WEBVTT 13:11.200 --> 13:16.800 Good morning everyone and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. It's wonderful to see everybody 13:16.800 --> 13:20.320 here. If we could find our seats we will get started with this morning's song service. 13:21.040 --> 13:26.000 And once you've found a seat let's grab a hymnal and go to song number 143. 13:32.500 --> 13:37.840 Song number 143. 13:37.940 --> 13:41.880 Crowd favorite, Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine, 13:41.980 --> 13:43.240 song 143. 13:43.340 --> 13:44.600 Let's all sing that together. 16:24.100 --> 16:29.020 everybody. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. Lord, we love you 16:29.020 --> 16:31.500 so much and we just thank you for this awesome church. We thank you for the 16:31.500 --> 16:35.020 opportunity to gather here and sing unto you. We just ask now that you help us 16:35.020 --> 16:38.340 lift up our voices unto you and sing with all our might and it's in Jesus' 16:38.340 --> 16:45.580 name we ask it. Amen. All right for our next song this goes back a page. The 16:45.580 --> 16:48.600 Old-time Religion, song 142. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 If you're familiar with the song, sing it out. 16:54.000 --> 17:00.000 The old time religion, song 142. 17:02.600 --> 17:04.600 Cheers to your 18:37.500 --> 18:41.020 Thank you so much for coming to said fast Baptist Church if you did not already get a 18:41.580 --> 18:46.260 Bulletin and you'd like one just lift up your hand nice and high whenever ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin 18:46.260 --> 18:51.420 And on the front we have the last verse of our Bible memory passage. So if you're 18:52.060 --> 18:55.220 Memorizing this with us. This is our last verse will probably have a grace week there 18:55.220 --> 18:58.300 But we're memorizing verses one through eight of Psalm 18:59.020 --> 19:05.180 119 and so who's who's already completed this as far as quoting those first eight verses 19:05.500 --> 19:10.340 All right, we got lots of people so keep up the great work on our Bible memorization 19:10.860 --> 19:14.360 Also, we have service times church soul winning times 19:15.000 --> 19:18.720 regional times that meet in different parts of our area. 19:18.720 --> 19:20.840 So if you'd like to go soul winning throughout the week, 19:20.840 --> 19:22.480 there's a couple of different ladies times there, 19:22.480 --> 19:24.080 Tuesday and Thursday, 19:24.080 --> 19:26.000 and then several evening times 19:26.000 --> 19:28.260 with lots of different leaders there. 19:28.260 --> 19:30.320 Please keep up the great work for our soul winning. 19:30.320 --> 19:33.360 We're doing really good on our numbers so far for the year. 19:33.360 --> 19:36.040 And we wanna just continue and finish 19:36.040 --> 19:38.200 the second half of the year very strong as well. 19:38.600 --> 19:41.920 Several ladies are expecting if you'd please keep them in your prayers as well 19:42.720 --> 19:44.720 upcoming events we have 19:44.900 --> 19:49.140 the marathon in Arkansas that's just around the corner. 19:49.140 --> 19:51.780 If you haven't, please register online. 19:51.780 --> 19:53.420 There's on the back, there's a, well, 19:53.420 --> 19:55.220 there has been a QR code, but you can still just go 19:55.220 --> 19:56.860 to Godresource, oh, it's down here, I'm sorry. 19:56.860 --> 19:59.020 It's on the inside. 19:59.020 --> 20:00.580 There's a QR code if you'd like to scan, 20:00.580 --> 20:03.020 or you can just go straight to the godresource.com 20:03.020 --> 20:05.260 and you can register for that event. 20:05.260 --> 20:07.180 If you have questions, ask Brother Sam. 20:07.180 --> 20:08.780 He's helping to lead this event. 20:08.780 --> 20:11.380 They went there last year and it was very fruitful. 20:11.380 --> 20:12.900 Do you remember how many people you had? 20:12.900 --> 20:14.740 Dave last time? Any idea? 20:16.400 --> 20:21.000 Yeah, they had almost 100 or 200 people saved in just a couple days with kind of a smaller 20:21.000 --> 20:28.200 group so it was definitely very receptive and if you'd like to go and target some Marshallese 20:28.200 --> 20:31.520 immigrants so you don't even have to go all the way across the world, you can just go 20:31.520 --> 20:34.440 a few states over, right? 20:34.440 --> 20:36.200 Also we have several other events there. 20:36.200 --> 20:42.480 There's a teen summer event sign up sheet if you'd like to sign up for that and then 20:42.480 --> 20:43.600 that's pretty much it. 20:43.600 --> 20:44.400 the back we have the 20:44.400 --> 20:49.000 prayer list. Just definitely keep our church family in prayer. With that, we're going to 20:49.000 --> 20:53.480 go ahead and sing our third song for this morning. It's going to be Psalm 139. So we 20:53.480 --> 20:59.000 have a special Psalm booklet. If you turn in there, Psalm 139. Sing it out nice and 20:59.000 --> 20:59.400 loud. 21:12.400 --> 21:19.200 All right, that was Psalm 139. Psalm 139. Let's all sing that out together on that. 23:38.800 --> 23:41.840 everybody now as the offering plates are being passed around go and open your 23:41.840 --> 23:49.000 Bibles to the book of Ruth chapter number three that is Ruth chapter number three 24:52.400 --> 24:57.600 3 the Bible reads, Then Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek 24:57.600 --> 25:03.280 rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose 25:03.280 --> 25:08.920 maidens thou wast? Behold, he went with Barley tonight in the threshing floor. Wash thyself 25:08.920 --> 25:13.760 therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor. 25:13.760 --> 25:17.760 But make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking. 25:18.100 --> 25:22.580 And it shall be when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, 25:22.580 --> 25:29.460 and thou shalt go in and uncover his feet and lay thee down, and he will tell thee what thou shalt do. 25:30.200 --> 25:33.440 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me, I will do. 25:33.440 --> 25:37.640 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her. 25:37.640 --> 25:40.960 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, 25:40.960 --> 25:43.640 he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn, 25:43.640 --> 25:47.600 and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down. 25:47.600 --> 25:51.600 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself, 25:51.600 --> 25:54.440 and behold, a woman lay at his feet. 25:54.440 --> 25:56.000 And he said, Who art thou? 25:56.000 --> 25:58.200 And she answered, I am Ruth. 25:58.200 --> 26:04.040 thine handmaid. Spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid, for thou art a near kinsman." 26:04.040 --> 26:10.920 And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter, for thou hast showed more kindness 26:10.920 --> 26:16.560 in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followest not young men, whether poor 26:16.560 --> 26:21.640 or rich. And now, my daughter, fear not, I will do to thee all that thou requirest, for 26:21.640 --> 26:25.000 all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman. 26:25.600 --> 26:28.640 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman. 26:28.640 --> 26:31.360 How be it, there is a kinsman nearer than I. 26:31.360 --> 26:33.680 Terry this night, and it shall be in the morning, 26:33.680 --> 26:37.040 that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman well, 26:37.040 --> 26:38.480 let him do the kinsman part. 26:38.800 --> 26:43.880 But if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman 26:43.880 --> 26:47.920 to thee, as the Lord liveth, lie down until the morning. 26:47.920 --> 26:52.380 And she lay at his feet until the morning, and she rose up before one could know another. 26:52.380 --> 26:56.240 And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor. 26:56.240 --> 27:00.060 Also he said, Bring the veil that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. 27:00.060 --> 27:04.180 And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her. 27:04.180 --> 27:05.060 she went into the city. 27:05.600 --> 27:07.760 And when she came to her mother-in-law she said, 27:07.760 --> 27:09.240 Who art thou, my daughter? 27:09.240 --> 27:11.680 And she told her all that the man had done to her. 27:11.680 --> 27:15.040 And she said, these six measures of barley gave he me, 27:15.040 --> 27:18.880 for he said to me, go not empty unto thy mother-in-law. 27:18.880 --> 27:21.480 Then said she, sit still, my daughter, 27:21.480 --> 27:23.880 until thou know how the matter will fall. 27:23.880 --> 27:25.520 For the man will not be in rest 27:25.520 --> 27:28.240 until he have finished the thing this day. 27:28.240 --> 27:29.600 Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. 27:31.700 --> 27:36.660 Father in heaven we just pray Lord God that you would bless the sermon this morning. 27:36.660 --> 27:42.820 Fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit and help us to give our full attention to the message 27:42.820 --> 27:48.020 and apply it to our lives. We ask for these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. 27:48.200 --> 27:52.140 I want to look at a specific verse here and we're going to kind of go through the story of Ruth 27:52.140 --> 27:58.640 But it says here in verse number 11 and now my daughter fear not I will do to thee all that thou require 27:59.800 --> 28:03.400 for thou, for all the city of my people doth know 28:03.400 --> 28:08.160 that thou art a virtuous woman." So here in verse 11 28:08.160 --> 28:11.400 Ruth is described as a virtuous woman 28:11.400 --> 28:16.920 and she's the only woman in the Bible that is given that particular description. 28:16.920 --> 28:21.720 So the book of Proverbs brings up the idea of a virtuous woman. 28:21.720 --> 28:26.120 You know we typically think of this as like Proverbs 31 and the Bible describes 28:26.120 --> 28:27.800 what a godly or a virtuous woman would look like. 28:27.800 --> 28:33.280 like but the only woman that's actually given this title or someone calls them a virtuous 28:33.280 --> 28:38.640 woman is here in the book of Ruth about Ruth and so she's described as a virtuous woman 28:38.640 --> 28:42.180 and that's what I want to title my sermon this morning is a virtuous woman, a virtuous 28:42.180 --> 28:46.600 woman and we want to look at some examples of Ruth here that the text brings out about 28:46.600 --> 28:50.080 Ruth and see why she's described as this virtuous woman. 28:50.080 --> 28:54.280 Now I'm not going to read the whole story or the entire book of Ruth but it is a great 28:54.280 --> 28:55.800 story and just to give us a little 28:55.800 --> 28:59.960 idea, you know the Bible describes Ruth as a Moabitess, meaning that she was not 28:59.960 --> 29:03.320 of the children of Israel in the Old Testament, so she's not part of the 29:03.320 --> 29:09.640 Hebrews, she's not part of the ten tribes, she's a foreigner, and in the story we 29:09.640 --> 29:18.040 have a Israelite family that leaves and Naomi is her to-be mother-in-law, but 29:18.040 --> 29:21.840 essentially she loses her husband to Limelech and then her two sons, Malon and 29:21.840 --> 29:22.800 and chilly on. 29:23.000 --> 29:29.440 Ruth marries one of her sons, he dies, and so, actually they both die, all the men die, 29:29.440 --> 29:33.640 all the men die in this story. 29:33.640 --> 29:38.920 But then you have three widows basically, that's kind of where we're at in the story, 29:38.920 --> 29:43.360 is you kind of have, it picks up a story, you have three widows, you have Naomi, you 29:43.360 --> 29:46.440 have Orpa, and you have Ruth. 29:46.440 --> 29:48.960 Orpa never caught on as a name apparently. 29:48.960 --> 29:49.460 And uh... 29:50.200 --> 29:57.440 They're kind of deciding what to do now that there's these three widows. Okay, and in verse number 10 it says 29:58.500 --> 30:01.740 And they said unto her, surely we will return with thee unto thy people. 30:01.740 --> 30:03.700 So Naomi wants to go back home. 30:03.700 --> 30:05.300 They left Israel. 30:05.300 --> 30:07.020 They were so journeying in Moab. 30:07.020 --> 30:09.580 She wants to now return unto Israel. 30:09.580 --> 30:13.820 And the two daughters-in-law are saying, hey, we're going to go back with you. 30:13.820 --> 30:15.540 And notice again, it says they. 30:15.540 --> 30:17.340 So this is Orpah and Ruth. 30:17.340 --> 30:19.820 They both say, we are going back with you. 30:19.820 --> 30:21.700 That's the promise that they make. 30:22.100 --> 30:27.820 And it says, surely. Notice, surely is kind of like emphasizing like a promise. 30:27.820 --> 30:33.460 Like, hey, I'm promising I'm going to go there. Surely, this is going to for sure happen. 30:33.460 --> 30:37.100 You know, this is someone saying, like, I'm not going to go back on this. 30:37.100 --> 30:38.860 I'm surely going to do this. 30:38.860 --> 30:43.220 And it says in verse number 11, and Naomi said, turn again my daughters. 30:43.220 --> 30:47.260 Why will you go with me? Are there yet any more sons in my womb? 30:47.600 --> 30:49.360 that they may be your husbands? 30:49.360 --> 30:50.840 Turn again, my daughters, go your way, 30:50.840 --> 30:52.600 for I am too old to have a husband. 30:52.600 --> 30:54.240 If I should say I have hope, 30:54.240 --> 30:56.560 if I should have a husband also tonight, 30:56.560 --> 30:58.040 and should also bear sons, 30:58.040 --> 31:01.240 would you tarry for them till they were grown? 31:01.240 --> 31:03.920 Would you stay for them from having husbands? 31:03.920 --> 31:06.440 Nay, my daughters, for agree with me much for your sakes 31:06.440 --> 31:08.800 that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me." 31:08.800 --> 31:13.320 So, they're saying, we're gonna go back with you, 31:13.320 --> 31:15.560 but Naomi's protesting and saying no. 31:15.900 --> 31:18.900 And she's saying, you're not going to get a husband this way. 31:18.900 --> 31:21.900 And this is a big deal as a widow, especially at this time. 31:21.900 --> 31:23.900 You know, they don't have all this government assistance. 31:23.900 --> 31:26.900 They don't have ways to pay for themselves. 31:26.900 --> 31:28.900 So they really need a husband to protect them, to provide for them, 31:28.900 --> 31:31.900 all the things that are practically necessary for a husband. 31:31.900 --> 31:35.900 Only in modern-day America can women believe they don't need a man. 31:35.900 --> 31:40.900 But in this particular story, it's very obvious they need a man, someone to provide, protect. 31:41.400 --> 31:44.320 everything that they need from a husband here and she's like, 31:44.320 --> 31:47.120 hey, even if I got pregnant tonight, 31:47.120 --> 31:48.920 you're not gonna wait around. 31:48.920 --> 31:51.960 You're not gonna just wait for these guys to grow up 31:51.960 --> 31:53.840 and to then marry one of them. 31:53.840 --> 31:55.960 And again, that's kind of like a biblical principle 31:55.960 --> 31:58.160 that if a woman... 31:58.400 --> 32:02.160 had a husband and he died, that she would potentially 32:02.160 --> 32:05.520 marry a brother of that particular family, 32:05.520 --> 32:08.680 and the brother would raise up seed unto his brother. 32:08.680 --> 32:10.480 But again, and this, it's really extreme 32:10.480 --> 32:11.800 because they're not even alive. 32:11.800 --> 32:13.680 There's just like no one even alive. 32:13.900 --> 32:19.900 So there's no one of the closest of kin to marry, you know, within this family. 32:19.900 --> 32:23.900 It would go to extended family beyond this, but just in this scenario, 32:23.900 --> 32:26.900 she doesn't have another son for them to marry, and she's saying, 32:26.900 --> 32:28.500 you guys aren't going to wait. 32:28.900 --> 32:32.500 You're gonna basically not be willing to do such a thing. 32:32.500 --> 32:37.200 And so you need to just stay, go back, you know, be here in Moab. 32:37.200 --> 32:38.600 There's no point in you coming with me. 32:38.600 --> 32:39.200 Verse 14, 32:39.200 --> 32:42.600 And they lifted up their voice and wept again, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, 32:42.600 --> 32:45.300 but Ruth clave unto her. 32:45.300 --> 32:49.100 And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law has gone back unto her people, and unto her gods. 32:49.100 --> 32:50.700 Return thou after thy sister-in-law. 32:50.700 --> 32:54.400 So they both say, we're definitely going back with you. 32:54.600 --> 32:57.900 And then as soon as Naomi says, no, don't come back with me, 32:57.900 --> 33:00.000 Orpah just gives her a kiss and leaves. 33:00.000 --> 33:03.200 And just basically just goes back on her word. 33:03.200 --> 33:04.000 But... 33:04.400 --> 33:10.780 Ruth says something different verse 16 and Ruth said and treat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee for 33:10.780 --> 33:16.420 Whether thou goest I will go and where thou lodges I will lodge thy people shall be my people and my God my God 33:16.420 --> 33:23.600 Where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried the Lord do so to me and more also if ought 33:23.800 --> 33:26.440 But death part thee and me so notice 33:27.100 --> 33:31.180 She doubles down on her promise and she keeps her promise and she says, 33:31.180 --> 33:35.060 hey, the only thing that's going to separate me from you is death. 33:35.060 --> 33:38.940 And you know, think about this, it's a pretty honorable commitment that she's making 33:38.940 --> 33:41.060 because she's a widow herself. 33:41.060 --> 33:44.860 You know, it's, it's, she's willing to help and bless her mother-in-law, 33:44.860 --> 33:46.860 take care of a widow and her family. 33:47.000 --> 33:51.660 Even though herself is a widow. She's not someone that is well off 33:51.780 --> 33:58.200 She doesn't have the financial means to take care of her mother-in-law, but she just decides hey, I'm gonna stick with you 33:58.200 --> 34:02.920 I want your religion. I want your God. I want to be with you 34:03.040 --> 34:04.360 I'm gonna die with you 34:04.360 --> 34:10.060 And so you know I would say point one that we can learn from Ruth is that Ruth is someone when she makes a promise 34:10.360 --> 34:14.700 That she keeps her promise because they both said surely we're gonna go back with you 34:15.000 --> 34:17.200 But then one didn't and one did. 34:17.200 --> 34:19.600 And we see that when Ruth makes a promise, 34:19.600 --> 34:22.100 when Ruth says she's gonna keep her word, 34:22.100 --> 34:23.340 she actually keeps her word. 34:23.340 --> 34:25.600 And you know, that is a virtuous person. 34:25.600 --> 34:28.640 A virtuous person does not break their word. 34:28.640 --> 34:30.560 A virtuous person does not make. 34:30.700 --> 34:34.400 owes or make promises that they don't intend on keeping. 34:34.400 --> 34:36.400 And unfortunately in our society, 34:36.400 --> 34:39.400 many women are not going to keep their owes, 34:39.400 --> 34:40.800 they're not going to keep their promises. 34:40.800 --> 34:43.400 In fact, almost 50% of marriages 34:43.400 --> 34:46.400 are ending in divorce in America. 34:46.400 --> 34:48.300 That's just one promise. 34:48.300 --> 34:49.800 That's just one commitment 34:49.800 --> 34:52.500 that we could see where many people are not keeping their oath. 34:52.500 --> 34:54.300 And even if you look at statistics, 34:54.300 --> 34:58.200 women, by and large, are the initiators of divorce. 34:58.900 --> 35:01.140 And this is an even bigger commitment. 35:01.140 --> 35:07.220 I mean, making an oath to a husband is much more important in my mind than making an oath 35:07.220 --> 35:08.140 to a mother-in-law. 35:08.500 --> 35:14.700 But yet notice that Ruth not only would keep an oath unto a husband, she would keep an oath unto her mother-in-law. 35:14.700 --> 35:18.700 And when she makes a promise, when she says something is sure, she means it. 35:18.700 --> 35:20.700 That is a picture of a virtuous person. 