Ruth 2

I continue to go through the story of Ruth and

I've made it to chapter number two now

There's 23 verses and my encouragement to you

is there's no way I'm going to cover

These 23 verses in depth in the time that we

have so my encouragement is for you to dig

Deeper at your own pace. There's so much here

So a lot a lot a lot here

Exactly what Peter was talking about in the

passage. We just read

Ruth chapter number two God's words is now

Naomi had a kinsman of her husband a man of

great wealth of the family of

Alimalek whose name was Boaz and

Ruth the Moab I just said to Naomi

Please let me go to the field and glean among

the ears of grain after one in whose sight

I may find favor and she 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 Boaz who was of the family of Al

imalek now

Behold Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to

the reapers may the Lord be with you and they

said to him may the Lord bless you

Then Boaz said to his servants who is 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 Moabite woman who returned

with Naomi from the land of Moab and she said

Please let me glean and gather after the re

apers among the sheaves

Thus she came and has remained from them from

the morning until now

She has been sitting in the house for a little

while then Boaz said to Ruth listen carefully

my daughter

Do not go to glean in another field

Furthermore do not go on from this one

But stay here with my maids let your eyes be

on the field which they reap and go after them

indeed

I have commanded the servants not to touch you

when you are thirsty go to the water jars and

drink from what the servants draw

Then she fell on her face bowing to the ground

and said to him

Why have I found favor in your sight that you

should take notice of me since I am a

foreigner?

Boaz replied to her all that you have done for

your mother-in-law after the death of your

husband has been fully

reported to me and now and how you left your

father and your mother and the land of your

birth and

Come 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 maidservant though I am not like one

of your maidservants at meal time

Boaz said to her come here that you may eat of

the bread and dip your piece of bread in the

vinegar

So she sat beside the reapers and he served

her roasted grain and she ate and was

satisfied and had some left

When she rose to glean Boaz commanded his

servant saying let her glean even among the

sheaves and do not insult her

Also, you shall purposely pull out for her

some grain from the bundles and leave it that

she may glean and do not rebuke her

So she gleaned in the field until evening

Then she beat out what she had gleaned and it

was about an ifa of barley

She took it up and went into 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

