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Chapters

00:00 Rod Update and Prayers

00:39 Easter Weekend Highlights

02:58 Keep Inviting After Easter

04:24 Why We’re Still Hyped

04:47 Ruth Overview and Context

07:07 Boaz and Faithful Obedience

09:59 Redeemer Theme and Christ Foreshadowing

13:19 Ruth’s Legacy and God Using Outsiders

15:51 Luke 11 Signs and Woes

18:24 Warning Against Unbelief

19:57 Closing Prayer and Sign-Off

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's another edition.

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It is another edition.

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Another pastor Rod edition.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sadly.

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Yeah.

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He, uh, he was not feeling well

this weekend and yet showed up

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and showed out for our Easter

services and led our worship on

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Good Friday and on Sunday morning.

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So we're thankful for him.

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He's getting some rest.

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He's doing fine.

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This is not like.

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He's not in the hospital,

not nothing like that.

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So he's doing fine, but he does

need your prayers as do all

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of us really in the church.

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But I'm sure he would appreciate a

text or just a word of encouragement

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saying, Hey, praying for you, praying

that you get to feeling better.

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I trust that he will be soon.

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Hopefully he'll be back to record on, on

Thursday with us for the rest of the week.

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But we've got Pastor Mark in house

again with us, and we are man, coming

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off just a great weekend, aren't we?

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Yeah.

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It was a fantastic

weekend with our church.

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It really was.

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It really was an excellent weekend.

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What a, what an exciting

set of three days.

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So, I mean, we got to get the whole

array of things and we got to spend

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a lot of time with our church body.

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We got to, got to, I know, uh, there

was multiple conversations where

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the gospel was shared with people.

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Um, yes.

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Much less from the pulpit as well.

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Or much more.

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What is that, the right terminology

also from the pulpit in addition

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to people, people heard the gospel.

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So what, what an awesome weekend and I

would encourage you to continue to pray

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for the fruit of this weekend, right?

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The fruit of this weekend shouldn't just

be measured in precisely the things that

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happened this weekend and then forgotten.

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Uh, we are hoping that the things

that happened this weekend and that

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the new families that joined us

and that the gospel conversations

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that were had have a resounding.

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Effect into the coming months, years,

and, and really ultimately into eternity.

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For sure.

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For sure.

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And if you were there, if you

were serving in any capacity

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this weekend, thank you so much.

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Y you guys did such a brilliant job

from, uh, good Friday to Saturday to

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the two services on Easter Sunday.

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Uh, the two services went.

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Smoother than we could

have imagined them going.

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It was virtually no hiccups whatsoever.

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I mean, there were a few things behind

the scenes that were going on, but

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as far as everything looked from

the outside in it, it went so well.

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And so thank you church.

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Thanks for being a part of this

and, uh, whether you were serving

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or not, you guys were a part of

an awesome weekend this weekend.

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And it was just one of those

weekends where for us as pastors,

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we just stepped back and we felt,

and I'll qualify this, UNS Sinfully

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proud of, uh, of our church body.

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It was just a great, great weekend.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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And it's God's grace for us.

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I mean, in some ways, you know, we

set this, these plans in motion, but

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you know, by the time Friday arrives,

there's in some sense, not a whole lot

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we can do except rely on the Lord and

rely, rely on, on you as our church.

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Yeah.

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Uh, and, and we're really thankful

that we, we can rely on you

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guys, of course, in a godly way,

not in a, not in a sinful way.

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And thus we can be proud

of you in a godly way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, for sure we can.

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And so great job church.

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We can't wait for next Easter

already, uh, which is like March 30th

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next year or something like that.

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I don't know.

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But man, just a, a great

weekend coming off that.

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Really excited, fired up.

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Uh, don't, don't give up.

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Don't let, like Pastor Rod was just,

or Pastor Mark was just saying Pastor

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Rod was saying it to in spirit.

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He's here with us in Spirit San, but

like Pastor Mark was just saying.

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Don't lose the fervor.

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We, we want more fruit

to come out of this.

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And I think a lot of times for Easter, we

put a lot of emphasis on invite people to

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come to Easter services and rightly so.

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We should do that.

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But don't give up on that.

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Stop by the church office.

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Pick up some new cards.

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In fact, we got brand new invite cards.

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They're sharp looking,

that are great looking.

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They've got, uh, our church information

on it, two service times on it now as

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we've got two services moving forward.

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Take 'em with you to the barber chair.

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Take 'em with you to the mall.

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Take 'em with you to the grocery

store, take 'em with you into the

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coffee shop and give them to people.

