1 00:00:01,470 --> 00:00:02,970 Let's start with prayer. 2 00:00:03,430 --> 00:00:06,530 Heavenly Father, you're so wonderful, good, and gracious 3 00:00:06,530 --> 00:00:07,250 to us. 4 00:00:07,810 --> 00:00:09,810 May we learn more of thee this morning, 5 00:00:10,570 --> 00:00:12,550 and of our precious Lord Jesus Christ, and 6 00:00:12,550 --> 00:00:13,710 come to love you more. 7 00:00:14,430 --> 00:00:15,910 In our Lord's name I pray. 8 00:00:16,670 --> 00:00:17,230 Amen. 9 00:00:19,050 --> 00:00:24,330 1 Peter 2 has much rich, blessed teaching 10 00:00:24,330 --> 00:00:24,750 in it. 11 00:00:26,550 --> 00:00:29,390 I'll start with verse, look at verse 1 12 00:00:29,390 --> 00:00:32,950 and 2, and I'll start reading in verse 13 00:00:32,950 --> 00:00:35,790 3, chapter 2, verse Peter. 14 00:00:37,170 --> 00:00:39,230 If so be ye have tasted that the 15 00:00:39,230 --> 00:00:40,210 Lord is gracious. 16 00:00:41,110 --> 00:00:42,410 That is my testimony. 17 00:00:42,730 --> 00:00:45,050 I have tasted of how gracious the Lord 18 00:00:45,050 --> 00:00:47,970 is, and I thank Him for being ever 19 00:00:47,970 --> 00:00:51,350 so merciful and gracious to me. 20 00:00:51,350 --> 00:00:57,530 Verse 4, to whom coming as unto a 21 00:00:57,530 --> 00:01:04,349 living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen 22 00:01:04,349 --> 00:01:06,930 of God and precious. 23 00:01:08,230 --> 00:01:10,230 I like that word. 24 00:01:11,910 --> 00:01:15,390 So precious is Jesus my Savior, my King. 25 00:01:16,430 --> 00:01:19,090 His praise all the day long with rapture 26 00:01:19,090 --> 00:01:19,950 I sing. 27 00:01:20,950 --> 00:01:24,130 To Him in my weakness for strength I 28 00:01:24,130 --> 00:01:29,030 can cling, for He is so precious to 29 00:01:29,030 --> 00:01:29,870 me. 30 00:01:30,730 --> 00:01:34,790 Oh, He is so precious, so precious to 31 00:01:34,790 --> 00:01:35,430 me. 32 00:01:36,010 --> 00:01:40,150 Yes, He is so precious, so precious to 33 00:01:40,150 --> 00:01:40,990 me. 34 00:01:41,550 --> 00:01:47,970 Tis heaven below my Redeemer to know, for 35 00:01:47,970 --> 00:01:51,590 He is so precious to me. 36 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:55,550 I think the story goes that a Sunday 37 00:01:55,550 --> 00:01:58,410 school teacher asked the little children in her 38 00:01:58,410 --> 00:01:59,910 class, what's the meaning of precious? 39 00:02:00,270 --> 00:02:05,030 And a girl defined it precisely, precious just 40 00:02:05,030 --> 00:02:07,530 means precious, and that's about all precious can 41 00:02:07,530 --> 00:02:07,810 mean. 42 00:02:07,930 --> 00:02:10,490 You'll find that in Webster's Dictionary, no doubt. 43 00:02:10,810 --> 00:02:12,890 If not, he needs to get updated on 44 00:02:12,890 --> 00:02:14,230 the true meaning of precious. 45 00:02:14,230 --> 00:02:17,010 What a wonderful word it is. 46 00:02:18,050 --> 00:02:21,050 Verse 5, Ye also, as lively stones, are 47 00:02:21,050 --> 00:02:23,970 built up a spiritual house and holy priesthood 48 00:02:23,970 --> 00:02:30,210 to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God 49 00:02:30,210 --> 00:02:31,770 by Jesus Christ. 50 00:02:32,670 --> 00:02:35,890 Wherefore also it is contained in the Scriptures, 51 00:02:36,050 --> 00:02:39,570 Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, 52 00:02:40,270 --> 00:02:44,850 elect, precious, and he that believeth on him 53 00:02:44,850 --> 00:02:46,170 shall not be confounded. 54 00:02:46,950 --> 00:02:51,250 Unto you, therefore, which believe, he is precious. 55 00:02:52,330 --> 00:02:54,770 I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and 56 00:02:54,770 --> 00:02:56,870 that has made Him ever so precious to 57 00:02:56,870 --> 00:02:57,190 me. 58 00:02:57,970 --> 00:03:00,230 He's many different things to different people. 59 00:03:00,970 --> 00:03:03,070 And you can read here, the next one, 60 00:03:03,550 --> 00:03:05,510 the next phrase starts with but. 61 00:03:06,490 --> 00:03:09,890 Unto them which be disobedient, oh, we talk 62 00:03:09,890 --> 00:03:12,350 to the disobedient around us, and he's a 63 00:03:12,350 --> 00:03:14,610 lot of different things to them, a name 64 00:03:14,610 --> 00:03:17,150 to be taken in vain, a name to 65 00:03:17,150 --> 00:03:17,750 be cursed. 66 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:21,930 But unto them which be disobedient, the stone 67 00:03:21,930 --> 00:03:25,970 which the builders disallowed, the same is made 68 00:03:25,970 --> 00:03:29,110 the head of the corner, and a stone 69 00:03:29,110 --> 00:03:31,390 of stumbling, God forbid that we stumble over 70 00:03:31,390 --> 00:03:34,110 this stone of stumbling, as the majority of 71 00:03:34,110 --> 00:03:36,790 the human race does, and a rock of 72 00:03:36,790 --> 00:03:39,470 offense, may he never be an offense to 73 00:03:39,470 --> 00:03:41,890 us, and may we never be ashamed to 74 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:44,890 go without the count, going to him without 75 00:03:44,890 --> 00:03:46,870 the count, bearing his reproach. 