1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:03,300 He just loves you. 2 00:00:03,300 --> 00:00:04,100 He just loves you. 3 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:07,100 He just loves you. 4 00:00:07,466 --> 00:00:10,466 Just because he does. 5 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:12,933 That is the grace of God. 6 00:00:12,933 --> 00:00:15,833 And that's what we see over and over and over. 7 00:00:15,833 --> 00:00:18,233 In the book of Ruth, we're going 8 00:00:18,233 --> 00:00:21,233 to wrap up the book of Ruth today in chapter four. 9 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,266 But before we do, I do as your pastor, 10 00:00:27,766 --> 00:00:30,000 feel the need to at least 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,800 make comment on the tragedy that happened in Minneapolis 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,800 this last week. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,133 And always around situations like this. 14 00:00:43,133 --> 00:00:45,566 There are those who say 15 00:00:45,566 --> 00:00:48,700 we need to pray for the families and those involved, and those who say, 16 00:00:49,666 --> 00:00:52,233 God do more than pray. 17 00:00:52,233 --> 00:00:55,233 Let me just say this. 18 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,400 We don't do anything until we pray. 19 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:01,700 And at the end of the day, 20 00:01:01,766 --> 00:01:03,700 what happened in Minneapolis 21 00:01:05,066 --> 00:01:07,833 and the things like that that happen 22 00:01:07,833 --> 00:01:10,833 far too often in this country. 23 00:01:12,166 --> 00:01:13,900 Are at the heart of it. 24 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:17,000 A result of the manifestation of evil 25 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,866 through an individual's life perpetrated against other innocent people. 26 00:01:22,533 --> 00:01:25,233 That's the heart of it. 27 00:01:25,233 --> 00:01:28,666 And when our country in our culture celebrates, 28 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,133 and promotes the denial of truth, 29 00:01:33,633 --> 00:01:36,333 so much so an individual doesn't 30 00:01:36,333 --> 00:01:39,333 know who or what they are anymore, 31 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:42,800 the natural degradation of that is going to be 32 00:01:43,033 --> 00:01:46,033 the denial of the sanctity of human life. 33 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:49,500 It's not an NRA issue. 34 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:52,500 It's an evil issue. 35 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,566 And, well, though there are those 36 00:01:54,566 --> 00:01:59,066 in our government and politic that want to make it simply 37 00:01:59,066 --> 00:02:03,366 a governmental issue, you and I prayerfully are aware 38 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:09,033 it's the manifestation of the evil one who seeks only to steal, kill and destroy, 39 00:02:10,766 --> 00:02:11,100 and the 40 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:14,433 degradation and evil and demonic nature of a heart 41 00:02:14,433 --> 00:02:17,433 that would turn weapons against children. 42 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:24,900 To say needs to be redeemed is. 43 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,700 That's where we are. 44 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:31,766 And so 45 00:02:31,766 --> 00:02:34,766 while some in our politic choose not to pray, 46 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:38,000 we do. 47 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,200 Father, 48 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:41,733 we live in a broken world. 49 00:02:41,733 --> 00:02:44,400 This is not surprising to you. 50 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,400 Sometimes we're shocked by it. 51 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:50,500 And we live in a world that, 52 00:02:51,033 --> 00:02:54,033 is broken 53 00:02:55,066 --> 00:02:57,966 and a world full of evil. 54 00:02:57,966 --> 00:03:00,966 No world and a country and a people, 55 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:05,100 that have denied your lordship. 56 00:03:10,333 --> 00:03:13,133 And as we as we consider 57 00:03:13,133 --> 00:03:16,766 and we hear things that that happen, like what happened in Minneapolis. 58 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,800 God, our heart breaks. 59 00:03:19,966 --> 00:03:22,966 For those dear, precious children. 60 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:27,900 And along with their families. 61 00:03:28,333 --> 00:03:31,333 And, father, there are some 62 00:03:31,533 --> 00:03:35,166 in our politic who would deride us 63 00:03:35,166 --> 00:03:38,466 for going before the throne in prayer. 64 00:03:38,466 --> 00:03:40,266 But that is exactly what we do. 65 00:03:41,966 --> 00:03:42,633 I look forward 66 00:03:42,633 --> 00:03:45,633 to the day when you will eradicate evil. 67 00:03:46,433 --> 00:03:48,533 That though the devil is a defeated foe, 68 00:03:48,533 --> 00:03:51,533 he still has play in this world. And. 69 00:03:51,633 --> 00:03:54,066 And when we see it in gruesome detail 70 00:03:54,066 --> 00:03:57,066 that God it it's horrifying. 71 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:00,700 But I thank you that you've won the victory. 72 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:03,133 And we implore you 73 00:04:03,133 --> 00:04:06,133 by the strong name of Jesus, 74 00:04:06,233 --> 00:04:09,433 that you comfort the hurting, 75 00:04:10,666 --> 00:04:14,033 that you bring justice to this world. 76 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:19,100 And that hearts that are far from you 77 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:22,900 would be turned to you. 78 00:04:22,966 --> 00:04:25,766 God, at the end of the day. 79 00:04:25,766 --> 00:04:28,733 It's our responsibility 80 00:04:28,733 --> 00:04:31,733 to be your ambassadors in a very broken 81 00:04:32,233 --> 00:04:34,966 world. 82 00:04:34,966 --> 00:04:37,066 Where people who deny the truth 83 00:04:37,066 --> 00:04:40,666 of who they are, so much so that they deny the sanctity of human life. 84 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:41,833 God, it's our job. 85 00:04:43,966 --> 00:04:46,966 To reach them, to love them. 86 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:50,100 To show them. 87 00:04:50,933 --> 00:04:53,933 Who you are. 88 00:04:54,433 --> 00:04:56,966 And so, father, I pray that, 89 00:04:56,966 --> 00:04:59,466 in times like this, you would embolden us 90 00:04:59,466 --> 00:05:02,833 to be bold with faith and to be bold with you 91 00:05:04,166 --> 00:05:05,533 and the truth of your word. 92 00:05:05,533 --> 00:05:08,300 It's the only thing that will save humanity. 93 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:11,300 It's the only thing. 94 00:05:11,666 --> 00:05:13,533 And so do that. 95 00:05:13,533 --> 00:05:14,200 And your name, I pray. 96 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,200 Amen. 97 00:05:17,666 --> 00:05:19,966 So chapter four, as we wrap up the book of Ruth. 98 00:05:19,966 --> 00:05:22,966 Yeah, I need to address. 99 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,366 I need to address, a little bit 100 00:05:26,366 --> 00:05:29,366 from chapter three that I didn't get to. 101 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:32,366 And so the book of Ruth is 102 00:05:32,366 --> 00:05:35,366 the grand story of God's providence, 103 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,800 where God works in the natural world supernaturally 104 00:05:42,266 --> 00:05:44,966 to bring about his good. 105 00:05:44,966 --> 00:05:47,133 That's providence. 106 00:05:47,133 --> 00:05:48,500 And the book of Ruth is all about that. 107 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:51,966 It's also a love story between God and his people. 108 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,533 It's also the love story between a man and a woman. 109 00:05:55,533 --> 00:05:58,500 It's a beautiful story, beautiful account. 110 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,533 But, but let me say this about this love story idea 111 00:06:01,533 --> 00:06:03,600 for any of you single people, listen, 112 00:06:04,966 --> 00:06:06,400 just because you may feel 113 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,400 the rush of romance, don't rush into a relationship, 114 00:06:10,166 --> 00:06:11,300 okay? 115 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:14,033 So in the book of Ruth, you've got these people that are feeling 116 00:06:14,033 --> 00:06:17,033 the rush of romance, but they they did it right. 117 00:06:17,333 --> 00:06:19,800 They abided by God's plan and timing. 118 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,600 They let God's providence work stuff out. 119 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,666 There was no rush, there was no hurry. 120 00:06:23,666 --> 00:06:26,666 And God worked that out, which God always does. 121 00:06:28,266 --> 00:06:30,100 But there's a point in chapter three. 122 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:31,500 There's two verses in chapter three 123 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:34,500 that I want to draw attention to before we get into chapter four. 124 00:06:35,633 --> 00:06:38,733 This is this is after, Ruth has kind of 125 00:06:38,733 --> 00:06:43,500 made her desire known to Boaz, the one that she would really like to marry. 126 00:06:43,766 --> 00:06:47,233 And Boaz reciprocates the feeling. 