And Ruth said her mother-in-law,
Naomi, is trying to get them to stay there because they got
no more sons. Ruth said, entreat me not. Don't
ask me to stay here. Don't ask me not to leave you,
or to return from following after you. For whither thou goest,
I'll go, and whither thou lodgest, I'll lodge. Thy people shall
be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I
die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me also, and
more also if I ought but death, pardon me and thee. And when
she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her. So I'll, let's look back here
together, talk about the kinsman redeemer. All that most people
know about the book of Ruth is what I just read. When she said to Naomi, you know,
I'll go where you go. Your God will be my God. Your
people will be my people. And wherever you die and buried,
that's where I'll die and I want to be buried too. And that's
all anybody, most people know about the book of Ruth. And that
causes them to have high, high thoughts about Ruth. What a wonderful
woman she is. How committed she is. How dedicated
she is. And yet they don't never think
of Christ. and the whole purpose of the book of Ruth is to talk
about the kinsman redeemer that bought this poor old pagan woman. She's poor, she's pitiful, she
was come from a pagan country and yet God had a redeemer for
her. There was a young preacher in
Wales one time And he had preached a sermon. And he asked an old
elder there, he said, what do you think about what I said?
He said, oh, that was sorry. Oh, that's so sorry. What's wrong
with it? He said, there's no Christ in
it. No Christ in it. He said, well,
Christ wasn't in the text. He said, Christ is in every text. And your business, in all every
text of scripture, leads to Jesus Christ. There's a road that leads
to Christ. And your business is to find
that road and get on it. Find that road and get on it.
So wherever you're preaching from Old Spurgeon one time he
took he took the genealogy said, you know people wonder what the
genealogy is about and he took the genealogy and traced it all
from Way back all the way said this is the reason it is come
right down to the Lord Jesus Christ To come down to him Come
down to him So I'll tell you here's what happened here. I
and that's what this book is about is the kinsman redeemer
the kinsman is the one who has the right to redeem a man called
Elimelech from Bethlehem here Bethlehem where our Lord Jesus
Christ was born there was a famine he took his wife and his two
sons and he headed down to Moab and he moved down there in that
pagan country and Elimelech died while he was in there and his
two sons married two Amorite women. One of them was named
Orpah and the other was named Ruth. Well those men lived down
there ten years and their husbands died. Both of them died. Now Naomi is left without a husband,
without a son, and two daughter-in-laws that she can't do a thing in
the world for. So she's poor. Oh she's so poor. And so She
says, you know, I'm going to return back to Bethlehem. I'm
going to go home. I'm going to go home. Told her
daughter to stay down here in Moab. But Ruth claimed unto her,
and those blessed words, wherever you go, I go. Whatever your people are, they're
going to be my people. Your God's going to be my God.
And wherever you die, I want to die. And wherever you're buried,
that's where I want to be buried too. That's what she told him.
And they're blessed words. But let's look at a few things
about Christ in this thing. First of all, we have a picture
of the ruined by the fall. Look here in chapter 1 in verse
19. Look in chapter 1 verse 19. So the two of them, so they two
went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass when they
were come to Bethlehem that all the city was moved about them.
And they said is this Naomi? And she said unto them call me
not Naomi. But call me Mara, for the Almighty
hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the
Lord brought me home again empty. Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing
the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted
me? Now Naomi is old, poor, weary. She comes back to Bethlehem.
Everybody gets around her. People in the town, in the village
gathered around her. And they said, is this Naomi?
Is this really Naomi? Because you know, her age was
showing on her and her poverty was showing on her. Is this the
same Naomi who left Bethlehem a few years ago, rich, prosperous,
with her family around her, her husband and her sons, and then
her daughter-in-laws, and had everybody around her. And they
said, is this really Naomi? And she said, don't call me Naomi.
Naomi means sweet and pleasant. But call me Myra, that means
bitter, bitter. For the Almighty hath dealt with
me very bitterly, very bitterly. See she went out full, came back
empty. She went out rich and came back
poor. She went out sweet and came back
bitter. And you look at what happened
to our father Adam when he fell. You mean to tell me this is Adam?
