I am thankful to be here and
I'm humbled that your pastor would ask me to preach tonight.
I love you. Your pastor and his wife, I'm
so thankful for them and for their encouragement and their
example to me. It's a real blessing, a real
blessing for me to be here. I'm thankful for Rick and Jenny.
Jenny's replaced all the calories in my body that we've burned
up this week. We have eaten well. So I'm grateful
for them too. Turn with me in your Bibles to
the book of Ruth. The book of Ruth. I've had more than a couple of
ladies. Tell me especially recently in
preaching through this book. How much they enjoy. This story. I think ladies particularly their.
Their heart strings are tuned a little better than our ours
are and. They appreciate the story or. The fact that they can I identify
with a woman's life helpless. They can appreciate the help
of a faithful man. Before we look at this book,
I want to remind you that this is not a love story. This is
a gospel story. And we men think that we're pretty
tough in this world, you know, in terms of being able to get
by and do things on our own. This is a story about salvation.
And I would remind the men in particular tonight that Ruth. Particularly the mobile by this
and Naomi. Our picture of what we are by
nature without a husband. In this culture. A woman without
a husband without a father without a son. Was reduced to slavery
or reduced as Ruth and Naomi were begging. They were helpless
provide for themselves. And the women may be able to
identify with that aspect of a little better than we can.
But let's think about this story as it is a gospel story because
then we're just as helpless. We come into this world as a
woman without a husband, without a man, without a son, without
anyone to care for us. And we're as in need of a redeemer
as anyone is. I want to try to look at the
story for chapters in this book, and I want to try to look at
it as a whole, because it is a glorious, glorious gospel story. As I said, I preached through
this recently, and after the first Sunday, we began to refer
to this book as the Book of Boaz. The titles in the scriptures,
of course, were added later in order for us to identify the
book, so we didn't do any disrespect or violence to the Word of God
by changing the name of this book to the Book of Boaz. Boaz
is the central figure in this story. Boaz is a picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and these desperate, helpless women are
a picture of sinners in need of a Savior. Boaz name means
in him is strength. The other place where his name
is mentioned in the scriptures is in first Kings chapter seven
when Solomon built the temple and he puts those two huge pillars
twenty seven feet tall to hold up the porch on the front of
the pillar on the front of the temple and he called one Jacob. He shall provide and the other
Boaz in him is strength. And what the Lord has promised
he will provide. He has the power and the ability
to save sinners. That's really what this story
is about. So let's let's try to take it as a whole and go
through these four chapters quickly and see if we can with the Lord's
help get an overall view of how this story speaks to sinners
in need of a in need of a redeemer. in the first chapter of the scripture
says that it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled
that there was a famine in the land and a certain man of Bethlehem
went to sojourn in the country of Moab. He and his wife and
his two sons and the name of the man was a limelight in the
name of his wife was Naomi and the name of the two sons were
made on and surely on the prototypes of Bethlehem Judah and they came
into the country of Moab and continued there and a limelight
Naomi's husband died and she was left in her two sons and
they took them wives of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah
and the name of the other was Ruth and they dwelt there about
ten years and Malon and Chilean died. Also both of them and the
women the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. Now there's two things that we
can learn from the opening of this book. The first is that
Our father, Abraham, when he forsook the tree of life to partake
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he left the house of
bread. That's what Bethlehem means,
and he became a Moabite. He became a Moabite. He became
one that was in need of redemption, and in Adam, all have died. In Adam, we live in a pagan world. and by nature we are pagans remember
Moab was the was the offspring of lots in session with the fair
with his daughter and had been cursed of God from the very time
of his birth and all the descendants of Moab never knew anything of
God's blessing. That's where we come from and
it's because our father Adam took us there and the other the
other lesson to be learned here is that As we read on the story
we find out that a limelight was looking for greener pastures.
