Day 329: Ruth 1-4 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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8. 0:24family. Welcome to day 329.
9. 0:27Today we are diving into the entire book
10. 0:30of Ruth. That's right. We're going to
11. 0:32look at all four chapters of the book of
12. 0:35Ruth. And my hope is that you've already
13. 0:38read Ruth, chapters 1, 2, 3, and four.
14. 0:41We're talking about a pretty small book
15. 0:43of the Bible. So, we're going to get it
16. 0:45knocked out in just one day on our Bible
17. 0:47reading plan. Ruth is packed. And so,
18. 0:51we're going to dive right in. Okay. If
19. 0:53you haven't done the reading, I'm going
20. 0:54to invite you to stop the video, pause
21. 0:56the audio, and go get the reading done,
22. 1:00okay? It should not take a long time.
23. 1:02And my Bible, I mean, we're talking
24. 1:04three, four pages max. But what a
25. 1:08pivotal, incredible book. And I don't
26. 1:11want to steal my thunder for where I'm
27. 1:13going today, but Ruth is going to find
28. 1:16her name in the genealogy of Jesus. And
29. 1:20so, uh, we're going to keep that as the
30. 1:23main focus that this book is in here
31. 1:27because of the meta narrative of
32. 1:29scripture. Scripture is mainly concerned
33. 1:32about how Yahweh is going to save
34. 1:36humans, humans from sin, from our own
35. 1:38foolishness, from ourselves, from Satan,
36. 1:41how he's going to save, redeem, and
37. 1:43rescue us. And so, redemption is at the
38. 1:45heart of this book. And it's easy to get
39. 1:48distracted with a bunch of other things
40. 1:50that are going on in this book and we'll
41. 1:52kind of talk about those. Uh but we are
42. 1:54going to keep our north star at this
43. 1:57book is about redemption. Okay, let's
44. 2:00dive into some context. Okay, the book
45. 2:02of Judges. Okay, if if I'm I'm literally
46. 2:05opened up to the end of Judges in the
47. 2:07beginning of Ruth and the end of the
48. 2:11book of Judges says this. In those days,
49. 2:13Israel had no king. Everyone did as they
50. 2:16saw fit. So the book of Judges is
51. 2:19setting us up to need a king. Okay,
52. 2:22that's the context that Ruth fits in. A
53. 2:25lot of people think that the story of
54. 2:27Ruth is probably happening somewhere
55. 2:29around Judges chapter 3. And so when
56. 2:31Ruth picks up, it says this, in the days
57. 2:33when the judges ruled, there was a
58. 2:35famine in the land. Okay, so there's a
59. 2:38famine in the land and this family is
60. 2:41going to go off to the region of Moab.
61. 2:43Now, one of the professors that I had in
62. 2:46Bible college, his name is Dan Lewis. He
63. 2:49kind of showed us how at the beginning
64. 2:51of the book, all the names kind of have
65. 2:53a meaning. Uh so, uh Bethlehem is house
66. 2:57of bread. That's what the word means.
67. 2:59Beth is house. Uh
68. 3:03okay, house of bread. So, like Bethl is
69. 3:06house of God, right? So, Bethlehem,
70. 3:09house of bread. Alimc is my God is king.