127 00:06:47,533 --> 00:06:53,133 And in the end of chapter, chapter three, Boaz this this land owner, 128 00:06:53,133 --> 00:06:59,333 this farmer says to Ruth, this the young widowed young lady 129 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:03,600 that he has, he has intentions to marry her. 130 00:07:04,033 --> 00:07:07,733 And as a sign of that, the Bible says he gives her this. 131 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,700 These measures of barley to take to her mother in law. 132 00:07:12,566 --> 00:07:17,400 And so in verses 15 and 18 of chapter three, 133 00:07:18,933 --> 00:07:21,933 verse 15 says, 134 00:07:22,533 --> 00:07:24,966 bring the garment you were wearing to hold it out. 135 00:07:24,966 --> 00:07:30,166 So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley and put it on her. 136 00:07:30,466 --> 00:07:34,166 So that was the I was the gift he was giving her before she went back home. 137 00:07:34,166 --> 00:07:36,300 In verse 18. 138 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:38,100 This is Naomi, her mother, on 139 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:41,100 speaking to Ruth when she saw this, 140 00:07:41,733 --> 00:07:45,100 this bundle of barley that she had been given. 141 00:07:46,133 --> 00:07:49,200 Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out. 142 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,633 For the man will not rest. 143 00:07:51,633 --> 00:07:53,466 But we'll settle the matter today. 144 00:07:53,466 --> 00:07:54,600 Here's what I want us to understand. 145 00:07:57,766 --> 00:07:59,866 This whole story, 146 00:07:59,866 --> 00:08:03,266 all the Bible and Ruth included in 147 00:08:03,266 --> 00:08:06,266 that, is a story about Jesus. 148 00:08:07,433 --> 00:08:10,700 And it's a story about God's love for us and God's 149 00:08:11,033 --> 00:08:14,433 entering into our story to redeem 150 00:08:14,433 --> 00:08:18,000 us, to buy us back from sin. 151 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,400 It's all about Jesus. 152 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,966 And so whenever there's a difficult passage, this is Bible Interpretation 101. 153 00:08:25,066 --> 00:08:28,800 Whenever there's a weird passage in the Bible because it's all about Jesus, 154 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,800 you put Jesus in the middle of it and, 155 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:34,600 kind of sorted its way out there. 156 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,333 And so 157 00:08:36,333 --> 00:08:39,366 Boaz gives the Bible, says boys, gives Ruth six 158 00:08:39,366 --> 00:08:42,366 measures of barley. 159 00:08:43,266 --> 00:08:45,933 Here's what you we got to understand. 160 00:08:45,933 --> 00:08:46,500 Couple things. 161 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:50,733 One, that word measure is not in the original Hebrew text. 162 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,600 It just says Boaz gave Ruth six balis. 163 00:08:56,533 --> 00:09:01,366 We they added the idea of measure or ethos in some translations 164 00:09:01,633 --> 00:09:05,400 to give us an idea that, a of a weight to it. 165 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,600 But but here's what God if, if if Boaz gave Ruth six 166 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,933 if either you know of barley, it's too much for her to carry. 167 00:09:15,966 --> 00:09:16,800 Like she would have 168 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,566 to have a big old cow with her to haul all this barley back. 169 00:09:20,566 --> 00:09:21,866 And so and so. 170 00:09:21,866 --> 00:09:26,300 There's no way that this gal could have carried all this back by herself. 171 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:33,333 And so what the text says is Boaz gave Ruth 172 00:09:33,333 --> 00:09:38,933 six barley y6 could have given her, five could have given her seven. 173 00:09:38,933 --> 00:09:40,200 Why six? 174 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,833 We have to think in the Jewish mindset, the Hebrew mindset. 175 00:09:45,766 --> 00:09:47,600 Ruth was a moabite. 176 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,866 She didn't have all the this Old Testament like 177 00:09:50,866 --> 00:09:54,033 we would say, oh, there's all this Hebrew history behind her. 178 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,866 Naomi was a Hebrew from Bethlehem, Ephrathah. 179 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:00,166 She knew the history of God's people. 180 00:10:00,166 --> 00:10:02,233 She knew the law. 181 00:10:02,233 --> 00:10:03,100 So was Boaz. 182 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:07,666 So Boaz gives to Ruth to give to Naomi. Six 183 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:11,100 and says, I will not rest 184 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:13,800 until the job is completed. 185 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,666 Think in a Jewish mindset. 186 00:10:16,666 --> 00:10:20,633 What else happened in the span of six and then rested 187 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:24,900 for the work of God? 188 00:10:25,533 --> 00:10:25,933 And what? 189 00:10:25,933 --> 00:10:30,133 Boaz was telling Naomi that Ruth missed it because she was a mole, 190 00:10:30,133 --> 00:10:31,566 but she didn't know all the stuff. 191 00:10:31,566 --> 00:10:35,633 But immediately Naomi, knowing, 192 00:10:36,966 --> 00:10:40,800 immediately went to went to the work of God 193 00:10:41,433 --> 00:10:45,000 that Boaz was saying, you and I believe in this 194 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,433 great grand creator, the supreme God of the universe. 195 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:51,600 You and I believe in this. 196 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,233 We know what he's about, and I am aligning 197 00:10:55,233 --> 00:10:59,533 what I'm doing with God's Word and God's plan. 198 00:10:59,533 --> 00:11:04,800 And as he worked and didn't rest until the job was done. So 199 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,700 to with your daughter in law, I will work 200 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:11,700 and not rest until the job is done. 201 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:15,333 That's why Naomi could say to Ruth, relax. 202 00:11:15,333 --> 00:11:18,166 He will not rest until this completed. Do you see that? 203 00:11:19,433 --> 00:11:22,433 You see that on 204 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:24,500 the other side of that for us. 205 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:28,500 And I'm telling you, like everything you here points to God, points to Jesus. 206 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,200 The other point of that is this 207 00:11:33,133 --> 00:11:35,233 in the Bible, six 208 00:11:35,233 --> 00:11:38,233 is the number of man and work. 209 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,966 Okay? It's what we do. 210 00:11:40,966 --> 00:11:43,966 It's work. 211 00:11:44,433 --> 00:11:48,266 There is no rest in our work. 212 00:11:49,233 --> 00:11:52,233 We cannot work our way into redemption. 213 00:11:53,733 --> 00:11:57,600 It's only by the rest of God resting in God. 214 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,066 In the seventh day. 215 00:12:00,066 --> 00:12:02,500 And what God has done, that 216 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:05,500 we find completion of our redemption 217 00:12:06,066 --> 00:12:08,500 has nothing to do with our work. 218 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:10,500 Do you understand this? 219 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:12,200 This is all prefigured in the book. 220 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,066 It's a beautiful, beautiful book. 221 00:12:15,066 --> 00:12:18,133 So as we read through all these little details, let's not miss 222 00:12:18,133 --> 00:12:19,433 Jesus in the middle of it. 223 00:12:20,666 --> 00:12:21,433 What's the scene? 224 00:12:21,433 --> 00:12:24,433 I miss the forest for the trees. 225 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,500 When we read the Bible, read 226 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:31,633 every word, read what's not there, read what is there, 227 00:12:32,166 --> 00:12:35,166 understand the tense of it, the history of it. 228 00:12:35,533 --> 00:12:36,500 It's his story. 229 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:38,666 It's beautiful. 230 00:12:38,666 --> 00:12:41,666 And so chapter four. 231 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:49,566 Now, Boaz 232 00:12:49,566 --> 00:12:52,566 had gone up to the gate and sat down there. 233 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,433 And behold, the Redeemer of whom Boaz had spoken came by. 234 00:12:56,433 --> 00:12:59,433 So Boaz said, turn aside, friend, sit down here. 235 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,766 And he turned aside and sat down. 236 00:13:01,766 --> 00:13:06,800 If you're new to this story of of of Ruth, 237 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,900 what has happened is this young lady 238 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:14,300 was a moabite means she lived in the land of Moab. 239 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,666 And these two individuals 240 00:13:17,666 --> 00:13:20,900 in Bethlehem, the Promise Land, Bethlehem, Ephrathah 241 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:25,900 Elimelech and Naomi, they're experiencing famine, which was the 242 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:29,300 the judgment of God on the on the Promised Land, 243 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,166 because it was during the time of judges, and they were all walking away from God. 244 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:33,933 So God 245 00:13:33,933 --> 00:13:37,033 allows famine to happen to draw them back to him. 246 00:13:37,033 --> 00:13:42,033 During that famine they leave to Moab, which was God said, don't ever do that. 247 00:13:42,533 --> 00:13:43,533 Don't ever do that. 248 00:13:43,533 --> 00:13:47,366 So they go to a place where they shouldn't be trying to fix a problem 249 00:13:47,366 --> 00:13:50,366 they didn't see God working on. 250 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:52,866 And while they're there 251 00:13:52,866 --> 00:13:56,400 fixing their own problem, tragedy hits because that's what happens. 