All right, in Ruth, we'll be
reading from chapter 2, verse 1 through 4, then we'll go to
chapter 3, then to chapter 4, and read a few passages of the
scripture. The forbiddance of God unfolds
wonderfully in this great book. So look at Ruth chapter 2 and
verse 1 through 4. And Naomi had a kinsman of her
husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and
his name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess said unto
Naomi, let us 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 watch this statement. And
her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz,
who was of the kinsmen kindred of Elimelech. And behold, Boaz
came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be
with you. And they answered him, The Lord
bless thee. All right, in chapter 3, Let's
read verse 12 and verse 13. And now it is true that I am
thy nearer kinsman, howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. Tarry this night, and it shall
be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the work
of a kinsman well. Let him do the kinsman's part.
But if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will
I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth. lie down until the morning."
Chapter 4, verse 1 through verse 12. Then went Boaz up to the
gate and set him down there, and behold, the kinsman the kinsmen
of whom Boaz spake came by, unto whom he said, Ho, such a one,
turn aside, sit down. And he turned aside and sat down. And he took ten men of the elders
of the city and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. And he said unto the kinsmen,
Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth
a parcel of land which was our brother Elimelech's. And I thought
to advertise thee, saying, buy it before the inhabitants and
before the elders of the people. If thou will redeem it, redeem
it. But if thou will not redeem it,
then tell me that I may know. For there is none to redeem it
beside thee, and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it. Then said Boaz, what day thou
buy'st the field at the hand of 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. And the kinsman said, I cannot
redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Redeem thou my right to thyself,
for I cannot redeem it. Now this was the manner in former
times in Israel 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. Therefore the kinsman said unto
Boaz, buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe. And Boaz said unto the elders
and unto the people, ye are witnesses this day. that I have bought
all that was Elimelech's, all that was Chileon's, and Melon's
of the hand of Naomi. Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess,
the wife, literally the widow of Melon, have I purchased to
be my wife to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance
that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren
and from the gate of this place ye are witnesses this day." And
all the people that were in the gate and the elders said, we
are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that
has come unto thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which too
did build up the house of Israel, and to thou worthily in Ephratah,
and be famous in Bethlehem. And let thy house be like the
house of Phares, whom Tamar bear unto Judah, of the seed which
the Lord shall give thee of this young woman." Now in the morning
we'll try to bring all of that together to look at it as a human
type of the God-man, even the Lord Jesus Christ. Now I think
it is well, first study on such a matter, for us to spend a little
time having an introduction and familiarizing ourselves with
this custom or habit in the land of Israel. It would require some
kind of an introduction in order that we might become familiar
with the types and the shadows and the symbols and such like
that are there in the Old Testament and fulfilled in something in
the New Testament. Now let's recall some of the
New Testament passages which speak of person and thing that
are called type by the New Testament authors. They refer to these
things and call them by the name of types. Perhaps the outstanding
one is Romans 5 and verse 14. where Adam is called a figure
of him that was to come. A figure was Adam of the coming
one. Adam and Christ stand as type
and anti-type in the blessed and holy scripture. Now, another
word in the New Testament is the word shadow, and you see
it in such places as Colossians chapter two and verse 17, that
certain things in the ceremonial law were, quote, a shadow of
things to come, a shadow of coming things. and with this contract,
but the body is Christ. They were a shadow, but the body
or the essence or the reality of it is the Lord Jesus Christ. You see it in Hebrews chapter
8 and verse 5, that the Jewish priest, quote, served under the
example. or literally, the representation
and the shadow of heavenly things, that those Old Testament priests
were serving under a representation of heavenly things. Again in
Hebrews 10 verse 1, the law having a shadow of good things to come
and not the very image of the things themselves. They were
in shadow form in the old economy. In Hebrews chapter 8 and verse
5 we have the word pattern which is the same word figure in Romans
chapter 5 and verse 14 of Adam. And again you have the word figure
in Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 9, that the tabernacle, and listen
under this, the tabernacle was a figure for the time then present. It was not the reality or the
