 All right, those of you who are here, if you can settle down in your seats, please. So, before the break, we very, very briefly summarized Chapter 4 and looked at the story of Deborah and Parak. But just to actually look at those verses, you know, in a slightly greater detail. So, if we were to turn to Judges Chapter 4, and if we were to look at verse 3, that is where it explains to us that the commander of the Canaanite army, his name is Cisera. And it says over there that he had 900 chariots pitted with iron. And we see this mentioned in other places in the Book of Judges where it talks about chariots made of iron. Up to that time, they only had the wooden chariots and, you know, with wear and tear because they are made of wood. Even the wheels, you know, would be made of wood. You would not exactly have rubber tires and all of that because, you know, those things were not created at that time, invented at that time. So, the chariots were not very fast, very efficient. But once people began discovered iron and once they started using iron for their weapons, you know, it advanced their entire warfare. It took it up to a higher level. So, now they would fit the wheels with iron, you know, as a framework around the wood. So, now those chariots would be able to move faster. And so, all the foot soldiers who are on foot would be at a great disadvantage. And if you notice, the Israelites did not have any chariots with them. So, they were all literally infantry. They were, you know, on foot. So, whenever they had to face this iron chariots, it was more difficult for them. They would be more afraid, but God said that He would be with them. So, now again, it's a step of faith which they need to take. And so here, Deborah comes to Barak and says, the Lord has commanded this. That would be in chapter 4 verses 6 and 7. She says, the Lord, the God of Israel commands you. Go, take with you 10,000 men of Naftali and Zebulun and no lead them to that particular mountain near the river. So, it is the command that she delivers from the Lord. So, this was not just a suggestion. The Lord Himself wanted Barak, the judge, to go and bring judgment upon these Canaanite people. But Barak was afraid to do that and he says, if you come along with me, then I will go. Otherwise, I will not go is what he says. And so in verse 8, you know, Deborah says, no honor will come to you from this conquest. And in verses 14 and 15 is where we see what God does. So, if we can have someone read out for us, judges chapter 4 verses 14 and 15, please. Judges chapter 4 verses 14 and 15. Yeah, even if you don't have the mic, if anyone is willing to read, go ahead. The people online also have their Bibles, so they also will be able to follow it. If we can have someone read out over here. It doesn't matter whether you have the mic, don't have the mic. If you can just read out, please. Am I right, sister? Judges chapter 4 verses 14. Then Deborah says to Barak. Can you hear, sister? I want to read. Yeah, the audio was not very clear. So, okay, maybe you can read out the next verse. I mean, the next verse, which we require. Thanks. Yeah, there was a little problem with the audio, but it finally actually came through. So, yeah, the next verse that needs to be read out. You know, maybe you could do that for us. Thanks. Thanks a lot, Gerdrud. So, yeah, here we see in verses 14 and 15, judges chapter 4 verses 14 and 15. It says, has not the Lord gone ahead of you? So, it's not like as if Barak is being sent alone by himself. The Lord has gone ahead of him. Whenever there is a conquest, whenever there is warfare, whenever you're facing a situation where you feel the odds are rather high, you feel that you will not be able to gain victory. The point, the script, the spiritual point that this passage is making is that the Lord has gone ahead of you. He has gone before you. You are just following behind him. So, he will take care of the details. He will ensure the victory. All you need to do is play your small role, you know, do your part. So, it says the Lord has gone ahead of you. And when they reach that place, when they reach the Kishan River, God has already made arrangements for the defeat of the enemy. Barak did not know the details. Barak was just asked to step out in faith. But God had already arranged for a mudslide. Who knows how many days before that? You know, already somewhere higher up in the valley, the river has been blocked. So, there has been some kind of a mudslide in the catchment area higher up of this particular river Kishan. So, now at this point of time, when Barak and his soldiers arrive at that place and there are 900 chariots waiting for them in that place, you know. And Cesare and his army are very confident that they will have victory. Because they are the ones with the chariots. These are just, the Israelites are just foot soldiers who have come on foot. So, they believe that the victory is guaranteed. And at that point of time, God releases the, you know, the dammed up waters which have been, you know, which have been held up earlier on. So, once that mudslide is released, once that mud clears up, all the water which is collected over there comes gushing down with great force. So, what do you think would have happened when it reaches this point, you know, near the foot of Mount Taber where all the where the two armies are facing each other. All the waters come rushing down. And so, the waters would have spilled the banks and would have flooded the entire area. And so, because of that, these heavy iron chariots get stuck in the mud. And it says over there that, you know, Cesare, he gets down and he starts running away on foot is what it says in verse 15. It says, Cesare got down from his chariot and fled on foot. A powerful commander is reduced to that condition. God took care of the details. So, Baruch should not have been in fear. He should have obeyed right in the beginning and said, yes, I will lead. He should not have said to