WEBVTT 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.799 Hello, my name is Benji Wilson, and I am the worship pastor here at CCW. 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:47.679 Whether this is your first time here, regular attender or a covenant member, we want you to feel welcome and at home. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.399 Thank you for choosing to worship with us. 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.799 We would love for you to connect with us, and there are several ways to do so. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:02.079 You can learn more about us by going to thechurch at CW.com or by downloading our CCW app. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:10.000 In your mobile device app store, simply search for The Church at CW and you can download the CCW app for free. 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:54.959 Search for us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram by searching for at TheChurch at CW. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.840 Can't make it to service on Sunday? 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.480 Watch us live on Facebook, the app, or on thechurch at CW.com. 00:02:02.640 --> 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--> 00:05:31.920 Again, my name is Benji Wilson. 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:36.160 Thank you for choosing to worship with us, and worship begins now. 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:37.120 Good morning. 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:39.040 Welcome to the church at Chelsea Westover. 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.199 Come on, let's stand together this morning. 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.279 We want to get closer to you this morning, Father. 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:56.639 There is no life without you. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:27.759 Reach it now. 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:29.839 Reach it now. 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:36.240 Here is the presence we want to go deeper into the light. 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:38.160 Come along. 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:40.959 Come on, for dance together's sport. 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:52.319 There is no one decided. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.920 You are longer enough. 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:08.000 You fling the doors of your heart, why don't you? 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.519 We are lost in love. 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.000 Come on, closer. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.319 Closer and closer, we want to know you. 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:33.199 Come on. 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:36.160 Closer and closer. 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:38.399 We want to know you. 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:50.000 Come on, lie. 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.800 Come running to you. 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.800 We will come running in you. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.800 We find belonging your love. 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:20.079 It's all that can satisfy. 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.800 His love is all that can satisfy to you. 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:28.720 We will come running you. 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.720 We find belonging your love. 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.080 It's all that can satisfy. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:38.799 Come on, say to you. 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:40.720 To you. 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.840 We will come from enemy. 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.559 We find the long in your love. 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:55.919 It's all that can start to. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:59.759 We will come on enemy. 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.639 We find the long in all love. 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:06.960 It's all that it's done. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:18.000 It's by the time, put the sun, we want to be down, we took the doubt. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.159 We want to go deeper. 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:28.320 If we want to die, come to my stuff. 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.919 We want to be the night. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:33.759 We stick to that. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.320 We want to go deeper. 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:39.919 It'll be on the light. 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.159 Father, we want to get closer to you today. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:06.639 Amen. 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:10.799 Come on, let's turn around and welcome each other to the house of the Lord this morning. 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:28.480 We believe, we believe in this broken generation all is dark, you help us see there is only one salvation. 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:41.440 We believe, we believe, we believe in God Father. 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.960 We believe in Jesus Christ. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.960 We believe in the Holy Spirit. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.159 And He's gonna live us to life. 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.919 We believe in fiction. 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.039 We believe that He's conquered. 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:06.799 We believe it's a fiction And He's all back again. 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:34.720 We believe So let our faith be more than ever Greater than the songs we see our weakness and temptations. 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:48.080 We believe We believe We believe in God the Father. 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.440 We believe in Jesus Christ. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:58.879 We believe in the Holy Spirit, and He's giving us new life. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:05.600 We believe in the crucifixion, we believe that he comes there. 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:13.279 We believe in the resurrection, and he's coming back again. 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:19.600 Let the Lord be found, let me raise in the hidden now. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.600 Beloved faith, let the church live loud. 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:34.559 I got to say we believe, we believe, that the gates of hell will not be failed from the power of God. 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:39.919 We'll never fail. 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:57.919 We believe, we believe, we believe in God the Father, we believe in Jesus Christ, we believe in the Holy Spirit, and He's giving us new life. 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:14.080 We believe in the crucifixion, we believe that He conquered the death, we believe in the Resurrection, and He's coming back, He's coming back again. 