final thing, but it was a figure or a shadow or a type of it. In Hebrews 11 and verse 19, you
remember that when Abraham offered Isaac on the altar, we read in
Hebrews 11, and verse 19, that he raised Isaac in a figure,
that the raising of Isaac figured something about Christ and something
in the New Testament. In 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse
21, the ark and a figure of baptism we read. Now the words are not
all exactly the same Greek words that we find in the New Testament,
so it will be necessary that we might quickly consider them
individually for our better understanding and use of them. Now the word
in Romans 5 and 14 figure the word tupos or tupos which
we see many time in the New Testament. It means a type and it means
a stamp or an imprint that like something was stamped with a
stamp to make an image or an imprint, so that it was stamped
in a way that it resembled as the die cast the imprint upon
something, therefore the word type. And the word tupos appears
in the New Testament where it's translated by other words where
we can clearly catch the meaning of it. I'll give you a few quickly
in passing. John chapter 20, 25. The print
of the nail in the side of our Lord is that same word, tupos. And then again, in Acts 7 and
43, it figures, referring to the false gods of the heathen. In Acts 7, 44, it is fashion
and one and the same word. In Acts 23 and 25, it is manner. Manner, same word as in Romans
5 and verse 14. And in 1 Corinthians 10 and 6,
and it is examples or example. Now these things were example,
these things were example as Paul recalls them. Hebrews 8
and 5 pattern, a pattern of the things that were showed him in
the mouth. Now the word shadow as we have
it in the New Testament. It is sung six times by my count
in the New Testament scripture and it is the word skia as a
shadow, a shade, It refers to a restriction of full light. Darkly, but not the fullness
of the light. An outline or a shadow that might
be cast of an object. Now the word appears in the New
Testament in such places as Acts chapter 5 and verse 15. Of the shadow of Peter passing
by that some might be healed by that. In Colossians 2 and
17, shadow of things to come. Hebrews 8, 5 and 10, 1, the shadow
of heavenly things that were to come. And Hebrews 10 and 1
add something also. Not the very image of the thing. These things were a shadow. They
were not the very or the literal image. They were a shadow, an
imperfect image, but a shadow nevertheless. Now one of the
better descriptions of these things and their study that I've
run across, I found in the writing of Brother Thomas Goodwin, a
Puritan from an age long gone by. And I share that quote with
you now. A type of a thing to come is
a prophetical resemblance wherein something imperfect going before
is intended by God to signify something more notable and perfect
to follow after." This is a good description of the type and the
shadow. So we should not lose sight of
the fact that there are many types and shadows and figures
of truth in the Old Testament that set forth something about
our blessed Lord. Now, let's look at a couple of
things. Two ends that were served by these types under the old
economy. Number one, to the children of
God, they had their first and their proper essence. The types
as they practiced them, as they saw them, as they beheld them,
nourished their faith. This kept alive their faith and
their hope. and their expectation. It whitted
their desire for the coming one that God had promised to send
into the world. It let them, as it were, see
through a glass darkly, as Paul said unto the Corinthians, so
that some by faith, like Abraham, actually saw the day of Christ
and was glad and rejoiced in it. Abraham, by the promises
by the types in the shadows saw the day of Christ and was glad
of it. But secondly, the types also
gave occasion for sinners and for hypocrites to stumble at
the truth that was right before their eye. Not seeing what the
types represented at all, taking them only as present ceremonies,
they practiced them in that fashion. Now that being said, while it
was true that the greatest type of our Lord's expiation and redemption
were not set forth by human type, but by the animal sacrifices,
who were shed as expiatory sacrifices, shed their blood for none of
these human type actually were put to death or shed their blood
because their blood would not be a proper atonement for sin. But without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sin. And so the expiatory sacrifices
of the animals and the shed blood and the burning of their body
therefore pointed to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And that's why John called him
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. The Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. Two of the greatest
in the Old Testament being the Passover Lamb in Egypt and the
Lamb of God in the prophecy of Isaiah and the yearly atonement
made for the children of Israel. Still it's saying that some of
the amazing types of the Lord Jesus Christ, and there are several
of them in the Old Testament, Some of one sort, some of another. And they show him one part of
Christ, another part of the God-man, and of his person, and of his
work. That there was something in their
person, work or calling. that foreshadowed something about
the coming of the Lord's Christ into the world. And when we see
that, the New Testament comes more alive. It's not just dead
letters and history and long names that we can't pronounce.
