WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:21.900
 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast.

00:00:22.380 --> 00:00:25.500
 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons.

00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.980
 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear

00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:30.880
 the latest message.

00:00:31.180 --> 00:00:32.080
 Thanks for listening.

00:00:45.460 --> 00:00:49.700
 Did anybody else during that video have the realization that you're glad we didn't ask

00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:52.380
 your kids to come and get behind the camera for us to ask questions, right?

00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:57.940
 Because I feel okay with my kids now, but I know there was definitely a point in time

00:00:57.940 --> 00:00:59.480
 where like, yeah, that ain't happening, right?

00:01:00.580 --> 00:01:02.020
 But I love that.

00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:05.540
 I do want to say to you guys, good morning and happy Mother's Day.

00:01:06.260 --> 00:01:13.820
 Today is a day as a culture that we set aside to celebrate our moms and to value them and

00:01:13.820 --> 00:01:15.940
 to love them and show our support for them.

00:01:16.100 --> 00:01:20.620
 And so we just want to say as behalf of the church, to all the moms who are out there today,

00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:25.320
 happy Mother's Day, that we love you and what you do is so valuable and important to us.

00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:30.460
 I know today we have some moms who aren't with us who have gone to be with their moms at other

00:01:30.460 --> 00:01:30.740
 churches.

00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:32.760
 That's where my wife and kids are today.

00:01:32.860 --> 00:01:37.480
 They're going to celebrate and go to church with Aaron's mom and go to lunch with them,

00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:39.380
 and I'll meet up with them later on today.

00:01:39.460 --> 00:01:44.440
 But we also have some moms and maybe even some daughters and some grandkids who were here

00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:47.780
 with us this morning to be with their mom and to celebrate them.

00:01:47.820 --> 00:01:51.800
 And so we're so glad that you were here and that you were here with us.

00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:58.580
 Well, one of our themes in Ruth is talking about the providence of God and talking about

00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:04.120
 the fact that there are things in this world that don't happen by chance, but even though

00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:08.200
 they may hurt, even though they may be painful, there's these moments and times that God gives

00:02:08.200 --> 00:02:12.720
 us to walk through so that he can grow us and develop us and use us for his name and for

00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:13.160
 his glory.

00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:17.640
 And I say all of that before we even get into our passage of scripture this morning, because

00:02:17.640 --> 00:02:23.700
 growing up in the Bradbury house, Mother's Day was always a bittersweet day for us.

00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:30.640
 And I know if you're here this morning, Mother's Day may be a bittersweet day for you as well.

00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:36.660
 I want to share my story and maybe it can resonate with some of you in your story of what God's

00:02:36.660 --> 00:02:42.700
 doing, but I grew up and I've got a mom and a dad still married together, faithfully loving each

00:02:42.700 --> 00:02:46.260
 other well, who raised us and loved us.

00:02:46.780 --> 00:02:51.440
 But my mom went through something in her childhood that most but some do walk through.

00:02:51.580 --> 00:02:55.720
 My mom, my mom's mother, my grandmother passed away when my mom was 15 years old.

00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:03.320
 My mom came home from a school day at, sorry, at Butler High School to find her mom dead on

00:03:03.320 --> 00:03:05.180
 the floor from suffering from a massive heart attack.

00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.840
 And so that was our reality growing up.

00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:12.380
 We grew up in a more traditional church and I don't know, maybe some of you, this kind of

00:03:12.380 --> 00:03:16.100
 speaks your love language if you're, to the memory back of a traditional church.

00:03:16.100 --> 00:03:21.120
 But on Mother's Day, all the moms were corsages and they had the flowers and different color

00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:22.920
 flowers stood for different colored things.

00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.380
 And my mom always wore the color to acknowledge that her mom passed on and was with the Lord.

00:03:28.220 --> 00:03:31.220
 And so Mother's Day was always a bittersweet day for us.

00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:43.040
 And then Aaron and I walked through our journey of infertility and miscarriage.

00:03:44.360 --> 00:04:05.360
 And I knew every Mother's Day as we would be there at church and that my wife would struggle because of her desire for a child and her inability to get pregnant and then her desire for a child and recognizing the miscarriage and the pain that she had gone through with that.

00:04:06.100 --> 00:04:22.880
 And so today, as we walk through that in God's providence and God's sovereignty, I want to stand here today as we wish all these moms a happy Mother's Day while also acknowledging that it's a tough day for some people.

00:04:23.820 --> 00:04:30.240
 It's a tough day for some ladies who are in here who are struggling with infertility, who are struggling with miscarriages.

00:04:31.020 --> 00:04:34.820
 And it's a struggle for some of you today because your mom's not here beside you.

00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:41.300
 The way she passed away this year or years ago, today can be the reminder of that.

00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:51.160
 And so today as we celebrate moms, right, today we also want to acknowledge all of those who today, today's a little bit harder day than normal.

00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:54.860
 And we can do both because our God is good.

00:04:55.540 --> 00:04:56.500
 And let's go to Him in prayer.

00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:03.060
 Lord, we come to you this morning and we thank you for the wonderful blessing of our moms.

00:05:04.700 --> 00:05:12.620
 We thank you for our moms that loved us, showed us your grace and love, taught us the truth of your scripture.

00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:23.620
 Took us to ball games and dance recitals and showed us what it meant to work hard and to support and to love and to care.

00:05:25.540 --> 00:05:29.360
 Moms who became leaders in the home and out of the home.

00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.840
 Moms who helped us with our homework.

00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:41.260
 Lord, we thank you for such the blessing that they are.

00:05:42.420 --> 00:05:48.160
 Lord, we also lift up all of those today who woke up this morning and today's a difficult day.

00:05:49.620 --> 00:05:58.480
 For the lady sitting in the room who's wrestling with the concerns that she has and the struggle that she has over infertility.

00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:01.900
 Mourning the loss of a child and miscarriage.

00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:07.240
 Lord, we pray for your peace and your grace to fall over them, Lord.

00:06:07.300 --> 00:06:09.440
 And may it feel fresh to them this morning.

00:06:10.760 --> 00:06:15.960
 Lord, we pray for all of those of us in here who have lost our mother.

00:06:18.060 --> 00:06:20.560
 Maybe even some of those in here, Lord, who have lost a child.

00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:23.960
 And today is the reminder of that.

00:06:25.460 --> 00:06:29.820
 Lord, could we be reminded of your sovereignty and your providence in our life.

00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:36.080
 To know that, Lord, even in the midst of our suffering, in the midst of our pain, that you haven't left us.

00:06:36.140 --> 00:06:37.840
 That you haven't forsaken us.

00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:41.180
 Lord, and that we can trust what your word says.

00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:46.380
 That you're working all things for your good, for your glory, for your name, and for the betterment in our lives.

00:06:47.140 --> 00:06:48.340
 And to grow us closer to you.

00:06:49.320 --> 00:06:50.400
 And Jesus, we love you.

00:06:51.080 --> 00:06:51.840
 We praise you.

00:06:52.380 --> 00:06:53.200
 And it's your name we pray.

00:06:53.440 --> 00:06:53.680
 Amen.

00:06:54.740 --> 00:06:57.720
 If you've got your Bibles with you today, if you'd open up to Ruth chapter 2.

00:07:00.180 --> 00:07:05.880
 And as you turn there, I want to share a piece of information with you about something that's going to be coming up.

00:07:05.960 --> 00:07:07.280
 And this is scary.

00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:10.560
 Like, we're not even in the summer yet, and we're talking about the fall.

00:07:10.640 --> 00:07:14.940
 But this fall, we're planning on doing the 1st of September.

00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.480
 So I guess maybe that's technically the end of summer.

00:07:17.740 --> 00:07:19.080
 The first weekend of September.

00:07:19.180 --> 00:07:20.620
 September 2nd through the 5th.

00:07:20.620 --> 00:07:21.660
 That's a holiday weekend.

00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:28.000
 We're going to be doing a family mission trip to Black Mountain Children's Home in North Carolina.

00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:32.600
 And what we're going to do to maybe answer some questions and to walk through this.

00:07:32.660 --> 00:07:36.700
 And to see which of our families are going to be interested in going and being a part of that.

00:07:36.820 --> 00:07:41.340
 We're going to hold an informational meeting on Sunday, June the 5th.

00:07:41.500 --> 00:07:45.960
 Immediately following our worship service over in Building 2 in Room 200.

00:07:46.420 --> 00:07:52.800
 And so the Lord kind of gave us this vision, this picture for this opportunity for families to come together.

00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:58.580
 To go and serve in an area, especially in our youth ministry, that's become special to a lot of our students.

00:07:58.980 --> 00:08:01.580
 And so we've been sitting down and racking our brains about what we could do.

00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:04.160
 And God has put this together for us.

00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.480
 Now, one of the things that if you're a family and you're thinking about this, that you'd like to be a part of this,

00:08:08.780 --> 00:08:15.700
 we are going to limit it to the kids who, as of next school year, will be in 5K and older.

00:08:15.860 --> 00:08:16.140
 All right?

00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:23.900
 And we will head off and go up there and have a wonderful time of serving together, of worshiping together, of fellowshipping together.

00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:27.920
 And if you've been anywhere with us, you know at some point in time we're going to have a whole lot of fun together.

00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:36.840
 And so if you're interested in that, being a part of that with your family, please come to that meeting on June the 5th, immediately following the worship service.

00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.880
 Now, family, that can be grandparents with their kids.

00:08:40.020 --> 00:08:41.440
 We're looking all different ways.

00:08:41.520 --> 00:08:44.600
 So don't think that your family doesn't meet the qualifications.

00:08:45.100 --> 00:08:47.920
 Instead, we'd love for you to come and join us and to be a part of that.

00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:52.740
 I know Black Mountain is a place that my family has been, I believe, the last three years.

00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.620
 And it's been a wonderful time of what God has done in that.

00:08:56.680 --> 00:09:00.200
 And so we look forward to seeing what the Lord is going to do with all of our families.

00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.280
 And so we would love to have you join us on that trip.

00:09:03.640 --> 00:09:08.760
 Showing up to the meeting doesn't guarantee that you're saying and that you're committing to be a part of that.

00:09:08.760 --> 00:09:18.960
 It's just an opportunity for you and I to sit down and have a discussion, for me to share the vision of the trip, and for you to ask questions if you have them.

00:09:19.040 --> 00:09:24.780
 And so we would love for you to join us and to be a part of that meeting on Sunday, June the 5th.

00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:27.600
 So we're going to continue on in our study in Ruth.

00:09:27.680 --> 00:09:31.540
 And we're going to work all the way through Ruth chapter 2 this morning.

00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:40.040
 And we're going to talk about some areas that I know have hit home with a lot of people in our congregation and have also hit home in my life as well.

00:09:40.140 --> 00:09:41.100
 And so let's jump in.

00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:44.000
 We're just going to read the first verse here this morning.

00:09:44.620 --> 00:09:45.040
 And it says,

00:09:45.280 --> 00:09:54.800
 Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

00:09:55.540 --> 00:09:59.540
 And so we've been on a long journey already in chapter 1 to get here.

00:09:59.820 --> 00:10:09.660
 And we're going to recap a little bit of chapter 1 to remind us, but this theme that is spilled over from chapter 1 into chapter 2 is this concept of depression.

00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:13.600
 We meet Naomi, and Naomi is suffering from depression.

00:10:13.760 --> 00:10:22.060
 And when we look and see in just a moment some of the details of her life, it's understandable why she is going through what she is going through.

