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And our service times are Sunday morning, 1030 AM, Sunday evening, 430, and Wednesday,

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530 PM.

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And then we have our Bible verse, which is Philippians 1, 28.

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Thank you.

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And then just a reminder, we're a family-integrated church.

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Mother-baby room is for exactly that, the mothers and the babies.

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Then here today we have actually

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661 souls one for the year we have one baptism

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Then we have all the birthdays. We have a ton of birthdays coming up July. We have just Christian Rogers

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For the end of this month and then I appreciate

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Not only the church, but also brother Ben for coming out and preaching. I heard he did a good job

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and he preached well on the topics and then had a good time with Brother Heath.

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And then this Saturday we have a soul winning marathon.

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Just like as usual we will meet up here at the church at 9.

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We'll go out soul winning, have lunch, finish up, and then round out the day.

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then we'll have our services as planned on.

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Sunday then we might actually have another soul winning marathon. We might just we might have a half marathon on

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July 4th because I didn't realize it's a Saturday

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And we have actually people coming to visit.

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Some other people have asked if we're going to do anything.

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So I was thinking of just putting together

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a little fellowship,

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or maybe we can just go soul hunting in the morning,

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and then maybe just have a fellowship in the afternoon.

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So I'll put that together.

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I'll reach out to some people,

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or we can just do some fun and games here.

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We can't shoot off fireworks,

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because we're within city limits.

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And I just don't know anybody who has any property

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where we could do it.

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But I mean, we could just hang out,

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set some chairs here, and then just watch them.

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into the evening. And then on July 19th we have Pastor Jonathan Shelley preaching for us both

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services from Steadfast Baptist Church. So we've got a lot going on. Keep praying for the mothers,

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Christian Rogers, Marcel Wycliffe. Oh and I forgot to put down the baby shower. What's the date?

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July

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26 we'll have a baby shower for Christian Rogers. If you have any questions see my wife about that.

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And then I think we're good.

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There's a prayer request in the back.

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I've updated it as of today.

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So that on Sunday, we'll have the updated list.

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Yes, sir.

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Oh, yeah.

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Please pray for Chris Cobb, Pastor Cobb's grandson.

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He's going in for vein surgery on his legs.

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Just pray for that.

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And then are there any other announcements, anything I might have missed?

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It's been kind of a hectic June, but it's been a good June.

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So I had a really good time in Oklahoma.

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They have a really good church.

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Pray for them.

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And then the soul meeting was good.

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It's a smaller city, but it's definitely fun and receptive.

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And we just had a really good time.

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So overall.

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I can't complain.

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What?

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Yeah, I don't know when the dates are I'll put that on the Sunday so we could get that on there

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And then we do have that there's another conference coming up in the northeast. I'll get the details for that for Sunday

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If nothing else, let's turn our handbooks over to page 316.

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Steam.

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and then we'll be in Ruth chapter 4.

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See you there, peace out!

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Bye.

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Let's turn our Bibles over to Ruth chapter four.

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We'll be wrapping up our Bible study in the Book of Ruth

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right there in chapter four.

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Let me just get everything ready.

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And we're there in verse one, it says, then went Boaz up to the gate and sat him down there.

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And behold, the Kingsmen of whom Boaz spake came by, unto whom he said, Ho, such a one,

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turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down and he took men,

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ten men of the elders of the city and said, sit ye down here. They sat down.

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and he said unto the Kingsman, Naomi, that is...

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come again out of the country of Moab selleth the parcel of land which was our brother Elamilex.

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And I thought to advertise thee saying buy it before the inhabitants and before the elders of

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my people if that will redeem it redeem it but if that will not redeem it then tell me that I may

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know for there is none to redeem it beside thee and I am after thee and he said I will redeem it.

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Then said Boaz, What day thou buy'st the field of the hand of Naomi?

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Thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name

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of the dead upon his inheritance.

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And the Kingsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance,

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redeem thou my right to thyself, for I cannot redeem it.

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Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning

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changing.

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for to confirm all things a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor and this was a

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testimony in Israel therefore the Kingsman said unto Boaz buy it for thee so he drew off his shoe

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and Boaz said unto the elders and unto all the people ye are witnesses this day that I have

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bought all that was a limelight and all that was killio's and maylons and of the hand of Naomi

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Moreover, Ruth and the Moabitess, the wife of Malon, have I purchased to be my wife,

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to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be

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not cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his place.

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Ye are witnesses this day, and all the people that were in the gate.

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And the elder said, We are witnesses.

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The Lord make the woman.

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That has come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah which too did build the house of Israel and thou werely in Ephrata

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And be famous in Bethlehem and let thy house be like the house of pharaohs whom tamar beareth judah and

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Judah of the seed which the lord shall give thee of this young woman

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So boaz took ruth

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She was his wife, and when he went unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bear a son.

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And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without

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a kingsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life,

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and a nourisher of thine old age. For thy daughter-in-law, which loveth thee,

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which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

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Naomi took the child and laid it in her bosom and became nursed unto it and the women her neighbor

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Neighbors gave it a name saying there is a son born of Naomi. They called his name Obed

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He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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Now these are the generations of Phareas.

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Phareas begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram, Ram begat Amenadab, and Amenadab begat Nashon,

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and Nashon begat Salmon, and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obit,

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and Obit begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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Pastor Cobb, will you pray for the message?

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Police.

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Chris.

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Amen. All right. We're there in Ruth 4. This was a short study. Hey, remind me to clean

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these clear these out because I can't record internally. I mean, I don't think it's going to

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be a challenge. But so we're there in Ruth 4. We're going to wrap this up. Four chapters. Like I said,

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the reason that I just switched, I was actually going to preach on the book of Proverbs for a

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for a couple of weeks.

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but I had a conversation with someone who felt like it was a little bit of an underwhelming chapter,

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but hopefully, you know, we made the case this is actually one of the greatest chapters

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in the Old Testament. It's a clear picture of God the Father, of Jesus Christ, of the redemption,

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of, you know, just salvations by grace through faith.

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It's not to specific people, but it's just to anybody who believes.

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Ruth is a Moabitess. She's obviously not of any of the 12 tribes, yet she's grafted in

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to the most important tribe, which is the tribe of Judah. And then she is actually the one who

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she is grandmother to King David, who eventually is one of the named not only throughout the whole

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Old Testament, but even in the New Testament.

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And it's given credit in the lineage.

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Jesus mentions him.

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He's mentioned in the New Testament.

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And of course leads to the ultimate individual in that lineage,

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which is Jesus Christ.

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Right?

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And so that's the reason why we worship the way we do,

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why we believe like we do.

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I don't know how anybody could read the Old Testament and the New Testament

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and then get anything else out of it.

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So let's go there to Ruth4. I just want to point out a couple of things before we go into the points that I have for you all today.

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But the very first thing that I just want to point out is, well first let me give you the title.

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The title of Ruth4 is for tonight or this evening is Handle Your Business.

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So last week we were like don't be a boaz. I mean don't be a bum.

