If you will, let's turn to Ruth.
Look at Ruth. You got Joshua, Judges, Ruth,
and then 1 and 2 Samuel. Turn to Ruth. I just couldn't get away. We
mention that often, the kinsman redeemer. I just couldn't stop
thinking about this week, this Redeemer, this kinsman, Boaz. We call it the book of Ruth,
and this is about Boaz. And I think this will be better
than bullion for you. This will be a blessing. It was
to me, and I think you'll just rejoice with me. So, here in
Ruth chapter two, look at verse one. Ruth 2, verse 1, and Naomi, we
remember she had went down to Moab with her husband Elimelech,
and they had two sons, and her husband was killed and her sons
had died. She was all alone down there
in that place of Moab, and she was brought back to the house
of bread. And she had two daughters-in-law,
and the one weeped and cried and hugged her and told her how
much she loved her, but she wouldn't go with her. And Ruth said, wherever
you go, I'm going. Whatever you eat, I'm eating.
Wherever you die, I'm dying. Your God's my God. We're one,
unity. And I made it back there to the
house of bread. And it says, Naomi had a kinsman
of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth. of the family of Elimelech,
and his name was Boaz. This Boaz, this is the main character
of the book of Ruth. We always look to Ruth because
that's us. We see how this affects us, but
this is the bright and shining character of this whole book,
the whole book, whole Bible. He's the near kinsman. He's the
kinsman redeemer, and he's a picture of Christ, our kinsman redeemer. That word redeem means to buy
again. to buy back, to take possession
of. If you see many of them, I thought
they'd be more to military town. Maybe if I go down there by the
ocean, there's pawn shops and you take something of value,
put it in there and you get a ticket. And whenever you go redeem that,
you get it back. But you gotta pay a price agreed
upon before, but you get back what you have because you've
redeemed it. You took that possession to you. It's your lawful possession
and either you can take it or a lawful representative of you
may redeem it. Someone on your behalf can. God declares this in his law. This is a very old thing. Look here in Leviticus 25. A
few books to the left. Leviticus 25, verse 25. Leviticus 25, 25. If thy brother
be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession,
and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem
that which his brother sold. If you have the ability to buy
it back, just go get it. If you want it and you can, if
you want to go down and get something at Target, you just go get it.
If you can and you want to. But this is someone that sold
it because they had to sell it. They couldn't afford to keep
it, and they have no means to redeem it. But if you've got
a brother, if you've got a relation to you, they can go buy that
for you. That's legal. They can do that.
They can redeem it for you, and it goes right back to being yours,
if they're so pleased. If they have the ability and
they're pleased, and the Lord goes through there, about if you sold land and those
things, and if you can't get it, nobody else can get it, nobody's
willing to, you've got to wait. You gotta wait till that year
of Jubilee. But look down in verse 47. Sometimes a man's so poor
that you sell yourself. This isn't just about a home
or a prized object or something like that. This is ourselves. Leviticus 25, 47. And if a sojourner
or a stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth
by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, or sojourner
by thee, or the stock of the stranger's family. After that
he is sold, he may be redeemed again. One of his brethren may
redeem him. Either his uncle or his uncle's
son may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin." They're closely
related to you, and they're willing to do this. I said, well, we're
second cousins. That's close enough. You're related.
Unto him of his family may redeem him. Or if he be able, he may
redeem himself. Well, if you've sold yourself
into sin, into slavery, you can't redeem yourself. You'd wax poor. That's how you got there in the
first place. And the hole that we're in, this is a picture of
sin. The hole that we're in, we just keep digging deeper and
deeper and deeper. And anything I try to do to climb
out, it just makes it fall in on you more, doesn't it? So it
has to be somebody that's able to do it, somebody that's willing
to do it, and they have to be related to us. A cow don't count. A giraffe won't do. This has
to be a human. A human has to do this, just
like me. That means they have to be awful worthy, too, don't
they? Who is this poor brother, this one that sold themselves
in? Look here in Psalm 49. Psalm 49. Psalm 49, verse six. A brother
that's become so poor they've sold themselves away, they're
not able to redeem themselves back. That's every sinner that's
died an atom, that's us. No sinner can redeem himself
and we can't get out from underneath that divine justice and I can't
help you and you can't help me. We're in bad shape, ain't we?
