some level we have to
be right with we got to be better.

876
00:43:54,833 --> 00:43:56,366
And so we try this.

877
00:43:56,366 --> 00:43:59,500
The self effort
to work our self into worthy

878
00:44:00,433 --> 00:44:05,100
is one who is closer,
more like like you go to first.

879
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,500
Can it redeem, you know.

880
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,400
And because it can't

881
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,866
Jesus says, I will.

882
00:44:13,866 --> 00:44:16,866
Do you understand what I'm saying?

883
00:44:17,466 --> 00:44:19,300
If it were able to redeem you,

884
00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:23,966
if what the Bible says,
if the Lord could save you, it would.

885
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,066
It can't.

886
00:44:25,066 --> 00:44:28,300
The only thing it can do is tell you
that it cannot save you.

887
00:44:28,300 --> 00:44:30,100
So there has to be another go.

888
00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:34,233
Well, another kinsman Redeemer
who is Christ, who is willing to.

889
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,600
That's Boaz.

890
00:44:40,866 --> 00:44:43,200
Remain tonight and in the morning,
if you will redeem it.

891
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,333
Good. Let him do it.

892
00:44:44,333 --> 00:44:48,033
If he's not willing to redeem
you as not as Lord, as I will redeem you.

893
00:44:48,033 --> 00:44:50,100
Lie down until the morning.

894
00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:51,600
Now watch this. Verse 14.

895
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,600
So she lie at his feet until the morning,
but arose before

896
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,400
one could recognize another.

897
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,400
And she
and he said, let it not be known that the

898
00:45:00,366 --> 00:45:01,500
the threshing floor.

899
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:04,500
And he said, bring the garment,
that outer coat,

900
00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:06,500
yet you were wearing, and hold it out.

901
00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:10,166
So she held it out, and he measured out
six measures of barley and put it on her.

902
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:11,700
Then she went into the city.

903
00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:13,600
Here's what he's doing.

904
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,800
He's protecting her and providing her,
because that's what masculinity does.

905
00:45:18,866 --> 00:45:21,066
He says, let me stay here tonight.

906
00:45:21,066 --> 00:45:22,500
Why? Because it's midnight.

907
00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:24,866
It's the darkest time. It's
the coldest time.

908
00:45:24,866 --> 00:45:27,366
It's the most perilous time
to be out on your own.

909
00:45:27,366 --> 00:45:30,233
Especially as a young lady
in the wilderness.

910
00:45:30,233 --> 00:45:32,900
It's unsafe for you to go
wander away from her right now.

911
00:45:32,900 --> 00:45:33,733
Just stay here.

912
00:45:33,733 --> 00:45:36,333
I want to protect you.
We don't know who's out there.

913
00:45:36,333 --> 00:45:37,366
We know the animals.

914
00:45:37,366 --> 00:45:39,433
Just stay here. I need to protect you.

915
00:45:41,366 --> 00:45:44,533
As the sun's
coming up before anybody can clearly see.

916
00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:46,166
Then I want you to go wife. Because I

917
00:45:46,166 --> 00:45:49,533
not only need to protect your person,
I need to protect your reputation.

918
00:45:49,833 --> 00:45:51,200
Nothing has gone on.

919
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,833
It's not a sexual thing at all.

920
00:45:52,833 --> 00:45:54,966
But you know what people are like.

921
00:45:54,966 --> 00:45:57,800
They make up what they don't know.

922
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,000
And so if they see you spreading room.

923
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,666
And I need to protect your reputation.

924
00:46:03,666 --> 00:46:05,066
And so he's protecting her.

925
00:46:05,066 --> 00:46:08,133
But he sends her away
with all this grain. Why?

926
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:09,866
Because he's providing for her.

927
00:46:09,866 --> 00:46:12,933
And that's what a
that's what biblical masculinity is.

928
00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:16,200
Protect and provide
those God has given to us.

929
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,466
And if you're a husband,
because I'm a husband, our job is to

930
00:46:20,566 --> 00:46:24,166
our wife and our family
and to provide for them.