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Be a Boas, but this this chapter is handle your business and it goes both ways

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You know what I'm talking about handling your business in the context of this

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I'm talking about the men and women women need to stay out of men's business

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You know if you notice

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Naomi says to Ruth like you need to be still the man will go as a matter of fact, let's go there to the end of

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Chapter 3 verse 18 the Bible says then said she said still my daughter until thou know how the matter will fall for the man

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Will not be in rest until he had finished the thing this day. Hey, what is what was the instruction for the woman be still?

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Hey, don't be nagging.

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Don't be giving your opinion.

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I know even if you think you know better,

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it's not your role, right?

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And that's one of the important things we need to learn.

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First of all, in the role of submission,

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which everybody is in submission to someone, right?

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The world would make you think that women are super oppressed

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and only they have to submit to things,

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but no, children submit.

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Men submit to bosses and if they're not submitting to bosses and if they are the boss, you know what?

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They have to submit to the Lord Jesus Christ. We all have to submit to the governments

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That that and the laws and the ordinances of our country in our cities and our states

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Like we all have to submit and so everybody has to just know their role and we're more effective in our role

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That we are in our knowledge

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And the Lord prefers obedience over sacrifice, right?

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And in this instance, Ruth just has to be still.

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which is a picture of us being still in the Lord's providence, right? The Bible tells us to be still

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and know that He is Lord. There are times where we just need to just sit back, pray, and then just

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wait for the Lord to just reveal the things that He's working in our lives, right? This is a picture

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also of the church. You know, you don't build a church in days or weeks, you build it in decades.

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So we don't see all the workings, all the tapestry that the Lord's doing in the church's life.

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right away we just have to just continue to plow through, just be still, continue

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to show up, even when we don't show up, let the Lord's grace and mercy work

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through us, because you know the pastor is not perfect, the congregation is not

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perfect, we fall, we sin, he has to lift us up and we have to believe that he is a

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restorer of those that fall or we're just gonna fall.

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You know, there's times where I'm just like, I feel like I'm just on a spiritual high

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and when I'm preaching and showing up to church, it just feels like it's all going great.

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And there are times where I'm just like, man, I just can't get out of this rut.

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Feels like I just keep falling into sin or just this besetting sin or this.

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this thing that's bothering me or this just this thing's triggering my anger

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whatever it is and you still show up and you're like i don't feel like i'm in the

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spirit or i'm doing great but you just show up you ask the lord to

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lead you because there's things that the lord has to be the one to handle

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and then of course we see boaz here in chapter four

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he's the man and this is a man's world at the end of the day whether

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we like it or not

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You know, it goes both ways actually. I think right now, because it's really easy to make the case to women that this is a man's world, right?

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And women can argue all they want.

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But you know what? Men also need to realize that this is a man's world, because we have too many effeminate men that just don't want to take up the banner of getting the job done.

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You know, I've seen this trend more and more of these men that are just like homemakers.

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and they send their wives out to make the money while they leave the home.

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That's not the biblical role.

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Even if you could do it better, it doesn't matter, right?

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You know, there are things that I know, like, I'll watch my wife do,

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and I'm not picking on her.

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As a guy, I see her execute things in the home,

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and I just look at it from the perspective of a business owner or project manager,

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and I'm like, I would never do that or that.

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but I don't get involved because that's not my role. Now I'll guide her and give her instructions

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and this and that but at the end of the day there's things that she just needs to have autonomy to do

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and the man need to realize you know what's my duty yeah I mean I'll step in sometimes and clean

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sometimes I'll help out with the kids but at the end of the day I'm like you know too much of this

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and I'm not going to do enough of what I need to get done right and men need to just step back

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let those things go and go and do the things that actually matter like the work that needs to

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be done. And in the church, we need the men to step up. You know, one of the more frustrating

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things of I think any church would be when the men don't step up. Like the idea is that the pastor

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has the support and the foundation of strong men that are growing in the Lord.

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You know, I know everybody's in a different biblical, I mean, or a spiritual walk, but

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they should all be growing just as much as he's growing, hopefully.

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And if he's not growing, they should be growing to the point where maybe they overshadow and

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then, you know, that needs to, that church needs to change dynamics.

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But you know, God willing, that's not our church, but let's go there to Ruth, right

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there in verse one, just as a, it's kind of a, uh, like to tie this thing together.

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The Bible says, then went Boaz up to the gate and sat him down and behold.

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sat him down there and behold the Kingsman of whom Boaz spake unto him came by unto whom he said,

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Ho, such a one turn aside, sit down here. It turned aside and sat down. Hey, he didn't

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mince any words. He's like, Hey, you need to sit down. We need to get this thing done. And of course,

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in verse 12 of Ruth 3, it said, you know, Naomi said, and now it is true that I am

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That near Kingsman. How be it there is a Kingsman near that I'm sorry Boa said to her like I know that I'm a Kingsman and

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It's great that this is this is an opportunity, but let's do this thing right you know Boa's

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Here is showing true character. He's not taking any shortcuts

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He's gonna do a ride, and he's gonna go hold the other guy accountable

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You know this is really also a great lesson for other for men especially when you're raising children

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Only men can raise other men

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And you say well only women can raise other women not necessarily like what men can lead other women

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then put them in the right direction men can lead both

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But women can't lead men

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It's funny because we were out to dinner at in Oklahoma after the Sunday service and one of the families came to join us

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and my wife was talking to the

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The mom and they have like a two-year-old boy and she admitted she's like, you know

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My spankings just don't have the same effect anymore. And he's only two

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she's like

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I'm glad that daddy's the one that's whooping on him because when I spank him he just kind of looks at me like

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It's not that impressive. You know now we went through the same thing with my son where he just didn't feel like

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There was enough. I don't know authority or power there. That's a normal thing

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I remember going through it and my dad put him in my place

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It takes the dad to say hey, you're gonna obey your mom because I'm here

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And then the respect that the mom gets is because of dad

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And I mean, think about just in society today.

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You know, you think about the people are always talking about the black culture,

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like, you know, that it's oppressed because of racism. No, it's oppressed because

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the men have been removed. Most of the black kids growing up today are growing up without their dad.

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You know, if their dad was involved in their lives, I guarantee you they wouldn't be doing

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half the things that they're doing, even if they're just, even if it wasn't at the level

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with it, we would think anytime a dad's involved, he's going to, he's going to want to teach

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his child nine times out of 10, I would think, you know, how to be better than him.

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I don't know, are all dads perfect or not?

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But like my dad's goal was always to make me better than him.

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Right, he held me accountable, he was tough.

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He didn't let me just get away with anything.

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He didn't let me just be girly about stuff.

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You know, just moaning and complaining.

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He was tough.

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Right, let's go down to verse three right there.

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You don't have to turn there with me on this first part.

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I just wanted to point out a couple of things

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that were closing this out

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because I wanted to tie it together.

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And in verse 3 says, and he said unto the Kingsman Naomi that has come again out of the country of Moab selleth the parcel of land

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Which is our brother Elimelech's now

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They know the Levitical law in Leviticus 25 verse 25

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The Bible says if thy brother be wax and poor and hath sold away some of his possessions

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And if any of his king come to redeem it

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then shall he redeem that which is brother sold. So basically they're just following what God

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already had this had established and they're doing this thing. So you know we don't have to

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go too deep into like what the the history says about the custom. This was the custom.

