If you want to, turn to the Book
of Ruth. Book of Ruth. This morning, Lord willing, I'd
like to do a Bible study of the entire Book of Ruth. So obviously,
it's four chapters. I'm not going to be able to read
the large majority of it. I just have time to kind of comment
on some of the high points within the book. But perhaps the Lord
will bless us this morning. Let's begin with a word of prayer.
Why don't you get that? Our Father, Lord, we come to
you this day in the name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and
Lord, we beg that you would reveal him unto us this morning in this
book and through this type here, the near kinsman, Boaz. Lord,
we pray that you would raise him up in our midst, high and
lifted up, that we may be enabled to see him this morning and to
worship him for who he is. Lord, we pray that you would
bless what's said to our hearts. Lord, forgive us for our many
sins. Be with us this day. And Lord, bless the conference
in Crossville. Lord, there's many men speaking.
Bless their words. Bless their ears. We ask these
things in Christ's name. Amen. Now, the book of Ruth really
isn't about Ruth. She's the name of the book, but
it's not about Ruth. It's about Boaz. Boaz, he's the kinsman
redeemer. And in this book, he is the great
type of Christ. And to understand the book of
Ruth, you have to understand an old Levitical law, the law
of the kinsman redeemer. Now, for time's sake, I'm just
going to read something to you. It's out of Leviticus 25, so
just listen to this. This is the law of the kinsman
redeemer. It says, If thy brother be waxen poor, 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. And if
the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem
it, then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore
the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it, that he may
return unto his possession." Now, here's what this is saying.
So, if you were back in the Old Testament economy and you were
in the land of Israel, if you became indebted, right? So incredibly
indebted that you had to sell off everything you had, maybe
including yourself, into slavery, right? You became completely
and utterly impoverished. If you had a near kinsman, someone
who is bone of your bone, flesh of your flesh, who is willing
to redeem you and was able to redeem you. He could come along
and he could buy back everything you sold off and he could restore
you to where you were before. That's the kinsman redeemer,
all right? What I think is interesting here in Leviticus, it talks about,
it prescribes a way for a man to redeem himself. It says, this
impoverished person, this person who's had to sell off everything
they have, and they have absolutely nothing, if they can come up
with some money, they can redeem themselves. How often do you
think a poor, destitute person who has absolutely nothing came
up with that money? The answer is never. Never once. And the lesson there is this,
you can't redeem yourself. You need a near kinsman, one
who is capable, one who's willing, and one who has the right. Now
go over to Ruth. Go to Ruth. Like I said, I'm
just going to have to tell you about a bunch of this, so we'll
start in Chapter 1. We pick up with a man named Elimelech. Elimelech
is very, very rich. He's a man increased with goods,
all right? He's got a wife named Naomi. He's got two sons, Malon
and Chilion, and they live in Bethlehem. That's Judah. And
during this time, a famine hits Judah, right? There's no food.
So Elimelech, he packs up. He sells off everything, and
he takes his family, and they move down to a country called
Moab, pagan country. When he's down there, his sons,
they take wives of the Moabite people. There's Ruth and there's
Orpah. And they're not down there too
long, Alemlek dies, right? About 10 years later, both his
sons, they die too. So now we're left with Naomi,
we're left with Orpah, and we're left with Ruth. All three of
them are widows. Now during this period in time,
to be a widow was a very, very bad thing, and I'll tell you
why. Because your husband was the one who was the source of income.
He was the one who brought the bread home, right? So if you
didn't have a husband, you had no source of income. They were
poor. They were destitute. They were
in need, right? So Naomi, she hears back in Bethlehem,
there's food now. The Lord has granted a harvest.
So there's food back there. So she says, I'm going to go.
I'm going back to my people. I'm going back to Bethlehem.