For there, you see, Christ, they wrote of me, the Lord Jesus Christ
said unto those. Now the clear statement, I said,
of the two posts again may be Romans 5 and 14, where Paul calls
Adam a figure of the one that was coming. Moses said something
interesting. One like unto me will the Lord
your God raise up. You shall hear him and listen
to him, Deuteronomy chapter 18 and 15. And this one was Christ,
as we learned from Acts 3, 22, and 7, and 37, that one, like
Moses, was none other than Christ. And the Lord saying, here's another
type, Jonah. The Lord said, as Jonah was three
days, three nights in the bowels of the earth, so shall the Son
of Man be three days and three nights in the bowels of the earth. And the great whale belched Jonah
out after three days and night, so the grave could not hold our
Lord beyond three days and beyond three nights. So, to quickly
name a few, Adam, a type of Christ, Melchizedek, a type of his priesthood,
Isaac, a type of a promised son and a beloved son, Moses, a mediator,
and Redeemer and Deliverer, and Jonah raised from the dead after
three days, David a king, and on and on we might go, the human
types of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, in this study, however,
we want to focus on one of the most obscure types of the Lord,
perhaps, that we have in all of the Old Testament, and yet
one very, very important, and it is the only place where we
have this one set forth in type in the Old Testament. It's in
the book of Ruth, and the name of the human type is none other
than Boaz. Boaz was the Goel, G-O-E-L, a
kinsman redeemer. It's what makes him prominent
and a blessing unto them. And it is as the Goel, or the
kinsman redeemer, that he is a human type of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Not just of his owning a farm
and barley and that kind of thing, but as a redeeming kinsman, that
he is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the book of Ruth
gives us the best look and the best example of this one any
place in the Old Testament. Now there was a custom in Israel,
which was coming out in this passage of the scripture, that
the work of the Goel, or the kinsman-redeemer, that raised
up the name of the dead, and the providence of God shines
very brightly in the direction of Ruth and of Naomi, takes her
to the very field of the very man who is a kinsman redeemer
and turned out to be very willing to perform that work in their
behalf. Now to get to our text today,
let's give a very brief summary up to this point of the book
of Ruth and the conditions of that time that prevail. The book opens in chapter 1 with
a sad account of a family of Israel in Bethlehem. The man's
name, the husband and the father, was Elimelech. His wife was Naomi. They had two sons, and because
of a great famine in the land, they decided to go down into
the land of Moab, a heathen land, a worshipper of heathen gods. And while they were there, the
hand of the Lord went out bitterly against this family. Elimelech
died. The husband, the father, the
breadwinner of the family died, leaving Naomi a widow and with
two sons. Each one of them married a Moabite
wife. We know about their name, Ruth
and Orpah. The two sons also died while
they were there in that land, leaving three widows. in that land, a foreign land.
Chapter 1 and verse 5. Now word came, good news from
a far land. Word came from a far country,
how the Lord had visited his people again. Chapter 1 and verse
6, that there was now bread in Bethlehem. The famine was broken. Again, the land flourishes. There
is bread in Bethlehem. And Naomi set out for Bethlehem
immediately. We remember the two daughters-in-law.