931
00:46:24,166 --> 00:46:25,033
It's our job.

932
00:46:25,033 --> 00:46:28,200
And the man who will not be the forerunner

933
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,566
of protection and provision
has something broken in his soul.

934
00:46:33,266 --> 00:46:35,566
This is our job.

935
00:46:35,566 --> 00:46:39,466
And ladies moms, if you have sons,
your sons must learn

936
00:46:40,566 --> 00:46:44,266
and they'll try all kinds of ways
to step into this, to grow into the system

937
00:46:44,266 --> 00:46:45,900
God put in them innately.

938
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:49,066
And they'll get it wrong a lot,
and they'll try to blow up a whole bunch.

939
00:46:49,166 --> 00:46:53,800
Let them do that, put them in positions
of responsibility and protection

940
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,966
and provision, whatever they're capable
because they need to grow into.

941
00:46:56,966 --> 00:46:59,966
This is how God hardwired them.

942
00:47:00,433 --> 00:47:01,933
Hardwired. Yeah.

943
00:47:01,933 --> 00:47:03,533
And that's what he's doing.

944
00:47:03,533 --> 00:47:06,533
He's such a good man.

945
00:47:06,633 --> 00:47:08,566
Then she went into the city, verse 16.

946
00:47:08,566 --> 00:47:11,900
And when she came to her mother in law,
she said, how did you fare, my daughter?

947
00:47:11,933 --> 00:47:14,400
Then she told her all that
the man had done for her, saying,

948
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,500
these six measures of barley
he gave to me.

949
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,500
For he said, you must not go back
empty handed to your mother.

950
00:47:20,266 --> 00:47:22,300
But you married guys,

951
00:47:23,833 --> 00:47:26,466
if you're
married, you got a mother in law.

952
00:47:26,466 --> 00:47:29,400
You better be good to her.

953
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:30,966
Do you understand?

954
00:47:30,966 --> 00:47:32,166
You get this.

955
00:47:32,166 --> 00:47:34,333
You better be extra good. Listen.

956
00:47:34,333 --> 00:47:37,500
Especially
if she's a single mother in law.

957
00:47:39,066 --> 00:47:40,800
We all somebody.

958
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,500
You don't marry, the person
you marry the family.

959
00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:45,333
Some of you have married
a beautiful bride.

960
00:47:45,333 --> 00:47:48,333
And you got a mother in law
that came along.

961
00:47:50,733 --> 00:47:53,600
You better be real good to her,

962
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,100
you understand?

963
00:47:54,100 --> 00:47:55,300
And she's your responsibility now.

964
00:47:55,300 --> 00:47:57,166
She's single.

965
00:47:57,166 --> 00:47:58,600
If she still has a husband, great.

966
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,400
You still in this?

967
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:02,866
And thoughtfulness.

968
00:48:02,866 --> 00:48:05,200
It's going to be real hard
for some of you. For me?

969
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:05,833
Easy.

970
00:48:05,833 --> 00:48:08,733
I got the best mother in law in the world.

971
00:48:08,733 --> 00:48:10,033
Easy.

972
00:48:10,033 --> 00:48:12,266
I know this has been recorded

973
00:48:12,266 --> 00:48:15,266
since this kid.

974
00:48:16,266 --> 00:48:16,966
Let me wrap up.

975
00:48:16,966 --> 00:48:18,833
Let me wrap up above. This

976
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:21,466
stuff is going to get me in trouble.

977
00:48:21,466 --> 00:48:23,433
I need to stick to the Bible.

978
00:48:23,433 --> 00:48:26,700
Verse 18 she replied,
This is Naomi saying to Ruth, wait,

979
00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:30,000
my daughter,
until you learn how the matter turns out,

980
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,266
for the man will not rest,

981
00:48:33,266 --> 00:48:35,666
but we'll settle the matter today.

982
00:48:35,666 --> 00:48:38,166
Can you imagine for Ruth? She's young.