252 00:13:57,566 --> 00:14:01,000 And so Naomi's husband Elimelech dies. 253 00:14:01,433 --> 00:14:03,733 They have two sons, 254 00:14:03,733 --> 00:14:04,300 okay? 255 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:06,500 Their sons names were sick and tired. 256 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:09,000 That's a that that truly, that was their name. 257 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,066 Second turn. That's a commentary on parenting. 258 00:14:11,066 --> 00:14:14,833 And so while they were there, they married these two Moabite women, 259 00:14:16,066 --> 00:14:17,500 and they're out of the will of God. 260 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:19,500 There was some of the family, and those two men died. 261 00:14:20,633 --> 00:14:21,366 And so now there's 262 00:14:21,366 --> 00:14:25,600 Naomi, who should be in Bethlehem, Ephrathah, who's in Moab 263 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:30,566 with these two Moabite women to one obra Orpah. 264 00:14:31,033 --> 00:14:34,033 She went into telecommunications, that whole thing. 265 00:14:34,066 --> 00:14:36,866 She stays there. Ruth comes back. 266 00:14:36,866 --> 00:14:38,633 This mother comes back with Naomi. 267 00:14:38,633 --> 00:14:41,633 Two Israel to Bethlehem. 268 00:14:42,066 --> 00:14:44,800 While she's there, she meets this guy named Boaz. 269 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,433 And we're introduced to this Hebrew word, go. 270 00:14:47,433 --> 00:14:49,433 Well, kinsman, redeemer. 271 00:14:49,433 --> 00:14:53,866 And the law in Israel was if there was a woman who was married 272 00:14:54,433 --> 00:14:59,700 and her husband died, the next in line in that husband's 273 00:14:59,933 --> 00:15:05,766 lineage, brothers, was to marry her and and have a baby through her and perpetuate 274 00:15:05,766 --> 00:15:10,400 the dead husband's name and family so that the name wouldn't die. 275 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,800 And so that the the property would stay within the family. 276 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,100 That was that was the Old Testament law in the book of Deuteronomy. 277 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:18,066 And so 278 00:15:18,066 --> 00:15:21,100 this is this whole story up to this point, up to chapter four 279 00:15:21,266 --> 00:15:26,233 is about Ruth realizing what's going on and then approaching Boaz and saying, 280 00:15:26,266 --> 00:15:27,300 you are Mike. 281 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:31,366 They called him a kinsman redeemer, the one who is close to me who will redeem 282 00:15:31,366 --> 00:15:36,100 me. You're my kids memory, Dever, and I would love for you to marry me. 283 00:15:37,466 --> 00:15:40,733 And so Boaz says, yeah, that sounds like a great idea. 284 00:15:40,733 --> 00:15:44,933 I mean, you know, I'm he's he's he's a successful businessman. 285 00:15:44,933 --> 00:15:46,433 She's young, attractive woman. 286 00:15:46,433 --> 00:15:48,800 She's a woman of virtue. 287 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,366 He's a stand up guy. 288 00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:51,900 And he's like, this would be a great marriage, 289 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:54,833 but there's someone closer to you than I am. 290 00:15:54,833 --> 00:15:59,633 So according to law and Deuteronomy, like, the closest 291 00:15:59,633 --> 00:16:03,866 one to the widow would be the first kinsman. 292 00:16:03,866 --> 00:16:06,866 And if they said no, then, then they would just go down the line 293 00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:08,366 until someone said yes. 294 00:16:08,366 --> 00:16:11,366 And so Boaz says, I would love to, but there's one closer 295 00:16:12,133 --> 00:16:14,766 said, so, sweetie, go home. 296 00:16:14,766 --> 00:16:15,900 Relax. 297 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:19,100 You have no more work in this work of redemption. 298 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:21,600 You let me do all the work. Do you follow? So far? 299 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,733 You understand Jesus in this you have no work and the redemption of yourself. 300 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:29,066 I will handle everything to it, Boaz says. 301 00:16:29,566 --> 00:16:32,300 And so she goes home and Boaz goes to the gate. 302 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:33,133 What was the gate? 303 00:16:33,133 --> 00:16:37,733 Well, the gate was where business took place in ancient Israel. 304 00:16:37,733 --> 00:16:41,400 The gates of the city is where the rulers of the city would sit, 305 00:16:41,666 --> 00:16:44,666 and they would drink, you know, their coffee or whatever, 306 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,800 and conduct business at the gate. 307 00:16:47,866 --> 00:16:51,466 And so Boaz goes to the gate, because this is a legal thing 308 00:16:51,466 --> 00:16:55,333 that he wants to enter into with Ruth in marrying her 309 00:16:55,333 --> 00:16:58,133 and being the kinsman redeemer and known as that. 310 00:16:58,133 --> 00:17:01,233 And the Bible says in verse one, he goes to the gate, he sits down, 311 00:17:01,433 --> 00:17:04,933 and behold the Redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken came by. 312 00:17:04,933 --> 00:17:07,933 And so he goes to the gate. 313 00:17:08,266 --> 00:17:11,500 And it just so happened that the guy 314 00:17:11,933 --> 00:17:15,466 that was the nearer kinsman just happened to be there. Two 315 00:17:16,866 --> 00:17:19,866 right? 316 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,900 Whenever stuff just happens, 317 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:25,900 if you were a Christ follower, it doesn't just happen. 318 00:17:26,733 --> 00:17:29,733 It's the providence of God. 319 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:32,000 Happens to come by. 320 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000 And Boaz said, turn aside and sit down here. 321 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,000 So he turned to side and sat down. 322 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:41,866 Boaz immediately took action. 323 00:17:41,866 --> 00:17:43,133 There was no delay. 324 00:17:43,133 --> 00:17:44,900 Once he knew this was what God has to be. 325 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:45,966 There's no delay. 326 00:17:45,966 --> 00:17:47,200 He took action here. 327 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:48,566 Here's what I want you to understand. 328 00:17:48,566 --> 00:17:50,666 Right up front here, 329 00:17:50,666 --> 00:17:53,600 one of the leading characteristics of the man or woman of God 330 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,500 is an unrivaled obedience to the command of God and no hesitation 331 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:02,266 to obey an unrivaled obedience to the command of God. 332 00:18:02,733 --> 00:18:03,566 Being the kiss. 333 00:18:03,566 --> 00:18:07,800 My Redeemer was the command of God in the in, in the law. 334 00:18:08,533 --> 00:18:11,700 And the moment Boaz knew this is the command of God. 335 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:13,366 There's no hesitation to obey. 336 00:18:14,333 --> 00:18:17,266 This is a word for me in you, 337 00:18:17,266 --> 00:18:20,733 one of the leading characteristics for you and I as a man or woman of God. 338 00:18:20,733 --> 00:18:26,133 I don't care how young or how old you are, is an unrivaled obedience 339 00:18:26,333 --> 00:18:29,266 to the command of God, 340 00:18:29,266 --> 00:18:31,666 an unrivaled obedience 341 00:18:31,666 --> 00:18:33,933 if it's this or that, and what is God's command 342 00:18:33,933 --> 00:18:38,666 or what is not, guess which one wins an unrivaled obedience 343 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:42,300 to the command of God and no hesitation to obey 344 00:18:43,366 --> 00:18:45,433 this. The old adage 345 00:18:45,433 --> 00:18:47,400 when he says, jump 346 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,233 on the way up, you ask how high? 347 00:18:50,233 --> 00:18:51,600 That's that's the idea. 348 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,433 And this is exactly what Boaz is. 349 00:18:53,433 --> 00:18:54,366 This is a word. 350 00:18:54,366 --> 00:18:56,666 Maybe this is the word that some of you need to hear, 351 00:18:56,666 --> 00:18:58,500 and you got what you need, and you can leave 352 00:18:59,633 --> 00:19:02,533 because some of you have to some of us have to understand. 353 00:19:02,533 --> 00:19:05,533 Listen. 354 00:19:05,633 --> 00:19:08,633 Like I'm obedient 355 00:19:09,833 --> 00:19:12,166 most of the time. 356 00:19:12,166 --> 00:19:15,166 To most things. 357 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:18,500 But an unrivaled obedience. 358 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:21,700 I don't know if I could claim that 359 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:24,166 you follow. 360 00:19:24,166 --> 00:19:26,300 And and there might be some of us, like. 361 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:29,300 You know what I know God has been asking is showing. But, 362 00:19:30,933 --> 00:19:33,933 I say I'm pulled trigger on it yet I'm trusting him yet. 363 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,200 No hesitation. 364 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,200 Obey. Right. 