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 --> 00:00:14.880 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. Today 4 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.280 is Friday Friday, and if you're listening or watching, we 5 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.600 want to just say tgif we are with you, there 6 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:26.839 we go. And today before we jump into the second 7 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:30.440 part of the story of Ruth for us we have. 8 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:34.520 It's another exciting episode of would you would. 9 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.359 You rather that? Okay, there's a christ cheering, all right, 10 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:40.759 you want to read number one? 11 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:45.799 Would you rather have your only mode of transfermation be 12 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.719 a unicycle or a giant inflatable duck? 13 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:55.000 Wow? Wow? How are we supposed to assume that the 14 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.039 duck can go anywhere? Or is it just by water? 15 00:00:58.159 --> 00:00:59.439 It's just an inflatable duck. 16 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:03.240 I don't know, because if it's only by water, then. 17 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:04.519 Maybe it creates its own water. 18 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:09.159 There's so many possible Yes, I don't know, so many. 19 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:10.920 I don't know. 20 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.079 I'm gonna have to I want everything in me wants 21 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:15.560 to say the giant inflatable duck. 22 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:17.359 Okay, we'll do it, but say it. 23 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:20.480 But I can't why because it didn't say like you 24 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.920 can take the inflatable duck, like down the road to Kroger. 25 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.359 It's a mode of transportation. You could take it anywhere. 26 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:31.560 I say, I think the assumption is you can travel 27 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:34.719 anywhere you need to travel, Okay, with either by unicycle 28 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:35.799 or giant flightable duck. 29 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:36.519 I'm going with the duck. 30 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.400 You're going with the duck? Yes, okay? Good? 31 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:39.239 Would you choose? 32 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:41.120 I used to be able to ride a unicycle, so 33 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.280 that's a pretty simple one for me. 34 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.599 Yeah, oh wow, could you delay? 35 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.640 No? Probably not. I don't know. I haven't been out 36 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.640 of unicycle since I was probably like seventeen or eighteen. 37 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.719 That's funny, all right. Number two? Would you rather live 38 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.840 in a world? Live in a world where it rains 39 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:03.959 popcorn every day? Or where it snows mashed potatoes every day? 40 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.560 Are we talking about mash but instant mashed potato flakes? 41 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.159 Because mashed potatoes instant mashed potato flakes is not the 42 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:13.520 same as mashed potatoes. 43 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:20.960 Mashed potatoes. Snowing would be really like hindrus be Yeah. 44 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:25.599 So does the popcorn have butter? 45 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:32.319 But I mean you could collect it in salt and 46 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:32.759 butter it. 47 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.039 Yeah, I think I would choose the popcorn. 48 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:37.360 Yeah, it just seems a lot. 49 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:41.159 Now, I love mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes is my favorite side. 50 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:41.800 Yes? 51 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:44.080 Is it? Your favorite? Really? 52 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:44.319 Is? 53 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:48.599 Wow? With gravy or with salt and butter? Gravy, salt 54 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:52.560 and butter. You're wrong, You're wrong answer, you're wrong, wrong answer. 55 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.039 Okay, I love I love mashatato and gravy, but I 56 00:02:58.080 --> 00:02:59.879 would I would definitely choose popcorn too. 57 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.199 All right, popcorn? Okay, that was a good Would you 58 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.400 rather have to do the cha cha every time you 59 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:09.280 enter a room or break into a dramatic monologue from 60 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.280 a Shakespeare play whenever you leave a room? 61 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:16.560 Oh? Those are those really good options. Yeah, I'm gonna 62 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:17.080 say chatcha. 63 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:19.240 Yeah, well I think you sometimes do the cha chaw 64 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:20.879 when you just walk in a room anyway, So. 65 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:26.240 I like to do the cha cha like that's that's 66 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.039 a movie quote? Is it from Brus Almighty? 67 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:29.879 Oh? Okay? 68 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.599 Steve Carrell when he was when he was h the 69 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:34.159 anchor guy. 70 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.319 Well that's a different game, Chris, Yes, yes, sorry, stay focused? 71 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.400 Or the other one dramatic monologue Shakespeare when you walk 72 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:42.680 out to be or not to be? 73 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.560 That's the question, that's that's a pretty cool thing. 