00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:29.100
 And what we have seen from chapter 1 and coming into chapter 2 is what I would like to talk about, the darkness of depression.

00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:38.000
 And I don't know about you, but I know in my life, I know a lot of men and women and children and families that we minister to.

00:10:39.140 --> 00:10:42.520
 Depression is a real condition.

00:10:42.800 --> 00:10:44.160
 It's a real battle.

00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:48.320
 It's something that a lot of men, women, and children are facing and they're going through.

00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:56.260
 I know for me in my life, and I've shared this on stage, I've shared this in small groups, I've shared this in one-on-one conversation.

00:10:56.560 --> 00:11:03.900
 Depression is something that I personally have gone through, that I've sought counseling through, that I've faced at multiple different points and times in my life.

00:11:04.140 --> 00:11:10.940
 And by the grace of God, God's given me the strength through His power to walk through those seasons.

00:11:11.280 --> 00:11:18.780
 And God's provided me with wonderful people like my wife and some of you to help walk through that.

00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:27.080
 And so as I'm reading through a lot of these things that we see in the life of Naomi, there's a lot of, I get that, I get that, I get that, I get that.

00:11:28.140 --> 00:11:35.720
 And what we see very beginning of this chapter is the darkness of depression in the life of Naomi.

00:11:36.760 --> 00:11:38.000
 All right, Naomi's got it pretty bad.

00:11:38.800 --> 00:11:39.080
 All right?

00:11:39.560 --> 00:11:42.780
 Just a quick little recap, if you weren't with us last week.

00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:46.420
 She and her family 10 years ago had to leave their home due to famine.

00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:49.740
 Well, if you've ever been through a famine, I've never been through a famine.

00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.980
 But as I shared last week, I went through a hostage shortage about three weeks ago, right?

00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.060
 And it was tough, right?

00:11:56.460 --> 00:11:57.260
 But a famine.

00:11:58.140 --> 00:12:01.980
 Her husband would die, and both of her sons would die as well.

00:12:02.900 --> 00:12:14.580
 And there's lots of cultural ramifications to the fact that Naomi and her daughter-in-laws at the time are facing because the men of the house are dead.

00:12:15.640 --> 00:12:32.960
 But even in our culture of what we see, even if you feel that as a lady that you're strong, that you're independent, we can acknowledge that this 10-year battle of what they've gone through is a very difficult battle.

00:12:33.400 --> 00:12:38.300
 And it's affected Naomi all throughout who she is.

00:12:38.300 --> 00:12:52.340
 In fact, at the end of chapter 1, we read that as Naomi and her one daughter-in-law, Ruth, that has stuck with her as they return back to Naomi's hometown, when Naomi sees people, she tells,

00:12:52.660 --> 00:12:57.100
 Don't call me Naomi anymore, because Naomi meant pleasantness.

00:12:57.100 --> 00:12:59.980
 Instead, call me Mara, which means bitterness.

00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:16.440
 So then every part of who she is, she's acknowledging what I feel in my being right now is not joy, is not peace, is not the grace of God, all of these things that we'll see throughout the course of this story that Naomi knows.

00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:22.120
 But what she feels, what she feels is surrounding her, what she feels is there, is bitterness.

00:13:22.520 --> 00:13:34.000
 Now, if you've ever walked through a season or a time of depression in your life, and I can speak to this in my own life, you understand what it feels like to be consumed by bitterness.

00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:40.100
 That it's all that you know, that it's all that you feel, that it's all that you see, and it continually surrounds you.

00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:48.540
 And you acknowledge that I am no longer the person of who I am before, and this is now the individual who I am now.

00:13:49.900 --> 00:13:53.560
 I described it to someone the other day as we were talking about it.

00:13:54.080 --> 00:14:02.560
 And I said, you know, in my own personal journey as I've walked through this, depression causes you to see things through a lens.

00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:05.760
 A lens of darkness.

00:14:07.180 --> 00:14:16.900
 A lens that other people can kind of talk you into that it's not there, but for you, it's an ever-real reality that's constantly before you.

00:14:18.140 --> 00:14:22.520
 And depression, through this lens, affects everything.

00:14:23.900 --> 00:14:24.380
 Everything.

00:14:25.420 --> 00:14:31.340
 Even the parts of your life that don't have anything to do with your root cause of depression, it affects it all.

00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.480
 When you're battling through depression, it affects every relationship.

00:14:37.180 --> 00:14:38.740
 Every relationship you have.

00:14:39.780 --> 00:14:42.060
 The relationships that are toxic, it affects.

00:14:43.040 --> 00:14:45.660
 The relationships that are beneficial, it affects.

00:14:47.340 --> 00:14:51.340
 The relationships for people that want to pour into you and love you, it affects.

00:14:52.760 --> 00:14:53.800
 It affects it all.

00:14:54.940 --> 00:15:00.080
 It affects both work, home, and social life.

00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:08.300
 While in our minds, in different ways, we can separate many of them into the different compartments of how we face in everyday life.

00:15:09.060 --> 00:15:12.720
 When you're going through a season, when you're going through a battle with depression,

00:15:12.900 --> 00:15:17.900
 what you will notice is that it affects your work life, it affects your home life, it affects your social life.

00:15:18.020 --> 00:15:22.440
 There's not a hat that you can put on that causes you to step out of one area,

00:15:22.700 --> 00:15:24.480
 oh, and now I'm in this area, and so I'm good.

00:15:25.620 --> 00:15:26.600
 It affects it all.

00:15:28.160 --> 00:15:36.440
 And depression affects you physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.

00:15:37.540 --> 00:15:40.440
 It will break you down physically.

00:15:41.500 --> 00:15:46.740
 It will make you physically feel sick, even if there's nothing to physically feel sick over.

00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:50.600
 It is mentally, and it affects you mentally.

00:15:51.380 --> 00:15:56.160
 It causes you not to see things clearly, respond to things clearly.

00:15:56.160 --> 00:16:04.340
 It plays mind games with you and literally adjusts and alters the way that you think and the way that you experience things.

00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:06.800
 It affects you spiritually.

00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.320
 Years ago, I heard somebody say, you just need to cry out to the Lord.

00:16:22.700 --> 00:16:28.520
 And I was walking through a matter of depression, and I remember thinking, I know that, but I just don't want to.

00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:31.340
 I don't want to.

00:16:33.340 --> 00:16:35.060
 I know who God is.

00:16:35.260 --> 00:16:36.780
 I know that he saved me.

00:16:36.940 --> 00:16:39.300
 I know that I'm called by him, and I know that I love him.

00:16:41.300 --> 00:16:42.300
 But I just don't want to.

00:16:44.640 --> 00:16:45.780
 It begins to affect you.

00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:48.120
 It affects you emotionally.

00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:52.460
 The things that bring you joy don't bring you joy.

00:16:53.540 --> 00:16:56.100
 The things that bring you happiness don't bring you happiness.

00:16:56.900 --> 00:16:59.100
 The things that bring you peace don't bring you peace.

00:16:59.100 --> 00:17:05.080
 And there's a constant war that rages within you because you know all the things that you know.

00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:10.840
 You know the reality of all that is there, but yet the lens of depression just causes you to see things differently.

00:17:11.980 --> 00:17:19.020
 And this is what we're going to do.

00:17:19.020 --> 00:17:22.260
 And this is why it's important that we read the first verse and pause.

00:17:23.280 --> 00:17:25.240
 Because this is what depression has done to her.

00:17:26.300 --> 00:17:33.500
 Number one, it's caused Naomi, in the midst of all she's going through, to miss the true reality of the situation.

00:17:33.560 --> 00:17:45.100
 If you remember back last week in chapter one, when Naomi hears that the famine has been lifted in her land and that she will now leave the land of Moab and return to her land and to Bethlehem, right?

00:17:45.140 --> 00:17:46.920
 Because the famine has been lifted there.

00:17:47.100 --> 00:17:50.580
 She pleads for her daughter-in-laws not to come with her.

00:17:51.660 --> 00:17:53.580
 And that's not out of poor, pitiful me.

00:17:53.580 --> 00:18:01.700
 It's actually one that's filled with grace in her heart because she doesn't want them to walk through what she's going to have to walk through and return with her.

00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:04.080
 Because in her mind, there's no hope.

00:18:04.380 --> 00:18:07.320
 If you go with me, there's no hope.

00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.540
 But if you stay here, there's hope.

00:18:10.220 --> 00:18:24.240
 And for Naomi, if she returns with them, then there's nothing that is waiting for them that is going to bring them out because they are just in as bad of situation as she is.

00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.760
 Because for them, there's no one to marry.

00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:29.500
 And so Naomi says, stay behind.

00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:31.480
 Don't come with me.

00:18:32.540 --> 00:18:35.560
 But what we see is verse one.

00:18:36.580 --> 00:18:39.440
 Naomi says that there's no redeemer for you.

00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:44.340
 She talks to them about, like, I don't have any other boys for you to marry, right?

00:18:44.380 --> 00:18:45.780
 My sons have died.

00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:46.980
 Your husbands have died.

00:18:47.280 --> 00:18:53.220
 If there was to be a baby in my womb, right, do you want to wait for him to grow up to be a man?

00:18:53.320 --> 00:18:58.100
 Because in their culture, what they needed was a man to step in to marry them.

00:18:58.220 --> 00:18:59.920
 And she said, that is not for you.

00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:04.660
 Because her depression has caused her to miss the reality of the situation.

00:19:05.520 --> 00:19:06.440
 Back at verse one.

00:19:07.660 --> 00:19:15.400
 Now, Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a man worthy of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

00:19:16.500 --> 00:19:17.520
 You see, there was.

00:19:18.520 --> 00:19:25.220
 There was Boaz, a real person in the family who couldn't marry them.

00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:31.040
 And so the reality was, yes, but Naomi can't see it because of the darkness that's there.

00:19:32.040 --> 00:19:39.720
 And also, what it creates, what depression, what the darkness of depression can create, is to miss the faith that you have.

00:19:41.460 --> 00:19:42.820
 Naomi is a woman of God.

00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:45.620
 She's a woman of faith.

00:19:47.280 --> 00:19:52.420
 And we might not see an overwhelming strength from this in her life right now.

00:19:53.260 --> 00:19:54.720
 But she's a woman of faith, nevertheless.

00:19:55.860 --> 00:19:57.900
 She would have known of God's faithfulness.

00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:00.080
 She would experience them herself.

00:20:00.340 --> 00:20:03.220
 But this is what depression creates.

00:20:03.500 --> 00:20:05.440
 This is what depression pulls down.

00:20:05.700 --> 00:20:10.900
 Now, what depression does to us is it lowers in a person who's going through this, right?

00:20:11.060 --> 00:20:13.620
 It lowers our sense of self-worth.

00:20:14.940 --> 00:20:20.920
 For a person who's walking through a battle of depression, they view themselves as less than.

00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:30.760
 And then what that begins to create in there is it also lowers the way that you believe of how God thinks about you.

00:20:31.660 --> 00:20:38.400
 And so it takes all that we know, all that we believe, all of these things that we can cling to truth,

00:20:38.560 --> 00:20:44.900
 and it twists a lie into them that alters every single part of your life.

00:20:46.280 --> 00:20:55.160
 And it's why verse 1 is so significant for us to understand about the battle that Naomi's going through.

00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:04.300
 Now, Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:06.400
 Let's keep reading verse 2.

00:21:08.220 --> 00:21:11.740
 And Ruth, the Moabite, said to Naomi,

00:21:12.840 --> 00:21:17.200
 Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain,

00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:20.560
 after him in whose eyes I shall find favor.