365 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,200 You understand? 366 00:19:45,666 --> 00:19:48,666 Right now. 367 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,333 When Boaz moves in obedience, 368 00:19:54,333 --> 00:19:57,333 God moves in providence. 369 00:19:59,266 --> 00:20:02,266 I want you to understand this. 370 00:20:04,666 --> 00:20:06,633 When Boaz moves in obedience, 371 00:20:06,633 --> 00:20:09,633 God moves in providence. 372 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,233 Boaz was immediately obedient. 373 00:20:12,233 --> 00:20:15,233 And then it just so happened the other guy showed up. 374 00:20:16,066 --> 00:20:18,466 See? So many times we wait. 375 00:20:18,466 --> 00:20:21,200 Oh God, once I see you move, then I will. 376 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,733 And God says it doesn't work that way. 377 00:20:25,533 --> 00:20:28,166 You'll be obedient and you'll see him. 378 00:20:28,166 --> 00:20:31,166 Once you're obedient, then you'll see my providence. 379 00:20:34,466 --> 00:20:37,466 You track in. 380 00:20:38,333 --> 00:20:41,333 Is such a good word 381 00:20:41,633 --> 00:20:43,133 sometimes. Not all the time. 382 00:20:43,133 --> 00:20:45,533 But sometimes I feel like I preach better than you. 383 00:20:45,533 --> 00:20:48,533 Listen. 384 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,733 Look at verse 234. 385 00:20:51,733 --> 00:20:55,066 And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, sit down here. 386 00:20:55,066 --> 00:20:56,166 So they sat down. 387 00:20:56,166 --> 00:20:58,933 Then he said to the Redeemer, 388 00:20:58,933 --> 00:21:01,700 Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, 389 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:05,333 is selling a parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech. 390 00:21:05,533 --> 00:21:08,766 So I thought I would tell you of it and say, buy 391 00:21:08,766 --> 00:21:11,900 it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence 392 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:15,000 of the elders of my people, if you will redeem it, redeem it. 393 00:21:15,233 --> 00:21:18,800 But if you will not tell me that I may know, for 394 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,800 there is no one beside you to redeem it. 395 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:23,233 And I come after you. 396 00:21:23,233 --> 00:21:25,100 And he said, yeah, I'll redeem it. 397 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:29,000 So here's the man. 398 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,033 Once the property, although has said so far, is there's this girl. 399 00:21:34,033 --> 00:21:38,733 Naomi has come back, her husband's dead and she's got this piece of land. 400 00:21:39,233 --> 00:21:40,600 Do you want it? 401 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,033 What are you going to say? 402 00:21:42,033 --> 00:21:43,866 This is real property. 403 00:21:43,866 --> 00:21:46,133 This is wealth, right? 404 00:21:46,133 --> 00:21:46,533 He's all. 405 00:21:46,533 --> 00:21:49,533 Yeah, I absolutely do want it. 406 00:21:51,766 --> 00:21:55,200 Now, at this point, Boaz wants Ruth. 407 00:21:56,733 --> 00:21:59,733 And Boaz knows that Ruth is attached to the land. 408 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:04,866 Boaz has only told the man about the land of the man says, yeah, I want the land. 409 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:10,200 To me, this shows incredible trust on Boaz is part 410 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,500 in God's providence because he wants Ruth. 411 00:22:14,033 --> 00:22:18,000 And at this point of this transaction, he has just lost her. 412 00:22:18,033 --> 00:22:20,266 Do you follow? Yeah. 413 00:22:20,266 --> 00:22:21,333 And it's like, okay, God, 414 00:22:22,633 --> 00:22:25,800 if she's if she's meant to be right, I'm gonna trust you. 415 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,066 I'm gonna do it right. 416 00:22:28,066 --> 00:22:30,766 And if you keep this going, then fantastic. 417 00:22:30,766 --> 00:22:33,766 But honestly, I'm willing to let her go. 418 00:22:35,633 --> 00:22:38,100 You understand? 419 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:41,100 I'm willing to let her walk. 420 00:22:41,266 --> 00:22:44,033 If you've deemed that right. 421 00:22:44,033 --> 00:22:45,166 What incredible. 422 00:22:45,166 --> 00:22:48,166 Surrender and trust, 423 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:52,533 That dream you have, 424 00:22:52,533 --> 00:22:54,866 that deep desire, you're willing to let it walk 425 00:22:54,866 --> 00:22:57,866 if it's not of God. 426 00:22:58,466 --> 00:23:01,466 Or you want to keep pushing. 427 00:23:02,966 --> 00:23:08,033 Now. Boaz knows. 428 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,200 Boaz knows this. 429 00:23:16,533 --> 00:23:18,466 That God's providence 430 00:23:18,466 --> 00:23:21,566 with my obedience results in convergence. 431 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,400 Boaz just doesn't realize that 432 00:23:29,533 --> 00:23:31,733 providence shows up in obedience. 433 00:23:31,733 --> 00:23:37,033 Boaz realizes that God's providence with my obedience results in convergence. 434 00:23:37,033 --> 00:23:39,100 Romans 828 435 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:41,700 God works together, good 436 00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:44,866 in all things, works all things together for the good of those 437 00:23:44,866 --> 00:23:46,800 who love him, who are called according to his purpose. 438 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,000 My obedience with God's providence 439 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,700 results in convergence, the working together of all things for good. 440 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:55,633 You follow, you follow. 441 00:23:55,633 --> 00:23:57,666 It doesn't happen in my disobedience. 442 00:23:59,100 --> 00:23:59,566 Once we 443 00:23:59,566 --> 00:24:02,600 become obedient, God can reverse engineer it. 444 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,500 So it has. 445 00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:06,700 But God's providence 446 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:10,200 with my obedience results in convergence is that that's what Boaz understands. 447 00:24:10,433 --> 00:24:12,033 I'm going to be obedient. 448 00:24:12,033 --> 00:24:15,100 God's going to work this together because his providence 449 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,233 and it's going to converge in something beautiful. 450 00:24:17,233 --> 00:24:20,233 He just has that trust. 451 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,500 To watch verse five. 452 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:24,033 So the guy says he wants the land. 453 00:24:24,033 --> 00:24:28,133 Then Boaz said, the day you buy the field from the head of Naomi, 454 00:24:28,166 --> 00:24:34,100 you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, 455 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:38,366 in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance. 456 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,500 So though Boaz is willing to trust God's providence 457 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:45,600 and let her go, he makes sure that this guy knows. 458 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,100 Oh yeah, by the way, 459 00:24:48,333 --> 00:24:50,700 it's just not the field 460 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,600 you get. Ruth 461 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,166 the Moabite, 462 00:24:56,166 --> 00:24:58,366 the Moabites were like the dust. 463 00:24:58,366 --> 00:24:59,666 They were nasty dirt. 464 00:24:59,666 --> 00:25:01,800 Who knows? And we don't know. 465 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,166 But we know the culture of Moab. 466 00:25:04,166 --> 00:25:09,300 Who knows the lifestyle that Ruth was involved in before 467 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:14,700 she got married to the Hebrew boy, before she came back, who knows? 468 00:25:15,166 --> 00:25:18,766 It was in a completely evil, nasty, 469 00:25:18,766 --> 00:25:22,833 dirty like way of living in Moab. 470 00:25:22,833 --> 00:25:27,666 Who knows what she was subjected to, who knows how she was living. 471 00:25:28,166 --> 00:25:31,166 And all this baggage comes with her. 472 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,200 And this guy's looking at her thinking, 473 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:37,900 Moabite girl? We. 474 00:25:39,866 --> 00:25:43,033 Like the land wouldn't be bad, but all that. 475 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:49,100 Right. 476 00:25:53,366 --> 00:25:56,300 Look at verse six. 477 00:25:56,300 --> 00:25:59,300 Then the Redeemer said, yeah, I can't do it. 478 00:26:00,466 --> 00:26:04,600 I cannot redeem it for myself lest I impair my own inheritance. 479 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,366 Take my right of redemption yourself. 480 00:26:06,366 --> 00:26:07,800 I can't redeem it. 481 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,100 He wanted it. The land. 482 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:12,866 He didn't want her. The baggage. 483 00:26:12,866 --> 00:26:15,866 And he said, if I do this, it's going to cost me. 484 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:17,466 We don't know why it will cost him. 485 00:26:17,466 --> 00:26:18,566 Maybe he's got kids now. 486 00:26:18,566 --> 00:26:20,966 This inheritance is all split up and everything. 487 00:26:20,966 --> 00:26:23,600 It's just too much work is too much hassle for him. 488 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,500 He says, look, I don't mind the land, but I don't want the person. 