76 00:03:47,970 --> 00:03:50,310 Even to them which stumble at the word 77 00:03:50,310 --> 00:03:54,750 being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed. 78 00:03:57,370 --> 00:04:00,270 He stood at my heart's door midst sunshine 79 00:04:00,270 --> 00:04:04,770 and rain, and patiently waited an entrance to 80 00:04:04,770 --> 00:04:09,510 gain, for shame that so long he entreated 81 00:04:09,510 --> 00:04:14,810 in vain, for he is so precious to 82 00:04:14,810 --> 00:04:15,570 me. 83 00:04:16,670 --> 00:04:20,750 Oh, he is so precious, so precious to 84 00:04:20,750 --> 00:04:21,350 me. 85 00:04:22,010 --> 00:04:26,170 Yes, he is so precious, so precious to 86 00:04:26,170 --> 00:04:27,210 me. 87 00:04:27,930 --> 00:04:33,910 His heaven below, my Redeemer to know, for 88 00:04:33,910 --> 00:04:37,170 he is so precious to me. 89 00:04:38,350 --> 00:04:40,070 That's why I like to stand out in 90 00:04:40,070 --> 00:04:43,010 public amongst the human race and sing unto 91 00:04:43,010 --> 00:04:46,410 him to let everyone I can know how 92 00:04:46,410 --> 00:04:47,870 precious he is to me. 93 00:04:48,970 --> 00:04:52,810 From Genesis, the beginning of Genesis, to Revelation, 94 00:04:53,050 --> 00:04:55,530 the Bible teaches us how precious he is. 95 00:04:56,350 --> 00:04:58,710 Each and every scripture is wonderful, blessed. 96 00:04:59,070 --> 00:05:00,950 We should study it life on much. 97 00:05:01,750 --> 00:05:05,870 I like the way his preciousness is revealed 98 00:05:05,870 --> 00:05:09,150 back in the short little love story of 99 00:05:09,150 --> 00:05:09,630 Ruth. 100 00:05:10,190 --> 00:05:12,230 If you would turn to it please. 101 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,440 Just before 1 Samuel, we have Ruth. 102 00:05:17,580 --> 00:05:19,780 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 103 00:05:19,900 --> 00:05:22,240 but before 1 Samuel is Ruth. 104 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,960 A very short book of four chapters, a 105 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,560 wonderful love story. 106 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:31,240 I always forget the husband's name. 107 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,860 Elimelech took his wife Naomi into a foreign 108 00:05:37,860 --> 00:05:40,720 land because of famines in Israel. 109 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,960 And his two sons married. 110 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,020 Elimelech died. 111 00:05:47,660 --> 00:05:48,780 Both sons married. 112 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,740 They must not have lived to be very 113 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:51,260 old. 114 00:05:52,060 --> 00:05:54,400 And Naomi is left there with her two 115 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,500 Moabites daughter-in-laws. 116 00:05:57,660 --> 00:06:01,860 And you can look in chapter 1, verse 117 00:06:01,860 --> 00:06:05,160 14, as Naomi plans to go back into 118 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:05,720 her land. 119 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,720 And she tells them, you stay here in 120 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:09,240 your land. 121 00:06:10,020 --> 00:06:12,380 And in verse 14, they lifted up their 122 00:06:12,380 --> 00:06:14,880 voice and wept again, and Orpah kissed her 123 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:15,420 mother-in-law. 124 00:06:15,540 --> 00:06:16,880 That's one daughter-in-law. 125 00:06:17,260 --> 00:06:20,460 But Ruth clave unto her. 126 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,120 I like that. 127 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,460 And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law 128 00:06:26,460 --> 00:06:29,060 has gone back unto her people and unto 129 00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:31,520 her gods, which is most regretful. 130 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,440 Return thou after thy sister-in-law. 131 00:06:36,460 --> 00:06:38,820 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave 132 00:06:38,820 --> 00:06:41,380 thee, nor to return from Balanath to thee. 133 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,520 For whither thou goest, I will go. 134 00:06:43,660 --> 00:06:45,000 Look at this determination. 135 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,860 And where thou lodgest, I will lodge. 136 00:06:48,860 --> 00:06:54,160 Thy people shall be my people, and thy 137 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:55,580 God my God. 138 00:06:56,020 --> 00:07:00,080 So she returns with Naomi back into Israel. 139 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:06,260 And starting in chapter 2, we see the 140 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:07,980 kinsmen of Naomi. 141 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,780 And in Ruth, we have our precious Lord 142 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:17,940 Jesus, His type of a kinsman redeemer, which 143 00:07:17,940 --> 00:07:20,900 is most important, and was most important in 144 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:25,680 the ordinances that the Lord set up for 145 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:26,680 the nation of Israel. 