35:20.700 --> 35:25.900 It's someone that's gonna keep their oath, keep their promise, even if it's not necessarily good for them. 35:25.900 --> 35:27.600 She's gonna have to leave her family. 35:27.900 --> 35:29.900 She's going to have to leave everything she knows. 35:29.900 --> 35:30.900 She has no wealth. 35:30.900 --> 35:33.200 She has no way to provide for her mother-in-law. 35:33.200 --> 35:34.400 Yet, she said, 35:34.400 --> 35:36.600 hey, I'm going back with you and that's what I'm going to do. 35:36.600 --> 35:38.600 She's going to keep her word and keep her promise. 35:38.600 --> 35:38.900 And you know what? 35:38.900 --> 35:41.400 What a godly woman for her to do something like that. 35:43.400 --> 35:47.900 Now, in verse 16, it says also, 35:47.900 --> 35:49.200 what does it say? 35:49.200 --> 35:51.000 She says, thy God, my God. 35:51.000 --> 35:52.900 Notice that she's someone who seeks God. 35:53.500 --> 35:57.340 So point one is that a virtuous woman is one who keeps her promises. 35:57.340 --> 36:00.020 Number two, it's one that seeks God. 36:00.020 --> 36:05.820 She's not going for the pleasures of this life or something fun or something good. 36:05.820 --> 36:10.900 She wants to seek the God of the Bible and she's elevating God over anything else. 36:11.300 --> 36:17.460 She's leaving everything. She has no money, no goods, no possessions, and she's not chasing that. 36:17.460 --> 36:23.860 I mean, it would be pretty nervous, you know, for a young lady to seek God with no money, 36:23.860 --> 36:29.620 no substance, no husband. And in fact, she's basically, if you understand the story, 36:29.620 --> 36:33.540 if you understand what's being communicated, she's basically consigning herself to be a widow. 36:34.180 --> 36:38.340 Because Naomi is saying, if you come back with me, there is no husband. 36:39.200 --> 36:40.700 There is no option here. 36:41.100 --> 36:42.900 Just go back to your people. 36:42.900 --> 36:44.900 And again, what would be the implication? 36:44.900 --> 36:46.580 She's just going to marry someone else. 36:46.580 --> 36:48.140 She's going to go back to the Moabites, 36:48.140 --> 36:52.500 marry a Moabite man, and just move on with her life. 36:52.500 --> 36:54.220 Whereas if she goes with Naomi, 36:54.220 --> 36:56.300 not only is she not going to have a husband, 36:56.300 --> 36:58.180 she has a burden of a mother-in-law 36:58.180 --> 37:00.460 that she now has to provide for and take care of 37:00.460 --> 37:01.780 and do good unto. 37:01.780 --> 37:04.420 But again, what is her main driving force? 37:04.420 --> 37:05.900 Why is she making these decisions? 37:05.900 --> 37:07.700 Because she's seeking the God of the Bible. 37:07.700 --> 37:08.540 She's seeking the Lord. 37:08.540 --> 37:09.100 She's elevating... 37:09.100 --> 37:14.300 religion, she's elevating a spiritual decision over a carnal decision. 37:14.300 --> 37:17.340 Because this decision does not make sense carnally. 37:17.340 --> 37:22.220 There's nothing about this decision that makes sense physically or is going to be 37:22.220 --> 37:27.420 financially beneficial, but rather she's moving for a spiritual reason, not a carnal reason. 37:27.420 --> 37:32.460 And you know, unfortunately, a lot of people today would look down upon someone moving for a spiritual reason. 37:32.900 --> 37:35.300 moving for the God of the Bible, 37:35.300 --> 37:36.900 or moving to draw closer to the Lord, 37:36.900 --> 37:38.600 or wanting to serve God, 37:38.600 --> 37:40.800 and elevating God above everything else, 37:40.800 --> 37:42.400 and say, oh, well, how, you know, 37:42.400 --> 37:44.000 how is that going to make sense financially? 37:44.000 --> 37:45.900 Well, it doesn't make sense financially. 37:45.900 --> 37:47.100 How is this going to make sense? 37:47.100 --> 37:49.400 You're, this is where your family is. 37:49.400 --> 37:51.300 Family is the most important thing. 37:51.300 --> 37:54.700 No, spiritual family is more important than physical family. 37:54.700 --> 37:57.400 And look, this is a big talking point. 37:58.000 --> 38:04.620 Many people tell you you do not leave physical family. You do not elevate you don't have a church above family 38:04.880 --> 38:10.360 Yet the Bible emphasizes church over family everywhere everywhere in the Bible 38:10.880 --> 38:17.260 Even Jesus Christ himself did not bother himself to spend time with his physical brethren and his mother 38:17.360 --> 38:19.800 He rather ministered to the people of God 38:20.600 --> 38:25.240 He said, hey, this is my mother, this is my brethren, and he elevated spiritual family 38:25.240 --> 38:26.720 above physical family. 38:27.600 --> 38:30.480 Did Jesus still care about physical family? Absolutely. 38:30.480 --> 38:36.000 Jesus on the cross is looking at John and saying, hey, behold thy mother. 38:36.000 --> 38:39.200 He wanted to make sure that his mother was taken care of in her old age. 38:39.200 --> 38:42.240 He still hung out with his mother at times. I mean, they went to the wedding of Canaan, 38:42.240 --> 38:47.280 his mother was there. He still, he still talked to his brothers and gave them opportunity to 38:47.280 --> 38:50.560 follow him and do good. But the thing is his brother didn't believe in him. 38:51.100 --> 38:53.860 And of course his mom did follow him most of his ministry. 38:53.860 --> 38:55.340 I mean, you see his mom around, 38:55.340 --> 38:56.500 you see his mom at the cross, 38:56.500 --> 38:58.940 you see his mom being involved in the ministry, 38:58.940 --> 39:01.980 but it wasn't because he was really elevating Mary. 39:01.980 --> 39:05.360 You know, isn't it funny, when you have literal Mary, 39:05.360 --> 39:08.380 you never have Jesus and the disciples bowing down to her, 39:08.380 --> 39:10.500 but now that they have a graven statue 39:10.500 --> 39:12.740 as the Catholics bow down to her. 39:12.740 --> 39:14.980 It's like, hey, if they were Catholic in the New Testament, 39:14.980 --> 39:17.000 wouldn't they have been bowing down to literal Mary? 39:17.400 --> 39:18.460 And it was funny, they're like, 39:18.460 --> 39:20.440 oh, why would we bow down to her or whatever? 39:20.440 --> 39:23.140 And she's like, you're bowing down to a statue of her. 39:23.300 --> 39:26.740 Why would that somehow be better than bowing down to the person? 39:26.740 --> 39:28.740 Yet you know what you never see in the Bible? 39:28.740 --> 39:31.460 Is anyone bowing down to literal Mary. 39:31.460 --> 39:36.980 Why? Because that would be blasphemous and idolatrous and wicked and she's not God. 39:36.980 --> 39:42.660 And again this title of Mother of God is a total misrepresentation of the facts 39:42.660 --> 39:44.980 and is trying to make it something that it's not. 39:44.980 --> 39:48.660 And look we don't bow down to Mary, we don't worship Mary. 39:48.660 --> 39:50.980 Oh we're not worshiping, we're venerating. 39:51.300 --> 39:54.300 Okay, let me tell you something. When you bow the knee to something, that's called worship. 39:54.300 --> 39:57.600 Oh, you're misrepresenting Catholics. 39:57.600 --> 40:00.400 No, I'm not misrepresenting Catholics. I'm telling you exactly what they do. 40:00.400 --> 40:04.100 They bow down the knee to graven images that are called Mary, 40:04.100 --> 40:08.100 and at the end of the day, it's blasphemous, it's wicked, it's idolatrous. 40:08.700 --> 40:15.420 Okay? And you know, we should not be serving pagan gods like the Mobites, like the Catholics. 40:15.420 --> 40:20.380 We should leave that. Hey, if you're born Catholic, if you're raised Catholic, you should leave that 40:21.100 --> 40:26.860 and elevate your Baptist family above your Catholic family. Why? Because it's not about 40:26.860 --> 40:31.580 physical family. It's about the family of God. It's about spiritual things. And let me tell you 40:31.580 --> 40:36.300 something, a virtuous woman elevates God over physical family. 40:37.900 --> 40:43.020 The Bible literally even just says that you're supposed to leave and cleave anyways. 40:43.020 --> 40:47.580 And you know, when we get born again, when we become the, quote, bride of Christ, 40:47.580 --> 40:49.660 hey, we're supposed to leave and we're supposed to cleave. 40:49.660 --> 40:53.340 Hey, we're supposed to cleave unto Christ and leave our physical family behind, 40:53.340 --> 40:54.940 if you like that metaphor. 40:54.940 --> 40:56.700 But why is she a virtuous woman? 40:56.700 --> 40:59.340 Well, she keeps her promise and she seeks God. 40:59.340 --> 41:02.620 And let me tell you something, a godly man wants this in a woman. 41:03.000 --> 41:04.800 A godly man wants a sin a woman. 41:04.800 --> 41:06.600 He wants a woman that's going to keep her word, 41:06.600 --> 41:08.400 that's going to keep her promises, 41:08.400 --> 41:09.600 that she's going to be loyal, 41:09.600 --> 41:11.000 and she's seeking God. 41:11.000 --> 41:12.700 She's seeking the things of the Lord. 41:12.700 --> 41:14.200 She's not seeking money. 41:14.200 --> 41:15.500 She's not seeking wealth. 41:15.500 --> 41:17.000 She's not seeking pleasure. 41:17.000 --> 41:20.400 And she would even be willing to leave her entire homeland, 41:20.400 --> 41:21.800 her entire family, 41:21.800 --> 41:25.100 and everything behind to seek the God of the Bible. 41:25.100 --> 41:28.700 And the Bible calls this a virtuous woman. 41:29.200 --> 41:30.400 A virtuous woman. 41:30.400 --> 41:33.360 You know what a lot of people would call this today 41:33.360 --> 41:35.880 in modern vernacular? 41:35.880 --> 41:37.160 It's called a passport bro. 41:37.160 --> 41:38.160 Who knows what I'm talking about? 41:40.160 --> 41:42.040 Yeah, they can't find a woman in their land 41:42.040 --> 41:44.640 so they go to a foreign nation to get a lady 41:44.640 --> 41:46.800 and then they bring her back 41:46.800 --> 41:49.680 and they might call this a quote passport bro. 41:50.000 --> 41:55.400 And you know, there's this idea out there, and again, it's real, is that some women in 41:55.400 --> 42:01.320 foreign countries only want to get married for the green card or for immigration status. 42:01.320 --> 42:02.640 But here's the thing. 42:02.640 --> 42:09.040 Notice that in the Bible, it praises Ruth for leaving her homeland and coming back to 42:09.040 --> 42:09.840 serve God. 42:10.300 --> 42:12.740 So it's actually not a negative thing, it's a positive thing. 42:12.740 --> 42:17.100 And you know, you could falsely accuse someone that actually has the right motivations, 42:17.100 --> 42:22.600 godly motivations, because look, for most people, leaving family and leaving the country that they grew up in is very difficult. 42:23.500 --> 42:25.700 There's just something about your native tongue. 42:25.700 --> 42:30.100 There's something about your native food and language and all this kind of stuff. 42:30.100 --> 42:36.500 I mean, it's just, it's just, it's very ingrained in who we are that we just love that setting 42:36.500 --> 42:38.260 and it's very difficult to walk away. 42:38.260 --> 42:45.700 And so a woman leaving everything behind to go and be married or to serve the Lord, you 42:45.700 --> 42:51.500 know, that speaks to their virtue, not to someone that's doing something for evil reasons. 42:51.500 --> 42:53.440 for bad reasons or whatever. 42:53.440 --> 42:57.420 And we wouldn't want to falsely accuse them or act like they're somehow doing something 42:57.420 --> 42:59.060 for an ulterior motive. 42:59.060 --> 43:03.580 In many cases, it's a sign of their virtue, not the opposite. 43:03.580 --> 43:07.660 And so we don't want to sit here and look down upon some lady that's coming from a foreign 43:07.660 --> 43:08.660 country. 43:08.660 --> 43:12.360 In fact, that's what makes Ruth very special is that she's willing to do such a thing. 43:12.360 --> 43:14.980 And it shows her virtue and it shows that she's seeking God. 43:14.980 --> 43:16.000 And you know what? 43:16.000 --> 43:19.500 We should praise women that would be willing to elevate this and seek. 43:19.500 --> 43:25.460 the Lord even though they have to leave behind their family or their country or their native 43:25.460 --> 43:27.980 tongue or whatever because it's very difficult. 43:27.980 --> 43:31.660 It's very difficult for men and especially women. 43:31.660 --> 43:33.540 Now let's keep reading here in verse 17. 43:33.540 --> 43:36.980 She says, where in thou die'st will I die and there will I be buried. 43:36.980 --> 43:42.380 The Lord do so to me and more also if ought but death doth part thee and me. 43:42.380 --> 43:44.300 When she saw, this is talking about Naomi. 43:44.300 --> 43:44.400 you 43:44.400 --> 43:48.960 when she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, 43:48.960 --> 43:51.200 then she left speaking under. 43:51.200 --> 43:52.300 You know what I like about Ruth? 43:52.300 --> 43:54.700 She's also steadfast, you know what I mean? 43:54.700 --> 43:58.200 And, you know, that's another great attribute 43:58.200 --> 44:00.700 is not only does she keep her promise, 44:00.700 --> 44:02.100 not only is she seeking God, 44:02.100 --> 44:04.000 but she continues to seek God 44:04.000 --> 44:06.400 and she continues to keep her promise. 44:06.400 --> 44:09.100 Because look, it's one thing to say, 44:09.100 --> 44:10.700 I'm going to go back with you. 44:10.700 --> 44:12.100 It's another thing to do it. 44:12.400 --> 44:15.040 But it's another thing to keep doing it. 44:15.040 --> 44:19.320 It's one thing to seek God, but it's another thing to keep seeking God. 44:19.320 --> 44:25.640 Hey, it's easy sometimes to serve God at the very beginning when you're excited about the truth. 44:25.640 --> 44:30.200 You know, sometimes you just realize like, oh wow, I've been lied to or the Bible's exciting, 44:30.200 --> 44:32.760 or you've never heard anything in the Bible. 44:32.760 --> 44:35.680 And look, a lot of things are just fun because they're new. 44:36.000 --> 44:41.200 You know, I mean, it's enjoyable to watch sometimes a movie for the first time because you've never seen it. 44:41.200 --> 44:46.600 But you know, there's some movies that are kind of like, I enjoyed it because I've never seen it, but I don't really want to watch it again. 44:46.600 --> 44:51.600 And then there's some movies that you would just watch ad nauseum, okay? 44:51.600 --> 44:57.200 And I'm not really this type of person in general, but you know, my wife, she loves some movies. 44:57.200 --> 45:01.000 Like, there's some movies that I feel like she could just watch over and over and over and over again. 45:01.400 --> 45:03.400 And she just really loves it. 45:03.400 --> 45:07.300 You know, she's steadfast for those movies, you know what I mean? 45:08.200 --> 45:10.600 And here's the thing, there's two different kinds of Christians. 45:10.600 --> 45:12.520 There's the Christians, they like Christianity, 45:12.520 --> 45:15.640 or they like being in a Baptist church for the novelty of it. 45:15.640 --> 45:17.960 But then there's the people that are steadfast, 45:17.960 --> 45:21.480 where they actually like it, they watch it over and over and over again, 45:21.480 --> 45:23.240 and they don't grow tired of it. 45:23.240 --> 45:25.880 They're not complaining about it all the time. 45:25.880 --> 45:28.680 They're not making all these excuses about it. 45:28.680 --> 45:30.440 No, they just, they actually just love it. 45:30.440 --> 45:32.360 They actually like coming to church. 45:32.360 --> 45:34.920 They actually talk positively about reading the Bible. 45:34.920 --> 45:36.200 They actually like telling... 45:36.200 --> 45:40.920 the old story. Oh, you just, you go so in it, you just say the same thing over and over 45:40.920 --> 45:45.000 again. Yeah, exactly. Because I love to tell the story, that old, old story. 45:45.400 --> 45:46.840 Yeah, I love church. 45:46.840 --> 45:50.800 Oh, well, I've already heard everything Pastor Shirley has to say, 45:50.800 --> 45:52.800 or I've already read the Bible cover to cover. 45:52.800 --> 45:55.000 You know what? Well, you're not steadfast then. 45:55.000 --> 45:57.500 Because you know what? A steadfast person can't get enough of it, 45:57.500 --> 45:59.700 and they just keep coming, and they just keep going. 45:59.700 --> 46:00.700 It's the energizer bunny. 46:00.700 --> 46:03.100 He just keeps going and going and going and going. 46:03.100 --> 46:05.200 Why? Because he just loves the things of God. 46:05.200 --> 46:09.600 And you know what? A virtuous woman is one that's not going to serve God for five minutes. 46:09.600 --> 46:12.700 But hey, she's steadfast, and she's just going to keep serving God. 46:12.700 --> 46:13.400 when T. 46:13.400 --> 46:18.780 death. Hey, she has a till death marriage and she has a till death faith and she's not 46:18.780 --> 46:23.180 going to get off course. She's always abounding in the work of the Lord. She realizes, hey, 46:23.180 --> 46:27.080 I only have one life to live. I only have one opportunity to work and I'm going to spend 46:27.080 --> 46:32.180 all my time working for God and I'm not going to give up. I want to be in the best church 46:32.180 --> 46:36.700 and the best environment serving God because you know what? That is what my life is calling 46:36.700 --> 46:37.120 is. 46:37.400 --> 46:48.800 Why would it not be? Why would my life's calling not be to be in the best part of the world where I can serve God the most and serve God and serve my family and help those around me? 46:48.800 --> 46:57.500 And she doesn't even know what her future really beholds, but just the little bit that she does know, she cleaves to it and you know what? The Lord's going to greatly bless her for it. 46:57.500 --> 47:01.700 But notice she's a steadfast woman. She's a virtuous woman. 47:01.900 --> 47:09.100 What's a virtuous woman? One that is steadfast, always abounding in the work of the Lord, she's unmovable, she's not going to change, her faith isn't changing. 47:10.200 --> 47:14.600 Is anything going to change this woman? No. Death is the only thing separating her. 47:14.900 --> 47:19.000 Death is the only thing that's going to, she's making a vow till death. 47:19.200 --> 47:26.800 And you know what? What a great marriage vow, but what a great vow internally to make to the Lord in the sense that you say, hey, I want to serve God until I die. 47:27.100 --> 47:29.500 And you know what? This makes her a very virtuous woman. 47:29.500 --> 47:31.980 Look at chapter 2 now, verse number 2. 47:31.980 --> 47:32.380 And it says, 47:32.380 --> 47:34.460 And Ruth the Moabite said unto Naomi, 47:34.460 --> 47:39.100 Let me go, now go to the field and glean ears of corn after him, 47:39.100 --> 47:41.180 in whose sight I shall find grace. 47:41.180 --> 47:42.940 And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. 47:42.940 --> 47:47.020 So, not only did she make this promise, 47:47.020 --> 47:48.300 not only is she seeking God, 47:48.940 --> 47:50.460 not only is she steadfast, 47:50.460 --> 47:53.340 but she's willing to work with her hands. 47:53.800 --> 48:01.000 She's willingly going to work because, you know, what she signed up for wasn't fun. 48:01.000 --> 48:02.000 It was work. 48:02.000 --> 48:04.320 You're going to have to go into a strange land. 48:04.320 --> 48:05.360 You don't have food. 48:05.360 --> 48:06.360 You don't have substance. 48:06.360 --> 48:09.200 And she's not going to go out on the street corner begging. 48:09.200 --> 48:12.160 She's not going to go around looking for freebies. 