1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:04,900 Our lesson this afternoon is simply entitled, get, wisdom 2 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:09,900 comes from Proverbs the fourth chapter verses 1 through 9. 3 00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:12,600 I'd like to read these verses, if you'll follow along in your 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,000 Bibles as a way of introduction here in proverbs, 4, starting in 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,800 verses one says here my children. 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,400 The instructions of a father, give intention to no 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,700 understanding for I give you good Doctrine. 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,100 Do not forsake my law. When I was my Father's, son, 9 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:32,000 Tender. And the only one in the side of 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,900 my mother. He also taught me and said to 11 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:38,300 me, let your heart retain my words. 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,500 He says, keep my commands and live get wisdom. 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,200 Get understanding, do not forget, nor turn away from the 14 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,800 words of my mouth, do not forsake her and she will 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,100 preserve you love her and she will keep you. 16 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,800 Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore, get wisdom and all of 17 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,700 your getting get understanding exalter and she will Promote 18 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:04,300 you, she will bring you honor when you Embrace her, she will 19 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:07,900 place on your head an ornament of Grace, a Crown of Glory. 20 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:11,100 She delivered to you. And so for just a little while, 21 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:14,200 I want to talk about wisdom fact, we're going to talk about 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,700 an incredibly wise woman found in the Book of Ruth and you'll 23 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:20,200 understand by the end of my lesson. 24 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,700 Why I chose these words out of Proverbs to introduce my lesson? 25 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:27,600 We're going to talk about Ruth, we're going to talk about 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,100 wisdom, how important it is in our life. 27 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:33,800 And how she demonstrates to us, some of the greatest wisdom that 28 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,700 I think, besides Jesus Christ that we can find. 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,500 But before we do, we have a privilege of prayer, we asked a 30 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:41,500 humble yourself in some manner. That's brother. 31 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,200 And selected words, our prayer, if you'll turn your Bibles over 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,600 to the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament, I would like to start 33 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:56,400 by reading the first few verses to really give us this idea and 34 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,300 just start talking about Ruth and the wisdom that she 35 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:00,900 demonstrated through her. Life. 36 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,500 Honestly, there's a great wealth of information that could be 37 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,500 said and talked about when it comes to wisdom and it comes to 38 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:11,700 really knowledge that we understand and understanding how 39 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:15,700 to apply it and in our lives. Really, that's what wisdom is is 40 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:20,500 knowledge that we understand how to apply and in our lives, 41 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:23,600 effectively, and I think Ruth's a great example of this. 42 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,000 So if your turn your Bibles will start in roof, the first chapter 43 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:31,800 or like to read the first five verses, It says it. 44 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:35,700 Now it came to pass in the days of the judges ruled that there 45 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:39,200 was a famine in the land and a certain man of Bethlehem Judah 46 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,500 went to dwell in the country of Moab. 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,500 He and his wife and two sons, the name of the man was 48 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:46,500 elimelech in the name of his wife was in the owe. 49 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,800 Me the name of his two sons were met Leon and chili on effort 50 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,900 Heights of Bethlehem Judah. They went to the to the country 51 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:58,800 of Moab and remained there. Then elimelech Naomi's husband 52 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,700 died. So she was left and her two 53 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:04,700 sons. Now, they took wives of the 54 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:07,900 women of Moab, the name of the one was orpah and the name of 55 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:10,800 the other was Ruth. And they dwelt there about 10 56 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,500 years, then both met Leon and chili on also died. 57 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:18,900 So the woman survived her two sons and her husband. 58 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,000 And so really The Book of Ruth starts in a very sad way, it 59 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,700 starts in the time of the judges. 60 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:31,000 Now I'm really starting to get a grasp of the Old Testament for 61 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,100 the first time in my Christian life and you start reading the 62 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:38,400 period of the judges, the more you read and the more, you 63 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,200 understand the worse, it gets, it's crazy. 64 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,100 How far God's people went off the beaten path. 65 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:47,700 I mean, it amazes me and so you got to remember, it happened. 66 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,900 It's a time of the judges, a very bad time. 67 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,700 And the second we find in the beginning of Ruth and this book 68 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,300 that it started during a Now I started thinking about what a 69 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:03,100 famine was. We just had a pandemic to me, 70 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:05,000 that was a famine. I couldn't get in certain 71 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,400 things. At the grocery stores. 