 Saturday morning hope God has blessed you I know he has been so I want to go ahead and jump into it but as always remember guys remember if you have questions feel free to ask questions as long as the questions are pertaining to what we're talking about also we are not going further than where we have been and so all we can talk about all we can discuss are passages books that we've already covered thus far we have covered these books we've covered Genesis Exodus Numbers Joshua we've covered a few chapters of Job we've come in a few chapters of judges we've covered Job Leviticus Deuteronomy so that is where if you have a question feel free feel free to ask questions we are going to as we're doing this discussion over Ruth which is what we're going to be today the entire books not a lot of chapters in the book of Ruth we're also going to go back and look at some things that tie into Ruth that we've already read now I've said before that for the purpose of this Bible study we are trying to make sure that we don't read into the Bible some things that we might want to read into it might be accurate we might want to bring in our own doctrine our own theology into it might be right might be wrong but how do we avoid having these problems how do we avoid having these issues well if we just stay where the scriptures are easier said than done but if we stay where the scriptures are meaning we can only discuss where we are how do the people who are hearing it how do they take it how does the writer how does he mean it how does the speaker how does the speaker mean it there have been some prophecies so far some have come true some have not yet come true up to this point some are going to come true later we're going to find out but the point is how we read the Bible absolutely matters and so far we have held to one particular type it has not let us down and I think that's really kind of the main thing how you read the Bible does matter because if you all of a sudden start changing how you read a text based upon your doctrine your theology your denomination what have you then that becomes a problem if I read and what I'm trying to do is help us all to develop our own hermeneutic your hermeneutic can be mine it can be yours it doesn't matter I just want your hermeneutic to be be consistent do not have a vague hermeneutic what I mean by that is there's there's a hermeneutic it's not really a hermeneutic but they'll call it a Christo-Centric or Christ-centered hermeneutic well what does that mean that that means absolutely nothing because it is it is subjected to whatever the person who's saying it means so define how you read the Bible and stick with it God is not expecting you to be so deep so intellectual so spiritual to where all the hidden things the mysteries that you can come up with them on your own nope because Jesus said I've told you earthly things you still don't get it so how then can you understand if I told you heavenly things that being the case notice thus far we all pretty much agree on what's been said there hadn't been a whole lot of controversies there have been some people that jumped in that will come in and say they think this they think that but they don't say so based on what we've read when I asked them they'll go to other pastors they're reading into the scriptures what they've been told so now that being the case I want to go ahead and start somewhere I said before we can only go where we've been and if we make a statement we have to earn it we haven't earned anything at present at present we have not heard of Jesus as far as we're concerned as far as we are in our study Jesus doesn't exist or the name obviously he exists we know who he is we have seen God the Father we've seen God we've seen the angel of the Lord we've seen we've seen his glory we've seen him show up in physical form we just have not heard the name Jesus so we can't bring up Jesus we can't bring up some of the other things that we just that we know is going to happen we can't bring those things up what do we say we have we haven't earned that yet however I'm going to violate that sort of I'm going to violate that sort of in how we open up yes we haven't gotten to the New Testament there's no such thing as a New Testament yet there's no such thing as Jesus as a matter of fact there's no such thing as Rome there's no such thing as Rome I had to check my history I'm not even sure if there's a such thing as Greece yet there might be there might be that I think I think that Empire has is starting to grow but certainly there's no Roman Empire where I want to start off today is I want to start off in the New Testament odd place to start when when doing a discussion or a study over the book of Ruth but you'll see why soon as I go there so starting starting Matthew chapter 1 verse 2 well let's start verse one let's go ahead and keep it in context the record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David the son of Abraham now all of these we only know of one person that's Abraham but continuing Abraham was the father of Isaac Isaac the father of Jacob and Jacob the father of Judah and his brother's Judah was the father of Perez by Zara and Tamar Perez was the father of Hezron and Hezron the father of Ram and Ram the father of Omnidot and I'm I mean a dad was the father of Nishon and Nishon the father of Salman Salman was the father of Boaz by Rahab Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth and Obed the father of Jesse Jesse was the father of David the king and it's interesting how he starts this off it's interesting in how he how he starts with with Tamar well Jacob Judah being the father starting with Judah so he goes into Judah he could have actually gone back further as well he really could have but there's a reason why the genealogy starts off this way before we get into that let's go ahead and go to Ruth the book of Ruth and let's start off in chapter one now it came about in the days when the judges governed that there was a famine in the land interestingly enough God tends or likes to use famines well because no one else nobody can control a famine only God can God determines when it rains God determines when it's not going to rain God determines if the food and vegetation are going to grow if the crops are going to yield anything God determines that and so if there's a famine you know for a fact this is clearly God the weather the winds and the waves that's his department you can't do anything about it so this famine in the land happens and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons so now he's got a this Jewish man with his Jewish wife take their two Jewish sons down to Moab stop for a second does anyone know who these Moabites are where they come from because it's kind of interesting it's not it's not so germane to the to the topic but Moab they are descendants of lots oldest daughters matter of fact lots oldest daughter her son's name was Moab and so the Moabites were descendants of their kind of distant distant distant second third fourth 12 cousins so they come from Lot now are they part of this tribe no they're not okay so they're not considered part of Israel part of this this nation are with me but I just thought it was interesting to bring that up so continuing the man the name of the man was Aleemelech and the and the name of his wife was Naomi and the names of his two sons were Malan and something keeps getting in my eye and Shilan excuse me aphorites of Bethlehem in Judah now they enter the land of Moab and remain there then Aleemelech Naomi's husband died didn't say how he died he just died and she was left with her two sons they took with themselves Moabite women as wives the name of which makes sense if you're Moab you're gonna take Moabite women they took his wives name of them was Orpa and the name of the other Ruth I don't know if you all know an Orpa I've never met an Orpa I've met a Ruth before never met an Orpa know of an Oprah but anyway and they lived there about 10 years then both Malan and Shilan also died and the woman was bereaved of her two I'm sorry was bereft of her two children and her husband so all the men in her life are gone then she arose with her daughters-in-law that that she might return from the land of Moab for she had heard that in the land of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food in other words so now the land that they left according to the famine now the land was receiving food so the famine is over so she departed verse