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:21.440 He's coming back again. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:29.200 We believe we believe. 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:31.200 Amen. 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:31.519 Amen. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.360 Y'all give him a clap offering if that's what you believe this morning. 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:37.600 Man, that's awesome. 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:38.559 Praise Dean. 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:39.679 Praise the Lord. 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:42.799 You guys can be seated for just a few moments. 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:44.720 And uh welcome this morning. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:50.399 We're so glad that you're here with us, and it has been an awesome, awesome week. 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:48.080 It's easier for somebody to start brand new than to go in and reconstruct while people are shopping and bothering. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.759 But anyway, they had a voice count and pulling the flag. 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.320 They sung the national anthem and Hallmark. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:39.519 Hunger and food. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:57.519 Hunger and stress me. 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:02.480 Speak to me. 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:10.000 As friends. 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.160 I want to know you. 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:24.160 I want to know you both. 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:38.000 I want to know you more. 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:42.559 I want to know you more. 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:50.160 Lord, we want to know you more this morning. 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.119 More than we did yesterday, Lord. 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.079 Lord, like a rushing wind, just take over our lives this morning, Father. 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:06.079 Like a rushing wind. 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:10.720 Jesus breathed with it. 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:13.039 Lord have your way. 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:24.880 Like a stone. 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.440 Stir with my stone. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:31.200 Lord have you. 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:24.559 One with God and the Lord most high. 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:31.279 Your hidden glory and creation. 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:38.400 Now revealed in you are Christ. 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:41.839 What a beautiful name it is. 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.359 What a beautiful name it is. 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:52.240 The name of Jesus Christ my King. 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:56.000 What a beautiful name it is. 00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:59.519 And nothing compares to this. 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:02.960 What a beautiful name it is. 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:06.799 The name of Jesus. 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:24.240 So Jesus you brought heaven down. 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:38.000 And what could seem us now? 00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:41.839 What a wonderful name it is. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:45.359 What a wonderful name it is. 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.440 Nothing compares to this. 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.039 What a wonderful name it is. 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:10.079 What a wonderful name it is. 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.279 Such a sweet, sweet name of Jesus. 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:26.799 There's just something about saying the name of Jesus. 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:27.599 Amen. 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.599 We thank you for your love this morning, Lord. 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:41.839 We're thankful that over 2,000 years ago, Christ went to the cross so that we could be free. 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:43.519 But it didn't end there. 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.799 Three days later, he arose from the grave. 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:51.279 And for that we are ever thankful for that death couldn't hold him down. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:52.079 Amen. 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:03.279 Death could not hold you, the veil torn before you. 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.519 You have no rival. 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.799 It's nothing but the blood of Jesus. 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:35.920 Say nothing. 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:41.680 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:48.960 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:01.759 Father, this morning we're thankful for the blood of Jesus. 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.759 For the name of Jesus. 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:06.160 Name that is above every name. 00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:11.920 And one day your word says every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that you are lost. 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:18.559 We're thankful for the cleansing power of that blood. 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:23.839 For the freedom we have the forgiveness of our sins. 00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:51.519 God use your word to show us where we are and what we need. 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:59.839 God, I pray today as we leave this place that we can say, we've been released by the power of your blood. 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:01.759 We love you in Jesus' name. 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:02.960 Amen. 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:05.200 Y'all can be seated this morning. 00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:07.759 Thank you, praise team. 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:09.360 Man, that was awesome. 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.679 Great praise this morning. 00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:12.400 Great worship. 00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:16.480 If you got your Bible, turn it to the book of Ruth, chapter four. 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:19.360 No more cliffhangers, no more waiting. 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:27.360 The conclusion of the book this morning, and uh, I'm excited to be uh preaching through it as we looked. 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:50.880 If you hadn't been here for the past few weeks, in Ruth chapter one, we saw devastation of magnificent proportions as Ruth and Naomi were there, and Naomi uh they left the land because they had famine, then they had a funeral of Naomi's husband, and then her two sons, leaving her with two widowed daughter-in-laws. 