00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:24.260
 And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

00:21:25.120 --> 00:21:28.880
 So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers.

00:21:29.520 --> 00:21:32.820
 And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz,

00:21:33.420 --> 00:21:35.140
 who was the clan of Elimelech.

00:21:35.700 --> 00:21:39.160
 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and he said to the reapers,

00:21:39.760 --> 00:21:41.080
 The Lord be with you.

00:21:41.620 --> 00:21:44.060
 And they answered, The Lord bless you.

00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.040
 And then Boaz said to this young man who was in charge of the reapers,

00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:50.080
 Whose young woman is this?

00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.340
 And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered,

00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:58.540
 She is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.

00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:04.140
 And she said, Please let me glean and gather among the sheaths after the reapers.

00:22:04.760 --> 00:22:09.920
 So she came, and as she has continued from early morning until now,

00:22:10.620 --> 00:22:12.300
 except for a short rest.

00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:14.880
 So let me explain this, gleaning in the field.

00:22:15.080 --> 00:22:17.400
 And this is going to be very important in chapter 2.

00:22:18.060 --> 00:22:23.420
 When a field is harvested, right, there's always crops that are left behind.

00:22:24.280 --> 00:22:27.820
 Whether it's because they're missed or whether it's because they're dropped,

00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:31.500
 there's always crops that are left behind.

00:22:31.660 --> 00:22:37.040
 Now, years ago before I was here, I served on staff at a church, Cedar Creek Church,

00:22:37.100 --> 00:22:38.480
 and I was one of their campus pastors.

00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:46.460
 And the campus that I first served at was right on Highway 1 in between Minetta, right?

00:22:46.860 --> 00:22:50.400
 And if you're good Aiken County people, you know where Minetta is, right?

00:22:50.600 --> 00:22:55.920
 And so in between Minetta and Batesburg, and that's where our church was, right?

00:22:55.980 --> 00:23:00.040
 We were in the suburbs of both of those booming metropolis towns, right?

00:23:00.980 --> 00:23:01.660
 We were there.

00:23:02.040 --> 00:23:08.000
 And if you know that stretch of road, you know that it is filled on both sides with peaches.

00:23:08.760 --> 00:23:10.900
 And I love peaches.

00:23:11.740 --> 00:23:14.780
 And my grandmother said to me one day, she said,

00:23:14.820 --> 00:23:20.680
 Bo, as I looked out of my office window, right across there was a field of peaches.

00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:24.320
 And she asked me, of peach trees, and she asked me, she said,

00:23:24.460 --> 00:23:28.980
 do you ever just walk over there and grab a peach and eat it?

00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:30.520
 And I said, no.

00:23:31.380 --> 00:23:32.380
 And she said, why not?

00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.120
 And I said, that's illegal.

00:23:35.020 --> 00:23:36.280
 I can't do that.

00:23:36.620 --> 00:23:41.520
 And my grandmother, who grew up at a different point in time, looked at me and said,

00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:42.940
 well, I don't understand that.

00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.460
 And I said, well, I don't like it, but that's still the truth.

00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:46.340
 I can't do that.

00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:47.720
 But it never failed.

00:23:47.860 --> 00:23:52.500
 We would watch and see out there how many peaches would fall on the ground.

00:23:53.060 --> 00:23:55.160
 And we couldn't go over there and take them because they had fallen.

00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:59.780
 We'd also see after the workers would come over and take the peaches off the tree,

00:23:59.940 --> 00:24:01.760
 you'd still see there's some peaches on the tree.

00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:02.820
 And we couldn't do it.

00:24:02.820 --> 00:24:06.560
 We couldn't go over there and get the peaches, right?

00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:12.160
 But during this time, it was common that when there was crops that were missed,

00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:15.140
 crops that were dropped, crops that were left behind,

00:24:15.560 --> 00:24:20.040
 God commanded in his people to take care of the widows and the orphans and the poor.

00:24:20.360 --> 00:24:25.060
 And so a common practice that they had was after the reapers had left the field,

00:24:25.360 --> 00:24:29.460
 the widows, the orphans, and the poor would come and they would collect those,

00:24:29.620 --> 00:24:32.720
 the crops that had fallen, the crops that were left.

00:24:33.360 --> 00:24:40.120
 In fact, in Leviticus 19, God instructs his people to only harvest the vineyards once,

00:24:40.760 --> 00:24:42.660
 to not harvest them a second time,

00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:50.100
 and instead to allow the widows, the orphans, and the poor to come and follow them the second time

00:24:50.100 --> 00:24:51.340
 to pick the grapes.

00:24:52.540 --> 00:24:55.360
 And so that's what Ruth sets out to do.

00:24:56.600 --> 00:24:57.660
 Now think about this.

00:24:58.820 --> 00:25:01.060
 Ruth and Naomi are basically in the same situation.

00:25:02.080 --> 00:25:04.220
 In Ruth's covenant commitment to Naomi,

00:25:05.020 --> 00:25:07.640
 she says that she's going to go where she's going to go,

00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:09.920
 that she's not going to leave her or forsake her,

00:25:09.980 --> 00:25:11.560
 that she's going to stay with her,

00:25:11.620 --> 00:25:14.040
 that she's going to cling to her is what the Bible says.

00:25:14.040 --> 00:25:17.040
 But then also Ruth takes it a step farther and says,

00:25:17.580 --> 00:25:20.100
 where you die, I will die.

00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:23.780
 And so we see this commitment that's there.

00:25:24.780 --> 00:25:26.200
 We see this bond that's there.

00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:31.680
 And so here you've got Naomi who's struggling in darkness,

00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:35.580
 but we're going to see Ruth walking in light.

00:25:36.800 --> 00:25:39.980
 And so also this morning I want to talk about the light of faithfulness

00:25:39.980 --> 00:25:43.260
 and what we see in Ruth's life.

00:25:44.040 --> 00:25:45.080
 And what this can mean.

00:25:45.820 --> 00:25:51.160
 You know, we see the fruit of the light of faithfulness in the life of Ruth

00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:52.520
 in several ways.

00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:54.200
 The first way is that Ruth thought of others.

00:25:55.140 --> 00:25:55.960
 Ruth thought of others.

00:25:57.220 --> 00:25:59.420
 Naomi is depressed and defeated.

00:26:00.540 --> 00:26:02.140
 And if you've ever been there,

00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:06.340
 you know how hard it is to put one foot in front of the other.

00:26:07.260 --> 00:26:09.760
 You know how hard it can be to get out of bed.

00:26:10.780 --> 00:26:13.720
 You know how hard it can be to do the things that you need to do

00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:15.940
 on a day in and day out basis.

00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:17.560
 And that's where Naomi is.

00:26:18.820 --> 00:26:19.880
 And what I love about Ruth

00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:22.240
 is who Ruth is

00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:25.680
 is not a person that wants to kick her or force her.

00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:28.080
 She's not the person that wants to yell at her

00:26:28.080 --> 00:26:28.940
 because of where she's at.

00:26:30.340 --> 00:26:31.360
 Ruth says, well then I'll go.

00:26:32.460 --> 00:26:33.220
 I'll provide.

00:26:33.780 --> 00:26:34.700
 And she goes.

00:26:35.360 --> 00:26:36.500
 So she thought of others.

00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:41.300
 A characteristic of Ruth that we're reminded about in the light of faithfulness

00:26:41.300 --> 00:26:44.760
 is that Ruth chose humility over entitlement.

00:26:46.360 --> 00:26:49.080
 Ruth, in the verse that we see here,

00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:53.860
 it says that she prayed that she would be able to glean.

00:26:54.520 --> 00:26:56.700
 So she sought the Lord in that.

00:26:57.600 --> 00:27:00.320
 She doesn't presume the right

00:27:00.320 --> 00:27:02.740
 even though this was custom.

00:27:03.800 --> 00:27:06.680
 And instead she asked for permission

00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:08.460
 of what she could do.

00:27:09.280 --> 00:27:12.180
 She doesn't even show up with an attitude of

00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:13.800
 what can you do for me?

00:27:14.040 --> 00:27:16.260
 But instead her attitude is

00:27:16.260 --> 00:27:17.780
 what can I do for myself

00:27:17.780 --> 00:27:19.640
 and what can I do for others?

00:27:20.740 --> 00:27:23.080
 And this is what we see in the difference

00:27:23.080 --> 00:27:25.700
 as she's walking in the light of faithfulness.

00:27:26.540 --> 00:27:29.380
 It's keeping the mindset off of her.

00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:31.340
 Praying to the Lord

00:27:31.340 --> 00:27:33.360
 that the Lord would guide her.

00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:36.080
 Not presuming the right

00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:38.040
 but asking for favor

00:27:38.040 --> 00:27:40.540
 and to care for others.

00:27:41.600 --> 00:27:45.140
 And in this we see that Ruth showed perseverance.

00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:47.860
 When the report comes back to Boaz

00:27:47.860 --> 00:27:48.880
 of who she is

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:50.880
 basically what the workers say

00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:52.780
 is she's been doing this all day.

00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:54.840
 All day.

00:27:55.600 --> 00:27:56.700
 She's been out here

00:27:56.700 --> 00:27:59.080
 gleaning in the fields.

00:27:59.840 --> 00:28:00.000
 Right?

00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:01.560
 And then when we'll see

00:28:01.560 --> 00:28:03.340
 just in a little bit in verse 17

00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:04.540
 it says that

00:28:04.540 --> 00:28:06.440
 at the end of the day

00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:09.220
 when she was done doing all of the gleaning

00:28:09.220 --> 00:28:10.100
 all of the picking

00:28:10.100 --> 00:28:10.920
 all of the harvesting

00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:12.440
 that was left for her to be able to do

00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:15.140
 that she went through the process

00:28:15.140 --> 00:28:18.000
 of cleaning and processing the grain.

00:28:18.760 --> 00:28:23.360
 That we see this huge perseverance in her life.

00:28:24.280 --> 00:28:26.120
 But I think most importantly

00:28:26.120 --> 00:28:27.400
 what we see

00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:29.680
 is Ruth's faith

00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:31.960
 in God's providence.

00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:34.620
 Look back at verses 2 and 3.

00:28:35.760 --> 00:28:38.360
 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi

00:28:38.360 --> 00:28:41.680
 let me go to the field

00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:44.640
 and glean among the ears of grain

00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:46.020
 after him

00:28:46.020 --> 00:28:47.920
 in whose sight

00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:49.880
 I shall find favor.

00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:52.420
 And she said to her

00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:53.740
 go my daughter.

00:28:54.520 --> 00:28:56.120
 So she set out

00:28:56.120 --> 00:28:57.160
 and went

00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:59.160
 and gleaned in the field

00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:00.640
 after the reapers

00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.040
 and she happened

00:29:03.040 --> 00:29:04.960
 to come to the part

00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:05.820
 of the field

00:29:05.820 --> 00:29:08.480
 belonging to Boaz

00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:10.180
 who was of the clan

00:29:10.180 --> 00:29:11.360
 of Elimelech.

00:29:12.540 --> 00:29:13.840
 Ruth didn't know

00:29:13.840 --> 00:29:15.720
 who Boaz was

00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.720
 and she ended up

00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:20.040
 in his field.

00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.640
 Proverbs 16.9

00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:23.080
 tells us

00:29:23.080 --> 00:29:23.720
 that a man

00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:24.860
 plans

00:29:24.860 --> 00:29:26.420
 a man's mind

00:29:26.420 --> 00:29:27.920
 plans his ways

00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:29.740
 but the Lord

00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:30.720
 directs his steps.