seven from the place where she was and her two daughters-in-law with her and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah and Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law go return each to your own mother's house may the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the with the uh with the dead and with me may the Lord grant that you may find rest each in the house of her husband then she kissed them and they lifted up their voices and wept and they said to her nope but we will surely return with you to this to these people but Naomi said return my daughters why should you go with me I don't have any kids I don't have any children I'm not going to have any kids I don't even have a husband and if I were to have a husband and were to some kind of way get pregnant which is probably gonna happen are you gonna sit and wait for these children to grow up if they are boys to grow up and you're gonna marry them so no just go ahead and go return as she says um verse let's go to verse 14 and they lifted up their voices and wept again and orpa kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth clung onto her so Ruth says I'm not going anywhere where you go I go look what she says verse 15 then she said behold your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods return after your sister-in-law but Ruth said do not urge me to leave to leave you or turn back from following you for you go I will go and where you lodge I will lodge your people shall be my people and your god shall be my god where you die I will die and there I will be buried thus may the lord do to me and worse if anything but death parts you and me that's commitment that is commitment that is love that is now most of you will probably you know what hey listen it's been a good ride I love you but I'm still young and I would like to have a husband and some children or vice versa I'd like to have a wife and some and some children so appreciate what you've been for me you're a good person Ruth I mean Naomi you're a good person but I'm gonna leave you now no not her not her so now this is where we're gonna start getting to the good part so they both went until they came to Bethlehem and when they had come to Bethlehem all the city was stirred because of them and the women said is this Naomi so apparently Naomi as well as her husband eliminated they must have been some people they must have had some they were well known and appreciated but they're coming back because they got some land to sell because they're they're not doing too well they're they're poor basically uh is this Naomi she said to them do not call me Naomi call me Mara Mara is the Hebrew word for bad or misery or bitter Mara for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me I went out full but the Lord has brought me back empty why do you call me Naomi since the Lord has witnessed against me and the Almighty has afflicted me well I understand her her her feeling but sometimes it's not what it looks like sometimes it seems one way that that God is doing this to you when really God is actually up to something even greater we're going to get to that in just a little bit not just what you think is going to happen I understand you all have read the or heard the story of Ruth before but there's some other parts that I want to kind of open you up to if you haven't been open up to yet verse 22 so Naomi returned and with Ruth with her Ruth the Moabitis her daughter-in-law who returned from the land of Moab and they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest so they're coming around they're coming at harvest season very important this is an uh an agricultural agricultural group of people and so harvest is vitally important they're not they're not manufacturing cars and assembling microchips and things like that that's not what they don't have that they're not drilling for oil this is not that kind of economy so um they're going back at an important time verse chapter 2 verse 1 now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband a man of great wealth of the family of a limelight excuse me whose name was boas and Ruth Moabitis said to Naomi please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one in whose side I might find favor and she said go go to her my daughter I'm sorry he said to her go my daughter so she departed and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to boas who was of the family of a limelight now let's stop for a second what we have here guys I won't we won't go too far into it but at that time if you went to someone's field you've got you've got servants who are picking things up who are harvesting things and there will be people that would come behind them and glean whatever whatever was left over right with me so you've got and there's a priority to it as well the priority belongs to the people of the household whose land it is but then you've got these other people who are not as well off the poor who are allowed to come and to glean this is kind of how God has set things up that you that these nations these jews need to also take care of their fellow man which we're going to talk about a little bit more as we go forward so what she's talking about she's going to glean why because they want to eat they want to eat and so what they what she's going to glean what she's going to pick up that's what the word glean means to pick up so she's going to pick up whatever is kind of just left over and there's a bunch of people out there trying to pick up it's not just her and they're looking for some of the best lands to go to she happens to go to the field belonging to boas who happen to be a family member of a little like now is that uh do they know that don't know uh maybe maybe not we'll find out now behold boas came from bettlehem and said to the reapers may the lord be with you and they said to him may the lord bless you then boas said to his servants he said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers whose young woman is this the servant in charge of the reapers replied she is the young mobile woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab so in other words they know who he also knew who Naomi and who Ruth was the word has gone out now I don't think this is some booing metropolis where there's a billion people or a million people but still they know of at least her husband's family because again they do have land and they have to they're trying to sell what they've got to make a living are you with me so she's she is the young mobile woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab and she said please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves so she wouldn't ask permission she could do so thus she came and has remained from the morning until now she has been sitting in the house for a little while so what he just said was that she asked if she can come and glean she got permission because it's not their land you're asking if I can go in your land and glean after your reapers the reapers work for in this case work for boas so she's going to go and glean after after them she asked and then he states a statement that she has been she's remained from morning until now she's been out here working all day long I don't know why the song popped in my head she works hard for the money not that way but she's working hard for what she can do why because she needs it because it's not just her this is her love for Ruth and I mean for Naomi as well as her people her these are her new people now but this is her love for herself obviously you gotta find herself but but more than that but for Naomi you don't have to work as hard as just one person one mouth to feed but she's got two mouths to feed this woman who she loves dealing which makes you wonder it just makes you wonder all of the bible doesn't say so much it makes you wonder what sort of a woman Naomi was to her children and to her children in law her daughters in law it makes it it makes you wonder must have been wonderful because neither one to leave but in this one she's definitely not leaving her side and she's really working hard to get something from both of them so Boaz the servant tells her how hard she works so now look what Boaz does in verse eight then Boaz said to Ruth listen carefully my daughter Boaz is a little bit older than Ruth he's he's not a he's not a young woman the word that's used for by the way let's go back for a second the word this use of uh Ruth is the Hebrew word describing a young