48:12.160 --> 48:13.720 She's not going to see what she can get. 48:13.720 --> 48:14.800 She's like, I know what I had. 48:14.800 --> 48:16.360 I know what I signed up for. 48:16.360 --> 48:16.860 It was work. 48:17.500 --> 48:18.780 and I'm gonna get to work. 48:18.780 --> 48:21.300 She gets there, and now I'm gonna go to work, 48:21.300 --> 48:23.820 I'm gonna go in the field, Naomi can't work, 48:23.820 --> 48:25.580 I'm gonna work, I'm gonna provide, 48:25.580 --> 48:27.340 I'm gonna take care of her, and you know what? 48:27.340 --> 48:28.500 She's willing to take care of people 48:28.500 --> 48:29.820 that can't take care of themselves. 48:29.820 --> 48:32.140 And she's willing to work with her hands. 48:32.140 --> 48:34.340 Hey, they may not be able to work, but I can work, 48:34.340 --> 48:35.780 and I'm gonna do what I can, 48:35.780 --> 48:39.140 and I'm gonna put my hands to work. 48:39.140 --> 48:41.540 A great woman is using her hands for work. 48:42.700 --> 48:45.500 You know, some women are consigning their hands to never do work. 48:45.500 --> 48:49.500 Right? They decorate them so fancy, and now they can't do any work. 48:49.500 --> 48:52.700 Or they got like six inch nails or something like this, you know? 48:52.700 --> 48:56.100 Or they got these long nails and they can't even do anything. 48:56.100 --> 48:59.500 And they got little manicure and they just don't want to do anything. 48:59.500 --> 49:02.700 This is the opposite. This woman's willing to go dig in the dirt. 49:02.700 --> 49:04.900 This woman's willing to go out work in the field. 49:04.900 --> 49:07.500 How long do you think that manicure is going to last? 49:08.200 --> 49:11.640 And look, I'm not mad at you if you got a manicure, but you know what? 49:11.640 --> 49:15.720 If it's stopping you from working, you know, you might have a problem there. 49:15.720 --> 49:16.520 Right? 49:16.520 --> 49:20.680 You might have a problem if you're consigning your hands to be idle. 49:20.680 --> 49:24.840 You know, the Bible pictures are hands being made to work. 49:24.840 --> 49:26.440 They're not trophies. 49:26.440 --> 49:29.240 They're not meant to just, look at my hands, you know. 49:29.300 --> 49:31.300 Just look at them. They're so beautiful. 49:31.300 --> 49:33.300 No, no, hands are made to work. 49:33.300 --> 49:35.300 I mean, you know, in robotics, 49:35.300 --> 49:39.300 one of the most difficult things for them to emulate is a hand. 49:40.000 --> 49:45.200 Because the way that God created a hand is just so complex. 49:45.200 --> 49:46.000 There's just so many. 49:46.000 --> 49:51.100 In fact, AI, what is the most difficult thing for AI to make in videos and images? 49:51.100 --> 49:52.100 It's hands. 49:52.100 --> 49:54.700 The hands always look like this or whatever. 49:54.700 --> 49:58.300 And it's like it can't even figure out how to like make the hands right. 49:58.300 --> 50:04.900 Why? Because the hands are a very complex tool used to accomplish work. 50:04.900 --> 50:06.200 That's why it's so amazing. 50:06.200 --> 50:07.600 I mean, hands are amazing. 50:07.700 --> 50:12.700 You've got five fingers and they bend in all kinds of different ways and they have strength 50:12.700 --> 50:15.380 and they have all these different muscles and all these different tendons. 50:15.380 --> 50:16.380 Why? 50:16.380 --> 50:22.460 Not to just be put in a trophy case to look at, but to be used to work. 50:22.460 --> 50:26.260 And not just men's hands, women's hands were made to work. 50:26.900 --> 50:29.300 That's what the Bible is describing here. 50:29.300 --> 50:33.700 Hey, I'm going to go into the field and I'm going to glean ears of corn. 50:33.700 --> 50:37.860 You have to go in that, you have to literally like get and peel these things and rip them off. 50:37.860 --> 50:39.860 I mean it is hard work. 50:39.860 --> 50:42.820 It's going to get some callus on those pretty little hands of yours. 50:43.780 --> 50:45.140 You're going to get some blisters. 50:45.700 --> 50:47.220 It's going to be difficult. 50:47.220 --> 50:49.220 You're going to have to put in some effort and some energy. 50:49.220 --> 50:49.620 And you know what? 50:49.620 --> 50:52.180 She's a virtuous woman because she's willing to work with her hands. 50:52.700 --> 50:55.460 She's not a type of woman that just says, hey, I don't want to work. 50:55.460 --> 50:58.340 She's like, hey, put me in the field and I'll work. 50:58.340 --> 51:03.580 That's what I love about, you know, a lot of ladies at our church is that they're willing 51:03.580 --> 51:06.920 to go in the field and work because they're a soul winner. 51:06.920 --> 51:07.920 They're willing to carry a Bible. 51:07.920 --> 51:13.300 I mean, they'll carry a baby on them and a Bible and toddlers, and they're going out 51:13.300 --> 51:16.180 there and they're flipping the pages and they're showing people how to be saved. 51:17.100 --> 51:21.520 Women that are willing to work women that are willing to go into the field and do something 51:21.520 --> 51:26.080 You know what? That's a virtuous woman a virtuous woman. That's willing to work. She's not sitting 51:26.680 --> 51:32.000 Thinking how can I do less work tomorrow? She's saying hey put me in a field. I want to work 51:32.480 --> 51:34.720 That's my role. That's my got my job 51:34.720 --> 51:40.920 And of course in verse 3 it says and she went and came and gleaned in the field after the Reapers and her hat 51:41.700 --> 51:45.200 was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, 51:45.200 --> 51:46.900 who was of the kindred of a limelight. 51:46.900 --> 51:50.700 Now, hap is kind of an older word. 51:50.700 --> 51:55.700 We think of it as like a chance or luck or by just circumstance. 51:55.700 --> 51:59.700 You know, I would say I kind of like lengthen the word to help me understand how to... 52:00.100 --> 52:07.240 Remember the definition. It's like it just happened. It just happened to be that she's where she's supposed to be 52:07.240 --> 52:12.040 It just happened to be that she's in the right place at the right time 52:12.580 --> 52:17.220 Why well keep your finger go to Psalm 37 for a moment go to Psalm 37 for a moment 52:18.780 --> 52:21.780 When you say hey, I want to serve God 52:22.300 --> 52:25.020 When you say, hey, I'm going to keep my promises. 52:25.020 --> 52:27.340 When you say, hey, I'm going to be steadfast. 52:27.340 --> 52:29.420 When you say, hey, I want to work. 52:29.420 --> 52:30.940 You know what God will do? 52:30.940 --> 52:35.580 God will put you in the right place at the right time to do the right thing. 52:36.800 --> 52:40.300 Why? Well, what does the Bible say in Psalm 37? Look at verse 23. 52:40.300 --> 52:45.300 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way. 52:45.300 --> 52:50.800 The Bible says, hey, if you are seeking God and you're trying to do good, 52:50.800 --> 52:56.300 God will find a place to put you and he'll put you in the exact right field, 52:56.300 --> 53:02.800 at the exact right time, with the exact right people in your life to accomplish your work. 53:03.300 --> 53:09.260 But see, when you don't want to work, when you don't want to serve God, when you don't 53:09.260 --> 53:12.340 want to keep your oaths, you know what you're going to end up doing? 53:12.340 --> 53:17.800 You're going to end up finding the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time. 53:17.800 --> 53:22.900 And God will allow you to go to the wrong place and be around the wrong men and be around 53:22.900 --> 53:25.740 the wrong people and they will destroy your life. 53:26.700 --> 53:28.900 That's why your heart is so important. 53:28.900 --> 53:30.300 And it's important where you go. 53:30.300 --> 53:32.100 And notice the steps of a good man. 53:32.100 --> 53:32.900 Where you go. 53:32.900 --> 53:35.100 Look, we have freedom. 53:35.100 --> 53:37.500 And isn't this the big thing that everybody's talking about? 53:37.500 --> 53:40.500 It's like, I want to know the will of God in my life. 53:40.500 --> 53:42.500 Or I want to know what God wants me to do. 53:42.500 --> 53:44.300 Or I want to know where God wants me to be. 53:44.300 --> 53:49.100 And in America, you have so many paths available to you. 53:49.900 --> 53:53.140 There's so many paths, and because of feminism, 53:53.140 --> 53:56.940 many bad paths have been open to the young ladies in our world today. 53:56.940 --> 54:00.180 Oh, you can become a boss, babe. You can become a career woman. 54:00.180 --> 54:03.180 You can go to college. You can join a sorority. 54:03.600 --> 54:07.200 You can go and sell your body online. 54:07.200 --> 54:11.520 There's so many different paths available to young women today. 54:11.520 --> 54:13.600 But let me tell you something, the good woman, 54:13.600 --> 54:16.640 the woman that says, hey, I actually want to serve God with my life. 54:16.640 --> 54:20.560 Hey, I actually want to do what's right. 54:20.560 --> 54:23.840 God will put them in the right place at the right time with the right men. 54:23.840 --> 54:26.720 And you know what's funny about it? 54:26.720 --> 54:29.440 Why go back to Moab? 54:30.500 --> 54:32.500 and not with Naomi. 54:32.500 --> 54:34.500 Let's just be really frank. 54:34.500 --> 54:36.500 One of the reasons is because of money. 54:36.500 --> 54:38.500 Because if you go with Naomi, 54:38.500 --> 54:40.500 you're probably not going to get a husband, 54:40.500 --> 54:42.500 and you're probably not going to have much money, 54:42.500 --> 54:44.500 you're probably going to be poor, you could go back to Moab, 54:44.500 --> 54:47.500 you try to find a guy to give you some money. 54:47.500 --> 54:50.500 Why do so many women sell their bodies online? 54:50.500 --> 54:52.500 For money. 54:52.500 --> 54:54.500 Isn't that, I mean, there's only one reason why they're doing it. 54:54.500 --> 54:56.500 They're not just like it was so much fun. 54:57.800 --> 55:00.440 I just love being objectified. 55:00.440 --> 55:04.360 I just love the scummiest, most disgusting men in the world 55:04.360 --> 55:05.880 ogling me. 55:05.880 --> 55:08.280 Women hate this, right? 55:08.280 --> 55:10.760 I mean, if a creepy dude walks up to a girl, 55:10.760 --> 55:12.880 she can't be more disgusted. 55:12.880 --> 55:15.440 It's like, eh, get away from me, you know? 55:15.440 --> 55:18.880 It's like, a guy could walk up and say, hi, how are you? 55:18.880 --> 55:21.240 If he's ugly, it was harassment. 55:21.240 --> 55:22.200 Now I'm going to have to get in the car. 55:22.700 --> 55:24.700 If he's David Beckham, there was no problem. 55:24.700 --> 55:25.700 You know what I mean? 55:25.700 --> 55:30.700 It's just like, for some reason, it's the exact same actions. 55:30.700 --> 55:32.700 It's just like, is he ugly or not? 55:32.700 --> 55:34.700 Or more importantly, is he rich or not? 55:34.700 --> 55:37.700 At first, the ugly guy, it was like, this is harassment. 55:37.700 --> 55:39.700 And then he's like, I'm a millionaire. 55:39.700 --> 55:42.700 And she's like, I'm just joking. 55:42.700 --> 55:44.700 It was awesome. 55:45.200 --> 55:49.040 Because let's just be honest, I was a woman, you're not typically the provider, 55:49.040 --> 55:50.640 so they're looking for a provider. 55:50.640 --> 55:52.480 There's nothing wrong with a woman looking for a provider. 55:52.480 --> 55:54.480 But isn't it funny, she doesn't seek a provider, 55:54.480 --> 55:56.800 and then she's going to end up marrying Boaz with Super Rich. 55:58.080 --> 56:01.840 It's like she didn't seek riches, she didn't seek wealth at all. 56:02.480 --> 56:04.800 She's seeking to work, and then she's just going to happen 56:04.800 --> 56:08.480 to end up finding the really wealthy guy anyways. 56:08.800 --> 56:11.500 Because look, God already knows the desires of your heart, 56:11.500 --> 56:14.600 and God wants to bless you with things that you need anyways. 56:14.600 --> 56:17.000 And I'm not saying if you seek God, you're gonna marry a rich guy. 56:17.000 --> 56:18.500 I'm not saying that. 56:18.500 --> 56:21.200 But what I am saying is she did. 56:21.200 --> 56:23.500 What I am saying is that she didn't seek this, 56:23.500 --> 56:25.200 and then God gave it to her anyways. 56:25.200 --> 56:26.900 Solomon didn't seek wealth, 56:26.900 --> 56:29.000 and then God gave it to him anyways. 56:29.000 --> 56:31.200 And you know, in many cases, it's like many people, 56:31.200 --> 56:33.900 they want fame, fortune, or money, 56:33.900 --> 56:35.600 and they seek it on their own. 56:35.700 --> 56:37.200 But they never get it. 56:37.200 --> 56:41.200 Whereas if you actually seek God, sometimes they'll give you those things anyways. 56:41.200 --> 56:44.000 And because you sought it for a good reason. 56:44.000 --> 56:48.000 You weren't seeking the fame for self-aggrandizement. 56:48.000 --> 56:53.100 You were seeking it because, hey, you're seeking God and he gives you fame so you can use it for the Lord. 56:53.100 --> 56:54.900 You can use it for the things of God. 56:54.900 --> 56:59.700 Or you weren't seeking wealth, but then God gives you the wealth so that you can be, what, a generous person or help other people. 56:59.700 --> 57:02.000 You know, Boaz is very, very wealthy. 57:02.200 --> 57:05.240 But do you think that God doesn't like the fact that Boaz is wealthy? 57:05.240 --> 57:08.040 Boaz is one of the most generous people on the planet. 57:08.040 --> 57:10.760 So it's great that he's wealthy, right? 57:10.760 --> 57:17.160 It's not very beneficial to God to have the most generous person on the planet be poor. 57:17.160 --> 57:20.600 Why do you think it is that God loves a cheerful giver? 57:20.600 --> 57:22.040 Let me explain something to you. 57:22.040 --> 57:23.640 You want to be blessed? 57:23.640 --> 57:24.920 You want to have riches? 57:24.920 --> 57:26.440 Why don't you be a generous person? 57:27.100 --> 57:31.800 Because what's the point in God just blessing Ebenezer Scrooge 57:31.800 --> 57:37.140 and just giving just all this wealth to someone that's going to be stingy and selfish with everything they have? 57:37.140 --> 57:40.480 You know what? God loves somebody that's going to be a generous person. 57:40.480 --> 57:44.560 And of course, Ruth doesn't really want money, so she gets it. 57:44.560 --> 57:47.200 Boaz is a generous person, so he gets it. 57:47.200 --> 57:51.360 And this is just how the world works because God is the one in control, folks. 57:51.360 --> 57:54.860 Whether you like it or not, every step is ordered by the Lord. 57:55.600 --> 58:00.160 Hey, you seek God, He'll put you in the right place at the right time to marry the right person. 58:00.160 --> 58:02.160 And let me tell you something, this world is scary. 58:04.600 --> 58:08.520 You know, if I were to think like, hey, you have to go marry someone, if, if, you know, 58:08.520 --> 58:11.420 even for my children, I'm thinking like, that's a scary dilemma. 58:11.420 --> 58:12.600 How do you know you're going to marry the right person? 58:12.600 --> 58:14.400 How are you going to marry someone that's sincere? 58:14.400 --> 58:15.560 But you know what? 58:15.560 --> 58:19.520 If you're seeking God, I think you'll marry the right person. 58:19.520 --> 58:22.140 And in many cases, it's not going to be what you wanted. 58:22.140 --> 58:27.280 You know, in some ways, the Bible brings up that Boaz is probably not someone she would 58:27.280 --> 58:29.160 have typically married because he's older. 58:29.800 --> 58:34.200 But you know in the Bible, most of the time, young women are marrying older men. 58:34.200 --> 58:37.000 You know, there's a 10-year gap between Isaac and Rebecca. 58:37.960 --> 58:42.120 Obviously there's a noticeable age gap here in this story. I don't know what it is. It doesn't 58:42.120 --> 58:47.960 give us an exact amount of time here. But there's a lot of times where it's a little bit of a 58:47.960 --> 58:54.760 mismatch in age. And that's okay. Who cares about that kind of stuff? It's a mismatch in racial identity. 58:55.000 --> 58:59.560 or ethnics. She's from Moab, he's from Israel. That doesn't matter. 59:00.100 --> 59:04.900 You know, many people today, they care too much about things that aren't really important, 59:04.900 --> 59:08.580 the carnal. They care so much about the carnal and not about the spiritual. 59:08.580 --> 59:13.540 You know, it's better to be married to someone that has a weight, a big age gap, 59:13.540 --> 59:17.220 and is not from the same country, but hey, wants to serve God with you, 59:17.220 --> 59:23.700 than someone that's really close in age and is the exact same, you know, skin tone or whatever. 59:24.300 --> 59:26.460 And yet they don't want to serve God. 59:26.460 --> 59:28.420 That's not a good match in the Bible. 59:28.420 --> 59:32.660 So we need to elevate the spiritual attributes of a person over their carnal attributes. 59:32.660 --> 59:34.660 And what's the great thing about Ruth? 59:34.660 --> 59:36.660 She's willing to work with her hands. 59:39.100 --> 59:41.300 Go, if you would, back to Ruth chapter 2. 59:41.300 --> 59:43.500 And we're going to kind of, I'm going to try my best 59:43.500 --> 59:44.600 to just get through this story. 59:44.600 --> 59:46.700 And then we're going to look at it like four different times. 59:46.700 --> 59:48.600 OK, we're just going to keep going through the same story. 59:48.600 --> 59:50.800 And we're just look at different layers of the story. 59:50.800 --> 59:55.400 But number five, I want to point out and look at verse number 17. 59:56.200 --> 01:00:13.200 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ifah of barley, and she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and she brought forth and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed. 01:00:13.200 --> 01:00:18.200 So not only is she feeding herself, she gave to her a portion. 01:00:18.500 --> 01:00:24.540 So, she gives a portion to Naomi, who didn't work, who didn't do the hard job. 01:00:24.540 --> 01:00:26.140 She's providing for others. 01:00:26.140 --> 01:00:27.840 So what makes Ruth a virtuous woman? 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:29.060 She keeps her promise. 01:00:29.060 --> 01:00:30.180 She seeks God. 01:00:30.180 --> 01:00:31.340 She's steadfast. 01:00:31.340 --> 01:00:32.940 She's willingly working with her hands. 01:00:32.940 --> 01:00:34.680 And number five, she gives a portion. 01:00:34.680 --> 01:00:36.260 She gives a portion to others. 01:00:36.260 --> 01:00:37.260 She's blessing others. 01:00:37.260 --> 01:00:37.900 She's generous. 01:00:39.100 --> 01:00:42.140 Hey, why would Ruth get to marry a rich guy? 01:00:42.140 --> 01:00:44.460 Well, she's already shown how generous she is, 01:00:44.460 --> 01:00:47.060 so then God's going to bless her so that she can be generous again 01:00:47.060 --> 01:00:49.720 with the wealth that God will bestow upon her. 01:00:49.720 --> 01:00:52.500 She's already proven that she's faithful in that which is least, 01:00:52.500 --> 01:00:55.240 so then she'll also be faithful in that which is much. 01:00:55.240 --> 01:00:57.560 Because when you're not faithful in that which is least, 01:00:57.560 --> 01:00:59.860 you're not going to be faithful in that which is much. 01:00:59.860 --> 01:01:04.240 You know, we should elevate politicians and leaders in our country 01:01:04.240 --> 01:01:06.820 that have shown themselves to be faithful in that which is least. 01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:11.080 But unfortunately we see in many cases our politicians and leaders today, 01:01:11.080 --> 01:01:13.400 they're not even faithful in anything. 01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:15.560 And then they're not faithful to their wife. 01:01:16.100 --> 01:01:18.100 They're not faithful to the business partners. 01:01:18.100 --> 01:01:23.100 They're not faithful to the promises and the O's that they make when they're in their campaign promises. 01:01:23.100 --> 01:01:25.100 Why are we elevating these different people? 01:01:25.100 --> 01:01:28.100 You know, why are we fooling ourselves? Why are we tricking ourselves and thinking, 01:01:28.100 --> 01:01:30.100 oh, this time they're going to keep their promises? 