Ruth 2

Nope. Keep going back. Am I am? Alright, so you're gonna be Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. So we're going to be at Book of Ruth and Nathan, you don't know what we're doing over the next two years. All right. We're we are moving chronologically through the rest of the historical books and the prophets minus the prophets we've already done. That should take us a couple of years. No, it won't. I got a chart. I got a thing. We're going to do this stuff. We're going to learn. It's going to be fun.
All right. Have some coffee and pray. No coffee, but I can pray. Okay. All right, why don't you pray for us this morning?
God, thank you for your day. Thank you for all the blessings we get each morning. God, please help us to work hard this morning as it's a new week, a new year, and please help each of us to get our work done well and efficiently. And please let us work hard for your glory. In Jesus' name, amen.
Alright, so in Ruth chapter 1, Naomi had gone with her husband Aleemalek and they went to Moab. She has two sons and her husband dies. Her two boys got wives, that's cool. But then her sons die. Orpah says, I want to go with you. And she says, no, no, just go home. So she does. Ruth says, uh-uh. Your God's my God. Your people are my people. Where you die, I'm going to die. So help me, the Lord.
All right. So now we pick up chapter two. They've arrived in Bethlehem. Chapter two plus what? We'll read through the chapter. Chapter two, though. Yeah.
There was a relative of Naomi's husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of the Limerick. His name was Boas. So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, please let me go to the field and glean heads of grain after him, and who say, I may gain fine favor. And she said to her, go, my daughter. Then she left and went and leaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, the Lord be with you. And they answered him, the Lord bless you. Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, Whose young woman is this? So the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered and said, It is a young Moabite woman who has come back with Naomi from the country of Moab. And he said, Please. And she said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaths. So she came and has continued from morning until now, though she rests a little while in the house.
Then Rose said to Ruth, you were listed, my daughter. Do not go too glean in another field, nor go from here. But stay close by my young women. Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them. Have I not commended the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.
So she fell on her face. bowed down to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner? And Burrs answered and said to her, it has been fully reported to me all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth and have come to a people whom you did not know before.
The Lord will pay your walk, and a full reward will be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge. Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my Lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants.
Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, Come here and eat of the bread, and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar. So she sat beside the weepers, and he passed parched grain to her, and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some back.
And when she rose up to glean, Boaz commanded his young man, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. Also let grain from the bundles fall purposely for her. Leave it that she may glean and do not upuke her.
So she gleaned in the field until evening and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her what she had kept back after she had been satisfied.
And her mother-in-law said to her, where have you been going today and where did you walk? Must be the one who took notice of you. So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, the man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.
Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of the Lord. That was strangely worded. Blessed be he of the Lord who has not forsaken his kindness to the living and the dead. Naomi said to her, This man is a relation of ours, one of our close relatives.
Ruth the Moabitess said, He also said to me, You shall stay close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest. And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, it is good, my daughter, that you go out with these young women and that people do not meet you in any other field.
So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of barley harvest and the wheat harvest. She dealt with her mother-in-law. She dwelt with her mother-in-law.
Good. All right. So, uh, we got our ABCs to do, right? A, what's this? About. B, what's the... Best words. Summaries. And C, what are we... Cult to do. All right. So what's this passage about? Uh... Ruth. Okay. What about Ruth? Uh... Ruth and Boaz. Okay. What about Ruth and Boaz? Ruth meets Boaz. Okay. And what happens when Ruth meets Boaz?
Boaz... I think Boaz likes Ruth. He's at least impressed by her. He's heard of the good things that she's done, how she's cared for her mother-in-law. She's working hard, right? The guy's like, man, she hasn't stopped working at all except to take a little break. And Boaz is impressed. So he says, hey, don't even harass her, right? The law said that you were allowed to, like poor people were allowed to go around the corners of the field and around the edges. They weren't supposed to, the farmers weren't supposed to reap that, but leave it for poor people and widows. But Boaz says, let her go right behind the combine. don't worry about it don't don't reprimand her right yeah we can do second gleanings and stuff but no no just just let her take some and you know even better when you're gathering it up just leaves them, let it fall.