71. 3:13Naomi's name means delight. Melon means
72. 3:16sickness and sterility. Killion means
73. 3:19consumption. Orpha means back of the
74. 3:21neck. Ruth's name means friend. Mara,
75. 3:24which is what Naomi is going to change
76. 3:26her name to, means bitter. And Boaz
77. 3:29means in him is strength. So if you
78. 3:32paraphrase the beginning of Ruth and
79. 3:34substitute the names for the actual
80. 3:37meanings, here's what you get. And this
81. 3:39was taught to me by a professor named
82. 3:40Dan Lewis. Okay? It says this, "There
83. 3:43was no bread in the house of bread. Uh
84. 3:47the man whose king was God took his wife
85. 3:50Delight and their sons sickness and
86. 3:52consumption to Moab." The father and
87. 3:56both sons died there, leaving three
88. 3:58widows. Delight, back of the neck, and
89. 4:02friend. When Delight heard there was now
90. 4:05bread in the house of bread, she was
91. 4:08determined to return. Her widowed
92. 4:10daughters-in-law asked to return with
93. 4:12her, but Delight urged them to stay
94. 4:15within their own nation. Back of the
95. 4:18neck turned back to Moab, but friend
96. 4:21swore a solemn oath in Yahweh's name to
97. 4:24accompany Delight back to the house of
98. 4:27bread. Together, the two of them arrived
99. 4:29at the beginning of the barley harvest.
100. 4:32Delight was so devastated by her losses
101. 4:34in Moab, she changed her name to Bitter.
102. 4:38And honestly, that's the context for all
103. 4:40the events that are going to unfold.
104. 4:42This family in the middle of a famine
105. 4:44goes from Bethlehem to Moab. And then
106. 4:47calamity falls upon this family. And
107. 4:50this family goes from, you know, a
108. 4:53husband with two sons whose sons are
109. 4:55married to three widows. And of course,
110. 5:00this famous line that Ruth says to her
111. 5:03mother-in-law, "Your people will be my
112. 5:05people. Your God's going to be my God."
113. 5:07So, even while I'm in the middle of
114. 5:08context clues, I just want to say like
115. 5:10God has always had a multithnic vision
116. 5:14like for his people. And you can see it
117. 5:16in the stories of Rahab and Joshua. You
118. 5:19can see it in the story of Ruth here
119. 5:20where people who are not Israelites are
120. 5:24going to get grafted in to God's
121. 5:26covenant. And we'll end this the
122. 5:29teaching today kind of on just the
123. 5:31gospel of grace. Okay. So, that's the
124. 5:33context. Okay. And to kind of wrap up
125. 5:35context really succinctly, what we have
126. 5:38at the end of Judges is a need for a
127. 5:41king. A need for a king. Everyone does
128. 5:44what is right in their own eyes. Israel
129. 5:46desperately needs a king. What we now
130. 5:48have in Ruth is the Lord of Lords,
131. 5:52Yahweh, moving chess pieces around on
132. 5:54the cosmic board of the universe to get
133. 5:57a king. And so, how is Ruth going to
134. 6:00end? Okay, Ruth is going to end uh with
135. 6:04a total setup for king. Okay, says this.
136. 6:08This then is the family line of Perez.
137. 6:10Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron
138. 6:12the father of Ram. Ram the father of
139. 6:14Aminadab. Aminadab the father of Nishan.
140. 6:17Nishan the father of Sam. Sammon the
141. 6:19father of Boaz. Okay. Boaz the father of
142. 6:23Oed. Oed the father of Jesse. And Jesse
143. 6:26the father of David. Okay. So the story
144. 6:30that we're looking at right now is the
145. 6:32story of David's greatgrandparents.
146. 6:36Okay? So this think about this. By the
147. 6:39time we get to Saul, who is Israel's
148. 6:42choice for a king, not Yahweh's choice
149. 6:44for a king, by the time we get to Israel
150. 6:47choosing for themselves this wicked
151. 6:49king, God had already selected the great
152. 6:53grandfather of who he wanted to be king.
153. 6:58And and so sometimes it's like we want
154. 7:00God to do things and we're so impatient
155. 7:03that we realize that or we fail to
156. 7:06realize that the God of the universe has
157. 7:09already made all of the preparations to
158. 7:12give you the thing that you've actually
159. 7:15wanted and that you actually need. But
160. 7:17in our impatience, we want to rush ahead
161. 7:21of the Lord and do things our own way.