lady okay so this Nahara this is for a young lady not some just a woman or a widow Ruth I mean Naomi is not a young woman I'm sorry Naomi's not a young woman Ruth is and so Boaz no obviously you can see this and so Boaz is a little bit older how much older we don't know we don't we don't know exactly how old he is or her age but there's a there's a difference in age and any response to her kind of in a in a fatherly way not too demeaning but he says which is common it's just common courtesy like we will say today we used to be able to say sweetheart honey this and that we don't we don't mean any harm by it now some folks take that as a as a slight well the same thing my daughter listen listen my daughter listen my son okay so now let's let's keep going so do not glean do not go to glean in another field furthermore do not go on from this one but stay here with my maids so now Boaz is going to show her some love so to speak he is going to help her out so do not go to glean in another field furthermore do not go on from this one but stay here with my maids stick with my people not just the other people that are gleaning but stick with people that actually work for me from my maids my servants that's that's key let your eyes be on the field which they reap and go after them indeed I have commanded the servants not to touch you because she would be doing what all the other people that are gleaning aren't supposed to be doing they're kind of kind of hanging behind going behind after them but she's going to be with them I have commanded the servants not to touch you when you are thirsty go to the water jars and drink from the service draw so they would there were different places where they would drink his service would drink from one spot but the reapers they would go and drink other places there was a little place where they can go and kind of sit and chill out hang out to get some relief from the sun so anyway then she fell in her face bowing first hand bowing to the ground and said why have I found favor in your site that you should take notice of me since I am a foreigner Boaz replied to her all now listen this is important right here guys all that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully reported to me and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth and came to a people that you did not previously know may the Lord reward your work and your wages be full from the Lord the God of Israel under whose wings you have come to seek refuge then she said I have found favor in your sight my lord for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken kindly to your maid servant though I am not like one of your maid servants so she understands the blessing and think about this now I don't know what Ruth look like I'm I'm just gonna imagine she wasn't too hard on the eyes but at the same time more than that because not like that she would have been the only nice-looking woman there I don't think that would be the been the case but more to the point her kindness to Naomi his his kinsmen his kin folks so to speak or a family member of her husband and that has gone out and that is special do not think it like don't don't neglect the fact that or take for granted that somebody at some point in time is going to hear of your good doing more importantly God will that's why further on in the New Testament you'll hear this statement be not wearing well doing for in due season you shall reap a reward so you doing what's good not for the sake of getting something but just because that's who you are you doing good because God knows your heart it will come back to you you will be blessed by it now when couldn't tell you exactly how don't know but just do good and then let watch God see your good and then him outdo your good verse 14 at mealtime boa said to her come here that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in a vinegar wait a second hold up now she's not only being invited to the choice field and to glean with the reapers come on inside and eat with us come on in the house pretty cool so she said at the bedside so she set beside the reapers and he served her roasted grain and she ate and was satisfied and had some left so she got her field and she had some more left over why does she have some more left over because she's got a mother in law that she's going to take some too so when she rose to glean boas commanded his servant saying let her glean even among the sheaves and do not insult her and so she's getting even she won she she's literally up close and personal with the people that that work for boas that are working in the field she's literally taking from his plate she's really taking some of his profits away because they're gonna take this and they're gonna thresh this stuff down on the threshing floor so we'll talk about later but he is giving her all sorts of favor he is giving her all sorts of favors boas pulling a p y t might be he might be uh so boas command his servants let her glean and do not insult her also you shall purposely pull out listen to this pull out some of the grain from the bundles and leave it that she may glean and do not review this almost like um and i know folks get upset but but it's like having an easter egg hunt or a scavenger hunt for little kids and you drop the stuff right in front of them to make sure that they get it leave some stuff right there some choice of right there for her to get so he has set it up for her really well i don't again don't know what she looked like i'll imagine you know but again i think that coupled with her her testimony verse 17 so she gleaned in the field until evening then she beat out what she had gleaned and it was about an e-fi of barley she took it up and went to the city and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned she also took it out and gave Naomi what she had left after she was satisfied so she brought back some food she ate at she ate at the man's house and then brought a plate back so to speak uh verse 19 her mother-in-law then said to her where did you glean today and where did you work may he who took notice of you be blessed so she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said the name of the man whom i worked today is boas so she didn't know the field that she went to she just went to a field that just happened to be a relative Naomi's going to tell her who she is Naomi said to her darling law may he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn his kindness to to the living and to the dead again Naomi said to her the man is our relatives he is one of our closest relatives then Ruth the Moabite has said furthermore he said to me you should stay close to my servants until they have finished all my harvest Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law it is good my daughter that you go out with his mates so that others do not fall upon you in another field in other words this is still time of judgment these are this is where the judges are in place and so at this time in Israel you've got bad stuff happening you've got outlaws and so forth it's i wouldn't say it's a wild wild west but maybe it's a wild wild west out there in israel and so stay close so that nothing happened nothing no one bad comes around you and nothing bad happens to you so Naomi said Ruth darling law it's good so i'm sorry verse 23 so she stayed close to the maids of boas in order to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest and she lived with her mother-in-law so now things are going good she's getting favor she's doing this uh repeatedly then chapter 3 verse 1 we're almost through with this book then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her my daughter shall i not seek security for you that it may be well with you so Naomi's like i want to give you something i want to make sure that you are taken care of so look what she says now is not boas our kinsman with with whose maids you were behold his window he went old barley at the threshing floor tonight when they would take this uh this barley and stuff they take to the threshing floor because they're getting ready to get this stuff ready to sell it this is how they make their money this how they make their living okay but not just bringing everything basically bringing all the stuff to the meal to get it ready it's also a time of festivity and they sleep by the at the threshing floor or by it are you with me so this festivity there's eating drinking um kind of merriment and they're gonna sleep there so