Sermon Tone Analysis

Teach Me How To Love You!!!

Ruth 3:1-

Let me start out saying this, I believe a lot of marriages could have been saved if we had more Naomi’s in our families......

Naomi in this chapter plays in my opinion the working of the Holy Spirit..

Naomi had done her homework and knew exactly where Boaz was going to be…

As a parent she felt responsible for finding a Suitable home for Ruth..

Where have we heard this word used before concerning relationships?

suitable: right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation:

good for you..

I believe some brothers need help discerning a good thing...

Prov 8:22

Some men didn’t realize how good they had it until it was gone and someone else discovered the treasure..

Do yourself a favor and look into your wife and tell her how great-full you are to God that he has blessed you with such a good thang..

Instructions:

Wash Yourself (cleanse yourself of all unrighteousness)

Put On Perfume

Sol 4:11

3. Change Your clothes

Put on your red dress and slip on your high heels

And some of that sweet perfume, it sure smells good on you

4. Go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you’re there until he is finished his dinner.

Some commentators have suggested that Ruth is fashioning herself as a bride, and thus to be seen would be to tip her hand.

Most consider her remaining hidden to be an issue not of propriety but of appropriate timing.

Some commentators have suggested that Ruth is fashioning herself as a bride, and thus to be seen would be to tip her hand.

Most consider her remaining hidden to be an issue not of propriety but of appropriate timing.

5. Watch him so you will know where he lies down to sleep

Learn his pattern

6.

When he lies down, go lift the cover off his feet and lie down.

He will tell you how to love him!

Opps i mean..

He will tell you what you should do.”

6.

When he lies down, go lift the cover off his feet and lie down.

He will tell you how to love him!

Opps i mean..

He will tell you what you should do.”

uncovering feet and the spreading of the garment.

There are occasions in the Old Testament where the term “feet” is used euphemistically for the sexual organs.

The expression “spread the edge of the garment” is likewise used with sexual overtones in a betrothal context in Ezekiel 16:8.

The text of Ruth does not suggest a blatant sexual act but is provocative in its ambiguity.

About midnight Boaz was startled and rolled over.

There was a woman lying near his feet!

Boaz asked, “Who are you?”

She said, “I am Ruth, your servant girl.

Spread your cover over me, because you are a relative who is supposed to take care of me.”

7.

About midnight Boaz was startled and rolled over.

There was a woman lying near his feet!

Boaz asked, “Who are you?”

She said, “I am Ruth, your servant girl.

Spread your cover over me, because you are a relative who is supposed to take care of me.”

She said, “I am Ruth, your servant girl.

Spread your cover over me, because you are a relative who is supposed to take care of me.”

3:8–9.

Something startled Boaz in the middle of the night.

He turned to discover that a woman was lying at his feet.

Boaz asked for the identity of his unusual guest (cf.

2:5).

Ruth responded in humility (cf.

2:10): I am your servant Ruth.

She had put herself under the wings of Yahweh (2:12), and now she asked to be put under the wings of Boaz.

In the phrase the corner of your garment the word “corner” is ḵānāp̱, which is translated “wing” in 2:12.

About midnight Boaz was startled and rolled over.

There was a woman lying near his feet!

Boaz asked, “Who are you?”

She used a poetic image that had its source in the blessing that Boaz had given her.

A Moabitess widow was calling the attention of a noted Hebrew to his responsibility.

He could now follow through on his benediction (2:12) by becoming Ruth’s kinsman-redeemer and providing her with the security of marriage.

But this is what i want you to get out of this.

Ruth is under his feet the most submissive place for a women to place herself.

submission 1 the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person: 2 the action of presenting a proposal, application, or other document for consideration or judgment:

submission 1 the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person: 2 the action of presenting a proposal, application, or other document for consideration or judgment:

The ability to yield to the will of another person requires great strength, discipline & humility..

Because she is in a place of submission she is also in position to present her proposal...

We are created beings in the image and likeness of our creator, He works well with submitted beings than he does with un-submitted beings.

We can get more from God by giving him what he wants and not what we think he wants.

That requires relationship, intimacy, obedience & submission… And in this God teaches us how to Love Him…

So Ruth positions herself in a state of submission not lowering herself but actually elevating herself…

She’s Under his feet calling the shots!! Put your cover over me bra thats your job and your destiny.

This is the place we are taught and the place we teach.

It’s not a position for just females its also for Males,

The safest place a women wants to be is in the arms of God and the covering of her husband

I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman—She had already drawn part of the mantle over her; and she asked him now to do it, that the act might become his own.

To spread a skirt over one is, in the East, a symbolical action denoting protection.

To this day in many parts of the East, to say of anyone that he put his skirt over a woman, is synonymous with saying that he married her; and at all the marriages of the modern Jews and Hindus, one part of the ceremony is for the bridegroom to put a silken or cotton cloak around his bride.

8. Boaz joyfully received Ruth’s proposal

8. Boaz joyfully received Ruth’s proposal.

Then Boaz said, “(1)The Lord bless you, my daughter.

(2)This act of kindness is greater than the kindness you showed to Naomi in the beginning.

You didn’t look for a young man to marry, either rich or poor

The Hebrew order is: (3) “don’t be afraid”; (4) “I will do everything you ask”; (5) “all people know that you are a good woman.”

However, the object of Ruth’s fear is not the possibility of Boaz’s refusing help to her, but the possibility that the people of the town will oppose her because she is of Moabite origin.*

Boaz recognized she had Options...

The Hebrew order is: (1) “don’t be afraid”; (2) “I will do everything you ask”; (3) “all people know that you are a good woman.”

However, the object of Ruth’s fear is not the possibility of Boaz’s refusing help to her, but the possibility that the people of the town will oppose her because she is of Moabite origin.*

tev shows the order of the sentences of the source text.

The Hebrew order is: (1) “don’t be afraid”; (2) “I will do everything you ask”; (3) “all people know that you are a good woman.”

However, the object of Ruth’s fear is not the possibility of Boaz’s refusing help to her, but the possibility that the people of the town will oppose her because she is of Moabite origin.*

The Hebrew order is: (3) “don’t be afraid”; (4) “I will do everything you ask”; (5) “all people know that you are a good woman.”

However, the object of Ruth’s fear is not the possibility of Boaz’s refusing help to her, but the possibility that the people of the town will oppose her because she is of Moabite origin.*

The Hebrew order is: (3) “don’t be afraid”; (4) “I will do everything you ask”; (5) “all people know that you are a good woman.”

However, the object of Ruth’s fear is not the possibility of Boaz’s refusing help to her, but the possibility that the people of the town will oppose her because she is of Moabite origin.*

Boaz joyfully received Ruth’s proposal.

* See Gerleman, op.