162. 7:23And so the people end up with Saul who's
163. 7:26a wicked king. But God had been working
164. 7:29for generations to get David onto the
165. 7:32scene. And so had they just been
166. 7:34patient, David would have been their
167. 7:36first king instead of having to ever
168. 7:39experience anything that has to do with
169. 7:41Saul. So that is the plot that Judges
170. 7:45ends with a need for a king. And by the
171. 7:49time we get to the end of Ruth, all
172. 7:50preparations have been made for there to
173. 7:52be a king. And I want you to know this,
174. 7:55okay? that while Ruth and Naomi are in
175. 7:59the middle of tragedy, okay, both of
176. 8:02their husbands have died, Naomi's sons
177. 8:05have died and her husband has died.
178. 8:07While they're in the middle of death and
179. 8:09tragedy, and they need a miracle, God is
180. 8:12not just going to provide them a
181. 8:14miracle, but God is going to use their
182. 8:17lives to provide a miracle for Israel
183. 8:19who needs a king. Because so often we
184. 8:22are thinking that it's going to be a
185. 8:24win-loss. God either has to bless Israel
186. 8:27or he has to bless Ruth and Naomi. But
187. 8:30the overarching theme of the book of
188. 8:32Ruth is that God never has to choose
189. 8:35whether or not he's going to bless Ruth
190. 8:36and Naomi or all of Israel. He is going
191. 8:39to bless both Ruth and Naomi with a
192. 8:42kinsman redeemer named Boaz, but also
193. 8:44bless Israel with the king they need
194. 8:47named David and bless all of humanity
195. 8:50with a kinsman redeemer named Jesus.
196. 8:52Because for God, he's not playing. He's
197. 8:56not making you or I play musical chairs
198. 8:58for blessings. It's not like, well,
199. 9:00there's only two blessings and there's
200. 9:02three of us. Nope. God can bless Ruth.
201. 9:06He can bless Naomi. He can bless Israel.
202. 9:08He can bless all of humanity through one
203. 9:11story in one family. Okay, so that's all
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229. 10:16there's 85 verses in the entire book of
230. 10:19Ruth. 23 of those verses
231. 10:22directly mention a redeemer. Okay, the
232. 10:26word redeemer. So that word redeemer,
233. 10:29that's a buzzword for the entire book of
234. 10:32Ruth. Now when we talk about redemption
235. 10:35in the Christian space, for us many
236. 10:38times that's like a concept. It's an
237. 10:41idea. But in the Bible, redemption is
238. 10:43not a concept. It's actually three
239. 10:45stories. There's Abraham going into
240. 10:48enemies territory to redeem Lot. Then
241. 10:52there is Hosea
242. 10:54redeeming his prostitute wife named
243. 10:57Goomer. Okay. Paying a price for that
244. 11:00which is already his. Okay. So the two
245. 11:03images that we have for redemption in
246. 11:06the Old Testament are Abraham risking
247. 11:09his personal safety to go to war with an
248. 11:12enemy to physically redeem that which is
249. 11:15his family. Second, a husband who's
250. 11:19already paid the price to be married,
251. 11:22but then pays again for that which he
252. 11:25already owns to to to rescue what is his
253. 11:30from the slavery of sin, okay? Or and
254. 11:34bondage. And then we have this story of
255. 11:36a kinsman redeemer who Boaz is going to
256. 11:41rescue Ruth and Naomi from the brink of
257. 11:45poverty. but also infertility that their
258. 11:49lineage would not continue. So when we
259. 11:52think about redemption in the Christian
260. 11:54space, that's typically an idea or a
261. 11:56concept. But in in the Jewish worldview,
262. 11:59it's not a concept, it's a set of
263. 12:01stories. Okay? And so this story is all
264. 12:05about redemption. And redemption happens
265. 12:08by being brought into family. Okay? It's
266. 12:11not an individual story. It's a family
267. 12:14story. If Ruth and Naomi don't get
268. 12:18family, they won't get redemption. Okay?
269. 12:22In this culture, widowed women were
270. 12:25relegated to a life of poverty. Okay?