She tells her daughter-in-law, she's like, I'm going home. You
need to go back to your people. You're not Israelites, you're
not from Bethlehem. I don't have anything for you, I can't offer
you anything. You guys go back to your people, all right? And
so, let's pick up in verse 14 and see what happens here. And they lifted up their voice,
this is Orpah and Ruth, and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law,
Beruth Clave, unto her, don't miss that. And she said, behold,
thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people. and unto her
gods. Return now after thy sister-in-law." Now, what Ruth is about to say
in verse 16, she says as a representative of every single believer. These
are our faults to the Lord Jesus Christ. This also speaks of our
need of union with the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the most well-known
verse in the entire book of Ruth, verse 16. And Ruth said, entreat
me not to leave thee. or to return from following after
thee. For whither thou goest, I will go. Where thou lodgest,
I will 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, and more
also, if aught but death part thee and me." Now, these are
our thoughts towards the Lord Jesus Christ, wherever he's at.
That's where I want to be. I want to be in his presence
at all times. And I'll tell you where he is,
right? I know God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. And there's
a place that he says, I am especially there. He says, where two or
three gathered in the midst, I'm there with them, if they're
gathered there in my name. So he's here. This is where we want
to be. We want to be with the Lord's people. We want to identify
with the Lord's people. And we want to be identified
with the Lord's people. But what Ruth does, this is what
every believer does, she clave to Naomi. She latched on to her
and she would not let her go. And this is what we do, Lord
Jesus Christ. This is the act of faith. We
cleave to Christ. We hold on to Him. We cast all
our cares upon Him. We trust Him with every aspect
of our salvation. Lock, stock, and barrel, it belongs
to Him. We loose our grip on ourselves.
of any hope of a salvation based on what I do and we cling tightly
to Christ. Philippians 3.3 says, for we
are the circumcision with worship God in the spirit and rejoice
in Christ Jesus and have, you guys know the rest, no confidence
in the flesh. I'll tell you how much that no
confidence extends to. I don't have confidence in the
strength of my group, my faith. Now, if you have faith, and I
have faith, it is God-given, right? It is the gift of God.
I can't muster it on my own, but this is about as far as I
can get with it. I believe, help thou my unbelief. I don't have
any confidence in my faith. I don't have any confidence in
the strength of my grip. My confidence is that He cleaves
on to me. that his grip hold can never
break. It's not that I'm gripping that
tightly, it's that he won't let go of me. See, my confidence,
your confidence, is in his ability. Faith believes that. This is
also our confession of need, of union, with the Lord Jesus
Christ. She says, where you go, that's where I have to go. Where
you lodge, that's where I have to lodge. The union we share
with the Lord Jesus Christ. Where has he been? He came to
this world. He was born of a woman, born
under the law, and for 33 years, he lived a perfect life. He walked
the paths of righteousness. And you know what? Every believer
did, too, in him. His righteousness really is our
righteousness because we're in him. We've always shared an eternal
union with the Lord Jesus Christ before time ever began. She said,
where you die, I got to die there, too. When he went to the cross,
he bore all the sins of his elect in his body. I had to die where
he died. I had to be in him. We had to
die on that cross together, because that's where I was punished,
and that's where my sins were put away. She says, where do
you go? I got to go. Where you die, I got to die there,
too. All right. So at this point,
Naomi and Ruth head back to Bethlehem. Let's find out what happened.
Look at verse 19. So they too 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. That means pleasant. Call me Mara, bitter. For the
Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and
the Lord hath brought me home again empty. Why then call you
me Naomi? Seeing the Lord hath testified
against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me. So Naomi returned
and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, which returned out
of the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at
the beginning of barley harvest. Now here's what we have here.
We have the full of man. That's what this typifies. So
Naomi, when she leaves Bethlehem for the first time, she's young.
She's beautiful. She's dressed in the finest clothing.
She's rich, increased with goods. She has long, flowing, dark hair.
Her skin is clean and pure and young, no wrinkles, wearing only
the finest raiment. But now she comes back, right?
And she's traveling down that road, and people start whispering,
is that Naomi? See, that long, dark hair, it's
not long, dark, and beautiful anymore. Now it's stringy, and
it's faded, right? And that clean, pure skin, it's
dirty. Now, she's poor. Those beautiful garments she
was dressed in before she left with, now she's just covered
in rags, right? What am I talking about here?
