Pray God to keep it from spreading any further, amen. It's never good, amen, for anybody to get sick, but that thing just to keep going on and adding to it, amen. Pray that it stops with the one that's sick and God to heal them up soon. Amen. We did have a new piano donated to us. We got a guy coming to tune it tomorrow, so pray that that goes smooth. And there'll be no complications. He can get that thing untuned and roll on out, amen. Thank God. Amen. Everything in prayer. We was out there tonight, amen, trying to unstop a toilet and Richie was ready to put some acid down there and boiling hot water and Luke Miller said, Richie, did you pray? Yeah, it's a little bit funny, but it's serious, amen. Pray, everything. Ask the Lord to touch it, amen. We prayed, amen, a little quick Nehemiah prayer and dumped it down there and it seemed to have went down, so glory be to God. Put the toilet on there, flush some more trash down it, see if it worked or not. If it don't, we'll pray some more. Amen. Anytime you're flushing trash, you need to be praying. Amen. Amen. Roof chapter four. Roof chapter number four. Amen. Anybody got a salvation testimony tonight? Somebody stand up and give us your salvation testimony. I'm glad you're saved. I know you're saved. I finally got up, saved. Brother Brooks, you done told us yours already. Go ahead and tell it again. I like it again. That's exactly right. Keep Mr. Brooks in your prayers. Somebody that has not given you a salvation testimony in a while. Go ahead, son. Amen. Thank God for family devotion. That's what I'm talking about. Thursday night born again. Thank God. Amen. That's good, son. Ruth chapter 4. I like that. Thank the Lord. Amen. Ruth chapter 4. We've been dealing with the book of Ruth and looking at Limelech and his wife Naomi. They left Bethlehem, Judea in the beginning of the book, and with Malion and Chilion and their two sons, and tragedy hit the home, and Limelech died, and Malion and Chilion died after they married two Moabitess women, Ruth and Naomi. Not Naomi, but Ophrah. And Naomi comes to her senses and hears there's bread in Bethlehem, Judea, and she starts to make her journey back home. Tries to talk to Ophir and Ruth. They're staying back with their pagan gods and their pagan people, but Ruth wasn't having nothing to do with it. And Ophir, she stayed behind, but Ruth claimed and followed her mother-in-law. She came back and started working in the field, trying to take care of whatever she could to kind of make a little bit of income and take care of her and her mother-in-law. And God fixed her in a position where she met Boaz, and Boaz got his eyes on Ruth, and Naomi got a little bit of insight of what was going on, and taught Ruth into getting herself all prettied up and go down to marry the man at the threshing floor. And it didn't come to pass at that time, but Boaz had been looking at it a while, and because of the comments that he made to her about the near kinsmen and himself, And now we've come to the story where the near kinsman's had an opportunity to marry Boaz or Ruth, and he says, no, I ain't doing that. I'm on my inheritance. And we come to the passage of Scripture in chapter 4 where Boaz is going to take up the redemption of Ruth and her mother-in-law's land, and they're going to live happily ever after. Amen. That's the way the story ought to go, ain't it? Amen. Rue chapter 4, look in verse 1. We're going to study verse 7 through verse 12, but we'll read down from verse 1 through verse 12, kind of back up the story a little bit, what's going on here. You can look back to verse 18 of chapter 3, that last verse there, "...then said she," this is Naomi, speaking to Ruth, "...sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. For the man will not be in rest until he have finished the thing this day." Amen. And by the way, Ruth came back, and she went looking for a husband. She was looking to take care of her mother-in-law. Amen. She was out there just working and laboring, and God fixed her eyes, Boaz's eyes on her, and God gave her a man. She could have had a young guy. She could have had somebody, you know, that she could have picked. But she just went out there and labored, and God put that thing in line and gave her the man that she needed. Eventually, she ends up marrying the richest man in town. Having the best life there ever is, amen? And the way a child of God's marriage ought to work, you just work and labor and wait on God and God will give you the right one. Don't go out there and try to make something happen without God and make a mess of your life. But verse 1 of chapter 4, Then went Boaz up to the gate. That's where the transactions in the Old Testament took place. You find all through that Old Testament when we looked at it last week, at the gate is where these transactions took place. And so Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by, unto whom he said, Hold such a one, turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down. Boaz went up to the gate to take care of the business. He waited for this near kinsman and