983
00:48:38,166 --> 00:48:39,200
She's so excited.

984
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:43,500
She got in attention to her like it's
everything that she.

985
00:48:43,533 --> 00:48:45,866
She's new to faith. It's
everything that she's like.

986
00:48:45,866 --> 00:48:49,033
Oh, can you just imagine the conversation
that happened with her mother on

987
00:48:49,266 --> 00:48:51,266
what do We do? We think,
what do you think's going to say?

988
00:48:51,266 --> 00:48:54,733
When is she going to when is these going
to call me and text me yet?

989
00:48:54,733 --> 00:48:55,066
I don't know.

990
00:48:55,066 --> 00:48:57,100
Can I post something.
Will you read something into it?

991
00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:59,433
Like like when do you think it's
going to be. Do you think that's a read?

992
00:49:00,500 --> 00:49:00,900
Friends.

993
00:49:00,900 --> 00:49:03,100
I told my friends like,

994
00:49:03,100 --> 00:49:04,666
right.

995
00:49:04,666 --> 00:49:07,666
It's like, oh.

996
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:11,766
And then was like, look, slow down slow.

997
00:49:11,766 --> 00:49:14,766
Now wait.

998
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,000
Trust the providential hand of God.

999
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,300
Your timing.

1000
00:49:22,300 --> 00:49:25,066
Don't force your agenda.

1001
00:49:25,066 --> 00:49:27,033
God's working in this together for good.

1002
00:49:27,033 --> 00:49:27,900
You've loved him.

1003
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:28,533
You've proved it.

1004
00:49:28,533 --> 00:49:31,533
You're following him.

1005
00:49:31,733 --> 00:49:33,266
Just wait.

1006
00:49:33,266 --> 00:49:33,900
Wait.

1007
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:36,300
Her words are

1008
00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:38,566
he will not rest.

1009
00:49:38,566 --> 00:49:41,033
He will do all.

1010
00:49:41,033 --> 00:49:44,033
And he will settle the matter.

1011
00:49:44,533 --> 00:49:46,233
Wait.

1012
00:49:46,233 --> 00:49:49,233
She says you've asked
to be a part of his family,

1013
00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:52,500
and he has accepted you as his own.

1014
00:49:52,866 --> 00:49:54,900
Here's
the beautiful thing about this whole go

1015
00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:59,400
well situated kinsman redeemer
I shared with you Deuteronomy 25

1016
00:50:00,566 --> 00:50:01,300
the go.

1017
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:04,300
The consumer dream
has the right of refusal.

1018
00:50:04,866 --> 00:50:07,800
Boaz didn't have to accept her,

1019
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,666
but as a picture of Christ,

1020
00:50:10,866 --> 00:50:13,866
when we at the feet of the master

1021
00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:17,633
say, you are my Redeemer,
will you accept me?

1022
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,733
John 637 I think we have that slide.

1023
00:50:24,833 --> 00:50:27,033
Jesus says,

1024
00:50:27,033 --> 00:50:29,566
all that the father gives
me will come to me,

1025
00:50:29,566 --> 00:50:33,333
and the one who comes to me,
I will by no means cast out.

1026
00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:38,500
He is our kinsman redeemer.

1027
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:42,066
And when we come to ask,
will you redeem me?

1028
00:50:42,066 --> 00:50:43,900
He says, absolutely.

1029
00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:46,900
That's
why I came to Earth in the first place.

1030
00:50:47,066 --> 00:50:50,666
I will by no means cast you aside.

1031
00:50:51,733 --> 00:50:55,266
You can do nothing
to affect your redemption.

1032
00:50:56,266 --> 00:50:58,800
All you do is ask.

1033
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,566
Then you let the work that I've done,

1034
00:51:01,566 --> 00:51:04,566
you follow me.

1035
00:51:08,900 --> 00:51:11,633
Ruth cleaned herself up
and made her look good.

1036
00:51:11,633 --> 00:51:13,566
We don't have to do that to God.