01:01:30.100 --> 01:01:32.100 I know they never have before. 01:01:32.100 --> 01:01:35.100 I know that they're not faithful to their wife at all, but they'll be faithful to me. 01:01:35.100 --> 01:01:39.100 I mean, imagine, why would you think that Donald Trump... 01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:44.700 on, you know, another wife, was not faithful to his first wife, 01:01:44.700 --> 01:01:46.700 why would he then be faithful to you? 01:01:46.700 --> 01:01:48.200 Right, right, right. 01:01:48.200 --> 01:01:52.700 Like, are you gonna tell me that you would be more faithful to someone that's not your wife? 01:01:53.300 --> 01:01:56.400 Just a bunch of constituents? Just a bunch of people? 01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:58.200 Oh, I made all these campaign promises. 01:01:58.200 --> 01:02:00.200 He didn't keep his marriage vow! 01:02:00.200 --> 01:02:02.400 Why would he then keep a vow to you? 01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:03.900 A vow to... 01:02:04.300 --> 01:02:10.920 You know make your promises. It's silly. It's nonsense. We should never have a president that's been divorced 01:02:11.620 --> 01:02:14.560 Like if you just think about it logically for one second 01:02:14.560 --> 01:02:21.300 It makes no sense why you would ever have have a president that's been divorced because if he can't be faithful to his wife 01:02:21.700 --> 01:02:27.380 Why would he be faithful to the country? Why would he be faithful to the nation? Why would he be faithful to the Constitution? 01:02:27.380 --> 01:02:30.660 Why would he be faithful to God? Why would he be faithful to anything? 01:02:31.200 --> 01:02:34.200 He's already proven he won't be faithful to his wife. 01:02:34.200 --> 01:02:35.560 And the same with a pastor. 01:02:35.560 --> 01:02:38.800 If a pastor is divorced, he should never be your pastor. 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:40.400 If he can't be faithful to his wife, 01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:43.200 why would he be faithful to the congregation of the church? 01:02:43.200 --> 01:02:45.080 The Bible is saying, hey, he should first show himself 01:02:45.080 --> 01:02:47.320 faithful to his wife and to his family 01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:49.600 as a model and an example of he's being faithful 01:02:49.600 --> 01:02:51.400 in that which is least, so he can be faithful 01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:53.520 in that which is much, with the church 01:02:53.520 --> 01:02:55.700 and with the things of God and with the Bible. 01:02:56.100 --> 01:02:57.840 You know, these just make common sense. 01:02:57.840 --> 01:02:59.540 Sorry to make too much sense this morning. 01:02:59.540 --> 01:03:02.840 Oh, I love Trump. 01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:05.700 Okay, well, you can like him, but let's just be honest. 01:03:05.700 --> 01:03:07.200 He's not someone to put trust in. 01:03:10.200 --> 01:03:11.800 Oh, how dare you say that? 01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:13.300 Well, that's what the Bible teaches. 01:03:13.300 --> 01:03:16.500 The Bible teaches that since he's not faithful in that which is least, 01:03:16.500 --> 01:03:18.200 he's not going to be faithful in that which is much. 01:03:18.200 --> 01:03:20.200 Ruth is faithful in that which is least. 01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:23.200 So she's going to be blessed with that which is much. 01:03:23.200 --> 01:03:25.400 And she shows this by what? 01:03:25.400 --> 01:03:26.800 Giving a portion to Naomi. 01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:28.000 Couldn't she come home and just said, 01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:31.700 hey Naomi, why don't you go work for your own? 01:03:31.700 --> 01:03:34.200 I mean, is there really any carnal obligation here? 01:03:34.500 --> 01:03:37.000 She doesn't have to. Legally, she doesn't have to. 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:38.500 She's not gonna get sued. 01:03:38.500 --> 01:03:39.500 She could just say like, 01:03:39.500 --> 01:03:41.700 Hey, I got a lot of money today. 01:03:41.700 --> 01:03:44.500 I'm gonna go sell it and I'm gonna get me a new dress. 01:03:47.600 --> 01:03:50.160 I mean, she could just, she's a nuts to Naomi. 01:03:50.160 --> 01:03:53.400 She could just say, hey, I'm not gonna bless you anymore. 01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:56.160 I need to take care of myself. 01:03:56.160 --> 01:03:58.160 I need to get my nails done, you know. 01:03:59.200 --> 01:04:01.440 No, no, she gives a portion to Naomi. 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:02.640 She's steadfast. 01:04:02.640 --> 01:04:03.760 She keeps her word. 01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:05.320 She's seeking God. 01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:07.360 She doesn't, even when she gets blessed a little bit, 01:04:07.360 --> 01:04:08.680 even when she gets a little bit of money, 01:04:08.680 --> 01:04:10.480 because you know, some people, they seem good 01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:13.200 and then they get a little bit of money. 01:04:13.200 --> 01:04:15.300 You know, you know that person in your life? 01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:18.320 It's like once they just get a little bit of money, they change. 01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:19.520 Their character change. 01:04:19.520 --> 01:04:21.720 Once they get a little bit of popularity, they change. 01:04:21.720 --> 01:04:23.440 Once they get a little bit of success, 01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:25.840 now all of a sudden they're too big for the britches. 01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:29.080 Now all of a sudden they're just a little bit too cool for you. 01:04:29.080 --> 01:04:31.240 Now they don't need you anymore. 01:04:31.240 --> 01:04:33.360 And once they don't need you anymore, 01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:35.360 they just drop you like a bad habit. 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:39.600 But not Ruth. Ruth is a virtuous woman. She's going to give a portion. 01:04:39.600 --> 01:04:42.200 She actually cares about people that can't take care of themselves. 01:04:42.200 --> 01:04:46.600 She's going to take care of this widow. She's going to take care of her mother-in-law. 01:04:46.600 --> 01:04:50.400 And again, think about this relationship. Of all the carnal relationships you could have, 01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:54.400 a mother-in-law is probably the easiest one to want to ditch. Okay? 01:04:54.400 --> 01:04:58.900 Let's just be honest. I mean, it's not a very natural relationship. 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:04.800 The reason why you all laughed is because it's hard to keep that relationship together, okay? 01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:06.500 Let alone in these circumstances. 01:05:06.500 --> 01:05:09.000 Let alone when money's an issue. 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:10.700 Let alone when she's bitter. 01:05:10.700 --> 01:05:13.300 Let alone when she's had problems. 01:05:13.300 --> 01:05:15.300 Let alone when you're in a foreign country. 01:05:15.300 --> 01:05:17.300 You know, this is going to be difficult. 01:05:17.300 --> 01:05:18.000 But you know what? 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:19.200 Roots of Virtuous Woman. 01:05:19.400 --> 01:05:22.300 Look at verse number 11 of chapter 3, says, 01:05:22.300 --> 01:05:24.920 And now my daughter, fear not, I will do to thee all that thou 01:05:24.920 --> 01:05:28.280 requires, for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman. 01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:34.720 Now here's Boaz, and he makes a proclamation where we've gone full circle. 01:05:34.720 --> 01:05:36.160 Why is he saying this though? 01:05:36.160 --> 01:05:39.280 Well, and again, I'm not going to preach the whole book. 01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:41.840 It's a great book, but she's asking him to marry her. 01:05:42.300 --> 01:05:46.140 Okay? And she's asking this because of a couple reasons. 01:05:46.140 --> 01:05:49.740 Number one, Naomi is telling her to. 01:05:49.740 --> 01:05:53.480 Naomi's saying, hey, you need to marry this man, Boaz, 01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:56.480 and she gives her explicit instructions on how to ask him. 01:05:56.700 --> 01:06:04.400 And these instructions are an interesting story in the Old Testament law of just like what someone would do in these circumstances 01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:07.700 that, again, if someone died, you would seek the brother. 01:06:07.700 --> 01:06:13.200 The problem is, is that Naomi doesn't have another son, so then it would just go to the next of Ken. 01:06:13.200 --> 01:06:18.900 So I don't know exactly who this would be or what person in the family it goes to exactly. 01:06:18.900 --> 01:06:24.700 Just whoever's closest of Ken, whether that be a cousin, uncle or something, I don't know exactly, but it just somehow... 01:06:24.700 --> 01:06:26.840 and the family she would seek this. 01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:31.840 Well, Naomi knows that Olimolec is very close of Ken. 01:06:31.960 --> 01:06:35.800 She knows that Boaz is really close too, 01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:37.480 so he could potentially be the person 01:06:37.480 --> 01:06:40.180 that's supposed to marry her by the law, 01:06:40.180 --> 01:06:42.040 from the law's perspective. 01:06:42.040 --> 01:06:44.240 But as we read in the story, we'll find out 01:06:44.240 --> 01:06:47.000 there was technically someone that was even closer of Ken 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:48.100 that would have been the person 01:06:48.100 --> 01:06:49.760 that was supposed to marry her, 01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:51.600 and Boaz is like second in line. 01:06:51.700 --> 01:06:54.700 Boaz would not be the person to redeem. 01:06:54.700 --> 01:06:57.700 Technically, it would be someone else. 01:06:57.700 --> 01:07:01.700 But she asked him in verse number 9, she said, 01:07:01.700 --> 01:07:06.700 Spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid, for thou art a near kinsman. 01:07:06.700 --> 01:07:09.700 So she knows, hey, you're supposed to marry me according to your law, 01:07:09.700 --> 01:07:12.700 according to the word of God, you're supposed to marry me. 01:07:12.700 --> 01:07:14.700 And spread thy skirt. 01:07:14.700 --> 01:07:16.700 Well, the Bible calls a skirt a wife. 01:07:17.300 --> 01:07:23.540 In Deuteronomy chapter 22, yes, you don't like it in verse 5, it says women should not wear that which pertains to a man. 01:07:23.540 --> 01:07:29.140 And then in the latter part of that, it says that you're not supposed to lie with your father's wife, 01:07:29.140 --> 01:07:33.860 and it's calling her a skirt. It literally says that you're not supposed to uncover his skirt. 01:07:33.860 --> 01:07:39.860 So again, men don't wear skirts. And if they do, they're a faggot, all right? 01:07:39.860 --> 01:07:43.060 Or trying to be one, and I don't know why you would try to be one when you're not. 01:07:43.300 --> 01:07:49.300 Okay, you should definitely never be one, but if you weren't one you certainly shouldn't act like one or dress like one 01:07:49.540 --> 01:07:57.260 It's weird. Okay, so and obviously that's why you know which bathroom to use is because there's a stick figure with a skirt on 01:07:58.620 --> 01:08:02.820 It wasn't like the stick figure didn't have bigger muscles or something. It didn't have a mustache 01:08:03.900 --> 01:08:05.220 It just has a skirt. 01:08:05.220 --> 01:08:08.540 And you know, what I just said pisses almost everybody off 01:08:08.540 --> 01:08:11.020 and it just makes every Baptist, like Southern Baptist 01:08:11.020 --> 01:08:13.900 and whatever lose their mind that I just said this. 01:08:13.900 --> 01:08:16.620 Because all the boomers, they've cut off all their hair 01:08:16.620 --> 01:08:19.020 and they're wearing jeans to church this morning. 01:08:19.020 --> 01:08:22.260 And so they don't want to, and isn't it funny? 01:08:22.260 --> 01:08:25.300 They're wearing jeans, which is like what you'd wear to work 01:08:25.300 --> 01:08:26.380 and then these women don't work. 01:08:26.380 --> 01:08:27.220 It's just funny. 01:08:27.220 --> 01:08:28.380 It's so funny to me. 01:08:28.380 --> 01:08:31.100 But you know, they want to have their cake and eat it too. 01:08:31.700 --> 01:08:35.140 But at the end of the day, spread thy skirt upon the handmaid. 01:08:35.140 --> 01:08:37.540 He's saying he doesn't have a physical skirt. 01:08:37.540 --> 01:08:39.860 He's not wearing a skirt and she's asking for it. 01:08:39.860 --> 01:08:42.580 It's a euphemism for saying, will you marry me? 01:08:42.580 --> 01:08:45.980 Okay, euphemism is a metaphor, a picture of what it would be 01:08:45.980 --> 01:08:49.460 as a picture that he would be marrying this woman. 01:08:49.460 --> 01:08:51.660 And so that's what she's asking for here. 01:08:51.660 --> 01:08:53.460 She's not asking for a physical garment. 01:08:53.460 --> 01:08:54.940 She's saying, will you marry me? 01:08:54.940 --> 01:08:57.060 Because you're a near kinsman, okay? 01:08:57.060 --> 01:08:57.800 And... 01:08:58.500 --> 01:09:02.000 The problem is, is there's technically someone closer. 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:02.900 Look at verse 12. 01:09:02.900 --> 01:09:05.900 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman, 01:09:05.900 --> 01:09:08.400 how be it there is a kinsman nearer than I. 01:09:08.400 --> 01:09:09.100 And you know what's so funny? 01:09:09.100 --> 01:09:11.700 People that are not saved screw this entire story up 01:09:11.700 --> 01:09:14.400 because they'll be like, oh, well, in the story, 01:09:14.400 --> 01:09:17.000 Ruth was asking for a blanket because she's cold at night 01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:18.600 or something. 01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:21.200 And you know what's funny is if you read the story, 01:09:21.200 --> 01:09:23.000 he doesn't give her anything. 01:09:23.700 --> 01:09:25.060 And they're like, oh, there's a near kids. 01:09:25.060 --> 01:09:26.620 How does this even make sense? 01:09:26.620 --> 01:09:28.900 What if a lady was like, hey, it's cold tonight. 01:09:28.900 --> 01:09:30.380 Can you give me a blanket? 01:09:30.380 --> 01:09:33.420 Well, I'm technically not the closest of kin. 01:09:33.420 --> 01:09:35.300 We need to get someone else later. 01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:37.400 It's like that would be a weird thing to do. 01:09:37.400 --> 01:09:41.200 Okay, it's obviously we're talking about the euphemism here of the fact that hey, 01:09:41.200 --> 01:09:42.500 he's saying, will you marry me? 01:09:42.500 --> 01:09:46.300 And he's saying, well, I am someone that would potentially marry you because I am close with him, 01:09:46.300 --> 01:09:48.700 but I'm not technically the closest. 01:09:48.700 --> 01:09:50.800 There's someone that's even closer. 01:09:50.800 --> 01:09:54.800 And so he says in verse number 13, though, Terry this night. 01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:55.700 So it's like, wait. 01:09:56.100 --> 01:10:01.220 And it shall be in the morning that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well, 01:10:01.220 --> 01:10:05.620 let him do the kinsman's part. But if he will not do the part of the kinsman to thee, 01:10:05.620 --> 01:10:09.380 then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee as the Lord liveth lie down in the morning." 01:10:09.380 --> 01:10:13.620 So he says, hey, technically I'm not first in line. There's someone else. 01:10:14.420 --> 01:10:17.700 And if he's going to marry you, then he's going to marry you. And that's, that's good. 01:10:17.700 --> 01:10:22.580 Let him marry you. But if he won't marry you, I promise I will marry you. 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:26.440 I will be the one to redeem you in this particular search. 01:10:26.440 --> 01:10:28.540 And it's about the laws of redeeming, 01:10:28.540 --> 01:10:31.880 being redeemed by, you know, this kinsman. 01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:37.120 And so we have her being described as a virtuous woman. 01:10:37.120 --> 01:10:38.180 Why? 01:10:38.180 --> 01:10:41.760 Because she's seeking this marriage. 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:44.460 Now, this might seem strange to you, 01:10:44.460 --> 01:10:46.220 but again, biblically speaking, 01:10:46.220 --> 01:10:49.060 a widow is supposed to seek remarriage. 01:10:49.900 --> 01:10:52.100 And so that's a picture of being virtuous. 01:10:52.100 --> 01:10:56.500 The opposite would be someone not seeking marriage as a widow. 01:10:56.500 --> 01:10:59.600 And the Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter 5 01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:01.800 that she's going after Satan 01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:04.700 because she will wax wanton against Christ 01:11:04.700 --> 01:11:06.700 and they're going to end up marrying anyways. 01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:10.240 And so they might as well get married to a righteous person 01:11:10.240 --> 01:11:12.840 rather than just allowing themselves to wax wanton 01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:14.760 and getting all kinds of trouble 01:11:14.760 --> 01:11:17.460 and realizing they're gonna have a relationship anyways. 01:11:17.460 --> 01:11:19.380 So they might as well just get married right away. 01:11:19.380 --> 01:11:21.340 So what pictures her as a virtuous woman 01:11:21.340 --> 01:11:22.980 is that she seeks remarriage. 01:11:22.980 --> 01:11:25.680 Cause she didn't have to, she could have decided no. 01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:28.860 She could have said, hey, I'm women going my own way. 01:11:28.860 --> 01:11:30.980 But she decided, you know what, I do need a man. 01:11:30.980 --> 01:11:32.260 You know how many women today are saying, 01:11:32.260 --> 01:11:33.260 I don't need a man. 01:11:34.600 --> 01:11:38.200 or I don't want a man, or you know, I'm just gonna have my cats. 01:11:38.200 --> 01:11:41.400 Me and my cats will just live the rest of our life. 01:11:41.400 --> 01:11:44.440 But you know what? This woman is a virtuous woman. 01:11:44.440 --> 01:11:46.520 Why? Because she's seeking remarriage. 01:11:46.520 --> 01:11:50.280 And why remarriage? Because that's a picture of someone going to continue to serve God. 01:11:50.920 --> 01:11:53.080 If she didn't actually get remarried, 01:11:53.640 --> 01:11:56.280 and I'm going to go to this later in the sermon, so just buckle up, 01:11:56.280 --> 01:11:59.160 but I just want to make the point so we can move on. 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:03.800 A widow not seeking remarriage is going to go after Satan. 01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:05.800 That's what the Bible teaches. 01:12:05.800 --> 01:12:07.800 So why is it pictured of a virgin virtuous? 01:12:07.800 --> 01:12:09.800 That she gets remarried. 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:13.800 Now, I want to go back through our story. 01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:16.800 I've already preached everything, but don't think it's over. 01:12:16.800 --> 01:12:18.800 It's not even close, alright? 01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:20.600 I don't want you to get nervous or anything, alright? 