72 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,000 I have a picture. I'll never forget this. 73 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,800 I hope you don't of Walmart. Looking down a shelf and there 74 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,700 was nothing on the entire aisle. Not to myself, man. 75 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:20,399 Surely this is no famine right? Me to us, it might seem that 76 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:22,900 way, but that's not what a family is. 77 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,100 So, a famine is something that people die from. 78 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,100 That's what a family is. It's where you literally have no 79 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:37,800 way to provide for your family or for yourself, there's no 80 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,300 food. There's no way to feed yourself 81 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,900 let alone. Someone else that's a family. 82 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:49,400 When you go days and days and days without food, now, I'm a 83 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,300 big fellow. Let me tell you, I've done some 84 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:54,700 fasting lately doing keto. It's hard. 85 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,000 I encourage you one day to try to fast for 24 hours. 86 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:01,900 Let me know how that turns out it's hard. 87 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:08,100 And the Bible says this began and the judges in the period of 88 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:13,000 a famine. And so this man had decided, you 89 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,100 know, a limit lap to decided that I'm going to take my wife, 90 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:18,400 and I'm going to take my children, and I'm going to go 91 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:23,500 over to Moab now that in itself was a really poor decision on 92 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:27,900 his part, right? I mean, he's really moving away 93 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:32,300 from God's people, he's moving away from the comfort of all the 94 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:36,300 things that he know. But most importantly, he's going 95 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:39,400 to a place that doesn't worship God. 96 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:43,600 And so he makes this decision. I would imagine based off 97 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,800 there's no food and so he gets up and he goes over to Moab. 98 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:54,900 Now, how sad it is for us, when we make decisions in our life, 99 00:05:54,900 --> 00:05:56,800 and I've heard many people talk this way. 100 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,700 You know, I want to move here, I want to move there, I want to do 101 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:03,700 this, there was great, wisdom and understanding, and 102 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:07,100 considering God, first in our life moving somewhere, where 103 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:09,100 there was no church or moving somewhere, where we have to 104 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:12,300 drive four hours to go to church, is probably a very 105 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:17,100 unwise move but this man did that and so what happened is, he 106 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:22,500 died his two sons decided not to marry Godly women but to marry 107 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:29,300 ungodly women at first And so we find this story kind of goes on 108 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:32,300 that a two sons died. And now there's this woman named 109 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:34,900 Naomi. There's a woman named orpah and 110 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:38,500 a woman named Ruth. What are they to do? 111 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:42,400 It's not like today's society, we can kind of just pick up and 112 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:47,200 you know, a widow can get a job and our society that wasn't like 113 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:52,200 this back then. No, back then a widow, man. 114 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:58,200 That was a hard hard, hard life. And so this woman Naomi this 115 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,200 mother with her to daughter-in-laws starting in 116 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:07,200 verses 6 through 18 decides, you know what, I'm going to go back 117 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:11,300 home to Bethlehem I'm going to after 10 years or have a long 118 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:13,700 day where there I'm going to go home. 119 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:17,900 So she decided that that was her New Path. 120 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,700 But something happens, and this is really where the story starts 121 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:27,000 to come to life. Naomi decides that she doesn't 122 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 want to bring her to daughter-in-laws. 123 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:34,900 I saw a conversation begins to happen between these people and 124 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:38,300 Naomi's are going back and forth, go back to your people. 125 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:41,500 There's no hope for you. In fact, listen to what verses, 126 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:45,900 eleven says, I find this unimaginable at this, is her 127 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:49,800 logic. She says in verses lesson verse 128 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,900 11, but the only said turn back my daughter's. 129 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:57,500 Why will you go With me, are there still sons in my womb that 130 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:01,900 you maybe be your husband's as if there was another men in the 131 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:05,300 world to marry. She says, look there's no 132 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:10,300 prospects for you, where I'm going, go home and in fact, we 133 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:15,800 find in verses 14, they lifted up the lifted up their voices 134 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,800 and wept again and orpah. Kissed her mother-in-law, but 135 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,600 Ruth clung to her, and so rude. Or if I decided I'm gonna To go 136 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,300 home. And so she makes that Journey 137 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:28,800 back to her parents and the people. 