146 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,900 Now, as we read in chapter 2, this 147 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:32,460 kinsman is a type of our precious Lord 148 00:07:32,460 --> 00:07:34,040 and Savior Jesus Christ. 149 00:07:34,980 --> 00:07:36,820 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband, 150 00:07:37,020 --> 00:07:38,240 a mighty man of wealth. 151 00:07:38,740 --> 00:07:40,340 Our Lord owns it all. 152 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,940 The cattle on a thousand heels and the 153 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:45,080 taters under the heels, as the country preachers 154 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,140 always preached to me. 155 00:07:47,140 --> 00:07:50,900 And we have Boaz coming here in the 156 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:52,800 picture as that kinsman. 157 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,320 And likely you know the story quite well 158 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,620 that Ruth goes out to glean in the 159 00:08:00,620 --> 00:08:01,320 fields. 160 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,540 And she goes and gleans in Boaz' fields. 161 00:08:06,980 --> 00:08:08,360 And he meets up with her. 162 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,660 Look at verse 3 there of chapter 2. 163 00:08:11,660 --> 00:08:16,440 I like the way they greeted each other 164 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:17,140 at those times. 165 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,420 Verse 4, they greet each other, the Lord 166 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:21,200 be with you. 167 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:23,260 And they answered him, the Lord bless you. 168 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,020 That's wonderful greetings. 169 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,280 They say our goodbye used to be God 170 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:28,960 be with you. 171 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,059 And long before the Texan age, we chopped 172 00:08:33,059 --> 00:08:33,520 it down. 173 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:36,280 We chopped down the Lord be with you 174 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,520 to just goodbye and bye-bye. 175 00:08:40,539 --> 00:08:44,540 That's just about nothing of a greeting. 176 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:47,240 But here we have scriptural greetings that I 177 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,080 really like. 178 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,400 And you can see her gleaning there in 179 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,100 his fields and talking with Boaz. 180 00:08:54,260 --> 00:08:57,360 In verse 12, he speaks up and says, 181 00:08:57,500 --> 00:08:59,840 the Lord recompense thy work and a full 182 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,200 reward be given thee for the Lord God 183 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,780 of Israel under whose wings thou art come 184 00:09:04,780 --> 00:09:05,420 to trust. 185 00:09:05,420 --> 00:09:08,880 What a wonderful inheritance she entered into when 186 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,760 Ruth played to her mother-in-law and 187 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,840 left Moab and went to Israel and came 188 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,820 to trust under the wings of the Lord 189 00:09:16,820 --> 00:09:17,840 God of Israel. 190 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,620 Down in verse 16, we are familiar with 191 00:09:22,620 --> 00:09:25,500 Boaz telling the men, let her glean among 192 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:27,840 the sheaves even in verse 15 and verse 193 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,460 16 and let some handfuls of purpose fall 194 00:09:31,460 --> 00:09:32,740 there for her to pick up. 195 00:09:32,820 --> 00:09:34,440 That's a wonderful sermon itself. 196 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:35,820 A handful of purpose. 197 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:40,500 And Naomi talks to her daughter-in-law 198 00:09:42,460 --> 00:09:45,700 after Ruth comes back to the house with 199 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:48,240 the wheat, the grain, that she has gleaned 200 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:48,780 that day. 201 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,840 In verse 20 of chapter 2, Naomi said 202 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,000 to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he 203 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,780 of the Lord who has not left off 204 00:09:56,780 --> 00:09:58,540 his kindness to the living and to the 205 00:09:58,540 --> 00:09:58,860 dead. 206 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:01,740 And Naomi said unto her, For the man 207 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:05,280 is near a kin unto us. 208 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:07,660 One of our next kinsmen. 