Her mother-in-law said to her where did you g

lean 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 with

whom I worked today is Boaz

Now only said to her daughter-in-law may he be

blessed to the Lord who has not withdrawn his

Kindness to the living and to the dead again

Naomi said to her the man is our relative

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

Now only said to Ruth her daughter-in-law

It is good my daughter that you go out with

his maids so that others do not fall upon you

in another field

So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in

order to glean until the end of the barley

harvest and the wheat harvest

And she lived with her mother-in-law. Let's

pray really father. We love you. Thank you for

this morning

You give it us to come together and worship

you. I pray that we do that this morning

Bless your word to our hearts and minds and

your work your message in spite of the

messenger in Christ's name. Amen

so we've gone through the the first chapter of

this account the story of

Ruth the Moabites and we have seen that God

has brought her and Naomi and

her sister-in-law Orpah through a very dark

and bitter

Providence the the first chapter was focused

on what happened to Naomi and how

She lost her husband

She lost her two sons and and her other

daughter-in-law Orpah had left her that this

hard suffering

That Naomi went through but but Ruth had made

a covenant with Naomi

if you remember last time that that Ruth would

stay with Naomi until the very end until

God separated them by death and

and now in chapter number two though focus is

going to shift from Naomi

To Ruth to how God would work and in Ruth's

life

To bless her to take care of her and Naomi

through

Ruth's life so Ruth will take that the center

point of

The story going forward, but Naomi will still

be there in a very important way

Now only is going to interpret what's

happening to Ruth and Ruth's life and point

Ruth to the truth of God

And it's really neat to see so the first

chapter Naomi had gone through the suffering

that had happened to her and she kept

her faith intact through

The suffering and in fact that faith that she

had

Was strengthened by that suffering and that

faith that was strengthened will point Ruth

and us to to God's overwhelming

provision for Ruth and

Overwhelming grace and then the rest of the

story from from this chapter on to chapter

number four

And this is going to be the the main thing

that I want us to glean

From this story that the biggest point is that

that God's bitter providence happens to all of

us

there's dark times and trials and

Suffering and so we have this example this

account of these two widow women

In ancient times to show us that that our

suffering

Has a point and that God is doing things on

purpose in our lives

And in the end of even the suffering there

will be a benefit for all of us

A strengthening and a grace that God gives us

through the suffering at the end of all of our

Suffering that the suffering itself is a tool

that God uses to

Sanctify us to grow us to perfect us into the

image of his son Jesus Christ

We've seen that in the book of Job

From the very beginning and all that Job went

through and all the his crazy friends

Tried to teach him and to the end when he is

facing God and he says my mouth is shut

You know, I'm not gonna say anything else. You

are right that the Job's faith

Job's understanding Job's wisdom was grown

through his

Suffering and then Peter from the passage that

Philip just read and in first Peter

Chapter one verse six says it's the exact same

thing in this you greatly rejoice

Even though now for a little while if

necessary you have been distressed by various

trials

So that the proof of your faith being more

precious than gold which is perishable

Even though tested by fire may be found to

result in praise and glory and honor at the

revelation of Jesus Christ

So God has in his his great omnipotence and

his awesome omniscience

Plotted the course of your individual life in

such a way that even the hard things and the

suffering and the pain

Will work out for your good and his glory

This plan is customized for you for who you

are now at this very moment

The God of this universe is upholding every

single atom and every star and every galaxy

and every galactic cluster

By together by the power of his word and the

galaxy that is so far away that humans will

never be able to see it as well

as the the smallest quanta of subatomic

particle that we haven't

Discovered yet and will may never discover and

everything in between

Were created by God and are being managed at

this very moment by his almighty power and at

that same time

He knows you

Individually

Specifically, he knew when you were born and

he knows the time of your death

Psalm 139 once is oh Lord you have searched me

and known me

You know when I sit down and when I rise up

you understand my thought from afar

You scrutinize my path and my lying down and

are intimately acquainted with all my ways

In this world. We're insignificant. There's no

one in here. That's gonna be make a big splash

on the world stage

We're in our job. Sometimes we're cogs in the

machine

Being used by our employer for per profit and

all that jazz

Sometimes we're the weird ones where the

people out in the corner that the edges that

that are strange to

The the rest of of humanity, but God knows you

and he knows you by name

And he has planned your life. You're getting

up and you're sitting down

Your life was not an afterthought

He sent Jesus Christ his son to live and to

die in your place so he could redeem

Specifically you and me we were on his mind

When he was living and when he was dying and

when he was rising again from the grave

So when we're going through the trials

He will always provide for us because the

trials are not an accident. He gives

Through those times and gives provision

through his grace in those dark times

And in fact as we'll see here in the book of

Ruth that those bitter providences those dark

times

are

given by God on purpose and may be the means

the way that he actually does the

Providing for us. So we see that here in the

story of this insignificant

Moabitis

A foreign woman named Ruth and what happened

to her

shows us that all of us can and must see that

God provides even in the bitter

providences

Now the verses one through three show us that

he provides through his way and through his

law verse number one

Nanaomi had a kinsman of her husband a man of

great wealth of the family of a limelight

whose name was Boas and

Ruth the Moabitis said to Naomi

Please let me go to the field and glean among

the ears of grain after one in whose sight I

might find favor and she 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 to God's providence over his world