74 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.080 Yeah, that's kind of a neat one. 75 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:49.120 If everybody knew that about you, then they'd be like. 76 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.400 Okay, here he goes, he's. 77 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.479 Leaving, he said, they just go off. 78 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.280 I know that low for a minute, or not to 79 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:01.400 be or it'd get old for everybodything on there, he goes, Right, Well, 80 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.039 they definitely would. Okay, would you rather no, I already 81 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:06.560 read that one, So you're number four? 82 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.240 Oh, would you rather be able to turn invisible but 83 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.400 only when nobody is looking? Or be able to fly 84 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:18.560 but only at the speed of a brisk walk? How 85 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.759 incredibly specific those are? 86 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:24.959 Hard? Yeah? Being visible but only when nobody is looking, 87 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.160 that's a weird one. Yeah, why then, I don't know 88 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.079 the value of being. 89 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:31.839 Invisible just so you can't show it off. Hey wat's this? 90 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:32.560 Yep? 91 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:37.639 Right? Or to fly but only at a brisk walk. 92 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.199 Is the assumption when nobody is looking as a person, 93 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.680 that nobody because like you could hide from dogs and stuff, 94 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:46.279 like a mean neighbor's dog. 95 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:51.480 Yeah, I'm gonna say, because it'd be terrible if like 96 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:52.639 you decided you're a thief. 97 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.240 Hey I'm visible, I'm gonna start stealing stuff. Yeah, then 98 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:56.879 somebody walks down in the living room, turns the light 99 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.079 down and suddenly immediately they can see you. Yeah, that 100 00:04:59.199 --> 00:04:59.800 kind of ruins it. 101 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:01.480 For you know, what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say, 102 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.439 fly at a brisk walk. Here's why, because I can't 103 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:09.439 really think of anything good that can come from being invisible. Uh, 104 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.519 it's only like bad things, right right, Like it's just 105 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:14.600 it's just it's just gonna lead it's gonna lead to 106 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.839 no good. But can you imagine, you know, like sometimes 107 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.560 you say I'm gonna go for a stroll, even if 108 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:22.079 even if it's only at the speed of a brisk walk, 109 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:23.399 you'd be like, I'm just gonna go for a fly. 110 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:25.439 Yeah, because you don't have to do any work. Then 111 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:26.120 you're just flying. 112 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:26.879 You're just flying. 113 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.240 Or you know, at this point, now you don't need 114 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:34.319 stairs either. Oh yeah, right, you just go up to 115 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:35.759 the top of the hill. You don't have to hike 116 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:37.600 to the top of the hill. Oh yeah, so that's 117 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.720 way better. Oh god, that's a no brainer. 118 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:43.319 All of a sudden, there's a no brainer that elevated 119 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:43.920 everything for me. 120 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:47.199 Do you remember you remember the cartoon Wally, Yes, everybody 121 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.199 and they're they're they're sitting around with their they've got 122 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:51.959 their screens and their great big drinks, and they're just 123 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:54.199 on that little cart that floats. Yes, that's what this 124 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:55.920 life would be like for you from that point on. 125 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:57.759 It's a great, big, giant, big gulp. 126 00:05:57.839 --> 00:05:59.720 And only there were big large people. 127 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.160 That's okay. But if you don't have to walk anymore, 128 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:03.480 you're gonna be a big large person too. 129 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:03.920 True. 130 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.800 Here we go number five. Would you rather have to 131 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.959 wear roller skates all the time or be stuck in 132 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.959 a hamster ball for a week? Hamster ball for a week, 133 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:14.079 that's no brainer. 134 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:14.720 No brainer. 135 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:16.600 Yeah, it's only she didn't say. 136 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:17.800 A year, she said a week. 137 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:22.759 Yeah, hamster ball all the time or roller skates all 138 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:24.160 the time. Which one would you choose? 139 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:24.759 Oh? 140 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:28.040 Definitely roller skates all the time. Yeah, yeah, but hamster 141 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:28.800 ball for a week. 142 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:30.120 Yeah, then it's over. 143 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:31.439 Yeah, then it's over, it's done. 144 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:33.959 And then after that you put on roller skates. 