God Provides His Redeemer
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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.”
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?”
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!”
Recap Ch 1 - Death, Suffering, etc.
Ch 2 - a change of fortunes
God always Provides through His Providence.
Providence through our action. (vs. 1-2)
Ruth did not sit still, she went and did what she could do.
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.”
Providence through our circumstances. (vs. 3)
Ruth did not plan to wind up in the field owned by Boaz but God did.
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.
happened - seems like luck, but God is at work.
Providence through people. (vs. 4-7)
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.”
1 Now Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
Worthy - Man of Character/Noble
Providence through God’s Care. (vs. 8-16)
stay in this field (vs. 8)
protection from the men (vs. 9)
drink from our water (vs. 9)
taken refuge under God’s wings (vs. 12)
more than just the gleanings (vs. 14-16)
Providence through God’s redemption. (vs. 17-23)
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.”
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.”
God’s Hesed has not forsaken the living and the dead.
God provided the redeemer.
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
GOSPEL
God’s providence exposes the fact that luck and coincidence do not exist in this world and because of this truth we must live our lives like this is true.
So what can we apply to our lives?
Spend your life for Jesus.
Don’t be blind to opportunities.
See people as opportunities not hindrances.
Trust in God’s care for you.
Rest in your redemption.