01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:25.300 But I want us to keep this in mind and go to Proverbs 31 now. 01:12:25.300 --> 01:12:29.900 Let's kind of revisit our points and then see what the Bible says in Proverbs 31. 01:12:29.900 --> 01:12:30.900 So what is a virtuous woman? 01:12:30.900 --> 01:12:32.500 It's one that keeps her promise. 01:12:32.500 --> 01:12:33.800 It's one that seeks God. 01:12:33.800 --> 01:12:35.200 It's one that's steadfast. 01:12:35.200 --> 01:12:37.000 It's one that willingly works with her hands. 01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:38.500 It's one that gives a portion. 01:12:38.500 --> 01:12:41.900 And she's a scribe as a virtuous woman because she seeks remarriage. 01:12:42.500 --> 01:12:43.780 but she's a virtuous woman. 01:12:43.780 --> 01:12:46.820 Now in Proverbs 31, the Bible says in verse 10, 01:12:46.820 --> 01:12:50.580 who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies? 01:12:50.580 --> 01:12:53.780 Notice that the Bible puts a premium on this type of woman 01:12:53.780 --> 01:12:55.940 and says that she's extremely rare. 01:12:55.940 --> 01:12:56.900 And that's true. 01:12:56.900 --> 01:13:01.220 It's extremely rare to find a virtuous woman. 01:13:01.700 --> 01:13:07.620 a woman that'll keep her promises, that seeks God, that is steadfast, that is willing to work with 01:13:07.620 --> 01:13:10.820 her hands, that's going to give a portion to another, meaning she's generous, and that she 01:13:10.820 --> 01:13:15.460 would seek remarriage and an attempt to serve God, and she's going to keep her virtues. Okay? 01:13:15.460 --> 01:13:18.660 The Bible is saying that this type of a woman is very difficult to find. 01:13:19.300 --> 01:13:22.980 Now, what it does not say is it doesn't exist. It does exist. 01:13:23.700 --> 01:13:26.020 And notice that Ruth is the virtuous woman. 01:13:26.400 --> 01:13:30.240 Ruth is described as a virtuous woman by a virtuous guy, 01:13:30.240 --> 01:13:32.400 and we know what the virtuous woman is. 01:13:32.400 --> 01:13:36.720 And notice again, she's also not even from Israel, 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:38.320 she's from the heathen. 01:13:38.320 --> 01:13:41.840 And there's this idea out there that all women are bad. 01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:44.160 It's just kind of like all cops are bad. 01:13:45.360 --> 01:13:47.240 It's all women are bad. 01:13:47.240 --> 01:13:48.480 False. 01:13:48.480 --> 01:13:50.360 No, no, no, there are good women out there. 01:13:50.360 --> 01:13:52.880 They're just hard to find, is what the Bible says. 01:13:53.200 --> 01:13:57.800 But again, he, you know, this woman is found of the heathen. 01:13:57.800 --> 01:14:00.400 Oh, well, you can't redeem any of these women in the world. 01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:01.300 False. 01:14:01.300 --> 01:14:02.200 Nope. 01:14:02.200 --> 01:14:06.300 Ruth is an example of a woman that was in the world as a spiritual picture 01:14:06.300 --> 01:14:09.700 and was redeemed and came in and became the virtuous woman. 01:14:09.700 --> 01:14:13.300 And I would even argue she becomes a virtuous woman in the sense that, 01:14:13.300 --> 01:14:17.700 you know, most people are not going to start out as the Proverbs 31 wife, folks. 01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:20.800 Number one, they don't start married. 01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:22.700 Did you ever realize that? 01:14:22.700 --> 01:14:25.900 You know, Proverbs 31 is like an ideal picture 01:14:25.900 --> 01:14:29.300 of what a woman becomes, not necessarily where she starts. 01:14:29.300 --> 01:14:32.300 She can start with virtue, but it continues to expand and to grow. 01:14:32.300 --> 01:14:35.000 And you know, this is an ideal picture. 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:38.400 We should also not hold our wives to this standard 01:14:38.400 --> 01:14:41.800 if we don't want to be compared to Jesus Christ, okay? 01:14:42.100 --> 01:14:44.100 So, if you want to sit here and say like, 01:14:44.100 --> 01:14:45.700 why is my wife not like this? 01:14:45.700 --> 01:14:47.100 First ask yourself this question, 01:14:47.100 --> 01:14:49.700 why am I not like Jesus Christ? 01:14:49.700 --> 01:14:51.700 And actually just lower it a hair. 01:14:51.700 --> 01:14:54.200 Just, why am I not like David? 01:14:54.200 --> 01:14:55.500 Why am I not like Peter? 01:14:55.500 --> 01:14:56.700 Why am I not like Paul? 01:14:56.700 --> 01:14:59.100 Like, why am I not like anybody in the Bible? 01:14:59.100 --> 01:15:01.900 Like, how are you going to then hold your wife to a standard? 01:15:02.100 --> 01:15:06.700 that's an idealic standard, and you yourself are not holding yourself to even a very high standard. 01:15:06.700 --> 01:15:10.400 Okay, hold yourself to a higher standard and you're gonna hold others, number one. 01:15:10.400 --> 01:15:14.400 So if you want to measure your wife to this book, then you know what? 01:15:14.400 --> 01:15:16.800 You should measure yourself to Jesus Christ. 01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:23.000 Now, from the flip side, as a woman, you should measure yourself to the Proverbs 31 woman. 01:15:23.300 --> 01:15:25.300 We should always strive for perfection. 01:15:25.300 --> 01:15:26.700 We should always look to holiness. 01:15:26.700 --> 01:15:28.500 We should always look to do what's right 01:15:28.500 --> 01:15:31.500 and try to hold ourselves more accountable than we hold other people. 01:15:31.500 --> 01:15:33.100 And this is what often happens in a sermon, 01:15:33.100 --> 01:15:36.500 is the good people do this and the bad people continue to do the opposite. 01:15:36.500 --> 01:15:38.100 What does a bad person do in this sermon? 01:15:38.100 --> 01:15:41.900 They're constantly thinking about how other people are not doing what I'm saying this morning. 01:15:41.900 --> 01:15:43.300 Okay? 01:15:43.300 --> 01:15:46.300 And I want to make it clear that I want you to do re- 01:15:46.300 --> 01:15:48.600 think really hard this morning about yourself. 01:15:49.100 --> 01:15:52.540 And I want you to think really hard about what you can change about yourself, 01:15:52.540 --> 01:15:54.940 not how everybody else is screwing up. 01:15:54.940 --> 01:15:59.580 Not how you can think about other people in the room being more guilty of something than you. 01:15:59.580 --> 01:16:00.140 Okay? 01:16:00.140 --> 01:16:03.100 Think about yourself and think about how we can seek to improve. 01:16:03.100 --> 01:16:05.420 Because you can't improve that other person anyways. 01:16:05.420 --> 01:16:07.020 Just improve yourself, okay? 01:16:08.100 --> 01:16:13.940 Now in Proverbs 31, we have this idea of this woman, she's super hard to find. 01:16:13.940 --> 01:16:17.820 Verse 11, the heart of her husband has safely trusted her so that she'll have no need of 01:16:17.820 --> 01:16:18.820 spoil. 01:16:18.820 --> 01:16:23.860 Now this is interesting because when Ruth is being described as a virtuous woman, Boaz, 01:16:23.860 --> 01:16:29.740 I didn't read the verse, but Boaz says that she's not seeking men that are younger for 01:16:29.740 --> 01:16:30.740 money. 01:16:30.740 --> 01:16:32.780 She's not seeking like young men, she's not seeking money. 01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:35.680 And so that's a picture of what? 01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:38.520 A virtuous woman is not in it for money. 01:16:38.520 --> 01:16:43.240 Also this woman, her husband is not worried about her 01:16:43.240 --> 01:16:44.600 that she's seeking money. 01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:46.040 He has no need of spoiling money. 01:16:46.040 --> 01:16:50.760 He doesn't have to become rich to keep his wife's heart. 01:16:50.760 --> 01:16:53.240 There are some women in this world 01:16:53.240 --> 01:16:55.000 that will leave their husband 01:16:55.000 --> 01:16:57.120 as soon as they're no longer rich. 01:16:58.760 --> 01:16:59.600 Or... 01:16:59.800 --> 01:17:03.200 They'll just, as soon as they get married and they have access to the funds, 01:17:03.200 --> 01:17:05.700 they'll just divorce them to take the money 01:17:05.700 --> 01:17:09.300 because they weren't really in it for the marriage, they weren't really in it for the man, 01:17:09.300 --> 01:17:11.300 they were in it for the spoil. 01:17:11.300 --> 01:17:14.700 But notice the heart of the husband of the virtuous woman, 01:17:14.700 --> 01:17:20.100 he is not afraid of his wife leaving him for money. 01:17:20.100 --> 01:17:23.300 If a rich guy came along and said, 01:17:23.300 --> 01:17:25.400 Hey, I want you. 01:17:25.400 --> 01:17:26.800 She's not interested. 01:17:27.300 --> 01:17:30.900 The indecent proposal will not work on this woman. 01:17:30.900 --> 01:17:32.380 She's not interested in money. 01:17:32.380 --> 01:17:33.940 She's not interested in a rich guy. 01:17:33.940 --> 01:17:36.300 No one could come along and entice her 01:17:36.300 --> 01:17:37.940 and take her away from her husband. 01:17:37.940 --> 01:17:40.940 Her husband's heart is safely entrusted with this woman 01:17:40.940 --> 01:17:42.460 that she would never do this to him. 01:17:42.460 --> 01:17:44.020 She's not interested in money. 01:17:44.020 --> 01:17:45.620 She's not interested in a young man. 01:17:45.620 --> 01:17:47.020 She's not interested in lust. 01:17:47.020 --> 01:17:49.100 No, the heart of this husband knows, 01:17:49.100 --> 01:17:50.820 hey, my wife loves me. 01:17:51.200 --> 01:17:54.320 And you know, that's got to be one of the most important attributes you can find in 01:17:54.320 --> 01:17:59.320 a pre-wife, is a woman that just likes you, that loves you. 01:17:59.320 --> 01:18:03.200 And that's something I can say about my wife, is my wife, I don't know why, but she likes 01:18:03.200 --> 01:18:04.200 me. 01:18:04.200 --> 01:18:05.200 Okay? 01:18:05.200 --> 01:18:06.960 Now she loves me even more than she likes me. 01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:12.120 But hey, that was an important characteristic, is a woman that loves me, and not, and I wasn't 01:18:12.120 --> 01:18:15.120 rich, let's just be honest, so I was working with nothing, all right? 01:18:15.120 --> 01:18:16.000 It was great. 01:18:16.300 --> 01:18:18.060 It's great to meet your wife when you're poor, 01:18:18.060 --> 01:18:19.220 because you know, you're just like, 01:18:19.220 --> 01:18:21.300 she has to like you at that point. 01:18:21.300 --> 01:18:25.460 I feel bad for guys that are rich, you know, 01:18:25.460 --> 01:18:27.860 in a sense like, I don't know how you could know for sure 01:18:27.860 --> 01:18:29.780 that this woman actually cares about you. 01:18:29.780 --> 01:18:31.940 That's why there's so many movies and so many shows 01:18:31.940 --> 01:18:34.780 where guys pretend to not be rich to try to find a wife, 01:18:34.780 --> 01:18:38.500 because they're afraid of it being from an insincere motive. 01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:41.120 Why? Because of this virtuous woman. 01:18:41.120 --> 01:18:43.200 Because of this ideal that they want a woman 01:18:43.200 --> 01:18:45.460 that wants them, not money. 01:18:46.400 --> 01:18:49.360 And sorry, honey, our life isn't one of those movies 01:18:49.360 --> 01:18:51.920 where I'm secretly rich and I didn't tell you, okay? 01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:52.760 You know? 01:18:52.760 --> 01:18:55.880 She's like hoping at some point a reveal, like, 01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:57.760 oh man, I was just testing you. 01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:00.320 This is like 17 years or whatever. 01:19:00.320 --> 01:19:02.600 It's like, no, I wasn't testing you. 01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:04.160 Okay, sorry. 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:08.840 But hey, there could even be a woman that maybe she didn't realize it, 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:12.120 but once money comes into the equation, her heart changes too. 01:19:12.120 --> 01:19:13.080 You don't want that kind of woman. 01:19:13.080 --> 01:19:15.640 You want a woman that, hey, she wasn't in it for the money. 01:19:16.100 --> 01:19:21.100 She was just there because she loves you and she's interested in the righteous things. 01:19:21.100 --> 01:19:24.100 Verse 12, she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 01:19:24.100 --> 01:19:30.100 Notice that she's not sitting here thinking like, how can I criticize him and attack him and nag him to death? 01:19:30.100 --> 01:19:35.100 She wants to only do good to him. She's never going to harm him in any way. 01:19:35.100 --> 01:19:40.100 She only does good unto him. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands. 01:19:40.100 --> 01:19:41.100 Doesn't that sound like Ruth? 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:43.500 She willingly goes to the field. 01:19:43.500 --> 01:19:45.600 She's willing to work with her hands. 01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:48.140 And we even see a couple other verses say the same thing. 01:19:48.140 --> 01:19:49.040 Look at verse 27. 01:19:49.040 --> 01:19:50.640 She looked at the wells of the ways of her household 01:19:50.640 --> 01:19:52.180 and he does not the bread of idleness. 01:19:52.180 --> 01:19:53.780 She didn't eat the government bread. 01:19:53.780 --> 01:19:57.480 She went into the field and got her own barley 01:19:57.480 --> 01:19:59.120 and then made her own bread, 01:19:59.120 --> 01:20:02.920 some organic homemade sourdough or whatever, 01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:04.860 you know, just she got that bread 01:20:04.860 --> 01:20:06.300 and she got the good bread. 01:20:06.300 --> 01:20:08.100 She's not eating the wonder bread. 01:20:08.500 --> 01:20:12.500 And you just like wonder how is this even bread when you look at the ingredients, okay? 01:20:12.500 --> 01:20:19.700 No, she's eating good bread, she's working hard, her family, even though they're poor, they're eating well. 01:20:19.700 --> 01:20:23.000 You know, you don't have to be rich to eat good food. 01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:26.300 In fact, a lot of times the rich food is gross, it's weird. 01:20:26.300 --> 01:20:31.600 They like do weird stuff to it because it's like, you know, it was not expensive enough. 01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:35.400 It's like, hey, we have this burger, we're gonna literally wrap it in gold. 01:20:36.100 --> 01:20:40.820 I've seen this. I've seen where they like had a bun and they were wrapping it in this thin layer of gold 01:20:40.820 --> 01:20:45.260 And I'm just I'm just thinking like why did you run such a perfectly good burger? 01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:50.360 You know like there was no reason to do such a thing and look honestly a lot of times 01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:54.620 It's not so much the ingredients as it is that the prep that it goes into the meal 01:20:55.300 --> 01:20:57.400 Because we all kind of have the same ingredients. 01:20:57.400 --> 01:21:00.400 And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if it's chicken 01:21:00.400 --> 01:21:03.080 or whatever, it's like a well-cooked chicken is better 01:21:03.080 --> 01:21:05.500 than a sloppily made beef. 01:21:05.500 --> 01:21:06.840 And it's hard to say for me, okay? 01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:08.080 I'm just being honest. 01:21:08.200 --> 01:21:12.920 But I'm just saying, like, a lot of times it's just the skill and the prep that goes into it 01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:17.560 than it is necessarily just the ingredients. And often it's the same ingredients anyways. 01:21:17.560 --> 01:21:20.520 I mean, when it's bread, it's all the same ingredients for the most part. 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:25.000 But you know what makes good bread? The effort and the energy and the output. 01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:29.080 I mean, to make a croissant takes so much time, effort, and energy. 01:21:29.080 --> 01:21:33.000 It's not like the ingredients of a croissant are rich or expensive. 01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:35.400 But you know what? Making something like that is insane. 01:21:35.900 --> 01:21:38.200 And you know, if you watch videos about these kinds of stuff, 01:21:38.200 --> 01:21:42.360 good breads, good food, takes a lot of effort, a lot of energy. 01:21:42.360 --> 01:21:45.160 And you know, some people would just consign themselves and say, 01:21:45.160 --> 01:21:47.400 well, I don't have time for that. 01:21:47.400 --> 01:21:49.160 I don't have time for my family. 01:21:49.160 --> 01:21:52.720 So I'm just going to get four cans from the store 01:21:52.720 --> 01:21:56.480 and pour it into a pot and microwave it. 01:21:56.480 --> 01:21:57.680 And that's what they get to eat. 01:21:58.500 --> 01:21:59.500 I don't want to cook. 01:21:59.500 --> 01:22:04.940 I'm just going to get cans of stuff, pour it into a little microwave safe dish, maybe, 01:22:04.940 --> 01:22:09.180 if you're lucky, and I'll nuke it for a little while, stir it together, and then I'll just 01:22:09.180 --> 01:22:11.180 hand it to you. 01:22:11.180 --> 01:22:13.860 I didn't have to work too hard for it. 01:22:13.860 --> 01:22:16.200 It's like, who wants to eat slop? 01:22:16.200 --> 01:22:22.100 Just eat slop and eat porridge and eat whatever because your wife just doesn't want to work. 01:22:22.100 --> 01:22:23.980 I want to marry a five-star chef here. 01:22:23.980 --> 01:22:24.700 You know what I mean? 01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:27.000 I want a woman that's willing to work with her hands. 01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:29.080 It's not I'm not going to eat the bread of idleness 01:22:29.080 --> 01:22:30.440 because she's just too lazy. 01:22:31.320 --> 01:22:34.360 And look, in times past, there could have been some meals 01:22:34.360 --> 01:22:35.960 that you had to eat out of necessity 01:22:35.960 --> 01:22:37.880 because there's just so much going on. 01:22:37.880 --> 01:22:39.480 And the literal pioneer. 01:22:40.760 --> 01:22:43.960 But in America, you could probably make a decent meal. 01:22:44.680 --> 01:22:47.480 You'd probably have enough time to, you know, 01:22:47.480 --> 01:22:49.960 maybe take a break from your social media shopping. 01:22:50.900 --> 01:22:52.900 to make a decent meal every once in a while. 01:22:52.900 --> 01:22:54.020 And you know what? That's the virtuous woman. 01:22:54.020 --> 01:22:54.980 The virtuous woman is saying, 01:22:54.980 --> 01:22:56.580 hey, we're not going to eat slop. 01:22:56.580 --> 01:22:58.740 We're not going to eat the bread of idleness. 01:22:58.740 --> 01:23:01.380 I'm going to put some effort and energy into cooking 01:23:01.380 --> 01:23:02.740 and I'm going to make some good meals. 01:23:04.340 --> 01:23:05.860 And I'll be honest, you know, 01:23:05.860 --> 01:23:07.220 I think that the women in this church 01:23:07.220 --> 01:23:08.820 are probably making way better meals 01:23:08.820 --> 01:23:10.020 than the women outside of here. 01:23:11.500 --> 01:23:15.180 And the women outside here, they're all working at like Subway and whatever, and they're just, 01:23:15.180 --> 01:23:18.620 you know, making some goyslop for you or whatever. It's just like, hey, 01:23:19.660 --> 01:23:22.220 get some of that good organic homemade cooking. 01:23:23.300 --> 01:23:24.580 It says in verse number 31, 01:23:24.580 --> 01:23:26.420 give her the fruit of her hands 01:23:26.420 --> 01:23:27.860 and let her own works praise on the gates. 