209 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,920 Here we have the kinsman-redeemer spoken of 210 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:11,540 much here. 211 00:10:12,220 --> 00:10:14,740 Go on through chapter 3 to see what 212 00:10:14,740 --> 00:10:18,540 goes on there talking of the redeemer-kinsman. 213 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:21,380 And I want to go on to chapter 214 00:10:21,380 --> 00:10:24,660 4 where the rest of the sermon is, 215 00:10:24,780 --> 00:10:26,760 the meat of the sermon is this morning. 216 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:31,720 And Boaz has spoken of this other redeemer 217 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,820 also as being a great man and a 218 00:10:34,820 --> 00:10:35,640 closer redeemer. 219 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:42,640 In chapter 3, he tells Ruth, chapter 3, 220 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:46,000 verse 13, Carry this night, and it shall 221 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,960 be in the morning that if he will 222 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,440 perform unto thee the part of a kinsman's 223 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,660 will, let him do the kinsman's part. 224 00:10:54,660 --> 00:10:58,060 In verse 12, he mentions, It is true 225 00:10:58,060 --> 00:11:01,340 that I am thy near kinsman, howbeit there 226 00:11:01,340 --> 00:11:03,280 is a kinsman nearer than I. 227 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:05,380 Now, we've got to keep both of these 228 00:11:05,380 --> 00:11:09,240 kinsmen in mind here because both of them 229 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:10,320 are most important. 230 00:11:11,380 --> 00:11:13,880 Verse 13, Let him do the part of 231 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:14,400 a kinsman. 232 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,680 He gets the first choice, this other unnamed 233 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:18,300 kinsman. 234 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:21,880 But if he will not do the part 235 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,060 of a kinsman to thee, then I will 236 00:11:24,060 --> 00:11:25,520 do the part of a kinsman to thee. 237 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,440 As the Lord liveth, lie down until the 238 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:28,680 morning. 239 00:11:29,740 --> 00:11:34,150 Now, let's go to chapter 4, verse 1. 240 00:11:34,330 --> 00:11:36,630 Then went Boaz up to the gate the 241 00:11:36,630 --> 00:11:39,670 next morning and set him down there. 242 00:11:39,830 --> 00:11:42,450 And behold, a kinsman of whom Boaz spake, 243 00:11:42,910 --> 00:11:46,590 never named here, came by unto whom he 244 00:11:46,590 --> 00:11:48,410 said, Ho, such a one. 245 00:11:49,210 --> 00:11:50,810 Turn aside, sit down here. 246 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:53,610 And he turned aside and sat down. 247 00:11:54,910 --> 00:11:56,250 When the Lord called me to be a 248 00:11:56,250 --> 00:11:59,310 missionary in Japan, often alone in my house, 249 00:11:59,730 --> 00:12:02,110 long many hours, I would put this on 250 00:12:02,110 --> 00:12:03,770 the low table that we sit at when 251 00:12:03,770 --> 00:12:04,850 we sit at the floor. 252 00:12:05,410 --> 00:12:07,950 And I'd kneel on the table and read 253 00:12:07,950 --> 00:12:10,530 and pray verse by verse, studying and letting 254 00:12:10,530 --> 00:12:11,790 the Holy Spirit teach me. 255 00:12:12,390 --> 00:12:15,290 No tuition was required, which was good because 256 00:12:15,290 --> 00:12:17,150 often I didn't have any money to eat 257 00:12:17,150 --> 00:12:17,390 with. 258 00:12:17,390 --> 00:12:20,510 So I'd just get in the Bible school 259 00:12:20,510 --> 00:12:22,090 with the Lord and the Holy Spirit. 260 00:12:23,010 --> 00:12:26,330 And praying through the book of Ruth, the 261 00:12:26,330 --> 00:12:30,250 Holy Spirit stopped me on this greeting that 262 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:32,790 Boaz gave to this unnamed kinsman. 263 00:12:33,410 --> 00:12:34,930 He said, Ho, such a one. 264 00:12:35,950 --> 00:12:39,670 So Boaz is looking up to him as 265 00:12:39,670 --> 00:12:41,490 greater than Boaz, I thought. 266 00:12:41,670 --> 00:12:43,270 And the Holy Spirit stopped me and said, 267 00:12:43,310 --> 00:12:44,330 there's something here. 268 00:12:45,030 --> 00:12:47,910 And I read it over and over again. 269 00:12:48,010 --> 00:12:49,170 And now I've been over a period of 270 00:12:49,170 --> 00:12:52,630 days that I said, if Boaz is a 271 00:12:52,630 --> 00:12:55,670 type of Christ, then this one that he 272 00:12:55,670 --> 00:12:58,530 pays tribute to as being higher than him 273 00:12:58,530 --> 00:13:00,330 would be God the Father. 