she tells her put on your sunday best get yourself ready which by the way it's just good for a lady just to look good there's nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with that get get yourself dolled up put on put on your perfume get your hair eat listen get your hair done or take it off the stand and put on your head whatever you gotta do get your hair i'm sorry i shouldn't have said that but get yourself ready get dolled up as she says she must be mad at me for that i apologize she says uh verse three wash therefore yourself and anoint yourself and put your best clothes on and go down to the threshing floor but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and treating you in other words don't go up to him let's not look desperate sweetheart let's just all right don't make yourself known and there's probably a couple reasons behind that because if you reject it it won't be public so it shall be when he lies down that you shall notice the place where he lies and you shall go and uncover his feet and lie down then he will tell you what shall uh what you shall do she said to her all that you say i will do now couple things this is not her saying go to his bed and lay in the bed with him that's this is not that okay this is not that uh this is kind of this provision where you lay at his feet and he will either accept you cover you take care of you or send you back but do this at night so that way if anything happens if it doesn't go this way then uh you won't be embarrassed there won't be any shame upon you so she did exactly and of course this is an older lady so she listen she knows what's going on the man is clearly showing favor uh abnormal amount of favor she's clearly showing he's clearly showing her favor and the older lady knows this and again this was a society a time where it's not like us you know men will show favor to a woman because he's trying to get something women the same way but then you you what you did was serious okay if there was interest in a woman it wasn't like he was interested in that woman that woman that woman that one let me date all of you and then let's just kind of see how shakes lose let me throw all of you up against the wall and see which one of you stick that's not how this was in the society as a matter of fact it was shameful to be that way and certainly the women could not be that way okay so it looks to be that he's showing an abnormal amount of favor i mean keep cleaning here matter of fact glean closer matter of fact get with the reapers matter of fact come eat at my table here here's some more and matter and so the mother can see this Naomi can see this so verse six of roof three she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother in law had commanded her when boas had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry he went to lie down at the end of their heap of grain and she came secretly and uncovered his feet just his feet ladies just his feet she uncovered his feet uh and laid down by his feet it happened verse eight in the middle of the night that the man was startled and bent forward so he got he gets up and leans forward and he sees her he said who are you and she asked i am Ruth you're made so spread your covering over your maid for you are a close relative i'll get to that point in just a second you are a close relative there's something going on here that is a part of what is or what jews are supposed to do we'll come to that in just a second verse 10 then he said may you be blessed of a lord my daughter you have shown your last kindness to be better than the first by not going after young men whether poor or rich look what he just said okay hold on stop stop the presses stop the presses this is for the ladies this is for the ladies and even the older ladies because it's not just young ladies who are single but this is for the ladies notice what he just said you've shown yourself to be quite a lady because what could she have done she could have went after after the young ones but you didn't you weren't just as they say thirsty looking for something or any old thing she saw something now i don't know what what uh boas look like i'm i don't know what boas look like i'm i'm imagining he's probably not the most handsome thing you know he's probably got hair on top of his head so i'm pretty sure he's not not that good looking but he's an honorable noble man and she values that as well why because who was she around an honorable noble woman are with me he notices this he says may you be blessed of the lord my daughter you have shown your last kindness be better than that of the first by not going after young men rather which or poor she could have gone after some wealthy young man or some poor young man she could have you know he noticed that and by the way by the way that's a good quality so let's continue so they seem like a good match they seem like a good match of course we know they are because we know the end of the story don't we verse 11 now my daughter do not fear i will do for you whatever you ask for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence so the word is out the word was out everyone knows that this is a good one ladies let me just stop again oh i'm talking to the ladies today your character will be known how you are for the good or for the bad will be known let me just tell you this ladies in case you don't know men speak men speak men talk so now best thing to say that there's no that there is no way for you to for you to be restored and so forth if you've done things in the past but understand men talk men talk older ladies you can tell the younger ladies men do talk hey let me tell you about so let me tell you about so oh you know it men do talk as a matter of fact the man that you were with before and the next man there how many you all notice that a lot of the people that you've been around know some of the same people that you've been around it's just kind of how it is so you're going to have to change yourself to be like a root this woman is an example going through a rough time how she handled herself is exemplary and it's known about by the people in this people take notice people notice it and i'm pretty sure i am pretty sure that there were some haters in that town look at her who does she think she is huh look miss it look call probably call her fast call her uh hot to try call probably call everything but she's not your true character will be out and people will notice it even in spite of those that have whisper whispering words and want to say something it's known and what does he say he lets her know of that he says um for all the people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence verse 12 now it is true i am a close relative however there is a relative closer than i remain this night and when morning comes if he will redeem you good let him redeem you but if he does not wish to redeem you then i will redeem you as the lord lives lie down until the morning so i'm not going to send you away in shame but lie down in the morning now i want to cover principle we talked about this before but we didn't give a lot to it because we're going to come back to it which now is the day that we're going to come back to it there is this concept this principle in israel of this kinsman redeemer as a matter of fact there's a concept of just a redeemer period but a kinsman redeemer first a redeemer is one who delivers you let me just read my notes who delivers or rescues someone by paying a price gee what i just said this is someone who will rescue you redeem you save you by paying a price to redeem is to it it means to buy you so under the law a kinsman redeemer would be a male relative who had the responsibility to act towards you for the betterment of you if you were in trouble danger or in need if you were poor and needed help okay so this law will matter of fact let's go to leviticus 25 25 and let's read this if a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he has to sell part of his property then let his nearest kinsman then his nearest kinsman who is to you to come and buy back what his relative has sold or in case of a man has no kinsman but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for his redemption then he shall calculate the year since his sale and refund the balance of the man who sold whom he sold it to and so return his property i won't go into more into it but this principle like if you've got a neighbor or especially a kin who is in need you are