Orpah turned back, went back to her people, went back unto
her gods. But the scripture said that Ruth
stayed with Naomi, clave unto her. We have that great statement,
whether you go, I'll go. Whether you die, I'll die there.
will I be buried, thy people shall be my people indeed. And so they arrived in Bethlehem,
again the providence of God shining out in the very time of beginning
of barley harvest. The character which we wish to
study is brought before us here in chapter 2 and verse 1, kind
of matter-of-factly, in fact, is he brought before us. But
it is very significant when the writer mentions this man Boaz. And he lays the foundation here
for that what follows. So if you note, in Roof Two and
One, The man's name was Boaz. He's called Boaz in Matthew 1,
verse 5, where he's referred to. Some say that his name means,
I am strength. Boaz, I am strength, or in him
is strength. And strangely, this is the same
name that was given to one of the pillars in the temple of
Solomon, 2 Chronicles 3, 17, because of its strength and ability
to bear up. Now, two things are significant
in Ruth chapter 2 and verse 1. Number one, Boaz was a kinsman. A kinsman of who? a kinsman of
Elimelech, thus a kinsman of his wife Naomi, and even of Ruth,
who was in that family. And in your memory, it will soon
be brought before us again. Store that word kinsman. Naomi had a kinsman. His name was Boaz. Secondly, we noted that Boaz
was a mighty man of valor and of wealth. As seen in his farming
operation, for one, He was a farmer of a great one. He also was a
God-fearing man, or as Gil called him, a truly religious man. Remember, he came, greeted his
workers, mourning. May the Lord bless you. And they
blessed him in return. Boaz was a godly man, a man that
feared the Lord. Now, in chapter 2, Now we consider
the great unfolding of the providence of God, including and guiding
Ruth and Boaz in their situation. Now, in verse 1, a kinsman of
Naomi, Ewa. In verse 2, Ruth goes forth to
glean what's left of the workers, fell here and there, loose grain
here and there about the field, not in great piles, but loose
grain here and there in the corner of the field. And sometimes left
by the workers' own purpose, that the widows and the orphans
and the poor might gather it up, as commanded in Deuteronomy
24, and 19, Leviticus 19 and 9 and 10. Now, that some will
extend this kindness to her is her prayer as she goes forward. Verse 3, her hap, her hap happened,
you see it in the margin. Boy, this is provident. Her hap
happened on the very part of the field belonging unto Boaz. or have happened, if you look
at it in the margin, without any knowledge. or any consideration
of who might own it or what his name was. Without any intent
to seek one field over another, divine providence guided Ruth
to glean in the very field owned by Boaz, a kinsman and a redeemer. This was not luck. This was not
chance. This was divine the ordered provident
that directed her step. Now, which led Ruth, under Naomi's
guidance, to go and do what was commanded of a maid in Israel. Chapter 3 and verse 9, I am Ruth,
thy handmaid. Spread therefore thy skirt over
thy handmaid, for thou art a mere kinsman. Now, if you look, This
word is about 11 times in the book of Ruth, and it is the word
in the Hebrew goel. We pronounce it goel, but it
is the word goel. We spell or pronounce it g-o-e-l. Now, it means more than mere
fleshly kinship, that you're kin in the flesh. More than just
being a cousin, or an uncle, or an aunt, or whatever it might
be, or various in-laws of one kind or another. In fact, the
exact relation of Boaz to Elimelech is not given. whether he was
a cousin, an uncle, or whatever he might have been. Though Boaz
indicates in chapter 3 and verse 10 that he was not yet young
like Ruth, that he was an older man. or gentleman is clear from
the scripture. The word Gaul or kinsman used
by Ruth has the meaning thou art a near kinsman. Thou art
one that has the right to redeem and the duty to redeem one who
is in such a condition. So Ruth says unto him, you are
a redeeming relative. You're a kinsman. You're a redeeming
relative. For Gaul is from a primary word
meaning to redeem or near or next of kin. A redeeming kinsman. The New Geneva Study Bible, King
James Version, has a good footnote on the kinsman at Ruth chapter
2 and verse 20, summing up the work of a kinsman redeemer, quote,
a responsibility of such a redeeming relative that such a one was
to perform the work prescribed of a redeeming relative. And
here was the work of a redeeming relative, or goel, a redeem a
relative who had sold himself into slavery or mortgage their
land and had lost control and management of it, whether their
debts and such like, so that a goel would buy back or redeem