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The worst thing that can happen is

people take it kindly because most people

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are polite and then they just throw it

out, or they stick it somewhere that

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they're never gonna look at it again.

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Best thing that could happen out

of it, somebody shows up at our

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church and here's the gospel.

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Or somebody who is new to

town looking for a church.

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Comes and, and joins our church

and becomes a part of what God

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is doing through our church.

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So keep that fervor, keep looking

out, keep inviting people to church.

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We've got the room.

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We'll add more services.

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If we need to add more

services, we'll do 12 services.

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Will we?

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No.

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Will we?

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Wow.

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Actually, we won't.

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Okay.

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Hopefully if we're at,

I'm writing that down.

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Hopefully if we're at that point, we'll be

able to get a facility with a little bit

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bigger of a meeting space and hopefully

far before we're needing 12 services.

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Yeah, fair, fair.

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I mean, hopefully far before 12 services.

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Yeah.

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But, uh, all that's to say, man, just

coming off of a, a fantastic weekend.

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We're, we're thankful for this.

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Yes, indeed.

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And I know you're sitting

there going, it's Wednesday.

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It's Wednesday.

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You, you're not coming

off the weekend anymore.

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Remember, we record these we stagger them.

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So the last time we recorded was Saturday,

so we had just come off extravaganza.

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We did talk about that a little bit, I

believe on Sunday's edition that came out.

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But, uh, this is our first time back in

office recording since Easter Sunday.

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So that's why we're still so hyped on

it and excited about what God did there.

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Yes, indeed.

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Let's get into Pastor Mark's

favorite book in the Old Testament.

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It's not my favorite.

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No close to my favorite.

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No, I have many favorites.

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It's been declared.

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I have many favorites.

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Okay.

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Uh, but this is absolutely

one of my favorites.

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This is such a good book.

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So we're gonna be in the book of Ruth,

and even though Book of Ruth, the

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Book of Ruth, because that's what the

Bible calls it pastor Mark has his own

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bible and his own titles for books.

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He would prefer this to be called

Boaz and understandably so.

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And, and I'll give you the platform

to explain why here in a minute.

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But just quick overview

of the Book of Ruth.

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There's only two books

in the Bible that have.

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Titles that, that bear a female's name.

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Now, pastor Mark wants there only

to be one book in the Bible that has

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a title that bears a female's name.

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But even though this is called a

Book of Ruth tradition holds that

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it's not Ruth that wrote it but

probably Samuel that wrote it.

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At least that's the thought.

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Just like people believe

Samuel wrote, judges a lot of

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people believe Samuel also.

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Ruth and some, there's some

contextual clues there.

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Clues there, there's no

one mentioned in the book.

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But there's some things as well as

external tradition that would, would point

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to the fact that Samuel is the author and

as the book does end with a mention of

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King David, that would make sense because

Samuel was obviously instrumental in the

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anointing of King David, and so it would

make sense that he wants to show even how

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Ruth is involved in what's going on here.

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But Ruth is really kind of the bridge

between the judges and the kings and it's.

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Bit of a brush breath of fresh air here.

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Ruth being a, a Moabites, just

real quick on the Moabites,

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they were those descendants of

lots incestuous relationships.

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So, uh, they didn't have a good start.

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They weren't great people.

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They, uh, were hired.

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They're the ones that hired Baam to curse

Israel back in numbers 22 through 25.

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They oppressed the Israelis

during the period of judges.

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So you really don't expect a Moabite of

all people to come out of Moab and become

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part of the people who've gotten not only.

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Part of the people of God, but

part of the line of Christ.

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So there's a lot behind the scenes here

that's good for us to remember about

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what's going on in the background.

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This is during the time of judges.

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So we've seen all kinds of

depravity during the time of

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judges as well, and this is that,

that high point, that glimpse of

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something good that's taken place.

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So with that said, pastor Mark, why don't

you undo this and just pull people's

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rugs out from under them on why this

shouldn't be called the Book of Ruth.

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Okay, well, to be fair.

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It is appropriately

named the Book of Roots.

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No, you can't backpedal now.

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It's been out there and you've

gotten all the angry emails

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from people, but go ahead.

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Okay, let me, let me just point

out this though, which is that

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Boaz is an incredible character

and Boaz often gets sidelined or

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perhaps even sometimes maligned.

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There's a lot of like academics who will

pick apart everything that Boaz did and,

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and put it in a really unfavorable light.

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However, this book, I think stands.

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As an example, both of Ruth and of Boaz,

and that's part of the reason why it's

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appropriately named Ruth as an example

of how things are supposed to be working.

