WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:19.039 practical ways. Hey, Goodburen, good evening, good night, Hello, Hello, greetings, greetings, salutations. 4 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:20.760 Yes, we come in peace. 5 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.239 You know what else can eat you out? So, hey, 6 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:30.160 we are the Bible Guys. We appreciate you tuning in, 7 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.119 and we're asking that if you like us, share us 8 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.439 with your friends on Facebook or send, you know, forward 9 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:37.679 to somebody, Share with somebody. 10 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:40.640 Yeah, give us five stars, leave a comment. 11 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:42.320 Yeah, yeah, help us out in some way. 12 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:44.159 Yes, that'd be great, not for. 13 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:46.840 Our own sake, but rather for people who perhaps could 14 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.119 benefit and hopefully. 15 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.320 And it helps us too. We're grateful, so thank you. Well, Hey, 16 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.399 we have a really important segment today, Chris. This is 17 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:56.799 this is one of my favorite. 18 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:01.399 If you think about the importance of this segment, super important. Yeah, 19 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.439 it's it's it makes a difference, be as it matters. 20 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.400 So Desiree wrote, we haven't tested Chris on his movie 21 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:09.920 knowledge in a while. Yeah, so let's see how fast 22 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:12.359 he can tell us what movie these quotes are from. 23 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:14.519 The Fast is the part that makes me nervous. 24 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.599 Our listeners will play along and if they beat him, 25 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:18.920 they'll win a thousand points. 26 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.120 So again, once again she's being extremely generous. 27 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.319 Yes, just willy nilly handing out points now at this point, 28 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.799 at this juncture in the in the gaily. So if 29 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.079 you can beat Chris, you get a thousand points for 30 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.680 every time you beat him. I have six six movie quotes, 31 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:37.680 so that they have a potential, okay of winning six 32 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.439 thousand points. In adding that which our longtime listeners know, 33 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.640 the extreme value of the points were given away. 34 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:47.079 Yes, so I'm mentally storm up preparing for this. Go ahead, 35 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:48.040 here we go. 36 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.959 Here's the first one. Yes, I am serious, and don't 37 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:51.920 call me Shirley. 38 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.319 Playing good ones. It's easy. Here's very easy. 39 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:54.840 Okay. 40 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.120 By the way, it was like nineteen seventy seven, so 41 00:01:58.159 --> 00:01:59.719 you have to be pretty old to catch that one. 42 00:01:59.879 --> 00:02:02.439 I'm just a regular guy with a regular job. I 43 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.519 got nothing special about me. I'm just an average guy. 44 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:12.199 I think that's Vince Vaughn who said that? Is it? 45 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:13.520 Is it the breakup? 46 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:16.360 Nope, but I do think it's Vince Vaughn. 47 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.240 Say it again, please, I'm just a regular guy with 48 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.919 a regular job. I got nothing special about me. I'm 49 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:26.039 just an average guy. 50 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.400 I can picture Vince. 51 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:31.879 It's a movie classic. 52 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:34.159 I could picture Vince Vaughn saying this. 53 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:35.919 Maybe one of his most important characters. 54 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:38.840 Oh is it? Is it? Dodgeball? 55 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:43.120 Yes? Yes, I think you got it? You got it? Yes, 56 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:44.599 But you were digging deep. 57 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:46.240 Well I was. I was trying to think of all 58 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.800 the classic Vince Vaughn movies. Yes, and uh, but for 59 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.280 some reason, I was thinking serious movies. I was thinking, uh, 60 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:56.479 the couple's retreat. I was thinking breakup. I don't know why. 61 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:58.400 Okay, yeah, all. 62 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.680 Right, well, hey, you left the door open for somebody 63 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.000 a thousand points there. Somebody was screaming right now at 64 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.000 the at the dodgeball. 65 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.400 That's right. Okay, here's another one. So it's a short, 66 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:10.639 short one. 67 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:11.360 Okay, here we go. 68 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:13.240 It's not a tumor. 69 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:20.879 Oh, kindergarten cop. It's great. It's such a great. 70 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.360 Okay. I'm not a smart man, but I know what 71 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:27.560 love is for his gump. Okay, there you paused. 