Psalm 49, verse six. They that trust in their wealth
and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, it ain't just
talking about money, is it? That's all the other idols we
have. I'm pretty smart, I can push
through. I'm big and strong for a moment
until a bug gets inside of me. None of them can by verse seven,
none of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give to
God a ransom. Verse nine, that he should still
live forever and not see corruption. There's no riches that we can
even consider or think of or any talents or abilities that's
in us. I can't redeem myself and I can't
redeem somebody else. I can't be of no help to anybody
by myself. And this is important. See verse
eight, that's in parentheses, for the redemption of their soul
is precious. and it ceaseth forever. We have a soul, and Lord has
to make it valuable to us. We have to see the importance
of our own soul, and this is eternal matters, and there's
gonna be an eternal death, it's gonna cease forever. But that
redemption, I can't do it, you can't do it, I can't do it for
you, you can't do it for me. This soul that's so cast down and
so sold to sin for it to be redeemed, The act of that, oh, that's precious. This is important. This is important. Now, if that's precious to you,
I'll tell you what, I'll jump ahead. The one that does, it's
gonna be more precious. Our eyes gonna lock on that one.
There's gonna be nothing but love and adoration and praise. Oh, it's gonna be precious. Lord
does this. We'll find him precious. That's what the scriptures say.
Christ is a redeemer because he alone is able. He can take that justice of God,
all that the Lord requires, and it's precious because he had
to sacrifice himself for it. He gave himself a ransom. Paul
told us there in Romans 3, being justified, we've all sinned,
all of us come short of the glory of God, but being justified freely
by his grace, because he wanted to. Nothing in us. Through the
redemption, this is a redeemed possession, that's in person,
Christ Jesus, in Christ Jesus. Christ is our kinsman redeemer.
We see that from his law. The right to redemption was always
dependent on those three things, had to be related, had to be
kin, able, and had to be willing, willing to do it. Boaz was a
near kin to Ruth. And that son of God became our
kinsman by being incarnated, by being born of a woman, being
made under that law, he became a man. really in the flesh, taking
on the nature of all God's chosen people, all of his seed, and
he was holy and without sin, that he might redeem his people.
And he bore all that guilt and all that punishment, and we can't
even enter into that, because he wanted to, and he was able,
and he was made like us, and I couldn't do it, and he can.
You couldn't do it, and he did it. He did it. Well, let's see
next hour. It's finished. Where does that leave us? Happy.
Rejoicing. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. And
we don't. There's days I woke up this morning sad and tired.
I wonder why my back hurt. Maybe this evening I'll get down
and sad too. We were in this old body of death. It happens
to all of us. When we get a glimpse of him, when he makes his precious
to us, boy, it's real precious, real precious, real precious.
Christ is able to redeem. This man Boaz was of great wealth. His name means strength. Boaz
means strength. Christ is able to redeem because
of his great wealth and his power, his strength to be God and man,
the God man. And the father gave Christ our
kinsman redeemer. He gave him all power over all
flesh. It said, as he has given them power over all flesh, that
he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
God chose the people. That's not offensive if you see
that none of us deserve to be chosen. You know how it was on
a kindergarten or whatever, playground, and you don't get picked for
a sport. You feel sad, don't you? So I, man, I deserve to
be picked. I'm, I was tall. People picked
me for basketball and then real, real fast, they found that I
wasn't good at basketball. And then there's the ones that
were sad. But the Lord picked us. He loves Jacob. If we realize we're Esau's, by
nature, that's all we are. It's not that, how could God
hate Esau? No, how could he love Jacob? Because of this one, because
of this person, because of his blood that was shed, the price,
the redeemed, the method of redemption. Boaz is gonna be willing to redeem
Ruth, that one that hung on that cross for the joy that was set
before him. He said, no man takes my life
from me, I lay it down willingly. I'm doing this. And this one,
our master, our kinsman, he's fully able and fully willing.