The man that came from God's hand? The one that God formed
out of the dust of the earth? Is this the man that God created
in his own image? Is that his beautiful wife standing
by his side? Adam, is this really you? that's
over there hidden now from God? Adam, is that really you? Would you actually go against
God, the One who created you and gave you your soul and your
life? Would you take all of that wealth and fellowship with God
and throw it away? Would you be so rich that you
were Lord over the Eden and the King over Eden? Or now you're
going to go back and deal with the cursed ground? You're so wealthy. Now you're poor. And not only
are you poor, you can't even afford clothes. You're using
fig leaves to cover your nakedness. If you're clothed and able to
stand before God, God's got to be the one to clothe you. And
I tell you what, now he became, this man who was Lord over Eden,
became a pauper, became poor. And guess what, and beloved listen,
he gave us his poverty. We inherited his poverty. We
inherited his nakedness. We lost the image of God in Adam. We was once full, now we're empty. Once rich, now we're poor. Once
dwelt in the presence of God, now God said get out of my sight.
Oh my! Now the king is a beggar, the
prince is a pauper, and those that were so greatly blessed
of God are now cursed. Oh my, you think that fall, we
have no idea how that, what Adam did affected us. I mean it's
bad enough for what we go through ourselves. But how God views
us outside of Christ, it would be frightening to see how God
sees us. When it bothers us and troubles
us to see ourselves. And to see what we are and what
we're capable of. And in God, we inherited every
bit of this from our father Adam. We inherited sin from him. We
inherited poverty from him. We inherited nakedness from him.
We inherited everything. And I tell you what, if it wasn't
for the Lord Jesus Christ, that would be my next point. Oh, what
a ruin, what a picture of the ruin by the fall. Oh, I tell
you what I've heard this so many times over the years. Three R's.
Three R's. You know what the three R's are?
Ruin by the fall. Redemption by the Lord Jesus
Christ. Regeneration by the Spirit. Those
three things ought to be in every message. Ain't that right? The
three R's. Everybody says you need to learn
the A's, B's and C's. The three R's. Read and write
and arithmetic. In the gospel it's ruined. Ruined,
ruined, ruined by the fall. Redeemed, bought, paid for by
the Lord Jesus Christ. Regenerated, new life by the
Spirit of God. That ought to be an ever message.
Ain't that right? Now here, here, here we see the
unmerited. unsought love of Christ for sinners. You think I'd leave us over there?
No, no. And in that last verse of chapter
1, it said, Naomi returned and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law,
with her, which returned out of the country of Moabitess,
and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of the barley harvest. now look here let me read verses
first five verses here chapter two Naomi had a kinsman of her
husband a mighty man of wealth the family
of Elimelech and his name was Boaz and Ruth the Moabite 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. She understood she didn't deserve
anything. Maybe I can find grace if somebody
let me come in their field and pick up just a few little grains.
And she went and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers.
And listen to this now, I love this. And her hap, ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and lied on the part of the field
belonging to Boaz of the kindred of Elimelech. And Boaz came from
Bethlehem and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you. And they
answered him, The Lord bless thee. Then said Boaz unto his
servant what was said over his reapers, Whose damsel is this?
He saw Ruth and said, Who is she? He said, Who is that? She's a nice looking woman, that's
what he said. She's something special about
her. Something special about her. And all he and the servants said
that it was over the reapers. It's the Moabites damsel that
came back Naomi out of the country of Moab. And she said, I pray
you let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheep.