him to come by. He stopped him, had him sit down. Verse 2, And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. So there's witnesses, these ten men, or a type of the law that came to witness the transaction take place of this redemption of Ruth and Naomi's land. The Bible said in verse 3, And he said unto the kinsmen, Naomi that is come out of the country of Moab selleth a partial of land which was our brother Elimelech's. Elimelech being Naomi's husband that is dead. And the Bible said, And I thought to advise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it. But if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me that I may know, for there is none to redeem it beside thee, and I am after thee. And he said, this is what that near kinsman said, I will redeem it. And then said Boaz, what day thou buy'st the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance, redeem thou my right to thyself, for I cannot redeem it. The near kinsman was willing to redeem the land, of Naomi, but he wanted nothing to do with this Moabitess Gentile Ruth. And so he said, hey, you redeem it to yourself, and this is exactly what happens in verse 7. Now, this was the manner in the former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing. For to confirm all things, a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor, and this was a testimony in Israel. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, of course he's an unnamed kinsman, he's just the fact that he is the nearer one than Boaz. He said, said unto Boaz, buy it for thee, so he drew off his shoe. the shoeless near kinsmen. That's what you could call him, I guess. And Boaz said unto the elders, there's those ten men, and unto all the people, ye are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was a limulex and all that was chileons and maleons of the hand of Naomi. Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Maleon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place, ye are witnesses this day." It's kind of crazy how this story goes. If you remember back that Ruth was the one that really proposed where usually in our day and age the man proposes, she had proposed and hey, she went down there to marry him at the threshing floor. I just remember when she came back and Naomi said, who art thou? He wanted to know if she was Mrs. Boaz or was she just still Rue? Hey man, the moral bodies. And she went down there and proposed to the man and then when the ceremony takes place of her being purchased to become his bride, the bride ain't even there. She proposed, and at the ceremony of this part of where she is being redeemed by Boaz, she's nowhere to be seen. In our day and time, the man proposes, and when it comes to the wedding day, it's all about the bride. In this case, it's all about the groom. Amen? The reason why he's the type of the Lord Jesus Christ, when it comes to you and I getting saved and redeemed, it ain't about us, it's about Him. That's how the story plays out. Hey, the whole ceremony's all about the group. I mean, when the wife gets married, amen, and she walks down the aisle, everybody looks at her. And everybody talks about her. And that old man, he just stands over there beside the preacher and says, yeah, I do. It ain't nothing to do with him. It's all about her. It's her day. Amen. But here we see it is Boaz's day. She ain't even invited to the wedding. She ain't there. She reading what I'm reading. The Bible said, and all, verse 11, and all the people that were in the gate and the elders said, we are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel, and like Leah, which too did build the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. And let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman. We won't study verse 13, but look at it in the context. So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife. And when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son. Let's pray. Brother Jeff, how about pray for us, brother? Yes, Lord, we do. Yes. Give us hope, God. Go a little further for you. Yes, Lord, help us, Lord. Amen. Last week we gave an outline of chapter 4. We said, well the first six verses we studied last week under the refusal at the gate where this near kinsman refuses to marry Ruth. And then we're going to look at tonight the redemption that is given and then lastly we'll see the results that are great. But the redemption given. There's a redemption given to Ruth. She is redeemed by Boaz. She becomes his wife. As you read out the rest of the story, they live happily ever after like some kind of movie that you watch on television. Amen. God put this couple together. God blessed them and through them came the lineage of the Lord Jesus Christ. But in the redemption that is given tonight, I'm going to look at it three ways. Number one, the shoe removed. That's what we'll see in verse 7 and 8. Number two, the selling of Ruth. You'll find that in verse 9 and 10. And then the seed ruler in verse 11 and 12. The shoe that is removed. The Bible said in verse number 7, now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing. For to confirm all things, a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor, and this was a testimony in Israel. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe. The shoe was removed from the Nereidkensman saying that you can redeem what I am rightful to redeem, I refuse to redeem it but I'm giving it over to you. Dr. Rotman said on this verse, verse number 7, listen to this, if God the Father had taken Ruth, and we use the Nereidkensman and I as a type of God the Father, some believe Him being the type of the law, some believe Him being a type of the angels, some believe Him being a type of a fallen nature, But if God the Father had taken root to be His wife, He would have violated Deuteronomy 23.3, not just as a racial or national thing, but in eternity. Jew and Gentile could not be one in God or in Christ until Ephesians 2 verse 11 through 17, where the middle wall perdition was broken down when God grafted in the Gentiles. So before Boaz can marry Ruth, which is the type of the marriage at the end time in Revelation chapter 19 verse 79, where the bride of Christ will be married to the groom, which is God the Son, the kinsmen A type of God the Father has to take off his shoe, Deuteronomy 25, we'll look at that in just a minute, and he will kick it off over Edom in the tribulation. He does this two times in the Old Testament in Psalms 60 verse 8, Psalms 108 verse 9. When the shoe goes off, And here's God the Father. Amen. He's going to grant back in the Jews, but a Jewish tribulation is taking place while the church is raptured out and we're up in heaven being prepared for that marriage ceremony and the millennial honeymoon. God the Father kicks His shoe off over Edom. And anytime you see the shoe coming off, you know what follows the shoe coming off? Judgment. Judgment. You know what God's gonna do at the end of the Great Tribulation? He's gonna judge him, but not before he takes off his shoe. You remember Moses when he came down there and he was at that burning bush and the Lord said, take off thy shoe, y'all, thou art on holy ground. You know what? Come after him taking off his shoe, God poured out judgment on Egypt. You find that also in Joshua chapter 5 verse 15 where he said the same thing to Joshua, take off that shoe. After the shoe was taken off, God poured judgment out on his enemies. And anytime you see the shoe coming off, There's judgment, just as it'll be in the future when God grafts the church in to marry God the Son. He kicks off His shoe over Eden, pours out judgment into tribulation. Then a honeymoon takes place after the marriage supper of the Lamb. And that's how history plays out. So we see the removal of the shoe here in this passage. You'll find this principle and doctrine found in Deuteronomy 23. Look in Deuteronomy, I mean 25, Deuteronomy 25, excuse me. The removing of the shoe. The law of redeeming. This is the way it took place. Amen? Just to remind you of the story, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 25. Right before the book of Joshua, right? Deuteronomy 25. Ruth married one of Naomi's children. Naomi went down to Moab with Elimelech. Her husband died. Amen. Not only is her husband dead, but Ruth's husband is dead. And so here's Naomi coming back. Amen. She went out. Amen. Sold everything. Come back with nothing. Amen. And now her land needs to be redeemed and purchased. Amen. And the near kinsman has the right to redeem the land. Not only to redeem the land, but to raise up seed to Ruth, which is that Moabitess, which is part of that family that she picked up while she was down in Moab. Amen. Technically, amen, Ruth is outside the commonwealth of Israel. Like he said over in the book of Ephesians, there's Gentiles outside the commonwealth. Hey, she accepted the Jewish God when she said, thy God shall be my God, thy people shall be my people. So she's came back to Bethlehem, amen. But she's still outside the commonwealth, amen. Hey, she wants to be grafted in. How can she be grafted in? She has to be married to a Jewish groom. So this takes place. Here's the concept here in Deuteronomy 25. Here's how it takes place. Deuteronomy 25, look in verse number 5. When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war. That's chapter 24, excuse me. Chapter 25, verse 5. What's the first word there? If. There you go. If brother dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, The wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. You keep this in mind because you'll see this played out in that passage in Ruth where it did not come to pass like this. Verse 6, and it's not in Ruth's case, but in the next one, Perez. And it shall be that the firstborn, which she bears, shall succeed in the name of his brother, which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. Amen. To redeem Ruth and Naomi's land, there must be someone to raise up seed to Ruth in the name of her husband. That's why that near kinsman to her said, hey, I cannot marry her unless I mar my inheritance. He was already married. He's married to a