489 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,900 Please understand this. 490 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:35,900 What's happening here is a picture of the law. 491 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000 The nearer kinsman, 492 00:26:40,133 --> 00:26:43,133 the the law 493 00:26:43,166 --> 00:26:46,166 is very close to each one of us. 494 00:26:47,033 --> 00:26:51,300 It's the law that cannot redeem the person. 495 00:26:52,233 --> 00:26:57,000 It's the law that simply sees the baggage and not the redemption. 496 00:26:57,766 --> 00:27:01,100 It's the law that sees that's what's wrong with them. 497 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:03,066 But not the way out of it. 498 00:27:03,066 --> 00:27:04,166 Do you understand that? 499 00:27:04,166 --> 00:27:07,166 And so the law says, yeah, I wish I could, but I can't, because why? 500 00:27:07,233 --> 00:27:10,966 Because the Old Testament law only points out what is wrong in us. 501 00:27:10,966 --> 00:27:12,766 It was never meant to save us. 502 00:27:12,766 --> 00:27:16,566 It was only meant to say, I want to show you how bad you are, 503 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,766 so you realize you need a redeemer, but it has no power to redeem. 504 00:27:20,766 --> 00:27:23,433 Do you follow? That's what's going on here. 505 00:27:24,533 --> 00:27:27,533 He realizes the baggage, the dirt of her past. 506 00:27:27,566 --> 00:27:29,433 He says, I cannot touch that. 507 00:27:29,433 --> 00:27:30,666 I don't want to be a part of it. 508 00:27:30,666 --> 00:27:33,233 And that's what the law of God does. 509 00:27:33,233 --> 00:27:37,200 It is perfect, reviving the soul because it shows us how dirty we are, 510 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:41,233 and it shows us we need someone to redeem us because we can't. 511 00:27:41,433 --> 00:27:44,433 We can't. The law can't. 512 00:27:44,966 --> 00:27:47,966 And that's why religion doesn't work. 513 00:27:47,966 --> 00:27:50,566 That's why so many people have tried so hard to be so good, 514 00:27:50,566 --> 00:27:54,400 only to find out they're just not good, right? 515 00:27:55,233 --> 00:27:56,466 If you and I can't live up 516 00:27:56,466 --> 00:27:59,700 to our own standards, how in the world are we going to live to God's standards? 517 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:02,166 And that's the point of the law. 518 00:28:02,166 --> 00:28:03,200 You can't. 519 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,333 So you need a redeemer. 520 00:28:04,333 --> 00:28:06,166 And that's what this is talking about. 521 00:28:11,366 --> 00:28:13,866 The law reminds us we're broken. 522 00:28:13,866 --> 00:28:18,033 The role of the Redeemer was to create life, right? 523 00:28:18,033 --> 00:28:19,800 That's why there was marriage. It happened. 524 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,900 So a life could be created to continue the name and the. 525 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:25,166 And the legacy and the history. 526 00:28:25,166 --> 00:28:27,000 He's saying, I can't create life. 527 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Law doesn't create life. 528 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:35,500 It cannot create life. 529 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:38,366 Only Christ can. 530 00:28:38,366 --> 00:28:40,800 And that's why he says, I can't do it. 531 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,800 I can't create life. 532 00:28:46,766 --> 00:28:47,133 You with me? 533 00:28:47,133 --> 00:28:50,133 So far. 534 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:51,166 Look. 535 00:28:51,166 --> 00:28:54,166 Verse seven. 536 00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:57,600 Now, this was the custom in former times in Israel 537 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,600 concerning redeeming and exchanging to confirm 538 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,600 a transaction, the one true office and only gave it to the other. 539 00:29:03,766 --> 00:29:05,833 And this was the manner of a testing in Israel. 540 00:29:05,833 --> 00:29:10,100 So when the Redeemer said to Boaz, buy it for yourself, he took off his sandal. 541 00:29:10,266 --> 00:29:12,433 And Boaz said, the elders and all the people, 542 00:29:12,433 --> 00:29:16,333 you are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi 543 00:29:16,466 --> 00:29:20,500 all that belong to Elimelech, and all that belonged to chili on a meal on. 544 00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:22,000 Those were the two sons that died. 545 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,800 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon. 546 00:29:26,033 --> 00:29:31,300 I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, 547 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:34,433 that the name of the dead may not be cut off among his brothers. 548 00:29:34,433 --> 00:29:37,433 And from the gate of of his native place. 549 00:29:37,433 --> 00:29:39,966 You are witnesses of this day. 550 00:29:39,966 --> 00:29:41,366 I want you to understand something. 551 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,700 When the first man 552 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:52,800 could not redeem that which was broken, 553 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:56,100 it wanted the field. 554 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:58,933 It didn't want the person. 555 00:29:58,933 --> 00:30:01,933 Boaz doesn't care about the field. 556 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:05,700 Boaz wants the person. 557 00:30:06,466 --> 00:30:09,466 Boaz had plenty of fields. 558 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,466 He wanted the person. 559 00:30:12,466 --> 00:30:13,333 In Ruth. 560 00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:16,333 Boaz is a picture of Jesus. 561 00:30:16,433 --> 00:30:19,000 Ruth is a picture of us, a Gentile 562 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000 separated from Christ. 563 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:24,900 Jesus doesn't want the possession. 564 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,333 He wants the person. 565 00:30:27,333 --> 00:30:29,900 Do you understand? 566 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:32,900 The world and all of creation are Christ's. 567 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,666 Scripture tells us that everything was created through Christ. 568 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:39,000 He's got it all. 569 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,766 He doesn't need anything else. 570 00:30:40,766 --> 00:30:43,766 What he doesn't have is the person. 571 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:49,033 And so he says, I want everybody to know 572 00:30:49,033 --> 00:30:51,933 I don't care about the field. 573 00:30:51,933 --> 00:30:54,933 I want the person. 574 00:30:55,666 --> 00:30:58,666 You follow. 575 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,200 In my mind, 576 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,700 I go to the book of Matthew 577 00:31:03,933 --> 00:31:06,833 in chapter 13 578 00:31:06,833 --> 00:31:11,200 and in Matthew chapter 13, verse 44. 579 00:31:11,966 --> 00:31:15,600 The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, 580 00:31:16,233 --> 00:31:18,600 which a man found and covered up. 581 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,633 Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys the field. 582 00:31:22,633 --> 00:31:24,266 Listen, 583 00:31:24,266 --> 00:31:28,100 when I see this transaction happen in boys, I think two things one, 584 00:31:28,666 --> 00:31:32,666 that Jesus wants the treasure attached to the field. 585 00:31:34,166 --> 00:31:36,600 He wants the person. 586 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,200 The baggage doesn't scare him. 587 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,200 The past doesn't concern him. 588 00:31:43,066 --> 00:31:47,200 The Moab ness of the person isn't a threat. 589 00:31:48,633 --> 00:31:52,833 I will take it all and redeem it all. 590 00:31:53,533 --> 00:31:55,166 I didn't see him. 591 00:31:55,166 --> 00:31:57,700 The other thing I see in this transaction 592 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:00,700 right here is that parable of the field. 593 00:32:00,866 --> 00:32:02,966 The treasure in the field. 594 00:32:02,966 --> 00:32:06,000 The Kingdom of God is so 595 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,500 beautiful, is so powerful, is so valuable 596 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000 that when you find it the kingdom, 597 00:32:15,433 --> 00:32:18,433 you sell everything 598 00:32:19,033 --> 00:32:21,266 to possess it. 599 00:32:21,266 --> 00:32:24,400 It is worth everything that we have. 600 00:32:25,633 --> 00:32:28,066 The Kingdom of God. 601 00:32:28,066 --> 00:32:31,066 There's no sacrifice too great. 602 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,733 There's no sacrifice too little. 603 00:32:34,733 --> 00:32:37,000 It's everything. 604 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,033 And when you understand the kingdom of God, 605 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,033 you will move heaven and earth to be a part of it, to gain it. 606 00:32:45,666 --> 00:32:48,666 And all it will do is cost you your life. 607 00:32:53,733 --> 00:32:56,733 And what a worthy transaction that is. 608 00:32:58,366 --> 00:33:01,333 You tracking with me? 609 00:33:01,333 --> 00:33:03,533 It's a beautiful picture of Christ 610 00:33:03,533 --> 00:33:06,533 and His kingdom. 