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You know today if you just look at society in different parts of the country things are just

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done differently.

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I'll give a great example.

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In the Hispanic culture, we have something called the quinceañera, which is popular

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now in the US, but because of Hispanics, but it's not an American thing.

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There's a sweet 16, but it doesn't carry the same weight as a quinceañera.

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It's just a different way of executing cultural nuances.

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People get married differently, they throw different types of parties, they ask for a

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hand in marriage.

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As a matter of fact, when we grew up, we didn't have a lot of the things that are now popular.

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do like

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What is it? Like big lavish proposals and they have big wedding showers and big, you know, now when they're pregnant

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there's like gender reveals. That stuff didn't occur, you know, 20, 30 years ago.

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So cultures change. This is just the culture at the time and that's really...

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when it comes down to. Let's go down to verse 4, it says,

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Now if we were to go to Jeremiah 32 verse 7, you don't have to turn there, but it says,

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Behold, Hanna-Meel the son of Shalom, thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying,

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Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is thine to buy.

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So there was a way to redeem within the tribes, within the people, within the families.

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That was a biblical standard in the Old Testament. The reason was God wanted to keep them sanctified.

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Obviously, today we're sanctified how?

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We're equally yoked.

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We want to be redeemed properly.

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The best example that I have in today is my father-in-law.

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My...

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My...

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My mother-in-law passed away a couple years ago, and then after like a year or two, he remarried,

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but he didn't just like move in with the lady or anything like that. You know, they went through

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like a small courtship, but they went through it. Where'd they find themselves? In the church that

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they were both serving. She was widowed from a husband. They, you know, it was something,

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and it was like, it was basically he was taking care of her in her older life. She's taking care

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of him and his older life.

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And though what brought them together was that they were equally yoked. You know there was other

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Widowed women I guess you could say at the time that might have shown some interest

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But the reason he ended up with the lady that he's with now is because they're both believers, right?

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They're both redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ. And so they come together. In today's age,

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that's how we, you know, the reason we want to do things is because of God, because of Jesus Christ, because of the Bible.

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Not just some random, you know, it's not wise for young people to get married to someone who's not saved.

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I mean, it's just gonna make your life difficult.

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Or you don't want to just like not be, you know, wives, if they're not submissive to their husbands

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and then they're dragging them to church, you know, they're forcing them to believe things that they

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don't want to believe. It makes things difficult. You want to be equally yoked. And this is kind of

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what that's picturing.

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You know, we saw that in the litics 25 also. Like I said, I'm not going to go through all of that for the sake of time

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And then let's go to verse 6 right there. It says and the kingsman said I cannot redeem it for myself

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Lest I mar my own inheritance

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Redeem thou my right to thyself where I cannot redeem it

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And what's interesting is in verse 12 of root three

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He said hey, i'm gonna

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He said now it is true that I am thy near kingsman. How be it there's a kingsman near than I

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What do you say? Terry this night and she'll be in the morning that if he will perform unto

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thee the part of a Kingsman, well let him do the Kingsman part. But if he will not do the part of

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a Kingsman to thee, then will I do the part of a Kingsman to thee as the Lord liveth, lie down

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until the morning. Of course this is picturing

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You know, Jesus Christ, Boaz pictures Jesus Christ here.

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Jesus redeemed us because that was his duty.

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You know, it had nothing to do with us.

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And the Old Testament always makes me think like when they're about to go into the promised land.

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You know, Jesus, God reminds him.

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He's like, I'm going to give you all these victories,

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but it has nothing to do with you.

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It has to do with because I loved you,

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because I've chosen you, because I'm doing this,

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which is a picture of the New Testament.

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The only reason that we have any grace,

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the reason that we have any ability to do anything great,

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the reason that we're going to heaven

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is because we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, right?

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Boaz has said, I'm the one who's going to do the job.

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I'm going to see it all the way.

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through, he gave the opportunity, which is a picture of what?

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Hey, the first Kingsman pictures.

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old Israel right in the flesh. It pictures the Jews or the Judaizers the false religions

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those today they call themselves Jews but are not but in the Old Testament they were actually Jews

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and he's like more concerned about himself which is a picture of all of Israel through all of time

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they're always more concerned about themselves than anybody else and Boaz is is saying

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Boaz pictures Jesus who says, you know, I'm going to die for the sins of the entire world.

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I'm going to do this for you, not for me. Right? We don't, Ruth is not getting security and salvation

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and peace and, you know, accolades and she's not getting noticed as a virtuous woman because of her.

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but because of Boaz. You know, it's obviously known in town. He's talking to everybody. This is not,

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you know, he didn't do it privately, which is also another thing. You know, Jesus didn't die

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privately. He's not coming back privately. Jesus doesn't do, hide anything under a bushel. The

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Bible says that in the, in heaven, there will be no night because Jesus is the light of the world

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in darkness and in night. He sees everything, right? We see the fact that Jesus

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in all aspects of our life. In Job 19 verse 14 which is the same actually let's

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go there go to Job go to the book of Job real quick 19 because I think it's

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really interesting in 19 right there in verse 14 Job is obviously still dealing

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with all the the backlash of his friends and everything and he's speaking here

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And it says that Job answered and said in verse one, how long will you back to my soul and break me into pieces with words?

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And by the time he gets to verse 14, he says my king's folk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me

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like

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his own family because you know there's that redemptive factor of the Kings the Kings folk

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the Kingsmen Redeemer and my wife said that I was saying it wrong Kins Kinsmen Redeemer I think I

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keep saying Kings but it's Kins Redeemer she said it last week but it's okay I have said English

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is my second language but I do try to improve it but then we we know that these are the the

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the famous verses where he says that he knows he's going to see his Redeemer later on in

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Ver in chapter 19. He says

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Let me just find it here. I was reading it earlier and then

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He says there verse 26 wexer verse 25

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He says for I know that my Redeemer liveth

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and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin warms,

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destroyeth this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." So ultimately, the kinsman redeemer

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is Jesus Christ. Your family will fail you, your friends will fail you, but you know who won't fail

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you? Jesus Christ. Right? That's why it's so important to have the one relationship that

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should never fail you, which is your wife.

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because anybody else could fail you. Marriage is a picture of the church being married to Jesus

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Christ. Marriage is a picture of the husband giving security to the wife. Marriage is that

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beautiful picture and if we ruin that, we ruin that testimony to the world. Right? Of course,

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Jesus will never ruin that testimony. Jesus committed himself. Jesus did all the work.

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He came through. I mean this is just great, right?

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Now let's go to verse 11 and then I'll get to the point. Like I said, I've only got a couple points for you today.

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This is a short chapter but in Deuteronomy 29 verse 5, right there verse 11 says,

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And in Deuteronomy 25 verse 9, it says,

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then shall his brother's wife come unto him

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and the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe

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from off his foot, and spin his face,

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and she'll answer and say, so shall be done unto the man

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that will not build up his brother's house.

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So this is a pretty big deal to be a kinsman.

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And then it was a big deal to deny that.