He works in in direct ways and in indirect

ways, but he works directly and specifically

and

Intimately in your life for his purposes and

his glory

He reaches down into your personal life and

changes things and works his will out in in

your life

Proverbs 69 the mind of man plans his way, but

the Lord directs his steps

But he also works it in a general way in a

indirect way in our lives

He has set up the world to work in a certain

way

He set up truth to work in a certain way and

he's given his laws of nature and his specific

Laws in in Scripture and when we acknowledge

those laws and the way that that God has

designed the world to work and we submit to it

Things tend to work out better

For us when we live in light of the truth of

what God has done

Outside of the the falleness of this world

remember a couple weeks ago

We've gone through Ephesians and in Ephesians

chapter 5 Paul gave very

controversial instructions from that time and

in our time on how men and women are

Different and are to treat their husbands and

wives respectively

differently and how they're supposed to treat

one another in the marriage relationship and

in God's sovereignty in a very

Specific and and obvious way to anyone with

half a brain. He's made men and women

differently

He made us think differently and act

differently to desire different things

He set those things up on purpose when he

created male and female in his own

Image and in general when we live and align

our lives with those truths before us and and

treat each other and act

According to the principles that God has set

up things go better for us now our rebellious

culture

May teach that this is not a case. What is is

this fence here for I don't know

So let's get rid of it and we'll do what we

want

But the proof is in the pudding we have gone

so far down to the feminist and man-o-sphere

rabbit hole that the feminist and the macho

man-o-sphere are still extremely

unsatisfied and unhappy

All they they think that all we need is the

next revolution

But we never seem to get there because they're

fighting against the way that God has

Created things and they'll never grasp that

happiness that they think they'll find because

they are in rebellion

Against their Creator the one who who set up

all these things in in this first part of our

passage

God it has set up a system in the land of the

Jews in the Hebrew nation

He set up the way that the their world has

worked that is is going to come into play here

and

Be a great blessing for all those who live in

accordance with the way that he set it up

So what we'll get into that but look at the

first verse of chapter one

The author of Ruth is going to introduce a new

character into our story that the man

Boas verse number one now Naomi had a kinsman

of her husband a man of great wealth of the

family of a limilec

Whose name was Boas so right out of the gate

in this chapter before Ruth even knows who

this man is

The the author wants us to know so we'll be

privy to who he is when Ruth happens to

Go into his field that this bo this man Boas

is a relative of a limilec

Naomi's

deceased husband and this man Boas who's the

relative of

Naomi is rich

So the first point I will make about God's

Providing for us in the way that he sets up

the world and the way that he's given us his

law

Is that Boas is a kinsman and we spoke about

Leverite marriage if anyone remembers that the

that if the husband was to die and leave a

widow without a child

That that the husband's close relative would

come and marry his widow and have kids with

her so that his name

Wouldn't be wiped off of the earth and that

the kids would have his

inheritance and that's going to become very

important in the next chapter

But just know that the author of Ruth is

setting up the story and making it clear from

the outside

so we know as readers what's going on as

Ruth and Naomi and Boas live their lives out

in light of those things, but the second thing

is

That that Boas is an extremely wealthy man in

the time

So God provides the four Ruth through that

they're her close relative Boas the second way

that he provides

Through this law that the way that he set

things up is the process of gleaning first

number two

Ruth the mobile is said to know me

Please let me go to the field and glean among

the ears of grain after one and whose site

I may find favor and she said to her go my

daughter

So God gave instructions to his people that

when they have their fields of grain

They would leave the edges unharvested for the

specific fact

Reason that the poor could come and harvest it

and have their their their food nutritional

needs met

it was the the Hebrew welfare system and

To make sure that the people the the poor and

the sojourner specifically

Were fed God set this system up and Boas and

in his his living according to the law that

God set up

Did this he followed this this law and and the

looth and Ruth

Was allowed to come into his fields and just

take the grain that she needed to live

So so her as a widow and Naomi could be

provided for

But there's also an element of specific

provision in in this fact verse three

So she departed and went and cleaned 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

She just happened to come to this rich man Bo

as's field who was a close

family member just happened to be a family

member of

Boas and I like the way that the King James

version puts it in her

Hap was to light on a part of the field

belonging on the Boas

I just love the way that that sounds the

author knows and we know that there was no Hap

About it that God brought her through his prov

idence

He set up the system that that they live their

lives in and he directed her steps

specifically

To Boas is field so that that one day

She wouldn't have to glean at anyone else's

field

She would glean and eventually be wed to this

man as we'll get into spoiler alert

Limelex relative and all this was done on

purpose

All this was done to provide for Ruth and for

Naomi and all of us until this time

This is a great illustration of God's

sovereignty in our life and the responsibility

of man

God set this up Boas followed God's law and

allowed Ruth to glean and they're working

together

All to support the purpose and plan of the

Almighty God

He provides for his own in many ways

But one of the ways that he provides for us

and how he sets up the world and how he set up

his word and his

Law for us to live under so we need to

remember that and live

Accordingly and don't look at the way that he

tells us to live as a thing to work against

But remember he's using those things to

provide for his people. That's what Ruth

Found out she happened to glean very well at

Boas his field as we'll see in one second

And that's the second point is that God

provides for his people through others where

the passage is

Verses 4 the 18 but we'll just read verses 4

through 12 now

Behold Boas came from Bethlehem and said to

the Reapers may the Lord be with you and they

said to him may the Lord bless you

That was the Hebrew way of saying what's up

then Boas said to his servant who was in

charge of the Reapers

Whose young woman is this the servant in

charge the Reapers replied

She is the young Moabite woman who returned

with no me from the land of Moab and she said

Please let me glean and gather after the Re

apers among the sheaves

Thus she came and has remained from the

morning until now she has been sitting in the

house for a little while

Then Boas said to Ruth listen carefully my

daughter do not go to glean in another field

Furthermore do not go on from this one, but

stay here with my maids let your eyes be on

the field

Which they reap and go after them indeed. I

have commanded the servants not to touch you

when you are thirsty

Go to the water jars and drink from what the

servants draw

Then she fell on her face bowing to the ground

and said to him

Why have I found favor in your sight that you

should take notice of me since I am a

foreigner

Boas replied to her all that you had 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 the

