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Some people do not truly understand what Christmas is, like this guy, (show pic) tonight is actually about Jesus and that is why we light the Christ candle.
Lighting of the Christ Candle
**Pray and Band Exits**
Tonight we are doing something we have not done in 10 years.
We are concluding a book series on Christmas Eve, we are finishing up the book of Ruth.
So for those of you who haven’t been with us over the last 8 weeks let me bring you up to speed.
Story of the Book of Ruth
We ended Sunday with the final question of the book hanging out there, will the line continue or will the redeemed line die with Boaz and Ruth?
Thankfully tonight we get our answer quickly in 4:13-22
1. God provides a son.
(vs.
13)
The question is answered!
Life has come from death.
Light has come from darkness.
God reversed it all and sent them a son so the line would continue.
It could not just be a baby it had to be a son.
Culturally the son was necessary for the line to continue so God not only provided a baby, he continued the line, but he did not just provide a son.
The baby was more than just a baby boy,
2. God provides a redeemer.
(vs.
14-15)
This baby was a type of redeemer.
This baby brought Naomi from famine to fulness.
It wasn’t when Ruth was married that this happened, it was when the baby was born.
Restorer of life - Turn your life around
Nourisher of your old age - Keep you together
Everything Naomi had lost, this baby would provide.
3. God provides a promise.
(vs.
16-22)
Nurse - Nanny
Women of town name him Obed
genealogy - leading to David
So what promise?
How is this a fulfillment of a promise?
A promise is only a good as the person who makes it.
God gave Abraham a promise that his line would provide the seed that would bless the nations and that line ran through David.
If God had not provided Obed the line would have stopped with Boaz and Jesus would not have been born according to the promise.
God was at work in providing Obed.
He used a famine, death, sorrow, suffering, shame, providential guiding, and His covenantal commitment to accomplish it.
God was always at work in the book of Ruth to bring Obed so the promised line would continue that would lead to Jesus.
What an amazing thought that God was so committed to bringing Jesus, the redeemer of the world, that even in the time of the Judges where everyone did what was right in their own eyes, He was at work.
There are two things I want to end with tonight when it comes to Obed that I believe we need to see on this Christmas Eve.
Obed was the redeemer that turned Naomi’s life around, but Jesus is the redeemer that turns our eternity around.
GOSPEL
Obed was the redeemer that would hold Naomi’s life together, but Jesus is the redeemer that keeps our life together.
GRACE
On this Christmas Eve, we see Jesus as a baby and rejoice that He came so our eternities could be turned around and our lives held together.
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