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We don't have time to go into it,

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but if you were to read all the verses,

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there's actually a protocol.

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So this guy is kind of dropping the ball, not a little bit, a lot.

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And that's what I mean by, you know, handle your business.

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He's not handling his business. Why?

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Because he doesn't want to mess up the comforts and the good things and the inheritance that he has.

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You know, the Bible says, let the dead bury the dead.

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You know, the Bible says to the rich man, he says, give up all that you have and follow me.

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And he couldn't do it.

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Because we're either holding on to the things that we think are going to save us, the security

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that we believe here in the world.

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And security, false sense of security may look different to many people.

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You know, that's why we have so many religions, so many ways of spiritualizing things.

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You know, the people that say they don't believe in anything, these big business guys, these

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big business owners, and that...

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That maybe, you know, like the Elon Musk's or the Jeff Bezos, you know, usually when

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they're they're pressed about their faith, they're very like, it's very, what is it,

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like just generalizing.

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But you know what they do love and they do worship is the security of their money.

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Right.

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That's what they're putting their faith in.

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If you really do a deep dive into these guys, they think their money is going to help them somehow live forever.

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Or you just look at a false religion and they think that we're you know praying to the saints or you know

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Doing these great works or knocking on doors or riding on bikes with a tie

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You know it's gonna get them in heaven

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But at the end of the day the only thing that gets us to heaven is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ

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So I know that was a long intro, but I mean we're closing this thing out

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I just wanted to tie it all together. You know just remember in Ruth one

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We see that they leave and they have to come back

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because there's no better place than home.

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And home for us spiritually is with Jesus Christ.

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That's why, you know, for me it's a big deal that even if we have a smaller

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number of people on a Wednesday night...

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that we show up because you know you're home this is the place to be whether it's good whether it's

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bad whether you feel like it or not you know for me it's a big deal to be honest with you sometimes

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i appreciate the wednesday crowd more than the sunday morning sunday evening because those guys

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like that crowd sometimes that's they feel that's what clocks them in

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But the Wednesday crowd, they know that they're just there all the time.

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You know, they're the faithful three to three to thrive.

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This is the thing we need to do.

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Right. And then in Ruth, chapter two,

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we see grace amplified in three in route three.

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We see that the Redeemer shows up.

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And then, of course, in Ruth, for we're going to see the completion

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of this redemption, which is a picture of Jesus Christ.

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Dying being buried and rising again and then us believing on him and going through that and of course

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Boaz is part of the genealogy of King David

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Which ultimately leads us to our Lord Jesus Christ and it's interesting people fight this race thing

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But Ruth had nothing to do

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Race wise with the lineage of Jesus Christ

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I mean, there's no, there's nothing to tie her to.

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She's a mo' by this.

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She's, she's, you know, a bad group, the Canaanites.

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I mean, it's just like not a great thing, right?

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So let's go there to Ruth one.

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And point number one is that a godly man

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should always handle his business.

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Period. I know it's the title of the sermon, but man,

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we need more men to just handle their business.

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I know one of the critiques of our current president.

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is that he just kind of reneges on stuff. He doesn't really handle his business.

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He doesn't have any follow through. He doesn't see things all the way through.

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As Christian, especially Christian men, we need to see this thing through, right? There's times

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where I don't care what the preacher is. I don't care how good of a preacher he is. I don't care

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how good of a soul winner he is. There are times where they just don't feel like showing up.

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You say, Pastor Ben, you talk a lot about people just not wanting to show up.

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Well, because that's really the hardest part.

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I could preach to you about all the times that I felt like, you know, there's times

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where I leave.

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More times than not, I don't know that I do it justice, but there's times where I preach

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to the servant.

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I just know I just...

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I was on it. Like if the people didn't like it, at least I know I hit all the points I wanted.

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I was on point. Like I was in the zone. Like as they would say, you know, if I was playing

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basketball, I would be able to miss a shot. But there are other times where I just get up here,

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then I get off. I'm just like, I don't even know what I was doing. Right. Or you just go

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so away and you're just not into it. But men of God just need to fall through.

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We need people to actually show up and get the work done.

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And it's not just in church.

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The reason that America is failing is because nobody wants to work anymore.

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Nobody wants to show up and just actually get the job done.

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They want to get paid, but they don't want to show up.

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They don't want to clock in.

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They don't want anybody monitoring them.

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They don't want to report to anybody.

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They just want to be left alone.

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I was watching something I think...

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Microsoft Teams, which is just a software that people used to talk to I think it's now going to monitor the workers because they're having a

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problem with people just showing up

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They're like people are calling in from the beach or from the restaurant. They're not doing their work

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They're being distracted right and there's a lot of ways to get distracted in the world today, but let's go there Ruth one

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He says in chapter verse one of Ruth

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He says, then Boaz went up to the gate and sat him down there.

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And behold, the kingsman of whom Boaz spake came by unto him, he said, ho, such a one,

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turn aside, sit down here.

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And he turned aside and sat down.

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And you know, he said it was such authority, the guy had no option but to sit down.

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Right?

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I don't know what Boaz looked like or whatever, but maybe his voice resonated enough, the

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guy sat down.

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He didn't even tell them what this thing was about,

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and the guy's already doing it.

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And then he said, in verse 2, he said,

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and he took 10 men of the elders of the city

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and said, sit ye down here.

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And they sat down.

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I think this is a cool picture.

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Obviously, this is a personal opinion.

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This is not dogmatic.

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But it kind of looks like it's a cool picture

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of the 12 tribes are represented, right?

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There's 10 men.

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There's two of them.

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And only one is gonna kind of only one is putting the show on he's the one that's calling everybody out

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He's the one that's redemptive which of all the 12 tribes. There's only one tribe that ultimately ends up being the main tribe

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Which is what the tribe of Judah right Jesus Christ comes from that tribe. So, you know Boaz

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He did exactly what he promised. He told her hey, I'm gonna handle my business

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He didn't lull a gag around.

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He didn't just wait around.

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He didn't make excuses.

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He didn't procrastinate.

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He just got up and he handled the matter.

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And he said, how do you do that in church?

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But you know what?

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When it's time to show up to church, it's time to show up

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to church.

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All right, I've said this before.

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Church is not a social club.

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We're here to execute.

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The edicts and the norms and the, you know, the, the, oh man, my wife corrected me, so

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now I'm thinking of the wrong word.

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Not the decorum, but the, yes, the decorum, right?

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Not the decorum.

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The way we act in church, right?

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That's first, the fellowship and the fun comes second.

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You know, and I've had to have those talks where I'm just like, hey, we need to be in

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church for church.

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Thank you.

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You know, those are not fun talks.

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I hate having those talks.

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And I'm not just talking with my children and with my wife.

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It's not with anybody.

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My children know that.

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Right?

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And by the way, you know, we are a congregation.

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Children need to obey the leadership in the church, not just the pastor, not just their

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parents, but any adult.

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And if there's an issue, then it's for the adults to work their thing out.

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But children need to act right in church.

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Parents need to spank their children in church.

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Husbands need to tell their wives maybe not to say amen in church.

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Now that's not a problem in our church, but you know, and men need to just own up and actually get excited about church.