Jewish lady and he cut more Jewish inheritance by marrying into a Gentile. type of God the Father and God the Son there. Verse 6, and it shall be that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. And if a man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife, listen to this, go up to the gate under the elders where transactions took place, where at the gate So she was to go up to the gate, take the elders with her as witnesses, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him, and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her, Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house, and his name shall be called in Israel the house of him that hath his shoe loosed. There was the law that was laid out for raising up seed to another man's name that had died off before his wife ever had children. Ruth was childless. Amen. There was a near kinsman that could have redeemed her and raised up seed in her inheritance, but he rejected that offer. He did not fulfill what Deuteronomy 25 said about redeeming his brother's inheritance, and so he rejected it, and Boaz fulfills it. But how does he fulfill it? He fulfills it by taking off his shoe. Do you know what you do not find there? You do not find him spitting in his face. You say, why didn't he spit in his face? Well, it wasn't Boaz's place to spit in his face. By the way, the context is, is for the woman to bring the man up to the gate and to bring him charges against him to not redeem her. And if she was not redeemed by him, she had the right to spit in his face and to take his shoe off. Here's a lady outside the Commonwealth of Israel, so Boaz goes to bat for her. Ruth was not even there, so she could not spit in his face. She was outside the Commonwealth of Israel. Boaz took the plate for her and went up to her. Hey, the kinsman, his face was not spit in, number one, because Ruth was not even there, because it was the woman's place to spit in his face. But number two, not only was he not spit in his face because she wasn't there, but the kinsman had a legal reason why he could not marry her. Remember what he said back in Ruth? Look in the book of Ruth chapter number 3. He had a legal reason, or chapter 4. Ruth chapter 4 in verse 6. Because when Boaz said, hey, go by the land and redeem it, he said, I will redeem it. But Boaz said in verse 5, the day you redeem it, you've got to redeem Ruth the more by this. In verse 6, here's what the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself lest I mar my own inheritance. You know what he said? I've got legal rights. I cannot mar my inheritance. There was no spitting in his face because, number one, Ruth did not take him to court. She didn't bring him before the gate. She's outside the Commonwealth of Israel. And the guy had legal rights, amen. He said, I'll mar my inheritance. I can't mar my inheritance. I can't marry this Gentile lady when I'm already married to a Jewish lady and raise up seed into her and her son take the place of all my inheritance. I'm not going to have that Jewish, that Gentile half-breed that I'm going to raise up, take my inheritance, which is Jewish. I cannot mower my inheritance. So he removed his shoe. His shoe was taken off, amen, because he did not willingly want to redeem Ruth. And he said that, hey, legally, I don't even have to because an Amorite inherits. So we see the removing of the shoe. We see the reason of the removing of the shoe. Number two, we see the selling of Ruth. So if he wasn't to redeem her, who would? We know the story. We've already looked at it. Boaz was. Verse number 9, the Bible said, and Boaz said unto the elders and unto all the people, ye are witnesses this day. There's ten men at the gate. He said, hey man, you see this? This guy says I can't do it. I'm all my inheritance. You're witnesses to the fact of what's going on this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech's and all that was Chilean's and Melian's of the hand of Naomi. Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Malion, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place, ye are witnesses this day." You know what he said? He said, I'm doing it this day. He said it this day your witnesses verse 9 this day your witnesses verse 10 this day that day the same thing back in verse 18 of chapter 3 that Naomi told Ruth He will not rest who he has finished this thing this day. He's gonna take care of it this day He's gonna settle it right now He's going to get you a husband. He's going to get somebody to take care of you. He's going to get somebody to purchase our land. This man cares about us. He's going to make it happen today. And guess what? He made it happen today. We said practically speaking in our lives, we ought to redeem the time for the days or even get some things done this day. Stop putting off tomorrow what you can take care of this day. Get it done today. Hey, be diligent about your work, amen. Hey, be sober, be vigilant. Now, ever since the devil's walking about, seeking to be made divine, let God's children be diligent to work today for the