72 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.159 Yeah, yeah, trying to fish. 73 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.719 Yeah, people could got out after the last two. What 74 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:38.000 love is there? You go. I'm in a glass case, 75 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:39.840 glass case of emotion. 76 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.680 Man, I'm in a glass case of emotion. It was 77 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:45.719 one of the best lines of the whole thing. He's 78 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:49.039 in the in the phone booth, yes, yes, yeah, and 79 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.159 he drinks the milk and he goes milk was such 80 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:56.199 a bad choice. It's running out his beard. It's so good. 81 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:01.000 A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early. 82 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:04.840 Oh, Princess Diaris two. 83 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:07.719 Yes, its just Diaries too. 84 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.919 Because you looked at the Royal Engagement. Yes, you looked 85 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:14.120 at me funny, so it wasn't really. 86 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:18.079 Too Yes, it was according to Desiree, which she's never wrong. 87 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:19.240 By the way. 88 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.399 The Princess Diaries Too. Royal Engagement is where that court 89 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:24.720 set up the door open for about three thousand points. 90 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:25.920 I think so too. 91 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:26.199 Yeah. 92 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.439 I hope some of our listeners just really rack them up, 93 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.079 save them. There's going to be a day, Yeah, there's 94 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:32.839 gonna be a day when you're gonna bring your fifty 95 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:35.879 thousand points in and cash them in for some amazing, 96 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:37.720 amazing experiences. 97 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:40.040 And you have to you have to prove. You have 98 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.240 to prove. So you're keeping logs. 99 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.040 Maybe maybe maybe send an email to Dez and ask 100 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.480 for a receipt, Yeah, like a. 101 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:53.480 Checking cheese print out for David. 102 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.040 Give tickets. You're gonna get these big rolls of. 103 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.600 Tickets to walk into our story. What can I get 104 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:05.040 for fifty thousand points these chicklets? Right, not a handshake, 105 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.560 but not including the erasers. That's a great that's a movie. 106 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:10.040 That's a movie. 107 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.399 Quote too, you worked it, You worked the chucky cheese 108 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:13.720 I did? 109 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:14.360 I did? Yeah? 110 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:15.759 Yes, did you pass out prizes? 111 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.759 No? I was? I was. I was the rat. 112 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:19.879 You were chucky? 113 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.680 Yeah, I was chucky. Yeah. And I was a cook too, 114 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.759 and I worked the game room too and clean up. 115 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:27.879 But I but I never I never did. I never 116 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.199 did the prize. Did the prizes? No? 117 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.879 Yeah, they know you'd be hooking all your friends up 118 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:33.399 with prizes. 119 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:37.319 So well, to be honest, I want a confession. I 120 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:40.040 have a couple of seconds here. Okay, So back in 121 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.879 the day before you used to put your tickets in 122 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.000 a machine. Now they have a ticket machine counter that 123 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.839 gobbles your tickets up right. Well, back in the day, 124 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:51.079 you would bring them up to the desk and they 125 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:53.800 would literally physically count them and then throw them in 126 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.800 the trash can. So at the end of the end, 127 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.079 there's like a five gallon trash can, right, So at 128 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.879 the end of like the month, you would have this massive, 129 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:08.920 massive trash can ten thousand tickets. So it was my 130 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.199 job to take the trash out. So I bagged this 131 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:12.959 up and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm like, there's 132 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:14.959 like a like a bag with like all these tickets. 133 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.199 You couldn't imagine how big this bag was. Now, I 134 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.399 didn't have any intention of using them, but I just thought, 135 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:22.519 I'm going to save these for like a prank or something. 136 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:26.199 I actual, I promise I didn't, but I remember opening 137 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:26.560 my trunk. 