Deborah, oh, if you come, then I will go. Otherwise, I'm not sure if I want to go. All of that was a lack of faith. And so, the Lord probably would have allowed Baruch to kill Cesare and claim the honor. But because of his lack of faith, we see that it's a lady. We see that later on in verses 17 and 18, you know, he goes to that tent and it's that lady who kills Cesare. So, the details regarding the flood are not mentioned over here in your chapter four. We only get to know about this in chapter five, in verse 21 where it says, the river Kishon swept them away. The age old river, the river Kishon, march on my soul, be strong. So, the Baruch and Deborah sing a song of deliverance in chapter five. And in the song, we have this detail being mentioned that God used the river Kishon to cause a flood to defeat the enemy. So, in the book of Joshua and also here in the book of Judges, we see that whenever the people place their faith in the Lord and obey Him, you know, with submission, then He can do any miracle. And the same applies even to us today because the character of our God, the power of our God has not changed at all. So, the kind of miracles we experience today may be different. You know, at that time, their technology was at a different level. Their culture was different. So, He worked among them in a particular way. Today, He may not bring floods. Today, He may not operate in the same manner. Today, there would be miracles of a different kind. But when God's people step out in faith in obedience and submission, then God can cause any miracle to take place because He has no limitations. So, even though such a beautiful deliverance takes place, Baruch gets no honour out of it due to his lack of faith. That should not happen to us. If we poorly go out and do what the Lord says, then the Lord will see to it that we are honoured. The Lord will lift us up because we placed our faith in Him. So, we should not be living in fear as Baruch did. So, that is the lesson that comes through from this particular passage. So, we could just dwell on a few incidents which took place in the book of Joshua. And we could just maybe look at a couple of incidents which took place in the book of Judges. Moving into the third historical book which would be the book of Ruth. Now, why is the book of Ruth mentioned directly after the book of Judges? Because they belong to the same time period. This whole story of Ruth takes place during the time of the Judges which is why this particular story has been placed here in our English Bibles. So, in Judges chapter 3 verses 12 to 30, we get to know something about the Judge Ehud. You know, where we are told that Ehud defeats the King of Moab. So, at that point of time in chapter 3, Judges chapter 3, this is the background that we are looking at of the book of Ruth. So, if you want to know the background of the book of Ruth, you would look in the book of Judges. You would look at chapter 3. You would look at the verses 12 to 30 which talk about what took place in the land of Moab. We see that the Moabites have placed the Israelites under captivity. They're attacking them. They're destroying their property. They're doing all of that. But God raises up a Judge named Ehud who goes out and he's able to kill this particular King. And we see in verses 29 and 30, Judges chapter 3 verses 29 and 30. Maybe we can have someone read out that. So, yeah, maybe we could have Gertrude read out that. Judges chapter 3, 29 and 30. Yeah, go ahead Gertrude. Which one, sister? Judges. Judges chapter 3 verses 29 and 30. Okay. And at that time they killed about 10,000 men of Moab. All stout men of Valar, not a man expected. So, Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel and the land had rest for 80 years. So, we see here that for 80 years, there's peace established in the land of Israel and peaceful relationships are there between Moab and Israel. So, around that time they say is when the famine takes place. So, there's a great famine in the land of Israel. But at that point of time, it's no longer under the subjection of the Moabites. And so, they say that this is the background for the book of Ruth. A man named Elimelek takes his wife Naomi and takes his two sons and they want to escape from the famine which is there in the land of Israel. And so, they choose to go and settle down in Moab during these 80 years when there is a time of peace between Moab and Israel. Now, would God have approved of Elimelek's decision to take his family to leave Bethlehem and go to Moab? Most probably not because this is what God says regarding the Ammonites and the Moabites in Eutronomy chapter 23 verses 3 to 6. So, if we can have someone read out for us, Eutronomy chapter 23 verses 3 to 6. Eutronomy 23 verses 3 to 6. If someone can read out. An Ammonite or Moabat shall not enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the 10th generation, none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt and because they heard here against you, Balaam, the son of Bohr from Bethlehem of Mesopotamia because you nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you. You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. The Lord is very clear in his instructions regarding the Ammonites and the Moabites. He says in verse 6, do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live because of the way they have treated Israel. When the Israelites requested that they would peacefully go through their territory and they just want to use the road the highway they refuse to do that and also they tried to hire a prophet to bring curses upon the Israelites because of all of these things which they have done. The Lord says do not have any friendship with them. So when Elimelek makes this decision to take his family from the land of Bethlehem and go and settle down in Moab, he is directly going against the will of God. This is not something that he is doing with the Lord's blessings because why we see again and again in the book of