Man was made in the likeness of God. That's how he made Adam. That's how he made Eve. And you
imagine how powerful and how intelligent and how capable Adam
and Eve were before the fall. These people walked around naked
with absolutely no shame because they had no sin. There was no
reason for shame. Adam could stand in front of his maker,
in front of God, and he could speak to him face to face with
no fear of wrath because there was no sin there. There was no
reason to fear any wrath. He was innocent and he was upright.
And he was given one law, one rule, that was it. You can eat
of every tree around here. This is all provided for you.
One thing, don't eat of this tree, the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. In the day you eat thereof, you
shall surely die. One man, upright and innocent,
with one law. And he could not keep He sinned
against God. And when he did, he died. He
died spiritually. He took on sinful, evil nature
that he has passed down to you and me. We are born in this world
with that wicked, fallen, sinful nature. And it is the nature
that we have earned for ourselves. Now, just as every believer shares
a union with the Lord Jesus Christ that is inseparable, every man
shares a union with Adam. So when Adam disobeyed God, You
and I were there. Adam is an interchangeable name.
He's an interchangeable face. But you and I were there and
we were the ones who disobeyed God. Let me give you a scripture
here to support that. This is Romans 5.12. Paul says,
Wherefore as by one man sin entered in the world, and death by sin. And so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned. We're no victims in this. We
were born with this sinful, evil nature. Understand that we earned
this nature. long before we were ever born.
There's another thing we see in this verse of scripture. He
says the consequences of sin, it's death. We're not talking
about a physical death. Yes, the reason men physically
die is because we're sinners. That's true. We're talking about
the deadness of this nature we are born with. What does that
look like? Naomi described it like this in verse 21. She said,
I went out full, I went out beautiful, I went out great, and the Lord
hath brought me home again empty. Now, empty is an interesting
word. I looked it up. It has a lot of meanings. There were
three words that are associated with it that spoke to me very
much. The first one was vain. That's what it means. It means
sinfully selfish, always seeking glory for ourselves, trying to
rob God of his glory. And this is why the natural man
is so content with salvation by works. This is why he likes
it so much, because if salvation is by works in some way, shape,
or form, that means the man gets some glory in this. That's why
he likes it so much. That's that old wicked nature,
it's vain, sinfully selfish. It means poor, simply that. Nothing,
nothing to buy with, no buying power, nothing meritorious about
it, nothing that the Lord will look at and say, that's good,
I'm pleased with that, I look favorably upon that. Now the
last one was interesting, it was ineffective. Ineffective,
it has no power. Those spiritual demands of faith,
repentance, love for God, love for his people, it can't. That's
what a dead nature looks like. Vain, poor, and ineffective. And that's the way every man
is born in this world. All right, on to Ruth 2. Naomi and Ruth are in Bethlehem
at this point. They're poor, poverty stricken. And Ruth decides
that she's going to go out to the fields and she's going to
glean. This was according to the law. The law at this time
was this. If you were a rich man and you had fields, and you
sent your reapers out to get the barley and collect it up,
They would put it in sheaths and they would carry it up to
a central loading point. And by nature of what they were
doing, by virtue of it, they would drop some on the ground.
And the law was this, don't pick it up. You drop some on the ground
there, you leave that and you let the poor come along behind
you. And to pick up some of the things you dropped on the ground
so they had some to eat. So she was going out to do this.
Pick up in verse one, chapter two. And Naomi had a kinsman
of her husband's. a mighty man of wealth, of the
family of a limelight, and his name was Boaz. Now we've talked about a lot
of people up to this point, Naomi and Ruth and all of them, but
finally we get to the star of the show, Boaz. Boaz is the kinsman
redeemer. He is Ruth's kinsman redeemer,
and he's Naomi's kinsman redeemer. And Ruth, right now, has no idea
that's the case. She has no idea. She's just going
out to a field to glean. Now, in this thing of the kinsman
redeemer, there were three considerations I've already spoken to you about.