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Right.

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This, we've just come off

of judges and it's gnarly.

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It is gross at points.

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It's the word for it.

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Yep.

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In in the book of judges.

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But we need to be reminded.

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That God's promises for

his people are continuing.

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And part of that promise is that

there'll be remnant, that there'll

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be people who continue to be faithful

to his commands and his laws.

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And he's showing us a ton of

things in the Book of Ruth.

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It's definitely a beautiful narrative,

but there's also a ton of theology

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and a ton of what God is trying to

communicate in this book about how he

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works and about what he cares about.

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I mean, we, we are

introduced to Ruth, right?

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And she's somebody who

ought to be completely.

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Removed from the people of Israel mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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For dozens of generations.

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Right.

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Yet she ends up in the genealogy of Jesus.

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Right.

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Right.

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And of David.

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Right.

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Incredible, incredible.

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And you see her faithfulness in these

opening passages which is, again, I will

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concede why it's rightly named Ruth.

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But also don't forget about Boaz.

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It's very, Boaz is somebody

who lives in a broken time.

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Where the people around him are

living in sin and frankly hating God.

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I mean, at one point here, right.

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Naomi tells Ruth that she needs to

be careful so that she does not get

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assaulted just in the land of Israel.

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Right, right.

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Walking around.

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She has to remain with people

who are gonna take care of her

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because the the place that they

live in is real, is so violent.

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Destructive that she is running a

risk just being out in the field by

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herself or being on a path by herself.

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Yeah.

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But nonetheless, you see Ruth being

obedient to the Lord, and you see

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Boaz being obedient to the Lord.

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Right?

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Boaz is the.

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Israelite and he recognizes the

things that God cares about.

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He recognizes that Ruth's uh, love

of the Lord is what matters, right?

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The he says in verse 12 of chapter

two, the Lord repay you for what

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you have done and a full reward

be given to you by the Lord.

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The God of.

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Israel under whose wings you

have come to take refuge.

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Mm-hmm.

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What an incredible thing.

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Mm-hmm.

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Boaz recognizes that, and then he is

obedient in a number of different ways.

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Sorry, I, I don't mean

to monologue too much.

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I just love this book, and so

that's, these things excite me.

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No, that's great.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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I'm with you and I, I'm, I'm

tracking with all of that.

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I think.

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You've got Ruth, who's the Gentile,

she's from outside the people of God.

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And then you've got Boaz.

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And there's a word in the Book of Ruth

that comes up time and time again.

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And that is the word redeemer.

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And that word is one that we've

taken now and applied to Christ.

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Christ is our redeemer.

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Boaz is a type of Christ in this

story, even like the verse that

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you just mentioned, that Ruth

takes refuge under his, his wings.

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He's the Christ figure.

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Boaz is, we are the, the outsider.

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We are the, the one that

is in a desperate plight.

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We are Ruth, for lack of a better

way to put it in, in the story.

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And there's even a, an

amazing illusion here.

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I, I think at least in verse 14,

where it says A mealtime, Boaz said

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to her, come here and eat some bread

and, and dip your morsel in the wine.

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So she sat beside the re reapers

and he passed to her roasted grain,

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and she ate until she was satisfied.

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And she had some leftover.

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Mm-hmm.

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Fast forward to the New Testament.

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You've got Jesus who comes onto the shore.

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Mm-hmm.

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And you've got all of these people

that are gathered there and he

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says he had compassion on them.

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He begins to teach them, they get hungry.

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He takes the loaves and the

fish, and he multiplies them.

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And it says in the gospels that

they ate until they were satisfied

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and they had some leftover.

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And I think there's a callback here

to the Book of Ruth and this idea of

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the redeemer, that Christ is the type

to, or the anti type to boaz's type.

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Boaz is a type of Christ.

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Christ is the fulfillment of that.

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And so I, I'm with you.

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I love the book.

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I think Boaz is a commendable

figure in the book as well.

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Yeah.

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And even notice how he's

seeking to obey the law.

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Throughout these things, even in a

society that doesn't obey the law.

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Right.

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He is the one who is protecting

these women when he doesn't, in

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some sense have to Right, right.

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The society around him is violent.

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Right.

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And they're, they're abusive towards women

evidenced by the instructions that we see.

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Right.

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But he is providing protection

and allowing the poor to.

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To pick up grain, right?

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Yep.

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Per the instructions to the

people of Israel, right?

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He does that and then we

get into lever it marriage.