00:29:32.040 --> 00:29:33.320
 And thinking through

00:29:33.320 --> 00:29:34.120
 in our journeys

00:29:34.120 --> 00:29:35.040
 of life

00:29:35.040 --> 00:29:36.440
 of where we find ourself

00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:37.460
 and where we go.

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:39.360
 The truth of scripture

00:29:39.360 --> 00:29:40.380
 the truth of what we

00:29:40.380 --> 00:29:41.160
 see here

00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:42.160
 in the life of Ruth

00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:42.720
 is that

00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.420
 as we are going about

00:29:44.420 --> 00:29:45.560
 that we can trust

00:29:45.560 --> 00:29:46.020
 and know

00:29:46.020 --> 00:29:47.160
 of what we are doing

00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.740
 that as our mind

00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:50.460
 plans our ways

00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:51.660
 the Lord

00:29:51.660 --> 00:29:53.340
 directs our steps

00:29:53.340 --> 00:29:53.780
 in this.

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.740
 This isn't chance

00:29:55.740 --> 00:29:56.940
 this isn't luck

00:29:56.940 --> 00:29:58.380
 it's the providence

00:29:58.380 --> 00:29:59.100
 of God

00:29:59.100 --> 00:30:00.640
 in the life of Ruth

00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.060
 that what she's

00:30:02.060 --> 00:30:03.060
 going through

00:30:03.060 --> 00:30:04.420
 what she's facing

00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:05.700
 what she's faced

00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:07.200
 is there for a purpose

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.040
 and for a reason

00:30:08.040 --> 00:30:09.760
 and all throughout this

00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:10.440
 we're going to see

00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:10.940
 the nuggets

00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:12.380
 of this wonderful truth

00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:13.520
 until it comes together

00:30:13.520 --> 00:30:14.100
 beautifully

00:30:14.100 --> 00:30:15.020
 for us

00:30:15.020 --> 00:30:16.480
 and for all of humanity

00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:18.100
 in Ruth chapter 4

00:30:18.100 --> 00:30:20.060
 of what is happening

00:30:20.060 --> 00:30:21.260
 and what is taking place

00:30:21.260 --> 00:30:21.740
 in this

00:30:21.740 --> 00:30:23.280
 but that we can know

00:30:23.280 --> 00:30:24.140
 and that we can trust

00:30:24.140 --> 00:30:24.780
 that what

00:30:24.780 --> 00:30:26.840
 the mess you're going through

00:30:26.840 --> 00:30:28.840
 the battle that you're facing

00:30:28.840 --> 00:30:29.880
 the darkness

00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:31.320
 that seems to be there

00:30:31.320 --> 00:30:32.080
 the rut

00:30:32.080 --> 00:30:33.720
 that you find yourself in

00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:34.860
 you're not there

00:30:34.860 --> 00:30:35.720
 by chance

00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:38.000
 you're there

00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.140
 by the providence of God

00:30:39.140 --> 00:30:41.580
 for God to use it

00:30:41.580 --> 00:30:43.360
 to grow you

00:30:43.360 --> 00:30:45.300
 to grow others

00:30:45.300 --> 00:30:46.960
 look at verse 8

00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:49.800
 then Boaz said to Ruth

00:30:49.800 --> 00:30:52.220
 now listen my daughter

00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:53.660
 do not

00:30:53.660 --> 00:30:55.600
 do not go to glean

00:30:55.600 --> 00:30:56.660
 in another field

00:30:56.660 --> 00:30:58.600
 or leave this one

00:30:58.600 --> 00:31:00.620
 but keep close

00:31:00.620 --> 00:31:01.500
 to my young women

00:31:01.500 --> 00:31:03.680
 let your eyes

00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:04.420
 be on the field

00:31:04.420 --> 00:31:05.320
 that they are reaping

00:31:05.320 --> 00:31:06.240
 and go after them

00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.300
 I have not charged

00:31:08.300 --> 00:31:09.660
 I have not charged

00:31:09.660 --> 00:31:10.320
 the young men

00:31:10.320 --> 00:31:11.160
 not to touch you

00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:13.160
 and when you are thirsty

00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:15.180
 when you are thirsty

00:31:15.180 --> 00:31:16.280
 go to the vessels

00:31:16.280 --> 00:31:17.040
 and drink

00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:18.340
 what the young men

00:31:18.340 --> 00:31:18.840
 have drawn

00:31:18.840 --> 00:31:20.480
 and then she fell

00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:21.040
 on her face

00:31:21.040 --> 00:31:22.040
 bowing to the ground

00:31:22.040 --> 00:31:22.800
 and said to him

00:31:22.800 --> 00:31:24.040
 why have I found

00:31:24.040 --> 00:31:25.140
 favor in your eyes

00:31:25.140 --> 00:31:25.560
 that you should

00:31:25.560 --> 00:31:26.580
 take notice of me

00:31:26.580 --> 00:31:27.960
 since I am a foreigner

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:30.360
 but Boaz answered her

00:31:30.360 --> 00:31:32.460
 all that you have done

00:31:32.460 --> 00:31:33.540
 for your mother-in-law

00:31:33.540 --> 00:31:34.360
 since the death

00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:35.000
 of your husband

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:36.700
 has been fully told to me

00:31:36.700 --> 00:31:38.340
 and how you left

00:31:38.340 --> 00:31:38.940
 your father

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:39.600
 and mother

00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:41.360
 and your native land

00:31:41.360 --> 00:31:43.040
 and came to a people

00:31:43.040 --> 00:31:44.380
 that you did not know before

00:31:44.380 --> 00:31:46.100
 in verse 12

00:31:46.100 --> 00:31:47.260
 the Lord repay you

00:31:47.260 --> 00:31:48.820
 for what you have done

00:31:48.820 --> 00:31:50.480
 and a full reward

00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:51.280
 be given to you

00:31:51.280 --> 00:31:51.920
 by the Lord

00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:54.000
 for the God of Israel

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.000
 under whose wings

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:56.140
 you have come

00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:57.220
 to take refuge

00:31:57.220 --> 00:31:59.200
 and then she said

00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:00.100
 I found favor

00:32:00.100 --> 00:32:01.600
 in your eyes

00:32:01.600 --> 00:32:03.120
 my Lord has

00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:04.460
 comforted me

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:05.420
 and spoken kindly

00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:06.280
 to your servant

00:32:06.280 --> 00:32:07.760
 though I am not

00:32:07.760 --> 00:32:08.780
 one of your servants

00:32:08.780 --> 00:32:10.420
 and at mealtime

00:32:10.420 --> 00:32:11.360
 Boaz said to her

00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:11.860
 come here

00:32:11.860 --> 00:32:12.860
 and eat some bread

00:32:12.860 --> 00:32:14.400
 and dip your morsel

00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.080
 in the wine

00:32:15.080 --> 00:32:16.800
 so she sat beside

00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:17.380
 the reapers

00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:18.480
 and he passed

00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:19.800
 to her roasted grain

00:32:19.800 --> 00:32:21.360
 and she ate

00:32:21.360 --> 00:32:22.560
 until she was satisfied

00:32:22.560 --> 00:32:23.200
 and she had

00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:24.040
 some left over

00:32:24.040 --> 00:32:25.860
 and when she rose

00:32:25.860 --> 00:32:26.400
 to glean

00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:27.300
 Boaz instructed

00:32:27.300 --> 00:32:28.140
 his young men

00:32:28.140 --> 00:32:29.640
 saying let her glean

00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:31.580
 even among the sheaths

00:32:31.580 --> 00:32:32.860
 and do not reproach her

00:32:32.860 --> 00:32:34.700
 and also pull out

00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:35.820
 some from the bundles

00:32:35.820 --> 00:32:36.480
 for her

00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:37.620
 and leave it

00:32:37.620 --> 00:32:38.480
 for her to glean

00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:40.220
 and do not rebuke her

00:32:40.220 --> 00:32:41.920
 and so she gleaned

00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:42.500
 in the field

00:32:42.500 --> 00:32:43.340
 until that evening

00:32:43.340 --> 00:32:45.360
 then she beat out

00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:46.420
 what she had gleaned

00:32:46.420 --> 00:32:47.900
 it was about

00:32:47.900 --> 00:32:48.540
 an ephah

00:32:48.540 --> 00:32:49.660
 of barley

00:32:49.660 --> 00:32:51.220
 and so we meet

00:32:51.220 --> 00:32:51.940
 Boaz here

00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:54.180
 Boaz the relative

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:55.500
 of Elimelech

00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:56.400
 that qualifies

00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:57.480
 as this kinsman

00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:58.040
 redeemer

00:32:58.040 --> 00:32:59.180
 who can come

00:32:59.180 --> 00:32:59.940
 and marry

00:32:59.940 --> 00:33:00.780
 Ruth

00:33:00.780 --> 00:33:02.000
 to continue on

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:02.840
 and support her

00:33:02.840 --> 00:33:04.480
 we see here

00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:05.240
 that he's wealthy

00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:07.120
 but most importantly

00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:07.900
 we see

00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:09.620
 that he is godly

00:33:09.620 --> 00:33:11.100
 and Boaz

00:33:11.100 --> 00:33:12.140
 approaches Ruth

00:33:12.140 --> 00:33:13.360
 he shows her

00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:13.880
 kindness

00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:15.220
 he shows her

00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:15.880
 protection

00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:17.540
 he shows her

00:33:17.540 --> 00:33:18.440
 favor

00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:20.820
 and in verse 10

00:33:20.820 --> 00:33:22.480
 Ruth asks him

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:23.180
 a question

00:33:23.180 --> 00:33:25.080
 she says to him

00:33:25.080 --> 00:33:26.920
 what have I done

00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:28.380
 to deserve

00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:29.160
 this kindness

00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:30.880
 this is a very

00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:31.880
 important question

00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:33.600
 Ruth says to him

00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:35.280
 what have I done

00:33:35.280 --> 00:33:36.820
 of who am I

00:33:36.820 --> 00:33:37.740
 a foreigner

00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:38.600
 who is now

00:33:38.600 --> 00:33:39.560
 in your homeland

00:33:39.560 --> 00:33:41.100
 what have I done

00:33:41.100 --> 00:33:42.500
 to experience

00:33:42.500 --> 00:33:44.240
 this overwhelming

00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.340
 kindness

00:33:45.340 --> 00:33:46.240
 that you have

00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:46.920
 given to me

00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:48.220
 and Boaz

00:33:48.220 --> 00:33:48.780
 answers

00:33:48.780 --> 00:33:49.220
 and he says

00:33:49.220 --> 00:33:50.520
 all that you have done

00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:51.900
 for your mother-in-law

00:33:51.900 --> 00:33:53.500
 all that you've sacrificed

00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:54.360
 he tells her

00:33:54.360 --> 00:33:55.120
 I've heard

00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:55.800
 and I know

00:33:55.800 --> 00:33:56.480
 about this

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.580
 but then he says

00:33:57.580 --> 00:33:57.940
 this

00:33:57.940 --> 00:33:58.860
 he says

00:33:58.860 --> 00:33:59.860
 it's the Lord

00:33:59.860 --> 00:34:01.540
 who's repaying you

00:34:01.540 --> 00:34:02.660
 it's the Lord

00:34:02.660 --> 00:34:03.860
 who's blessing you

00:34:03.860 --> 00:34:04.720
 look at verse 12

00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:06.180
 he says

00:34:06.180 --> 00:34:07.300
 the Lord repay you

00:34:07.300 --> 00:34:08.660
 for what you have done

00:34:08.660 --> 00:34:10.620
 and a full reward

00:34:10.620 --> 00:34:11.660
 be given to you

00:34:11.660 --> 00:34:12.380
 by the Lord

00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:13.900
 the God of Israel