We're going to go through it again. Number one, he had to have the right
to redeem, which means this one who could redeem his kinsman,
he had to be bone of their bone, flesh of their flesh, so closely
linked to them that they were family, a very, very close bond,
a strong familial relationship. Not just anybody had the right
to redeem. You had to have the right. You had to be a close
kinsman. Second thing was he had to be willing. Now, if you
think about it, these people, whoever they were, they were
impoverished. That wasn't the kinsman redeemer's problem. He
didn't put them in that state. They had gotten themselves in
that state. And it wasn't on him to redeem them. If he did,
it was an act of mercy. It was an act of grace. But he had to
be willing. The third thing was this. He had to be able. He couldn't
just walk up to whoever had the property now and say, we'll give
it back to you. No. He had to do everything. Everyone
had to be treated justly. It had to all be done according
to law. He had to be able to buy that property back. He had
to have the buying power with that one who had first claim.
Three things. Now, this is the point of the
message for the most part. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
kinsman redeemer for his people. He checks all three boxes. Number one, he has the right.
He is of that close familial relationship with his elect.
How close is that? I'll give you scripture. Hebrews
2.11, for both he that sanctifyeth And they who are sanctified are
all of one. For which cause? He is not ashamed
to call them brethren. Now how close is this relationship
between the Lord Jesus Christ and his people? It's this close.
We're all one. We're given several illustrations.
Right here we get we're brethren. He is our older brother, for
whom he did foreknow. He also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. The father looked at Christ and
said, I want a bunch more just like him. Also this, we're given
this illustration. The head and the body. He's the
head, and we're the members, we're the body. You think about
that. The head cannot go anywhere, the body does not follow. You
cannot love the head unless you love the body as well. The body
is in submission to the head. Every time the head thinks, the
body reacts. That's the way it is. That's
how close that oneness is. Now, I want you to think about
this for a second. Everything that is done for the believer
in salvation, for his elect, it is done because of this oneness
with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, why does the Father love
the elect? It's very simple because they
share a union with the Lord Jesus Christ and they always have.
So I'm going to get this lined up. The father chiefly loves
one person, only one person. It is the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is his son in whom he is well pleased. All the father's
love, all the father's favor is found in this one man, Jesus
Christ. And when he loved Christ, he
loved everybody in Christ, every member of the elect. Why did
the father choose the elect? He chose to save some, chose
to pass by others, not intervene. Why them? Because they're one
with Christ. He said, you're my first elect,
Christ was his first elect, and when he chose Christ, he chose
everybody in him. Why did the Lord Jesus Christ
only die for his people? He chose to die for some and
actually accomplish their salvation, chose not to die for others.
Why is that? Because when he was on that cross, he was dying
for himself. because we are one with him, because of our union
with him. Why does the spirit call only the elect with a call
of irresistible, invincible grace? Because we are one with Christ.
Why are they made to persevere all the way to the end? It all
comes back to this, because of our union with the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now, does he have the right to redeem his people? It
doesn't get any closer than this. We're one. Now, he's willing. He's willing to succeed in two
ways. Number one, the covenant of grace. Before the worlds began,
the Father stood before him. He said, these people who are
yours, they are also mine. And I am giving them to you.
And here's what you're going to do. You're going to live for
them. You're going to die for them. And everything I require
of them, I'm going to look to you for. Not going to look to
them for any of it. You're going to be held lock,
stock, and barrel 100% responsible for them. Will you take on the
task? I will. Look to me. Don't ever look to
them. Look to me. I'll carry the burden. I'll accomplish
it all. He was willing in the covenant
of grace. His willingness is seen in his call. Matthew 11,
28, he says, come unto me. all ye who labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest." Now, it is absolutely true that
God does not love everyone. He loves His elect. Christ did
not die for everyone. He died for His elect, and He
accomplished their salvation. But the door of salvation is
wide open to any sinner in need of mercy. Now, I want to show
you this. Turn over to John 6. This is
the only time we're going to ask you to turn. John 6 and look at verse 37. Verse 37 says, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. Now that's the sovereignty of
God and salvation. All that the Father gave to Christ in divine
election, they are going to come to Christ. You want to know why?