611 00:33:07,333 --> 00:33:09,500 He wants you, 612 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:12,500 and he wants you to sell everything in your world 613 00:33:12,666 --> 00:33:15,666 to be a part of that kingdom, whatever it costs, 614 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,600 it's worth it. 615 00:33:23,666 --> 00:33:26,666 It's so interesting to me that this first kinsman 616 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,666 rejected Ruth, because what it would cost him. 617 00:33:33,166 --> 00:33:35,733 And at the moment he made that decision, 618 00:33:35,733 --> 00:33:39,200 he slipped away into anonymity. 619 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,466 We never hear or see from him again. 620 00:33:42,466 --> 00:33:45,466 He's written off the pages of Scripture. 621 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:50,400 And I'm reminded 622 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,033 of Matthew 1625. 623 00:33:53,033 --> 00:33:56,033 Whoever would save his life will lose it, 624 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,400 but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 625 00:34:00,466 --> 00:34:02,066 He tried to save his life. 626 00:34:02,066 --> 00:34:03,800 He tried to save his own inheritance. 627 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,566 He tried to save his own possessions. 628 00:34:05,566 --> 00:34:07,600 And he lost his life. 629 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,233 Written out of the pages of of Scripture for all of history. 630 00:34:11,233 --> 00:34:12,233 Nobody knows who he is. 631 00:34:12,233 --> 00:34:15,233 He's gone. He's vanished. 632 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:18,300 You want to save your life, you're going to lose it. 633 00:34:19,566 --> 00:34:22,300 And then Boaz comes in. 634 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:25,300 He says, I don't care what it cost me. 635 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,866 That is a valuable treasure. 636 00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:30,500 And those who lose their life. 637 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:33,500 Jesus says, for my sake, guess what? 638 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,000 You finally found it. 639 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,600 So Boaz redeems this bride 640 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,466 and creates life. 641 00:34:45,466 --> 00:34:48,000 That's the whole point of this. 642 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,300 He didn't want the field. 643 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:53,300 He wanted the treasure. 644 00:34:53,966 --> 00:34:56,700 Friends, do you realize how valuable and beautiful 645 00:34:56,700 --> 00:34:59,700 the kingdom of God is? 646 00:35:01,533 --> 00:35:04,233 And anything that you and I put ahead of 647 00:35:04,233 --> 00:35:07,233 that is death. 648 00:35:10,666 --> 00:35:13,666 No. Verse 11 and 12. 649 00:35:13,666 --> 00:35:15,266 Then all the people who were at the gate 650 00:35:15,266 --> 00:35:18,266 and the elders, they said, we're witnesses made. 651 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,666 May the Lord make the woman who was coming into your house 652 00:35:21,666 --> 00:35:24,933 like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. 653 00:35:24,933 --> 00:35:29,533 May you act worthily in ephrathah and be renown in Bethlehem, 654 00:35:29,966 --> 00:35:32,966 and may your house be like the house of Perez, 655 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,500 whom tame our board of Judah, because of the offspring that the Lord 656 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:38,000 will give you by this young woman. 657 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,600 This is what's going on. 658 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:45,100 There's this outburst of joy because someone's been redeemed. 659 00:35:46,066 --> 00:35:49,066 There's this celebration and blessing 660 00:35:49,566 --> 00:35:52,566 because someone has been redeemed. 661 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,300 This is this, this is ours. 662 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:56,766 This ought to be our story. 663 00:35:56,766 --> 00:36:00,100 Like the the Bible says, the angels in heaven throw a party 664 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:03,100 every time there's a redemption. 665 00:36:03,166 --> 00:36:06,033 Like heaven's watching and celebrates 666 00:36:06,033 --> 00:36:09,033 what's going on. 667 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,500 It's so interesting to me. 668 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:17,566 Like you says for Boaz, may your house be like your family life. 669 00:36:17,666 --> 00:36:19,566 Be like that of Perez. 670 00:36:19,566 --> 00:36:20,866 That's what the Bible says. 671 00:36:20,866 --> 00:36:22,700 The story of Perez. It's really interesting. 672 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:26,100 We'll talk about it in just a minute, but just let me introduce it in Genesis 38, 673 00:36:26,633 --> 00:36:28,966 the story of Perez. 674 00:36:28,966 --> 00:36:33,033 It's thought that this, that, that from Perez 675 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,333 came the entire, ancestor of the people of Bethlehem. 676 00:36:37,333 --> 00:36:40,100 Ephrathah of all these people. 677 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:42,666 And I won't I won't take you through the study of this. 678 00:36:42,666 --> 00:36:45,666 But if you were to go to Second Chronicles two, verses 679 00:36:45,666 --> 00:36:48,900 five and verses eight, and verses 50 and following, 680 00:36:49,166 --> 00:36:53,266 you'll see that out of this boy Perez came all these Bethlehem ites. 681 00:36:54,433 --> 00:36:57,233 And so that's what they're saying 682 00:36:57,233 --> 00:36:57,766 out of it. 683 00:36:57,766 --> 00:36:59,733 May your house be like the house of Perez. 684 00:36:59,733 --> 00:37:03,666 Like may the all of all this Bethlehem Ephrathah come out of your line. 685 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,666 Guess who else came from Bethlehem? 686 00:37:05,666 --> 00:37:08,666 Ephrathah that was prophesied generations earlier? 687 00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:11,700 Jesus the Christ. 688 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,200 That's beautiful. 689 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:17,766 See, here's what happens. 690 00:37:17,766 --> 00:37:19,266 Let me tell you what happens with obedience. 691 00:37:19,266 --> 00:37:21,766 Obedience isn't to make us better people. 692 00:37:21,766 --> 00:37:24,100 Jesus didn't come to make us moral people, better people. 693 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,833 Here's what happens with obedience. 694 00:37:26,833 --> 00:37:29,833 God turns obedience into legacies. 695 00:37:31,933 --> 00:37:34,366 That's what's happening in our lives. 696 00:37:34,366 --> 00:37:36,233 When we live a life of obedience 697 00:37:36,233 --> 00:37:39,566 and quick repentance, he turns obedience into legacies. 698 00:37:40,233 --> 00:37:43,866 Obedience isn't just for my benefit, it's for my family. 699 00:37:43,933 --> 00:37:46,333 Like those coming up after me. 700 00:37:46,333 --> 00:37:49,500 My obedience becomes their legacy, their obedience. 701 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,433 Who becomes others. Do you understand this? 702 00:37:58,100 --> 00:37:59,533 And all of this happened. 703 00:37:59,533 --> 00:38:01,433 All this redemptive work happened. 704 00:38:01,433 --> 00:38:04,433 Where was Ruth during this whole time? 705 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,166 Where now 706 00:38:07,166 --> 00:38:10,166 she's at home, resting and waiting. 707 00:38:10,433 --> 00:38:13,433 She's doing nothing to effect her own redemption. 708 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,500 She rests in the work of her Redeemer. 709 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:23,700 Jonathan Edwards said this. 710 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:25,600 The only contribution we make 711 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,600 to our redemption is sin 712 00:38:28,633 --> 00:38:30,733 that requires it. 713 00:38:30,733 --> 00:38:33,266 That's the only contribution we make our own 714 00:38:33,266 --> 00:38:36,266 redemption is our sin that makes it necessary. 715 00:38:37,866 --> 00:38:40,866 She's resting and waiting. 716 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,966 The nearer Redeemer is not afraid of the baggage of the Moabite. 717 00:38:44,966 --> 00:38:46,900 You have to understand this, my friends. 718 00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:50,633 Your Redeemer is not afraid nor threatened by your baggage. 719 00:38:50,633 --> 00:38:53,633 When you were living in Moab. 720 00:38:55,766 --> 00:38:58,766 He wants to redeem it all. 721 00:38:59,866 --> 00:39:01,533 He doesn't care about your baggage. Why? 722 00:39:01,533 --> 00:39:03,400 Because. Second Corinthians 517 723 00:39:04,766 --> 00:39:07,200 says, those who are in Christ are new creations. 724 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,733 The old has gone, the new has come. 725 00:39:08,733 --> 00:39:11,733 It's all new now with Christ, 726 00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:13,833 some of you are holding on stuff 727 00:39:13,833 --> 00:39:16,833 that Jesus has already let go of. 728 00:39:17,466 --> 00:39:20,466 Do you understand? 729 00:39:21,666 --> 00:39:23,200 He's called you into Bethany. 730 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,566 He's redeemed you. You're still living like you're in Moab. 731 00:39:25,566 --> 00:39:26,500 He's called you out of that. 732 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:29,500 It's new now. 733 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:30,966 Look at 1314. 734 00:39:30,966 --> 00:39:31,966 Look. Look at this thing. 