138 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,800 She knows until like that she's had her entire life. 139 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:34,600 But Ruth did something different. 140 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:40,900 She clung donating to Naomi. So, two things we can learn from 141 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:45,100 this little lesson here. Number one neomi was blaming 142 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:47,200 God. You read the rest of this 143 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,200 chapter and kind of beginning of chapter 2. 144 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:52,000 What was happening is Naomi was blaming God for all of her 145 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,300 problems. Have we ever done that doctor 146 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:56,900 herself? Wow man. 147 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,200 God's punishing me because that's what she thought God's 148 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,300 doing this to me, because that's what she thought. 149 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,200 You know what happened. She allowed Satan and she was 150 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,600 going through a really rough time since she had nobody around 151 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,900 her to help her. How sad that is, right, there's 152 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:14,700 a few verses I'd like to read on this. 153 00:09:14,700 --> 00:09:17,800 I did James 4:7 says therefore submit to God. 154 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,600 Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 155 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,900 There's truth to that We will simply submit to God's will and 156 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,400 do what he says Satan will run from us. 157 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,600 The Bible says this is the second side to this. 158 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,400 I'd like to talk about it's time to Galatians 6 and 1 brother in. 159 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:38,700 If any man is overtaking a trespasses you who are spiritual 160 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:40,300 restore. Such a one in the spirit of 161 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:44,700 gentleness considering yourself. Lest you also be tempted Shame 162 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,000 on us. When our brothers and our 163 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,400 Sisters in Christ are going through troubling times and we 164 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,700 don't help them. Shame on us that we aren't 165 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:57,700 trying to get ourselves rights, that we may be able to help one 166 00:09:57,700 --> 00:09:59,100 another. When I doing it out of 167 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:01,600 arrogance, we're not doing it out of superiority. 168 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:04,900 No. We help one another because we 169 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:07,400 understand that we need help as well. 170 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:12,300 And so when our brothers and sisters allow Satan, and we need 171 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:15,600 to be there to help. And when we're on the receiving 172 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,300 side of that, we need to we need to understand that people are 173 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:21,500 saying things because they love us. 174 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:27,300 Now there's a Flipside, see Ruth, had the opposite idea. 175 00:10:27,300 --> 00:10:30,100 Listen to her response when her mother-in-law told her to go. 176 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:35,100 Back Ruth says in verse 16 of chapter 1, but Ruth said, 177 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:38,600 entreat me not to leave you or to turn back from following 178 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,200 after you, wherever you go, I will go wherever you Lodge. 179 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,600 I will Lodge. Your people shall be my people. 180 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,000 People. Your God, my God. 181 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,700 Where you die, I will die. And there will I be buried in 182 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:55,000 the Lord do to me and more also of anything but death part to 183 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,100 you and me. See, Naomi wanted Ruth to go 184 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:01,200 back. And if you go up one verse the 185 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,500 latter part of that, verse says, you she wanted her to go back to 186 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:13,300 her gods. to false people, the false gods that is I move said, 187 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:16,800 no, she put her foot down. You know? 188 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,200 What? Ruth did she followed God. 189 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:23,300 No matter the circumstance. Now, that's a hard thing to do. 190 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:27,400 Think about this. She left mother, she left 191 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,300 father, she left the entire world. 192 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:33,600 She knows for all intensive purposes. 193 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:38,800 She moved across the universe. It was a long journey by foot. 194 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,700 She left everything to follow God. 195 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,900 What Woods them that we can follow Luke 14:33? 196 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,400 Yeah, we 1433. So likewise wherever you does 197 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,900 not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple. 198 00:11:57,900 --> 00:12:02,400 If we are not willing to give up everything, this world halves we 199 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,300 cannot be Disciples of God. There should be nothing the 200 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:09,500 stands between us and worshiping God. 201 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:11,100 I don't care if that your mother. 202 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,100 I don't care about your father, your brother, your sister, your 203 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:16,300 friends, your loved ones, no matter what. 204 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:19,900 Nothing should stand between you and God. 205 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:25,300 What a beautiful example Ruth show, our story moves on into 206 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,200 really the end of this chapter and verse 19 through 22. 207 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,000 They decide that they return to Bethlehem and so Ruth follows 208 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,200 her mother-in-law back. It was the time of barley. 209 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,700 We move into really the second chapter, they find themselves. 