138 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:29.879 I had a huge Chevelle, so massive trunk you fit 139 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.839 like at least six bodies back there. And I opened 140 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.160 it up the trunk and I threw this huge U 141 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.560 trash bag full of tickets. Okay, and then I did 142 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.000 it again, and then I did it again. I had 143 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.839 three massive amounts of these tickets, and my goal was 144 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.120 to play a prank on my youth pastor, to fill 145 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:50.480 his office with these tickets. Right. And then all of 146 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.279 a sudden, one day, as I was working in the 147 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:56.439 game room, all of a sudden, a worker comes running 148 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.839 into the game room and goes, did you hear? And 149 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:02.879 I I said, what, there's this lady that has come 150 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:06.519 in with buckets? And buckets and buckets and buckets of 151 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.800 tickets and she just dumps them on the calendar and 152 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.360 they're pre she actually counted them by one hundred, and 153 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.800 she wrapped them up with electrical tape and she just 154 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:17.399 dumps all these bricks down and she's like, she's buying 155 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:21.439 out the entire store. She's like, everything expensive. I want that, 156 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.519 I want that, I want that, and she literally cleared 157 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:25.480 out the entire store. I'm like, what is going on. 158 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:27.600 I'm like, really, yeah, she said, she's been saving up 159 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:29.879 for like ten years. I'm like, are you kidding me? 160 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:36.240 I turned the corner and it's my mom. My mom, 161 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:40.680 without asking me, had gone into my trunk. 162 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.560 You have such a weird life, Chris. 163 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:45.759 Had seen these tickets. 164 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:47.639 Your mom's hustling chucky. 165 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:53.199 Yes, my mom who brought my two nieces, Erica and Ashley, 166 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:55.360 and brought it there and said, honey, what do you 167 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.160 want and just literally bought out you know, they had 168 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.480 drones for like ten and tickets or whatever. And she's like, 169 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.199 I want that, I want that, I want that. She 170 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.040 brought up the entire store and she literally. 171 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:07.439 Didn't even tell me wow. 172 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.399 And then and then and then finally I was like, 173 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.879 do not say that you're my relative. Do not say 174 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.800 because I'll get fired immediately, right, And then Eric and 175 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.560 Asher come up to me. They're like six years old, 176 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:20.199 Uncle Chris. I'm like, do not do not come this way. 177 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.279 Well, I think the lesson we learned there is that 178 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.240 you probably never actually had a career in working for 179 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.439 brinks trucks, taking up money, drop the money off at 180 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.079 the at the banks, and stuff like that. 181 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.519 I didn't intend to take it I just was keeping 182 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:35.799 it in my trunk for a while. 183 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.440 I was, I was, I was, I was not planning 184 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:45.360 on using it. Okay, wow, yes, what a story there 185 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:45.720 it is. 186 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.399 There you go, there, you go, well, there you go. 187 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:55.879 Okay, Well, through the stories of all the judges, and 188 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.519 we're not finished with the Judges yet, but through the stories. 189 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:00.879 We're finished the Book of Judges. 190 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.279 Right right there is a kind of a moment where 191 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.480 we pause and they tell the story of some people 192 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.120 who lived during the time of the Judges. They're not judges, 193 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:12.960 but the people who lived during a story. And it's 194 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.039 one of the most beautiful stories. It's ultimately a picture 195 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:20.240 of Jesus in our lives and a key relative of 196 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.320 King David yes, and Jesus, so it's. 197 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:23.759 Kind of neat. 198 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.480 Here's what it says in the Book of Ruth, chapter one. 199 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.440 It says, in the days when the judges ruled in Israel, 200 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:33.200 a severe famine came upon the land. So a man 201 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.639 from Bethlehem and Judah left his home and went to 202 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.840 live in the country of Moab, taking his wife and 203 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.919 two sons with him. The man's name was a Limelech, 204 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.639 and his wife's name was Naomi. Their two sons were 205 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:51.759 Malan and Killion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in the 206 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.799 land of Judah, and when they reached Moab they settled there. 