274 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:06,110 And that opened up a whole new... 275 00:13:07,010 --> 00:13:10,150 a lot of whole new wisdom and blessing 276 00:13:10,150 --> 00:13:13,430 to me when I saw that and I 277 00:13:13,430 --> 00:13:16,210 believe to this day that it is true 278 00:13:16,210 --> 00:13:18,890 that this one represents God the Father. 279 00:13:20,750 --> 00:13:24,610 And in my Japanese Bible where it says, 280 00:13:24,830 --> 00:13:26,870 Ho, such a one, in Japanese it just 281 00:13:26,870 --> 00:13:27,670 says, Moshi Moshi. 282 00:13:28,170 --> 00:13:29,070 Hey there, hey there. 283 00:13:29,570 --> 00:13:31,430 And I don't know about the Proverbial Bibles 284 00:13:31,430 --> 00:13:33,510 here if they maintain this or not, but 285 00:13:33,510 --> 00:13:36,910 this is an important greeting that he greeted 286 00:13:36,910 --> 00:13:38,570 him as one higher than him. 287 00:13:39,530 --> 00:13:40,950 Turn aside and sit down. 288 00:13:40,950 --> 00:13:42,550 And he took the ten men of the 289 00:13:42,550 --> 00:13:43,830 elders and they sit down. 290 00:13:44,270 --> 00:13:46,830 So he talks to this unnamed kinsman, Redeemer, 291 00:13:47,550 --> 00:13:48,330 in verse 3. 292 00:13:49,190 --> 00:13:51,050 Now we're talking about God the Son and 293 00:13:51,050 --> 00:13:52,010 God the Father here. 294 00:13:52,650 --> 00:13:56,010 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that 295 00:13:56,010 --> 00:13:57,530 is come again out of the country of 296 00:13:57,530 --> 00:14:00,130 Moab, selleth a parcel of land which was 297 00:14:00,130 --> 00:14:02,310 of our brother Elimelech's. 298 00:14:03,730 --> 00:14:07,350 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, buy 299 00:14:07,350 --> 00:14:10,130 it before the inhabitants and before the elders 300 00:14:10,130 --> 00:14:11,010 of my people. 301 00:14:12,010 --> 00:14:14,870 If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it. 302 00:14:15,290 --> 00:14:17,510 But if thou wilt not redeem it, then 303 00:14:17,510 --> 00:14:19,530 tell me that I may know. 304 00:14:20,730 --> 00:14:23,810 For there is none to redeem it besides 305 00:14:23,810 --> 00:14:26,110 thee, and I am after thee. 306 00:14:26,790 --> 00:14:32,090 And this unnamed kinsman said, I will redeem 307 00:14:32,090 --> 00:14:32,550 it. 308 00:14:32,970 --> 00:14:35,430 Possibly before anything was created. 309 00:14:36,310 --> 00:14:38,710 God the Father and God the Son had 310 00:14:38,710 --> 00:14:40,990 a conversation such as this. 311 00:14:41,910 --> 00:14:46,330 And each of them agreed to redeem the 312 00:14:46,330 --> 00:14:49,230 fallen human race if and when the time 313 00:14:49,230 --> 00:14:49,630 came. 314 00:14:49,730 --> 00:14:52,170 And they probably already knowing everything, all knowing, 315 00:14:52,290 --> 00:14:53,530 they knew the time would come. 316 00:14:54,690 --> 00:14:57,750 And both of their minds was, I will 317 00:14:57,750 --> 00:14:58,430 redeem it. 318 00:14:58,790 --> 00:15:00,950 Because of that, my God is so precious 319 00:15:00,950 --> 00:15:01,490 to me. 320 00:15:03,170 --> 00:15:07,410 In verse 5, Boaz keeps explaining more things 321 00:15:07,410 --> 00:15:09,710 about this situation. 322 00:15:10,630 --> 00:15:13,290 Verse 5, then said Boaz, What day thou 323 00:15:13,290 --> 00:15:16,490 buy'st the field of the hand of Naomi, 324 00:15:17,050 --> 00:15:21,670 thou must buy also of Ruth the Moabitess, 325 00:15:22,430 --> 00:15:24,950 the wife of the dead, to raise up 326 00:15:24,950 --> 00:15:27,030 the name of the dead upon his inheritance. 327 00:15:28,330 --> 00:15:31,510 Now this throws a monkey wrench into the 328 00:15:31,510 --> 00:15:31,950 works. 329 00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:39,950 Because in Deuteronomy chapter 23, verse 3, the 330 00:15:39,950 --> 00:15:44,670 Lord God commanded the Israelites, An Ammonite or 331 00:15:44,670 --> 00:15:49,610 Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of 332 00:15:49,610 --> 00:15:52,850 the Lord even to their tenth generation. 333 00:15:53,650 --> 00:15:56,370 Shall they not enter into the congregation of 334 00:15:56,370 --> 00:15:57,410 the Lord forever. 335 00:15:58,370 --> 00:16:02,270 And that's why this unnamed redeemer says in 336 00:16:02,270 --> 00:16:05,070 verse 6, he immediately, we would think, he 337 00:16:05,070 --> 00:16:05,970 changed his mind. 338 00:16:06,510 --> 00:16:09,310 And the Kinsman said, I cannot redeem it 339 00:16:09,310 --> 00:16:14,250 for myself lest I mar my own inheritance. 340 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,720 Everyone I've listened to preach and every commentator 341 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,500 I've read on this, they speak against this 342 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:31,900 Kinsman redeemer for refusing to go ahead and 343 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:32,700 redeem it himself. 