Lord. Because tomorrow we might be gone. Tomorrow death might take us away. Hey, tomorrow the rapture might come and get us. Hey, get some things done this day. Boy, it was a specific day when she was redeemed. Hey, you remember the day God saved you? You know what it was? It was a specific day. You know what our brother said tonight? I was on a Thursday night. We were having a devotion at home. My father was talking about heaven and hell. I didn't want hell. I wanted heaven, and I asked the Lord to save me. It was a specific day when the Lord saved his soul. I remember the day, amen, that the Lord saved my soul. I don't remember the actual date of it, but I know it was on a Sunday, and I remember that day vividly when I bowed as best I knew how, called out to the Lord, and God saved my soul. Glad he heard my humble cry. Amen. It was a specific day. The selling of Ruth took place on a specific day Hey, she was bought He said in verse number nine and Boaz said unto the elders and into all the people your witnesses this day That I have bought all that was a limolex Amen. He said in verse number nine I have purchased to be my wife. It was a buying. There was a purchasing. Amen. He was taking that possession to be his own. Amen. You know what that buying, that bought is? That bought is a type of redemption. He said redeem it. He said I will redeem it. You know what that word redeem means or redemption means? It means to buy back. To purchase, amen. Hey, thank God Jesus Christ purchased us. He bought us back, amen. Hey, Adam permissed his world into sin. We were all God's fathers in the beginning. Until sin birthed us all into hell after Adam's transgression, amen. We were born into his likeness away from God's likeness, but Jesus purchased us and bought us back to the Father, amen. It's redemption, it's a buying back. Hey, there are three words I want to look at in the selling of Ruth. Or should I say the purchase of Ruth? It's the word atonement, it's the word redemption, and it's the word propitiation. Let me scare you to them big old words. Atonement just means at-one-ment. That's exactly how you spell it. Atonement. At-one-ment. To be made one with the Son. Amen. The redemption. Amen. Being brought back to God. Amen. And perpetuation appeasing the wrath of God. Amen. This is the picture of the atonement of Jesus Christ. He brought us back from the slave mark of sin. Look in Matthew chapter 13. To be brought back. To be redeemed. To be made at one with the Father. Matthew chapter 13. That's the first book in your New Testament. the selling of Ruth. He bought her. He purchased her, he said. You're witnesses to the fact of what I've done. Well, Matthew chapter 13, you see the Lord begin to speak in parables to these bunch of heathens that have rejected Him. He begins to spill out the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. And in one of these mysteries, he speaks of something being bought, which is a type of him buying the church. Look at this in Matthew 13, look in verse 45. Verse 45, again, the kingdom of heaven is likened to a merchant man seeking goodly pearls. Look at this, who when he had found, how many? One pearl. of great price, went and sold all that he had and did what? He bought it. You know what that is? That one pearl is a type of the church, that one body. Amen. We're all one in God, amen. One body of believers, amen. That one pearl of great price and he sold all that he had to buy. God the Father gave his best, man. He sold all he had. He took upon him the form of a servant. He was made in the likeness of man. He gave himself to redeem and purchase mankind to buy us back from the slave mark of sin. Amen, it was a pearl of great price to him, amen. I don't know what he saw in us, but he saw something, man. I'm glad he saw the Son dying for our sins. Amen, the redemption, the buying back. We, like Ruth, were sold unto sin, Romans chapter 7, verse 14. We were under the wrath of God, John 3, 36. Hey, when the condemnation of God was on us, we were under sin, under the wrath of God. But we were bought back by the Son, amen. Look at these verses. You know them. Look in Acts chapter 20. We were bought. You know what you were bought with? You were bought with the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. That sinless blood of the Son of God. Perfect blood. Amen. That wasn't Mary's blood in his veins. He was conceived of the Holy Ghost. That was the blood of God the Father. If it had been the blood of Mary, it would have been the blood of sinners. That was sinless blood. Amen. Amen. That blood flowing through our veins is sinful. Amen. Amen. The life of the flesh is in the blood. And our old flesh is going to die one day. You know why? Because his blood is tainted. We need the perfect blood of the Son of God to take away the sins of mankind. It wasn't the blood of bulls and goats, but it was the blood of the Son of God. It was the blood of God Himself that bought us. It is a bloody religion. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission. Amen. I thank God He shed His blood to purchase us. He gave his best look at Acts 20 28 Look at this look follow along your Bible look at the Word of God says take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made you overseers to feed the Church of God That ain't this building That ain't no building down the street, ain't no building in Jerusalem. The church of God, the body of Christ, made up of all born-again believers, feed the church of God, look at this, which He, who is He? God, the church of God, who He had purchased with what? His own blood. Whose blood? His own blood. You say, some people say, well Jesus was just another good prophet, another good man. No, he was God, the God-man. He was Emmanuel, which being interpreted as God with us. That was God's blood flowing through his veins. He said, feed the church of God, which he had purchased with his own blood. It is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that brought us, bought us back. Look in 1 Peter chapter 1. You know these verses. The blood, the blood, that's what it is. It's the blood of the Lord Jesus. Why are you saved tonight? Because of the blood of Jesus. That old song, nothing but the blood of Jesus, nothing but the blood of Jesus. That's what it is, man. It's the blood. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 18. the blood of Jesus, the blood of God. He redeemed us. He says, for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, you think you're going to pay your tithes and get your way out of hell? Silver and gold ain't gonna get it. From your vain conversation received from the tradition of your fathers. You follow the traditions of the fathers, you'll go to hell. You know what the traditions of the fathers say? Take a little wafer on the tongue. Drink a little hooch. Amen. Hey, turn over a new leaf. Amen. Be good to your neighbor. Get into baptismal water. Get sprinkled. Get christened. Hey, those traditions will send you to hell. You ain't redeemed by any of that mess, but, verse 19, with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Amen. Thank God it was the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look in Revelation chapter 5. The blood of Jesus. Revelation 5. The saints of God standing before the Lamb of God which is worthy to open the book. You know what they say? Look in Revelation 5 verse 9. He said, they sung a new song. What are we going to sing? What are we going to sing? Amen. Saying, thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. You know what we're going to sing one day? The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what redeemed us. That's what purchased us. That's what bought us back. Say, you're going to heaven. Yes, I am. Why? Because the blood of Jesus. That's it. The blood of Jesus. It ain't some vain conversation. It ain't some gold and silver. It's the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It made us at one with the Father. Amen. It redeemed us. It bought us back. But it is our propitiation. The blood of Jesus made us at one with God. The blood of Jesus bought us, but the blood of Jesus is our perpetuation. What's the word perpetuation mean? It means to appease the raft. the propitiation. He is our propitiation. You know what it is? He took the wrath of God for you and I. Amen. God the Father poured out the wrath on the Son of God and that propitiation appeased the wrath of God. You know what He said? I'm satisfied with the death of my son. Three days later, He got him up for the grave. That's your propitiation. He appeased the wrath of God. If God's wrath is not appeased on you, He's going to pour it out on you. And the only way to have that wrath appeased is for him to be your propitiation. Look at Romans chapter 3. Romans 3. He's your propitiation. Ruth was bought. She was purchased. She was paid for. Boaz bought her. A type of the Lord Jesus Christ bought us, redeemed us. He is our propitiation. He took our wrath. He took our punishment. Romans 3 verse 24, the Bible says, "...being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation." You see that? through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God. Amen. It is His righteousness, it is His blood that appeased the wrath of God. Look in 1 John chapter 2. He appeased it. Somebody had to take your wrath. When sinners go to hell, you know what God does? He pours out His wrath on them. That condemnation of God that is on them, the wrath of God that is on them in John 3, 36 that He speaks about. Amen. It was on you and I until the Lord saved us. First John chapter 2 verse number 2, he appeased the wrath of God by being our propitiation. For he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Look in chapter 4 and verse number 10. If a sinner goes to hell, it's because they reject the love of Jesus. Herein is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. He is the one that appeased the wrath of God. He is the one that the Father said, and this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. We see the shoe removed. We see the selling of Ruth, but we see the seed ruler. Look back in Ruth chapter 4. Boaz, a