207 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.080 Then Alimelech died and Naomi was left with her two sons. 208 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.519 The two sons married Moabite women, one married a woman 209 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.240 named Orpah and the other a woman named Ruth. But 210 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.720 about ten years later, both Malan and Killian died. This 211 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.559 left Naomi alone without her two sons or her husband. 212 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.320 Then Naomi heard and Moab that the Lord had blessed 213 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:16.399 us people in Judah by giving them good crops again. 214 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.960 So Naomi and her daughters in law got ready to 215 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:21.679 leave Moab to return to her homeland with her two 216 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:23.600 daughters in law. She set out from the place where 217 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:25.960 she had been living, and they took the road that 218 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.600 would lead them back to Judah. But on the way, 219 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:31.600 Naomi said to her two daughters in law, go back 220 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.960 to your mother's homes, and may the Lord reward you 221 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:35.919 for your kindness to your husbands and to me. May 222 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.759 the Lord bless you with the security of another marriage. 223 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:41.159 And then she kissed them goodbye, and they all broke 224 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:43.960 down and wept. No, they said, we want to go 225 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:47.320 with you to your people, but Naomi replied, why should 226 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.519 you go on with me? Can I still give birth 227 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:52.679 to other sons who would grow to be your husband's Nope, 228 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.759 my daughters, return to your parents' homes, for I'm too 229 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:57.879 old to marry again. And even if it were possible, 230 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.320 and if I were to marry tonight and bear sons, 231 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.159 then what would you wait for them to grow up 232 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.240 and refuse to marry someone else. No, of course not, 233 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.559 my daughters. Things are far more bitter for me than 234 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.919 for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist 235 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.279 against me. And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed 236 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.440 her mother in law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to Naomi. Look, 237 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.480 Naomi said her mother, your sister in law, has gone 238 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:22.440 back to her people and to her gods. You should 239 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.279 do the same. But Ruth replied, don't ask me to 240 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:27.879 leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go. 241 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.799 Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be 242 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:33.600 my people, and your God will be my god. Wherever 243 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:35.759 you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. 244 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:38.240 May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything 245 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.399 but death to separate us. When Naomi saw that Ruth 246 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.440 was determined to go with her, she said nothing more. 247 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:45.919 So the two of them continued on their journey. When 248 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.240 they came to Bethlehem, the entire town was excited by 249 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.320 their arrival. Is it really Naomi, the women asked, don't 250 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.919 call me Naomi. She responded, instead, call me Mara, for 251 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.799 the Almighty has made life very bitter for me. I 252 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.200 went away full, but the Lord has brought me home empty. 253 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.480 Why call me Naomi when the Lord has caused me 254 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:05.600 to suffer? The Almighty has sent such tragedy upon me. 255 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.000 So Naomi returned from. 256 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.799 Moe, I have accompanied by her daughter in law, Ruth, 257 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:12.440 the young Moabite woman, and they arrived in Bethlehem in 258 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.600 late spring at the beginning of the barley Harvest. 259 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:21.480 Yeah, you're right about that. It is super beautiful. Yeah. 260 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:27.840 You know when whenever I hear the story, I have 261 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:32.840 a tendency to cry because the statement that has made 262 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:36.559 in verse number sixteen. You know, wherever you go, I 263 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:39.320 will go, wherever you live, I will live. Your people 264 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.080 will be my people. You're got to be my god. 265 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.240 Wherever you die, I will die and I'll be buried. 266 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.399 I mean that is a statement there, buddy. 267 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:47.360 Yeah, what loyalty? 268 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:54.240 Yeah, and with love, right, and you know, just to 269 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.000 be able to love somebody like that who started off 270 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.919 not being your family. It is it is. I know 271 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:02.960 that my mind always goes to movies, but it is 272 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:07.879 every great movie scene ever, you know, where somebody says, 273 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.559 go and you know, go and sacrifice your ship, you know, 274 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:16.279 just go and you know, save yourselves. Right, abandoned ship. 275 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:19.679 We're not going anywhere, captain, right, We're with you to 276 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.759 the bitter end. That kind of thing. And h But 277 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.559 this is this is even better because it's a true story. 