Now here's back in our text there in Ruth 2, Ruth chapter 2. Here's our kinsman, redeemer,
just as pure, sovereign, holy, unblemished grace towards his
people. We see this picture of God's
sight, we see who he is, and we see him drawing in that grace
his child to our Redeemer. Verse two. And Ruth the Moabitess
said unto Naomi, let me now go to the field and glean ears of
corn after him, in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said
unto her, go, my daughter. And she went and came and gleaned
in the field after the reapers, and her hat was to lie on the
part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the kindred
of Elimelech. Only God's irresistible love
can make a sinner desire and be hungry for His grace. In those
days, those old laws, whenever you harvested a field with grain
or corn or whatever, you couldn't do the corners. You had to leave
those. If something fell down, you had to leave it. And that
way the poor folks could come through, the homeless could come
through and glean and take it in. Our homeless problem's increasing
in this nation, but it ain't nothing like this. And they'd
go through and they'd get some food to have. And Ruth said,
I'm gonna go down there and maybe they'll be gracious to me. She
was brought down there. She was drawn to God's house
out of hunger. And she's going to find out two
things. She's going to find out she's poor. I guess you'd think
about that a lot, wouldn't you? She's down there digging through
corn or wheat that happened to land on the ground. How did I
end up here? I used to have it good. How did I end up here?
She's going to find out personally, one-on-one, she's the poor one.
And she's going to hear about a wealthy kinsman. A message
is gonna come to her. And a result of that, Naomi,
she says to Naomi, let me go to the field and glean the ears
of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. If I find
anything to eat, it's just gonna be a grace alone. That's it. Someone's about to be gracious
to me. That's what God does in his child by his grace. He draws
us to that house of bread, to his field, and he teaches us
we're poor. And he has to divinely reveal that in our hearts, that
we're unable to redeem ourselves, we're under the curse of the
law, and he brings us in that need to find grace in the one
that provides. We'll look at that next hour,
too. Jehovah-Jireh, the one that provides. What good news when
a poor sinner finds himself saying, let me go after him whose eyes
I might find grace. than that poor sinner. If we
ever come to that point, we've already found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. If we ever brought down to digging through a cornfield
and we said, Lord, you're gonna have to be gracious to me. I
want you to be gracious. I know there's nothing in me
to earn it. I don't want a fair wage. That's dead. I need grace. If a sinner's truly in the heart,
looking to Christ and begging for that, you've already found
it. That's an act of grace to be there. To ask for grace is
the Lord being gracious to us. It is. Something revealed, revealed
in us. We see this in the Lord's providence,
don't we? A sinner flees to Christ and it's because it's according
to God's eternal purpose and his power and his providence
and his will. That's the only reason. Verse
three, and she went and came and gleaned in the field after
the reapers and her hap, that means it just so happened, Her
hat was to light on part of the field belonging to Boaz, which
was of the kindred of Elimelech. Just so happened, her hat. I
thought, the Lord's the best storyteller that ever was. He's
the best writer, the best poet, the best teacher. He knows just
how to word things so we can get a hold of it, don't we? He
did, this wasn't luck of the draw. The Lord was just speaking
to us in terms we understand. This is an eternal purpose. Throughout
time, he purposed to have this woman, this Ruth, this Moabitess,
Mary Boaz, and they're gonna have a son named Obed, and he's
gonna have a couple of children. One of them's gonna be named
Jesse. Down the line, we'll have King David all the way down. In that
house of David, there's gonna be Christ. He's purposed this
for maternity. And that same way that every
sinner, God saves. Nothing's by accident. Nothing's
insignificant. Nothing's out of his control.
His all wise providence to save his children. And in doing so,
Ruth gets a benefit in this, don't we? We get a hold of that
because we're poor. Boaz gets all the glory. The Redeemer,
the kinsman Redeemer is the one that gets all the glory. We didn't
help. We didn't hold the basket while he did the work. We didn't
do nothing. We just laid at his feet. She laid down on his feet
later on. She's probably cold. Let me put
that blanket over her. Warm, just so he might always
lay there and wouldn't do nothing. Our hap, just so happen. You
might be driving down the road one day and see a church policeman.
Just so happen, coming underneath the sound of the gospel, being
given bread of life, being made to know our inability, our hunger,
And that he's provided everything through that law, put away sin,
put away death, conquered every bit of it. We're at his feet. If God be for us, if our kinsman
redeemer be for us, who could be against us is what we'll say.