to redeem them even more so if there's some sort of marriage involved for example and we'll talk about this in just a little bit for example if this boy marries this girl this boy dies this brother the next in line if he's unmarried should marry this woman of his brother and in essence redeem her and she would have children uh with him for the brother i know that's weird for us because i'm not marrying my brothers my late brother's ex-wife and then have kids for him but this is this principle because he's setting something up there's something more important that's involved and so that's why this is this is out there so you understand this was the custom this was the rule this was according to the law are you guys with me so verse 14 so she lay at his feet until morning and she rose before one could recognize another so she's gonna get early in the morning uh and he said let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor again he said why because he may not end up being her husband there's a closer relative and so it would look shameful so let's let's let's keep this hush hush not that anything bad was done we don't want anyone to think anything bad is done uh and he said let it not let it not be known that a woman came to the threshing floor verse 15 and again he said give me the cloak that is on you and hold it so take off the cloak that she has on hold it so he held it and measures six measures of barley and laid it on her so he took her cloak and just put some stuff in there center home center home with a goodie bag then she went to the city when she came to her mother-in-law she said how did it go my daughter and she told her all that the man had done for her uh she said these six measures of barley he gave to me for he said do not go to your mother-in-law empty handed then she said wait my daughter until you know how the matter turns out for the man will not rest until he has settled it today so what does he have to do because there's a closer relative a closer kinsman he has to go to that one and see if he wants to redeem her how so well who does he have to redeem and that's the important thing to recognize the kinsman is not there necessarily to redeem Ruth no the kinsman has to redeem Naomi well who comes with Naomi Ruth so look how this goes chapter four verse one now boas went up to the gate and sat down there and behold the close relative who we don't know who this guy is thank god we don't know who this guy is uh the close relative whom boas spoke was passing so he said turn aside friend sit down here and he turned aside and sat down he took 10 men of the elders of the city and said sit down here so they sat down then he said to the closest relative Naomi who has come back from the land of Moab has to sell the peace of land which belong to our brother eliminate so remember talking about earlier in Leviticus having this property this land and you want to sell it why because we need to eat and so she's here she has to sell this land and so do you want to redeem it and then so redeeming it redeeming her but guess what comes with that well before he understands what comes with this this piece of land he's going to find out but he's he's he's up to the task at first uh so i thought to inform you verse four saying buy it before those who are sitting here and before the elders of my people if you will redeem it redeem it but if not tell me that i may that i may i may know for there is no one but you to redeem it and i am after you that it is the land and he said i will redeem it then boas said on the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitis the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance the closest relative said uh wait a minute second thought hold up the closest relative said i cannot redeem it for myself because i would jeopardize my own inheritance redeem it for yourself you may have my right a redemption for i cannot redeem it now his reason for doing so either because maybe um but he might be betrothed or he might be looking at somebody or he's just thinking out for his own interest i don't know this woman i don't want her to to take what i got coming because this is his wife and so her and her children would end up being um owners or partakers of his inheritance and he's not up for that he is not willing to pay the price well i think boas is tickled to death by this news uh now this was a custom in former times in israel concerning the redemption and the exchange of land to confirm any matter a man removed his sandals and gave it to one of this is a weird thing this is really a weird thing here here's my sandal here you go i don't want your sandal personally but that's her custom so given his sandal i don't know what you're gonna do with the sandal we we wear different sized sandals you one guy wears a size six the other guy wears a size 11 this ain't gonna work but it's kind of a here it is because obviously sandals were important and so this is kind of like your your your receipt this is to make sure that this is binding because how else did he get the sandal unless you steal it from a guy so a sandal receipt yeah verse eight so the closest relative said to boas buy it for yourself and he removed his sandal then boas said to the elders and all the people you are witnesses today that i have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to eliminate and all that belonged to shillen and malan moreover i have required Ruth the Moabitis the widow of malan to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the court of his birthplace you are witnesses today all the people who were in the court and the others said we are witnesses may the lord make the woman who was coming into your home he says may made the lord make the woman who's coming into your home like Rachel and Leah both of whom built the house of Israel so this is an awesome prayer to be like Rachel and Leah both of them are esteemed highly both Rachel and Leah are esteemed highly both of whom built the house of Israel and may you achieve wealth in effort that now by the way remember that the house of Israel Israel is built off of these two women now these two women also had concubines or servants that also gave birth in place of them as well but these two women are important now this is guys you have heard the story let me drink some water you have heard the story before we have got to start tracking some of this stuff because some of this stuff again we're going to start tying some pieces that we have already covered that there's a reason why they're bringing up and we know the story the story is brought for our understanding Rachel and Leah who are both of whom built the house of Israel if we were in church if we were in a Pentecostal church I would say turn to your neighbor and say neighbor they built the house of Israel but I'm not going to say that and don't sit in the room by yourself say that to yourself because it's going to be kind of weird somebody hears you but first well moreover may your house be like the house of Perez whom tomorrow bore to Judah hmm that's interesting though the offspring which the Lord will give you by this young woman well let's stop for a second and let's go look at this story of tomorrow and Judah I don't know if y'all remember this we've covered this before but the story of tomorrow and Judah this is in Genesis 38 let's start in 12 now here's the story tomorrow is to marry Judah's son Judah's son she married one died now there's this last son that Judah has that is supposed to go to tomorrow tomorrow sitting patiently waiting and Judah reneges on his promise Judah is not going to give this boy to her to marry now this is the custom this was supposed to do and he also promised so let's go back to 3812 now after considerable time she was daughter the wife of Judah died and when the time of morning was ended Judah went up to his sheep shears at Timna he and his friend Harrah the doodle mite it was told to tomorrow behold your father-in-law is going up to Timna to shear a sheep so she removed her widow's garment and covered herself in with a veil and wrapped herself and sat in the gateway of a name which is on the road of Timna for she saw that Shaila that's the one that she's supposed to marry she had grown up and she had not been given to him as a wife when Judah saw her she thought she was a harlot before she had covered her face now it won't go into the story but this is where she pretends to be a harlot and so what does she do you're not going to give