01:23:27.860 --> 01:23:30.580 Look, I mean, the Bible cannot emphasize enough 01:23:30.580 --> 01:23:32.900 that the woman that's virtuous works. 01:23:32.900 --> 01:23:34.020 She works hard. 01:23:34.020 --> 01:23:35.140 She works with her hands. 01:23:35.140 --> 01:23:37.060 She's laying her hand to the spindle. 01:23:37.060 --> 01:23:39.700 She's willingly, she's willingly working with her hands. 01:23:39.700 --> 01:23:40.540 You know what? 01:23:40.540 --> 01:23:42.340 She's not doing what I'm saying out of obligation. 01:23:42.340 --> 01:23:43.780 She wants to. 01:23:44.100 --> 01:23:48.100 She wants to make a good meal because she just wants her husband to be happy. 01:23:48.100 --> 01:23:52.100 She wants to make good meals because she just wants her kids to be strong and nutritious and healthy. 01:23:52.100 --> 01:23:55.500 She just doesn't want them to eat slop. She doesn't want them to eat trash. 01:23:55.500 --> 01:23:57.100 She actually cares. 01:23:57.100 --> 01:23:58.900 That's what a virtuous woman is. 01:23:58.900 --> 01:24:00.800 Not just everything's an obligation. 01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:03.500 She gets the opportunity to do. She's happy to. 01:24:03.500 --> 01:24:05.700 She's going and she's seeking her food from afar. 01:24:05.700 --> 01:24:07.100 That's what the Bible is bringing up. 01:24:07.400 --> 01:24:09.400 She's giving a portion to her maidens. 01:24:09.400 --> 01:24:11.000 I'm not going to read this whole thing. 01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:12.200 You could read it later. 01:24:12.200 --> 01:24:16.400 Read it if you want some more help in this particular area. 01:24:16.400 --> 01:24:17.700 But it says in verse 20, 01:24:17.700 --> 01:24:20.200 she stretched out her hand to the poor. 01:24:20.200 --> 01:24:21.700 Yay. 01:24:21.700 --> 01:24:24.200 She reached forth her hands to the needy. 01:24:24.200 --> 01:24:26.300 Notice, hey, Naomi's poor. 01:24:26.300 --> 01:24:28.300 Naomi is needy. 01:24:28.300 --> 01:24:29.600 She's helping her. 01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:31.300 Verse 15, it says, 01:24:31.300 --> 01:24:33.800 she rises also as yet night and giveth meat to her household 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:35.100 and a portion to her maidens. 01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:37.840 Well, when do this woman have time to sleep? 01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:41.840 I don't know, because the Bible just basically talks that she's just working all the time. 01:24:41.840 --> 01:24:42.840 She just works all the time. 01:24:42.840 --> 01:24:43.840 But you know what? 01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:44.840 She likes working. 01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:47.200 She's not one of these women that hates working. 01:24:47.200 --> 01:24:50.440 She loves working. 01:24:50.440 --> 01:24:56.880 She's glad that she has something to do, and she's going to work with her hands. 01:24:56.880 --> 01:25:00.040 There's a lot more that we could kind of go into, but I want to move on for the sake of 01:25:00.040 --> 01:25:01.040 time. 01:25:01.040 --> 01:25:02.640 So, point one. 01:25:02.900 --> 01:25:05.900 of the sermon was just to identify that Ruth was a virtuous woman. 01:25:05.900 --> 01:25:08.160 We talked about this. She keeps her promise, she seeks God, 01:25:08.160 --> 01:25:13.100 she's steadfast, she works willingly with her hand, she gives a portion to Naomi, 01:25:13.100 --> 01:25:14.240 and she's a virtuous woman. 01:25:14.240 --> 01:25:16.300 The second way we looked at this is through Proverbs 31, 01:25:16.300 --> 01:25:20.000 how it matches the description of a Proverbs 31 woman. 01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:22.040 Here's the third way I want to look at this, 01:25:22.040 --> 01:25:28.400 is that this story of Ruth pictures replacement theology. 01:25:28.400 --> 01:25:30.700 Now what's really interesting about the story is Naomi... 01:25:30.900 --> 01:25:32.400 pictures Israel. 01:25:32.400 --> 01:25:34.600 And now Israel leaves Israel 01:25:34.600 --> 01:25:36.700 in a time of famine, 01:25:36.700 --> 01:25:38.000 which is going to picture what 01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:39.400 the nation of Israel will do 01:25:39.400 --> 01:25:41.200 in the Babylonian captivity. 01:25:41.200 --> 01:25:42.700 How they're going to go out 01:25:42.700 --> 01:25:46.100 and then they're going to return to the land barren. 01:25:46.100 --> 01:25:48.300 But here's the thing that's interesting 01:25:48.300 --> 01:25:50.400 is that Naomi returns. 01:25:50.400 --> 01:25:52.300 She's a widow. 01:25:52.300 --> 01:25:54.300 Ruth returns as a widow. 01:25:54.300 --> 01:25:55.300 But you know what? 01:25:55.300 --> 01:25:57.100 Naomi doesn't get married. 01:25:57.700 --> 01:26:00.420 and Naomi doesn't have any more kids. 01:26:00.420 --> 01:26:02.180 She's completely barren. 01:26:02.180 --> 01:26:03.780 And then who does get married? 01:26:03.780 --> 01:26:04.620 Ruth. 01:26:04.620 --> 01:26:05.460 Why? 01:26:05.460 --> 01:26:07.440 Because this is a picture of how the Gentiles 01:26:07.440 --> 01:26:11.760 are going to end up replacing the physical nation of Israel 01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:13.900 and they're gonna become the church 01:26:13.900 --> 01:26:16.000 and they're gonna be the ones that produce the fruit. 01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:18.620 They're gonna be the ones that end up 01:26:18.620 --> 01:26:20.940 giving the new life and the new birth. 01:26:20.940 --> 01:26:23.540 And let me tell you something about the story. 01:26:23.540 --> 01:26:25.660 Naomi never gets married again. 01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:29.280 Naomi never has another child. 01:26:29.280 --> 01:26:30.280 Let me tell you something. 01:26:30.280 --> 01:26:33.040 The physical nation of Israel is done. 01:26:33.040 --> 01:26:36.920 There's not this secret wedding that happens at the end of the book. 01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:42.080 And the last minute when they see Boaz coming in the clouds or something. 01:26:42.080 --> 01:26:43.800 No, no, no. She's done. 01:26:43.800 --> 01:26:45.360 She's replaced. 01:26:45.360 --> 01:26:48.040 She's barren. She's not going to get married again. 01:26:48.040 --> 01:26:49.000 It's over. 01:26:50.500 --> 01:26:56.500 Now, here's the thing though, Ruth ends up adding to Naomi's lineage. 01:26:56.500 --> 01:27:04.820 Why? Because Ruth is grafted into that family, and now Ruth is going to add to the lineage of Naomi 01:27:04.820 --> 01:27:11.620 in the same way that we as Christians, Gentiles coming into the nation of Israel spiritually, 01:27:11.620 --> 01:27:17.300 we're the ones that give birth to the new Israelites and the new people that are being brought into the vine. 01:27:18.600 --> 01:27:22.900 Now in Ruth chapter 2, you go back to Ruth because we'll look at a few verses there, just a few. 01:27:22.900 --> 01:27:27.900 But here's the thing, how did Ruth end up getting added into this lineage? 01:27:27.900 --> 01:27:29.600 Well, the Bible tells us in verse 2, 01:27:29.600 --> 01:27:31.400 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, 01:27:31.400 --> 01:27:37.200 Let me go to the field and glean years of corn after him, in whose sight I shall find grace. 01:27:38.600 --> 01:27:41.400 Why was Ruth added in? Because of grace. 01:27:41.400 --> 01:27:45.240 Why are Gentiles added in? Because of grace. 01:27:45.240 --> 01:27:50.120 We found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and we're saved by grace, not by works. 01:27:50.120 --> 01:27:52.440 And of course, she's a hard worker. 01:27:52.600 --> 01:27:56.000 And she's seeking to work, but what was her justification? 01:27:56.000 --> 01:27:57.100 It was by grace. 01:27:57.100 --> 01:27:59.800 Why did she happen to be in the right field at the right time? 01:27:59.800 --> 01:28:00.900 Because of grace. 01:28:00.900 --> 01:28:02.300 Why did we get saved? 01:28:02.300 --> 01:28:04.700 We got saved because of grace. 01:28:04.700 --> 01:28:07.000 And then, of course, Ruth ends up marrying Boaz, 01:28:07.000 --> 01:28:09.700 which is a picture of how we become the bride of Christ. 01:28:10.600 --> 01:28:12.600 Not only this, in verse number 12, 01:28:12.600 --> 01:28:13.100 it says, 01:28:19.400 --> 01:28:25.080 to trust. We trusted in Christ. We got married in a spiritual sense. We became the bride of Christ 01:28:25.080 --> 01:28:30.120 in a sense. But not only that, because we've trusted in Christ and we work for him, we get 01:28:30.120 --> 01:28:35.880 rewarded for the works that we do. Just like Ruth gets rewarded, we get rewarded. Verse 16, 01:28:35.880 --> 01:28:41.320 and let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her and leave them that she may glean them 01:28:41.320 --> 01:28:45.320 and rebuke or not. Not only this, Boaz made it easy for Ruth. 01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:50.600 And Jesus Christ, the Bible says that His yoke is easy and His burden is light. 01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:54.440 Serving Jesus is easier than serving the world. 01:28:54.440 --> 01:28:58.680 If she had gone back to Moab, her life would have been hard and full of bondage. 01:28:58.680 --> 01:29:01.000 But you know what? When she serves Jesus, it's easy. 01:29:01.000 --> 01:29:03.320 Now there's the thing, she still worked. 01:29:03.320 --> 01:29:06.440 She still had to glean. She still had to do something. 01:29:06.440 --> 01:29:11.320 But you know what? Jesus made it easier on her than if she had done the work on her own. 01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:17.440 And let me tell you something, serving Jesus is easier than serving the flesh and serving the world. 01:29:17.440 --> 01:29:21.400 Oh, driving to church and reading my Bible and going soul hunting is hard. 01:29:21.400 --> 01:29:23.600 No, no, it's easy. 01:29:23.600 --> 01:29:25.040 You know what's not easy? 01:29:25.040 --> 01:29:27.360 Getting out of church. 01:29:27.360 --> 01:29:30.360 You don't understand how difficult your life will become, 01:29:30.360 --> 01:29:34.320 walking away from the things of God and serving your flesh and being selfish. 01:29:34.320 --> 01:29:36.840 Serving God is easy. 01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:38.000 Your burden is light. 01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:39.000 You just don't realize it. 01:29:40.100 --> 01:29:44.180 Don't ever forget that. Walk by faith, not by sight. 01:29:44.180 --> 01:29:47.380 Just believe and understand that your yoke is easy. 01:29:47.380 --> 01:29:51.140 Look at chapter 3 verse 15. Chapter 3 verse 15. 01:29:51.140 --> 01:29:55.700 When she asked to be married, Boaz doesn't want to 01:29:55.700 --> 01:29:57.700 let anybody know about this arrangement. 01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:00.700 And so he says something here in verse 15 says, and he said, 01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:04.000 bring the veil that thou hast upon thee and hold it. 01:30:04.100 --> 01:30:06.500 And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley 01:30:06.600 --> 01:30:09.000 and laid it on her, and she went into the city. 01:30:09.100 --> 01:30:11.200 So it's not revealed immediately. 01:30:11.300 --> 01:30:15.700 And this is again, the Gentiles replacing them is not revealed immediately. 01:30:15.700 --> 01:30:22.100 And there's a veil and that veil is hidden to the nation of Israel 01:30:22.100 --> 01:30:26.000 until it's revealed in the New Testament and revealed in Christ. 01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:29.900 So in the same way that she has this veil and it takes some time, 01:30:29.900 --> 01:30:33.300 it's the same way that it's going to take some time until this is revealed 01:30:33.300 --> 01:30:36.700 that the Gentiles are going to come in and the Gentiles are going to be redeemed. 01:30:36.700 --> 01:30:39.200 This is the mystery that the New Testament... 01:30:39.300 --> 01:30:42.700 refers to how there was a mystery of the Gentiles coming in. 01:30:42.700 --> 01:30:45.500 There was a mystery of the heathen being justified by faith. 01:30:45.500 --> 01:30:49.700 There was this mystery of the bride of Christ and that's what we are. 01:30:49.700 --> 01:30:54.000 But it is eventually revealed, but it was a period of time where it was veiled. 01:30:54.000 --> 01:30:55.600 There was a period of time where it was hidden. 01:30:55.600 --> 01:31:00.500 There was a period of time where it wasn't as known to the nation of Israel. 01:31:00.500 --> 01:31:03.500 Ruth 4 verse 6 also says... 01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:06.800 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, 01:31:06.800 --> 01:31:10.720 lest I mar my own inheritance, redeem thou my right to thyself, 01:31:10.720 --> 01:31:11.680 for I cannot redeem it. 01:31:11.680 --> 01:31:13.840 Now they're trying to follow the Old Testament law 01:31:13.840 --> 01:31:15.920 and order a redeemer, but they can't. 01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:17.120 And it's a picture of what? 01:31:17.120 --> 01:31:18.720 That you cannot be saved by the law. 01:31:19.280 --> 01:31:22.320 That the law can't redeem you, even though it's closer, 01:31:22.320 --> 01:31:25.760 even though it's the first, the first testament, 01:31:25.760 --> 01:31:28.160 the first covenant cannot redeem you. 01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:32.400 Only the second covenant, the New Testament, can redeem you. 01:31:32.400 --> 01:31:37.000 And that's what Boaz pictures, is how he's going to redeem Ruth 01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:39.100 because she can't be redeemed by the law. 01:31:39.100 --> 01:31:42.800 She has redeemed by grace, and that is through Boaz. 01:31:42.800 --> 01:31:44.400 Now here's the thing. 01:31:44.400 --> 01:31:48.900 According to the law, if the guy won't raise up seed under 01:31:48.900 --> 01:31:50.300 and he plucks off the shoe, 01:31:50.300 --> 01:31:53.900 it never mentions how the second guy is in trouble or it fall or has to. 01:31:54.100 --> 01:31:57.780 He just decides to do it anyways because it's a picture of grace. 01:31:57.780 --> 01:32:02.580 The second guy wasn't obligated. The second guy chose to in the same way that Jesus Christ 01:32:02.580 --> 01:32:07.620 willingly chose to die on the cross for all of our sins and to redeem us when he didn't have to. 01:32:07.620 --> 01:32:12.580 While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He did not have to redeem us but rather chose to 01:32:12.580 --> 01:32:18.500 redeem us and he was willing to die for us even though we are sinners and we don't deserve it. 01:32:18.500 --> 01:32:21.860 Number 10, verse 10, I'm sorry, not number 10 but verse 10. 01:32:22.100 --> 01:32:24.660 Moreover, Ruth the Moabite is the wife of Malon. 01:32:24.660 --> 01:32:26.980 Have I purchased to be my wife? 01:32:26.980 --> 01:32:31.140 We were purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. 01:32:31.140 --> 01:32:34.260 And then lastly, Naomi gets to hold that baby 01:32:34.260 --> 01:32:36.740 and she gives nurse unto it, whatever that means, I don't know. 01:32:36.740 --> 01:32:41.620 And I don't know how that works, but don't try this at home. 01:32:41.620 --> 01:32:42.260 I don't know. 01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:46.300 But here's the thing, Naomi gets to have this child, 01:32:46.300 --> 01:32:48.680 and it continues her lineage in the same way that, 01:32:48.680 --> 01:32:51.840 hey, the lineage of Israel didn't stop. 01:32:51.840 --> 01:32:53.840 God didn't cast away his people. 01:32:55.000 --> 01:33:00.000 It's just what? That the Gentiles are the ones that are being grafted in and they're producing the new lineage 01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:04.000 and so there's no Jew or Gentile. Now we're all one in Christ Jesus 01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:10.000 and so he's made Ruth the same as Naomi. They're both in the same lineage and they're both Israel 01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:14.700 and the lineage is continued through Ruth, not through Naomi. 01:33:14.800 --> 01:33:16.560 and the children are continuing in this way. 01:33:16.560 --> 01:33:18.800 In the same way that Israel has continued, 01:33:18.800 --> 01:33:19.920 Israel didn't stop. 01:33:19.920 --> 01:33:23.120 Israel just continued through the spiritual picture of the church, 01:33:23.120 --> 01:33:25.200 and the church is carrying up that lineage, 01:33:25.200 --> 01:33:27.200 and the church is the one bringing in the fruit. 01:33:27.200 --> 01:33:30.560 And of course, the nation was taken away from them 01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:32.560 because they weren't bringing forth the fruit. 01:33:32.700 --> 01:33:36.500 He said, Hey, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given unto a nation bringing 01:33:36.500 --> 01:33:37.940 forth the fruits thereof. 01:33:37.940 --> 01:33:41.180 The kingdom of God, meaning the gospel, getting people saved was taken from the physical nation 01:33:41.180 --> 01:33:43.520 of Israel and was given to the church. 01:33:43.520 --> 01:33:47.520 And we are the ones that preach the gospel and preach the kingdom of God. 01:33:47.520 --> 01:33:49.600 And we're the ones bringing forth the fruit. 01:33:49.600 --> 01:33:51.820 The physical nation of Israel brings forth no fruit. 01:33:51.820 --> 01:33:53.020 It's barren. 01:33:53.020 --> 01:33:57.120 It has nothing to do with God anymore whatsoever. 01:33:57.120 --> 01:33:58.860 What a great, what a great story in the Bible. 01:34:00.300 --> 01:34:06.900 Ruth is, and here's the thing, Ruth is virtuous because she was redeemed by Boaz and found grace. 01:34:06.900 --> 01:34:11.000 And why are we virtuous? Because we were redeemed by Jesus Christ. 01:34:11.000 --> 01:34:13.500 And we're redeemed and we're saved by Christ. 01:34:13.500 --> 01:34:17.600 You know, but at the same time Ruth obviously works hard and seeks the Lord. 01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:22.800 Now I want to go to a couple more places. Go to 1st Timothy chapter 5, go to 1st Timothy chapter 5. 01:34:22.800 --> 01:34:27.700 Why was Ruth also virtuous? And this is an important point. Why was Ruth virtuous? 01:34:28.100 --> 01:34:31.100 Ruth was virtuous because she remarried. 01:34:31.100 --> 01:34:32.100 Okay? 01:34:32.100 --> 01:34:34.100 That's why she was virtuous. 01:34:34.100 --> 01:34:36.100 And why are we virtuous? 01:34:36.100 --> 01:34:38.100 Because we were born again. 01:34:38.100 --> 01:34:41.100 Because we got saved by believing in Jesus Christ. 01:34:41.100 --> 01:34:43.100 That's what makes us virtuous. 01:34:43.100 --> 01:34:44.100 What's the opposite? 01:34:44.100 --> 01:34:45.100 Not getting married. 01:34:45.400 --> 01:34:48.400 and just living for the lust of this flesh and the lust of this world, 01:34:48.400 --> 01:34:50.400 and you're going to do wicked carnal things. 01:34:50.400 --> 01:34:52.400 This is the same picture of a widow. 01:34:52.400 --> 01:34:54.900 A widow is supposed to get remarried, and if she doesn't, 01:34:54.900 --> 01:34:57.400 the Bible says that she's going to be wicked, okay? 01:34:57.400 --> 01:35:00.400 It says in 1st Timothy chapter number 5, look at verse number 11. 01:35:02.400 --> 01:35:03.400 And it even says, 01:35:03.400 --> 01:35:05.400 She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. 