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I remember growing up and you know one of the things that was always weird to me was the other churches that I went to,

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it was mainly the women getting the children to church because the men wouldn't go.

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You know, one of the things I love about our church is that the men are leading the home.

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Like, we need more men in church, not less men in church.

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And if you were to look up statistics, it's changed over time, but it's like the spiritual

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leader in the home is usually the woman. You know why? Because men just don't want the responsibility.

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But Bamboa, he got to it. You know where there's another area where that kind of irks me a little

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bit? It's when we're going out soul-witting.

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Right? And then by the way, I mean, I show grace.

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I'm preaching from here.

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You know, I have to call it out.

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But when it's time to go soul winning and everybody's like,

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oh, now I need to go to the bathroom and I need to get water

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and I need to get supplies and then we get to the place

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and everyone's like, well, where do we go?

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What do we do?

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Hey, just find a door, knock it.

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It's not that difficult to go soul winning.

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I don't know where to go.

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If there's a door in front of you, just knock that door.

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Well, what if we already knocked it?

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Don't worry about it.

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Knock it again.

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Because nine times out of ten most people don't answer. So if you don't know what to do, just do it.

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You know, I just want to get out there. I just want to start soul winning.

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I want to spend that time doing the work. And then when we come back, we can then,

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you know, have fun. We can have a drink. We can have a popsicle.

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You know, if we're out on a marathon, we can have a good time at lunch.

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But, you know, we got to knock those doors.

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And by the way, some of the great conversations I have with out soul winning, as soon as that

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door is open, we shut up, let's get the job done.

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There's no like lollygagging around, you know, there's no just twiddling our thumbs.

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Let's go out there and just get the job done.

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You know, the Bible says Ecclesiastes 9 right there in verse 10.

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If you want to turn, I mean, sorry, verse 1, you know, I kind of have a note here.

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In verse one it says,

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We want to focus on, expect the unexpected, right?

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In verse one it says, for all this I consider in my heart,

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and he cleaseth these nine, even to declare all this,

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that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God,

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no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

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All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked,

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to the good and to the clean and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth

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not. As is the good, so is the sinner. As he that sweareth, as he that feareth in oath. This is an

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evil among all that are done under the sun that there is one event unto all.

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Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart,

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while they live and after they go to the dead. For to him that is joined to all living there is hope,

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for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything.

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Neither have they any more reward for the memory of them is forgotten.

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Also, their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished.

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Neither have they any more apportion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

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Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thine wine with a merry heart.

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For God now accepted thy works. Let thy garments be also

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always white, and let thy head lack no ointment.

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Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life, of thy vanity, which

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he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for that is thy portion

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in this life.

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And in thy labor, which thou takest under the sun, whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,

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do it with thy might.

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For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest.

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Hey, number one, expect the unexpected, but number two, the way you do that is just show up and do the work.

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Right now, because you only have one life, and you gotta get it all while you can get it.

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and we're all in different stages in life. And so look, if you're not a soul winner because you

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can't go soul winning, then pray for us. Keep showing up to church. You know, one of the things

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I appreciate about Pastor Cobb and Sister Linda is they're here Sunday morning, Sunday evening,

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Wednesday evening, any fellowship, any event, anything that's going to get done in the church,

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they're here. You know.

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They don't have to anymore.

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Pastor Cobb passed the torch.

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Pastor Cobb still comes and checks on the building

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and the sup pump and the trash.

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And he calls me, he checks it.

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And I'm not, you know, giving him a pat on the back.

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I'm just saying, hey, if you're here,

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there's something to do.

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If God has you here, you're still alive.

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You still have a purpose.

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You know, I hate this loser mentality that people are like, oh, I need to retire.

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So I'm just going to go fishing all my life and do nothing.

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Eventually, maybe end up in a nursing home and just watch reruns of the prices.

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Right?

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No, you got work to do.

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You know, read your Bible.

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God has a purpose for you.

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We don't know what it is, but do it.

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Go to James 5.

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Go to James 5, Proverbs 22 verse 29.

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The Bible says, see thou a man diligent in his business.

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He shall stand before kings.

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He shall not stand before mean men.

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James 5 verse 12 the Bible says, I mean verse 11, the Bible says,

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Behold we count them happy which endure.

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You have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord,

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that the Lord is very pitiful and of a tender mercy.

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But of all of all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven,

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neither by earth, neither by any other oath, but let your yea be yea,

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let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.

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lest ye fall into condemnation.

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Is any among you afflicted?

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Pay attention,

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because it feels like it's a weird transition,

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but it's not.

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He says, let your yea be yea,

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and your nay be nay.

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What does that mean?

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Hey, walk the walk and talk the talk.

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Don't say you're going to do something

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and then not do it.

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Don't start a project and then not finish it.

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Because what's the next verse?

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It says, if any among you is afflicted,

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let him pray.

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Hey, don't just say you're going to pray.

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or say man I should pray more do it don't tell somebody hey I'm going to

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pray for you and then don't pray for them

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is any mary let him sing songs right hey don't just don't just

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be excited about these things say we should do them do it

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is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church and let them

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pray over him anointing him with the oil in the name of the lord

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So hey, we see this pattern of like, hey, if there's something going on, just finish the job.

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Right? A godly man keeps his word. They handle their responsibilities, right?

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Character, I've often heard it say, is not what you do when people are watching,

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is what you do when nobody's watching.

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Right? The way that success will come in our church or the way that we'll be perceived in years to come,

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even in the eyes of God, will be with what we do in our quiet time because it's reflected

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in our public life. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak.

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Right? If I'm spending more time in the Bible, well then all I can do is speak the Bible.

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But if I spend more time, you know, lollygagging around or, you know,

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actively in sin that I shouldn't be, what's going to be reflected some way, some form in our life.

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So we need to be careful with that. Point number two is

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It's funny, everybody wants the benefits of things, but they don't want the responsibility.

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We see this here in verse 3.

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He says, and he said unto the kinsmen, Naomi, that is to come out of the country of Moab,

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selleth the parts of land, which is our brother Elimelech's.

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And I thought to advertise these saying, buy it before the inhabitants and before the elders

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of my people.

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If that will redeem it, redeem it.

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But if that will not redeem it, then tell me that I may know for there's none to redeem it beside thee

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and I am after thee." And he said, I will redeem it. It's interesting Boaz, he didn't let him finish.

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He interrupted him. He got all excited. He's like, well, I'm gonna get me more land. He was greedy.

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Right. But then it said, then said Boaz.

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What day thou buy'st the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the

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Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance."

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And the Kingsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself.

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Lest I mar my own inheritance, redeem thou my right to thyself, for I cannot redeem it.

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You know, life, it comes down to the two choices, right?

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either.

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you get saved and then you want to serve the Lord.

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Or you uh well that's first it's two choices but

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in the world there are people that are unselfish but they think they're doing it

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because that's what gets them to have it and then there's people

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who are just totally selfish. Well the same thing is also in the

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Christian life right you can get saved and do nothing for the Lord

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and you just basically you just want all the benefits of salvation

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But you don't want to do any of the work.