271. 12:29And not only is Ruth widowed, but she's
272. 12:33also an immigrant. Okay? And so life is
273. 12:36going to be very, very hard without a
274. 12:40man to actually redeem them, to provide
275. 12:43family for them. Okay. So, and we'll get
276. 12:45to the at the end we'll get into like
277. 12:47what does providing family actually
278. 12:49mean? Now, let's get to the uncovering
279. 12:52feet part because what's going to happen
280. 12:54is that Naomi and Ruth are going to
281. 12:56devise this plan. Hey, we got to get
282. 12:58Boaz to be the kinsman redeemer. So, go
283. 13:01down to the threshing floor and, you
284. 13:03know, lay at his feet and cover his
285. 13:05feet. So, you may not know this, and I'm
286. 13:09sorry if this burst your bubble, but
287. 13:11feet is a euphemism for genitalia in the
288. 13:15Bible. Okay? Now, I know people are
289. 13:18going to push back and say, "So, you
290. 13:20saying Jesus was washed in the disciples
291. 13:22private parts?" No. Okay. The every
292. 13:25single time feet is mentioned does not
293. 13:27mean that there's private parts, okay,
294. 13:31involved. So you have to take context
295. 13:34into consideration. So when the woman,
296. 13:37you know, cried over Jesus's feet and
297. 13:39anointed them with oil and the watch
298. 13:41with her hair, what was she doing? Was
299. 13:43that sexual? No. Okay. Context. Context
300. 13:47is key. Okay. Uh let me give you two
301. 13:50examples. Isaiah 7 20. Okay. Isaiah
302. 13:557:20. I'm going to pull it up in Logos
303. 13:57and we're going to read that one verse
304. 13:59in the NIV, but then we're going to read
305. 14:01it in the NRSV, which is a more accurate
306. 14:03translation of the Bible. It says this
307. 14:05in chapter 7:20. This also should prove
308. 14:09to you why you should be reading
309. 14:11multiple chap like multiple uh
310. 14:13translations of the Bible. Okay? Isaiah
311. 14:157:20 says this, "In that day, the Lord
312. 14:18will use a razor hired from beyond the
313. 14:22Euphrates River, the king of Assyria, to
314. 14:24shave your head and private parts and
315. 14:28cut off your beard also." Okay, so the
316. 14:30shaving of the head and private parts
317. 14:33and beard. Okay, so all the hair is
318. 14:35going to be removed, which is a sign of
319. 14:37shame. All right, so what's what's the
320. 14:40king of Assyria going to do? shave their
321. 14:42heads, their private parts, and cut off
322. 14:45their beard also. Now, what the NIV is
323. 14:48going to do with Isaiah 7:20 is it's not
324. 14:52just going to translate, it's going to
325. 14:54interpret because we're going to
326. 14:55actually get a more accurate translation
327. 14:59that didn't interpret and it's going to
328. 15:01be confusing. Okay? NRSV is going to
329. 15:05actually translate accurately from the
330. 15:07Hebrew, which would probably confuse
331. 15:09many of us. says this 7 verse20 on that
332. 15:12day the Lord will shave with a razor
333. 15:14hired beyond the river with the king of
334. 15:16Assyria the head and the hair of the
335. 15:19feet and will take off the beard as
336. 15:22well. So what the NRSV is saying is it's
337. 15:27using a common euphemism for male
338. 15:30genitalia feet. Okay, every culture has
339. 15:33a euphemism. Okay? You know, when when
340. 15:36someone says, "I need to go to the
341. 15:38bathroom," it's a euphemism. We're we're
342. 15:40not saying, "I need to go urinate or
343. 15:42defecate." No, it's I need to go to the
344. 15:44bathroom. So, feet is a euphemism for
345. 15:49sexual reproductive organs. I'll give
346. 15:51you one more example. Okay, this is 1st
347. 15:53Samuel 24:3.