He did all of it. And like our sister Ruth, when
we seek Christ, the only one that can be gracious, if we're
truly made to seek him, we find him. If we've truly been given
a hunger, we'll be fed. If we're truly made thirsty,
we'll have plenty to drink. Every time. All who truly seek Christ will
find him. And they'll be instructed by him. Here in verse four. And
behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. Boaz came from Bethlehem to his
field where Ruth was weaning. The Lord comes through his spirit,
from his house above to his church, to this field, this field of
labor, through his word and through a message from him for his children. It says in verse 4, Behold, Boaz
came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, The
Lord be with you. And they answered, The Lord bless thee. Lord bless
them. I've had people tell me that
throughout the week, and I say that too, and I mean it, and
I hope I understand how much I mean it, and I hope I understand
how much they mean it. Lord be with you today. Lord bless you. I pray for you, I pray the Lord's
with you all this morning. Somebody texted that to me real early
this morning. I was thankful, I wrote them back. I pray the
Lord's with you too. We'll bless you and keep you,
make his face shine upon you and give you peace. Let you see
his countenance. See him. He's precious. Verse five. And said Boaz unto
his servant that was set over the reapers, whose damsel's this? Who's she? He knows everybody
that's supposed to be there and everybody that's not there. And he notices something. knows
it all. And the servant that was set
over the reapers answered and said, it is the Moabitish damsel
that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. And she
said, she asked us, I pray you, let me glean and gather after
the reapers among the sheaves. So she came and hath continued
even from the morning until now. She tarried a little in the house.
She's been here all day. She ate some lunch. They gave
a full report, didn't they? She came to us, we let her, she's
hungry, that's right. Let her eat. And buddy, I tell
you what, she's working hard. Been here all day, morning till
night. Right there, she's real hungry. She's probably got some
other people she knows that's gonna be hungry. She's gonna
have something to give them. Have something to have for Naomi,
isn't it? When someone new, a new person comes and they begin to
desire to hear that simple gospel preached, they're like Ruth saying,
let me glean. They've been drawn there in Crossfield.
And his people, through his preachers and his people, all of us, we
preach Christ. We. They begin to speak Christ
to them, and they begin praying for them, don't they? You ever
had a friend or a loved one or an enemy? I don't bring too many
enemies to church with me, I should. They won't work with me, they
won't pray with me either, but if we had an enemy with us, and
they was there sitting in a pew next to us, and they was hearing
that message, wouldn't you want them to rejoice? These people
gave a report of that. They prayed for him. The masters
give our redeemer. He gives the message and the
command to those that labor in his field. It's already there.
All of them. They're all his servants. Moaz
owns the whole thing. He said, you leave handfuls of
purpose for them. She's there. Who's that? That's
a damsel. That's the Moabitess. Leave handfuls
of purpose. What purpose? Well, we gotta
go out and give corn to the poor. No, that ain't what I'm talking
about. Help those. Somebody needs help, help them. Somebody needs
to take a gas or some groceries, buy them some groceries. That's
fine. That's good. But tell them about God's purpose. His purpose
in electing grace, His purpose in redeeming grace. That's what
we're looking at today. In regenerating grace. That's what's going to
happen to Ruth. Through all this, there's a new life growing. Plants
growing there. From that seed of preserving
grace, it won't wither. It ain't gonna fade away. It's
gonna bring forth fruit. He's the owner of the vineyard.
He's the one that prunes all these things and does all these
things. And it's all in that person. It's all in that redeemer.
And we're complete in him. We're complete in him. Then in
his time, Christ speaks to that child who he drew underneath
his word. He brought him there to his field and he talks to
him. He speaks. Verse eight. Then said Boaz unto
Ruth, hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in any in another
field. Neither go from hence, but abide
here fast by my maidens. You don't go nowhere else. Don't
you go getting food nowhere else. You go eat right here with my
people. You don't wanna go nowhere, but I'm gonna take good care
of you. There ain't food nowhere else. There's food here. And
let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou
after them. Have I not charged the young
men that they shall not touch thee? And when thou art athirst,
go into the vessels and drink of that which the young men have
drawn, just like everybody else in that field. You gonna eat
the same thing they eat, that you wanna drink out of the same well that
they're drinking out of? You drink all you want and eat
all you want. Ain't nobody gonna bother you. You stay right there.