278 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:32.639 And I was noticing here that Moab is east of 279 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.879 the Dead Sea and Bethlehem is west of the Dead 280 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:40.039 sea and uh and and these two were actually sort 281 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.919 of rivaled enemies and and so it says that they 282 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:54.120 were called affray Lites. Was it Epthites from Bethlehem and uh? 283 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.200 And I noticed that the Life Application Study Bible says 284 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:01.240 the reason why they were called Eprithytes is because Frath 285 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.000 was an earlier name for Bethlehem. Didn't know that. 286 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:06.039 I didn't know that. 287 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.320 Yeah. And it also said that the people of Moab 288 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:12.480 oppressed the people of Bethlhem, which means that there was 289 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:15.600 a tension between those two people, which means that the 290 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:19.720 famine must have been quite severe in order for those 291 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.919 people to have even been together in the first place. 292 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.919 Yeah, wow, isn't that crazy? 293 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.440 Yeah, there's a note here also that mentions that friendly 294 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:32.000 relations with the Moabites were discouraged in Deuteronomy chapter two, 295 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:36.399 but they probably weren't forbidden because the Mobiites lived outside 296 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.360 of the Promised Land, right, so it would have been 297 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.240 okay maybe legally to go, but practically they were Essentially 298 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:49.039 they were antagonistic towards each other. Also, in the law, 299 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.039 the Moabites were not allowed to worship in the tabernacle 300 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.720 because they had made difficulty for the people of Israel. 301 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.399 They were before they'd crossed over the Promised Land. And 302 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:01.519 so this is a group that is not on best 303 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.639 terms with God or with Israel. But it's interesting. The 304 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:08.480 note says this. The note says, what's interesting is ironically 305 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:12.240 it was Ruth, a Moabite whom God used as an 306 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.919 example of genuine spiritual character. This shows just how bleak 307 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:19.080 life had become an Israel during those days. An interesting. 308 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:22.120 So this Mobiite woman, and I mentioned that this is 309 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:25.759 going to be you know, the story of Ruth is 310 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.120 a story of Jesus and in us. It's really a 311 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:33.159 beautiful picture. Eventually Ruth becomes a part of Jesus family, 312 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:34.279 which is really incredible. 313 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.720 But she's a but she yeah, but she's a Moabite woman. 314 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.879 And so it's a really incredible story. 315 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:44.039 You know, it's it's an amazing thing when you think 316 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:48.200 about the lineage of Jesus, and you would expect, you know, 317 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.519 when when Jesus was born and when you know, what 318 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.000 is it Matthew and is it Luke who lays up 319 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:54.159 the lineages. 320 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:56.440 Matthew and Luke. 321 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.799 Matthew and Luke. You would expect when you read the lineage, Uh, 322 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.919 you know, for that to be prepared, you know, and 323 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.960 and and recorded so accurately. You would think that there'd 324 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.759 be like a proud heritage, you know, with this great intention, 325 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:15.039 with you know, spirituality and and you know, perfection and 326 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.360 all these different things, you know, and they related to 327 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.639 this righteous person, this righteous person and uh. And yet 328 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:24.039 you have you know, uh, people in there that were 329 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.080 you know, imperfect people. You had people in there that 330 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.159 were you know, great people. But at the same time, 331 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:33.600 they were you know, people who were absolutely wasn't Rayhab, 332 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:38.000 wasn't Rahab included? Yeah, Rahab the harlot, right, So she's 333 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.320 a harlot and she's included. So so you have these 334 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:43.720 people who are you know, not necessarily defined by you know, 335 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:48.080 living their entire lives with this you know, perfect reputation. Uh. 336 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:49.840 And they're all in there. And then yeah, and a 337 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:51.399 mobike named Ruth. 338 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:53.519 Well, the thing that sets her apart and the thing 339 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:57.080 that set Rahab apart was both of them chose the 340 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.679 God of Israel. That's right, right, and and for her 341 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:02.840 You're God will be my God, which is just really incredible. 