344 00:16:34,020 --> 00:16:35,780 But look what God the Father is saying 345 00:16:35,780 --> 00:16:36,600 here. 346 00:16:37,060 --> 00:16:40,060 I cannot redeem it for myself lest I 347 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:42,060 mar my own inheritance. 348 00:16:43,260 --> 00:16:46,520 Our almighty God who can do anything has 349 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,140 chosen and ordained that he will not defy 350 00:16:51,140 --> 00:16:51,880 himself. 351 00:16:54,170 --> 00:16:58,430 A God that lives from eternity past and 352 00:16:58,430 --> 00:17:00,810 for all eternity future who has no beginning 353 00:17:00,810 --> 00:17:01,430 and no end. 354 00:17:02,070 --> 00:17:03,250 He will not die. 355 00:17:03,849 --> 00:17:04,970 He cannot die. 356 00:17:06,010 --> 00:17:08,849 He must be on that throne ruling forever 357 00:17:08,849 --> 00:17:09,650 and ever. 358 00:17:10,910 --> 00:17:15,690 And a holy, righteous, pure, upright God cannot 359 00:17:15,690 --> 00:17:17,089 become sin. 360 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,619 And because of that, God the Father cannot 361 00:17:23,619 --> 00:17:25,760 come down here and redeem us. 362 00:17:27,460 --> 00:17:30,660 One of these two has to do the 363 00:17:30,660 --> 00:17:32,680 dirty work to put it in words that 364 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:33,620 we understand. 365 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,640 And one thing God the Father has done 366 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,420 from eternity past to eternity future, he sits 367 00:17:40,420 --> 00:17:43,860 on that throne ruling and reigning were he 368 00:17:43,860 --> 00:17:46,400 to leave off doing that for one second, 369 00:17:46,540 --> 00:17:48,180 I guess the whole universe would just spin 370 00:17:48,180 --> 00:17:49,200 out into chaos. 371 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,340 That is one of the main functions of 372 00:17:52,340 --> 00:17:53,240 God the Father. 373 00:17:54,020 --> 00:17:56,700 And that's why he begat and only begotten 374 00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:57,280 Son. 375 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,180 So that there's a Godhead, God the Father, 376 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:01,860 God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. 377 00:18:02,260 --> 00:18:03,900 God the Holy Spirit by whom God is 378 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:05,060 omnipresent. 379 00:18:07,170 --> 00:18:09,650 And here is Boaz, a type of God 380 00:18:09,650 --> 00:18:12,750 the Son, talking to this other kinsman, the 381 00:18:12,750 --> 00:18:15,170 Redeemer, that is a type of God the 382 00:18:15,170 --> 00:18:15,550 Father. 383 00:18:16,190 --> 00:18:18,130 I believe with all my heart that the 384 00:18:18,130 --> 00:18:19,690 Lord has taught me what I'm saying now 385 00:18:19,690 --> 00:18:22,890 and it's amazing to see how blind we 386 00:18:22,890 --> 00:18:26,030 can be, how blind the good commentators are. 387 00:18:26,150 --> 00:18:28,550 May God help us to each cry out 388 00:18:28,550 --> 00:18:31,430 to not be blind and not be mistaken 389 00:18:31,430 --> 00:18:33,750 about anything we read in the Bible. 390 00:18:34,270 --> 00:18:37,250 I read about them speaking, they write against 391 00:18:37,250 --> 00:18:39,770 him because he was just too good to 392 00:18:39,770 --> 00:18:41,570 take in that more about him. 393 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:42,470 It was forbidden. 394 00:18:42,970 --> 00:18:44,270 And God the Father's not going to step 395 00:18:44,270 --> 00:18:45,550 off that throne and come down here and 396 00:18:45,550 --> 00:18:46,310 die, praise God. 397 00:18:46,390 --> 00:18:47,810 He's going to rule and reign forever. 398 00:18:48,590 --> 00:18:50,450 And this is one reason why my Lord 399 00:18:50,450 --> 00:18:52,990 Jesus Christ is ever so precious to me. 400 00:18:53,630 --> 00:18:58,070 No other being in existence but Him could 401 00:18:58,070 --> 00:18:58,850 redeem me. 402 00:18:59,530 --> 00:19:01,370 Not my own daddy, not my own mommy, 403 00:19:01,770 --> 00:19:05,010 my brothers or sisters, none of my kinfolks 404 00:19:05,010 --> 00:19:08,810 on earth, none of my good friends, not 405 00:19:08,810 --> 00:19:10,150 even God the Holy Spirit. 406 00:19:10,230 --> 00:19:11,910 Apparently He doesn't take on a body. 407 00:19:12,670 --> 00:19:15,410 Not even God the Father could redeem me. 408 00:19:15,870 --> 00:19:18,410 I've got only one chance of being redeemed 409 00:19:18,410 --> 00:19:20,110 and saved from going to hell forever. 410 00:19:20,110 --> 00:19:23,150 That is if God the Son, the Lord 411 00:19:23,150 --> 00:19:25,850 Jesus Christ, will be willing to redeem me. 412 00:19:26,390 --> 00:19:28,870 And that's why He is so precious to 413 00:19:28,870 --> 00:19:29,110 me. 414 00:19:31,930 --> 00:19:34,370 At the end of verse 4, chapter 4, 415 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,000 But if thou wilt not redeem it, then 416 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 tell me that I may know, for there 417 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,980 is none to redeem it besides thee, and 418 00:19:43,980 --> 00:19:45,040 I am after thee. 419 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:47,200 And He said, I will redeem it. 420 00:19:47,860 --> 00:19:50,580 And then when He brings in Boaz, the 421 00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:54,300 Kennethsman Redeemer replies in verse 6, I cannot. 