So she came and continued even from the morning until now that
she tarried a little in the field. And the old bo-ass told him,
said, don't go no place else. Stay right here. Don't go to
nobody else's field. Don't go ask nobody else for
no, you just stay right here. I want you in my field. I want
you in my field. And I tell you what, and here's
what happened, you know and you can find this in the scriptures,
it says poor people and widows and people who had no ability
and no work or anything like that, they could follow the reapers
and pick up just little pieces of grain and as they harvested
it would fall off the shock and they'd pick it up and that's
how they ate and that's how they lived. And Ruth went out to glean
in the fields, and God, in His blessed providence, hapt to fall
in His field. Now Omens near Kinsman, and Boaz,
he took notice of Ruth, oh took notice of her, and had compassion
on her, and instructed her, now you stay in my field, and look
what he says now, in verse 16, verse 15. And when she was risen up to
glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even
among the sheaves, and don't you dare reproach her, don't
shame her. And listen to this, let fall
also some of the handpulls on purpose for her, and leave them,
that she may glean them, and rebuke her not. When you see
her real close, get you a big handful and lay it right out
there so she can get it. Oh, the handful is on purpose. Let me tell you something, beloved. This world and everything in
it belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ. All Boaz is on with some
feels. Christ owns the whole world.
Oh, it's His. God designed this world to make
Christ to be Lord over it. To be Redeemer over it. To be
the Savior over it. To be the Mediator over it. To
be the King over it. Gave Him all power in heaven
and earth to do that. Oh, bless His name. And then,
beloved, God decreed, He said, My Holy, My Son shall sit on
My holy hill of Zion. And I tell you, our Lord Jesus
Christ, He is Lord over this thing and ruled us because of
His death. And it says, you know, He gave
eternal life to as many as God gave Him. And I tell you what,
when we was out without Christ, see, she didn't deserve anything.
God sent her to Boaz's field. She said, maybe I can find grace
in somebody's sight and they'll let me glean in their field.
and I tell you we lived and we gleaned in God's field but the
Lord Jesus Christ in grace and love done just like Boaz did
Ruth he took notice he took notice of some of Adam's
fallen race you know he knew us But we didn't know
him. See Ruth had already heard about
Ruth coming in with Naomi. Our Lord knew us and we didn't
know him. He loved us and we didn't love
him. And you know what he did? When
the Lord Jesus Christ come, you know what He did? He gave us
handfuls and handfuls and handfuls and handfuls and handfuls on
purpose. Oh, handfuls of grace, handfuls
of love, and I tell you, He don't just give them one time, He gives
them every day. He just says, throw out another
handful. Throw out another handful. Oh,
they look like they need some need. Give them another handful. Seem like they're kind of down.
Give them another handful. You know, even when we was in
unbelief, our Lord Jesus Christ watched over us, just like He
did Ruth. And you know, in one of the parables
in Matthew 13, I said a man owned a field well
there was a field and it had a treasure in that field just
a treasure and so this man went and bought the whole field just
to get that treasure out of it well our Lord this world is the
field and the Lord Jesus bought the whole field so he could get
his treasure out of it his people He knew right where the treasure
was. He didn't have to dig and look for it. He didn't have to
take no find and go... No, no. He knew right where all
of them were. Oh, what a Savior. What a Savior. And then let's look here at the
Kinsman Redeemer. Look what happens now. So there in verse 17, after lots
of hand pulls on purpose for her, she gleaned in the field
until evening. And beat out that she had gleaned,
and it was about an eight-foot barney. And she took it up and
went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And
she brought forth, now when it says here, I believe she brought
some food back from when she sat and ate with Boaz and the
gleaners there, which back up in verse 14. And so she brought
forth and gave to her that she had reserved after she was satisfied. Gave her her meat after Ruth
was satisfied. And her mother-in-law said to
her, Where didst thou glean today? Where did you rot today? Blessed
be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother-in-law
with whom she had wrought and said, The man's name with whom
I wrought today is Boaz. Oh, Naomi got beside herself. She just got beside herself.
She said, Oh, daughter-in-law. And she didn't say, oh boy, I
thank God for Boaz and I thank God for you. You know what she
said? Blessed be the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness
to the living and the dead. And Naomi said unto her, the
man, the man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. And that means the one that has
the right to redeem. Now Ruth come back here, oh she
had a bunch of grain, oh my goodness, a huge, huge supply of it. And oh my, Ruth was just overcome,
you know, Nomi was just overcome with it. And so she had the right
to redeem, Boaz did. And what a Redeemer or kinsman
Redeemer is, and you can find it in Leviticus 25, what a kinsman
Redeemer does if somebody of his kinsmen, a brother, a son,
or someone lost all their inheritance, lost it. And a near kinsman who is, now
listen, there's got to be three things that a kinsman's got to
be able to do. First of all, he's got to be
able to redeem. Got to be able. Secondly, he's got to be willing.