I've told them, I've commanded it. I have. That's so. Is somebody going to sneak one
over on the Lord and hurt one of his sheep and him not know
about it? That's the master of the field. It's his field. In
his faith, Christ draws his child to his field and Christ comes
to that field and he gives the message to drop handfuls of purpose
just for that child. And Christ speaks to his child
and gives that effectual command. That means it gets the job done.
Hear me, my daughter, hear. Don't go glean in another field.
I'm your man. You ain't got to worry about
finding nothing else. Boy, we learned that this week, didn't
we? I'm your provider. He's provided everything. You
feed on my gospel and this gospel alone. You eat this gospel, you
don't want to eat no other gospel. Some can eat this gospel, that
gospel, whatever gospel, but if you're related to this one,
if he's bought you, from before time, and we just ain't revealed
it yet. You going to eat in this field?
You can't eat in another field. I have no desire to eat in another field.
You'll cross fields now. You abide fast with my maidens.
And y'all got the same story. We do. I do. You do. We do, don't
we? They did, too. Boy, Boaz is something, isn't
he? There's good food here. That water's clear and clean.
And he's good to us every day. He's wonderful. People ask, where are you going?
I'm down at Boaz. You heard about him? I sat under
Boaz. Christ commands his child to
follow his people as they follow him. And he promises nobody's
gonna hurt you, I've commanded it. What a thought. What's the result of that effectual
grace? Here's the result when Christ speaks effectually to
the heart through the Holy Spirit, verse 10. Ruth 2, verse 10. Then
she fell on her face. and bowed herself to the ground,
and said unto him, why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou
shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? Isn't
that what we looked at recently? All those prophets, old Isaiah
and Job, whatever one of them do, Moses. I'm prostrate before the Lord.
A guy talking to a chaplain in the army told me this. With mortars
coming in, you gotta lay down and try to get in a shelter.
And he said, everyone now is prostrate before the Lord. Ah,
buddy, don't mock him. He puts us in the dirt, and that's
bowing. That's bowing. That's looking
at him alone and not to ourselves. Boy, it's a good place to be.
You ain't gonna starve to death there. She bowed down, fell on
her face, and bowed herself to the ground and said unto him,
why have I found grace in thine eyes? Thou shalt take knowledge
of me, seeing I'm a stranger. I ain't nothing like you. I'm
a stranger. I'm a foreigner. I'm an alien. And she comes to him. Why have
I failed, Grace? Have you ever asked yourself
that? Has the Lord been good to you? And you thought, why has he been
so good to me? That's grace. That's what grace is. It's unmerited.
We didn't do nothing for him to do it. And ain't you just
amazed? Ain't you thankful? My dad said that. And I thought,
well, he's just crazy. He had all kinds of little crazy things.
He said, the Lord's blessed me in spite of myself. I said, what's
that even mean? And then I grew some. And as much as I seem like I'm
swimming against the current and doing everything I can to
undo everything the Lord's done, he's merciful and gracious. I
was having fellowship with a fellow. this week we didn't sit down
and talk about you know theological standpoints or what's happening
in the lowest providence he owns a bunch of chicken coops and
he said i got these chicken houses him and his brothers and he said
Used to, me and my brother, when we'd get a new chicken house
or we'd get a new tractor, we'd just say, well, we need to get
a new tractor. And they'd go get a new tractor. And he said,
all those years, he knew the Lord from a young man. He's older
now. And he said, all those years,
he said, not once did I ask the Lord and pray about me getting
a tractor or say, Lord, is this your will for us that we'd have
another chicken house? A big chicken, not a chicken
house like I had. They got 30, 40,000 chickens in each house.
And he said, I never did ask. He said, boy, the Lord taught
me that. And he said, now I pray about it. And I ask him and look
to him for just daily things. He said, and when I wasn't asking
him all those years, he blessed me in spite of myself. He was
good to us anyway. And that just makes me love him
all the more, don't you? You seen that, Thelia? How neglectful
we were, I was. And I didn't ask the Lord about
that. I didn't seek his face. I didn't seek his will. I didn't
wait on him. And regardless of me, he's faithful. You love him yet? You in love
yet? You want to get married? But I have to sit and think about
it. I talked to a friend of mine, old army buddy. He's thinking
about getting married. He said, I've been thinking about
this for weeks. And I said, if you got to think out long, there's
your answer. It's like one of my children needed a kidney.