me the sun well let's do one better Judah ends up sleeping with Tamar it comes back that Tamar is pregnant it's like a big soap opera this is like a big soap opera and so Judah wants to have Tamar killed for being a harlot so to speak but wait a second Judah you didn't do right you didn't do right Judah you're supposed to give this woman your um your son so what happens before it all comes to a head or as it's come to a head she says I'm gonna give you the signet this ring of the person whose baby this is turns out is Judah and Judah's like oh my god oh my lord wow I can't believe you caught me you caught me and so what does he say to Mars listen she's more righteous than I am so Judah has some babies this is why what he just said here in Ruth Judah has babies which is why they said moreover may your house be like the house of Perez whom Tamar bore to Judah that was one of the babies that she has now remember this name Perez let's go back to the genealogy of Jesus Judah was the father of Perez and Zara by Tamar those are two twins Perez was the father of Hezron and Hezron the father of Ram and so forth so that's why we're hearing the story of Judah and Tamar because that's a case where Judah even though he didn't mean to redeems Tamar it should have been his son but it's okay Judah you're doing it you're going to be the one that is going to redeem very important very important I'm gonna get to that in just a second so let's go back to the passages let's go to verse 13 and we're gonna have some fun so Bo asked to Ruth and she became his wife and he went into her and the Lord enabled her to conceive he didn't have put that that's interesting how they put that and the Lord enabled her to conceive what does that mean because we're adults here we're adults here who is the youngest in the chat we got to figure this out because I want to make sure you're old enough to hear this story we're adults here I'm pretty sure that when Ruth was married previously Janae's pretty young so we got to be careful Layla I can't remember Layla are you pretty young I'm gonna assume Layla's young I think Avernae is pretty young so I'm assume that Ruth and oh that's right Gabby Gabby's young okay Gabby close your ears you can't listen to this I'm going to assume that Ruth and her husband the one that passed I'm going to assume no Simone you're old enough you can hear this you can get into the R-rated movies I'm pretty sure that those two had sexual relations as a husband and wife should I'm pretty sure that those two had sexual relations young man young woman and she did not get pregnant well why well Janae you're 40 okay all right oh so you're not a spring chicken anymore you okay you're up there now I'm kidding so anyway she could get pregnant she did not get pregnant what do you think the reason was well look at what it says here and the Lord enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son who gives life who takes life who gives life God gives life God gives life and so if you're going to get pregnant who's gonna do that it's going to be God who does that if ladies you get pregnant try as you might I don't care what you do if the Lord is not in it doesn't matter now I'm by some of their ages now all of you young folks and all of you of almost young folk all of you everybody that that's if listen if you're 45 and under you're young if you're 45 and under your young 45 is when you listen 30 you become you become an adult 45 you become grown 50 you just and yeah you somewhere else when that when that when that card comes or when that offer to give you that AARP card comes it's a different category that's when you like you know what is your time is over this is over it gets you a chair and sit down somewhere so you 40 year olds you got out you got a few more years you 50 year olds you'll know them talking about stuff start creaking and popping it didn't use a creaking pop so it is what it is though I'm 50 about to be 51 years young praise God but anyway it's the Lord who enabled her why in the world would the Lord not give her a child previously huh we're going to look at that in a second my man Robert 2z with the best prison and outside a prison name he's 68 so let's hold that thought hold that thought the Lord enabled her to concede and she gave birth to a son then the women said to Naomi blessed is the Lord who has not left you without a redeemer today and may his name become famous in Israel will it will his name become favorite I mean famous may he also be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age for your daughter-in-law who loves you and is better to you than seven sons has given birth to him then they only took the child and laid him in her lap and became his nurse she wasn't nursing him but became his nurse which is a is what a grandma supposed to do right the neighbor women gave him a name saying a son has been born to Naomi so they named him Obed he is the father of Jesse and the father of David now these are the generations in all the stories repeating what we saw in in Matthew so now here is where the good part comes in guys this is the good stuff question because we got to recap some things we have to recap some things now remember the other man could have redeemed Naomi and Ruth the other kind of who we don't know who this is could have been the redeemer problem was he was not willing the sacrifice was too much but he did not want to share his inheritance with someone who he is not physically related to in that regard he's related to them but he wants someone of his own choosing he did nope sorry I'll take the land but I won't take her okay was that a big deal well no it wasn't no it wasn't because this needed to come through a certain somebody now there's a reason why they're back in the land they left the land to begin with why why did they leave the land why did Naomi and her husband Lemolec and her two sons leave the land because of a famine god likes to use families he'll drive listen god will drive you away if he needs you to he will he did the measures that he will take to get his will accomplished they're limitless he'll do what he wants to because he wants to and that's that and you just ride and be happy like your parents will say sit back in the back and shut up so just ride and be happy you deal with it because he's got now the good thing is he's got so who you're riding with makes a difference yeah see if I'm if I'm riding with Jesus I don't care if we I don't care if it takes a year to get there now if I'm riding with my uncle Fred yeah I don't care if it takes 15 minutes I want to get out the car with him he drinks and smokes and does all kind of stuff in the car I got you know I'll ride with Jesus the company's better the trip is better so we are riding with him but it's important that god moves them out of the land why because I'm going to meet somebody and meet these with this woman particularly Ruth because God is going to show something God I want you I want you to hear what's happening here so he meets Ruth they meet Ruth all the other characters who aren't as important are gone now they go back to the land and they meet a man who is of the tribe of Judah very important now we need to recap real quick why is it important that that we that we're dealing with Judah Judah why is it important that this is happening remember the original Judah left the land because of a famine Judah is whom this descendant is going to come through let's go back to Genesis 49 10 we've covered before the scepters shall not depart from Judah nor the ruler's staff from between his feet well wait a second why is that since Judah is not the oldest Judah is not the second oldest Judah is not the third oldest Judah is the fourth oldest remember Reuben Jacob's son decides to go and have relations with one of Judah's women and so you're cut off but then you've got these other two boys Simeon and Levi who were treacherous in dealing with these men even though they the man defiled Delilah or Dina still you gave them your word and you violated the covenant and you was he said you hamstrung the the uh or you hamstrung the oxen which I don't know why that's that's important and so now it's Judah and so he makes a statement the scepters shall not depart from Judah well why is that important well matter of fact how do we even get to this point because remember all of this is in this backdrop of them having to go to to uh to Egypt why do they have to go to Egypt that's the important point how are we even