1037
00:51:13,566 --> 00:51:14,800
We don't have to do that for Jesus.

1038
00:51:16,233 --> 00:51:16,900
We come with

1039
00:51:16,900 --> 00:51:19,900
raggedy hair and stinky bodies
fresh off the field.

1040
00:51:21,166 --> 00:51:23,300
We say, well, you redeem me.

1041
00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:25,500
He says, you bet.

1042
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:27,900
That's the message of the cross.

1043
00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:30,900
And so I want to leave you three questions

1044
00:51:31,266 --> 00:51:31,466
there.

1045
00:51:31,466 --> 00:51:34,466
Real simple questions.

1046
00:51:34,633 --> 00:51:37,133
Will you admit

1047
00:51:37,133 --> 00:51:40,133
that you need to be redeemed?

1048
00:51:40,433 --> 00:51:42,300
What happened in Ruth's life?

1049
00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:45,600
Had she not first acknowledge
that she needed redemption?

1050
00:51:47,666 --> 00:51:50,666
She had to realize
the state of her own life.

1051
00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:54,233
She had to realize she needed redemption.

1052
00:51:54,233 --> 00:51:56,366
Do you follow?

1053
00:51:56,366 --> 00:51:59,366
Have you admitted
that you need redemption?

1054
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,433
And will you ask Jesus

1055
00:52:03,433 --> 00:52:06,700
and accept Jesus to be your Redeemer?

1056
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,133
To not try to affect yourself
by how you live, by how good you are, by

1057
00:52:11,133 --> 00:52:15,200
how religious you are to accept the work
that he's done on the cross

1058
00:52:16,966 --> 00:52:19,966
and whatever he says to do.

1059
00:52:20,466 --> 00:52:23,466
Now you believe is trustworthy.

1060
00:52:24,366 --> 00:52:27,300
Real simple questions.

1061
00:52:27,300 --> 00:52:32,033
Profound ramifications of your answer.

1062
00:52:34,433 --> 00:52:37,433
So for those who love God

1063
00:52:38,133 --> 00:52:40,966
and trust is providentially

1064
00:52:40,966 --> 00:52:45,266
your setbacks will become God's setups.

1065
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,600
He's obligated himself to it and to you

1066
00:52:50,966 --> 00:52:53,533
to understand.

1067
00:52:53,533 --> 00:52:56,433
Ruth, he's a beautiful chapter.

1068
00:52:56,433 --> 00:52:58,800
So as we wrap this up,

1069
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,566
I'm going to encourage

1070
00:53:00,566 --> 00:53:03,033
read chapter three and read chapter four.

1071
00:53:03,033 --> 00:53:05,466
We're going to wrap up this series
next week.

1072
00:53:05,466 --> 00:53:08,800
But in the conclusion of this chapter,

1073
00:53:09,133 --> 00:53:12,300
we're going to remember our Redeemer.

1074
00:53:13,466 --> 00:53:16,466
And Jesus gave us elements to do that.

1075
00:53:17,100 --> 00:53:20,100
This is for the.

1076
00:53:21,833 --> 00:53:24,833
This is for the ones who have said,

1077
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,366
I admit I need a redeemer.

1078
00:53:27,366 --> 00:53:29,900
I admit
I need to be brought back from sin.

1079
00:53:29,900 --> 00:53:32,100
Jesus, I accept the work you've done

1080
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,866
and this is my

1081
00:53:36,866 --> 00:53:40,900
confession that I remember you must you.

1082
00:53:42,166 --> 00:53:44,566
This is reserved

1083
00:53:44,566 --> 00:53:47,133
for the redeemed by the body

1084
00:53:47,133 --> 00:53:50,133
and the blood of Jesus.

1085
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:53,600
I'm less concerned

1086
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,600
about this and more concerned about

1087
00:53:57,566 --> 00:54:00,566
your soul.

1088
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:01,600
And so,

1089
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:04,600
before we take this,
I want to give you an opportunity

1090
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:08,500
to ask the Redeemer to redeem you

1091
00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:12,500
so that we can celebrate this

1092
00:54:12,500 --> 00:54:15,500
as a community of the redeemed.