00:34:13.900 --> 00:34:14.860
 and then I

00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:15.720
 underline this

00:34:15.720 --> 00:34:16.460
 if you're an underliner

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:17.100
 in your Bible

00:34:17.100 --> 00:34:18.600
 under whose wings

00:34:18.600 --> 00:34:20.040
 you have come

00:34:20.040 --> 00:34:21.520
 to take refuge

00:34:21.520 --> 00:34:23.520
 he says

00:34:23.520 --> 00:34:24.460
 there's something more

00:34:24.460 --> 00:34:26.460
 than what you've done

00:34:26.460 --> 00:34:27.360
 for your mother-in-law

00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:29.680
 there's something more

00:34:29.680 --> 00:34:30.980
 than you getting up

00:34:30.980 --> 00:34:31.680
 and to go work

00:34:31.680 --> 00:34:32.480
 into the fields

00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:34.240
 there's something more

00:34:34.240 --> 00:34:35.980
 than all of these actions

00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:36.920
 can show

00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.680
 in their isolated incident

00:34:38.680 --> 00:34:39.960
 there's something more

00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:41.480
 and the something more

00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:43.120
 is the God of Israel

00:34:43.120 --> 00:34:44.520
 who you have proclaimed

00:34:44.520 --> 00:34:45.700
 as your God

00:34:45.700 --> 00:34:47.160
 under whose wings

00:34:47.160 --> 00:34:48.800
 you have come

00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:50.460
 to take refuge

00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:52.620
 you see for Ruth

00:34:52.620 --> 00:34:55.160
 she needed refuge

00:34:55.160 --> 00:34:56.240
 in this life

00:34:56.240 --> 00:34:58.840
 if she was going

00:34:58.840 --> 00:34:59.660
 to survive

00:34:59.660 --> 00:35:01.940
 she needed to find

00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:02.700
 protection

00:35:02.700 --> 00:35:04.480
 she needed to find

00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:05.160
 comfort

00:35:05.160 --> 00:35:06.740
 she needed to find

00:35:06.740 --> 00:35:07.260
 peace

00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:08.980
 and she didn't seek

00:35:08.980 --> 00:35:10.500
 that in Naomi

00:35:10.500 --> 00:35:12.320
 she didn't seek

00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:13.940
 that in her family

00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:15.480
 she didn't seek

00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:16.740
 that in her husband