422 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:55,920 He didn't say I will not. 423 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:56,720 I'm not willing to. 424 00:19:57,460 --> 00:19:58,860 God cannot defy Himself. 425 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,440 I remember when I left the farm and 426 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:02,980 I believed every word in the Bible and 427 00:20:02,980 --> 00:20:04,000 I went to Auburn University. 428 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:05,760 I was around a lot of students that 429 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,240 didn't believe anything in the Bible. 430 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,320 And they like to probe you like this. 431 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,420 Can God make a stick with one end 432 00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:12,820 to it? 433 00:20:13,820 --> 00:20:15,940 Can God create a rock so big that 434 00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:16,920 He can't move it? 435 00:20:17,180 --> 00:20:18,560 They think they're smart, don't they? 436 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:20,800 When they meet that God in judgment, all 437 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,640 those questions are going to evaporate and they're 438 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,080 going to be trembling and such. 439 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:30,340 Oh, such is foolishness, vain foolishness before our 440 00:20:30,340 --> 00:20:32,760 Lord, man who thinks he's something that he 441 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:34,220 can come up with questions like that. 442 00:20:34,780 --> 00:20:37,100 God will not defy Himself and I praise 443 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:38,340 His name that He will not. 444 00:20:38,420 --> 00:20:40,600 Yes, He's the God that does the impossible. 445 00:20:40,860 --> 00:20:42,320 He's done it so many times for me 446 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,260 and I praise His name that He will 447 00:20:44,260 --> 00:20:45,540 not defy Himself. 448 00:20:46,140 --> 00:20:49,360 And the Kennethsman said, I cannot redeem it 449 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:49,960 for myself. 450 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,960 Lest I mar my own inheritance. 451 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,440 What is God the Father's inheritance? 452 00:20:55,940 --> 00:20:58,200 The entire universe that He created. 453 00:20:58,380 --> 00:20:59,420 All His creation. 454 00:21:00,740 --> 00:21:04,800 So he says to Boaz, Redeem thou my 455 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,540 right to thyself for I cannot redeem it. 456 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,340 So, what will Boaz do? 457 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,120 Now this was the manner in former time 458 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:22,000 in Israel concerning the redeeming and concerning changing. 459 00:21:23,180 --> 00:21:29,480 For to confirm all things, a man plucked 460 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,860 off his shoe and gave it to his 461 00:21:32,860 --> 00:21:33,200 neighbor. 462 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,140 And this was the testimony in Israel. 463 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:42,100 Therefore, the Kennethsman said unto Boaz, Thine for 464 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:42,500 thee. 465 00:21:43,660 --> 00:21:46,700 So he drew off his shoe and he 466 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:47,820 gave it to his neighbor. 467 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:50,620 And he said, I'm willing. 468 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,000 I'll go and redeem it. 469 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,060 I'll redeem that mobile. 470 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,500 And my Savior said, I'm willing to go, 471 00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:06,220 be born in a stable, be rejected by 472 00:22:06,220 --> 00:22:10,160 men before I'm even born, be despised and 473 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,500 rejected, and go through all the suffering that 474 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:16,260 we well know he went through hanging on 475 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:16,960 the cross. 