Judges it says there was no king at that time and the people did whatever they wanted what they felt was right in their own eyes because at least if a king was there the king maybe would have imposed the law of God upon them and said you must keep the law of God and because there was no one in authority to control them and make them follow the laws of God the people did whatever was pleasing in their own eyes and so Elimelek decides that he's going to take his family of all places to the land of Moab when God said do not even have any friendship with them he takes his family and goes and settles down over there and he goes one step further he gets his sons married to Moabite women is what he does and so obviously the covering of God the protection of God was not upon his family and we see that Elimelek dies both his sons die and now we have Naomi and the two daughters in law left and all three of them are now widows so good things do not happen when we deliberately go against the Lord's wishes and make our own decisions according to what is right in our eyes so we need to ask the question is it right in God's eyes does he approve of this decision which I wish to take regarding my family so we need to place the Lord's wishes first so this is the background of the book of Ruth and the highlight that we see in the book of Ruth is that in this time of judges where an entire nation of Israelites are living in utter faithlessness no loyalty to the Lord no love for God no mercy or kindness towards their own people you know when you look at Judges Chapter 17 up towards 21 the horrible stories recorded there no mercy towards their own people that is the kind of Israelite nation that we see in the book of Judges in the middle of all of this unfaithfulness we see a cursed morbidness coming and showing them how a person should live so it's very ironical a woman who is not even you know who is part of a nation that God has condemned she rises up and she presents an example of what loyalty should look like what faithfulness should look like so there is a contrast drawn between the book of Judges in which people of God are living in horrible disloyalty and the contrast is with the book of Ruth where an outsider someone who has been placed under God's curse she chooses to take a stand and she presents a different picture and she teaches the Israelites what loyalty should look like so we see a lot of irony in this in the way God you know brings out this story of this woman so Ruth chooses to show faithfulness in a time when nobody even understood what faithfulness and loyalty was so if you were to look very briefly at the structure of this book we only have four chapters so chapter one gives us the background we get to know that all the husband and his two sons are now dead so we have the three widows who are left so Naomi gives permission to her daughters in law to go back to their hometowns to get remarried and have families of their own because now she has nothing to offer them so she is willing to come back to Bethlehem alone by herself even though she has no help no support, nothing so one of the daughters in law says alright I will go back because if she comes over here to the land of Israel she knows that she is not going to be received well she is a Moabite test, remember who she is and the Israelites have no respect for the Moabites so if she comes over here she will not know the language she will have to learn the language and she is not going to be respected so she decides to go back home Ruth on the other hand she looks at this old lady and she thinks if I to go away who will look after her who will be there for her so Ruth says I choose to come along with you and even though I am a Moabite I will make your people my people I will make your God my God even though God has spoken against that nation and so because of the stand which this lady takes God makes an exception for her and in fact we go on to see what a huge exception God makes for her because God what did he say in Deuteronomy in the passage that we read he said up to the 10th generation these people will not even come near my tabernacle they are unacceptable and who is the man who becomes a king and a priest David who is a descendant of this Ruth he is what 4th generation he is not 11th generation God says up to the 10th generation I don't want any of them even coming near my temple and a 4th generation man he goes on to become a king and a priest to serve the almighty God and 5th generation Solomon literally builds the temple for the Lord this is the way the Lord looks upon those who have a heart to be loyal and faithful and choose to place themselves under him what a contrast between the faithless Israelites of the Book of Judges and this outsider who owes nothing to Naomi but chooses just out of the kindness of her heart to stay loyal so it's a beautiful contrast that is drawn between these two books in chapter 2 we see that she goes to the field of Boaz and starts collecting the grain which is over there because again that we are told in the Book of Deutronomy and also Numbers where it says when you people at harvest time when you are gathering all your crop and getting it ready to sell and all of that don't take every bit of the crop leave some of it over there in the fields so that the poorest of the poor they can come over there and at least take that to their homes and have food to eat so it's a commandment which the Lord gives don't pluck up every single bit of grain leave some of it in the field so that the poor people can come and take it to their homes so that they can feed themselves so when Naomi and her daughter-in-law come back over here they are in that category the poorest of the poor they have no territory they have no money they have nothing so she says to her daughter-in-law our relative is Boaz so maybe he will show you kindness so why don't you go to his fields and glean the wheat from glean the grain from his fields so which is what