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And when you get to heaven, you're probably going to be least in the kingdom.

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Or you can get saved, get plugged in, remove all your selfish needs, and be unselfish and

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serve and then just be willing to just take what comes.

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Because with an unselfish attitude, that means you're going to take on responsibilities that

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aren't necessarily, weren't yours to begin with.

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You as a pastor!

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It's not like, you know, it's not technically my responsibility to deal with your stuff, right?

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As a human being in the flesh. But my role as a pastor is to take on the burdens that I have with

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the congregation and make it part of my life, right? As far as like pray for you, you know,

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concern myself, maybe give you advice, maybe just be there for you.

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not lord over you, not take over your life, but that is esteeming others better than myself.

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And that would require that at times I might neglect some of the things that I would consider

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more selfish. Like, you know, obviously my family's always going to take priority,

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but in an emergency I might neglect my family for just a short period for the cause,

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the greater cause of the congregation, the greater cause of the things of Christ. And I do that often.

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Right?

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You know, every time that I take time to just read my Bible and spend time in the Word,

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that's time I'm not spending with my family.

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Well, what's more important?

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The time that I spend with God.

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Every time that we go soul-winding and my family doesn't go soul-winding with me for

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whatever reason, that's time I went away from my family, the world would be like, see, you're

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not spending time with me.

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No, I'm doing the things of the job of a man.

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Every time that I show up to work so I can provide for my family and I don't spend those hours with them

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That's being unselfish. That's doing it for the cause of my family and for the cause of christ

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Right, and then of course if I take a phone call because somebody just needs

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A listening ear or there's an emergency or situation. That's time of wait. You just that's what's required

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But it's not just me

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You as a congregation also have a requirement to esteem others better than yourselves.

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Right? And to look out, the Bible says, for the brotherhood and to watch out for them and to care for them.

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And that requires you to sometimes be unselfish and not give the priority that you would normally give to someone that's closer,

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that you're prejudiced to, a loved one, someone you care more about.

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Right? I mean...

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It really builds character. I mean when you have to care for others

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Better than yourself the only you know, there's a benefit, but it's not an immediate benefit

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Right we but people want that benefit that comes from being unselfish without having to be unselfish

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People want the benefit from spending hours reading their Bible without reading their Bible

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People want the benefit of showing up three times to church without showing up three times to church.

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It's kind of weird, right? They want to have the opinion in church. They show up like maybe once a week.

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But then when something happens in church, they're the first ones to pipe up.

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You know, you got to get it right. You got to get in the right mentality.

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Now go over to John 10, I'll just read for you really quick.

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In John 10, we have a really good example of...

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Someone who's not you know, you can be a hireling in the church. I

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Mean the world also has higher or you can be

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You know part of the part of the fold part of the shepherd hood, right?

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I'm not saying you're a shepherd, but in some way

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Everybody has someone that they need to shepherd

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You know that there's no way on God's green earth even that even with a church of our size. It's not very big

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There's no way that I can just take every phone call and deal with everything.

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So it's good.

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I remember when we had the Trinity issue with those guys, at one point I walked away because

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I was really frustrated with those guys.

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You know who was there?

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All the other men were beating up on those guys.

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There's no way on God's credit that I can handle everything.

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Plus, I don't always handle everything the right way because I don't have all the answers.

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Other people have handled stuff in life and they might have a better way or they might have a better opinion on how to do things.

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It might actually be better, you know, I don't have all the answers.

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But anyways, go to John 10 right there in verse 7.

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The Bible says, then said Jesus unto them again, barely, barely I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

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This is Jesus speaking.

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All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

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I am the door.

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By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pastor.

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The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they might have

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life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd, but the Good Shepherd

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giveth his life for the sheep." And it's an interesting picture because obviously it's

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kind of crazy to think that someone would die for an animal.

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But that's a beautiful picture saying if you're willing to die for an animal, which people really are,

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how much more for humanity? Because this is obviously the picture here, right?

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It says, but he that is in hireling, and what's a hireling? Well, hireling is a person who works only for pay,

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especially in a menial or boring job with little or no concern for the value of work.

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You know, employees are sometimes the worst because they don't get the burden of the owner.

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They just want to show up, they want to get paid, they don't even do the job right, then

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the boss gets mad and they take offense but they don't realize the boss has other things

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that are going to affect it because they dropped the ball.

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I mean this happens to me in my business all the time.

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This is part of the course in just any job.

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I've been working all my life and you know anytime you run into the

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the worst deploy is the guy who clocks out right at 5 pm.

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Because you know he doesn't care you can't call him you can't depend on him and they'll bring out

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all the labor laws you know who's who's the find the guy who's the busiest give him something to

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do and you'll know he'll get it done right. I like this the British version it's a a person

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who works only for money.

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Especially someone who's paid to do something unpleasant, you know, they're basically a lackey

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Or you know a flunky type mentality and here he says in verse 12

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But he that is in hireling and not the shepherd whose own sheep are not

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see at the wolf coming cometh and leave at the sheep and

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Fleeeth the wolf catcheth them and scattered the sheep the hireling

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Fleeeth because he is in hireling and careth not for the sheep

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I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and I know of mine as a father knoweth me even so I

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Even so know I the father and lay down my life for the sheep. Hey

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The people that are most important in the church are the ones who aren't just gonna run at every sign of trouble

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and I'm not just talking like

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persecution attacks from maybe like the outside world.

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I'm talking even inside the church.

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Sometimes you've got to have uncomfortable situations.

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And you have people who just kind of like, you know,

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they kind of sneak themselves out of that conversation.

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You can't have that in church.

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You know, you've got to have the shepherd.

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And by the way,

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The pastor is not the shepherd like the good shepherd.

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The pastor is there to execute the words of the good shepherd.

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You know who, you know what I need? I need the good shepherd.

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And if I'm trying to do something for the sheep or for the flock, for feeding the flock,

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I'm doing it because of Christ, not because of me.

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And God willing, you know, that's the point that I'm getting across.

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Go to Ruth 4, go back to Ruth 4. Let's kind of start wrapping this thing up.

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In today's world everybody wants all the benefits, none of the responsibility.

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I mean that's that's

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This Carmelo Anthony thing if we learned anything from this is that

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You know everybody wants to claim self-defense, but they don't want any of the responsibility

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of murder

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Murder is murder. I don't care anyway slice it. I talked about it on Sunday

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The Bible is clear if you've murdered someone you murder someone then there's consequences

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You know in this country. There's something called involuntary manslaughter

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Meaning if you kill somebody accidentally there's still a consequence for that right people just want to like be

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Like pilot I'm washing my hands of this thing. No. We don't want to be a pilot. We want to be like Jesus

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Obviously we're not going to save the world, but Jesus was willing to die.

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We must be willing to die for Christ.

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We must be willing to go as far as is humanly possible for anything that it requires the

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Lord Jesus Christ.

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I don't know if that made sense at the end, but you know what I'm talking about.

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Right here in verse 7, Boaz becomes the Redeemer.

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You know why?

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Because he's willing.

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By the way, God doesn't force us to do anything.

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You don't have to take on the responsibility. You don't have to esteem anybody better than yourselves.

