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Introduction
If you will I want you to picture a perfect garden where nothing was amiss.
Where everything was in perfection.
All was well and good.
There was no bitter struggle for who would be the leader.
All were submitted to God.
Then a serpent crept in and destroyed this perfection with deception.
There was punishment for mankind from this failing.
We were separated from God and work became difficult and struggle and desire for who would lead came about.
Death entered and has been a plague to us since.
Yet, even in this time of defeat and despair hope was given.
God told the woman and the serpent that Gen. 3:15
This is the first stating of the gospel.
This is a blessing and a promise for us.
This is the amazing grace and love of our God and Father.
Now picture if you will a people who have abandoned their God and went into a foreign land.
They were not trusting God but themselves to make a way.
They endured terrible loss and finally only the widow and one of her widowed daughters-in-law returned to the land the Lord had given them.
The daughter-in-law was a foreigner who was not supposed to marry a national child of God.
She was not to be there in the land but as a servant.
She was not wanted nor was she deserving of any blessing from the people.
Yet, we see the landowner giving her more than was commanded in the law.
He was ordering all his laborers to leave behind rows and not just gleanings.
He was blessing a people who were not the elect or called of God.
The man was the relative of the mother-in-law but not the daughter-in-law.
Yet the man was a redeemer.
He was giving grace to an outsider and reaching out to her.
She went to him and lay at his feet showing that she was needing his covering and protection.
She was wanting to be under his shelter.
He had extended his grace to her and she came to him in humility desiring that grace.
He gave her more than she deserved in saying he would do what was necessary to fulfill the obligation of redeeming her when he gave her large quantities of essentials to live.
The man went to the fullest extent to redeem the woman.
He made all sacrifices necessary and redeemed a foreigner that was supposed to be nothing to the people.
Boaz brought redemption to Ruth and Naomi and as such was a picture of Christ redeeming those inside as God’s chosen people and those outside.
That is what this text we will read in a moment is about.
In it we see that Christ came, He is the gift, and He came for all just as the narrative of Ruth and Boaz demonstrates for us.
Let us look at 1 Tim.
1:15
We see in this...
Christ Came into the World
He came into the world.
He the High King of Heaven the Son of God, the glorious one; He came into this fallen broken world for us.
This is the reason for this time of year.
This is what we celebrate here and now.
Do not let anyone make you feel as if Christmas is based off a pagan holiday and what we do is dishonoring to God.
We are celebrating the birth and coming of the glorious Son of God who came to give His life a ransom for many (Mark 10:45).
Jesus is 2 Cor.
9:15 this inexpressible gift.
Jesus came for us.
He did not have too nor did He need too.
He came because God is a God of grace and love.
God desires all to be saved and be redeemed.
God desires us to all be like Ruth and seek our shelter under Him not ourselves.
We see in many passages from the OT that Satan tried to thwart His coming.
He worked to cause a divided Kingdom.
He caused David to fail in many ways.
Solomon failed in many ways.
The Davidic line was nearly destroyed off had it not been for the quick thinking and ingenuity of one woman (2 Kings 11:1-3
Satan tried more and more by leading many other kings into idolatry and major sin.
He fought hard to deceive and cause Christ to not be able to come into the world as God had promised he would.
But come He did.
He came in a lowly way by two lowly humble righteous people.
They were not people of means or money but they were God’s chosen people for the purpose of bringing Christ into the world.
Christ came into the world and was made known to lowly people first, not magisterial people but shepherds.
Luke 2:8-14 tells the tale of the shepherds out in the field and the angels announcing Christ to them.
Luke 2:14 tells us that the angels said
This means that there is no one who is too far from God.
This means that there are none who are too low or not good enough for the Lord.
All people are able to know Him and revel in His glory.
We are all capable and desired by Him.
We just need to be as Ruth was and go to the one offering grace.
We need to be as the shepherds were and go to Him when told of Him.
We need to believe and receive Him who came into the world.
We do because...
Christ Came as The Gift
As the Gift He came to give salvation to all who believe.
He did not come just to come but to offer something to all people if they would just receive it.
Sinners can be righteous now because of Christ.
He came for all and He came to save all.
We just need to believe in Him and know that He did this for us.
He left glory for us.
He became lowly for us.
He laid aside all His majesty and Phil.
2:6-7
He came as one of us to save us.
He had to be a man who was like us in every way to save us.
He was like us in every way and was tempted in every way like us but He was different than us in He never sinned He was perfect and pure.
He was this perfect sinless man who came for you and me.
This is the fulfilling of the promise of Genesis 3:15.
Jesus is the seed of woman who came and has crushed the head of the serpent.
He did this in His dying at the cross.
Satan felt he won but Christ rose again and proved only He can be the savior promised.
He won the victory and as such offers this gift to us all.
He is truly the indescribable gift for all humanity.
He came into this broken world to save those who broke it and those who have rejected Him.
Those like Naomi and her family when they left the land to a foreign land rather than trusting the Lord.
They left Him but He drew them back and from them brought about the Lord Jesus Christ.
What is even more amazing is the lineage God used to bring Christ through.
In Matt.
1:1-7 we see
Abraham failed and lied a few times in major ways not just white lies.
He also failed to fully trust and have faith and had a child with another woman that was not the way God said the promise would come.
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