And thirdly, does he have the price? See, it's just so simple, isn't
it? Well, our Lord Jesus Christ,
oh my, He gets the, you know, the Redeemer, the kinsman Redeemer,
He, the near one, He buys back all that He lost. Psalm 69 verse
4 said Christ restored that what he took not away Christ never
took anything away, but Adam took everything away Christ restored
everything and 10,000 times more than what we lost in Adam You
know God in his blessed covenant of mercy and grace by our Lord
Jesus Christ He made him our kinsman You know he's called
a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. A brother that's
born for adversity. And Christ himself said, I'm
not ashamed to call them brethren. Not ashamed to do it. Not ashamed
to call them brethren. And I tell you, he's our kinsman.
How did he become our kinsman? Well, first of all, he had to
become one of us. He had to become a man. He was
numbered with the transgressors. people like us, people who transgressed,
both sides of him transgressors and his bone of our bone, flesh
of our flesh, he was made of a woman made under the law to
redeem us out from under the law And I tell you what, first
of all, He was willing, willing to take flesh and blood upon
Himself. He was willing to take humanity
upon Himself. He was willing, willing to become
identified with us. and he was willing for God to
put our sins on him and to judge him and satisfy his justice in
him and curse him in our room instead for the law that we had
broken and oh my and I tell you not only did he redeem and gave
us all that we lost in Adam but he's able He's able to do so. Why? Because
not only is He a man, but He's God. So He has the strength,
He has the ability. And does He have the price? Oh,
does He have the price? His blood cleanses from all sin. His blood takes black sinners,
washes them white as snow, and makes them acceptable in the
beloved. And I'll tell you, I want you
to see this. I love this verse of scripture.
Right before the book of Revelation, that little book Jude. Oh, we're
talking about Christ being able. He is able to save unto the uttermost
them that come unto God by Him. But look here in Jude, the last
two verses, and keep Ruth now. Keep Ruth. You know, no wonder
Timothy, Paul told Timothy, I know who I have believed. And that
he is able, he's got the power, the ability to keep that that
I've committed unto him against that day. Well listen to this,
I read this today and I'll tell you what, I just wept, tears
got in my eyes. Now unto him, Unto him, oh that's
what God said unto him, them that come unto God by him. Now
unto him, talking about Abel, that is Abel, to keep you from
falling. That's one thing he's going to
do. Now listen to this, and to present you faultless, faultless. before the presence we're at
of His glory that in His presence in His glory and listen to this
He does it with exceeding joy to the only wise God our Savior
be glory and dominion and majesty and power forever and ever oh
God made Christ And by his ability to satisfy
God in such a way that everyone that looks to his blessed Son
and trusts his blessed Son, God will justify that soul and treat
him, treat him just like he does his beloved blessed Son. Sitting
in God's right hand right there. Ain't that right? Alright, let
me show you the last thing here. Here's humility. That's the kinsman
redeemer. Our Lord Jesus Christ able, willing
and has the price. Has the price. Now we see humility
and acceptance and redemption. Now look here in chapter 3 and
look here what it says. Then Naomi her mother-in-law
said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that
it may be well with thee? And now is not Boaz of our kindred,
with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winneth barley to-night
in the threshing-floor. Wash thyself therefore, and 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 shall
have done eating and drinking. And it shall be, when he lieth
down, that thou mark the place where he shall lie. and thou
shalt go in and uncover his feet and lay thee down and he will
tell thee what thou shalt do get down at his feet uncover
his feet and lay that down at the soles of his foot lay that
down there and she said unto her all that thou sayest I will
do and she went down to the floor and did according to all that
her mother And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart
was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn.