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You don't have to show up to church. You don't have to read your Bible.

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You don't have to clean up your life. You know, you don't have to do any of it.

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The Bible wants us to willingly do these things.

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You know, the beauty of God is that, hey, he's put out the consequences,

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but you still have the ability to make the choice.

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Moses, I love that the way it's worded, forsook the pleasures of sin for a season.

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He knew he could get all the good stuff, he was in a position of power, and he said, no,

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I want to serve the Lord Jesus Christ.

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That's hard to do in this day and age with so much just being thrown in our face.

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Ruth 4 right there in verse 7 the bible says now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning

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changing

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For to confirm all things a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor and this was a testimony in israel

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Therefore the kingsman sent unto boas by

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For thee so he drew off his shoe and boas said unto the elders and unto the people

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Year witnesses this day that I have bought all that was a limalex and all that was kilians and melons in the hand of naiomi

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moreover

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Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Amalon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of

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the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren

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and from the gate of this place. Ye are witnesses this day." So a couple of things.

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Boaz is not doing this in secret. He's getting witnesses. Second of all, he's buying it all up

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and he's taking care of that property. I mean, here it says he purchased what? Ruth to be his wife.

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Right?

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It's because oftentimes it's called a dowry.

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Like, you know, I remember when I asked for my wife's

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hand in marriage, they didn't ask for a dowry.

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But they were like, how are you going to support our daughter?

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Right?

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Well, that's basically me saying, hey, I'm going to buy.

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I'm taking on the financial responsibility now of my wife.

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Right? When I give my daughter away, you know, God willing, she chooses, uh, or my daughters,

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uh, they choose righteous men because I'm now transferring my authority to them and they are

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now responsible for this life. And she's going to have this expectation because that's the way I'm

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raising her up that this person needs to take care of her and be there for her. You know,

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You know, my wife has an expectation.

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Every morning when she wakes up that no matter what I am to provide for her

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No people get all up in arms

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feminism stupid because my wife like expects me to provide for her and

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She could demand it

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Right cuz that's my responsibility

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You'd be like well, you know, maybe she should get a job and contribute

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That's my decision if she gets a job and contributes

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But it's my responsibility to be the one to provide and handle that business.

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And I prefer it that way.

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State, you were there in John 10. I don't know if you kept your finger there.

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I should have had you keep your finger there.

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And the reason I point out the willingness is because we have to be willing.

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The Bible says two things, you know, obviously we either want to fulfill the will of God

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or it also gives us references to what? People that are willingly ignorant.

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We don't want to be willingly ignorant. Another word for that is stupid, right?

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Because at the end of the day, if you're willingly ignorant, you weren't really ignorant.

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You chose to be ignorant.

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or just chose to turn a blind eye so you knew better but you didn't want to do it.

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And the reason that's important is because Jesus Christ was the most willing.

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He gave us that example. He said, not my will, but thy will be done. Talking about the father,

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right? Verse 16 of John 10, he says, and other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,

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them also must I bring and they shall hear my voice. There shall be one voice and one shepherd.

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And he says, therefore doth my father love me. Why?

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because I lay down my life that I might take it again.

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No man taketh it from me, but I lay down for myself.

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I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

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This commandment have I received of my father.

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There was a division therefore again among the Jews for this saying,

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and many of them said, he hath a devil and is mad? Why hear ye him?

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Others said,

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These are not the words of him that hath the devil can the devil open the eyes of the blind

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And you know what ends up happening at the end of the day when you make a strong decision you're going to get

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lovers and you're going to get haters

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Hey, you don't want a middle ground

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You know if there's anything about jesus that stood out in his ministry if there's no middle ground you either loved him

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Or you hated him, right?

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The people that are the most polarizing in today's society, you either love them or you hate them.

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You know, and also when you're serving the Lord Jesus Christ, you better come in terms of the fact

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that people are going to love you or they're going to hate you. As a matter of fact, I don't want

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anybody to kind of like me. You know, I'm going to put you on the spot. I'm like, either you like me

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or you hate me. Just let me know so I know what to do. I know how to act.

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I don't need everybody to like me. It'd be nice, but that's just a pipe dream.

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Go to Galatians 4. Go to Galatians 4. Go to Galatians 4. We got seven minutes here.

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Wrap this thing up.

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Then verse 4 the Bible says but when the fullness of the time was come God sent forth his son

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Made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons

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And because ye are sons

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God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying abba father

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Wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son and if a son than an heir of god through christ

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Hey, we have a responsibility as sons to go multiply,

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to reproduce spiritually.

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So that others can be like, hey, you're no longer a servant to sin,

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but now you're an heir, you're a son of God or a daughter of God.

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Let's go back to Ruth and write there in verse number nine point number five. I think or four. I don't remember

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Is that to redeem something it always costs

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Somebody something

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Right. There's always a cost of the redemption

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Hey, if i'm redeeming a coupon at the store

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I might be getting the benefit but it costs

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that producer or that product something right they're losing out there's a discount there's a

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benefit to me because somebody else was willing to sacrifice it now it's not a perfect example

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because in retail there's always some kind of gimmick right buy one get one free doesn't really

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mean buy one get one i mean you're not getting something free but it's a good example in the

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sense of like at least you understand when you're redeeming a coupon you're getting that discount

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because they're willing to eat the cost.

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So that you can go buy more of whatever it is later on the road, right?

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It Ruth for right there verse 9 about says in Boah I said unto the elders and also the people

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Your witnesses the day that I have bought all that was a limelight and all that was killings and maylons of the hand of Naomi

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Moreover Ruth the Moabitess the wife of Malon have I perched to be my wife to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance

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that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of this place

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ye are witnesses this day who paid the price boas and ruth who's not of the lineage of the

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israelites she's not of the 12 tribes of israel received the benefit which is exactly us we are not

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of the lineage of god god is everlasting everlasting we are his created beings

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we are fallen because of Adam's sin.

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There's nothing honestly that we could ever do.

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The Bible says for God's will of the world.

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For me, every time I read that verse,

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for God's will, I mean, I'm sorry,

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for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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In my mind, it's like a visual.

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My mind always goes to different visuals,

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but it's just like not being able to get there.

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It's like jumping over a cliff.

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Just almost getting there and your hand gets caught in the cliff and some rocks fall and then you fall short

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Or like, you know making it almost to the end zone or the ball almost went in but it didn't that's that's what I see

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Right. The only reason

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That I get to heaven

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The only reason I'm jumping that cliff and I'm making it there is because at the end Jesus is the one catching you pulling you up

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has nothing to do with with me right Ruth got redeemed had nothing to do with her just had to

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do with a righteous man who was willing to see the thing through. Bible says in Revelation 5

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and verse 9 it says and they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book that's

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opened the seals are up that was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood and you know with

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us we exchange money.

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for redemption of things, but for the soul, blood must be shed.

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And Jesus shed the blood. Right there in verse 11 of Ruth,

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4, the Bible says, and all the people that were in the gate and the elders said,

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we are witnesses. You know, Jesus had witnesses when he died,

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and when he was buried, and when he rose again.