145 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.079 How about roller skates inside the hamster ball? 146 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:39.560 Now that would be a double whammy. 147 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.279 Yeah, that would be double whammy. 148 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.639 I would just sit if I had a hamster sit down. Yeah, 149 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:47.600 I just sit out in the hamster ball for a week, 150 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:51.720 for a week. Can you imagine going to the restroom 151 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:54.160 in a hamster ball and then walking. 152 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.439 No, you're taking us places that I don't think she 153 00:06:57.920 --> 00:06:58.800 was going to take us. 154 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:03.560 Hey, it's a question of contemplation. I'm merely contemplating, Jeff. 155 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.360 Okay, well, thank you for that, Chris, I'm very enlightening. 156 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:09.519 Let's think desiree. 157 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:10.600 Thank you, Desiree. 158 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:13.000 Yeah, because I actually like would you rathers? A lot? 159 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:14.480 Would you rathers are the best? Yeah? 160 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:15.079 They're really good. 161 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:17.720 Okay, Well, hey, if you've been with us all week, 162 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.560 this is Friday, it is. We're coming to the end. 163 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.839 We're in the middle of the story, this beautiful story 164 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.560 of Ruth and Naomi, and we're going to introduce a 165 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:33.519 new character, Boas As, And so there's gonna be some 166 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:35.959 things that are gonna be hard to understand. We'll unpack 167 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:40.439 them with regard to their cultural belief system, but just 168 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:43.319 understand bo As comes in and he has the potential 169 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:45.959 to be the hero, a hero in the story. And 170 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.040 Naomi is trying to really set up Ruth in a 171 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:52.439 good way. So here's what's happening. It says we're going 172 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:54.839 to start in Ruth three. We're not going to read 173 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:58.600 Ruth two. And we'll cover that in a minute, though 174 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.600 it says one day Naomi said to Ruth, my daughter, 175 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.399 it's time that I found a permanent home for you, 176 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:08.360 so that you will be provided for. Boaz is a 177 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.319 close relative of ours, and he's been very kind by 178 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.560 letting you gather green with his young women. Tonight he'll 179 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.839 be winnowing barley at the threshing floor. Now do as 180 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.199 I tell you. Take a bath and put on perfume 181 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.680 and dress in your nicest clothes. Then go to the 182 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.040 threshing floor, but don't let Boas see you until he's 183 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.759 finished eating and drinking. Be sure to notice where he 184 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:29.639 lies down, and then go and uncover his feet and 185 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.519 lie down there. He will tell you what to do. 186 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.360 I'll do everything you say, Ruth replied, So she went 187 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:38.480 down to the threshing floor that night and followed the 188 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.159 instructions of her mother in law. After Boas had finished 189 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:43.159 eating and drinking, it was in good spirits. He lay 190 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.000 down at the far end of the pile of grain 191 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:48.799 and went to sleep. Then Ruth came quietly, uncovered his 192 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:52.519 feet and laid down. Around midnight, Boaz suddenly woke up 193 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.279 and turned over, and he was surprised to find a 194 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.840 woman lying at his feet. Who are you, he asked, 195 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.320 I am your servant, Ruth, she replied. Spread the corner 196 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:03.120 of your covering over me. For you or my family redeemer, 197 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.360 The Lord bless you, my daughter, Boas exclaimed, you are 198 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.399 showing even more family loyalty now than you did before, 199 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.080 for you have not gone after a younger man, whether 200 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.759 rich or poor. Now don't worry about a thing, my daughter. 201 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.759 I will do what is necessary, for everyone in town 202 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.480 knows you are a virtuous woman. But while it's true 203 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.240 that I am one of your family redeemers, there is 204 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.639 another man who is more closely related to you than 205 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.120 I am. Stay here tonight. In the morning, I will 206 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:30.200 talk to him. If he's willing to redeem you, very well, 207 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:32.440 let him marry you. But if he is not willing, 208 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.039 then as surely as the Lord lives, I will redeem 209 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:38.159 you myself. Now lie down here until morning. So Ruth 210 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.039 lay at BoA's his feet until the morning. But she 211 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:42.120 got up before it was light enough for people to 212 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.480 recognize each other, for boa As had said, no one 213 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.320 must know that a woman was here at the threshing floor. 