And she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down. And it came to pass that at midnight,
that the man was afraid, and turned himself, and behold, a
woman lay at his feet. He said, Who are you? She answered,
I am Ruth, thine handmaid. Spread therefore thy skirt over
thine handmaid, for thou art a near kinsman, redeemer. Near
kinsman. And listen to what he told her
now. She'll tell you exactly what you're supposed to do. Blessed
be thou of the Lord. That's what he said about her.
Oh, you're blessed of the Lord. You're blessed of the Lord. My
daughter, for thou hast shown more kindness in the latter end
than at the beginning, and as much As thou fallest not young
men, nor whether rich or poor, and now, my daughter, fear not.
I'll do thee all that thou requirest, for all the city of my people
doth know that thou art a virtuous woman. Oh my, what she did, first
thing she did, she got right down to his feet. And over at
Luke 11 somewhere, I think that's where it's at, but it says there
that they brought him and laid him at Jesus' feet and he healed
all that had need of healing. And there's not a more blessed
place to be than at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is
there a better place to be? No, no. And I tell you what,
Ruth humbled herself at the feet of Boaz, seeking his mercy. And
as we lie at the feet of Christ, He owes us absolutely nothing.
But I tell you what, He gave us everything. Gave us everything. We didn't deserve nothing, but
everything we have. he gave it to us everything we
know he taught us everything we believe he taught us and I
tell you what and Boaz accepted her whom he already loved he
loved her even as we accepted in the beloved in the Lord Jesus
Christ not because we had humility Though when you get ready to
fall at the feet of Christ, you are empty and you know you ain't
got nothing to bring. Now let's read how Boaz married
Ruth and all of his wealth and his fame and everything that
she had, he had, became hers. It's just like us with Christ.
He's there and he's the wealthy one and everything we got He
has, we have too. Now look what happens now. There in verse 10. Moreover the Ruth the Moabitess,
the wife of Melon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the
name of the dead. How did he purchase her? Paid
off all that was against her. Redeemed her paid her debt Delivered
her from poverty delivered her from weariness delivered her
from ever having to glean in the field ever again And raise up the name of the dead
and took of inheritance that the name of the dead be not cut
off from bounty among his brethren And okay now look down in verse
13 Now this is what happens now so Boaz took Ruth and And she
was his wife. Christ took us. He said, the only doubt is that
he's the groom. And we're going to go to the
marriage supper of the Lamb. Oh my! And he went in unto her
and the Lord gave her conception. She bare a son. Oh my! Had a baby boy. And the women
said unto Naomi. See how they just blessed the
Lord all the time. Blessed be the Lord which hath
not left thee this day. without a kinsman. And that word
kinsman now means redeemer. One that's already done what
he's going to do. And that his name, this child's
name, shall be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee. Now
listen, his name did become famous. You know what his name was? The
Lord Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem. Descendant and he shall be unto
thee, listen to this talking about Christ, he shall be a restorer
of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter-in-law
which loveth thee which is better to thee than seven sons hath
born thee and beloved our Lord Jesus Christ everything that
Boaz had became hers we're married to Christ and we're joined ours
with Christ And because of Him, we wear His name. We wear the
clothes He gave us. We wear the name He gave us. And we love Him. Who bought us,
paid for us. And everything He has. How wealthy
do you reckon the Lord Jesus is? I've asked that before. You can't measure. You can't
measure the wealth. But oh my. Kismet Redeemer. Our Father, oh precious, precious
Father, in the Lord Jesus' name, we thank you for your great and
abundant mercy given us in Him before the world ever began.
Thank you for the gospel that you taught us, the gospel that
you gave us to preach tonight. Thank you for being faithful
to us. Thank you for being gracious to us. Thank you for being merciful
to us. And oh Lord, thank you for loving
us when we were so unlovable. Thank you. Blessed be your holy
name. Amen. Amen. Let me find a course
here. Oh, how merciful, how merciful. Blessed Lord, how merciful thou
art to me. Oh, how merciful, how merciful. Blessed Lord, how merciful you
are to me. I was going to sing the verse,
but I forgot it. Alright, I'll see you Sunday
morning, God willing. He is merciful, ain't he? Oh
my, so merciful to us.