00:35:16.740 --> 00:35:18.100
 and in no

00:35:18.100 --> 00:35:19.760
 earthly pursue

00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:20.840
 does she seek

00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:21.200
 that

00:35:21.200 --> 00:35:22.760
 nor could it be found

00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:25.020
 but what Boaz

00:35:25.020 --> 00:35:25.660
 says here

00:35:25.660 --> 00:35:27.300
 is she sought

00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:28.300
 her refuge

00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:30.240
 in God

00:35:30.240 --> 00:35:31.820
 through her faith

00:35:31.820 --> 00:35:33.740
 our refuge

00:35:33.740 --> 00:35:34.580
 in the Lord

00:35:34.580 --> 00:35:36.280
 our refuge

00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:36.920
 in Him

00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:38.580
 our refuge

00:35:38.580 --> 00:35:39.100
 in God

00:35:39.100 --> 00:35:41.060
 it's the command

00:35:41.060 --> 00:35:41.540
 of Christ

00:35:41.540 --> 00:35:42.380
 for our lives

00:35:42.380 --> 00:35:43.980
 of where we

00:35:43.980 --> 00:35:44.900
 find our security

00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:45.400
 of where we

00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:46.320
 find our peace

00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:46.980
 where we

00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.620
 find our hope

00:35:47.620 --> 00:35:49.040
 Ruth finds

00:35:49.040 --> 00:35:49.560
 her joy

00:35:49.560 --> 00:35:50.080
 in God

00:35:50.080 --> 00:35:50.560
 not in her

00:35:50.560 --> 00:35:51.360
 circumstances

00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:52.220
 youth finds

00:35:52.220 --> 00:35:53.060
 her protection

00:35:53.060 --> 00:35:53.680
 in God

00:35:53.680 --> 00:35:54.500
 not in her

00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:55.320
 circumstances

00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:56.300
 Ruth finds

00:35:56.300 --> 00:35:56.980
 her favor

00:35:56.980 --> 00:35:57.840
 in God

00:35:57.840 --> 00:35:58.300
 and not

00:35:58.300 --> 00:35:58.620
 in her

00:35:58.620 --> 00:35:59.240
 circumstances

00:35:59.240 --> 00:35:59.960
 or not

00:35:59.960 --> 00:36:00.600
 from another

00:36:00.600 --> 00:36:01.080
 Ruth

00:36:01.080 --> 00:36:02.020
 not at one

00:36:02.020 --> 00:36:02.860
 point in time

00:36:02.860 --> 00:36:03.740
 in this story

00:36:03.740 --> 00:36:04.340
 as we've

00:36:04.340 --> 00:36:04.980
 gone through

00:36:04.980 --> 00:36:05.880
 does she do

00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:06.780
 what is logical

00:36:06.780 --> 00:36:09.120
 not one time

00:36:09.120 --> 00:36:11.600
 she should have

00:36:11.600 --> 00:36:12.120
 stayed

00:36:12.120 --> 00:36:14.240
 she should have

00:36:14.240 --> 00:36:14.500
 got up

00:36:14.500 --> 00:36:14.920
 that morning

00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:15.300
 and thought

00:36:15.300 --> 00:36:15.960
 for herself

00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:18.120
 she should have

00:36:18.120 --> 00:36:18.580
 gone out

00:36:18.580 --> 00:36:19.140
 based off of

00:36:19.140 --> 00:36:19.760
 culture and

00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:20.080
 tradition

00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:20.840
 and tried to

00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:21.460
 go out there

00:36:21.460 --> 00:36:21.780
 where she

00:36:21.780 --> 00:36:22.120
 can set

00:36:22.120 --> 00:36:22.340
 herself

00:36:22.340 --> 00:36:22.700
 to find

00:36:22.700 --> 00:36:23.280
 a husband

00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:23.720
 but she

00:36:23.720 --> 00:36:24.720
 does none

00:36:24.720 --> 00:36:25.480
 of those

00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:26.100
 things

00:36:26.100 --> 00:36:27.040
 and instead

00:36:27.040 --> 00:36:27.700
 what she

00:36:27.700 --> 00:36:28.200
 does

00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:28.660
 is what

00:36:28.660 --> 00:36:29.560
 is godly

00:36:29.560 --> 00:36:30.040
 instead

00:36:30.040 --> 00:36:30.680
 she does

00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:31.200
 what is

00:36:31.200 --> 00:36:31.600
 right

00:36:31.600 --> 00:36:32.040
 and she

00:36:32.040 --> 00:36:32.500
 seeks

00:36:32.500 --> 00:36:33.520
 her refuge

00:36:33.520 --> 00:36:34.260
 in him

00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:34.900
 and in him

00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:35.260
 alone

00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:35.940
 that god

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:36.660
 will provide

00:36:36.660 --> 00:36:37.400
 that god

00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:38.120
 will care

00:36:38.120 --> 00:36:38.720
 that god

00:36:38.720 --> 00:36:39.700
 will lead

00:36:39.700 --> 00:36:41.260
 and it's

00:36:41.260 --> 00:36:41.580
 what god

00:36:41.580 --> 00:36:41.960
 does

00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:46.040
 and it's

00:36:46.040 --> 00:36:46.360
 not found

00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:46.580
 in her

00:36:46.580 --> 00:36:47.060
 works

00:36:47.060 --> 00:36:48.900
 you see

00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:49.160
 it's found

00:36:49.160 --> 00:36:49.380
 in her

00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:49.720
 faith

00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:52.920
 and this

00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:53.140
 is going

00:36:53.140 --> 00:36:53.480
 to affect

00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:53.860
 Naomi

00:36:53.860 --> 00:36:55.720
 we'll close

00:36:55.720 --> 00:36:55.920
 and look

00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:56.180
 at verse

00:36:56.180 --> 00:36:56.600
 18

00:36:56.600 --> 00:36:59.240
 and she

00:36:59.240 --> 00:36:59.620
 took it

00:36:59.620 --> 00:36:59.960
 up and

00:36:59.960 --> 00:37:00.340
 went into

00:37:00.340 --> 00:37:00.820
 the city

00:37:00.820 --> 00:37:02.920
 and her

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:03.500
 mother-in-law

00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:05.180
 saw what

00:37:05.180 --> 00:37:05.560
 she had

00:37:05.560 --> 00:37:06.120
 gleaned

00:37:06.120 --> 00:37:08.140
 and she

00:37:08.140 --> 00:37:08.760
 also brought

00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:09.200
 out and

00:37:09.200 --> 00:37:10.000
 gave her

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:10.520
 what food

00:37:10.520 --> 00:37:10.880
 she had

00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:11.480
 left over

00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:12.880
 after being

00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:13.520
 satisfied

00:37:13.520 --> 00:37:14.480
 so let's

00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:14.680
 kind of

00:37:14.680 --> 00:37:15.100
 pause here

00:37:15.100 --> 00:37:15.580
 for just

00:37:15.580 --> 00:37:15.960
 a second

00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:16.220
 then we'll

00:37:16.220 --> 00:37:16.720
 finish reading

00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:18.800
 so Ruth

00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:20.140
 who they're

00:37:20.140 --> 00:37:20.680
 hoping to

00:37:20.680 --> 00:37:21.560
 get just

00:37:21.560 --> 00:37:22.060
 enough to

00:37:22.060 --> 00:37:22.300
 get them

00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:22.680
 through the

00:37:22.680 --> 00:37:22.960
 day

00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:24.360
 may be

00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:24.620
 blessed

00:37:24.620 --> 00:37:25.000
 enough to

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:25.320
 get enough

00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:25.500
 to go

00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:25.720
 through the

00:37:25.720 --> 00:37:26.020
 week

00:37:26.020 --> 00:37:27.620
 Ruth

00:37:27.620 --> 00:37:28.120
 comes back

00:37:28.120 --> 00:37:28.500
 with more

00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:28.980
 than enough

00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:30.340
 Ruth

00:37:30.340 --> 00:37:30.740
 comes back

00:37:30.740 --> 00:37:30.960
 with an

00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:31.620
 abundance

00:37:31.620 --> 00:37:32.860
 Ruth

00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:33.340
 comes back

00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:33.680
 of what

00:37:33.680 --> 00:37:34.540
 she has

00:37:34.540 --> 00:37:34.940
 taken

00:37:34.940 --> 00:37:36.060
 but also

00:37:36.060 --> 00:37:36.400
 what's been

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:36.780
 given to

00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:37.000
 her

00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:38.180
 and she

00:37:38.180 --> 00:37:38.920
 comes back

00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:39.540
 with a

00:37:39.540 --> 00:37:40.100
 meal that's

00:37:40.100 --> 00:37:40.820
 been prepared

00:37:40.820 --> 00:37:42.160
 enough of what

00:37:42.160 --> 00:37:42.840
 scripture tells us

00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:43.420
 that it filled

00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:43.800
 Ruth

00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:45.420
 and enough

00:37:45.420 --> 00:37:45.940
 for Naomi

00:37:45.940 --> 00:37:47.340
 so you can

00:37:47.340 --> 00:37:47.800
 imagine

00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:48.180
 right

00:37:48.180 --> 00:37:49.560
 Naomi sees

00:37:49.560 --> 00:37:49.960
 this coming

00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:50.280
 down the

00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:50.540
 street

00:37:50.540 --> 00:37:51.980
 and this

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:52.660
 picture of

00:37:52.660 --> 00:37:53.040
 blessing

00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:53.780
 that's

00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:54.260
 approaching

00:37:54.260 --> 00:37:54.580
 her

00:37:54.580 --> 00:37:56.940
 verse 19

00:37:56.940 --> 00:37:58.500
 and her

00:37:58.500 --> 00:37:59.000
 mother-in-law

00:37:59.000 --> 00:37:59.400
 said to

00:37:59.400 --> 00:37:59.640
 her

00:37:59.640 --> 00:38:00.980
 where did

00:38:00.980 --> 00:38:01.500
 you glean

00:38:01.500 --> 00:38:01.980
 today

00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:03.460
 and where

00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:03.960
 have you

00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:04.420
 worked

00:38:04.420 --> 00:38:05.560
 blessed

00:38:05.560 --> 00:38:06.100
 be the

00:38:06.100 --> 00:38:06.580
 man

00:38:06.580 --> 00:38:07.600
 who took

00:38:07.600 --> 00:38:08.160
 notice

00:38:08.160 --> 00:38:08.640
 of you

00:38:08.640 --> 00:38:10.380
 so she

00:38:10.380 --> 00:38:11.020
 told her

00:38:11.020 --> 00:38:11.800
 mother-in-law

00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:12.780
 with whom

00:38:12.780 --> 00:38:13.180
 she had

00:38:13.180 --> 00:38:13.580
 worked

00:38:13.580 --> 00:38:14.960
 and said

00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:15.580
 the man's

00:38:15.580 --> 00:38:15.940
 name

00:38:15.940 --> 00:38:16.400
 with whom

00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:16.860
 I work

00:38:16.860 --> 00:38:17.320
 today

00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:18.280
 is

00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:19.000
 Boaz

00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:20.920
 and Naomi

00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:22.060
 said to

00:38:22.060 --> 00:38:22.260
 her

00:38:22.260 --> 00:38:23.080
 daughter-in-law

00:38:23.080 --> 00:38:24.340
 may he

00:38:24.340 --> 00:38:24.920
 be blessed

00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:25.320
 by the

00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:25.640
 Lord

00:38:25.640 --> 00:38:25.840
 whose

00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:26.360
 kindness

00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:27.260
 has not

00:38:27.260 --> 00:38:27.900
 forsaken

00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:28.880
 the living

00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.660
 or the

00:38:29.660 --> 00:38:30.040
 dead

00:38:30.040 --> 00:38:31.260
 and Naomi

00:38:31.260 --> 00:38:31.820
 said to

00:38:31.820 --> 00:38:32.080
 her

00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:32.920
 the man

00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:33.260
 is a

00:38:33.260 --> 00:38:33.620
 close

00:38:33.620 --> 00:38:34.080
 relative

00:38:34.080 --> 00:38:34.980
 of ours

00:38:34.980 --> 00:38:35.800
 one of

00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:36.240
 our

00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:37.140
 redeemers

00:38:37.140 --> 00:38:37.860
 now if

00:38:37.860 --> 00:38:38.420
 I'm Ruth

00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:38.840
 in this

00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:39.100
 moment

00:38:39.100 --> 00:38:39.420
 I'm like

00:38:39.420 --> 00:38:39.840
 oh time

00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:40.080
 out

00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:40.340
 right

00:38:40.340 --> 00:38:40.580
 let's

00:38:40.580 --> 00:38:40.700
 get

00:38:40.700 --> 00:38:40.920
 something

00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:41.380
 straight

00:38:41.380 --> 00:38:43.140
 verse

00:38:43.140 --> 00:38:43.640
 21

00:38:43.640 --> 00:38:45.280
 and Ruth

00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:45.920
 the Moabite

00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:46.260
 said

00:38:46.260 --> 00:38:46.840
 besides

00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:47.300
 he said

00:38:47.300 --> 00:38:47.720
 to me

00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:48.820
 you shall

00:38:48.820 --> 00:38:49.060
 keep

00:38:49.060 --> 00:38:49.540
 close

00:38:49.540 --> 00:38:49.920
 by my

00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:50.180
 young

00:38:50.180 --> 00:38:50.520
 men

00:38:50.520 --> 00:38:51.000
 until

00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:51.160
 they

00:38:51.160 --> 00:38:51.300
 have

00:38:51.300 --> 00:38:51.620
 finished

00:38:51.620 --> 00:38:52.020
 all

00:38:52.020 --> 00:38:52.220
 my

00:38:52.220 --> 00:38:52.680
 harvest

00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:53.900
 and Naomi

00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:54.360
 said to

00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:54.640