we see in chapter 2 chapter 3 is where Naomi tells Ruth to go and request Boaz to become a kinsman redeemer so we will look a little bit at those details later and in chapter 4 of course they get married and you have Obed being born so he becomes the grandfather of David so these are the 4 chapters so let's understand what this whole concept of kinsman redeemer is all about I think for us to understand this we would have to go back to Deuteronomy chapter 25 and we have a lot of verses but it gives us a very clear picture of what exactly happened in the story of Ruth so for us to understand that we need to look at this passage Deuteronomy chapter 25 verses 5 to 10 so if we can have someone read out Deuteronomy chapter 25 from verse 5 all the way up to verse 10 please concentrate even as we are reading because you will understand the background of this whole kinsman redeemer concept someone can read out Deuteronomy 25 5 to 10 if brothers go together and one of them dies and has no son the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family her husband's brother shall go into her take her as his wife and perform the duty of her husband's brother to her and it shall be that the first born son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother that his name may not be blotted out of Israel but if the man does not want to take his brother's wife then let his brother's wife go up to the gate of the elders and say my husband's brother refused to raise up a name of his brother in Israel he will not perform the duty of my brother's husband's brother then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him but if he stands firm and says I do not want to take her then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders remove his sandals from his foot split in his face and answer and say so shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house and his name shall be called in Israel the house of him who had his sandals removed okay so the property in the promised land was given by God as a divine inheritance to the Israelites and each tribe was given a certain territory and told this is yours I Yahweh is giving this to you you know so the land was valuable in God's eyes so each tribe was supposed to hold on and preserve the land which has been given to them so the people who are living the families of each tribe which are living in their territories if somebody dies then the property of the dead man will just go off to the brothers so what will happen in the title deed in future generations the name of the original holder of the land will no longer be there now the other living brother who has taken over the land his name will start coming over there but the Lord wants each family to continue having its own property which has been divinely gifted to them and so the Lord says if one of the brothers dies don't just let his name be wiped out you know some one of the living brothers must marry her the widow and the child that is born then this property will now go to that child and the child will carry on the name of the original holder of the land so that in the title deeds the name of the original holder of the land will continue so it's like a divine duty that God is placing upon the the living surviving brothers what is the disadvantage for these living brothers you see what would happen is if they don't put the property in their own name rather if they continue to allow the property to be in the name of the brother the future descendants will not gain so this living brother will invest in the land he is the one who will provide the fertilizers he is the one who will provide the cattle you know to do the to plow the land and all of that he's investing a lot into that land but it's not going to be in his name it's going to be in the name of the dead brother so in a way it's financially not very profitable so so some you know like it says over here in this Deuteronomy passage a brother living brother may say no no I don't want this responsibility you know I want the land but I don't want to marry the widow and then you know it will no longer be the property will not be in my name I am the one who's buying it but it will no longer be in my name and it will continue in the name of the other brother so if someone says that it says in the Deuteronomy passage the widow actually has the right it says first that the elders will try to persuade the man and tell him this is your responsibility this is something you should do God wants you to fulfill this but if the man still refuses and it says that this widow has the right to actually go over there it says that she can take the sandal off his foot and spit in his face and say this is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line and there's a negative name that is given to that entire man's family it says he will be known in Israel as the family of the unsand sandaled this was a kind of symbolic thing if he has fulfilled his responsibility it's like he has both his sandals he's done something honourable but if he has failed to fulfill his responsibility it's like his sandal has been removed he has lost his honour now all of this background becomes important when you are trying to understand the story of Ruth because that's exactly what happens in the story of Ruth so we know in the story of Ruth in chapter 3 Naomi says to Ruth you know this Boaz is showing kindness so maybe he will be willing to redeem the property which my husband had lost when Elimelech was leaving Bethlehem and going away to Moab he would have sold the land to somebody and with that money they would have gone and settled down in Moab so now the property is no longer in their family anymore so her hope is that Boaz will buy that land put it in the name of her dead son and continue fulfilling the responsibility that is her hope so but she's not very sure whether Boaz will say yes or not because Boaz is a wealthy man he's got enough fields will he be willing to take on this