348. 15:55It says, "This is Saul. He's going to go
349. 15:57into a cave to relieve himself, aka, you
350. 16:01know, urinate, defecate, whatever it is,
351. 16:04probably the second. But anyway, it says
352. 16:07he came to the sheepfolds beside the
353. 16:10road where there was a cave and Saul
354. 16:12went in to relieve himself. All right.
355. 16:14Now, again, what the Bible is doing is
356. 16:17it's taking the original words and it's
357. 16:19not just translating them because if it
358. 16:21translated them, then it would actually
359. 16:23be went into uncover his feet. But it
360. 16:26doesn't say that because most of us
361. 16:28would be confused if it did. So it
362. 16:30interprets. It doesn't just translate
363. 16:32but interprets. Okay? So I need everyone
364. 16:36to know this. Your Bible translations
365. 16:39are also biblical interpretations.
366. 16:43Okay? It's why you should be reading
367. 16:44with multiple translations because each
368. 16:47of these translations they're trying to
369. 16:48their hardest. They don't want to
370. 16:50confuse. So sometimes they are
371. 16:53sacrificing the accuracy so that you
372. 16:56could actually know what's going on.
373. 16:58Okay. So it makes sense that in Isaiah
374. 17:00chapter 7 verse 20 and the NIV it says
375. 17:03private parts because what the heck does
376. 17:06shaving feet mean? You'd have to know
377. 17:09from cultural and historical context
378. 17:11that feet is a euphemism for genitalia
379. 17:13to know that they're going to shave
380. 17:15their pubic hair. Okay? That you'd have
381. 17:17to. And how would you know that unless
382. 17:20you I don't know listen to this podcast
383. 17:22or have gone to seminary or read Bible
384. 17:25dictionaries all day. Like how would you
385. 17:27know that? So don't be mad at the Bible
386. 17:29translators because they're doing
387. 17:31they're trying to interpret for you.
388. 17:33Okay. All that to say that doesn't mean
389. 17:35that every single time the word foot is
390. 17:38used that you know it's a you know it's
391. 17:41a sexual innuendo. But when we have
392. 17:45uncovering a feet and the fact that Boaz
393. 17:48wakes up like, "Whoa, girl, what you
394. 17:51doing? What you doing down there?" Okay.
395. 17:53And then has her leave before anybody
396. 17:56can figure out what's going on cuz he
397. 17:59wants to spare her integrity. Okay. And
398. 18:03so, you know, she's probably not giving
399. 18:04him a pedicure. Okay. Something
400. 18:07something sexual in nature is probably
401. 18:10happening. Probably happening. We can't
402. 18:13say for certainty. Okay. But it's at
403. 18:16least possible. Which then gets us to
404. 18:18the next question. We should not be
405. 18:20using or the next issue I guess. We
406. 18:23should not be using biblical characters
407. 18:25as moral object lessons. So if you need
408. 18:29Ruth to be a virgin until she's married
409. 18:33or not engage in fornication in order
410. 18:36for you to not engage in fornication,
411. 18:39then that's pretty immature. It's like
412. 18:42it's like it's like my uh my son
413. 18:45literally yesterday we were at a
414. 18:47restaurant and his friend who's also
415. 18:49four was like swinging on a table and he
416. 18:53said, "Dad, is she allowed to do that?"