Because they're going to be called irresistibly and invincibly.
They'll have no choice, and they want no other choice. And they
will be the only ones who will come, guaranteed. That's the
sovereignty of God and salvation. But let's finish the verse. All
that the Father giveth me shall come to me. That's the sovereignty.
And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. Everyone
who the Father gave to Christ is going to come to Christ. And
you know what? That door of salvation is open
to any sinner in need of mercy. If you need mercy, if you are
vain, and you are poor, and you are ineffective, you come to
Christ, you're commanded to, and he will in no wise cast you
out. See, the sovereignty of God in
salvation is our only hope. What if it was left up to us?
Anybody who's willing to come, by nature, if you can muster
the ability, if you can see yourself as a sinner, if you can develop
a need, anybody, you can come. What if it was just left up to
us? Who would be saved? Not a one of us. Sovereignty of God and
our salvation is our only hope. All right, go back to Ruth. Jesus Christ has the right to
redeem his people. He is willing and he is able
to redeem his people. I'll give you this scripture.
Hebrews 7.25 says, wherefore he is able also to save them
to the uttermost. that come to God by him. That
means he is capable, he is able of doing it all. Now, let's get
up in Ruth 2. Let's see what Boaz has to say.
Look at verse 5. Then said Boaz unto his servant
that was set over the reapers, whose damsel is this? And the
servant that was sent over the reapers answered and said, it
is the Moabite stanza that came back with Naomi out of the country
of Moab. Now think about this for a second. There's a Boaz. He's standing in his field. Big,
rich guy, right? Big, powerful person. His field's full of beggars
that are gleaning in his field. And he spies out there, and he
sees one. He sees Ruth, and he says, who's
that? My affection is upon her. My love is for her. Bunch of
beggars. He picks out that one right there.
She's not seeking Boaz. She doesn't know a thing about
Boaz. She doesn't even know whose field she is in right now. But
Boaz finds her. And Boaz's affection is for her. Now, look at this. Boaz is going
to act on that love. Look at verse 15. And when she
was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her
glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not. And let
fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave
them that she may glean them and rebuke her not." Boy, it
says, I love her. My affection is towards her.
And you know what? I'm going to provide everything she needs.
Nothing's going to be left up to chance. Everything she needs,
I'm going to provide for her, and I'm going to do everything
on purpose. He had it all planned out. Now, if you want to feel small
for a second, when the father was penning the design of this
reality, and it exists for this purpose, that he would glorify
himself in the person of Jesus Christ. When he was penning that
story, when he was the architect of this reality, he left some
handfuls of purpose for you. You were penciled in that story.
I'm gonna drop some on the ground just for you, and make sure you
have everything you need. Now look what he tells Ruth.
Look at verse eight, chapter two. Then Boaz said unto Ruth,
here's thou not, my daughter. Go not to glean in another field,
neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens. 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 unto the vessels,
and drink of that which the young men have drawn. He's saying this.
Ruth, come here. You see this? This is my field. I own all this. This is mine, right? Here's what
you're going to do, Ruth. You stay right here. Don't go
to another field. You stay right here, everything
you need. They're going to leave some food on the ground there
for you. I've already purposed it. I've already put it out there.
Over there, if you get thirsty, there's water right there. It's
already drawn for you. It'll never run dry. You drink
all you want. When you're here, Ruth, you're under my protection.
Nothing can touch you. Nothing can hurt you while you're
here. You look right here. You stay right here and don't
go to another field. And this is the Lord Jesus Christ.
He says, you look to me. I got everything you need. I
am your wisdom. I'm your righteousness. I'm your
sanctification. I'm your redemption. I've got it all. You're with
me. You're under my protection. Don't go to another field. Don't
go looking anywhere else. Don't look inside yourself. Don't
look anywhere else. You come and you look right at
me. You trust me because right here is everything you need.
I've already provided. I've already purposed it. All right, on to route three.