210 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:44,100 Now unto Bethlehem and the second chapter verses one 211 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:47,200 through seven. And now they're out of dilemma. 212 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,100 What are they going to do for food? 213 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:53,100 What are they going to do for daily living and things like 214 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:54,700 that? They had nothing. 215 00:12:56,300 --> 00:12:59,800 So Ruth says, you know what I'm going to do something about this 216 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:03,200 and the second chapter in the second verse. 217 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:07,100 So Ruth, the moabitess said to Naomi, please let me go. 218 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,700 Go to the fields and glean heads of grain. 219 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:17,500 After him in whom site, I may find favor So Ruth didn't sit 220 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:22,200 around and say, oh well, oh me. Oh, look at all my problems. 221 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,200 She did wait around for somebody else to lead her to this or to 222 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,600 do this or no. She says, I'm going to solve my 223 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,400 own problems. That's a lesson that you and I 224 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,600 can learn. Sometimes we need a sand up and 225 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,300 solve our own problems instead of waiting around for something 226 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:45,400 else to be done. And what she was asking to do 227 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,000 was not easy. Now I've never picked cotton, 228 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,600 I've never picked barley, but I have picked cherries. 229 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,900 I spent one summer picking cherries after work. 230 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:57,700 It was the worst experience of my entire life. 231 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,500 People who pictures, if there's anybody in here, I've ever 232 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:03,600 worked in the field. Kudos to you because that is 233 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,300 some hard work. I have never hurt so much in my 234 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:10,100 life than trying to keep up with these 60 year. 235 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,700 Old man picking these cherries faster than you can ever 236 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:16,200 imagine. As she was acting, not just the 237 00:14:16,208 --> 00:14:19,500 big cherries, but the bend over and pick wheat. 238 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:26,000 She sold her own problems. That's a lesson for you and I to 239 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,500 learn this. Great wisdom in that not waiting 240 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:33,600 around for others. A story continues on. 241 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:38,800 And now in verses of chapter 2 verses 8 through 13, she finds 242 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,800 herself in the field of Boaz. Now, she didn't know it at the 243 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,700 time but Boaz will come to be a family member. 244 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:48,700 But at this time, it doesn't indicate to me that Ruth 245 00:14:48,700 --> 00:14:51,900 understood that this man had any relative relationship to her. 246 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:57,200 No and so she goes to this field and she does what she does she 247 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,900 works. She solving her own problems. 248 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:03,400 She's trying to provide for her mother-in-law and for herself 249 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,400 then there's no indication of the story that Naomi was doing 250 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:12,100 anything but Ruth was And so Ruth was in this field and she 251 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:15,300 was going out. It she was working and Boaz 252 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:19,500 basically came to her or came to one of her his servants and 253 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:22,000 said, who's that woman, haven't seen her before? 254 00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:25,500 The servant basically told her told him. 255 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,900 Well, that's Ruth. That's the moabite that came 256 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:32,400 back with new me. This is I've heard of her 257 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,200 before. I know a little bit about her. 258 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,700 So what does he do? He calls Ruth over he says to 259 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:43,600 her and has a conversation verses 8 through 13. 260 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,900 There's a skull small conversation, that happens back 261 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:49,800 and forth. But that's basically says, you 262 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,300 know, don't worry about going to other peoples filled be like one 263 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:56,300 of my maid servants. Another words going to the 264 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:59,800 middle of the filty Leaning, was this idea on the edge of the 265 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:04,100 fields and the Old Testament? This was a law that the poor, 266 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:07,300 the widows and things like that. The needy would be able to go to 267 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:12,200 these filled on the edges of these fields and pick food, and 268 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,500 it was, so that God was basically taking care of the 269 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:17,000 homeless and the widows and things like that, that's what 270 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,100 Ruth. Doing he said don't do that. 271 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,000 Go in with my my maid servants and picking the middle of the 272 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,200 field. He goes on. 273 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,400 He says you know my servants that went and drawn the water 274 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,500 drink of that water. Now that doesn't sound like a 275 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:35,400 hick thing to you and I but go take a five gallon bucket, fill 276 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,500 it up with water. Pick it up, put it on your head, 277 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:39,500 put on it, whatever you want and try to carry it. 278 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,700 A half a mile and you'll understand what it means to draw 279 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:45,900 water. And so it's a labor-intensive 280 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:47,900 things. He says, don't worry about that. 281 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:53,000 Drink of that water. Fact, he invites her to dinner. 