responsibility buy the land from whom you know to whomever they had sold it buy it back from that person invest in it and not put his name on the title deed will he be willing to do all of that so she comes up with a very very unpleasant scheme she says in the night time when he's sleeping over there in the warehouse that's basically the harvest season so all the crops will be piled up over there all the grain will be piled up over there so he probably would go and sleep over there to guard the grain so she says when he's sleeping over there you go over there and sleep because then when he gets up in the morning and sees her over there he may feel kindness in his heart he'll not want her name to be disgraced so then he'll be willing to marry her so she's coming up with this very very disgusting scheme actually instead of that if she had just honorably decently gone up to Boaz and opened her mouth and said we want you to be the kinsman redeemer I'm sure Boaz would have said yes there was no need for her to try this very unpleasant scheme to pressurize him into saying yes in fact when Boaz sees her lying over there he's shocked and he says before any of the others see you go back home which is when she opens her mouth and says please we want you to be the kinsman redeemer are you willing to take this step for us and this is what he says to her in chapter 3 he says what an honorable woman you are he says that once earlier to her in chapter 2 he says you came back over here and now you're looking after your mother in law what an honorable person you are he praises her in chapter 2 and he says the same thing in chapter 3 he says I'm an old man now and you're willing to marry an old man just to do this for your mother in law what an honorable person you are and he says there is a younger person someone who is a closer relative than me he should actually be fulfilling this responsibility so it would be good to know if she can marry a younger person rather than marry an old man in this case I will go speak to this kinsman redeemer and if he is willing to do it good but if he refuses then I will take up the responsibility I will help you regarding this matter so we see all of those things happening in your chapter 4 of this book of Ruth where Boaz goes to the elders who are sitting at the town gate and he calls this man who is the closest relative and he says to him see this property was sold by Elimelech to some person and now are you willing to buy it back are you willing to redeem the land and the man is very happy I mean he doesn't mind so he says yes yes I am willing and then Boaz says but one condition you will also have to marry the widow of you know Mahalon Mahalon is the son so if he marries the widow then that property will no longer be in his name it will come into the name of Mahalon so he will his descendants will not gain from that property so when he hears this condition being put so in verses in chapter 4 in verse 4 he says I will redeem it so Boaz says to him if you will redeem it do so but if you will not tell me so I will know for no one has the right to do it except you and I am next in line and the man says I will redeem it then in the next sentence in verse 5 Boaz says then in that case you must also marry the widow and then once he hears that this is what the man replies he says in chapter 4 verse 6 he says then I can't redeem it because I might endanger my own estate you redeem it yourself I cannot do it is what he says because he is going to be investing a lot into this land but he is not going to gain his descendants are not going to gain anything out of it so he says no I don't want to do it so then Boaz you know honorably steps forward and he says yes I will do it so he takes on the responsibility and look at the outcome of that when we look at the genealogy which is mentioned later in the genealogy technically speaking it should say that obey when the child obey this born in the genealogy it should be written son of Mahalon because you see this marriage is being done to continue to extend the name of Mahalon but God makes an exception over here he decides to put Boaz name directly over there so over there in the genealogy it does not read as obey the son of Mahalon rather it directly says obey the son of Boaz so God so you see two things God is doing first he made a commandment regarding the Moabites and he decides to go back on that you know make an exception for Ruth and her family and now again we see God making another exception the name of Mahalon should have continued but because of the honorable manner in which Boaz you know chooses to become kinsman redeemer his name is put in the genealogy rather than Mahalon's name and the child which is born is called son of Boaz rather than being called son of Mahalon so what lessons come across from this when a person chooses to honor God even in normal earthly you know things over here there is no spiritual war being fought there is no great religious ceremony being conducted normal everyday things buying off land helping a widow showing kindness to someone who doesn't have anything in their hand very normal everyday activities are going on but there is a God watching from above and when he sees the conduct of these two people Boaz who is honorable in the way he treats these two widows and Ruth in the way she treats her mother-in-law very small incidents these are not great warriors who went into battle and did great things they did something very ordinary most people would not even have observed what they did but God noticed he completely changed their history their entire future was changed because of the heart which they had so imagine the value of the little decisions that we take in ordinary things there will be great battles of course which we will face and you know we will go out in the name of the Lord and conquer those but everyday things also matter the Lord was watching the heart of Ruth the Lord who saw how Boaz showed honor and kindness