here what brought us at this point in Genesis to Egypt well there was a famine now the reason why they're there not just because of the famine is because Joseph is there or why is Joseph there Joseph is there because his brothers including Judah including Levi and Simeon and Reuben and the rest of them sold Joseph into slavery who makes his way into Egypt now remember this is the very same Joseph who when his when his father dies and his brothers are concerned he tells his brother something that's very reassuring he says am I not in the place where God wants me to be Joseph says I am literally where I am supposed to be where I need to be where God wants me to be wait a second Joseph how in the world are you where God wants you to be you were unjustly sold into slavery well why was Joseph sold into slavery how is that even possible why is that well because there's a famine in the land but but just because there's a famine in the land Joseph doesn't mean that you ought to be in Egypt yeah but more than that the reason why I'm in here by way or and the reason why you're here because it's famine in land I'm here because of a dream remember Joseph had a dream this dream not like Martin Luther King Jr made them upset they were bothered by that and because they were bothered by that they sold him into this land and they have forgotten about him but then a famine comes to bring them face to face with their brother but still why do they need to eventually be in Egypt they could have he could have had a famine and sent them somewhere else but why well the reason why they are in Egypt the reason why there's a famine in the land the reason why Joseph had a dream the reason why Joseph interprets another person's dream the reason why Joseph ascends to the second highest in the land the reason why Joseph can now say am I not where God wants me to be is because somebody in the past asked a question well what do you mean somebody asked a question well there was a fellow by the name of Abram who was promised by God we'll get to the promise in a second but he was promised by God and he wasn't quite sure he had some faith or not as much faith as he should have had but he did have some faith and he asked a question in Genesis 15 8 Abram who was standing in front of God says oh lord God how may I know that I will possess it and so what does God say bring me a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old female goat and a three-year-old ram and a turtle dove and a young pigeon uh and he brought all these and he cut them into and he laid them verse verse 12 now when the sun going down was going down a deep sleep fell upon Abram and behold terror and great darkness fell upon him God said to him no for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs where is this land this land happens to be Egypt so why are they in Egypt because Abram asked a question why is Abram asked the question because remember God made a promise to Abram and his descendants he said in chapter 12 verse 2 I will make you a great nation this word nation or going is a people it's a nation there necessarily has to be boundaries people and rulership that's why he goes on to say the scepter because if you're going to have a nation there's gotta be somebody ruling the nation so the scepter that they don't know anything about this rulership coming that on anything about the descendants of Judah is prophesied you're going to be this great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and he says I will bless those who bless you and the ones who curse you I will curse you and he says in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed well what does that mean all the families of the earth shall be blessed will that include Moabites it sure would would that it would that include Amalekites if they're around and they get right it sure would that would include every single person but why why would God even go through these great links why did God make this promise why is Joseph having a dream why does his dream lead his brothers to jealousy why does his dream lead Joseph he put in prison and then ultimately rise through the ranks in Egypt why does his famine happen that brings him there why is it told that the scepter should not depart Judah why is Abraham having even even asking a question why is Abraham in doubt why was Abraham even promised this land well because another promise was made previously the very first promise you may call it a covenant you don't have to call it a covenant but you can call it a covenant if you want to but a promise was made to who well the promise was made to three people specifically but also more importantly to all of us the promise goes something like this in Genesis 3 15 when he makes this promise of what he is going to do he's speaking to Adam he's speaking to Eve and he is speaking to the serpent he says know this that the seed of this woman his foot shall bruise the head of this serpent how is this making any sense well because God is going to make sure that this seed this descendant who we discovered Matthew is descended from Judah who is descended from the the offering of Judah and Tamar who is Perez who eventually makes his way down to to Boaz who they have a son with Ruth who they have a son named Obad who has a son named Jesse who has a son named David who has a son named Solomon God makes a promise to David David your son your your firstborn son your main son your physical son Solomon is going to sit on the throne but there's going to be another son after him who's going to sit on your throne forever oh so that's what that means when he says the scepter shall not depart Judah Jesus is out of the line the lineage of the tribe of Judah all because in Genesis 3 15 Adam and Eve decide to break the rules and be put out but God who is a loving God who is a merciful God decided that this was going to happen and so sometimes you don't know what's up you don't know what God is doing you know why he's doing it but you have heard him say some things and God is not a man who should lie he's not like us if God said it it's exactly how he meant it if he meant to say it a certain way then it will come to be exactly how he says so there won't be one thing that's out of place if he promises 585 it will be 585 not 584 not 586 he is exact why because he's God he knows exactly what he's doing and if he makes a promise not to just you or to me one he stands on his promise because he's God I want you all to understand this the reason why we've got these stories are so that we can look and learn we've got a God who is so precise but he's also so loving who will carry out his promises he could have easily decided I'm not doing any of this stuff the moment that they ate the fruit that's it I gave him a chance I don't need any human beings but he wants to do two things show his justice and show his mercy well how does he do so well he shows his justice by stating that anybody that sins death is the penalty that's a hard that's a hard pill to swallow but then he overcomes his justice by introducing his love so that since death is required since death is required I want you all to catch this since death is required I'll pay the debt this seat of the woman is going to pay the debt we know that to be Jesus who is of the tribe of Judah who is it's only made possible because of Ruth marries and has a child with Boas this righteous woman who's not even Jewish well that makes sense because we got a Rahab and other non-Jews who are in this lineage because God has made also made a promise not just to save the Jews but bless all the other nations I'm going to bring some folks who are part of other nations and this is where he promised I will make a people who are not my people to be my people people who are not loved I will call them beloved and so his love brings about this payment this debt and the debt is only satisfied by death your death can't do it nothing about you can pay the debt but he says I'll pay the debt for you so the seat of man I mean the seat of woman is going to step on it's going to crush the head of this serpent now the last thing the last victory that Jesus gets over the serpent over the devil can anyone tell us what is the last victory that is to be accomplished when it's finally realized it's a finality that the foot the heel of this seed has crushed the head of this serpent the last enemy to be put away to make him victorious is death and when that happens as has happened he does so on the throne he is the