 Ruth

00:38:54.640 --> 00:38:55.020
 her

00:38:55.020 --> 00:38:55.900
 daughter-in-law

00:38:55.900 --> 00:38:56.880
 it is

00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:57.420
 good my

00:38:57.420 --> 00:38:57.800
 daughter

00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:58.360
 that you

00:38:58.360 --> 00:38:58.900
 go out

00:38:58.900 --> 00:38:59.320
 with his

00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.100
 young women

00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:02.140
 lest in

00:39:02.140 --> 00:39:02.900
 another field

00:39:02.900 --> 00:39:03.400
 you'll be

00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:03.940
 assaulted

00:39:03.940 --> 00:39:05.160
 so she

00:39:05.160 --> 00:39:05.420
 kept

00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:06.020
 close to

00:39:06.020 --> 00:39:06.400
 the young

00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:06.740
 women

00:39:06.740 --> 00:39:07.820
 of Boaz

00:39:07.820 --> 00:39:08.500
 gleaning

00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:09.000
 until the

00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:09.640
 end of

00:39:09.640 --> 00:39:10.160
 barley

00:39:10.160 --> 00:39:11.080
 and wheat

00:39:11.080 --> 00:39:11.580
 harvest

00:39:11.580 --> 00:39:12.360
 and she

00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:12.940
 lived

00:39:12.940 --> 00:39:13.640
 with her

00:39:13.640 --> 00:39:14.940
 mother-in-law

00:39:14.940 --> 00:39:16.100
 and so

00:39:16.100 --> 00:39:16.500
 what we

00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:17.260
 see in

00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:17.640
 this

00:39:17.640 --> 00:39:18.760
 is this

00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:19.280
 hope

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:19.500
 that

00:39:19.500 --> 00:39:19.840
 begins

00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:20.060
 to

00:39:20.060 --> 00:39:20.400
 creep

00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:20.840
 in

00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:21.720
 into

00:39:21.720 --> 00:39:21.940
 the

00:39:21.940 --> 00:39:22.380
 world

00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:22.740
 and

00:39:22.740 --> 00:39:22.940
 into

00:39:22.940 --> 00:39:23.160
 the

00:39:23.160 --> 00:39:23.600
 life

00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:24.080
 of

00:39:24.080 --> 00:39:24.520
 Naomi

00:39:24.520 --> 00:39:25.980
 and the

00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:26.440
 instrument

00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:27.060
 that God

00:39:27.060 --> 00:39:27.740
 is using

00:39:27.740 --> 00:39:29.020
 is Ruth

00:39:29.020 --> 00:39:30.860
 is Ruth

00:39:30.860 --> 00:39:32.360
 those whose

00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:33.280
 lives should be

00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:33.820
 at the bottom

00:39:33.820 --> 00:39:34.400
 as well

00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.520
 and I love

00:39:37.520 --> 00:39:38.060
 Ruth's

00:39:38.060 --> 00:39:38.740
 response

00:39:38.740 --> 00:39:41.280
 Ruth

00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:41.700
 doesn't

00:39:41.700 --> 00:39:43.120
 walk into

00:39:43.120 --> 00:39:43.640
 the house

00:39:43.640 --> 00:39:45.240
 and say

00:39:45.240 --> 00:39:45.620
 get over

00:39:45.620 --> 00:39:46.080
 yourself

00:39:46.080 --> 00:39:48.420
 Ruth

00:39:48.420 --> 00:39:48.680
 doesn't

00:39:48.680 --> 00:39:49.160
 walk into

00:39:49.160 --> 00:39:49.720
 the house

00:39:49.720 --> 00:39:50.900
 and say

00:39:50.900 --> 00:39:51.340
 what's wrong

00:39:51.340 --> 00:39:51.720
 with you

00:39:51.720 --> 00:39:53.940
 even when

00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:54.460
 Naomi

00:39:54.460 --> 00:39:55.540
 confesses

00:39:55.540 --> 00:39:56.280
 oh yeah

00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:56.740
 that's

00:39:56.740 --> 00:39:57.340
 Boaz

00:39:57.340 --> 00:39:57.760
 right

00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:58.420
 I know

00:39:58.420 --> 00:39:59.000
 I told

00:39:59.000 --> 00:39:59.180
 you

00:39:59.180 --> 00:39:59.500
 there's

00:39:59.500 --> 00:40:00.180
 no one

00:40:00.180 --> 00:40:00.900
 but yep

00:40:00.900 --> 00:40:01.340
 today

00:40:01.340 --> 00:40:02.100
 guess what

00:40:02.100 --> 00:40:02.640
 there is

00:40:02.640 --> 00:40:03.080
 someone

00:40:03.080 --> 00:40:03.640
 he's

00:40:03.640 --> 00:40:04.160
 Boaz

00:40:04.160 --> 00:40:04.580
 he's

00:40:04.580 --> 00:40:05.080
 godly

00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:05.520
 he's

00:40:05.520 --> 00:40:05.900
 wealthy

00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:06.640
 go hang

00:40:06.640 --> 00:40:06.860
 out

00:40:06.860 --> 00:40:07.100
 there

00:40:07.100 --> 00:40:07.460
 right

00:40:07.460 --> 00:40:09.840
 never

00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:10.200
 at one

00:40:10.200 --> 00:40:10.480
 point

00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:11.060
 in time

00:40:11.060 --> 00:40:13.280
 is the

00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:13.480
 heart

00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:14.040
 of Ruth

00:40:14.040 --> 00:40:15.360
 filled

00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:15.780
 with the

00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:16.120
 bitterness

00:40:16.120 --> 00:40:17.500
 to come

00:40:17.500 --> 00:40:17.940
 back

00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:19.760
 and instead

00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:21.080
 there was

00:40:21.080 --> 00:40:21.640
 the hope

00:40:21.640 --> 00:40:22.520
 and the

00:40:22.520 --> 00:40:22.800
 joy

00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:24.480
 and look

00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:24.940
 at the

00:40:24.940 --> 00:40:25.860
 contagiousness

00:40:25.860 --> 00:40:26.540
 of the

00:40:26.540 --> 00:40:26.860
 faith

00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:28.020
 look back

00:40:28.020 --> 00:40:28.340
 at verse

00:40:28.340 --> 00:40:28.640
 20

00:40:28.640 --> 00:40:29.080
 Naomi's

00:40:29.080 --> 00:40:29.540
 response

00:40:29.540 --> 00:40:32.440
 may he

00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:32.900
 be blessed

00:40:32.900 --> 00:40:33.220
 by the

00:40:33.220 --> 00:40:33.440
 Lord

00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:35.720
 and then

00:40:35.720 --> 00:40:36.060
 this is

00:40:36.060 --> 00:40:36.300
 big

00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:38.940
 whose

00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:39.440
 kindness

00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:41.320
 has not

00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:41.940
 forsaken

00:40:41.940 --> 00:40:43.000
 the

00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:43.340
 living

00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:44.220
 or the

00:40:44.220 --> 00:40:44.500
 dead

00:40:44.500 --> 00:40:46.600
 pause

00:40:46.600 --> 00:40:46.960
 here for

00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:47.340
 just a

00:40:47.340 --> 00:40:47.600
 second

00:40:47.600 --> 00:40:49.360
 just in

00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:49.540
 that

00:40:49.540 --> 00:40:49.980
 moment

00:40:49.980 --> 00:40:52.320
 Naomi's

00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:52.660
 saying

00:40:52.660 --> 00:40:54.300
 through

00:40:54.300 --> 00:40:54.500
 the

00:40:54.500 --> 00:40:54.880
 famine

00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:56.640
 and

00:40:56.640 --> 00:40:56.800
 through

00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:56.980
 the

00:40:56.980 --> 00:40:57.240
 death

00:40:57.240 --> 00:40:57.480
 of her

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:57.880
 husband

00:40:57.880 --> 00:40:59.460
 and

00:40:59.460 --> 00:40:59.620
 the

00:40:59.620 --> 00:40:59.820
 death

00:40:59.820 --> 00:41:00.100
 of her

00:41:00.100 --> 00:41:00.520
 sons

00:41:00.520 --> 00:41:02.200
 not

00:41:02.200 --> 00:41:02.620
 only

00:41:02.620 --> 00:41:02.820
 has

00:41:02.820 --> 00:41:03.020
 the

00:41:03.020 --> 00:41:03.260
 Lord

00:41:03.260 --> 00:41:03.480
 been

00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:03.700
 good

00:41:03.700 --> 00:41:03.860
 to

00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:04.120
 Ruth

00:41:04.120 --> 00:41:05.600
 not

00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:05.960
 only

00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:06.160
 has

00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:06.360
 the

00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:06.600
 Lord

00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:06.800
 been

00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:06.980
 good

00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:07.180
 to

00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:07.560
 Naomi

00:41:07.560 --> 00:41:09.120
 but

00:41:09.120 --> 00:41:09.300
 the

00:41:09.300 --> 00:41:09.560
 Lord's

00:41:09.560 --> 00:41:09.680
 been

00:41:09.680 --> 00:41:09.880
 good

00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:10.060
 to

00:41:10.060 --> 00:41:10.200
 them

00:41:10.200 --> 00:41:10.540
 all

00:41:10.540 --> 00:41:11.620
 because

00:41:11.620 --> 00:41:11.860
 it's

00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:11.960
 who

00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:12.100
 he

00:41:12.100 --> 00:41:12.400
 is

00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:14.800
 this

00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:15.160
 man

00:41:15.160 --> 00:41:15.480
 is a

00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:15.820
 close

00:41:15.820 --> 00:41:16.340
 relative

00:41:16.340 --> 00:41:16.560
 of

00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:16.960
 ours

00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:18.600
 one

00:41:18.600 --> 00:41:19.320
 of

00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:19.780
 our

00:41:19.780 --> 00:41:20.980
 redeemers

00:41:20.980 --> 00:41:22.540
 the

00:41:22.540 --> 00:41:23.000
 180

00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:23.360
 done

00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:23.740
 here

00:41:23.740 --> 00:41:24.640
 by

00:41:24.640 --> 00:41:25.120
 Naomi

00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:26.160
 the

00:41:26.160 --> 00:41:26.640
 reminder

00:41:26.640 --> 00:41:26.940
 of

00:41:26.940 --> 00:41:27.320
 hope

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:28.480
 is

00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:28.700
 what

00:41:28.700 --> 00:41:28.900
 Ruth

00:41:28.900 --> 00:41:29.160
 gives

00:41:29.160 --> 00:41:29.360
 her

00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:31.160
 you know

00:41:31.160 --> 00:41:31.280
 they're

00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:31.500
 on the

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:31.720
 same

00:41:31.720 --> 00:41:32.180
 journey

00:41:32.180 --> 00:41:34.080
 they're

00:41:34.080 --> 00:41:34.260
 on the

00:41:34.260 --> 00:41:34.460
 same

00:41:34.460 --> 00:41:34.940
 process

00:41:34.940 --> 00:41:35.160
 of

00:41:35.160 --> 00:41:35.560
 life

00:41:35.560 --> 00:41:36.940
 and

00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:37.140
 Ruth

00:41:37.140 --> 00:41:37.440
 doesn't

00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:37.760
 come to

00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:37.880
 her

00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:38.120
 with a

00:41:38.120 --> 00:41:38.320
 quick

00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:38.780
 fix

00:41:38.780 --> 00:41:40.560
 with a

00:41:40.560 --> 00:41:40.800
 lesson

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:41.060
 to be

00:41:41.060 --> 00:41:41.480
 learned

00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:42.780
 or a

00:41:42.780 --> 00:41:43.280
 five step

00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:43.780
 process

00:41:43.780 --> 00:41:44.100
 of how

00:41:44.100 --> 00:41:44.360
 to get

00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:44.620
 better

00:41:44.620 --> 00:41:46.960
 she

00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:47.260
 loves

00:41:47.260 --> 00:41:47.460
 her

00:41:47.460 --> 00:41:49.300
 she

00:41:49.300 --> 00:41:49.640
 cares

00:41:49.640 --> 00:41:49.920
 for

00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:50.280
 her

00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:51.840
 she

00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:52.180
 doesn't

00:41:52.180 --> 00:41:52.560
 abandon

00:41:52.560 --> 00:41:52.940
 her

00:41:52.940 --> 00:41:54.820
 and

00:41:54.820 --> 00:41:54.980
 she

00:41:54.980 --> 00:41:55.580
 reminds

00:41:55.580 --> 00:41:55.880
 her

00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:56.820
 of

00:41:56.820 --> 00:41:57.000
 the

00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:57.500
 faithfulness

00:41:57.500 --> 00:41:57.620
 of

00:41:57.620 --> 00:41:57.860
 God

00:41:57.860 --> 00:42:00.200
 I don't

00:42:00.200 --> 00:42:00.280
 know

00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:00.480
 maybe

00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:00.820
 you feel

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:01.000
 like

00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:01.160
 you're

00:42:01.160 --> 00:42:01.460
 Naomi

00:42:01.460 --> 00:42:01.740
 right

00:42:01.740 --> 00:42:02.020
 now

00:42:02.020 --> 00:42:06.000
 maybe

00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:06.940
 right

00:42:06.940 --> 00:42:07.200
 now

00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:07.560
 you're

00:42:07.560 --> 00:42:08.220
 married

00:42:08.220 --> 00:42:09.160
 to

00:42:09.160 --> 00:42:09.600
 someone

00:42:09.600 --> 00:42:10.220
 who

00:42:10.220 --> 00:42:10.480
 feels

00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:11.060
 like

00:42:11.060 --> 00:42:11.540
 Naomi

00:42:11.540 --> 00:42:14.340
 you say

00:42:14.340 --> 00:42:14.460
 I've

00:42:14.460 --> 00:42:14.620
 done

00:42:14.620 --> 00:42:14.720
 it

00:42:14.720 --> 00:42:15.000
 all

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.200
 what

00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:17.460
 more

00:42:17.460 --> 00:42:17.620
 is

00:42:17.620 --> 00:42:17.760
 there

00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:17.900
 to

00:42:17.900 --> 00:42:18.200
 do

00:42:18.200 --> 00:42:22.240
 be

00:42:22.240 --> 00:42:22.560
 Ruth

00:42:22.560 --> 00:42:24.700
 be

00:42:24.700 --> 00:42:24.980
 Ruth

00:42:24.980 --> 00:42:26.960