342 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.079 There's a note here Ruth was a Moabite, but that 343 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.880 didn't stop her from worshiping the True God, nor did 344 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.799 it stop God from accepting her worship and blessing her greatly, 345 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.119 which is just a really you know, they're not the 346 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:17.000 only the Jews, aren't the only people who loved God right, 347 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.440 even though they were His chosen people. And so she 348 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:24.039 comes to God and goes, hey, I want to worship 349 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:28.559 the True God. And you know, so let's talk to 350 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.880 us a little bit about It's kind of an odd 351 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.519 thing that Naomi says. So Naomi turns to these young women. 352 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:36.519 They're all all three widows. Naomi decides she's going to 353 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:41.279 go back to Bethlehem, and the young women start off 354 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.480 to go with them or go with her. It was 355 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.799 an incredibly difficult life to be a widow with no husband. 356 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.960 In those days. There was no social network. It's not 357 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:58.400 like they had bank accounts. The social roles were very 358 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:01.559 separate between men and women, and so the difficulty of 359 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:05.440 living without having a man to protect and often to 360 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:09.960 do the physical labor, it's hard, especially the older that 361 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:14.319 you would get, the more difficult staying alive, was plowing, 362 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:17.680 having to fight off the robbers, all those kinds of things, 363 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:22.559 and so oftentimes single women would be abused by strong, 364 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.240 bad men. So it would make sense that maybe three 365 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.240 widows would cluster together and we'll work together, and we'll 366 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:32.640 share the load and the financial responsibility together. That would 367 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.799 make sense. But at the same time, Naomi looks at 368 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:37.319 these two young women and say, You've got a lot 369 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:38.039 of life ahead of you. 370 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:38.920 I'm an old. 371 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.839 Woman, I'm not likely to ever marry again, I'm probably barren, 372 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.640 I'm never gonna have another child. So why don't you 373 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.920 just go home? Just go home, meet some nice boy. 374 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:51.319 I'm going to release you from any kind of responsibility 375 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:54.440 you feel. I think that's a really noble thing that 376 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:57.680 she's trying to do for these young women, because she 377 00:18:57.720 --> 00:18:59.680 could look at these two young women maybe as her 378 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.119 soul safety net, right, and instead of taking advantage of them, 379 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.079 she was willing to maybe suffer a little bit and 380 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.119 let them go be free and try to build a life. 381 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:07.839 And she loved them. 382 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.000 Yeah, But she mentions the thing here, She says, what 383 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:11.559 am I going to have more sons so that you 384 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:14.200 can marry them? And that's a really creepy thing in 385 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:16.960 our culture, our time today, really, So I'm gonna have 386 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:18.759 a son. Now you're going to wait twenty years so 387 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:20.680 you can marry him. That's kind of weird. But what 388 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.160 she's referring to there is there was a custom in 389 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:27.720 their day, a law among the Jews that a brother 390 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:32.880 was responsible to take the widow of his brother into 391 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:35.640 his home and provide for her and take care. That 392 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:38.359 was the social thing. And so if you read that, 393 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.519 and it seems weird what she's saying, she's not talking 394 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.640 about pedophilia. She's talking about this law that required that 395 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.079 a brother would provide for the widow of his own brother, right, right, 396 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:50.279 that does you're talking about, And so she's being absurd. 397 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:54.000 She's not suggesting it, she's being absurd about it. 398 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:58.400 And she could have been in their absurdity not suggesting 399 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:01.960 that they marry under his children, but like, but even 400 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:04.279 even referring to a grown man, Hey, what are younna do? 401 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:08.000