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:55.760 They left that land to go back to Bethlehem because they heard the Lord was at work there. 00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:04.480 They went back in chapter two with Naomi being a bitter, upset woman, saying, I left here with everything I loved. 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:06.800 I've come back completely empty. 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:07.760 I have nothing. 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:13.760 And we saw Ruth begin to glean in the field as she was directed by the steps of the Lord. 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.239 The Bible says the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:22.960 She did the biblical thing and went out to glean food, which was a law set up by God for people who were needy. 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:30.480 And she went out gleaning, and as chance was would have it, we learned that she came upon Boaz's field. 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:39.840 And she came back that evening with a load of food, and she told Naomi she was in Boaz's field, and the light bulb goes off for Naomi. 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:43.519 She says, This is a good thing that you were in Boaz's field. 00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:44.880 He is a kinsman. 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:52.960 And so we saw last week in chapter three where uh Ruth was getting some gentle nudging by her mother-in-law. 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:57.119 You're single, Boaz is single, you went through this harvest season. 00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:58.960 Have you thought about Boaz? 00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:05.440 And so she goes on to give her some counsel, some which I would call shady, some smart. 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:11.519 Uh she tells her to clean up, put on a new garment, freshen up, and uh that I would say is the smart part. 00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:17.760 Then she says, uncover him in the midnight hour, get in, lay with him, and then wait for his instructions. 00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:22.480 Okay, not what I would tell you to do if you have a single daughter and she's looking to find her a man. 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:24.480 But that was Naomi's advice. 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:30.159 She does it, and we see that funny moment where Boaz says, Who are you? 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:33.199 And she says, I am Ruth. 00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:39.280 And she basically says to him, If you have me, I will be with you. 00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.519 And we're cliff hung there because Boaz is such a good man. 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:49.519 We want him to say, Let's do it, let's elude, let's run off and make the country song, but he can't. 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:56.000 Because he's a man who lives by the rules, he's a man who's godly, and he says, Well, I will do it. 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:58.000 There's no doubt I will do it. 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.000 But there is one who's closer. 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:03.280 And if he will do it by law, he has to do it. 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:07.679 And so that's where we catch up in Ruth chapter four today. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:13.599 We were left wondering as they lay there in the still of the night holding each other, what's gonna happen? 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:19.199 Is Ruth gonna marry Boaz or is she gonna marry another man? 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:21.519 And so we turn to Ruth chapter four there. 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:27.760 And today's the title of the message is this Difficult Road to Beautiful Destination. 00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.639 And the first thing I want you to see, three things today. 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:32.159 God answers requests. 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:33.920 Okay, that's the first one. 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:36.159 And then God advances. 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.239 I'm sorry, God uh acquires through redemption. 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.199 And the third thing will be God advances with results. 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:45.440 So God answers requests. 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:53.679 And I want you to understand, we talk about God being a God of order, that God is not a God of coincidence or happenstance, and so God answers our requests. 00:37:53.920 --> 00:38:03.360 In Matthew 7, we've had this uh picture actually in our restroom at home for a while, and okay, you go there, you look at it, you gotta learn it, okay? 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.639 So but it says, seek and you should find. 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:14.320 Ask ask and you shall hear, seek and you shall find and it shall be open unto you. 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:18.960 So we see a plea that we should ask God, we should bring requests to God. 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:26.960 James 4 to that doesn't mean the opposite. 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:34.079 It doesn't mean because you don't ask God, he's just gonna give things to you anyway. 00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:35.840 It doesn't mean the opposite of that. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.440 It doesn't mean what it says. 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.320 You have not because you haven't requested it. 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:47.519 It doesn't mean because he's God and he has a plan that he'll just do it anyway. 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.920 So we understand that prayer causes things to happen. 00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:56.480 That wouldn't happen if you had a prayer. 00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:59.199 God answers requests. 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:05.199 And so what we see here as we open up chapter four is a request at the gate. 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:06.159 That's letter A. 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:10.079 And I want to read to you verses one through six from the request at the gate. 00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:17.840 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. 00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:20.159 So Boaz said, Come aside, friend. 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:21.199 Sit down here. 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:27.280 So he came aside and sat down, and he took the ten men of the elders of the city and said, Sit down here. 00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:28.639 So they sat down. 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:36.960 Then he said to the close relative, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech. 