735 00:39:31,966 --> 00:39:35,300 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife, and he went into her. 736 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,066 And the Lord gave her conception. She bore a son. 737 00:39:38,066 --> 00:39:42,200 Then the women said to Naomi, blessed be the Lord who has not left you 738 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,900 this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel. 739 00:39:46,266 --> 00:39:50,566 He shall be to you every store of life and inertia of your old age. 740 00:39:50,566 --> 00:39:54,766 For your daughter in law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, 741 00:39:54,833 --> 00:39:56,633 has given birth to him, 742 00:39:56,633 --> 00:40:00,600 then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. 743 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,600 And the woman of the the women of the neighborhood 744 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,166 gave him a name, saying, A son has been born to Naomi. 745 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:08,700 They named her Obed. 746 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,900 He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. 747 00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:12,300 Wait a minute. 748 00:40:13,366 --> 00:40:15,833 Boaz and Ruth get married. 749 00:40:15,833 --> 00:40:17,033 Then they have a baby. 750 00:40:17,033 --> 00:40:20,033 That's a great order of doing things. 751 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,600 And look at what the ladies say. 752 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:27,700 They said to Naomi, 753 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,766 blessed be the Lord who has not left you this day without a redeemer. 754 00:40:30,766 --> 00:40:33,000 May his name be renown in Israel. 755 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,200 A son has been born to Naomi, who had the baby 756 00:40:37,233 --> 00:40:40,233 Ruth, and grandma gets the credit. 757 00:40:43,666 --> 00:40:48,100 Why do they say, blessed are you, grandma? 758 00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:51,100 You got a son. 759 00:40:51,966 --> 00:40:53,766 Listen, 760 00:40:53,766 --> 00:40:56,666 I love the Bible. 761 00:40:56,666 --> 00:40:59,666 Boaz is a picture of Christ. 762 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,666 Ruth is a picture of the church. 763 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,366 Naomi is a picture of Israel. 764 00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:11,700 Follow 765 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:14,700 God is not done with Israel. 766 00:41:16,333 --> 00:41:19,333 He will bring life again 767 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:24,466 to a dead people who have rejected him. 768 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,533 Life Jesus came through Israel 769 00:41:31,300 --> 00:41:34,433 and will come again to Israel. 770 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,166 Do you understand? 771 00:41:38,166 --> 00:41:41,166 He's not done with them. 772 00:41:41,933 --> 00:41:45,500 This life will come back through with them 773 00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:48,500 and to them. 774 00:41:50,066 --> 00:41:51,500 And it's beautiful to be 775 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:54,600 that Naomi, in her old age, 776 00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:59,500 somehow got to nurse this new life. 777 00:42:02,033 --> 00:42:05,033 Now watch. 778 00:42:10,133 --> 00:42:11,433 Verse 18. 779 00:42:11,433 --> 00:42:14,433 Now these are the generations of Peres. 780 00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:17,033 Because, remember, may your house be like Peres. 781 00:42:17,033 --> 00:42:19,300 That was the that was the joyful proclamation. 782 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,300 Now, parenthetically, here just now, these journeys are first. 783 00:42:22,733 --> 00:42:25,566 Peres father has on his run fathered Ram. 784 00:42:25,566 --> 00:42:27,000 Ram fathered a minute, ABBA a minute. 785 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:27,733 That father nation. 786 00:42:27,733 --> 00:42:29,166 Nation fathered Solomon. 787 00:42:29,166 --> 00:42:30,766 Solomon fathered Boaz. 788 00:42:30,766 --> 00:42:31,300 Boaz, father. 789 00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:33,133 Obed, Obed father Jesse and Jesse. 790 00:42:33,133 --> 00:42:34,433 Father. David. 791 00:42:34,433 --> 00:42:35,366 Doesn't that seem like it? 792 00:42:35,366 --> 00:42:38,366 Well, that's a weird way to end this story. 793 00:42:38,566 --> 00:42:41,100 Like they wrote off, lived happily ever after. 794 00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:42,533 You know it. 795 00:42:42,533 --> 00:42:46,466 Why does genealogy back to Peres? 796 00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:48,166 Genesis 38. 797 00:42:48,166 --> 00:42:49,566 I'm gonna give you a little Bible. 798 00:42:49,566 --> 00:42:52,233 We're going to go to seminary real quick. Okay? 799 00:42:52,233 --> 00:42:53,400 Genesis 38 800 00:42:54,733 --> 00:42:55,900 Peres was the 801 00:42:55,900 --> 00:42:59,700 son of an ancestral encounter 802 00:42:59,733 --> 00:43:03,166 between of the father and his daughter in law. 803 00:43:04,166 --> 00:43:06,500 Okay? She fooled him. 804 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:07,700 Her husbands died. 805 00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:08,966 He wouldn't give her another one. 806 00:43:08,966 --> 00:43:11,800 And like this all love leave, right? Marriage. 807 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,700 You wouldn't give her another one of his sons to me. 808 00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:16,700 Because there's other kids who died and that were married to her. 809 00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:20,900 He figured she was bad luck and he didn't want one of his other kids to die. 810 00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:22,733 And so he kind of sends her on her way. 811 00:43:22,733 --> 00:43:24,900 Well, she dresses up as a prostitute 812 00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:27,800 and propositions him because he goes on this business trip 813 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,366 and it was like she was all veiled and he couldn't tell who she was. 814 00:43:31,366 --> 00:43:34,733 And she got pregnant and she had given him this signet ring. 815 00:43:34,733 --> 00:43:38,666 And look, I'm going to come back and pay you, but for now, take my signet ring. 816 00:43:38,666 --> 00:43:42,600 She leaves, she hides out, she shows up pregnant, and they tell him, 817 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:43,800 hey, your daughter in law is pregnant. 818 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,600 And he says like, well, she must be a prostitute killer. 819 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,300 And she's all, well, you can go ahead and kill me. 820 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:50,633 But the man who owns the signet ring is the father. 821 00:43:50,633 --> 00:43:52,800 And it was actually him. And he's like, oh, shoot. 822 00:43:56,566 --> 00:43:59,500 Okay. 823 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:00,733 And so out of that 824 00:44:00,733 --> 00:44:04,000 relation, father daughter in law is this boy named Perez. 825 00:44:04,933 --> 00:44:05,266 Okay. 826 00:44:05,266 --> 00:44:07,866 That's that's Genesis 38. 827 00:44:07,866 --> 00:44:10,866 It's just terrible. 828 00:44:10,933 --> 00:44:13,933 In Deuteronomy 23, 829 00:44:14,300 --> 00:44:15,566 watch this. 830 00:44:15,566 --> 00:44:21,133 And Deuteronomy 23, it says that any lawyer, 831 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:26,133 no one born of a forbidden union that would be father daughter in law, 832 00:44:26,633 --> 00:44:30,233 may enter the assembly of the Lord, even to the 10th generation. 833 00:44:30,233 --> 00:44:33,233 None of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord. 834 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:35,700 There. They're closed out. 835 00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:39,400 So Perez and all of his sons are closed off 836 00:44:40,666 --> 00:44:41,900 from the presence of God. 837 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:43,700 Do you follow? 838 00:44:43,700 --> 00:44:45,900 Go back to the genealogy. 839 00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:48,633 Perez, the father of, has Ron, 840 00:44:48,633 --> 00:44:51,566 the father of Ram, the father of Minitab, 841 00:44:51,566 --> 00:44:55,400 the father of nation, the father of Solomon, the father of Boaz. 842 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,866 Father. Obed. Jesse. David. 843 00:44:57,866 --> 00:44:59,100 How many generations? 844 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:04,300 Ten. Ten. 845 00:45:04,766 --> 00:45:08,700 Ten. Who was the 10th generation King? 846 00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:10,966 David 847 00:45:10,966 --> 00:45:13,966 gives the last people. 848 00:45:14,233 --> 00:45:16,200 We're impatient. 849 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,266 They didn't want to wait on God. 850 00:45:18,266 --> 00:45:21,566 They didn't trust his sovereignty, and they didn't trust his providence. 851 00:45:21,566 --> 00:45:24,733 So they forced God's hand in giving them a king. 852 00:45:24,733 --> 00:45:26,700 And the first king of Israel was whom? 853 00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:29,300 You Bible students, Saul. 854 00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:32,300 And it was a disaster. 855 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,400 It was tragic 856 00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:38,733 because they wouldn't trust God's providence, God's timing, 857 00:45:38,733 --> 00:45:39,866 nor his providence. 