214 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.320 Then Boaz said to her bring your cloak and spread 215 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.480 it out, and he measured six scoops of barley into 216 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.279 the cloak and placed it on her back, and then 217 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.159 he returned to the town. When Ruth went back to 218 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.919 her mother in law, Naomi asked, what happened my daughter? 219 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.600 Naomi or Ruth told Naomi everything Boa has had done 220 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.080 for her, and she added, he gave me these six 221 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:08.240 scoops of barley and said, don't go back to your 222 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.960 mother in law empty handed. Then Naomi said to her, 223 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.240 just be patient, my daughter, until we hear what happens. 224 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.879 The man won't rest until he settled things today. So 225 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.919 we have to introduce bo As right, right, So who's Boas? 226 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.240 Boas is the is he the uncle? 227 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:28.639 What is he? I don't know, I asked you did. 228 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:36.039 Bo As well? We sort of skipped the introduction of 229 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:41.159 Boaz right in Luke, Chuck and Ruth distinct cousins, distant cousins, 230 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.480 that's what he is. Okay, Yeah, but he's but he's 231 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:46.879 a part of the family, and uh so he has 232 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:51.200 technically I don't think that he was obligated by law, 233 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.720 but I think that there is probably more cultural tradition, 234 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:57.639 is what I remember from the story where it's it's 235 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.559 not as if there's a law that says he has 236 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:02.759 to take care of somebody like that, but you know, 237 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:05.519 to take care of a family. It was customary to 238 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:07.960 help family in need. 239 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.720 Right, Yeah, So he is a distant cousin of a 240 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.360 limelech In Naomi, which would mean then that he was 241 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:18.879 also a cousin to a Limi millec in Naomi's sons. 242 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:23.000 So then they had this idea, there is this concept 243 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:26.399 and this is within the law of a kinsman redeemer 244 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.000 and the kinsman redeemer being one of the male relatives 245 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.480 who had resources that was in the lineage of the 246 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:37.759 family that would come in and take responsibility for a 247 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:40.600 woman that was a widow, very similar to like the 248 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:41.720 brother was required to do. 249 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:43.279 So, I didn't realize that was in the law. 250 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:45.960 Yeah, it was within their law. It wasn't required that 251 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.759 he do it, but a woman had the right to 252 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:51.679 request it. And if the first guy refused, and the 253 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:53.960 second guy would say yes, right, okay, and so this 254 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.559 is her way. That sounds like what I remember, yeah, yeah, 255 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.080 and so so I think if he refused, then there 256 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.879 was some kind of a financial arrangement or some kind 257 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:06.120 of way to get out of being in the kinsman Redember. 258 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.200 I just remember that he didn't have to do it. 259 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:14.440 Yeah. So what you have here then is Naomi brings 260 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:22.679 Ruth to this place, you know, to Bethlehem, and it's harvests. 261 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:24.639 Remember we just read that it was the beginning of 262 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.960 harvest season. And so one of God's laws for the 263 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:34.120 Jewish people was that a farmer wasn't supposed to harvest 264 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.919 the corners of his field right and leave it for 265 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:37.559 the poor people. 266 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.279 And we covered that probably what a couple of weeks ago. 267 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.120 Yeah, yeah, And so leave it for the poor people 268 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.279 was the idea there. And this is then the poor 269 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:48.799 people could go out and work. It wasn't pure charity. 