type of God the Son, buys Ruth, purchases her. The redemption was freely given. Verse 11, And all the people that were in the gate and the elders said, We're witnesses. We've seen it. We're witnesses to the fact that the Nearchism and Shu was taken all. Boaz purchased and bought Ruth and Naomi and her land. Jew and Gentile making one type of the church. He getting it all. Amen. All glory is due to the Son. But he said, you're witnesses. Try to think about that little phrase, we are witnesses. Think about the Lord Jesus Christ's life and all the witnesses to his sinless life. All the witnesses to his resurrection. Paul said, last of all, he was seen of me. The Bible said that when he ascended back, he said the Holy Ghost would come. You know what he said? The Holy Ghost will make you witnesses. We're witnesses. We ought to be witnessing for Him. The fact that He redeemed sinners, the fact that He redeemed us, and the fact that He redeems others. We ought to be witnesses to the fact. They said, we are witnesses. The law witnesses. You know what the law saw in the Lord Jesus Christ? He was perfect. He was sinless. He fulfilled the law. He didn't come to destroy it, He came to fulfill it. Every jot and every tittle, amen, up to being the sacrifice for mankind. The law was a witness to it. The Lord, here's what they said, the Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which too did build the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. I guess you could say if it's a marriage taking place, Ruth's being purchased by Boaz, amen, they consummate the marriage in verse 11 and there's a child that is given through the conception, amen, in verse 13, excuse me. But I guess the law here is giving a toast to the wed. They're speaking up. And they said, The Lord make the woman, the woman that is Mary in Ruth, that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which too did build the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. The first part of the toast, if you will, for lack of better terms, he said, Make it like the house of Rachel and the house of Leah. You know who Rachel and Leah are? They're the two wives of Jacob where you get the 12 tribes of Israel. He said, let your house be like the house of Israel. through Rachel and Leah. Amen? If you wanted to make a little application, here's something to think about, the witnesses being, the number of ten witnesses being the type of the law that's witnessing to the fact, but he said, make your house like Rachel and like Leah. If you wanted to make an application, you could say stretching it or whatever, but Rachel, the one that he really wanted, when he had his isle, the one that Laban tricked him and gave him Leah first and then he got Rachel that he served all those years for. He said, make your house like Rachel and Leah. Now here's Boaz redeeming Ruth. Boaz, a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said, make your lineage like Rachel's and Leah's lineage. You could take Rachel and she could be a type of deity. You know, Rachel was the one that had Joseph. And Joseph's the one that's the greatest type, one of the greatest types of God the Son in the Old Testament. And through Rachel comes that lineage of Joseph. And through Leah comes all those other tribes. Judah, where his septicum will not depart from his hand. And Leah would be a type of the humanity of the Son of God, where Rachel would be a type of the deity of the Son of God. He said, make it like that. And Boaz is that picture of the Son of God, amen. And here's that type of deity, that type of humanity, amen. Hey, give him like the 12 tribes of Israel. He said, bless them. He said, make them famous in Bethlehem, worthy in Ephrathah. And we'll look at that in just a moment. But he said in verse 12, and let the house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bear unto Judah. And he said, make it like the house of Rachel and Leah. Multiply the seed like the tribes of Israel. But then he said, make your house like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bear unto Judah. Remember the story back there of Deuteronomy 25, that where a man was to raise up seed of his brother? Amen. Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah. And her Judah's son died, and there was no seed to Tamar. And Judah said, hey, you're going to have to wait. He told another one to go raise up seed to him, and he, forbid, didn't do it. And then he said, you got to wait, and I got a younger son, and then he'll be the one to raise up seed to you. And Tamar went off and waited. She was faithful to Wade. And Judah never fulfilled his end of the bargain. He never sent his youngest son to raise up seed into Tamar. So Tamar dressed herself up like a harlot. And when Judah came by, her father-in-law, amen, he labored her as a harlot and conceived Perez. Not only him, but his twin brother. And that brother comes out and they tie that scar around him and then Perez comes out, you know, but here's the, and this is the example that he uses. The law uses the example of it. Make your house, I can