417. 18:55And I said, "If her dad says she can but
418. 18:58your dad said you can't, it doesn't
419. 19:01matter what she's doing. I I'm not her
420. 19:03parent." And so, you know, in his
421. 19:06four-year-old brain, he's just like,
422. 19:08"No, we should all be able to do the
423. 19:09same thing." And it's a mark of
424. 19:11immaturity to say, "Well, if Ruth was
425. 19:14uncovering feet, I want to be out here
426. 19:16uncovering feet." Like, that's just
427. 19:17immature. If you need the the characters
428. 19:21in the Bible to live up to some moral
429. 19:24standard so that you would live up to a
430. 19:26moral standard, I would actually say a
431. 19:28that's immature, but b you don't get the
432. 19:31point of the Bible. Because the point of
433. 19:34the book of Ruth is not to teach you how
434. 19:36to get married. It's not to teach you
435. 19:38how to get your Boaz. It's not to teach
436. 19:40you how to date. By the way, there was
437. 19:43no dating in this cultural context. So,
438. 19:46I don't know what you would even apply
439. 19:47to your dating life from this book. It's
440. 19:50to show you that God had a plan for the
441. 19:53redemption of the world and that Jesus
442. 19:57is our kinsman redeemer. That's right.
443. 20:00He's a kinsman because he came to earth,
444. 20:03but he's a redeemer because he went to
445. 20:04the cross. So Boaz is a type in shadow
446. 20:08of Jesus. He's a kinsman redeemer. So uh
447. 20:12last kind of nerdy nugget for you. Lever
448. 20:15marriage is something that's outlined in
449. 20:17Deuteronomy 25:es 5-6. It says that if
450. 20:22you know a husband or a son has died
451. 20:25that the brother or the closest male
452. 20:28relative should take the widow and have
453. 20:31children for the deceased brother. Okay.
454. 20:35So, you can see this in Ruth 4:17. Okay.
455. 20:39Ruth and Boaz are going to have a child,
456. 20:42but that child is not going to be seen
457. 20:44as Ruth and Boaz's child because they're
458. 20:46having children for Naomi who's a widow.
459. 20:50So, it says this, chapter 4:1 17. We'll
460. 20:53start reading at verse 16 just so we
461. 20:55have context. Then, no Naomi took the
462. 20:57child in her arms and cared for him. The
463. 21:00women living there said, "Naomi has a
464. 21:02son." Well, really this is like Naomi's
465. 21:06grandson, but like who knows like how
466. 21:09much blood is even connected. But the
467. 21:11point was not for Ruth and Boaz to have
468. 21:13children. It was to have children for
469. 21:16Naomi. That's what lever marriage is all
470. 21:18about. Okay? And they named him Oed. He
471. 21:22was the father of Jesse, the father of
472. 21:24David. So the whole point of this story
473. 21:27is to actually talk about how the
474. 21:30grandfather of David was born. That's
475. 21:32the point. Not to teach you how to date.
476. 21:34Not to teach you how to get your Boaz.
477. 21:36Like, that's not what this book of the
478. 21:39Bible's about. And so often in our
479. 21:41selfishness, we twist the scriptures to
480. 21:44want them to be about something that
481. 21:46they're just not about. Okay. Couple
482. 21:48more nerdy nuggets for you. The social
483. 21:50welfare system in this day and age,
484. 21:53which could be found in Leviticus 19,
485. 21:55Leviticus 23, and Deuteronomy 24, says
486. 21:58that the edges of field should not be
487. 22:02harvested, but that they should be left
488. 22:04there for the poor. And that when the
489. 22:06harvesters go one time to get fruit,
490. 22:09that they shouldn't pass a second time.
491. 22:11Whatever dropped to the ground that you
492. 22:13weren't able to get, let poor people
493. 22:14come. Okay. So, that is what Ruth and
494. 22:17Naomi are out in Boaz's field doing. And
495. 22:21he just coincidentally, they
496. 22:23coincidentally start gleaning in a field
497. 22:26of someone who could be a kinsman
498. 22:29redeemer, which then gets me to my next
499. 22:31nerdy nugget, which is there's no such
500. 22:33thing as coincidence. One of the things
501. 22:35that the book of Ruth teaches us is that
502. 22:37there's no such thing as coincidence.
503. 22:39And then last but not least, the book of
504. 22:41Ruth is here to really show us that uh
505. 22:45God's always had a multithnic vision.