You know what times were hard in Bethlehem. There was a famine
in the land and economy wasn't good and there were job opportunities
in Moab and things would be better for him over there. And he picked
up and took his family from the place where God's blessings were
and took them to a pagan country. And there's a lesson here for
all of us isn't there. I spoke on this to our young people in
particular. Young people sometimes they They began to establish
careers and they see an opportunity to advance their position over
here and there's no there's no bread over there. There's no
life over there and they forsake Bethlehem to go to Moab and you
see the consequences of that a limo like dies his son's growing
up in Moab. They don't see anything wrong
with marrying a woman that's that the Lord had forbidden Israelites
to marry took took to themselves strange wives. And the consequences
were devastating for a limelight family. And now Ruth and Naomi
are left and with no place to go. The scripture tells us the
story about how they came back to Bethlehem. Paul puts it this
way in the book of Colossians chapter two he said if you'd
be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where
Christ said it at the right hand of God set your affections on
things above not on things of the earth. Regardless of how
not everybody left Israel we just read that there was a famine
in the land but there were a lot of people that stayed. They waited
it out and the Lord provided and now the famines come to an
end and Naomi says when she comes back in chapter one she says
I went out full. She sold all they sold all their
property sold the house sold the business and went to Moab
to start a new life. And now she says that I come.
I'm coming back in. They have lost everything. And
why do you call me? Yes, Naomi. Now, Naomi asked an interesting
question to her two daughter-in-laws in this first chapter. look with
me to burst him and they said under her surely we will return
with the unto the people and Naomi said turn again my daughter's
why will you go with me are you yet anymore are there yet anymore
sons in my womb that they may be your husband's turn again
my daughter's go your way for I am too old to have a husband
and if I should say I hope if I should have a husband also
tonight and should also bear sons would you care for them
so they are grown would you stay for them and from having husband's
name my daughter's free to be much for your face that the hand
of the Lord is going out against me and they lifted up their voice
and wept again and or part is her mother-in-law but Ruth played
to her. Ruth said Naomi said Ruthen verse
fifteen behold by sister-in-law is gone back into her people
and under her God's return now after by her in law. Naomi is giving Ruth every opportunity
to go back to my. Naomi saying to Ruth if you're
following me because you think that I'm going to be able to
provide for you some health wealth and prosperity in this world
I'm not going to be able to offer that to you I'm not going to
be able to give that to you. Now Naomi Ruth's response in the
next verse when she says let your God be my God and Where
you go, I'll go and where you die, I'll die. It's obvious that
Ruth had heard about the God of Israel, and Ruth was looking
for more from Naomi than just temporal pleasures and temporal
provisions. You know, the Lord Jesus Christ
does the same thing, doesn't he? Those that were following
him after he fed the 5,000, he turned to that crowd, he said,
the only reason you're following after me is so you can have your
belly full. If you really want to be my disciples, Deny yourself,
take up your cross and follow me. And the scripture says they
all went home. And the Lord turned to his disciples and he invited
them to leave. You know, in religion, they have
invitations, don't they? You know, the invitation in the
gospel church is leave if you can. That's the invitation. I've said that to our folks.
Leave if you can. That's what the Lord was saying
to the disciples. And what did they say? Lord, where should
we go? You alone have the words of eternal life. You know, religion
men take on the name of God and they take on the precious name
of our Savior because they think that he's going to be able to
provide for them a better life. And and all their sermons have
to do with, you know, kind of repairing and fixing up your
your daily cares, don't they? But the purpose of the gospel
is salvation. It's it's it's the forgiveness
of sin. It's to go back to the bread
of life and find hope. And that's that's that's part
of the story isn't it Naomi saying you know go back on leave go
back to your God and or her name means fleetness you know she
she had an opportunity to go back and she she ran on back
and a lot of people do that you tell a congregation of people
leave if you can and there's some that'll leave there's some
that'll leave but God's people won't be able to leave. They
won't be able to. Well, as we continue in this
story, we get to chapter two, where scripture tells us about
Ruth's experience in gleaning the fields of Boaz. Chapter two, verse one says,
And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband, a mighty man of wealth. That's what Boaz's name means,
a man of strength. And he's a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ. The only one that's able to redeem this helpless
woman and provide for her what she so desperately needs a man
of wealth and of the family of Illuminati. And his name was
Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess said unto
Naomi, Let me now go to the field and glean ears of corn after
him and whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her
daughter or unto her, Go, my daughter. And she went and came
and gleaned in the field after the reapers now gleaners were
worse off than service service at least had a master to care
for them. They had a they had some sort of house to stay in.