01:35:06.400 --> 01:35:07.200 But... 01:35:07.200 --> 01:35:08.480 I want to start in verse number 11, 01:35:08.480 --> 01:35:10.200 but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to 01:35:10.200 --> 01:35:13.560 act wanton against Christ, they will marry, 01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:15.800 having damnation because they have cast off their first faith 01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:16.880 and with all they learn to be idle, 01:35:16.880 --> 01:35:19.160 wandering about from house to house and not only idle, 01:35:19.160 --> 01:35:20.720 but tattlers also in busy bodies, 01:35:20.720 --> 01:35:22.120 speaking things which they ought not. 01:35:22.120 --> 01:35:23.880 I will therefore the younger women marry, 01:35:23.880 --> 01:35:25.240 bear children, guide the house, 01:35:25.240 --> 01:35:27.840 give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. 01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:31.840 For some are already turned aside after Satan. 01:35:32.200 --> 01:35:36.200 So the Bible is saying like a woman that got married and loses her husband, 01:35:36.200 --> 01:35:39.700 you know, God forbid that would happen to a lady, but she should seek her marriage. 01:35:39.700 --> 01:35:43.700 And if she doesn't, she's going to end up causing herself to do a lot of problems. 01:35:43.700 --> 01:35:48.200 It's saying like a woman that's young cannot just serve God, 01:35:48.200 --> 01:35:51.200 getting free money and just, that's going to last. 01:35:51.200 --> 01:35:53.200 She's just not going to do it. 01:35:53.200 --> 01:35:57.700 So she might as well just get another husband and keep fulfilling her role in life 01:35:57.700 --> 01:35:59.700 of being a wife and being a mother. 01:35:59.700 --> 01:36:02.100 Look at 1 Timothy 2 verse number 11. 01:36:02.100 --> 01:36:04.500 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection, 01:36:04.500 --> 01:36:06.900 but I suffer not a woman to teach nor reserve authority over the man, 01:36:06.900 --> 01:36:08.900 but to be in silence for Adam was first formed, then Eve, 01:36:08.900 --> 01:36:11.800 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 01:36:11.800 --> 01:36:14.400 Notwithstanding, she shall be saved and childbearing, 01:36:14.400 --> 01:36:16.900 if they continue in faith and charity and holiness and sobriety. 01:36:16.900 --> 01:36:19.700 So the Bible is basically picturing this idea that, hey, 01:36:19.700 --> 01:36:21.400 the woman is saved and childbearing. 01:36:21.400 --> 01:36:22.600 And what way is she saved? 01:36:22.600 --> 01:36:24.000 She's saved from... 01:36:24.200 --> 01:36:27.800 being idle. She's saved from not having anything to do, 01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:31.400 and when she's idle she's going to become a busybody and a gossip 01:36:31.400 --> 01:36:34.400 and just getting involved in matters that don't belong under her 01:36:34.400 --> 01:36:37.400 and just cause all kinds of problems and being literally 01:36:37.400 --> 01:36:42.900 after Satan. Now what's funny is the Bible describes a satanic woman 01:36:42.900 --> 01:36:46.500 as one that's a busybody and a gossip and a tattler 01:36:46.500 --> 01:36:49.100 and getting involved in matters that doesn't belong to her. 01:36:49.500 --> 01:36:50.620 That's what the Bible is saying. 01:36:50.620 --> 01:36:52.860 The most satanic women in the world 01:36:52.860 --> 01:36:56.460 are ones that are busybodies and gossips and tattlers. 01:36:56.460 --> 01:36:59.340 That's what the Bible teaches, whether you like it or not. 01:36:59.340 --> 01:37:01.900 And so you say like, what does the most satanic woman 01:37:01.900 --> 01:37:03.100 look like in this world? 01:37:03.100 --> 01:37:05.740 It's one that's perpetually online, 01:37:05.740 --> 01:37:10.220 gossiping and slandering and lying and making false accusation. 01:37:10.220 --> 01:37:14.300 That is what is the epitome of the most satanic woman. 01:37:16.200 --> 01:37:18.500 Okay, one that's plucking down her own house. 01:37:18.500 --> 01:37:21.700 Obviously, the Bible talks about Jezebel and other wicked things, 01:37:21.700 --> 01:37:24.000 but it's saying women are going after Satan. 01:37:24.000 --> 01:37:28.300 In a saved context, the most wicked women are the ones that are these busybodies, 01:37:28.300 --> 01:37:33.300 slandering, lying, railing, just women have nothing to do. 01:37:33.300 --> 01:37:36.900 And look, when you have nothing to do, you get yourselves into trouble. 01:37:36.900 --> 01:37:38.500 Look at 1st Timothy 4 verse 7, 01:37:38.500 --> 01:37:42.180 but refuse profane in old wives' fables. 01:37:42.600 --> 01:37:46.300 Why didn't it say old husbands' fables? 01:37:46.300 --> 01:37:49.900 I'm noticing a pattern that women seem to struggle in a certain area. 01:37:49.900 --> 01:37:52.200 They make stories up. 01:37:52.200 --> 01:37:54.000 They make things up. 01:37:54.000 --> 01:37:55.100 They lie. 01:37:55.100 --> 01:37:57.900 Look at Titus chapter number 2 verse 3. 01:37:57.900 --> 01:38:01.000 Just flip the page to the right, Titus chapter 2 verse 3. 01:38:02.200 --> 01:38:05.800 the aged women likewise, that they be in behavior 01:38:05.800 --> 01:38:09.080 as we come with holiness, not false accusers. 01:38:09.080 --> 01:38:10.840 Why is the first thing brought up? 01:38:10.840 --> 01:38:13.720 Why is the first behavior not being a false accuser? 01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:16.280 Go back to 1st Timothy chapter number three. 01:38:16.920 --> 01:38:18.440 You thought we were almost had all these verses. 01:38:18.440 --> 01:38:20.120 There's so many verses here. 01:38:20.500 --> 01:38:22.900 It's saying, hey, these women are busybodies. 01:38:22.900 --> 01:38:24.300 They're going after Satan. 01:38:24.300 --> 01:38:26.500 They're supposed to be saved in childbearing. 01:38:26.500 --> 01:38:27.700 Not doing this. 01:38:27.700 --> 01:38:29.400 There's old wives' fables. 01:38:29.400 --> 01:38:31.300 They should not be false accusers. 01:38:31.300 --> 01:38:34.800 Then we bring up the deacon in 1 Timothy chapter number 3. 01:38:34.800 --> 01:38:37.500 What does the Bible say about the deacon's wives? 01:38:37.500 --> 01:38:39.300 It says, verse 11, 01:38:39.300 --> 01:38:42.540 even so, meaning specifically... 01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:45.700 must there wise be grave, meaning serious, 01:38:45.700 --> 01:38:50.400 not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 01:38:50.400 --> 01:38:52.500 Why bring this up? 01:38:52.500 --> 01:38:57.300 You know, why is it not bringing up being a slanderer for the man? 01:38:57.300 --> 01:38:59.000 It's not that men can't slander. 01:38:59.000 --> 01:39:00.500 It's not that men can't rail. 01:39:00.500 --> 01:39:02.000 It's not that men can't be busybodies. 01:39:02.000 --> 01:39:04.900 It's just this is like the number one temptation for women. 01:39:04.900 --> 01:39:06.400 This is the most common thing. 01:39:06.400 --> 01:39:08.400 And the Bible almost guarantees it. 01:39:08.400 --> 01:39:10.600 It says that if they don't get married, 01:39:10.900 --> 01:39:15.700 then they're just gonna be a busybody and getting into gossip and getting into lies. 01:39:15.700 --> 01:39:22.500 And look, there is nothing stopping any woman in this church from not being busy and becoming a busybody. 01:39:23.100 --> 01:39:29.100 There's nothing stopping any godly woman from going off course and getting involved in gossip 01:39:29.100 --> 01:39:35.460 and tale bearing and lies and false accusing and evil surmising and all this wicked stuff. 01:39:35.460 --> 01:39:37.580 And the Bible is saying, hey, you want to be a virtuous woman? 01:39:37.580 --> 01:39:39.300 Why don't you work with your hands? 01:39:41.200 --> 01:39:45.760 What did Ruth not do? She didn't go around telling stories and making up fables 01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:48.640 and going around slandering and lying and accusing people. 01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:51.440 You know, the Bible says a tale bearer reveals secrets, 01:39:51.440 --> 01:39:53.520 but he that is of a faithful spirit can seal the matter. 01:39:54.800 --> 01:39:58.320 You know, people that have something to do are not going to be involved in all this 01:39:58.320 --> 01:40:03.360 gossip and busybody railing and whatever. But you know what? There are women out there 01:40:03.360 --> 01:40:04.960 that are in danger of becoming this. 01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:09.600 And of course, the more kids you have, the less time you got for this. 01:40:09.600 --> 01:40:12.960 The least number of kids you have, the more likely you're getting to this. 01:40:12.960 --> 01:40:16.480 So, hey, all your kids are raised, you need to stay away from gossip. 01:40:17.120 --> 01:40:20.000 You don't have any kids yet, you need to stay away from gossip. 01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:23.280 Because the chances of you getting involved in this are super high. 01:40:23.700 --> 01:40:24.940 are very likely. 01:40:24.940 --> 01:40:26.980 And as a husband, you need to help guide your wife 01:40:26.980 --> 01:40:29.700 and lead her and gently instruct her 01:40:29.700 --> 01:40:32.180 to not get involved in this nonsense. 01:40:32.180 --> 01:40:33.780 You don't allow your wife to gently lead you, 01:40:33.780 --> 01:40:35.940 you gently lead your wife. 01:40:35.940 --> 01:40:37.860 And you keep her away from gossip and slander 01:40:37.860 --> 01:40:39.620 and lies and fables and stories. 01:40:39.620 --> 01:40:42.780 And isn't it funny that the people that have nothing to do 01:40:42.780 --> 01:40:44.780 always get involved in this stuff? 01:40:44.780 --> 01:40:45.860 I'm sorry, I'm not even done, 01:40:45.860 --> 01:40:48.900 so just buckle in a little bit more, okay? 01:40:48.900 --> 01:40:50.420 Go over to 2 Peter chapter two. 01:40:50.900 --> 01:40:52.940 It's almost like spiritually too, right? 01:40:52.940 --> 01:40:55.740 Pastors that don't have much of a congregation 01:40:55.740 --> 01:40:57.540 and have tiny churches, 01:40:57.540 --> 01:41:01.180 they get involved in the same things that these women do? 01:41:01.180 --> 01:41:03.260 And so, and they're not giving birth, 01:41:03.260 --> 01:41:04.860 because what is a pastor supposed to be doing? 01:41:04.860 --> 01:41:07.060 The work of an evangelist. 01:41:07.060 --> 01:41:10.860 The Bible commands pastors to do the work of an evangelist! 01:41:11.600 --> 01:41:16.100 What is that? Childbirth. Constantly producing. Constantly getting people saved. 01:41:16.100 --> 01:41:26.600 But when you're not producing, when you're not doing what God said, then you get involved in busybody, gossip, railing, slander, lies, fables, and it's kind of like a feminine quality. 01:41:26.600 --> 01:41:35.100 Men that are involved in so much gossip, slander, and evil surmising have feminine qualities, and they're being effeminate, and at the end of the day, it's after Satan. 01:41:35.400 --> 01:41:40.440 And of course, probably the worst person, you know, that I can think of involved in this is Tommy McMurtry. 01:41:40.440 --> 01:41:41.560 That's right. 01:41:41.560 --> 01:41:44.040 A guy constantly never involved in evangelism. 01:41:44.040 --> 01:41:44.840 Right. 01:41:44.840 --> 01:41:48.280 I mean, show me the last major soul-winning marathon this guy hosted. 01:41:48.280 --> 01:41:49.160 Right. 01:41:49.160 --> 01:41:53.320 Show me the last video he uploaded of him doing soul-winning, going on a missions trip. 01:41:53.320 --> 01:41:59.160 His last missions trip was to Israel to go find Temple Zero. 01:42:00.200 --> 01:42:03.400 where Satan and God met in his mind, okay? 01:42:04.400 --> 01:42:05.800 And he wants to go back. 01:42:06.400 --> 01:42:09.000 Think about it, we're, like, we're trying to go back to the Bahamas, 01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:10.200 we're trying to go to the Philippines. 01:42:10.200 --> 01:42:11.900 This guy wants to go to Israel! 01:42:12.300 --> 01:42:14.600 And even being worse than the old FBI, 01:42:14.600 --> 01:42:16.600 he is not even gonna try and get them saved! 01:42:17.700 --> 01:42:19.500 He just wants to make more movies, 01:42:19.700 --> 01:42:21.300 to just make more lies up! 01:42:21.800 --> 01:42:24.400 and more gossip and more evil surmisings. 01:42:24.400 --> 01:42:26.500 And of course, you know, when you don't have many church members, 01:42:26.500 --> 01:42:31.500 I guess you just sit, you know, and just dream up what you can all day long about other people. 01:42:31.500 --> 01:42:34.800 And look, why do women, you know, lie and gossip and slander? 01:42:34.800 --> 01:42:37.900 And, you know, let's just think about some of these things. 01:42:37.900 --> 01:42:42.300 I think one of the motivations, not the only, one of the motivations is a lady, 01:42:42.300 --> 01:42:46.300 you know, maybe she wants to be friends with someone. 01:42:46.300 --> 01:42:49.100 And she sees like, hey, I'm not friends with this person. 01:42:49.400 --> 01:42:51.880 but this other person is a friend with them. 01:42:51.880 --> 01:42:54.240 And instead of just being a good person 01:42:54.240 --> 01:42:56.640 or like trying to become their friend sincerely, 01:42:56.640 --> 01:42:59.680 they just end up slandering and lying 01:42:59.680 --> 01:43:02.360 and gossiping about this person to make them look bad, 01:43:02.360 --> 01:43:04.680 so that then they'll stop being their friend 01:43:04.680 --> 01:43:06.960 and I guess you're just second place. 01:43:06.960 --> 01:43:09.200 Because you don't want to become a first place friend, 01:43:09.200 --> 01:43:11.120 you're just willing to be a second place friend 01:43:11.120 --> 01:43:13.520 as long as you can trash first place enough. 01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:19.500 And it's like, hey, I guess Tommy McMurtry isn't willing to be a first place church that's against Zionism. 01:43:19.500 --> 01:43:22.200 So he has to slander all the competition. 01:43:22.200 --> 01:43:27.400 He has to lie about Pastor Mejia and other people to try and tear them down 01:43:27.400 --> 01:43:33.000 so that anybody that's woken up on this anti-Zionist agenda will think like, well, I guess he's second place. 01:43:33.000 --> 01:43:36.200 And look, this isn't just like speculation. 01:43:36.200 --> 01:43:40.500 I mean, there are people that used to be a member of my church that are now members of his church. 01:43:41.800 --> 01:43:46.360 Why? Because the guy can't actually get someone's aid and brought into his church or reach people's 01:43:46.360 --> 01:43:51.320 own. He has to try and reach from our congregation. He has to reach from inside the new IAB. 01:43:51.320 --> 01:43:55.920 So he has to just tear down the new IAB and lie about the new IAB and trash the new IAB 01:43:55.920 --> 01:43:59.080 and hopes that he can draw away disciples after himself. 01:44:00.100 --> 01:44:01.980 And again, this is what women will do. 01:44:01.980 --> 01:44:06.520 Women will lie and gossip and slander about people, tear them down so they can take their 01:44:06.520 --> 01:44:10.660 place, so they can elevate themselves, rather than just being a good person. 01:44:10.660 --> 01:44:11.660 Okay? 01:44:11.660 --> 01:44:16.300 And look, I want to make a few things clear, because you know, Tom Rick Mercher's making 01:44:16.300 --> 01:44:20.620 these like multiple hit piece films with Paul Wittenberger against my friend Pastor Steven 01:44:20.620 --> 01:44:25.660 Anderson, not for any good reason, but simply just to tear other people down to elevate 01:44:25.660 --> 01:44:26.060 themselves. 01:44:27.300 --> 01:44:29.300 I mean, the whole goal, they keep saying it. 01:44:29.300 --> 01:44:30.700 They keep saying their agenda. 01:44:30.700 --> 01:44:33.680 Paul made Pastor Anderson famous. 01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:37.340 Oh, Pastor Anderson's famous because of Paul. 01:44:37.340 --> 01:44:38.180 Oh. 01:44:38.180 --> 01:44:40.120 So why is it that McMurtry keeps teaming up with him? 01:44:40.120 --> 01:44:43.380 Because he thinks that he can actually make him famous. 01:44:43.380 --> 01:44:46.660 Sorry, the coffee enema crowd is not interested. 01:44:46.660 --> 01:44:48.260 It doesn't even exist, OK? 01:44:49.700 --> 01:44:52.540 You're not going to get famous by Paul Wittenberger. 01:44:52.540 --> 01:44:58.340 Pastor Anderson was famous before Paul Wittenberger ever thought about joining his church, okay? 01:44:58.340 --> 01:45:02.500 But look, you know, obviously with Pastor Anderson there was a drama a few years ago, 01:45:02.500 --> 01:45:05.380 and look, I want to make a few things clear. 01:45:05.380 --> 01:45:11.980 There's nothing wrong with a public figure talking about things that are public about a public figure, okay? 01:45:11.980 --> 01:45:14.660 I'm not trying to cover anything up, I'm not trying to hide anything. 01:45:14.660 --> 01:45:16.780 You know, if, if Toner and Merchantry... 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:21.800 wants to say his piece and just say, hey, four of Pastor Anderson's kids came out and made a bunch 01:45:21.800 --> 01:45:25.800 of accusations against him and said a bunch of horrible things about him. That's okay, you can do that. 01:45:26.760 --> 01:45:32.360 That's that there's a place for that. But you know what, making a movie about it and putting it in the 01:45:32.360 --> 01:45:36.440 darkest light possible and trying to make money off of it. 01:45:36.900 --> 01:45:39.940 is not just being genuinely concerned for people 01:45:39.940 --> 01:45:44.740 or sharing public information as a result of concern. 01:45:44.740 --> 01:45:47.660 Right, me bringing up that Greg Locke ran up with the secretary. 01:45:47.800 --> 01:45:50.680 and is now committed adultery, 01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:54.560 that's not me trying to slander, lie, or tale bear, 01:45:54.560 --> 01:45:57.640 that's me trying to warn against this guy's actions, 01:45:57.640 --> 01:45:59.040 and that can be legitimate. 01:45:59.040 --> 01:46:00.960 You know, I'm not sitting here evil-surmising 01:46:00.960 --> 01:46:01.840 about everything that happened, 01:46:01.840 --> 01:46:03.520 I'm just saying, this is facts. 01:46:03.520 --> 01:46:05.600 He left his wife, he's with the secretary. 01:46:05.600 --> 01:46:07.520 If McMurtry or these crowd wanted to say, 01:46:07.520 --> 01:46:09.920 fact, the four oldest kids made these accusations, 01:46:09.920 --> 01:46:12.960 you can say that, but that's not what they're doing. 01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:15.520 And again, when it's not a public figure, 01:46:15.900 --> 01:46:17.900 You should just leave their past alone. 01:46:17.900 --> 01:46:21.180 If someone's repented of a sin or is moved on, 01:46:21.180 --> 01:46:23.900 don't bring up their past. Don't tell other people. 01:46:23.900 --> 01:46:25.740 You don't need to share that information. 01:46:25.740 --> 01:46:29.260 That's evil. That's wicked. That's going after Satan. 01:46:29.260 --> 01:46:33.980 If it's a public figure, I get that sharing public information about them 01:46:33.980 --> 01:46:36.540 and specific circumstances has its place. 01:46:36.540 --> 01:46:38.860 But let's think about what's not right. 01:46:38.860 --> 01:46:40.940 Shading everything in the darkest light possible. 01:46:41.900 --> 01:46:43.580 Telling people that don't need to know. 01:46:44.200 --> 01:46:47.800 It's like, I'm never going to go to pastors in this church and I want nothing to do with them. 01:46:47.800 --> 01:46:49.400 They don't need to know then. 01:46:49.400 --> 01:46:50.200 Why would they need to know? 01:46:50.200 --> 01:46:52.900 Obviously, if someone came up to me and said, hey, I'm moving to this church. 01:46:52.900 --> 01:46:54.100 Do you know anything about this person? 