 go

00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:27.120
 through

00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:27.220
 it

00:42:27.220 --> 00:42:27.340
 with

00:42:27.340 --> 00:42:27.520
 them

00:42:27.520 --> 00:42:29.440
 and

00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:29.740
 remind

00:42:29.740 --> 00:42:29.860
 them

00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:29.960
 of

00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:30.080
 the

00:42:30.080 --> 00:42:30.360
 hope

00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:31.600
 and

00:42:31.600 --> 00:42:31.720
 the

00:42:31.720 --> 00:42:32.340
 faithfulness

00:42:32.340 --> 00:42:33.340
 of

00:42:33.340 --> 00:42:33.440
 the

00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:33.700
 Lord

00:42:33.700 --> 00:42:34.980
 would

00:42:34.980 --> 00:42:35.040
 you

00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:35.140
 pray

00:42:35.140 --> 00:42:35.280
 with

00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:35.400
 me

00:42:44.340 --> 00:42:49.240
 Lord

00:42:49.240 --> 00:42:49.340
 I

00:42:49.340 --> 00:42:49.460
 come

00:42:49.460 --> 00:42:49.540
 to

00:42:49.540 --> 00:42:49.600
 you

00:42:49.600 --> 00:42:49.780
 this

00:42:49.780 --> 00:42:50.080
 morning

00:42:50.080 --> 00:42:53.180
 and

00:42:53.180 --> 00:42:53.280
 I

00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:53.440
 thank

00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:53.540
 you

00:42:53.540 --> 00:42:53.640
 for

00:42:53.640 --> 00:42:53.780
 the

00:42:53.780 --> 00:42:54.040
 beauty

00:42:54.040 --> 00:42:54.200
 of

00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:54.380
 this

00:42:54.380 --> 00:42:54.780
 story

00:42:54.780 --> 00:42:58.460
 story

00:42:58.460 --> 00:42:58.680
 that

00:42:58.680 --> 00:42:58.840
 was

00:42:58.840 --> 00:42:59.120
 not

00:42:59.120 --> 00:42:59.820
 created

00:42:59.820 --> 00:43:00.560
 by

00:43:00.560 --> 00:43:01.080
 man

00:43:01.080 --> 00:43:03.240
 for

00:43:03.240 --> 00:43:03.620
 literature

00:43:03.620 --> 00:43:04.160
 sake

00:43:04.160 --> 00:43:06.560
 but a

00:43:06.560 --> 00:43:06.860
 story

00:43:06.860 --> 00:43:07.320
 of real

00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:07.760
 people

00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:09.440
 who

00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:09.860
 walked

00:43:09.860 --> 00:43:10.200
 on this

00:43:10.200 --> 00:43:10.580
 earth

00:43:10.580 --> 00:43:12.360
 and

00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:12.500
 who

00:43:12.500 --> 00:43:12.840
 went

00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:13.280
 through

00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:14.760
 the

00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:15.320
 battles

00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:16.620
 that

00:43:16.620 --> 00:43:17.020
 so

00:43:17.020 --> 00:43:17.360
 many

00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:17.620
 of

00:43:17.620 --> 00:43:18.000
 us

00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:19.520
 if

00:43:19.520 --> 00:43:19.720
 not

00:43:19.720 --> 00:43:19.940
 all

00:43:19.940 --> 00:43:20.060
 of

00:43:20.060 --> 00:43:20.180
 us

00:43:20.180 --> 00:43:20.320
 will

00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:20.700
 face

00:43:20.700 --> 00:43:23.880
 Lord

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:23.980
 I

00:43:23.980 --> 00:43:24.220
 lift

00:43:24.220 --> 00:43:24.340
 up

00:43:24.340 --> 00:43:24.480
 the

00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:24.740
 people

00:43:24.740 --> 00:43:24.920
 in

00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:25.100
 this

00:43:25.100 --> 00:43:25.400
 room

00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:27.160
 who

00:43:27.160 --> 00:43:27.280
 are

00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:27.360
 in

00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:27.520
 a

00:43:27.520 --> 00:43:27.820
 season

00:43:27.820 --> 00:43:28.040
 of

00:43:28.040 --> 00:43:28.440
 life

00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:30.040
 that

00:43:30.040 --> 00:43:30.180
 can

00:43:30.180 --> 00:43:30.620
 identify

00:43:30.620 --> 00:43:30.920
 with

00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:31.300
 Naomi

00:43:31.300 --> 00:43:33.480
 they

00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:33.720
 know

00:43:33.720 --> 00:43:34.160
 all

00:43:34.160 --> 00:43:34.380
 the

00:43:34.380 --> 00:43:34.740
 truth

00:43:34.740 --> 00:43:34.920
 of

00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:35.060
 your

00:43:35.060 --> 00:43:35.460
 word

00:43:35.460 --> 00:43:38.760
 they

00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:38.980
 know

00:43:38.980 --> 00:43:39.180
 your

00:43:39.180 --> 00:43:39.620
 power

00:43:39.620 --> 00:43:41.520
 they

00:43:41.520 --> 00:43:41.700
 know

00:43:41.700 --> 00:43:41.900
 your

00:43:41.900 --> 00:43:42.620
 faithfulness

00:43:42.620 --> 00:43:44.280
 they

00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:44.480
 know

00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:44.680
 your

00:43:44.680 --> 00:43:45.240
 promises

00:43:45.240 --> 00:43:47.460
 but

00:43:47.460 --> 00:43:47.660
 yet

00:43:47.660 --> 00:43:47.880
 Lord

00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:48.040
 they

00:43:48.040 --> 00:43:48.300
 find

00:43:48.300 --> 00:43:48.740
 themselves

00:43:48.740 --> 00:43:49.100
 living

00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:49.260
 in

00:43:49.260 --> 00:43:49.420
 a

00:43:49.420 --> 00:43:49.780
 darkness

00:43:49.780 --> 00:43:50.000
 of

00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:50.460
 depression

00:43:50.460 --> 00:43:52.340
 but

00:43:52.340 --> 00:43:52.480
 they

00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:52.640
 feel

00:43:52.640 --> 00:43:52.760
 like

00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:52.860
 they

00:43:52.860 --> 00:43:53.120
 can't

00:43:53.120 --> 00:43:53.420
 escape

00:43:53.420 --> 00:43:58.580
 Lord

00:43:58.580 --> 00:44:00.160
 we

00:44:00.160 --> 00:44:00.520
 know

00:44:00.520 --> 00:44:02.200
 that

00:44:02.200 --> 00:44:02.340
 you

00:44:02.340 --> 00:44:02.620
 haven't

00:44:02.620 --> 00:44:02.860
 left

00:44:02.860 --> 00:44:03.060
 them

00:44:03.060 --> 00:44:06.560
 Lord

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:07.760
 remind

00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:08.020
 them

00:44:08.020 --> 00:44:09.720
 even

00:44:09.720 --> 00:44:10.140
 in the

00:44:10.140 --> 00:44:10.480
 midst

00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:11.820
 of the

00:44:11.820 --> 00:44:12.380
 difficulty

00:44:12.380 --> 00:44:12.640
 of

00:44:12.640 --> 00:44:13.060
 yesterday

00:44:13.060 --> 00:44:13.540
 today

00:44:13.540 --> 00:44:13.880
 and

00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:14.040
 what

00:44:14.040 --> 00:44:14.380
 tomorrow

00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:14.620
 may

00:44:14.620 --> 00:44:15.120
 hold

00:44:15.120 --> 00:44:17.600
 you

00:44:17.600 --> 00:44:17.840
 are

00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:18.520
 in

00:44:18.520 --> 00:44:19.000
 control

00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:20.560
 and

00:44:20.560 --> 00:44:20.680
 that

00:44:20.680 --> 00:44:20.800
 you

00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:20.960
 have

00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:21.060
 a

00:44:21.060 --> 00:44:21.420
 plan

00:44:21.420 --> 00:44:25.400
 what

00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:25.560
 I

00:44:25.560 --> 00:44:26.160
 pray

00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:26.320
 for

00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:26.460
 the

00:44:26.460 --> 00:44:26.680
 rest

00:44:26.680 --> 00:44:26.820
 of

00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:27.020
 us

00:44:27.020 --> 00:44:27.160
 in

00:44:27.160 --> 00:44:27.380
 here

00:44:27.380 --> 00:44:29.960
 people

00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:30.200
 who

00:44:30.200 --> 00:44:30.660
 by our

00:44:30.660 --> 00:44:30.960
 word

00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:31.240
 say

00:44:31.240 --> 00:44:31.400
 that

00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:31.520
 we

00:44:31.520 --> 00:44:31.640
 are

00:44:31.640 --> 00:44:31.880
 men

00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:32.040
 and

00:44:32.040 --> 00:44:32.200
 women

00:44:32.200 --> 00:44:32.380
 of

00:44:32.380 --> 00:44:32.660
 faith

00:44:32.660 --> 00:44:35.340
 Lord

00:44:35.340 --> 00:44:35.440
 could

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:35.600
 we

00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:35.880
 look

00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:36.060
 at

00:44:36.060 --> 00:44:36.220
 the

00:44:36.220 --> 00:44:36.540
 faith

00:44:36.540 --> 00:44:36.760
 of

00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:37.020
 Ruth

00:44:37.020 --> 00:44:40.940
 and

00:44:40.940 --> 00:44:41.160
 be

00:44:41.160 --> 00:44:41.400
 that

00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:41.560
 bit

00:44:41.560 --> 00:44:41.680
 of

00:44:41.680 --> 00:44:42.260
 encouragement

00:44:42.260 --> 00:44:43.620
 that

00:44:43.620 --> 00:44:44.200
 reminder

00:44:44.200 --> 00:44:46.120
 that

00:44:46.120 --> 00:44:46.620
 example

00:44:46.620 --> 00:44:46.800
 of

00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:46.940
 your

00:44:46.940 --> 00:44:47.380
 goodness

00:44:47.380 --> 00:44:48.620
 and

00:44:48.620 --> 00:44:48.800
 your

00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:49.240
 kindness

00:44:49.240 --> 00:44:50.680
 and

00:44:50.680 --> 00:44:51.040
 mercy

00:44:51.040 --> 00:44:56.420
 Lord

00:44:56.420 --> 00:44:56.500
 I

00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:56.760
 thank you

00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:56.880
 for

00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:57.020
 the

00:44:57.020 --> 00:44:57.280
 peace

00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:57.420
 of

00:44:57.420 --> 00:44:57.560
 what

00:44:57.560 --> 00:44:57.720
 we

00:44:57.720 --> 00:44:57.980
 see

00:44:57.980 --> 00:44:58.200
 in

00:44:58.200 --> 00:44:58.560
 this

00:44:58.560 --> 00:45:01.120
 in

00:45:01.120 --> 00:45:01.240
 the

00:45:01.240 --> 00:45:01.560
 reminder

00:45:01.560 --> 00:45:01.720
 of

00:45:01.720 --> 00:45:01.840
 the

00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:02.240
 gospel

00:45:02.240 --> 00:45:05.580
 Lord

00:45:05.580 --> 00:45:05.760
 that

00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:06.160
 Ruth

00:45:06.160 --> 00:45:07.620
 found

00:45:07.620 --> 00:45:07.840
 her

00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:08.280
 favor

00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:11.000
 in

00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:11.300
 you

00:45:11.300 --> 00:45:14.040
 not

00:45:14.040 --> 00:45:14.560
 because

00:45:14.560 --> 00:45:14.860
 of

00:45:14.860 --> 00:45:15.980
 a

00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:16.320
 commitment

00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:16.620
 that

00:45:16.620 --> 00:45:16.780
 she

00:45:16.780 --> 00:45:17.160
 made

00:45:17.160 --> 00:45:19.480
 not

00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:19.760
 because

00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:19.940
 of

00:45:19.940 --> 00:45:20.080
 a

00:45:20.080 --> 00:45:20.560
 sacrifice

00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:20.940
 that

00:45:20.940 --> 00:45:21.140
 she

00:45:21.140 --> 00:45:21.520
 made

00:45:21.520 --> 00:45:24.280
 but

00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:24.600
 because

00:45:24.600 --> 00:45:24.820
 Lord

00:45:24.820 --> 00:45:25.020
 she

00:45:25.020 --> 00:45:25.300
 found

00:45:25.300 --> 00:45:25.520
 her

00:45:25.520 --> 00:45:26.040
 refuge

00:45:26.040 --> 00:45:27.740
 under

00:45:27.740 --> 00:45:27.980
 your

00:45:27.980 --> 00:45:28.380
 wings

00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:32.840
 Lord

00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:32.980
 I

00:45:32.980 --> 00:45:33.160
 pray

00:45:33.160 --> 00:45:33.400
 this

00:45:33.400 --> 00:45:33.740
 morning

00:45:33.740 --> 00:45:35.320
 for

00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:35.540
 whatever

00:45:35.540 --> 00:45:35.980
 battles

00:45:35.980 --> 00:45:36.180
 we

00:45:36.180 --> 00:45:36.380
 may

00:45:36.380 --> 00:45:36.860
 face

00:45:36.860 --> 00:45:38.420
 we

00:45:38.420 --> 00:45:38.740
 cling

00:45:38.740 --> 00:45:38.940
 to

00:45:38.940 --> 00:45:39.260
 you

00:45:39.260 --> 00:45:40.660
 and

00:45:40.660 --> 00:45:40.800
 you

00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:41.160
 alone

00:45:41.160 --> 00:45:42.780
 Jesus

00:45:42.780 --> 00:45:43.400
 Christ

00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:44.800
 as

00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:44.960
 our

00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:45.220
 Savior

00:45:45.220 --> 00:45:58.720
 thanks

00:45:58.720 --> 00:46:01.280
 again for

00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:01.840
 listening to

00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:01.980
 the

00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:02.400
 Willow Ridge

00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:02.760
 Church

00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:03.120
 weekly

00:46:03.120 --> 00:46:03.540
 podcast

00:46:03.540 --> 00:46:04.480
 we hope

00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:04.720
 that you

00:46:04.720 --> 00:46:05.060
 enjoyed

00:46:05.060 --> 00:46:05.560
 listening to

00:46:05.560 --> 00:46:06.020
 this week's

00:46:06.020 --> 00:46:06.360
 message

00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:07.260
 if you'd

00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:07.540
 like to

00:46:07.540 --> 00:46:07.920
 learn more

00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:08.360
 about who

00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:08.760
 we are

00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:09.420
 or explore

00:46:09.420 --> 00:46:09.840
 additional

00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:10.380
 resources

00:46:10.380 --> 00:46:11.380
 visit us

00:46:11.380 --> 00:46:12.160
 online at

00:46:12.160 --> 00:46:15.420
 www.willowridgechurch.com

00:46:15.420 --> 00:46:16.620
 or by searching

00:46:16.620 --> 00:46:17.300
 for Willow Ridge

00:46:17.300 --> 00:46:17.900
 Church on

00:46:17.900 --> 00:46:18.600
 Facebook and

00:46:18.600 --> 00:46:18.980
 Instagram

00:46:18.980 --> 00:46:20.280
 you