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You look at the actual instructions

for how that's supposed to be and

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they don't match up quite one for one.

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However, I'm gonna contend that.

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What Boaz is doing is seeking to be as

faithful and consistent as possible in

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this broken society as he pursues mm-hmm.

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Levert marriage.

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Right.

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It's not possible for him to do all

the things precisely as Moses had,

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you know, given the instructions

to the people of Israel because

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of the problems in the land.

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But he is pursuing as faithfulness as.

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The, to the greatest

extent possible in this.

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I mean, there's amazing,

there's more than that.

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But man, it's amazing to see him

carrying out what he ought to do in

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this time of Israel's, uh, plight.

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Uh, yeah, no, for sure.

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And there's a couple of things to just

make a couple of exegetical notes here.

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Uh, chapter three, the, the phrase

she uncovered his feet and lay down.

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You'll find some suggesting

something untoward is happening here.

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I find that.

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Preposterous given the rest of the book,

both Ruth and Boaz are held up as figures

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of integrity and so I, I don't believe

that there's anything shady going on here.

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I believe it is what it says.

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She was seeking refuge with him

and, and if anything, this was an

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advance towards him to say, please

redeem me if, if anything else,

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but I don't think there's anything.

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Immoral taking place.

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I agree.

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On the threshing floor.

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I agree.

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So I would, the commentators that suggest

that I, I don't think that's a, a good

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interpretation of what's happening here.

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And then the last thing to note, I

would say is just the end of the book

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where we have the genealogy of David

Ruth is David's great grandmother.

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So that is gonna show up in David's

life, even as he's on the run from Saul.

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Later on, he's gonna take his

parents and drop them off in Moab.

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As he's fleeing from Saul before he goes

into end Getty there, and the reason he

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drops them off in Moab is because of the

connection that goes all the way back

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to his great grandmother who was Ruth.

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And so we see here, uh, that there's

gonna be some familial connections

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that carry on even over to there.

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But Ruth is David's great

grandmother, which is really cool.

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Every time I read this I'm like,

okay, we're getting close to the,

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the high point of the Old Testament

with David and, and Solomon.

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Before we, we go downhill

pretty quickly after that.

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Also, his great-great-great-great.

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I don't know exactly how many greats,

but his great-great-great-great

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Grandfa mother was also Rahab, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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In a similar way to Ruth,

Rahab is an outsider, right?

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Rahab is somebody who, who

is not of God's people.

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Yet incredibly, both of these

women get included in the genealogy

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and the lineage of King David

and ultimately of King Jesus.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, which is awesome.

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And so if you're sitting

there going, can God use me?

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The answer is yes.

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Absolutely.

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Yes.

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I mean, he's not gonna write

you into the lineage of Christ.

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That's, that's done.

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We're, we're, we're past that now.

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But he can use you no matter

what your background is.

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If, if you've lived a worldly life

prior to coming to faith in Christ, but

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now you're in Christ, God can use you.

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God can redeem you.

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God can do great things through you.

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So.

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Don't sideline yourself and think,

well, I, he would never use me because

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in the past, this is who I used to

be, or because my family was this way.

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He doesn't operate that way.

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He, if you come to faith in Christ,

you're a new creation in Christ.

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And, uh, and he delights to use

the unlikely to do great things.

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So we see that in Ruth.

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Great book, awesome book.

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Hopefully you'll enjoy reading

through it, four chapters, but

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it's, it's, uh, such a good one.

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And one final thought is that if

you're a parent or maybe even a

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grandparent have a multi-generational

perspective on what you're doing.

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It's amazing that you see

Boaz and Ruth carrying out

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faithfulness in their lifetimes.

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And I have to think that that is part of

the reason why David is who he is and the

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project of parenting, the project of, of.

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Instruction and discipline and raising

up kids in the admonition of the Lord

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is not something that is this week.

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It's not something that's this month.

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It's not even this lifetime.

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It's something that, that will have a

resounding impact in generations to come.

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And I think you see that even here in

this book and what we know is coming.

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Yep.

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Well, let's flip over to the

New Testament reading, which is

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Luke 11 beginning in verse 29.

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We're gonna be in Luke 1129 through

50, I believe, or 51, uh, thereabouts.

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Uh, yeah.

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Luke 11.

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29 through 54, just like I

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Anyways, in here, uh, we, we get,

again, Jesus, in, in the Pharisees,

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we've seen this in the, the

gospels that we've read before.

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The conflict is continuing here

and it's becoming more intense as

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Jesus's earthly ministry goes along.

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Initially, they want proof.