They had provisions given to them on a daily basis but the
gleaners. Those were the bankers. Those were the people that went
behind the harvesters and picked up the scraps best they could
hopefully having just enough to survive for the day and go
back again the next day. That's what we are. We're just
we're just beggars. Mercy beggars. Seeking enough
bread to get us through the day. That's what our Lord said that
we're to pray for, Lord. We're to pray the Lord to give
us our daily bread. The Israelites, you know, they
tried to gather up enough to hold them off for a few days,
and they woke up the next morning and it was full of worms, wasn't
it? Sometimes we have a tendency to want to live off of yesterday's
grace, but it doesn't work, does it? We're daily beggars just
gleaning enough. To get by for the day and tomorrow
the Lord promises to provide what we need for that. He will
give us grace upon grace to survive whatever circumstances he ordained
for one day at a time as the believers lost. Well that's where
that's where Ruth ends up. And it says, and her half was
to lie on the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of
the kindred of a limelight. Well, this is the Holy Spirit's
way of explaining to those who can't understand the fullness
of God's providence, how the Lord works everything out to
provide for his children. We don't see all the intricate
details. The Lord, the scripture says
her half was just so happened that she landed on that piece
of land. Just so happened that you and I are here tonight. And
there's no way for us to fully understand all the details that
the Lord has ordained and orchestrated in our lives to bring us to this
place. There's no possible way. Tell
you a story. Well, Paul says it like this.
He says, when it pleased the Lord who separated me from my
mother's womb. to and reveal to say separate
me from my mother's woman, called me by grace to reveal his son
in. And his conversion on the road
to Damascus is a well, he goes on in First Timothy to say that
it's a pattern for all that follow after him, but all the belief
he was a blasphemer. The scripture says he was an
injurious man. He he he he hated the Lord and the Lord arrested
him and stopped him. And he does the same thing for
every one of the children. That's the pattern of salvation. No man seeks after God at any
time. He seeks after us. And it just happens. It just
happens in his sovereign purpose that we end up where we're supposed
to be. And, you know, we see a little
bit of it, don't we? We don't see it all. We don't
see everything the Lord's doing. There's so many things that are
just beyond our understanding, our comprehension. The truth
is that this whole world is being ordained and ordered all the
events of this world for the sake of God the land for his
church. Kings and nations are risen up
and fallen for God's people. I'll tell you the story. I guess it was back in the late
80s when President Ronald Reagan stood up and said to Mr. Gorbachev bring down that wall. And. There were two families
living in Russia that had teenage children one of them was Eugene
another one was Natalie I tell you all this. And. Eugene Natalie moved with their
families are one of the first families out of Russia and they
moved to Denver Colorado. And they lived there for several
years and it just so happened that in in their seeking some
bread they were looking for some bread they were looking for the
Lord they were looking for something to help them and they got on
the Internet found our website started listening to messages
and for one year they sat in front of their computer. Every
Sunday morning and listen to the messages and the Lord was
pleased to save them and Eugene Natalie are now Ralph Dale's
church down in down in Charlotte North Carolina. And. You know
I just I don't know if anything else came of that of that. I
heard coming down. But to me it just served as an
example of how our God will bring down a whole nation to call out
his people and to say. And if we knew everything the
Lord had done in our lives we could that example would go over
and over and over every one of us. Well It just so happened that she
ends up in Boaz's field and she gleans in that field and Boaz
takes notice of her and. He. He says in chapter three. Naomi, then Naomi, her mother-in-law,
said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee that
I may be well with thee? And now is not Boaz of our kindred
with whose maidens thou was. Behold, he went with barley tonight
in the threshing floor. Now, Boaz had already taken notice
of her in chapter three and and gave to her a handful of purpose
in chapter three and told his servants to treat her well. and
told her to take it all gave her permission permission as
a beggar to drink from and eat at the table of of the service. And there again we see a picture
of how the Lord takes those who are picking up scraps and just
give more and more doesn't he just give them grace upon grace.