858 00:45:39,866 --> 00:45:42,866 They hadn't waited ten generations yet. 859 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,800 And then suddenly the 10th generation was whom? 860 00:45:50,266 --> 00:45:51,733 David, David. 861 00:45:51,733 --> 00:45:55,633 And out of David's line came who Christ. 862 00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:00,333 Do you see this all through the Bible? 863 00:46:00,333 --> 00:46:03,333 God saying, trust me. 864 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,533 Trust my sovereignty. 865 00:46:05,533 --> 00:46:10,500 Trust my plan, trust my word, trust my providence. 866 00:46:10,733 --> 00:46:11,766 If you all. 867 00:46:11,766 --> 00:46:16,300 I laid it out for, if you all just would have paid attention to my by to my, 868 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,066 and then counted ten generations, you would know that Saul, wasn't it? 869 00:46:20,233 --> 00:46:23,633 You would know that the ones coming you could have saved yourself 870 00:46:23,666 --> 00:46:27,200 so much tread had you just trusted. 871 00:46:30,533 --> 00:46:33,533 Right. 872 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,266 In chapter one, 873 00:46:38,266 --> 00:46:42,200 all Ruth and Naomi knew was tragedy and pain. 874 00:46:43,266 --> 00:46:46,433 They had no idea chapter four was coming. 875 00:46:49,366 --> 00:46:52,366 You may be in chapter one right now. 876 00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:56,700 All you know. 877 00:46:56,966 --> 00:46:57,833 Questions? 878 00:46:57,833 --> 00:47:00,833 Difficulty, pain. 879 00:47:01,433 --> 00:47:03,633 And you have no idea 880 00:47:03,633 --> 00:47:06,633 that chapter four is on your horizon. 881 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,800 Listen. 882 00:47:14,133 --> 00:47:15,133 My obedience 883 00:47:15,133 --> 00:47:18,133 with God's providence results in convergence. 884 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:21,166 I will be obedient, 885 00:47:21,166 --> 00:47:24,166 and I will trust that God will work all things together for my good. 886 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:26,966 Because I love him 887 00:47:26,966 --> 00:47:29,966 and I obey him. 888 00:47:30,133 --> 00:47:33,133 Jesus, his crucifixion was chapter one. 889 00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:37,100 Nothing but death and despair and pain. 890 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,400 But chapter four came three days later. 891 00:47:42,433 --> 00:47:45,433 Resurrection and our redemption 892 00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:50,100 and communion reminds us. 893 00:47:50,233 --> 00:47:53,233 Communion reminds us 894 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:54,433 that there's a chapter one 895 00:47:54,433 --> 00:47:57,433 and there's a chapter for. 896 00:47:59,433 --> 00:48:01,633 And communion is a symbol of chapter four. 897 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:06,400 The redemption that can be ours, 898 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:11,166 because the body of Christ and the blood shed on the cross for the forgiveness 899 00:48:11,166 --> 00:48:15,333 of our sins, to buy us back and redeem us from our moab's, 900 00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:18,333 from our chapter ones. 901 00:48:18,366 --> 00:48:21,000 That's what this reminds us of. 902 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,566 And it's a very fitting way for Christ followers to remember. 903 00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,800 Chapter four 904 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,800 To the Body and Blood of Jesus. 905 00:48:32,966 --> 00:48:34,433 Friends, if you have a relationship 906 00:48:34,433 --> 00:48:37,433 with Jesus by faith 907 00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:41,033 and you trust what he's done on the cross for your salvation, 908 00:48:41,033 --> 00:48:44,700 these elements are for you as your memory tool 909 00:48:46,133 --> 00:48:49,733 to remember what our redemption cost, 910 00:48:50,766 --> 00:48:53,033 the price associated with it, 911 00:48:53,033 --> 00:48:56,033 as an expression of the father's love for us. 912 00:48:57,666 --> 00:49:00,266 And so if that's you, as you wrap up the book of Ruth. 913 00:49:03,233 --> 00:49:06,233 I want you to take the bread. 914 00:49:06,766 --> 00:49:09,400 And remember 915 00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,533 the body of Christ 916 00:49:11,533 --> 00:49:16,333 that was given for us, his life for ours. 917 00:49:19,033 --> 00:49:20,766 The Bible says that 918 00:49:20,766 --> 00:49:23,000 when Jesus shared that final meal with his disciples, 919 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,933 he took the bread he lifted up to heaven. He gave thanks. 920 00:49:25,933 --> 00:49:27,933 And then he broke and he gave it to them. 921 00:49:27,933 --> 00:49:29,300 He said, this is my body. 922 00:49:29,300 --> 00:49:32,900 Now that I'm giving for you, do this every time you eat it in memory of me. 923 00:49:40,033 --> 00:49:43,166 And in a very similar way, Jesus took the cup and he lifted it up to heaven. 924 00:49:43,166 --> 00:49:44,966 He gave thanks 925 00:49:44,966 --> 00:49:47,966 and said, this cup is a new covenant in my blood, 926 00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:51,300 shed for the forgiveness of your sin, 927 00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:55,700 for our redemption to buy us back from Moab 928 00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,500 to ensure chapter four for those who love him. 929 00:50:00,433 --> 00:50:02,800 Do this every time you drink it and remember him. 930 00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,433 Ruth is a beautiful story 931 00:50:13,433 --> 00:50:16,433 because it's the story of Christ and the love of the father. 932 00:50:18,133 --> 00:50:20,200 And that is available 933 00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,200 for everyone who would call upon his name, 934 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,200 who would submit themselves to him. 935 00:50:28,733 --> 00:50:31,733 And commit themselves to obedience, 936 00:50:31,866 --> 00:50:34,866 relying on God's mercy and grace. 937 00:50:35,166 --> 00:50:38,166 Where we fall short. 938 00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:41,900 I want to invite you into that. 939 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,466 You should pray with me. 940 00:50:44,466 --> 00:50:47,466 If any of you have never made that decision 941 00:50:47,833 --> 00:50:51,766 or need to make it again to re solidify it, 942 00:50:52,633 --> 00:50:55,633 I'd invite you in this moment. 943 00:50:59,833 --> 00:51:01,633 To say something along these lines. 944 00:51:01,633 --> 00:51:04,633 God, I admit that. 945 00:51:05,333 --> 00:51:08,333 I have lived outside of your will. 946 00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:12,700 I know what you have asked of me, and I've denied it. 947 00:51:12,700 --> 00:51:15,700 I've denied you. 948 00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:17,866 And the Bible calls that sin. 949 00:51:17,866 --> 00:51:18,766 And I agree 950 00:51:20,466 --> 00:51:23,466 that I'm a sinner and I live in sin. 951 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,866 And I cannot be right with you by any work I do. 952 00:51:27,866 --> 00:51:30,866 I just can't be good enough. 953 00:51:31,666 --> 00:51:34,666 And I thank you that I don't have to. 954 00:51:35,133 --> 00:51:35,633 Tell him. 955 00:51:35,633 --> 00:51:38,800 Say I accept what Jesus did on the cross 956 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,800 for my redemption. 957 00:51:43,966 --> 00:51:44,666 Tell him, say, 958 00:51:44,666 --> 00:51:47,666 Jesus, thank you that you've done all the work 959 00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:50,700 and I get all the benefit. 960 00:51:50,966 --> 00:51:53,933 So today I trust myself to you, 961 00:51:53,933 --> 00:51:56,933 and I trust you with my present and my future. 962 00:51:58,166 --> 00:52:00,066 Help me love you with my whole heart 963 00:52:00,066 --> 00:52:03,066 and soul and mind and strength, 964 00:52:03,266 --> 00:52:06,266 and now work all things, 965 00:52:06,266 --> 00:52:09,266 even my past, together for my good. 966 00:52:09,566 --> 00:52:12,566 Because I love you. 967 00:52:14,933 --> 00:52:16,800 Father, this story is ultimately your story, 968 00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,300 and I thank you that you've shared it with us and invited us into it. 969 00:52:21,900 --> 00:52:24,700 I pray you help us trust your hand, 970 00:52:24,700 --> 00:52:27,700 that you remind us that our obedience with your Providence 971 00:52:28,066 --> 00:52:31,000 creates convergence, 972 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,166 and that you will work all things together for good for those who who love you. 973 00:52:35,333 --> 00:52:38,100 We love you. 974 00:52:38,100 --> 00:52:40,633 In your name I pray, Amen. 975 00:52:40,633 --> 00:52:42,700 This. Listen, I'm proud of you. 976 00:52:42,700 --> 00:52:44,933 Ruth's been a good study, 977 00:52:44,933 --> 00:52:46,700 It's been a good study. 978 00:52:46,700 --> 00:52:49,866 It. Next week I'm going to do a separate 979 00:52:49,866 --> 00:52:53,900 little message based on our values. 980 00:52:54,633 --> 00:52:56,466 You're wearing shirt. 981 00:52:56,466 --> 00:52:58,500 There's seven of them. There. 982 00:52:58,500 --> 00:53:00,933 And so we're going to talk about those next week as we get 983 00:53:00,933 --> 00:53:03,933 ready to get into our birthday Sunday. 984 00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,200 To celebrate our 20th birthday. Okay. 985 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:08,066 I love you. 986 00:53:08,066 --> 00:53:10,466 I'm proud of you. 987 00:53:10,466 --> 00:53:12,900 God's doing good things. 988 00:53:12,900 --> 00:53:13,400 Listening.