and help you know when that other kinsman redeemer was not willing to do his duty the Lord observed all these things and the Lord lifted up these people high very very high so that even up to this day their names are remembered their names are known that man who said no I don't want to take up our duty his name is not even mentioned we don't even know who he is he just passed into history nothing great happened to him or his descendants on the other hand Ruth's lineage or Moabites from her lineage come the people who actually honor the temple build the temple and God chooses to attach his name to such people because when you come down to it David is half Israelite but is half Moabite and the beauty of you know we see of how God looks at the heart so which is why this should remind us of that Jeremiah passage you know where the Lord says look you are like the clay you know in the potter's hand and if I have declared judgment against you but if you repent and you change your ways and you turn to me I the potter can use this clay instead of making it a vessel of judgment I can make it into a vessel of blessing and bless you so we all are like the clay in God's hands and these little little decisions that we take regarding how we treat the people whom we know the loyalty and the kindness that we show God is looking at that and so even if judgment has been spoken upon us God will say I will change my mind and rather than bring brought upon you I will bring blessing upon you and that is what we see happening to Ruth. Ruth was clay in his hands and judgment was spoken upon her and her entire nation of Moab but because of the heart which she had God changes his mind regarding her and uses her lineage to bring out his Messiah I mean the ultimate honor was given to this outsider to this Moabite person so let us be very aware that we are clay in his hands and he is watching to see how this clay will behave how are we going to be living in a way that honors God in small things nobody in the world will care what you are doing to your mother in law but the Lord who is watching he cares for him it matters nobody will care whether one field got sold or not but God is watching he saw Boaz honorable attitude in helping these two widows and in purchasing the land and so God puts his name in the genealogy not Mahalon's name and so we see all these out workings of God's you know glory in the middle of this judges period where people filled with disloyalty and unfaithfulness and here you have two people shining examples of what loyalty should look like Boaz and Ruth we see the story of these two people so that would be the main learning that comes out from this book of Ruth and so we have this very superficial interpretation of the book of Ruth where they say oh Ruth this is a love story this is a love story but it's not about the old Boaz and Ruth this is the love story of the love shown towards a widow named Naomi she says my name is supposed to mean pleasantness now there's no pleasantness left in my life all I have is empty hands there's nothing in my hands is what she says in chapter one so she says call me bitterness from now on and Ruth shows kindness love and loyalty towards this widow and Boaz does the same thing so yes it is a love story but it's a story of the love and loyalty shown towards a widow who comes back to her to her nation with nothing empty hands you know and her husband is dead her sons are dead and we see faithfulness being shown towards her and God rewards the people who show this kindness so which is why the term kinsman redeemer is also used for Christ so in the same way Boaz even though he did not need to he chooses to redeem that land and marry Ruth because in the same way she is willing to be a redeemer they use this as an example of Christ and they say that Boaz is a shadow is a representation of what Jesus Christ will do one day where he will redeem people who are not really deserving it technically Naomi did not deserve all the kindness she and her husband went against God's instructions and went to Moab got their children married off to Moabites did all of that so even though they did not deserve it Boaz shows kindness and redeems in the same way we have Christ coming to sinners and even though we do not deserve it he chooses to redeem us so these are all the learnings which come out of the book of Ruth so if there are any questions we can cover those if someone wants to post something in the chat a question we can address that otherwise we will just close with the word of prayer that's it I hope you guys were listening so anyway let's close with the word of prayer Lord we just thank you so much for the lessons spiritual lessons that we could learn from these three historical books Joshua, Judges and Ruth Lord we saw in all of these three books that people even though they were put in tough situations when they chose to submit to you and obey you trustingly then the most impossible miracles happened for them because nothing is impossible for you so we pray oh lord that you would help us to live our Christian walk in the same way no matter how difficult or unpleasant a situation is help us a lot to be people who will humbly obey you submit to you trust in you so that you can make the most extraordinary miracles happen for us we ask that you would prepare our hearts and change us transform us into that kind of a people oh lord thank you lord in Jesus name amen all right we will continue next week those who are in the class you can go ahead and leave there is a person Jairam who has lifted a hand so if you have a question maybe you can ask your question quickly if you have raised your hand to ask a question you can unmute yourself and I will address this those of you who are leaving if you can do it quietly please so that I can concentrate here yeah please go ahead brother if you have a question if you have raised a hand for a question no maybe okay maybe it's just accidentally raised fine all right