Ruth 2:1-23
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Anyone watch Relative Race?
What a great show
LIKE AMAZING RACE, but on each leg of the race, the contestants end up at a relative’s house whom they’ve never met.
1 Now Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
1 - SUMMARY INTRO: Naomi had a relative named Boaz…a worthy man from Elimelech’s clan
2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
3 So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.
2 - Ruth asks Naomi to go try to find somewhere to glean in the fields. Naomi agrees.
3 - Gleaned behind the reapers at Boaz field
4-16 - Boaz came from Bethlehem to his field
4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you!” And they answered, “The Lord bless you.”
-BOAZ to REAPERS: The Lord be with you Reapers to Boaz: The Lord bless you
5 Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”
6 And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.
7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”
5 - BOAZ to MGR: who is this young woman?
6 - She is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from Moab
7 - She said, please let me glean… (we said yes)
-She’s been here all day with a short rest
8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.
9 Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”
8-9 - BOAZ to RUTH:
-Do not glean in another field, stay in this one
-Stay close to my young women, follow them
-I have told the young men not to harass you
-Drink the water the young men have drawn
10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”
10 - RUTH to BOAZ:
-Fell on her face bowing to the ground
-Why have I found favor in your eyes…I am a foreigner!
11 But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.
12 The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”
11-12 - BOAZ to RUTH:
-All you have done for Naomi since the death of your husband has been told to me (I’ve heard your story)
-You left your parents
-You left your land
-You came to a people you did not know
-Blessing
-The LORD repay you for what you have done
-A full reward be given to you by the LORD, the God of Israel
-Under whose wings you have come to take refuge
13 Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”
13 - RUTH to BOAZ:
-I have found favor in your eyes, my lord
-you have comforted and spoken kindly to me...
-your servant (ship-hat), though I am not one of your servants (ship-ho-te)
14 And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.
14 - BOAZ invites RUTH to join him and the reapers for lunch:
-Bread and wine
-Roasted grain
-leftovers
15 When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.
16 And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”
15-16 - When she went back to the field, BOAZ instructed reapers to leave extra for her to glean
17-23 - Ruth returns from the field
17 So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
18 And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.
17 - She had gleaned 5 gallons of barley
18 - She brought what she had gleaned as well as the leftovers from the meal
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”
19a - NAOMI to RUTH: Where did you work today? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!
19b - The man’s name with whom I worked today is BOAZ
20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”
20a - NAOMI to RUTH:
-May BOAZ be blessed by the LORD
-The LORD has not forsaken the living or the dead!
20b - BOAZ is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers (more on this next week)
21 And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”
21 - RUTH (the Moabite) went on to say: BOAZ said...
-stay with my young men until they have finished the harvest
22 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”
22 - NAOMI: It is good for you to stay in his field so that you won’t get assaulted.
23 So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
23 - Ruth kept close tot he young women of Boaz, gleaning through barley/wheat harvest. And she lived with Naomi
GO WITH THIS...
NAOMI’S HOPE:
The amount of grain! Blessed be the man who took notice of you!!!
The LORD has not forsaken the LIVING or the DEAD...
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
RUTH’s HUMILITY and FAVOR from the LORD
Wanting to take care of Naomi (v2)
Worked all morning (v7)
I am a foreigner (v10)
I am your servant, but I will never be named among your servants (v13)
BOAZ INTEGRITY and COMPASSION
He blesses his workers in the Lord and his workers return the blessing (v4)
He has compassion on Ruth the Moabite...
The LORD chose Israel to be a holy nation and a display of his splendor
The promise to Abraham
17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
David’s song of thanks when the Ark was brought to Jerusalem
28 Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
29 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him! Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;
30 tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”
9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
Boaz knows the Lord moves beyond the people of Israel...
1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,
4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,
5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
6 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,
His mom is RAHAB! Rahab who housed the spies that came to the land before the conquest.
Rahab who testified in Joshua 2
8 Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof
9 and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.
11 And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
Oh that we would be like Naomi and Boaz and Ruth.
In their time, there story is but a foretaste of what we have already received in Jesus.
We have received the favor of the Lord that was spoken of in Isaiah 61:1-4
1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
4 They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
Let us HOPE in the Lord
Let us humbly serve our God
Let us walk with integrity and have compassion on all people
That the devastations would be raised up, the ruins repaired