That's kind of like when Mr. Pelling, one time he accidentally put a little too much grain. He's like, well, they don't get that. Just a little too much. But yeah. And so Boaz is impressed by her. He cares for her. And then he even gives her some more, right? Make sure that she's satisfied. He knows she's destitute.
So we see Boaz, right? How would you describe his character? Um... What's this dude like? Just. Just? Uh, generous. Generous with good character. Yeah, right? I think he's awesome. It says he's really wealthy too, right? But he's not the type of person who's stingy. But he's generous. He's loving. I don't think he's got any ulterior motives here. I think he's just generally impressed and she's got a good report and he's gonna care for her.
She goes home. Naomi's like, whoa, you got a lot of food. Where'd you get that from? Boas. Oh my God, Nembo. And I was like, hmm, you know who Naomi sounds like? Sounds like grandma. I was going to say that sounds like your grandmother. Yep. You know, he's a close relative. He might be a good one for you to go talk to more. You don't you don't leave him now. You're such a mom said about me, too. Don't you believe him? No, I was no Boaz. But the point being, yeah, she's no, he's a close relative. He's a kinsman redeemer. And we're going to find out he's not the closest kinsman redeemer. There's an opportunity here for the family's kind of misfortune, we can say that, but hard providence to possibly get turned around. For them not to be utterly destitute like they have been for years and years and years. So that's what this is about.
What do you think is the best verse to summarize this if you had to underline one verse or one paragraph? Um, I think it would go to 22 to 23. Okay, yeah, I really like verse 12, the Lord repay your work and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel under whose wings you have come for refuge. He knows that she's left Moab, she's left her family, she's left the gods of Moab and she sought refuge, comfort, shelter, safety. in the name of Yehovah, and Boaz is an instrument of that. I think it's a beautiful thing there. You kind of just summarize that, but just not without the verse. Yeah, that's why I underlined it.
All right, so what do you think you're called to do? Seek calling. What are you called to do, and how does this point you to Jesus Christ? I know how it points me to you guys if we had the whole book in one go. Okay, well go ahead and give it to me then. Well then I would spoil what happens. It's okay, we're not worried about spoiling. Spoiler alert, don't watch if you don't want to. Go ahead.
I think we're called to be merciful in this, and I think it points us to Christ, and Boaz is kind of like Christ. He gives us good gifts that we don't deserve. But I don't think that Ruth still had to Ooth still had to listen to Boaz for that good promise. And so I think that lots of times we can think of ourselves, we could be merciful like Boaz, but I think we can also put ourselves in Ooth and think we also need to. This is kind of like a prophet. Good things come to those who weep.
Okay, yeah. I think these are good character lessons for us. But yeah, you're right. Spoiler alert. Boaz is the father of Obed. Obed is the father of Jesse. Jesse is the father of David. David is the father. Fourteen generations. Fourteen generations of the Christ. There's a missing generation, but Matthew does it poetically. But point being, Jesus will be a direct descendant of Boaz.
This beautiful picture of this Moabite woman coming to faith, trusting in the Lord, and this Israelite man showing her the love of the Lord. It's a beautiful picture. It's a beautiful picture of Jesus' love for us. He's our kinsman redeemer. He's the one who rescues us. He's the one who loves us.
You ready to pray? Yep. God we pray that you would indeed fill us with your Holy Spirit. We pray that we would be people of character specifically Lord for my son Nathan here and myself pray that you would please let us be men of character. Lord we pray that you would please let us trust in you. We thank you that you have taken notice of us But we're, in many ways, not like Ruth. We've not labored diligently. But we were putrid and dead in our trespasses and sins, unable to labor in the field. But you have made us alive to call upon your son. And you have now called us. And because we're alive in you, you now look at us like boas with Ruth. So, Father, we pray that we would take comfort in the shelter of your wings. Thank you for this book and thank you for the blessing it is to follow you. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Well, may God bless you. May you walk in the joy of knowing that your Redeemer lives. We'll see you next time. Bye.