king at this time he is reigning and the last thing that he does to Satan and to the enemies of him is to put to death death so to speak and all of that all of his enemies as well as death is thrown to the lake of fire forever and so this is why this the story of Ruth is vitally important we see what God is doing and he is keeping it's it's like this great love story this great soap opera this great drama all of this stuff brings us up to this point and it's going to be fulfilled or I should say inaugurated at the cross tell me how good God is amen before we go let me see if anybody like that kick rocks death kick rocks death you got to go you got to go and so the last thing can you imagine there's going to be a point in time where people are going to be living a long time that's what Isaiah tells us this that if you die before 100 that's just unfortunate because everybody's going to be living for the most part longer than 100 they're going to be supposed to go and die before then but those are not his people babies won't die in the in the womb look no more abortion babies won't even die in infancy no more infants dying but there are people going to still die though even during his reign and then after his thousand year reign the last thing that he's going to do is he's going to put death away how cool is that I'm so glad that God is God I really am I'm so glad that God is God by the way during the thank you so much for the super chat I appreciate that thank you so much sister so before we leave thank you brother thank you you are I'm praying to put this lesson in the sermon cool cool uh what's funny is I had no I had no intent of going this direction I really didn't I was I was thinking of going somewhere else what are the um I just saw I just oh what are the what are the gods mentioned in in Ruth um 115 let's go to Ruth 115 didn't say it didn't say um but it was interesting is that the word that's used there is the word um it's the word uh so it's it's it's the plural form of Elohim or L uh it's related it's the same as Elohim but it's not the God but they've gone after other gods didn't say there's there's there are hundreds and thousands of different gods um and the cool part is what did Ruth do she forsook their gods in place of the God which is what which is actually what Rahab did Joan has a question where's Jones question oh let's see let's see is is she lying at his feet as a form of respect or submission well it's really a form of submission but really more than that it's actually kind of a plea of help you lay at it you lay at his feet in hopes that he would cover you in hopes that he would protect you and bring you in it's it's almost in in this case it's in this matter of fact certainly in this case it's a way of it's like hey I'm single I'm free I like you sort of because she could not do that she absolutely could not do that if either one of them were married she couldn't do that you couldn't do that so it's a way of asking for help protection uh from a maid to a um to a to a older man so but uh she she lays at his feet and she she uncovers his feet gets her attention gets her attention hey bro Andre dog gone under I said call me you said you said I'm gonna call you I didn't call me by the way Andre has a Dallas Cowboy shirt on he's got he got I said a shirt a Dallas Cowboy jersey I don't know what to say about that I don't know what to say about that although one of my new favorite players in the NFL is uh Mr. Deuce Vaughn I want to see that man do well just a little tiny fellow I listen he's he's smaller than me I could probably beat him up even though he's young I could I could probably take him I'm kidding but I do I'm I am rooting for that boy and it's crazy I'm rooting I'm literally rooting for a Dallas Cowboy I'm rooting for him I am rooting for him as I've had guys from Texas Tech go to go to uh to the Cowboys I'm not rooting for them nope anyway uh you say God's team listen one thing we know for a fact there are no Cowboys in heaven and God there's no listen Cowboys aren't even mentioned in the Bible cults are even eagles and giants are mentioned in the Bible what are you gonna say about that mr. Anderson man so sorry uh I can't remember what I think in judges there is something that relates to Ruth and Boaz time or uh yeah yeah there is we're gonna come to that because people think that maybe this is happening uh around the time of Gideon we hadn't gotten a Gideon yet and so we are going to so that's why I didn't I didn't bring that up so yes because remember let's go back to the uh to the picture put on the screen remember this is a complimentary book so this story is happening at the backdrop of what's happening in judges and so you're gonna see other stories other things written that aren't necessarily uh germane to the main theme is oh by the way it's kind of like watching a movie you all watch a movie where the main character is doing something over here and then they'll cut away and show something that's happening over on the another part of the country another part of the city that's kind of the same thing that we're having happening here um but it just adds to it so I'm gonna surprise you guys too let me just tell you this I'm gonna I'm gonna put on a cowboy shirt I'm gonna wear a cowboy shirt I'm gonna wear a cowboy shirt for one of the live streams thank you everyone I appreciate I appreciate the super chick appreciate that sister thank you you all don't believe me but I'm gonna I'm gonna wear a cowboy shirt now uh I'm gonna help you out too because yet the giants are in the in the bible there are giants in the bible but they get killed they get slain so that's just that's just me that's just me they're gonna hate on my team all you want to you all can hate on my team all you want to but the bible says in Luke the lord needs the cults they ask you what are you doing that cult that's never been written the lord has need of nothing wrong with the cowboys I'm starting you know what I'm actually I'm actually believe it or not the cowboys are starting to rub off on me I don't dislike the cowboys as much as I used to partly because it's kind of you know it's hard to dislike somebody that hadn't done anything you know you you feel more pity but I think I think the cowboys are growing on me I think the cowboys are growing on me Regina says go pack go I think they're growing on me so I'm gonna I'm gonna wear a cowboy shirt do I attend Saturday Saturday church no I do not or do I attend church on Saturday let's see that's cute let me see if there are any other questions but yeah Jeff you are yet Jeff's good student Jeff just good Jeff is just good because we are that was good for you to make that point I wasn't gonna make that point just yet because we hadn't covered it yet but yeah thank you Adam Brown I appreciate that thank you listen listen we're not talking about rugby we're not talking about rugby which book we cover next week we are back in judges next week we what are we who do we leave off on judges I can't I I can't remember I can't all I know it will be session 19 and so chapter 4 okay thank you so we'll be back in judges on next week and then and then let's see I think we have if I'm correct I think we've got two weeks of judges and then I it picks up it picks up we're going into 1st and 2nd Samuel we're going in 1st and 2nd Samuel so anyway guys thank you so much I love you all I've gotta do a few things there are a couple videos that are coming out later today and I haven't decided if I'm gonna cover this weekend this weekend or on Monday the the seven the seven dangerous reasons for what is it what is it called the seven dangers yeah the seven dangers of one saved always saved someone put out and I it's it's just it's silly it's foolish it's like did you did you did you actually research what you just said and he says I didn't mean to I don't want to straw them in their arguments and he then proceeds to straw me in all the arguments all right guys love you so much I have got when I say I got a bunch of do so I will see you all go bears I will see you bears are cool because the bears they tease the prophet about his bald head and a bear came down so I'm cool with the bears and I'm really cool with the bears because the Colts beat the bears in the last Super Bowl so that we that we won so praise God for the bears thank you Jeff thank you for the super chat thank you so much and the rest you God bless you you all are the best on YouTube thank you so much God bless you