the property back, not into his hand, but into the hand of the
original owner, as was the plan from God. You have that in Leviticus
25. Verse 47 through verse 49, the
acts and works of a Redeemer in Israel, as God provided a
means for one who had fallen into slavery and into bondage
to be redeemed again. And then B, redeeming the property
or the inheritance of a close relative whose property was in
mortgage or in bondage. Leviticus 25 and 25. And then
C, avenging the death of a family member. acting as the avenger
of blood. Numbers chapter 35, verse 19
through 21. And then here's the final. D. Marry the widow of a brother
and raise up children to the name of the dead. Deuteronomy
25, 5 and 6. A brother was to marry his brother's
widow. and raise up the name of the
dead." Now, Boaz quickly agrees to all of that. He understands
fully what all is involved, and he agrees to be her kinsman,
chapter 3 and verse 11. And he even takes an oath on
it in chapter 3 and verse 13. As the Lord lives, he says, so
shall it be. And this was what Naomi hoped
for in her advice and guidance unto Ruth. Naomi knew the law
of redemption in Israel. However, there was, as we say,
in East Texas a fly in the ointment of this matter that had to be
cleared up. There was a fly in the ointment. There was a nearer kinsman than
Boaz. And he therefore stood ahead
of Boaz in this work of a kinsman redeemer. Chapter 3 and verse
12. who had first right, and he had
first obligation, chapter 4 and verse 4. And then next in line
was Boaz, one nearer than Boaz, was a kinsman. Several are of
the opinion. This man said, I can't do it.
First he said, I will. And then he said, you got to
marry the widow, raise children, name of the dead. He said, I
can't do it. I'll mar my own inheritance. So the identity of this Nera
Kinsman, some have surmised about it. Some have thought that he
is a type of the law, the law that cannot redeem. Some have said he's a type of
angel. Others have said he's a type
of the old and the natural man. that cannot even redeem himself,
must last another. We avoid all these issues because
they're not brought out for us in the scripture. But the nearer
kinsman, needless to say, passes it by, passes it off unto Boaz
when he hears that he must redeem and he must marry Ruth and raise
up the name of the dead. In chapter 4, verse 9 and 10,
Boaz pledges to become the redeemer, notice, of all that is involved,
of all that is Elimelech, to redeem the inheritance of Elimelech,
and to marry Ruth, and to raise up the name of the dead. He agrees
to all of that. Now three things are met. in
a kinsman-redeemer, particularly in type in the Old Testament,
and then in our Lord. Three things to qualify him to
act the part of a kinsman-redeemer. Number one, of course, he must
be a nearer kinsman. He must be a relative. He must
have the proper kinship. He must be a near enough kin
to do it. Number two, he must have the
means to redeem. He must have the ability to redeem. He must be a man of substance. He must be wealthy, having riches
at his disposal and to spare, so that in redeeming them, he
does not bankrupt himself. And then thirdly, He must be
willing. He must be agreeable. He must
delight in doing so. He must count it as a joy. Now, from the text, we learn
that Boaz qualified on all three accounts. He was a kinsman. He was a man of wealth. And he
was willing to perform that great work. Now, the kinsman work of
Boaz was twofold. to redeem the inheritance of
Elimelech, to restore the inheritance that he had lost when he abandoned
it, to close the mortgage, to pay off the debt, the lien, we
might say, that was against it for Elimelech, for his widow,
and for his son and his family, and then B, to marry Ruth. in verse 5 and verse 10, raise
up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. That his name
not die out in Israel, for that was considered a catastrophe. Deuteronomy 25, verse 5 and 6. This also explains the Behavior
of Unan in Genesis chapter 38, if that has ever puzzled you,
in verse 8 and in verse 10. For the firstborn of such a union
was to be reckoned as the son of the dead man. to raise up
the name of the dead. Now, in the beginning, we declared
Boaz to be a type of Christ, which means that, in some way,
his person and his performance and his portrayal has some likeness
to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. So we ask ourselves,
where in is this type? How was Boaz a type of Christ? How does Christ answer the type
of Boaz? So let's look at some facts from
the book of Ruth, then look at our blessed Lord. One word that
is frequently mentioned here is the word redeemed. Seven times in this book we have
the word redeemed. All of them are in chapter 4. I will redeem. I have redeemed.