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 as we continue the story in this next

part

I just want you to to remember that just like

in the the first chapter when they were going

through all this pain and suffering we

Get to to be in the outside

So in the second chapter when Ruth is

experiencing all this favor in this grace

We are on the outside as well

And but but she had to walk through the day by

day of the suffering and she is coming to this

grace and just like

What is going on all this? I don't need I don

't deserve all this

I don't understand what's happening. We see

the full picture. She's living it out

So so remember that we get to read the whole

story

But but she's experiencing it firsthand and

the reason that's important to remember

It's because there will be times or have been

times where all of us have had to live through

step by step day by day the suffering and also

day by day of the grace and we're here the

story is

Specifically here for us to remember as we're

going through that the end of that

I I know I repeated that three times as I

preached in Ruth three times. I think that's

super super

important so Boas comes to see how his crops

are being taken care of he's managing his

fields and remember they had just come through

a

Famine there it's been a while since they've

had a good harvest

And so he is just coming to see that the

blessing of God and how the famine is over and

to see what's going on with this field

And then he sees this strange woman that he's

never seen before so so he asks his manager

who she was and and

He told him that she was Ruth the foreigner

who came back with Naomi remember when Naomi

came back

It was the the talk of the town

Now this could go two ways Boas would still be

in his rights if he followed God's law to the

T

All he had to do was leave the edge of the

field

Unharvested so she could come and eat and he

was fulfilling all of his duty before the law

or

He could choose grace and he chose option to

grace he he doesn't just

Allow her to glean he tells her hey stay in my

fields don't go to another one stay with my

women

I've told my men to leave you alone and to

actually offer you protection

I have not only let you glean but I'm gonna

provide water for you

Which was a big deal at the town time he over

flows with grace towards her more than she

could ever as expect as we see from her

Reaction now she has experienced. She's she's

gone to the point to where she expects pain

she expects bad things to happen

She's not used to grace and goodness at this

point and maybe you've experienced similar

things

But you've also experienced that grace and I

can tell you if you are here that that yes

You have and then if you're a believer this is

a perfect great clear illustration of the

gospel what Boas was doing for her

even more than that

That that God has added to the top of just

justifying us through Christ

He has given us so much grace that's poured

over and

Abundant in our lives and so many times that

we take the things that he gives gives us over

Watch over what we deserve and we take it for

granted and and it's impossible for us to be

aware of all the grace that he is

Has given us but one of the things that he

does give us is how he provides and allows his

grace to be in our lives

This is this provision and grace from others

We are all here in church or most of us are

here today in church and we're all members of

One another that we're all given the privilege

and the grace to be able to take care of

One another we pray for one another we feed

each other on

Wednesdays and after our Lord's supper we weep

with one another we rejoice with one another

If I was in need

I know several of you that I could call and

you'd be there for me and if if you're in need

I hope you know that you can call on me and

that is a great privilege brothers and sisters

. We are a

Provision of God's grace to one another and in

his great providence

He is is directly and indirectly brought us

all to Podunk Central Louisiana

to this church through all kinds of different

ways and means and pain and happiness and joy

all

To be a part of this church so that we can be

like Boaz to Ruth

To each other Boaz was so good to this poor

widow

But she fell on her face and thanked him in in

verse 10

Why have I found favor in your sight that you

should take notice of me since I am a

foreigner

Thought to the humble Ruth there was no reason

in her mind that that she could fathom

Why he would even notice her much less poor

all this goodness and grace on her

So he replied in verse 11 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

in 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

those wings

You have come to seek refuge all that dark and

bitter providence that she's been through and

now she is seeing

the blessing of God from that Boaz saw the

goodness that he was giving to Ruth as

God giving grace and mercy and goodness and

feeding his daughter Ruth

God was showing Ruth goodness and grace

through Boaz's hand through the blessings of

Boaz

Boaz was able to bless Ruth

And Boaz was the tool or the hand on the tool

of wealth given to him by God

And this is a big thing in the New Testament

Paul teaches this over and over again Ephes

ians 4 32 be kind

Once to another tenderhearted forgiving one

another as Christ the Lord has forgiven you we