282 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,000 When you know, me are when Ruth heard all this, she fell on her 283 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,200 face and said why? Why would you do this for me? 284 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:07,200 I don't understand. Universal is 11 answers here and 285 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:12,000 says that I know your works. See there's a key thing in this 286 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,000 little part of the story. Ruth was known by her works. 287 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:19,400 Move this morning. We talking about that idea. 288 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:23,400 We are known by our works and so was Ruth. 289 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:33,600 Luke 6:43, who third 45, particularly the latter part of 290 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,100 that verse. It's chopped off here. 291 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:40,800 Sorry, this is a first time I give him this lesson on the 292 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:46,400 tablet versus chopped off. But the idea is, we are known by 293 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:51,600 our fruits and how true that is. Is Matthew 7:6 teens? 294 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,100 You will know them by their fruits. 295 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:58,100 The Bible says, do not men gather Grapes of thorns, bushels 296 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:03,200 of figs from thistles. So Ruth was no, I'm sorry, my 297 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,400 notes. All messed up here. 298 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,700 My wife laughing at me. She's the one who wrote this up 299 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:13,700 for me. So so um, Ruth was known by her 300 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:17,100 works. We should be known by our works. 301 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,700 When we go to our Barber, some of us women don't go to The 302 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:22,400 Barbers. But when we go as men to The 303 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,000 Barbers people coming over here know that we're Christians. 304 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:30,400 women men, when you go out and our community to people and 305 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:35,400 recognize us as Christians, see if we're known by our works, 306 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,300 people will know that we are Christians. 307 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,100 That's the point of not being rude or behaving unseemly. 308 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:44,900 That's what First Corinthians 13 was talking about this morning. 309 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:50,800 We should be known by this world and by our actions and Ruth was 310 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,000 known by her actions and so because of this belies says, 311 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,500 don't worry about it. Come and have dinner with me. 312 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:03,200 And so I seen was eating, she left, and he went to his foreman 313 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,500 and said, hey, look! What I would like you to do, is, 314 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:10,100 I would like to drop some bundles and when Ruth picks him 315 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:13,100 up, don't say anything, let her do it. 316 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:19,000 So he further there's blessing if you would because he knew 317 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,100 Ruth in the works that she did and so he she had dinner, verses 318 00:19:23,100 --> 00:19:28,100 14 through 17, there was a dinner that Ruth Ended with Boaz 319 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:34,900 and all the servants and so Ruth, returns and tells Naomi 320 00:19:34,900 --> 00:19:37,800 everything. She goes back, home tells her 321 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:42,000 mother-in-law, everything all that had been done and so 322 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,100 something changes and the latter part of versus our chapter 2 323 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:47,700 there. Something changes. 324 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,600 And the only for the very first time realizes something. 325 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:56,900 If we follow God, good things happen. 326 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,800 And so what happened is, she realized in the clicked for the 327 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,400 very first time that she had close relatives, and there's 328 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,300 something that can happen in the Old Testament. 329 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:10,400 It doesn't happen today it's called Reedy are the redeeming 330 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:13,900 meaning that if you were married to a woman and this husband 331 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:17,200 died, the closest kin men would marry this woman to bring up 332 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,500 children to keep his name alive. That's something that we don't 333 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:24,300 really do in our society, but it's done back in this day. 334 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,400 In fact, it was a command and The Vedic is the 19th. 335 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,700 Chapter talks about How this whole system worked. 336 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:36,700 And so she makes plans. He says, okay, I got this, I 337 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:39,400 know what we need to do for the first time Ruth. 338 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,700 In this story comes to her senses. 339 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:46,400 It takes almost 2 chapter 3 for her to do our tsunami comes to 340 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,700 her senses, and it takes almost 2 chapter 3 for it to happen. 341 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:52,900 She says she's his, what you're gonna do? 342 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,700 Here's what you're going to do Ruth. 343 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,900 I've got to make plans with you. I want you to go to Bo house. 344 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,500 Now was customary at that time when the owner of a land was was 345 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:08,400 going through Harvest that he would lay around the grain. 