And now it's time for Ruth to seek out Boaz as her redeemer. And so Naomi tells her that he's
going to be down at the threshing floor you know that's where we
are right now where is the way I think that the threshing floor
he's got even where the bread of life is being is being separated
from the chaff and where it's being being provided for the
children and this is what we're doing right now is that the threshing
floor was located on the highest plateau in the area where the
wind would blow and they would take the the wheat or the corn
and they crush it there and throw it up into the air and the wind
would blow and take away the chaff and the bread would be
left. You know that's exactly what
we're doing right now. There's a lot of chaff in here
isn't there? I mean there's a lot of wood
hay and stubble in every one of us isn't there? But when the
wind of God's Spirit is pleased to blow, He exposes that chaff
for what it is and He leaves that bread that provides our
spiritual sustenance. And Naomi knew that that's where
Boaz would be. So she said, go down to the threshing
floor. He's going to be there. And she tells him in verse three,
she says, wash thyself, therefore, to anoint thee and put thy raiment
upon thee and get thee down to the floor, but make not thyself
known unto the man until he have done eating and drinking. You know, there's something to
be said here about preparation for worship, and I was so impressed
tonight. With the attitude of the men
in the study, just quiet, and praying, and reading scripture,
and just preparing their hearts to meet the Lord. That's what
Naomi's saying to Ruth here, Broke Paul. She's saying, you
wash yourself, and you get yourself ready, and you be prepared to
meet Boaz. There's some there's preparations
that ought to take place. You know we sometimes we rush
into this place half hearted and not really thinking about
the fact that this is where we're meeting. The man of strength
the man of wealth the man in whom all riches abide. And we need to be prayerful and
prepared. And this rain that that that
robe of righteousness that's the only way we can we can approach
our Boaz. So she went down to the floor
in verse six and did according to all that her mother-in-law
made her. She, you know, I've read commentaries on the book
of Boaz and they want to make some big deal about this woman
being at the place of the threshing floor at night, lying at the
feet of the man. And you know how it was shameful.
It's not. That's not about this. The gospel
story. That's what we do. Like Mary, we we sit at the master's
feet, don't we? We we come up to him quietly
and and humbly and with our head bowed and we say truth Lord that's
me I'm a dog I'm unworthy servant but all that a crumb from the
master's table might fall and we go right to his feet we just
line his feet that he'll be that he'll that he'll be merciful
to take his skirt and cover us that's that's the picture here. And Boaz does but here's the
here's the conclusion of the matter. Beginning in verse nine
of chapter three or verse eight, and it came to pass at midnight
when the man was when the man was afraid and turned himself
and behold, a woman lay at his feet and he said, Who are thou?
And she answered, I am Ruth, thine handmaid. Spread therefore
thy skirt over thine handmaid, for thou art a near kinsman. Thou art a redeemer. You've got
the power, you've got the right. the purchase back from those
that bought our property and return it to our family. You've
got to where you've got the right to take us back in. That was
the that was the Levitical law wasn't it. If the near kinsman
was to purchase those things back that were taken away. And
and so she begs Boaz to redeem her. And verse 10, and he said,
Blessed be thou, the Lord, my daughter, for thou has showed
more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning in as much
as thou follow us, not after young men, whether poor or rich.
Now, there's a lot of enticing things, there's a deceitfulness
of riches and a lot of enticements that this world has to offer
Ruth with a young woman, she that was, I'm sure, young men
that would have been interested in her, maybe a rich young man. She could have she could have
thought after. But she speaks after that. That
near. To redeem. Joshua put it like this. He said. Why all between. If God be God serve him if they'll
then serve him as for me and my family will serve. We know
that salvation is a sovereign work of God's grace. He has to
regenerate us. He has to give to us the gift
of faith. But we're enticed in this world. There's no such thing
as free will, but there's a lot of choices to be made, isn't
there? A lot of choices. And Boaz says to Ruth, you could
have chosen over here, but you sought that which was better.