see why he would say like Rachel and Leah, the 12 tribes of Israel. He says make it like Perez, whom Tamar bear unto Judah. Tied it back into the story of the kinsman-redeemer for one part. But he said, make it like a son. The sepulchre shall not depart from Judah. Type of the son. The seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman. The seed rulers to come through this whole lineage. We have the child birthed from Boaz and Ru, which comes Obed, and Obed begets Jesse, and Jesse begets David, and on down through the lineage all the way through the Son of God that was born. You're talking about blessed? He said make the child famous. That's what he said, it was the words. And be famous in Bethlehem. Not only just be famous anywhere, but he said be famous in Bethlehem. Oh, Bethlehem of Judea. You know, kids learning the Christmas play, the Christmas story, what happened down in Bethlehem, Judea? Ephrathah. What famous person was born down there? Who's famous through that lineage? He said, make it famous, amen. Boy, was it ever famous. Hey, the Son of God, the men of all men showed up down there. You're talking about famous, amen. You're talking about the seed ruler that was to come, amen. Hey, he came. Amen, was born. Look at Micah chapter 5, Micah 5. He come. Two thousand years ago, he was born. Jonah, Micah, right? Micah 5. He said, make him famous in Bethlehem. Remember what he said? And do thou worthily in Ephrathah. Micah 5 too, but thou Bethlehem, Ephrathah. The city within the city. though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is ruler in Israel, whose going forth hath been from old, from everlasting." You know who that prophecy is in Micah 5, too, young people? That's the prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the law said that Boaz, he said, make him famous in Bethlehem. and worthy of Ephrathah, amen. And out of Bethlehem, Ephrathah, came the Son of God through the virgin womb of Mary. And boy, he put Bethlehem on the map. You think a famous man showed up? There ain't nobody as famous as Jesus Christ ever been. There's a lot of famous people in this world, but there ain't nobody like the Son of God. Amen. He's famous. You know how famous He is? Look in 1 John chapter 4. He's famous. I'd say He was pretty famous, wouldn't you? I mean, he's known under every language, every country. They might not believe who he is, but boy, he's famous. First John chapter 4 verse 14, the Bible said, and we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. You don't talk about somebody being famous. You're talking about somebody showing up in Bethlehem that the world never will forget, never will get over. I'm talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm talking about that Boaz. Famous. Look at Colossians in closing. I said it earlier, the whole transaction takes place and Ruth is nowhere to be found. She's back at home with her mother-in-law until he comes to get her and consummates the marriage. But the whole story of redemption is all about Boaz. It ain't about Ruth. It ain't about her. It ain't about her wedding dress. It ain't about her day and her walking in and everybody looking at her and staring at her as she marches into her tomb. Amen. It ain't about her. It's about Boaz. You know when it comes to you being saved and me being saved, it ain't about me. And it ain't about you. It's about the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians chapter 1, look in verse 12. Colossians 1 and 12. The Bible says, giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who have delivered us from the power of darkness and have translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son. in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. And by Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell. It's about Him. Here's Boaz redeeming Ruth and what a great story and what a great thing it is for Ruth and her family. But boy, it's about Boaz. Boy, what a good thing it is to be saved. What it is a good thing to be at one with the Father. Amen. Atonement. What a good thing it is to be redeemed, to be purchased by Him and to be His own. What a good thing it is that He appeased the wrath of God and He being our propitiation, He took the wrath of God for us. And God did not leave His soul in hell, neither suffer His Holy One to see corruption, but raised Him up the third day and He led captivity captive and is seated at the right hand of the Father. It's about Jesus Christ. I'm glad I'm in though. You know what? That whole day was all about Boaz, but I bet you couldn't watch the smile off Ruth's face. I'm glad I'm his. I'm glad I waited. I'm glad I didn't sell out to something else. I'm glad I didn't get the wrong one. I'm glad I was obedient and waited and the Father fulfilled my sweetest dreams. I'm glad I'm saved. the redemption that is given. Are you redeemed? Are you thankful that you're redeemed? I'm glad He purchased me. Heads are bowed and eyes are closed. Maybe we could just have all that can and will, let's gather around the altar tonight as a church and pray.