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That's really important part of scripture that we sometimes get because you know what the attack is still today

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That jesus wasn't who jesus says in the bible

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You know the muslims say that he that he was a good prophet

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The jews say that he was a rebel rouser who's you know burning in feces in hell in his own feces, right that he's boiling

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in a pot of feces we say that he was God Almighty in the flesh 100 man 100 god who was seen of the

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12 who was seen of 40 who was seen of 500 they saw him go up to heaven you know this is a real thing

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right then verse uh uh it says verse 11 sorry it says the Lord make all

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make the woman that has come into thine house like Rachel

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like Leah which too did build up the house of Israel and do that worthily in

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Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem which is obviously a

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Picture of who Jesus Christ right being born in Bethlehem

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It says in the house be like the house of pharaohs who tame our barren to Judah of the seed

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Which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman

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Making reference to what Jesus Christ?

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So there's witnesses, he's doing the right thing,

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and he's getting it done right.

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And Ruth, of course, there is, even though she's not like,

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obviously she's being redeemed because he chose to redeem her,

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there is some redeeming qualities to her, right?

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She believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, right?

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She believed in the God of Naomi.

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Then news gets...

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But she's also faithful and pleasing.

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The Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God.

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When Boaz meets her, he says, I've heard of the vert.

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Like you're a virtuous woman.

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And even here, the young woman is given seed because of her virtue.

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So if we want to get these benefits, it's not enough to just be saved.

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Obviously, we want to do great things for God.

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And it's always going to be a remnant.

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It's always going to be a small group of people

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that are willing to stand up.

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The Bible says in Proverbs 31,

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favors deceitful and beauty is vain,

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but a woman that fears the Lord,

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she shall be praised.

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All right.

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Bible says, trust in the Lord and do good.

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So shall thou dwell in the land

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and barely thou shall be fed.

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Now let's go ahead and get to the last,

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last point here.

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Let's go to verse 13. The Bible says,

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So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife, and when she went into the Lord, the Lord gave her conception, and she bears son.

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And the woman said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kingsman,

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that his name be famous in Israel.

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And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine own age, for thy daughter-in-law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons hath borne him.

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And remember, men have always had more value as far as like, you know, economically, productively.

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especially in the Old Testament. It says,

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She's better to you than seven sons hath borne him.

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And Naomi took the child later, and her bosom became a nurse unto it.

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And the women, her neighbors gave it a name, saying,

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There is a son born to Naomi, and they called his name Obed.

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He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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And notice how Boaz is redeeming the line of the husband.

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But at the end of the day, who gets the credit?

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Boaz does.

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because he was unselfish.

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Right?

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So the Lord can take all like, you know, death and famine and bitterness and emptiness that

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we have in life, and of course he's going to give us an abundance of life.

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You know, marriage is an abundant thing.

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It's a great thing if it's done correctly under the eyes of God.

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Children are a blessing done in the right context, right?

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We can have joy, we can have hope when we serve the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And it was point I didn't give you the point but point number six is that God can write a greater story

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Than the one that you can see, you know my life

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We were talking about it earlier

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You know just how difficult it was for me to court my wife, but it's been such a wonderful journey

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It was worth every like sleepless night every just pain in the in the stomach

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You know butterflies all that stuff. It was all worth it

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for where we're at today. I have three beautiful children. I have a great relationship with my

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family. My mother-in-law when she was alive, she was just such a huge blessing. It's all because

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the Lord just, he was already working it out before I even understood it. We know that verse,

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but in Romans 8.28, we know.

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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.

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And then let's just close this thing out. What do we see here in verse 18?

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We see the lineage. It says, and these are the generations of Phareus, Phareus begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat...

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Amenadab and Amenadab begat Nashon and Nashon begat Salman. Salman begat Boaz. Boaz begat Obed and Obed

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begat Jesse and Jesse begat David which is of course King David right? And so in Revelation 22

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verse 16 the Bible says I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches

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I am the root.

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the offspring of David and the bright and morning star so Ruth ends up being

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indirectly mentioned all the way in the last chapter in the victory chapter Ruth

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is part of that because she's the one who started that lineage that led us to

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who King David and who's the root Jesus Christ you know I mean the beautiful

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thing about the book of Ruth is that

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it all points to Jesus Christ. You know if you open up your Bible and you don't see Jesus,

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you're not saved. I mean honestly, if or you're being rebellious. If you're saved and you're like

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well I don't see Jesus in this chapter or I don't see Jesus in this. Number one, I would say

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you're not saved. Number two, if you're saved you're being rebellious.

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And number three, it is possible that you're saved and you're just learning, but if it

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gets cleared up for you, you still don't see it, then you're being rebellious.

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And if it's still not clear up for you, then you're definitely not saved because Jesus

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is in every page.

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That's why we're so hard against all these false religions, especially like the Judaizers,

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because you can't see Jesus in this.

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What are you doing?

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Obviously then you don't have the Spirit of God.

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So let's close out.

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I went over a couple of minutes, but I appreciate you guys being patient with me.

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I really enjoyed going through this.

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Sometimes, you know, it's not as sensational

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because I'm not talking about the queers

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and about all the things that are going on in the news.

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But it's a beautiful picture.

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I mean, I just think it's one of the greatest stories

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in the Bible.

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I love reading through the Book of Ruth.

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It's a short enough chapter.

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You could get through it in a couple of minutes,

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like all four chapters.

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And you can just get some really good insights.

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There's so much more that I saw there.

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But for the sake of time, we'll close out with that.

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Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.

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Thank you for your blessings, Lord.

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Just watch over us.

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Thank you for the Book of Ruth.

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Just so many of the parallels, so many of the cross references

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that are there that point to Jesus Christ.

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Thanks for watching.

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Thank you Lord that you were willing to die for us, that you were willing to take your own life,

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take it back up again, that you were willing to just sacrifice it all with joy. Thank you to

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God the Father for taking pleasure in bruising your son so that we could have eternal life.

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Because the one thing that we realize if we're truly honest with ourselves is that man we fall short.

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all the time. So thank you. It's your redemptive blood that gives us eternal life.

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Bless the rest of the week. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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Let's turn our hymnals over to page 410.

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410.

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Faith is the victory.

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And press the battle, ere the night shall veil the glowing skies.

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Against the flow it veils below, let all our strength be hurled.

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Faith is...

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We tread the road the saints above with chimes of triumphant

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By faith they like a world with spread swathes over on every field

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The faith by which they conquer death is still our shining shield

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is the victory. Faith is the victory.

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to read that old

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On every hand the foe we find Drawn up in dread array

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Let tents of ease be left behind And onward to the fray

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Salvation's helmet on each head With truthful gird about

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The earth shall tremble beneath our tread And echo with our shout

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Faith is the victory, faith is the victory, O glorious victory that overcomes...

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To him that overcomes the foe, White raiment shall be given.

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Before the angels we shall know His name confessed in heaven.

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Beyond word from the hills of life, Our hearts will all aflame.

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We'll make wishes come, most of night, In Jesus' concrete name.

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Faith is the victory, faith is the victory.

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Oh!

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You are dismissed.

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Where's any of that?

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Oh, Goon Dad!