And he says look at verse ten the beginning of verse ten blessed
be thou the Lord. This is the blessing of God upon
you that you would make this choice. Blessed art thou find
in Barjona flesh and blood has not revealed this unto you my
father which is in heaven. You wouldn't do this had you
not been blessed. Verse eleven and now my daughter
fear not I will do to thee all that thou requires. For all the
city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman, and
now it is true that I am thy near kinsman, howbeit there is
a kinsman nearer than I." There's another brother that's closer
to Elimelech than I am in bloodline, in relation, and you've got to
answer to him first before I can redeem you. carry this night and it shall
be in the morning that he will perform on to be the part of
a kinsman. Well, let him do the kinsman part, but if you will
not do the part of a kinsman to the then will I do the part
of the kinsman to be as the Lord live of lie down until morning
and she lied down his feet until morning. She rose up before one
could know another and He said, Let it not be known that a woman
came into the floor. Also, he said, Bring the veil
that thou hast upon thee and hold it. And when she held it,
he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her. And she went
into the city. And when she came to her mother-in-law,
she said, Who are thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the
man had done to her. And she said that these are six
measures of barley that he gave to me. For he said to me, Go
not empty unto thy mother-in-law. Then said she, sit still my daughter
until I know how the matter will fall for the man will not be
in rest until he has finished the thing this day. I know Boaz. And I know that he's not going
to rest until he's finished what he promised. No, that's. That's
the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? He set out to do the father's
will. The father's will was to redeem
those that the father had given to him in the covenant of grace,
and he said his face like Flint towards Jerusalem. He didn't
rest until he was able to say, Father, John chapter seventeen,
I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And then
on Calvary's cross, it is finished. He didn't rest. He finished what
he set out to do. Then went Boaz up to the gate
and sat him down there. And behold, the kinsman of whom
Boaz spake came by, unto whom he said, Ho, such a one. Turn aside, sit down here. And
he turned aside and sat down. And he took ten men of the elders
of the city and said, Sit you down here. And they sat down.
And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come out of the
country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land which was of our brother
Elimelech. And I thought to advertise thee saying by before the inhabitants
and before the elders of my people, if that will redeem it, then
redeem it. But if that will not redeem it,
then tell me that I may know for there is none to redeem it
besides thee, and I am after thee, and he said, I will redeem
it. This near kinsman said. I'll I'll buy her back. I'll purchase her. She's an Israelite,
according to the law of God. There'll be no problem. You know,
she's an elder lady. Perhaps she'll be of service
in my home. She'll help take care of the
children, the grandchildren. She can help cook. She's not
going to be a big burden. She's an Israelite. She's a child
of God. I'll redeem her. All right. Verse five, then said Boaz, What
day thou by thy bias, the field of the hand of Naomi, Naomi,
thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the
dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
I remember what the Moabitess were, the Moabites. They were
cursed of God. They were outside of Israel.
This is that Syrophoenician woman. This is naming the leper. This
is the this is the pagan outside of the grace of God. Outside
of any hope of salvation and the kinsman said this is that
nearer kinsman nearer than Boaz. I cannot redeem it for myself,
lest I mar my own inheritance redeemed out my right to thyself.
I cannot redeem. This kinsman that was nearer
to Ruth than was Naomi. As Ruth is a picture of the center.
And as well as the picture of our savior. This mirror can picture
of the law. You know Adam was put under the
covenant of works before he could enjoy the covenant of grace.
Adam had to answer to the law. I just I can't redeem that. I
can't read there's no redemption in the law. Less I borrow my inheritance.
God's standard of holiness is perfect and he can't be lowered.
The law cannot redeem the law can't save the law can only curse
the law can only judge all this nearer kinsman could say to Ruth
is you're unclean. If I bring you into my home,
you're going to make my whole household unclean. If you can redeem it, then you
redeem it. I cannot. There's no redemption in the
law of God. Men try to find their redemption in the law, don't
they? They try to find their redemption in their works of
righteousness. They try to find their redemption in their pretended
performances, in their prideful obedience and and their competition
with one another. Oh, that's particularly evident
in religion, but it's natural for all men to think that the
law can redeem them. I can somehow perform enough
obedience to the law of God that it's going to be able to redeem
me. And the law says I cannot redeem him. If I burn you into my household,
it'll infect my whole household. All right. So he says to Boaz,
you redeem him. of our seven and this was the
matter in the former time in Israel concerning redeeming and
concerning changing for to confirm all things a man plucked off
his shoe and gave it to his neighbor and this was a testimony in Israel.
Now if we go back to the Levitical law when a man died his brother
was responsible to take his wife and raise up children by his
wife in order to keep the name of the brother in the family. And if the brother refused to
take his brothers, his dead brother's wife, then the widow was to take
this unfaithful brother before the elders of the city and take
off his shoe before the city and shame him before all the
elders for his unwillingness. Now, where's another place we
see in the scriptures of the man taking off his shoe? The burning
bush. Moses, take off your shoe. Or
you're standing on holy ground. You see, the symbolism and scripture
of the taking off of the shoe was to show servitude and humility
and submission. Now, in the next verse, it's
not clear as to who took off his shoe. And I think that's here for a
reason. Because it's appropriate for either one of them to take
it off. Look what it says verse eight therefore the kinsman said
in the Boaz buy it for the so we grew off his shoes. You see the truth is. That the
Lord Jesus Christ and his life of righteousness here on this
earth became the end of the law for righteousness sake or he
served the law. He kept the law of God. He was
a servant of the law. He satisfied all the demands
of the law before God Almighty as our substitute. He provided
satisfaction of obedience and righteousness that was acceptable.