I just said, well, let me think about that a couple. Take it.
Cut me open now. Here. We're going to sit and
think about it, sit on that fence to see if we're in love with
this kinsman redeemer. But we love him. We love him. We love him. You can't keep from
him. Verse 11, and Boaz answered and
said unto her, It hath fully been showed me all that thou
hast done unto my mother-in-law since the death of thine husband,
and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother in the land of
night and nightivity, and art coming to a people which thou
knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work,
a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under
whose wings thou art come to trust. Boaz says, you left your
mom and your dad to come here to eat. And you've left your
nations that you was born onto, all that identity you had to
come here to eat, to come here to be redeemed. And you didn't
really know us people, but you said, that's my people. And you
clung to them. And the Lord's done this. And you're going to
get a full reward. He said, look how good you was
to your mother-in-law. She's hungry, and you fed her.
She's in jail, and you visit her. She was sick, and you took
her some chicken noodle soup. Well done, my good and faithful
servant. Oh, you've done wonderful. When did we ever see Naomi sick?
When did we ever? She wasn't ever in prison. What
are you talking about? You know what the Lord talked about? Same thing.
He said, oh, we did wonderful works in your name, and we witnessed
in your name, and we've done all these great things. We healed
the sick in your name. He said, apart from me, I don't
know you. You're telling me all the stuff you did. And he looked at those
and said, Lord, we never saw you in prison. We never saw you
sick. And he said, you did wonderful. Why? Because you've been redeemed.
You're in that one that did it all for you. Boaz is about to
change her last name. You get that? They're going to
get married. She's going to have to learn how to sign checks different.
Start practicing signing that last name. We've been given a
last name, man. We've been married. How did she do all that? Paul
told us in Ephesians four, by grace are you saved through faith
in that and all yourself. It's a gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. You ain't gonna brag about it.
You're gonna brag about him. For we are his workmanship. He's
done all this. Created in Jesus Christ unto
good works. Which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in. Walk in. What's the good works?
What's those acts of righteousness? First John just over and over
and over again. We've got two things. Believe Christ, love
your brethren. Believe Christ, love your brethren.
How can we not believe him? There's a new creation in us
that can't see it. It's holy, without blame, unreprovable.
And his sight before him in love, we're right there with him. Can't
keep from it. Can't get from it. at Kinsman Redeemer. He's redeemed all of his elect.
He ain't gonna lose one. And we're drawn to seek him.
And if time goes on, all those that he's loved before time with
never-lasting love, they're gonna be brought to him too. And they're
gonna be made hungry. And they're gonna bow down. And he's gonna
water them and feed them and look after them and command their
protection and everything and keep them and give them a new
name all the way to the end. And all who seek him, they're gonna
find him and they'll be instructed by him. Seeking you'll find knock it
shall be given. What a what a wonderful command, isn't it? Look to the
Redeemer. Can we follow that command? Can
we keep from it? We can say that's where we want
to look at. I pray it's a blessing to you. It was to me. Let's pray
together. Father, how often we forget About
your field, about your corn, your wells, your water, and the precious kinsman that's provided
it all for us. Thank you for the faithfulness
of Christ. What a wonderful Redeemer we
have, Lord. We seem like strangers. Why have
we found grace in His sight? Marvelous grace, infinite grace. Lord, draw us, keep us there,
keep us with your maidens in your field, feed us as you so
faithfully have. Lord, and draw those that yet
know him. Don't yet know Christ. Draw those
to this field to hear of him. Bless their hearts, feed their
souls, Lord, as you promised you will. We know you will. But
we ask and raise up laborers for this harvest. Raise up more
servants, Lord, as you've commanded us to, for those that are in
need. Young men or old men, you know. And your will be done. Thank you
for your providence of allowing us to see this take place. Thank
you for the work you've done in the hearts of your people,
Lord, in spite of ourselves. It's because of Christ we ask
these things. Amen. We'll meet back at 1030.