I shall redeem. It is the Hebrew word again,
goel, which is, of course, the same word kinsman. The kinsman, Goel, Redeemer,
plus Boaz. If you notice, he uses such words
and phrases as chapter 3, 13, the part of a kinsman. I will. And he uses the kinsman part.
Chapter 4, verse 9 and 10, Boaz uses the word bought and purchased. that he buys their property back.
So the question then, how does Christ answer the part of a Goel
as typified in Boaz? Do we see type and anti-type
between Boaz and Christ as kinsmen redeemer? Now concerning Christ,
the same three qualities are present in him. Number one, he
became our close kinsman. Yes, he did. He assumed true
human nature, flesh and blood, like unto his brethren. In Hebrews
chapter 10, you find that. He took on flesh and blood. He was made like unto His brethren,
Hebrews 2, 14-17. He took a body, He took a true
human soul. So He took a real kinship with
His elect brethren. Secondly, He is able to redeem. He possesses the quality and
the ability to redeem. He is rich in grace and in mercy. He is full of grace and truth. He has the fullness of grace
to save His people from their sin. He has something more precious
than silver and gold, the precious blood of our dear Lord. He is able. He has no sin. He is totally, completely impeccable
as the sin entering into him. And again, the third and the
final thing, he was desirous and was willing to lay down his
life to do the work of a Redeemer, so much so that he took upon
him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man. On the other hand is the poverty
and bondage of Naomi and Ruth and the death of a limeleck,
not a picture of the elect in their state by nature in a far
country, death all around, dead in trespasses and in sin, having
no right or title to an inheritance in heaven, cut off from fellowship
with God and the people of God with no way and no means and
no ability to recover themselves as Adam sold us into and under
slavery. Now, the friends of Naomi gave
praise that Ruth 4.14, the Lord hath not left thee without a
kinsman, literally a redeemer. However, as Philip Marr said
in his excellent little book on Ruth, there is no fact of
greater importance to men in his present and impoverished
and entangled condition than the fact that God has not left
us without a kinsman-redeemer in whom we have redemption. We
are redeemed by him and his blood and by his work, saved from eternal
ruin and destruction, to an eternal inheritance that fades not away,
reserved in heaven. From that same book, Morrow said
this, quote, sin has indeed beggared the whole human family, reducing
every member thereof to the depths of death and poverty, unquote. We are spiritually impoverished
so that spiritually None can redeem himself, and neither can
any of our fellow. Not without great wealth can
a man even redeem his brother, that he might live forever and
not seek corruption. Psalm 49, verse 5-9. And we lift our voices like those
in the book of Ruth. Thank God He has not left us
without a kinsman redeemer, one that is mighty to save, as Psalm
89 and 19. The Lord has laid help upon one
that is mighty. We have a mighty kinsman. He's
rich in mercy and grace beyond any. and all compared. Had it not been for Boaz, they
had fallen into oblivion. Had it not been for Christ, we
had not been able to have an inheritance and be brought into
the family of God. Had it not been for Him and His
incarnation, able to give all that is needed to redeem us,
willing to do so, we had all perished had it not been for
Christ, His ability, qualification, and willingness. And there is
even a type, I believe, a particular redemption here in that Boaz
only redeemed one particular, specific family out of all of
those that were impoverished in Israel. So Christ shed his
blood for many, a particular people, for his church, for his
friend, his sheep, and his people. Did our Lord bleed and die? Now the purchase of Boaz became
effectual. It worked. They got back their
inheritance and their happy life. The inheritance was restored.
The name of the dead was raised up. Even so, Christ shall save
his people from their sin, keep them to an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled, and reserve for them in heaven. And Boaz publicly
and openly performed the work of redeeming. So Christ openly
and publicly hanged upon a cross, performing the work of our redemption. Not with silver and gold, but
with His own blood. Enacting as our Goel, He raised
His elect out of death, bringing them back out of their bankruptcy
and bondage. under sin into the liberty of
the glory of the gospel, giving them an inheritance. Yes, thank
God the Lord of heaven has not left us without a kinsman redeemer,
our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.