346 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:13,000 Basically the keep off robbers. I want you to find what he lays 347 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,700 and what you to go to him. I want you to uncover his feet. 348 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:20,300 I want you to lay down and you'll find out all that's going 349 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:22,700 to happen. That's kind of what's being said 350 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:24,600 here, right? There's not too much 351 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,800 information. Maybe she had questions Bible 352 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:31,700 doesn't give us any of that but the only comes to her senses and 353 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,400 Ruth degrees. Starting in chapter 3, verses 1 354 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,700 through 5 Ruth agrees to this, I will go to Boaz. 355 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,700 I will lay out his feet in the middle of the night. 356 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:48,200 I will uncover his feet and I will hear what he has to say. 357 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:51,700 Now I want to pause right here. I've heard and read and some 358 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:54,700 commentaries that there were some funny business going on 359 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:57,600 here, I'm here to tell you the wasn't first of all, we 360 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,500 understand that Boaz was an incredibly Godly Man. 361 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:04,100 Ruth was an incredibly godly woman. 362 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:07,800 Naomi was not asking for any funny business to take place 363 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,700 here. This was not done in an 364 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:16,500 inappropriate way but Boaz would get the hint if you would of 365 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,400 what was about to happen or what Naomi was asking Ruth to do. 366 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,900 So the young are Ruth agrees to this, it says I'll do this. 367 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,500 There's a lesson to be learned in this listening to wise 368 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:31,000 counsel. Sometimes we are told to do 369 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,100 things by our parents and by our loved ones and by fellow 370 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:36,800 Christians. And sometimes we don't 371 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,800 understand why they're saying it and we don't want to listen to 372 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,700 it. We don't want to follow it but 373 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:46,000 let me tell you, there's wisdom and listening to wise counsel 374 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,700 And so Ruth could argued, she could have fought. 375 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,300 She maybe had an idea of what was about to happen. 376 00:22:55,100 --> 00:22:56,900 She's one. I want to marry some young 377 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:59,300 person. She could have argued but she 378 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:03,200 did it. She listened to wise counsel I 379 00:23:03,208 --> 00:23:06,300 think that's important for you. And I to listen to wise counsel 380 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:10,500 when it is given, no matter how young, no matter how old we get 381 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,800 somebody can give us wisdom. Let me tell you some of the 382 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,600 worst decisions I ever made in my life. 383 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,000 As I don't listen to people and I'm sure you can have a similar 384 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,400 story in your life. Listen to the wise counsel 385 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,900 supporting so she goes to Boaz in the middle of the night. 386 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,900 She does exactly as Naomi said. He uncovers the feet, Ladies 387 00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:32,700 down and Boaz, as you would imagine wakes up with a woman at 388 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:35,600 it. And as absolutely alarmed. 389 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:38,700 Now, because Aaron Newman in his isn't here. 390 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:41,200 I'm going to throw him under the bus because this reminds me of 391 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,800 that when he first got married, his first night. 392 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,300 He woke up in the morning and rolled over and there was a 393 00:23:46,308 --> 00:23:50,300 woman in his bed and he literally flipped out. 394 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:53,800 He had a small panic attack as he didn't know what was going on 395 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,700 before he woke up fully until I sit with my wife. 396 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,300 And so I'd imagine a very similar thing happened here. 397 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:03,900 He was startled. And when he woke up and when he 398 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:07,700 came to his senses, he knew he What was going on? 399 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:12,500 He says, okay, I get it. You want me to redeem you and to 400 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:20,200 redeem the land that you have. And so really in chapter 36 is 401 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,600 through 15. He says, I want you to go back 402 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,500 home. I want you to first of all, I 403 00:24:25,508 --> 00:24:27,700 want you to spend the night and in the morning, I want you to go 404 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,000 back home and I'll settle this matter. 405 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:35,900 And so him being a man of wisdom, a man that didn't want 406 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:39,500 anyone to get the wrong idea. He says, in the morning, he kind 407 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:42,000 of took some grain and gave it to her and said go home. 408 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,200 So, nobody gets the wrong idea, there's no funny business going 409 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,500 on here. So she goes home and her tells 410 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:49,900 her mother-in-law, everything that has happened. 411 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,500 And so what is Boaz do? He does what a Godly Man. 412 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:01,000 Does he gets ups and takes care of business? 413 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,200 That's something you. And I can learn from this story 414 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,500 that we should not put off tomorrow. 415 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:10,100 What needs to be done today? We should not progress innate on 416 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:12,500 our faith or in our religious duties. 417 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:16,900 We should get up and do what is necessary when we need to do it. 418 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:21,900 And so Boaz gets up early in the morning and really this starts 419 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:26,900 in chapter 4 and this Begins the first 12 verses of chapter 4. 