01:46:54.100 --> 01:46:55.500 They bring up facts about them. 01:46:55.500 --> 01:46:57.300 That's always going to be OK. 01:46:57.300 --> 01:47:00.000 But you don't need to tell people that don't need to know. 01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:01.800 Hey, I'm going to tell you about this pastor. 01:47:01.800 --> 01:47:03.200 You're never going to go to the church. 01:47:03.200 --> 01:47:04.600 You don't know anything about them. 01:47:04.600 --> 01:47:05.400 That's wrong. 01:47:06.400 --> 01:47:12.200 It makes no sense. Why would you bring up stuff about a pastor when it's just like they're not interested, have nothing to do with them. 01:47:12.200 --> 01:47:17.200 You just bring up information just to shame them or make them look bad or something. That's wicked. 01:47:17.200 --> 01:47:20.900 You know, or trying to garner more juicy details about it. 01:47:20.900 --> 01:47:23.100 It's like, why are they talking to the kids and everything? 01:47:23.100 --> 01:47:25.700 Well, we just want to find out every little juicy detail. 01:47:25.700 --> 01:47:27.400 This is wicked. 01:47:27.400 --> 01:47:30.700 Not sticking to the facts, heavy editorializing. 01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:32.500 Of course, they're not just going to tell you the facts. 01:47:32.500 --> 01:47:35.700 They're going to tell you like they're evil surmising all about it, right? 01:47:35.700 --> 01:47:40.400 What does it say in 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 2? 01:47:40.400 --> 01:47:40.700 It says, 01:47:40.700 --> 01:47:45.100 And many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil and spoke of. 01:47:45.100 --> 01:47:47.000 Here's a problem. 01:47:47.000 --> 01:47:48.200 There are false prophets out there. 01:47:48.200 --> 01:47:49.300 I get it. 01:47:49.300 --> 01:47:52.000 But then there's what people do is they'll take a false prophet. 01:47:52.000 --> 01:47:53.300 They'll show how they're bad. 01:47:53.300 --> 01:47:55.700 And then they make the truth bad with it. 01:47:56.100 --> 01:47:58.660 They'll say, oh, look at this bad pastor. 01:47:58.660 --> 01:48:00.420 Baptists are bad. 01:48:00.420 --> 01:48:02.240 King James only is bad. 01:48:02.240 --> 01:48:03.900 Soul winning is bad. 01:48:03.900 --> 01:48:06.400 Being against the pre-trib rapture is bad. 01:48:06.600 --> 01:48:09.800 Oh, I told you, you know, Christ isn't a wife beater. 01:48:09.800 --> 01:48:10.800 Amen. 01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:14.000 You know, these post trippers are going to be wife beaters or something. 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:20.520 It's just evil surmising, like trying to make good doctrine sound bad with their evil surmising. 01:48:20.520 --> 01:48:22.820 There's this guy named Eric something. 01:48:22.820 --> 01:48:24.720 He's like got this preacher boys podcast. 01:48:24.720 --> 01:48:27.740 He just hates Christianity, hates Baptist, hates the Bible. 01:48:27.740 --> 01:48:32.960 So he just tries to take really bad people and then it tries to lump in good things and 01:48:32.960 --> 01:48:34.560 good doctrine with it and make them all sound. 01:48:34.600 --> 01:48:36.600 And look, Tom and Richard do the same thing. 01:48:36.600 --> 01:48:40.720 He can't stop talking trash on just Baptist in general. 01:48:40.720 --> 01:48:42.680 He says you can never trust a Baptist 01:48:42.680 --> 01:48:46.320 when talking about someone that has a different viewpoint. 01:48:46.320 --> 01:48:48.920 And I'm like, what, you can't trust church now? 01:48:48.920 --> 01:48:50.360 You can't trust a Baptist church? 01:48:50.360 --> 01:48:51.680 Aren't you a Baptist? 01:48:51.680 --> 01:48:52.600 Isn't it ironic? 01:48:52.600 --> 01:48:54.960 You can't trust a Baptist when he's talking about someone 01:48:54.960 --> 01:48:55.800 he doesn't like. 01:48:55.800 --> 01:48:58.080 Do you like Pastor Anderson? 01:48:58.080 --> 01:48:58.920 Are you a Baptist? 01:48:58.920 --> 01:48:59.920 Can I trust anything you say? 01:48:59.920 --> 01:49:00.600 No. 01:49:02.900 --> 01:49:12.260 And look, when you are soliciting money to warn about somebody, you've already failed. 01:49:12.260 --> 01:49:15.980 Please give me money to tell you about this guy being bad. 01:49:15.980 --> 01:49:16.980 Wrong. 01:49:16.980 --> 01:49:17.980 False. 01:49:17.980 --> 01:49:21.700 You can already tell the motive there. 01:49:21.700 --> 01:49:24.420 When you're not famous, when you don't have a platform, 01:49:25.100 --> 01:49:27.860 And so you're not giving a broad warning signal. 01:49:27.860 --> 01:49:30.580 You're trying to use this information to become famous 01:49:30.580 --> 01:49:33.660 and to get a platform also wicked. 01:49:33.660 --> 01:49:34.660 Yep. 01:49:34.660 --> 01:49:37.300 You're trying to garner attention through these means 01:49:37.300 --> 01:49:39.780 as opposed to just genuinely concerned about someone. 01:49:41.200 --> 01:49:44.200 Hey rehashing the same information, no new information. 01:49:44.200 --> 01:49:46.400 Not using your reach, trying to get reach. 01:49:46.400 --> 01:49:49.000 Trying to just make the way of truth evil spoken of. 01:49:49.000 --> 01:49:52.600 You know look, I get it that hey, as a public figure, 01:49:52.600 --> 01:49:55.100 things can be talked about. 01:49:55.400 --> 01:49:57.800 in a limited context. 01:49:57.800 --> 01:49:59.300 And I don't want someone to feel bad. 01:49:59.300 --> 01:50:02.300 You know, if someone close to me or a family member 01:50:02.300 --> 01:50:04.500 was asking me about, you know, 01:50:04.500 --> 01:50:06.200 one of these ex-New Ivy preachers, 01:50:06.200 --> 01:50:06.700 and they're just like, 01:50:06.700 --> 01:50:07.900 hey, do you think I should go to this church? 01:50:07.900 --> 01:50:10.100 It's like, well, he preached this weird thing. 01:50:10.100 --> 01:50:11.500 He did this weird thing. 01:50:11.500 --> 01:50:13.100 I think that seems legitimate. 01:50:13.100 --> 01:50:13.700 Okay? 01:50:13.700 --> 01:50:14.100 But you know what? 01:50:14.100 --> 01:50:15.300 I'm not going to go out of my way 01:50:15.300 --> 01:50:17.800 to just give unsolicited advice to people. 01:50:17.900 --> 01:50:23.340 and just tale bear and lie about them and rail on them and just evil surmising and speculate 01:50:23.340 --> 01:50:27.580 and just editorialize everything they've done and bring in all these motives. I mean this is just 01:50:27.580 --> 01:50:33.420 going after Satan and look this is what women do and this is what this pastor does is being gently 01:50:33.420 --> 01:50:40.460 led by his wife. He does and we should learn from that example. Women you know don't sit here and 01:50:40.460 --> 01:50:43.500 and just think like, I'm just a concerned citizen. 01:50:43.900 --> 01:50:49.600 So, you know, I'm just going to tell my friends, because I'm just so concerned about this person's behavior. 01:50:49.600 --> 01:50:53.100 So I'm just going to tell Ben about this person. 01:50:53.100 --> 01:50:55.200 And then I'm going to tell Sam about this person. 01:50:55.200 --> 01:50:57.200 And then I'm going to tell Diego about this person. 01:50:57.200 --> 01:50:59.000 I'm just concerned about them. 01:50:59.000 --> 01:51:01.000 You know, I'm just trying to follow the Bible. 01:51:01.000 --> 01:51:03.800 Look, that's tail-baring and gossip. 01:51:03.800 --> 01:51:06.600 Does it involve Ben? No? Then don't tell Ben. 01:51:06.600 --> 01:51:08.400 Does it involve Sam? Then don't tell Sam. 01:51:08.400 --> 01:51:10.400 Does it involve Diego? Then don't tell Diego. 01:51:10.700 --> 01:51:14.460 Okay. And again, we're not the, let's get out of the public figure mindset for a second. 01:51:14.460 --> 01:51:18.300 I'm just saying anyway, hey, you know something negative about someone, leave it to yourself. 01:51:19.260 --> 01:51:23.500 Charity covers a multitude of sins. If it doesn't involve them, if they don't have anything to do 01:51:23.500 --> 01:51:27.980 with it, leave them out of it. And look, when someone's dragging you into a conversation that 01:51:27.980 --> 01:51:32.220 you don't belong, you leave. You don't get out the popcorn. 01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:35.700 You don't sit here and just say like, 01:51:35.700 --> 01:51:38.500 oh yeah, I'm a wise biblical counselor. 01:51:38.500 --> 01:51:39.540 Let me hear about this. 01:51:39.540 --> 01:51:42.000 I'll tell you how to handle it. 01:51:42.000 --> 01:51:43.740 Hey, I need some advice. 01:51:43.740 --> 01:51:45.900 Will you tell me how to handle this situation? 01:51:45.900 --> 01:51:48.200 It's about this other person. 01:51:48.200 --> 01:51:49.680 They said something about this other person. 01:51:49.680 --> 01:51:50.640 I'm not involved. 01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:52.240 What do you think I should do? 01:51:52.240 --> 01:51:55.880 It's like, not involve me. 01:51:55.880 --> 01:51:56.480 And you know what? 01:51:56.480 --> 01:51:58.280 You should leave the conversation too. 01:51:59.400 --> 01:52:05.640 Right? It's like don't bring up all this weird stuff like what did she do and he did and she said and this happened 01:52:05.640 --> 01:52:11.920 It's like just drop it and let me tell you something when you got seven kids and they're all screaming and vomiting on themselves 01:52:11.920 --> 01:52:13.920 You don't have time for this 01:52:15.220 --> 01:52:18.680 When you're trying to make good bread you don't have time for all of this 01:52:19.500 --> 01:52:21.500 When you're trying to work with your hands, 01:52:21.500 --> 01:52:23.500 you don't have time for all of this. 01:52:23.500 --> 01:52:26.500 But no, you get in the mani, and what is it? 01:52:26.500 --> 01:52:28.500 Tell me the latest gossip. 01:52:28.500 --> 01:52:31.500 You know, oh, what's going on with her? 01:52:31.500 --> 01:52:33.500 Why does she look that way? 01:52:33.500 --> 01:52:35.500 Does she get in a few pounds? 01:52:35.500 --> 01:52:36.500 Is it because she's pregnant? 01:52:36.500 --> 01:52:37.500 Is she not pregnant? 01:52:37.500 --> 01:52:38.500 Oh, man. 01:52:38.500 --> 01:52:40.500 What's going on with that? 01:52:40.500 --> 01:52:42.500 That hair was a little too short. 01:52:42.500 --> 01:52:44.500 I don't know. 01:52:44.500 --> 01:52:46.300 Why get involved in this stuff? 01:52:47.400 --> 01:52:51.420 It would tear down our church. It's gonna ruin our church. You know what's gonna make our church good? Virtuous women. 01:52:52.380 --> 01:52:55.600 You know what's gonna make our church bad? A bunch of women that are going around 01:52:56.460 --> 01:52:58.460 gossiping, bringing up people's past, 01:52:58.940 --> 01:53:05.760 heavy editorizing just, hey, I think this is why they did this and this person this person's friend, this person's not this person friend. 01:53:05.760 --> 01:53:08.560 You know, if you want to be friends with someone, why don't you be friendly to them? 01:53:09.840 --> 01:53:14.320 Don't bring up negative things about other people. How shameful. 01:53:14.700 --> 01:53:17.700 How wicked. How deceitful. 01:53:17.700 --> 01:53:22.200 And look, if someone became your friend by trashing someone to you, 01:53:22.200 --> 01:53:25.200 they are not your friend and they will never be your friend. 01:53:25.200 --> 01:53:27.700 They will trash you. 01:53:27.700 --> 01:53:29.700 You need to just stay away from that person. 01:53:29.700 --> 01:53:32.200 And look, we can all be guilty of this, men can be guilty of this, 01:53:32.200 --> 01:53:35.700 but I'm just... obviously women struggle with this more than men. 01:53:36.000 --> 01:53:39.400 And I'm telling you, when someone brings you gossip, 01:53:39.400 --> 01:53:44.320 you're just as guilty by accepting it as the person telling it. 01:53:44.320 --> 01:53:46.600 Hey, I need to tell you about so-and-so. 01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:49.160 Did they talk about me? Is it about me? No. 01:53:49.160 --> 01:53:51.560 I don't want to hear it. 01:53:51.560 --> 01:53:54.600 Hey, I need advice. Ask the pastor. 01:53:54.600 --> 01:53:57.560 Talk to the person. And look, even you come to me, 01:53:57.560 --> 01:54:00.640 hey, so-and-so, I'm like, did you talk to them? No. 01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:02.440 Step one, talk to them about it. 01:54:02.600 --> 01:54:05.960 And if you don't want to talk to them about it, I don't want to talk about it. 01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:07.960 And you don't want to talk about it. No one does. 01:54:07.960 --> 01:54:09.880 Here's your one safety net, all right? 01:54:09.880 --> 01:54:12.120 You want to gossip? You want to tell bear? 01:54:12.120 --> 01:54:13.400 It's your spouse, all right? 01:54:14.680 --> 01:54:15.560 You're one flesh. 01:54:16.600 --> 01:54:18.600 You guys can have your own little movie night 01:54:18.600 --> 01:54:20.600 and you can talk about anything and everything, all right? 01:54:22.120 --> 01:54:23.640 Y'all can sit down and whatever, 01:54:24.200 --> 01:54:28.360 and just talk about everybody's dress and color and shape and hair and whatever. 01:54:29.240 --> 01:54:30.120 You know, I don't care. 01:54:31.200 --> 01:54:33.800 Talk to Jesus and your husband, okay? 01:54:33.800 --> 01:54:36.700 But quit gossiping about other ladies and whatever. 01:54:36.700 --> 01:54:38.200 And look, not everybody's gonna get along. 01:54:38.200 --> 01:54:40.100 We get it. 01:54:40.100 --> 01:54:41.300 You know what's gonna not help that? 01:54:41.300 --> 01:54:43.800 More gossip and more railing and more slander 01:54:43.800 --> 01:54:46.700 and more getting into people's private details. 01:54:46.700 --> 01:54:48.500 And look, if someone is not guilt- 01:54:48.500 --> 01:54:51.700 like they've forgiven something, they've gotten over it, 01:54:51.700 --> 01:54:53.000 they're not doing it anymore, 01:54:53.000 --> 01:54:55.300 bringing it up is wicked as hell. 01:54:55.300 --> 01:54:56.100 Yes. 01:54:56.100 --> 01:54:57.300 It's wicked as hell. 01:54:58.500 --> 01:55:02.020 Don't be like these evil, bitter, nasty, disgusting, 01:55:02.020 --> 01:55:05.620 new-I, ex-new-I-B people who just, just dwell, 01:55:05.620 --> 01:55:09.860 just dwell in gossip and slander and tail-bearing and just, 01:55:09.860 --> 01:55:11.220 it's after Satan, folks. 01:55:11.220 --> 01:55:12.980 That's why so many of them are literal Satanists. 01:55:15.300 --> 01:55:17.780 Andrew Loza is like after Satan, he is of Satan. 01:55:18.500 --> 01:55:20.180 He's wicked as hell. 01:55:20.180 --> 01:55:22.660 And of course, that's who Tommy O'Rourke exclusively used 01:55:22.660 --> 01:55:25.460 to share all of his slander and lies and railing about us. 01:55:26.200 --> 01:55:29.800 Just an eight-part Kool-Aid series, Kool-Aid detox. 01:55:29.800 --> 01:55:32.560 I mean, this guy would make women blush. 01:55:32.560 --> 01:55:34.720 There's only like one person that gossips more than him 01:55:34.720 --> 01:55:38.240 is maybe Amanda Gander, but they're like in a tight race. 01:55:38.240 --> 01:55:39.160 Okay? 01:55:39.160 --> 01:55:41.920 And it's like, where did her husband go? 01:55:41.920 --> 01:55:43.760 I mean, the guy just disappeared. 01:55:44.680 --> 01:55:47.080 The guy needs to take seeds of her social media accounts 01:55:47.080 --> 01:55:48.280 and delete them forever. 01:55:49.000 --> 01:55:55.560 Okay, because she's after Satan and so is this whole movement out there and you know what let that not be accused of steadfast 01:55:55.560 --> 01:55:58.760 Baptist Church, I would be so embarrassed and look I will handle it 01:55:58.760 --> 01:56:05.360 I would be so embarrassed if your wife acted like this online and was going around sharing all kinds of smut and 01:56:05.600 --> 01:56:12.080 Evil surmising and lies and rails of you know railing about people you know praise God steadfast Baptist Church behaves itself pretty well online 01:56:12.700 --> 01:56:15.660 But you know what there's some places. They're not don't be like them 01:56:16.500 --> 01:56:18.260 Let us be above approach. 01:56:18.260 --> 01:56:20.100 Let us not go after Satan. 01:56:20.100 --> 01:56:22.740 Let us not blaspheme the adoption of Christ. 01:56:22.740 --> 01:56:24.980 Let our older women be in behavior 01:56:24.980 --> 01:56:27.460 and teach the younger women to be in behavior. 01:56:27.460 --> 01:56:28.100 And you know what? 01:56:28.100 --> 01:56:30.100 This is just for the older women and the younger women. 01:56:30.100 --> 01:56:31.860 Hey, older women don't be in gossip either. 01:56:33.380 --> 01:56:35.220 If you want to share something about some lady, 01:56:35.220 --> 01:56:36.260 let it be positive. 01:56:37.220 --> 01:56:37.540 Okay? 01:56:38.340 --> 01:56:39.140 Not negative. 01:56:40.100 --> 01:56:46.300 Sorry it's long, but you know you guys lot I gossiped for you for the last 14 minutes. All right, so you didn't have to just kidding 01:56:46.300 --> 01:56:47.340 I didn't I was just telling the truth 01:56:47.340 --> 01:56:53.800 But hey at the end of the day, let us you know be like Ruth and be a virtuous person who wants to work 01:56:54.300 --> 01:56:59.620 Let us be someone who keeps our promises is seeking God is steadfast. It's willingly working with our hands 01:56:59.620 --> 01:57:01.620 Hey, we're gonna give a portion to others where 01:57:01.800 --> 01:57:07.000 of course, generous, and that we're seeking Christ's righteousness. 01:57:07.000 --> 01:57:08.800 Obviously, that's the remarriage picture. 01:57:08.800 --> 01:57:12.100 She's seeking Christ's righteousness. She's seeking to be remarried. 01:57:12.100 --> 01:57:14.100 And of course, let us pursue Christ. 01:57:14.100 --> 01:57:16.800 That's what we should be pursuing, not anything else. 01:57:16.800 --> 01:57:17.700 Let's close in prayer. 01:57:17.700 --> 01:57:19.000 Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your Word. 01:57:19.000 --> 01:57:21.400 Thank you so much for these examples in the Bible. 01:57:21.400 --> 01:57:23.200 Thank you for this godly woman, Ruth, 01:57:23.200 --> 01:57:26.000 to help us understand what a virtuous woman looks like. 01:57:26.000 --> 01:57:29.600 I pray that you would help the ladies and this church. 01:57:29.800 --> 01:57:30.800 to desire to work hard. 01:57:31.500 --> 01:57:35.980 the followers example to follow example progress 31 seek the Lord I pray you 01:57:35.980 --> 01:57:39.720 help them to not get involved in all kinds of lies and gossip and tail 01:57:39.720 --> 01:57:44.100 bearing and I pray that you help them to not try to use deceitful means to seek 01:57:44.100 --> 01:57:49.540 for friendships or or position or or whatever ulterior motives that they have 01:57:49.540 --> 01:57:54.100 I pray you help them to just be busy with their children with their family 01:57:54.100 --> 01:57:57.780 and working hard I pray you help our church to be busy doing the same thing 01:57:57.780 --> 01:57:59.500 not getting involved in all 01:57:59.500 --> 01:58:03.620 kinds of gossip and tail-bearing and lies, but rather to be involved in getting people 01:58:03.620 --> 01:58:09.260 saved, getting people born again, bringing people into the family. 01:58:09.260 --> 01:58:13.180 And I pray that you would help us to have a good spirit, to have unity in our church, 01:58:13.180 --> 01:58:16.980 to love one another, to cover each other's sins, not to try and expose each other and 01:58:16.980 --> 01:58:17.980 make each other look bad. 01:58:17.980 --> 01:58:19.300 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:58:23.700 --> 01:58:26.740 All right, in closing, let's go to song number 44. 01:58:34.000 --> 01:58:37.900 Song number 44. 01:58:38.000 --> 01:58:42.000 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:58:42.100 --> 01:58:45.740 Song number 44. 01:58:45.840 --> 01:58:48.240 Let's all sing that out together. 01:58:48.340 --> 01:58:49.400 Song number 44. 02:00:47.700 --> 02:00:50.600 Great singing everybody, you were all dismissed.