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:42.960 And I thought to inform you, saying, Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:45.679 If you will redeem it, you redeem it. 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:54.559 But if you will not redeem it, then tell me that I may know, for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you. 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:57.679 And he said, I will redeem it. 00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:09.360 And Boaz said, On the day you must buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy it from Ruth Moabite, who is the wife of the dead, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance. 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:16.239 And the closest to his relative said, I cannot redeem it for myself unless I ruin my inheritance. 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:18.719 You redeem my right unto redemption. 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:30.960 So we see here a altercation here at the gate where the request is given, and of course, immediately Boaz starts issuing out the rights. 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:32.559 He understands the rights. 00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:36.639 And I want to take you to a couple of scriptures so you can understand the picture here of the law. 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:40.239 Go back with me to Leviticus chapter 25. 00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:42.320 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus. 00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:45.440 Chapter 25 in your Bible, verse 25. 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:48.639 There was some law for the kinsman redeemer. 00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:57.039 Okay, for him to redeem, for a kinsman to redeem, in this situation, there was property laws and there was people laws. 00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:00.480 So look at the property laws, Leviticus 25, 25. 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:01.519 It says this. 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:03.039 Go back in verse 24. 00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:06.960 And in the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:19.760 If one of your brethren becomes poor and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may be redeemed what his brother sold. 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:24.800 And so we see for land, okay, a kinsman could come and redeem it. 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:27.360 Now go to Deuteronomy chapter 25. 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:35.280 I want you to see a lot more to it on how to redeem a widow. 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:49.039 It says brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family. 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:57.119 Her husband's brother shall perform or shall go into her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:05.360 And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:07.199 Stick with me, there's a couple more things. 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:21.679 But if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate, remember where they're at, to the elders, who's there, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel. 00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:24.159 He will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:27.280 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. 00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:35.119 But if he stands firm and says, I do not want to take her, then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot. 00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:48.639 Look at this, spit in his face, and say, So shall it be done to the man who would not build up his brother's house, and his name shall be called in Israel the house of him who his sandal is removed. 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:52.239 So this is a big deal situation. 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.320 This is not something taken lightly. 00:42:54.559 --> 00:43:00.559 And so these men meet together at this gate, and Boaz begins bringing out the rights. 00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:02.079 Okay, he goes through it. 00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:04.639 And it's funny in the wording again. 00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:15.280 Boaz comes, sits down, and it says, and lo and behold, as chance would have it, he sits down at the gate, and behold, there came the kingsman. 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:21.119 So again, God working through this book's provision is shown from verse to verse in the chapter. 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:29.920 But it's funny, as you read the name, there's a Hebrew idiom, and a lot of you will have it at the bottom of your Bible, um, for the close relative. 00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:30.880 He's never named. 00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:35.119 Boaz would have known his name, he would have known who he was, but he's never given a name. 00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:39.760 He is such insignificant to the author that he has known. 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:46.639 In fact, the Hebrew word for it is called poloni alimony, which means so and so. 00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:50.639 It literally means and so and so showed up. 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:51.440 Mr. 00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:59.840 So and so stops by and he says, and even in the the writing, uh, Boaz doesn't call him by name, he says friend to come sit down. 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:06.880 It's like, y'all ever been to a store and you knew you knew somebody, but you didn't know their name when you were looking at them? 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:08.800 You all have done, you know you have. 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:13.039 And you look at the man, he's a lady say, hey, girl. 00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:17.039 The guys are like, hey, pal. 00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:20.320 It's good to see you, buddy, right? 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:23.599 That's the significance this guy's given. 00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:25.039 Like, he's no name. 00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:25.599 He's Mr. 00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:26.320 Nobody. 00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:29.119 Boaz would have known him, but they didn't call him by his name. 00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:31.280 My grandpa used to call, this is funny. 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:35.199 My grandpa used to call everyone he ever met Junior. 00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:37.280 I mean, guys, girls. 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:43.280 He he covered it all because he could just look at him and say, hey Junior, your somebody is somebody, so we'll just call you Junior. 00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:44.559 He called everybody. 00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:45.679 He called me junior. 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:46.159 Okay. 