420 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,800 And so Boaz goes to the gate. He grabs the man that's a Sure 421 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,800 to kick in. Then he was see, he told Ruth 422 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,900 that there's somebody closer and relationship. 423 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:41,100 He couldn't redeem her because there was somebody that could do 424 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:43,100 it before he did. That was part of the wall there 425 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:46,600 in Leviticus. So he goes to the gate and he 426 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,000 says, look Naomi has some land to buy. 427 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Do you want to buy it? And he brought these wise men or 428 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,400 elderly men of 10 men at this gate as was customary at that 429 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,800 time. And he said, what do you want to 430 00:26:00,808 --> 00:26:03,000 buy it? Man was pretty excited. 431 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,200 Bible wasn't named who this man was with a little bit of 432 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:12,100 information. They won't go to into, but But 433 00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:16,200 if you do, you have to marry Ruth says, Nope. 434 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:20,000 I can't do that. If I do, I'm going to ruin my 435 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,200 inheritance, I don't know how that would work out, but 436 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,500 apparently he thought, so he said, you know what, Boaz, go 437 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:32,700 ahead, you can take the this Redemption can do this and so 438 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:35,800 Beau Labs does exactly as a wise man. 439 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,600 Does he bought the land as was commanded by God and Medicus, he 440 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:47,000 married Ruth and in fact, we find in verses 13 through 17 441 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:53,500 that they had children. So Ruth and Boaz got married and 442 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:58,500 had children. There's another lesson that we 443 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:03,800 can learn to the story. And that is to marry a wise 444 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,100 partner. I see you in the room. 445 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:09,700 There are very few younger people who are married, but 446 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:12,800 there is great wisdom and counseling younger people to 447 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,100 marry somebody who's wise, So now I'll get to the end of my 448 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:19,000 story of why that's so important. 449 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,600 When I wrap this lesson up, you'll understand why out of 450 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,200 everything is said here this afternoon, this is the most 451 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,100 important thing. Mary, a wise partner, and so 452 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:35,400 they have children, it was great blessings that they were given. 453 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,400 And really the story concludes, and Ruth Chapter 4, verses 18 454 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,600 through 22 with the genealogy of Ruth and both of those. 455 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:48,300 So let me wrap the story up for you. 456 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:51,800 Why it's important to Marry a wise partner. 457 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,500 Why it is important to have wisdom in our families and in 458 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:02,200 our households and with our loved ones, remember in the very 459 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,500 beginning, we read out of proverbs think about this for 460 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:11,300 just a moment. The father of Solomon, who wrote 461 00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:20,600 that that letter, that poem. Was David a great key that was 462 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,400 the descendant of Ruth and Boaz Solomon. 463 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,900 The wisest man who ever lived Bible says was The Descendant, 464 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:32,100 the great-grandson of Boaz and Ruth. 465 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:36,500 Do you see what happens? When wisdom prevails in our 466 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,000 family. It changes things. 467 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:45,200 Things happen and it's not - I could promise you that it's 468 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,100 positive. Let me add one more, little 469 00:28:49,300 --> 00:28:53,400 twist to the story of why wisdom is so important in our lives. 470 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:55,800 The great great. Great. 471 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:57,400 I don't know how many greats have probably should have 472 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,900 calculated it but great-great-great-great 473 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:06,300 great-great-great-great grandson was born, Jesus Christ the 474 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:12,200 greatest man to ever live. Came from Boaz and Ruth's 475 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,600 family. That's what wisdom does. 476 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:19,900 That's what marrying a wise partner does. 477 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,900 That's what having understanding and how to apply their life 478 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,400 does. Big things. 479 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,200 Big changes happen. I hope that we can learn a few 480 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,900 things is a great. Well, the things that I skipped 481 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:40,100 a lot more notes of have on this, but honestly, with was a 482 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:44,600 wise woman, who married, a wise, man who made wise decision, 483 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,700 let's follow their pattern. Let's not be like the people of 484 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,700 this world and Beyond wise. Let's follow God. 485 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,200 Let's do his will, maybe you're here today and maybe haven't 486 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,300 taken those steps. To make that wise decision to 487 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:58,900 become a Christian. I beg you to do it. 488 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,400 Don't put off tomorrow. 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