1093
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:18,233
Pray with me, father.

1094
00:54:18,233 --> 00:54:20,766
Thank you that you love us.

1095
00:54:20,766 --> 00:54:23,766
Thank you that you loved us so much
that you gave your son

1096
00:54:23,766 --> 00:54:26,400
to be the sacrifice for our sin

1097
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,400
and to be our Redeemer.

1098
00:54:29,900 --> 00:54:32,900
Hear the hearts of those now

1099
00:54:33,533 --> 00:54:36,533
who are coming into line and fellowship
with you

1100
00:54:37,033 --> 00:54:40,033
by faith.

1101
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,833
This moment.

1102
00:54:42,833 --> 00:54:46,066
It's a real simple decision,
but it is incredibly costly

1103
00:54:47,433 --> 00:54:50,433
because it will cost you submission.

1104
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:52,300
To come before

1105
00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:55,300
God and say, God,
I admit that I've broken your law

1106
00:54:56,100 --> 00:54:59,100
and I need to be redeemed from sin.

1107
00:55:00,633 --> 00:55:03,633
Jesus, I accept what you've done.

1108
00:55:04,733 --> 00:55:07,733
The work of redemption.

1109
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:11,600
I ask you to adopt me into your family.

1110
00:55:14,966 --> 00:55:15,366
Thank you

1111
00:55:15,366 --> 00:55:18,433
that you've secured my redemption
and bought me back.

1112
00:55:18,433 --> 00:55:21,433
I accept it.

1113
00:55:21,633 --> 00:55:23,733
And now I sit at your feet.

1114
00:55:23,733 --> 00:55:25,700
You are the master.

1115
00:55:25,700 --> 00:55:27,766
What you say I will do.

1116
00:55:27,766 --> 00:55:30,766
You because you're trustworthy.

1117
00:55:31,333 --> 00:55:32,066
In your name I pray.

1118
00:55:32,066 --> 00:55:34,766
Amen, Amen, Amen.

1119
00:55:34,766 --> 00:55:37,433
So redeemed.

1120
00:55:37,433 --> 00:55:40,433
We remember.

1121
00:55:40,433 --> 00:55:42,700
Jesus.

1122
00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:45,300
That on the night
that Jesus was handed over into the hands

1123
00:55:45,300 --> 00:55:48,300
of the men who would crucify him,
he shared a meal with his disciples.

1124
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,933
And he lifted up the bread
during that meal.

1125
00:55:50,933 --> 00:55:52,566
And he gave thanks,
and he broke the bread.

1126
00:55:52,566 --> 00:55:55,366
He said, this is my body given for you.

1127
00:55:55,366 --> 00:55:57,033
Do this and remember me

1128
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,000
and my redemption.

1129
00:56:02,066 --> 00:56:04,566
And in a very similar way, the Bible says,
he took the cup,

1130
00:56:04,566 --> 00:56:05,700
and he lifted up to heaven.

1131
00:56:05,700 --> 00:56:09,600
He gave thanks and said,
this cup is the new covenant in my blood,

1132
00:56:10,533 --> 00:56:12,900
shed for you,
for the forgiveness of your sin,

1133
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:15,900
that you may be redeemed

1134
00:56:15,900 --> 00:56:18,500
every time you take this

1135
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:21,000
old community.

1136
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Remember him.

1137
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,800
God is a good God. So.

1138
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,000
And His word is a good word.

1139
00:56:35,266 --> 00:56:38,166
This week, chapter three and chapter four,

1140
00:56:38,166 --> 00:56:40,433
you understand

1141
00:56:40,433 --> 00:56:43,233
trust the providential hand of God.

1142
00:56:43,233 --> 00:56:45,666
Though you can't see it, you can trust it,

1143
00:56:45,666 --> 00:56:48,600
and you can trust it because he loves you.

1144
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:49,066
Let's sing.