270 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:50.679 You had to do the work of it. But you know, 271 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.320 if you have a big rectangular field and you're out 272 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.639 there harvesting back and forth, back and forth, when you 273 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.759 make that, just make the turn, don't don't go straight 274 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:00.600 into the corner and take the her time and I'll 275 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:03.120 leave that and then they can do it. So then 276 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:09.320 Naomi knows this rule and she goes to Boas and says, hey, 277 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.679 God's blessed you and your harvest. Would it be okay? 278 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.639 If my daughter in law harvested in just the corners 279 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.720 of your field, grab a little bit, and we can 280 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:22.639 stay alive. And Boas kinda notices and he goes over 281 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.320 to Ruth and says, listen, you can you can stay 282 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.080 with us, and you can gather grain with my girls. 283 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.759 So he had all his servants out there and he's 284 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.000 you know, so she definitely caught his eye, and so 285 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:34.960 he kind of takes care of her. Morris family than 286 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.240 it's just some poor lady that needs food, And that 287 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.320 caught Naomi's eye, going, oh, I bet Ruth isn't picking 288 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:42.559 up on what this is. 289 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:47.080 Right, because because you said just be patient, right, because. 290 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.679 Ruth is a moabite, Naomi knows the rules. So there's 291 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.120 all these social things the poor people can pick over 292 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:56.080 there in the corners, and yeah, whatever, just do your thing. 293 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:58.600 But Boaz comes over and goes, you don't have to 294 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:00.279 pick in the corners. You can just go ahead and 295 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.320 get what you need, right, And so Ruth is like, 296 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.159 always sain't he a nice guy? And then always like, 297 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:10.480 oh Boaz is interested in Ruth? Right, maybe maybe he's interested. 298 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.519 Maybe he might just be a nice guy. Extended family 299 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.200 way out there whatever. So maybe he's just a nice guy. 300 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.039 But but Ruth is thinking there might be a chance. 301 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.200 As a matter of fact, there's a moment when they 302 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:26.440 all take a break, like a lunch break in chapter two, 303 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.720 and he invites Ruth over, Hey, go ahead, and you 304 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:29.960 can have some of our food. You can have some 305 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.919 of our wine, you know. And that's what Naomi is 306 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:36.000 picking up on, is Boaz isn't just a nice guy. 307 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.200 He he likes Ruth, right, or in addition to be 308 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:39.759 a nice guy. 309 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:40.600 That's right, that's right. 310 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:45.519 Yeah, So you know when you think about, okay, what 311 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.080 does this have to do with me? What what kind 312 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:48.759 of sermon is in there? You know, is there a 313 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.159 sermon in there somewhere? Right? I think it's I think 314 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:57.679 it's maybe this that you never know how the tides 315 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:01.960 are going to turn. You never know what's in store, right, 316 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:04.840 so you know, you know, for that matter, you never 317 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:07.559 know if it's going to be today. Right, So you're 318 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.399 walking into you know, an environment and you know, remember 319 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.080 the day that you met one of your best friends 320 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.240 in the world, right, Like, did you know that that 321 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.559 was the day you were going to meet him? No? Right? 322 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.480 Remember when the day you met your wife yes, you 323 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:23.159 didn't know that was the day you're going to meet him. No, 324 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.759 I didn't, And that changed the course of your entire life. 325 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.879 The trajectory of your entire life changed on that day. 326 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:32.559 So it's just a reminder. I think there's a sermon 327 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:36.480 in here somewhere that says, you know you're down on 328 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:39.679 your luck, right, You're you're you're sad, you know your 329 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:41.960 your life is Hey, I'm going to change my name 330 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.679 because of the season that I'm in. You know, everything 331 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.799 is just really bitter. And then all of a sudden, boom, 332 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.840 things start to turn. Why because apparently bo As thinks 333 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.879 Root's attractive, and that's going to create this opportunity, this 334 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.279 opportunity that is going to end up where everybody's going 335 00:15:58.320 --> 00:15:58.639 to be taking. 336 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.720 What an incredible moment. And by the way, Naomi is 337 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.000 the one who's tuned into this, not Ruth right, But 338 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.720 it's interesting because we just ended yesterday with Naomi being bitter. Right, 339 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:11.200 my life is miserable. I can't I left with everything. 