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They're, they're saying, show us,

what, what sign are you gonna do to,

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to show us what, what evidence that

you can have to, to claim these things.

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This is where Jesus says, this

generation is an evil generation.

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It wants a sign, but your sign is

just gonna be the sign of Jonah.

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This is an allusion to his eventual

death and his resurrection,

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something that we just recently

celebrated this past weekend.

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Uh, but from here he's gonna go

really direct with them, uh, beginning

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in verse 37, where he's going to.

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This is paralleling Matthew 23

and some of the woe passages here.

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He's going to just directly confront the

hypocrisy of the Pharisees and, uh, in

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such a way that they're are certainly

gonna know that he's referring to them.

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Uh, verses 48 through 49, he says

something interesting in, in about

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how they're building the, the tombs of

the prophets, uh, the, the Pharisees

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during this day, they would decorate

them and, and they would build

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ornate edifices around the tombs.

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And so in doing that, the

Pharisees and the other Jews.

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In some ways we're participating

in the completion, that execution

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carried out by their ancestors.

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So he's appealing even to this tradition

of, of honoring the tombs of the prophets.

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But saying you guys are the

same as the, the generation that

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executed them to begin with.

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Uh, in fact, what you're honoring is

really the, the death by which they died.

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You, you would've been

doing the same thing.

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You're rejecting the one that's here, the

greater prophet that's here, just like

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they rejected the prophets in their day.

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And so Jesus is.

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Very aggressive with the Pharisees here.

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And then he is gonna tell them, ultimately

you're gonna be held accountable.

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And he says here, from rejecting

the prophets from Abel to

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Zechariah, which is really the

earliest, all the way to the last.

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And you say, well, where

was Abel a prophet?

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And this is where we get into the

idea of the, the blood of Abel.

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The blood of Christ speaks a

better word than the blood of Abel.

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Abel's blood crying out.

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For justice from the ground.

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That's the idea there of Abel as

the first prophet and then Zechariah

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would've been the last prophet.

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And so you're gonna be accountable.

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Jesus is saying for rejecting

what you know, this has been a

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common theme in Jesus' ministry.

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The one who is entrusted with much is

gonna be held accountable for much.

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And he's telling these religious

leaders, you've gotta a pretty severe

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judgment coming unless you repent.

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One of the things that's amazing to me.

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We were actually just talking about

this in our community, GRA community

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group last night, which I guess would've

been, which would've been Monday.

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Is how we can see these

things and not believe them.

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I mean, I made the joke about the Artemis

mission and everybody saying it's AI

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and it's faked, but we just have this

inclination to think, oh, if we could

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just see the resurrection of Jesus,

if we could just meet him if we could.

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You know, put our hand in side.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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If we could just see these things, we

would believe, and so many more people

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would believe, well, it actually turns

out that that's not the case at all.

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Right.

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And the pharisees and the lawyers had

full access, uh, to the Old Testament.

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They have the full revelation of the Old

Testament, and yet they don't believe and.

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We, we can't expect that something

would've really been different had they

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seen the actual sign of Jonah, if they'd

been there to see what happened to Jonah

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or if they'd seen these things happen.

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They're seeing Jesus perform miracles.

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They're hearing about Jesus

perform miracles, yet they

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continue down their path.

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Yeah.

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And it's tragic.

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Mm-hmm.

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And we need to make sure that, that

we're not gonna be guilty of that.

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In fact, you know, Matthew seven,

Jesus says there's gonna be many

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on that day who say, Lord, Lord.

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Didn't we do all these things?

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Weren't we there, weren't we around you?

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And there is no sal salvation by osmosis.

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You, you can't be saved by just

being close to things about God.

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You have to be saved by having a

relationship with God, which only comes

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through faith and repentance in Jesus.

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Uh, yeah, this is a, a, a

sobering passage for sure.

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So.

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Well, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we thank you for a book like Ruth,

the just deep breath that we get in

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the Old Testament before we continue to

read about just difficult, hard things.

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This reminder that you were still at

work even during the time of the judges,

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even during the time of, of depravity,

that's rearing its ugly head in such.

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Vile ways.

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You're still at work, you're still

weaving your story throughout creation.

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And so we thank you for the Book

of Ruth, how it communicates that

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to us and conveys that to us.

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It's true today as well.

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Even as we look around at the world

in which we live we see all kinds

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of things happening and, and we

can wonder or be tempted to ask

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ourselves, God, are you there?

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Are you aware?

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Are you, are you operating still and

you are today just like you were there?

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So increase our faith.

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Lord, do we pray and we

ask this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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