So, the scripture says you are now accepted in the good life. And so, the Lord Jesus Christ
was a servant of the law. You know, now that he's fulfilled
all the demands and requirements of the law, the law is a servant
to him. Which one drew off her shoe? Well, I don't know. Maybe
they both did. Maybe they both did. But that's the picture. And notice that Boaz goes to
the city gate before all the elders and publicly calls this
law to deal with him. You know, he's the only one that
can do that. He's the only one that can do that. Purpose of
the law is to make sin utterly sinful. The law exposes us for
what we are. We can't. We have nothing to
say to the law. The law has nothing to say to us but curses and judgment. The Lord Jesus Christ satisfied
not only the requirements of the law through his obedience,
but he satisfied the requirements of justice through his shed blood.
When God the Father pulled out his sword of justice and sheathed
it into the heart of his dear son, the requirements of justice
for sin were satisfied. You know, I thought about this
recently, I never had really thought about it in this context,
but you read a book like Fox's Book of Martyrs, you read horrifying
stories of believers that have suffered persecution. The very
first one mentioned in Scripture, Stephen Stone there in Acts chapter
seven, isn't it? How does Stephen go to the Lord
in his death? Scripture says his face became
like an angel. And he was rejoicing over the
fact that he was able to suffer for righteousness sake. And that
story is told over and over again. Believers have been tied to the
stake and fire set beneath them. And they sang praises to the
Lord right up to the very moment where the smoke took away their
breath and they could speak no more. The fire consumed them
as they rejoiced. We don't see anything like that
at Calvary's cross, do we? Scripture says that And his image
was so, his visage was so marred that no man would look upon him. There's no face like an angel
on the Lord Jesus Christ. And we hear of no singing or
rejoicing from the lips of our Savior on Calvary's cross. Oh,
we hear cries of agony. My God, my God, why'st thou forsaken
me? Well, it'd be blasphemous to
suggest that those saints that have died as martyrs had more
faith than did the Lord Jesus Christ. What's the difference?
The difference is that God, the Holy Spirit, gave those saints
of His special, special grace in their hour of need. Oh, He
grew near to them, filled their hearts with His peace and with
His joy and with His comfort, and provided them everything
they needed to go through that hour. But when justice was being needed
out, when sin was being paid for, when in His body was put
all the sins of His people upon that tree. There's no blessing
of God. Now the sky is blackened. The
earth, the earth shakes. And there's no one there. There's
no comfort from God's Spirit. There's no presence from the
Father. There couldn't be. It pleased God to bruise Him. When God saw our sin on his son,
it was required by his holy justice that he provide for him no comfort,
no encouragement. But nothing but his unadulterated
wrath, the Lord Jesus Christ drank to the bitter dregs, that
cup of God's wrath, without any help, without any assistance.
That's our redemption. That's Boaz. He made himself
no reputation, he suffered as a servant, even unto the death
of the cross. God has now given him a name
that is above everything. The name of our Boaz. In him is strength, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Moabitess, like us, every one
of us. Women who cannot provide for
themselves, desperate beggars, find a redeemer. that records
with that first. Makes things right with him.
Both of him for his inability to redeem and then step in and
provide redemption. As a as a one of the all the
stories in the Old Testament of the story of the book about
him in the volume of the book is written. And I hope that'll
be. an encouragement and reminder
to all of us of what the Lord has done for us in Christ. Amen. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I'm going to sing of my Redeemer,
and His wondrous love to me On the cruel old cross He suffered,
from the curse to set me free. Sing, O sing of my Redeemer,
with His blood He purchased me. On the cross He steals my pardon,
takes the death and made me free. I will sing of my Redeemer, and
his heavenly love to me. He from death in life hath brought
me, Son of God, with him to be. Sing, oh sing of my Redeemer. With His blood He purchased me
on the cross. He filled my heart and made me
free.