340 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.559 I lost everything, He lost everything. I came home, God 341 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:15.320 gave up on me. 342 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:19.279 Can you imagine losing your husband and your sons? 343 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:21.679 Yeah, And so she has this sense that you know, 344 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.840 for some reason, God's punishing her, taking things from her. 345 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.360 But there's a really amazing note in verses nineteen and 346 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:31.240 twenty here in chapter two which we didn't read, which 347 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:33.960 we skipped right, but it says Naomi had felt bitter, 348 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.000 but her faith in God was still alive, and she 349 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:39.080 praised God for Boaz his kindness to Ruth. Right she does. 350 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.240 She celebrates God is good to us, and God has 351 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:46.240 provided for us through Boas for Ruth. And so we 352 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:48.799 might feel bitter about a situation, but we must never despair. 353 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.080 Today is always a new opportunity for experiencing God's care. 354 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:54.519 And then it goes. Though Ruth may not have always 355 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.559 recognized God's guidance, he'd been with her every step of 356 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.159 the way. She went to glean and just had and 357 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.840 to end up in the field owned by Boas, so 358 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.759 she didn't know as Boas his field. She just goes 359 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:07.799 to get some food, knowing that you're allowed to glean 360 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:09.960 in the corners, and Boaz goes, hey want you to 361 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:11.559 come over and have lunch with us, right, and you 362 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:13.279 can pick any part of it. You don't have to 363 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.000 just pick up the corners, And so she just happened 364 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.880 to do that just happened to be a close relative. 365 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.720 This was more than mere coincidence. As you go about 366 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:24.359 your daily tasks, God is working in your life in 367 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:27.079 ways you may not even notice. We must not close 368 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.319 the door on what God can do. Events do not 369 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:31.880 occur by luck or coincidence. We should have faith that 370 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:34.279 God is directing our lives for his purpose, which is 371 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.880 in line with exactly what you were saying. And you 372 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.839 could write the notes for the life Applications you know what, 373 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.519 called Tyndale them from me. That's right. Tindale is a publisher. 374 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.119 You just go tell them you got this. 375 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:50.559 Yeah, yeah, and it's just great. And then you know, 376 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.640 there's also a note here that talks about it. Says 377 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.279 la la la la la. Hear this. The nearest relative 378 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:58.799 did not have to marry the widow, and if he 379 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:02.480 chose not to, the next nearest relative could take his place. 380 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:04.759 If no one chose to help the widow, she would 381 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:07.279 probably live in poverty the rest of her life. Because 382 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.839 the Israelite culture, the inheritance was passed onto the son 383 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.839 of the nearest male relative, not the wife. The laws 384 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.240 for gleaning and family redeemers helped to take the sting 385 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:19.799 out of the inheritance rules. In other words, they're saying, 386 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:23.000 that's why you know the rules existed. You know, that's 387 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:25.400 the benefit. And then it says we have a family 388 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.759 redeemer in Jesus Christ, who, though he was God, came 389 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:31.279 to earth as a man in order to save us. 390 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.440 But by his death and the Cross, he has redeemed 391 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:40.200 us from the sin and hopelessness, and has thereby purchased 392 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.359 us with his own possession. For Peter, chapter one, Versember eighteen, 393 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.759 this guarantees are in eternal inheritance. Quite a hard time 394 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:53.319 reading that. So you can you can see the picture right, 395 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.880 the foreshadowing of Jesus, who's referred to as the kinsman redeemer, 396 00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:59.599 isn't he exactly? This is awesome. 397 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:01.480 So this is what you have. And by the way, 398 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.359 Boaz and Ruth wind up being in Jesus family, which 399 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.960 is you know, really just so hey, let's contrast Samson. 400 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:10.799 So we've already talked about the kind of decisions Samson 401 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:13.200