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:51.199 I thought it was just because I was my dad's son for a while, but no, it was everybody. 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:51.679 Okay? 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:52.960 Junior. 00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:55.119 And so this guy is junior. 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:55.920 He's nobody. 00:44:56.159 --> 00:45:04.480 Boaz goes sit here and so-and-so, very no-nonsense, Boaz goes into a business explanation of what's going on. 00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:07.519 Both men have the rights, okay? 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:11.840 But it has to be settled, number two, underneath of that, by the rules. 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:12.159 Okay. 00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:14.960 Ten men was a quorum, right? 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:21.760 And so Boaz, like normal throughout the book of Ruth, goes by the book every step of the way. 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:28.239 There's a story within the story of Ruth of how Boaz is a man that goes by the book. 00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:31.280 It's not been preached, but he loves the law. 00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:33.119 There's something to be said about that. 00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:39.679 Ten times in Psalms 119, it says, and David delighted in the law of the Lord. 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:40.239 Okay? 00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:41.760 And David was called what? 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:43.360 A man after God's own heart. 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:44.880 He says, I delight in thy law. 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:46.079 I love thy law. 00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:46.559 Okay? 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:47.920 He loved the Bible. 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:52.079 I think we need some people at CCW who love the Bible. 00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.119 We can talk about the team that we declare, but have you declared a favorite verse? 00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:58.239 A testament? 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:00.000 A favorite portion, a book. 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:00.480 Okay? 00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:06.800 We can talk about, we can get together, and once it starts, the score is going to be the first thing you walk through the door and say. 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.039 But have you talked about some scripture? 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:10.480 Just the same way. 00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:12.800 We need some people who love the word. 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:13.440 Okay? 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:15.360 And let me tell you about the word. 00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:17.280 It lights our path. 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:20.559 The book has the power to change a life, it changes heart. 00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:22.880 It is stand the test of time. 00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:27.360 Boaz lived by the rule book and by the results of the book. 00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:29.519 He could have taken her and run off. 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:31.280 Who would have known? 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:33.519 I mean, Boaz had a lot of assets. 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:35.280 Would we have ever really known? 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:40.400 But he says there's another man, and there is a system within this book of right. 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:49.840 There's a system for work, there's a system for finance, there's a system for family, there's a system for conflict, there's a system for love, there's a system for church. 00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:51.119 It's all in this book. 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:52.719 There's a system for healing. 00:46:52.880 --> 00:47:00.960 And as chance would have it, Boaz is living by the book, and God is ordaining the steps of his life. 00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:04.239 And I want you to understand, it says it's a lamp to our feet. 00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:06.079 It's not chance, really. 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.400 If you will live by this book, God will illuminate your paths. 00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:14.239 It's real hard to make sense in the dark of my own mind. 00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:19.119 But if I got God providing that lamp, man, it starts making sense. 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:20.800 He'll direct your steps. 00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:23.199 So again, look at verse 4. 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:27.840 Boaz begins talking to him about the investment. 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:33.039 He says, I thought to inform you, saying, Buy it back in the presence of these men, the elders. 00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:34.639 If you will redeem it, redeem it. 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.920 But if you won't, then let me know because I will. 00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:40.800 So he says, So-and-so, this is the deal. 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:41.920 This is what's going on. 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.960 And so-and-so says, I will redeem it. 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.840 There's only an upside to this investment. 00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:48.320 Mr. 00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:50.800 So-and-so is like, I get, let me get this straight. 00:47:50.880 --> 00:48:08.159 I get alimelex land, and everything that he had for produce, for farming, for building, I get all of that, and all I really got to take, now this is what he's thinking this far, is an aging widow woman? 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:09.760 Talking about Naomi. 00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:12.480 This is this is all I've got to do. 00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:13.840 And he says, I'm in. 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:16.159 There's only an upside to this. 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:23.920 And I want you to understand as I pictured this, if Naomi were nearby at this point, remember she was bitter a little bit ago. 00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:24.400 Okay. 00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:28.719 If she was here nearby listening to this, like, Boaz, what are you doing? 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:30.079 Open it up like this. 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.239 Why are you laying it out like this? 00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:34.880 Now she went from bitter to now, they call her fuming. 00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:36.239