were forgiven

So we forgive one another second Corinthians 1

Paul says blessed be the God and father of our

Lord Jesus Christ the father of

Mercies and God of all comfort who comforts us

in all our inflection so that we will be able

to comfort those who are in any

Affliction with the comfort with which we

ourselves are comforted by God

God comforts us for the express purpose that

we're able to take that comfort and give it to

one another

We are conduits like Boaz was to Ruth of it of

God's grace

We are conduits of God's comfort to one

another and and the rest of this section

He just pours more he didn't just stop there

He keeps giving her more and more grace verse

14 come here

But you may eat the bread and dip your piece

of bread in the vinegar

So she sat beside the reapers and he served

her roasted grain and she ate and was

satisfied

It had some left and that some left would

later feed Naomi as well

She rose to glean Boaz commanded his servant

saying let her glean even among the sheaves

and do not insult her

Also, you shall purposely pull out for her

some grain from the bundles and leave it that

she may glean and do not

Rebuke her she ends up going home full her

stomach satisfied and her arms full of barley

sometimes God uses us to provide for other

like Ruth to Naomi and

Sometime God uses others to provide for us

like Boaz for Ruth and all these things

He has set these things up on purpose to to

provide his people with

Provision he's worked this all out on purpose

for that reason praise God for his provision

through the hands of others

And then last Ruth returns home to Naomi and

Naomi gives us the last way that he shows

That we can trust God to provide all the needs

that we have

But by trusting his his his in his direction

verses 19 through 23 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 with

whom I work today is Boaz

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law may he be

blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn his

kindness to the living and to the dead again

Naomi said to her the man is our relative. He

is one of our closest

relatives and

Then Naomi tells her to continue to go back to

her

To Boaz so Naomi saw Ruth come in with this

giant load of of barley and then Boaz allowed

her to glean it

And then also had his men beat it out

So it would be completely processed and her

basket would be full of ready-to-go ready to

eat a

Barley it says here was an Eiffel and Eiffel

is about a five gallon

bucket of the stuff and is more than the Naomi

or Ruth could ever imagine that I get from one

day of

Gleaning the edges of a field and so Naomi

sees this and she asked a Ruth with excitement

Where did you clean today? Where did you work?

May he who took notice of you to be blessed?

I mean here here how she's saying it and Ruth

explains well, it was this man named Boaz

And then Naomi she understands what was going

on and in the beginning of a passage

We were told that that Ruth just happened to

come to Boaz's field

But but Naomi knows that this is from the hand

of God himself. Look what she says in verse 20

May he be blessed of the Lord who has not

withdrawn his kindness to the living and to

the dead

And again Naomi said to her the man is our

relative. He's one of our closest relatives

Naomi recognizes two things from this this hap

this happenstance that that happened to Ruth

first

she notices that it's from the loving kindness

of

Yahweh and if you look back at verse 20

You see may he be blessed of the Lord the word

Lord there is in all caps

And you may know this but when when the Bible

says Lord in all caps

But the word behind Lord is the word Yahweh

that the covenant name of God Yahweh

And and the translators do this and the

respect for the the holy name

But but if you don't know that that's what

they're doing you can miss

That they're talking about Yahweh's

Name so Naomi is using a God's proper

Covenantal name the name that he gave to Moses

when when when he sent Moses to rescue the

Hebrew people from Egypt

And and so she's saying may Boaz be blessed of

Yahweh

Who has not withdrawn his kindness to the

living and to?

the dead

So to her and to her husband's

Inheritance Yahweh's kindness is a major theme

in the Old Testament that the word here for

kindness is the Hebrew word has said

Okay

Over half the times the word has said or

kindness or loyalty is used in the Old

Testament is used in the book of Psalms

So Psalms is the book of hymns and praises to

God of the the Hebrew and the we sing

And so one of the major things that that the

Yahweh wanted to be praised for was his

kindness his loving

Kindness and our Psalm today in verse 6 said

surely

Goodness and loving kindness will follow me

all the days of my life

Surely goodness and has said will follow me

all the days of my life very important concept

and word in the Old Testament

So she praised him. He was Yahweh. He's kept

keeping his word is his covenant with his

people and

On top of that he's showing all this has said

this loving kindness to them

The second thing she notices is that Boaz wasn

't just any relative

He was a kinsman redeemer the ASB says here in

verse 20 that the man is our relative

He is one of our closest relatives, which is

kind of a weird way

It sounds like it's repeating with it. The ESV

Uses the right word for our closest relatives.