506. 22:48He's always had a multi-ethnic
507. 22:50goal for his people. Okay? Even though
508. 22:53he has to use one group of people called
509. 22:55the people of Israel, he's always had a
510. 22:58multiethnic vision, which obviously
511. 23:00we're going to get to in the New
512. 23:02Testament. All right? So, emphasis on
513. 23:05the poor, caring for the poor, the
514. 23:06orphan, the widow. There's also an
515. 23:08emphasis on loyalty. Ruth is loyal to
516. 23:11Naomi. There's an emphasis on the fact
517. 23:14that David is going to have Moabitete
518. 23:16blood flowing through his veins. And why
519. 23:19is this why is this such a heavy
520. 23:22emphasis on grace? Well, remember in
521. 23:24Numbers chap 22 to 25, there's this
522. 23:28whole incident where Balum uh and Bao uh
523. 23:32are trying to curse Israel, right?
524. 23:34That's that's a Moabitete. That's a
525. 23:36Moabitete scheme. And then what happens?
526. 23:40God or the Holy Spirit turns Balam's
527. 23:42curses into blessings. So plan B was to
528. 23:45use Moabitete Medionite women to seduce
529. 23:47the men of Israel into worshiping the
530. 23:49Bal of Peor. The incident would then
531. 23:52lead to a curse on Moab which we read in
532. 23:56Deuteronomy 23:es 3-6. a curse that is
533. 24:00meant that no descendant of Moab up to
534. 24:0210 generations could be part of the
535. 24:05assembly of Israel. This basically meant
536. 24:08that any descendant of a Moabitete could
537. 24:10not take part in the civil and religious
538. 24:12ceremonies of Israel. So they could not
539. 24:15take therefore any position of
540. 24:17leadership. This then is a problem as
541. 24:21David is a great grandson of Ruth a
542. 24:24Moabitete. so well within the 10
543. 24:27generation ban. And so that's why the
544. 24:31story is a story of grace. The story has
545. 24:34way more to do with God allowing David,
546. 24:37who's got Moabiti blood in his veins, to
547. 24:39be king, to be leader than it does about
548. 24:42you getting your Boaz for Christmas.
549. 24:46Okay? So, so again, we have to read
550. 24:48scripture in context. All right. My
551. 24:51timeless truth for the day is that Jesus
552. 24:54is our kinsman redeemer. Like that's the
553. 24:57the story that Jesus is God's gift to
554. 25:02humanity. He's a kinsman and that he
555. 25:04was, you know, unlike the Holy Spirit
556. 25:06and unlike God the Father, he took on
557. 25:09flesh and blood. He became one of us.
558. 25:11He's our kin, but then he's a redeemer
559. 25:13because he went to the cross and died
560. 25:15for our sins. Boaz is a type and shadow
561. 25:18of Jesus Christ. And because of the
562. 25:21redemption that we have received, we can
563. 25:24be called sons. We could be called
564. 25:26daughters. And we could be brought into
565. 25:28God's family. The same way that Ruth and
566. 25:31Naomi are saved not just from
567. 25:33loneliness, but from poverty and
568. 25:35isolation that comes from being
569. 25:37disconnected from family. Man, we have
570. 25:40been grafted into God's family. And so
571. 25:42the story of redemption that we see here
572. 25:45in the book of Ruth is actually
573. 25:48reflective of the story of redemption
574. 25:50that we get to live out as believers.
575. 25:52And that's what the book of Ruth is all
576. 25:54about. Tomorrow we've got the book of
577. 25:57Lamentations.
578. 25:58We got day 330 here on the podcast. If
579. 26:01you're on the street, I'm proud of you.
580. 26:03Even if you're not, I love you. And uh
581. 26:05we'll see if I am going to be the one
582. 26:09who's teaching tomorrow. We may have a
583. 26:11surprise up our sleeves. Anyway, I'll
584. 26:13see you right here tomorrow for
585. 26:15Lamentations chapters 1 and two. Peace.
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