We got three minutes. All right. So Ruth goes back
to Naomi, right? And she comes back, she's got
this huge bag of barley. And Naomi thinks she expects her
to come back with like this little tiny thing, but now it's huge.
And she says, whose field are you gleaning in? What's going
on here? And Ruth says, it's amazing. This guy named Boaz
gave it to me. Now, Ruth doesn't know who Boaz is. She's from
Moab. She doesn't know anything about
the Kinsmen Redeemer. She doesn't know anything about Naomi's heritage
or who her family members is. But you know, excuse me, you
know who does? Naomi. Naomi's a Jew. She knows the
story of the Kinsmen Redeemer. She knows it's a law. She knows
her family. She knows about Boaz. She knows he's here. And she
knows he's got the right. And she knows he's got the means.
He's rich. He's powerful. He can do it.
She's been waiting to hear this name as long as she's been home,
right? One question. Is he willing?
He has the right. He has the means. But Ruth, he
doesn't have to do anything for us. We got ourselves in this
mess. Here's what you do, Ruth. You're
going to go down. And after he's done working,
when he's accomplished all his tasks, when he's done eating
and when he's done drinking, and when he's laid down to rest,
when he has nothing left to do and he's satisfied, here's what
you do. You go down and you fall down
to his feet. He don't say a word. Here's what
you're not going to do, Ruth. You're not going to go up to
him and say, hey, you have the right. You're the kinsman redeemer.
You have the right and you've got the means. Now do your job.
Go redeem me. No, Ruth, don't do that. We've
got no claims on him. We got ourselves in this mess.
So here's what you do. You go down on his feet. You
just fall there. And you wait, and he'll render
a verdict. Now, his feet. It's a place of submission. This
is a place of worship. And this is where we have to
begin, right? Before we talk about whether the Lord's going
to do anything for you or me or not, His character is to be
worshipped. His person is to be worshipped.
You don't go to his head and look him eye in the eye like
Pierce. No, you take your rightful place
as a sinner at his feet and you wait for him to render a verdict.
Now, the beautiful thing is this. There has never been any sinner
that ever came to him and fell down at his feet and begged for
mercy that he has ever turned away. And we see that in the
story because Boaz says, I'll do it. It's an issue though. There's an issue. There is one
who has first claim on Ruth. He says, I'll do it. I'll redeem
you. But there's a problem. There's a kinsman closer than
me. There's one who has first rights to you. There's one who
has a claim on you. And he first has to be satisfied.
Now, go to chapter 4 and look at verse 2. This is Boaz. And he took 10
men of the elders of the city and said, sit ye down here. sat
down and he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out
of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which is our
brother Elimelech's." See, this man had a closer relationship
with Naomi than he did. And I thought to advertise these,
saying, Buy it before the inhabitants and before the elders of the
people. And 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
buyest the field of 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. What are we talking
about here, right? There's this near kinsman who
has first claim on Naomi and Ruth. Boaz wants to redeem them,
right? And we've got 10 witnesses. Don't miss that. It is the number
10. First thing that must be done
in this thing of salvation before anything else, God's perfect
sense of justice must be satisfied. There is one who has first claim
on every man born in this world, and that is the perfect justice
of God. It must be satisfied. None of
the Lord's characteristics or his attributes will ever be exercised
at the expense of another one. He will never show mercy at the
expense of his perfect justice. He's holy. He cannot accept sin. All he can do is punish it. Now,
here's the type. when the Lord Jesus Christ went
to the cross, when he owned the sins of his people in his body,
and they became his. And the Father rained down his
punishment upon them. Three words were said, it is
finished. And you want to know what happened?
The Father was satisfied. And now, because those sins are
gone, the law, those 10 witnesses, stand back, and they look over
every member of the elect. You know what he says? Nothing. I've got absolutely nothing to
say about them. I see no flaw. They have no sin. Now, I'm going to wrap this up. If the Lord Jesus Christ is all
your hope, if you're clinging on to him, understand this, you
have a kinsman redeemer. And what he has done for you
has satisfied God. There's no more sin. And there's
absolutely no reason to fear. I'll leave it there. Oh.