It says the man is a close relative of ours

one of our

Redeemers remember the last time when Naomi

was trying to convince Ruth and Orpah to go

back to Moab because there was no hope for

them

In Bethlehem and in Israel

She told them like look what am I going to

have more sons and you have to wait for them

to grow up to for them to be able

To be your husbands and and bring up

inheritance and children that there's no that

's impossible

There's no way for me to do that. You need to

go back to your home

Well, she was talking about this concept of k

insman redemption this leverite marriage that

that her other sons would be responsible to

marry

The widows of their dead brothers

Well in her mind there was no way there was no

hope for this foreign

Obitis woman Ruth to go back as a widow in

Hebrew with nothing and be able to find a kins

man redeemer to fulfill

This law this this thing that was set up in

Israel and in the time

But what do you know?

The man whose field that Ruth just happened to

glean on

Happened to be a relative and not any relative

A man who was close enough in of a relative to

be

a kinsman redeemer

So Naomi is catching what Yahweh is throwing

She's starting to see how this is all working

out Ruth may not understand yet

But Naomi is kind of telling us that she's

getting it. She's seeing the the fuller

picture

And again brothers and sisters. We can't

always see

What Yahweh is throwing we can't always see

how he's working things out

In our lives and sometimes it's hard for us

It's it's difficult for us to see how God is

going to use whatever's happening in our life

for his glory

In our good Ruth thinks that she just had a

good day in the field

I mean look got five gallons of of processed

barley here

But but Naomi is putting the pieces together

and she's pointing Ruth in the right direction

that that last verse in verse 22

It's good my daughter that you go out with his

maid so that others do not fall upon you in

the another field

He's saying hey, yeah, you keep going there,

but she knows what's happened

And she realizes all the favor that that no

Ruth is finding and boa has his eyes that he's

a kinsman redeemer

And all this is coming together and Naomi is

pointing Ruth and us to the the provision of

God in her life and our lives

When we see what God is doing here

When we see what God is doing in our lives

We should immediately

Remember and think of God's has said his

loving kindness for us

Just like he showed to Ruth and Naomi and

eventually to boas and their children

All the blessings that we have are our God's

blessing to us out of his abundant stores of

grace

And mercy. Ruth is just a story of this wid

owed moabitis this foreign woman

Who came into israel and who god showed his

overwhelming

provision and grace to

That she was dragged through the ringer

Can you imagine losing your husband and your

brother-in-law and your father-in-law in a

very short period of time and being destitute?

But now being brought through the the amazing

story of God's grace and his providential care

in in her life

And you know what? We're sitting here

today

Surrounded by that same abundant

Amazing grace that same provision all the

blessings that he's given us no matter

What ringer we have been through or are going

to go through next week? We have no idea

Yeah, sometimes we don't want to know but we

do know that every single time we go through

that bitter

Providence that God will be there before in

the middle of and afterwards and we can trust

That he has a plan and he's working it out and

it will be for our good

And we can see that because this story

teaches us about a kinsman redeemer which we

'll see in in chapter three

And we also have a kinsman redeemer in christ

Who gave his ultimate gift of grace to us?

By giving us his life and having the bride of

the church he

Uh, they're I debated on whether to do this or

not

You know, I am a baptist, but I'm a reformed

Baptist. I don't usually have three points in

a poem

Uh, but this time I will have three points and

a poem is a great poet in the 17th century

named George Herbert

And he loved the lord. He's he's great,

especially if you can read the the older

language

But he wrote this poem and it is perfectly

fitting for this passage

And the idea of christ being our kinsman rede

emer and our grace

He said love bade me welcome yet my soul drew

back guilty of dust and sin

But quick i'd love observing me grow slack

from my first entrance in drew near to me

sweetly questioning if I lacked anything

A guest I answered were they to be here love

said you shall be he

I the unkind ungrateful I my dear I cannot

look on thee

Love took my hand and smiling did reply who

made the eyes, but I

Truth lord, but I have marred them let my

shame go where it does deserve

And know you not says love who bore the blame

my dear then I I will serve

You must sit down says love and taste my meat.

So I did sit and eat

Let's pray heavenly father

You're amazing grace to us is certainly

exactly what it says amazing

We deserve none of it and look at this this

this widow here that you've helped and that

you provided for

And how you work that out and your sovereignty

is an absolutely amazing thing

And I pray that we would understand that and

and apply that in our lives when we live our

christian lives

Bless us lord bless the rest of the book of r

uth in our lives and give us all safety as we

travel home in this week

Buy your grace and for your glory in christ's

name. Amen