476 00:22:17,980 --> 00:22:20,200 And the greatest agony must have been when 477 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,460 he said, my God, my God, why hast 478 00:22:24,460 --> 00:22:25,660 Thou forsaken me? 479 00:22:26,060 --> 00:22:28,840 He's going to have to be forsaken by 480 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,820 this greater Kennethsman for my sake so that 481 00:22:31,820 --> 00:22:34,760 I will not have to be forsaken by 482 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:35,180 God. 483 00:22:36,260 --> 00:22:38,420 And that was prophesied, you well know, in 484 00:22:38,420 --> 00:22:41,960 Psalm 22 where David said the exact words, 485 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:45,600 Psalm 22, verse 1, My God, my God, 486 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,620 why hast Thou forsaken me? 487 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:52,860 Why art Thou far from helping me and 488 00:22:52,860 --> 00:22:54,260 from the words of my roaring? 489 00:22:55,060 --> 00:22:57,580 And the answer is in verse 3, but 490 00:22:57,580 --> 00:22:58,740 Thou art holy. 491 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,760 A holy God turned His back on the 492 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,460 Son who had become sin and let Him 493 00:23:04,460 --> 00:23:04,900 die. 494 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,140 And my Savior was willing to suffer that 495 00:23:08,140 --> 00:23:10,860 for me so that God would not turn 496 00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:13,500 His back upon me and I could live 497 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:16,240 with my Lord and Creator God forever and 498 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:16,480 ever. 499 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,840 Therefore, the kingdoms of this world are all 500 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,500 given over to the Son. 501 00:23:24,220 --> 00:23:27,300 And God the Father allowed the Son to 502 00:23:27,300 --> 00:23:29,960 create these things, as Hebrews tells us. 503 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,140 And He's given Him also the church as 504 00:23:34,140 --> 00:23:35,200 His own body. 505 00:23:35,580 --> 00:23:37,320 That's why so much has been given to 506 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,480 this Son because He was willing. 507 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:43,320 The only one who had the ability or 508 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,560 the qualifications to redeem me and He was 509 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,220 ever so willing to do so. 510 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:50,580 And this all has been given to Him 511 00:23:50,580 --> 00:23:53,200 and truly He is most precious to me. 512 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,520 He promised that He hath appointed a place 513 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,340 where one day by faith in His marvelous 514 00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:07,540 grace I know I shall see Him, shall 515 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:11,860 look on His face, for He is so 516 00:24:11,860 --> 00:24:14,040 precious to me. 517 00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:19,680 Oh, He is so precious, so precious to 518 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:20,400 me. 519 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:26,200 Yes, He is so precious, so precious, you 520 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:26,920 see. 521 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:34,760 Tis heaven below my Redeemer to know for 522 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,420 He is so precious to me. 523 00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:41,000 Let's pray. 524 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,300 Lord Jesus, why would we ever want to 525 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:46,260 hold back anything from Thee? 526 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:49,060 Why would we not love Thee with all 527 00:24:49,060 --> 00:24:51,160 our hearts and serve Thee with all our 528 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:51,780 might? 529 00:24:52,340 --> 00:24:54,800 Lord, help us to pour out all of 530 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,780 our life's energies and resources unto Thee just 531 00:24:59,780 --> 00:25:01,380 as You poured out the last drop of 532 00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:03,580 Your life's blood for us on the cross, 533 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,400 the only being in existence who was qualified 534 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,540 to redeem us and You ever so willingly 535 00:25:10,540 --> 00:25:11,320 did so. 536 00:25:11,980 --> 00:25:14,880 Thank You for it, Lord, truly You're most 537 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,360 precious. 538 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,360 In our Lord's name I pray, Amen.