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 I'm going to pray that God would help us to understand his word.

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 We pray, Lord Jesus, that as we come to your word now,

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 we pray that you would speak to us by your spirit,

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 that you'd grow us in Christ.

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 And we pray that we would glorify your name

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 in response to the things that you say to us.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.

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 We've spent the last few weeks in this series

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 preaching about the kingdom of God,

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 going from beginning to end in the Bible.

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 So we've looked right across the Bible

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 from creation to new creation.

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 We've been in Genesis 1, the first chapter of the Bible,

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 and we've gone to Revelation 22,

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 the very last chapter in the Bible.

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 And we've been looking at what it means to be God's people

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 in his place and under his kingship.

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 And today what I'm going to do is I'm taking us back to the book of Ruth,

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 which we've just had read to us so helpfully,

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 to a particular part of the Bible,

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 to try to make sense of it in terms of God's big picture purposes.

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 You can blame Brian Tung for this.

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 I think he said we need to apply what we've been learning

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 over the last few weeks.

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 So that's where we are.

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 But I would say also that we've been applying it

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 as we've been going along as well.

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 And I think what I'm doing this morning is...

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 One of the courses that I taught when I was in South Africa a few weeks ago

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 was called Promise to Fulfillment.

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 And the course teaches a method for coming to a Bible passage,

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 any Bible passage,

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 and teaching it with regard to God's big picture purposes.

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 The process has got a technical name, biblical theology.

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 I don't think I'm going to use that expression again

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 in this message this morning.

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 But it doesn't matter where you go in the Bible,

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 it's like going to a particular passage

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 and asking these questions about it.

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 Where does the passage fit with regard to the whole of biblical history?

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 What type of literature are we reading?

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 That's the second question.

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 A third question is, where does this fit in the Bible?

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 Where does it fit in the immediate context

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 and where does it fit in a wider context?

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 A fourth question is,

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 what did it mean to its original readers?

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 So when they picked this up and read it,

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 what's it saying to them?

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 And the fifth question,

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 for us sitting in church here in Chatswood this Sunday morning is,

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 what does it mean to us?

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 When we read this passage now,

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 what's it saying to us?

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 What is God saying to us?

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 So the first question is a historical question.

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 I want you to have the passage open,

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 or the little sheet open.

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 I know it's hard to read for some of you.

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 But the historical question,

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 chapter 1, verse 1,

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 in the days when the judges ruled.

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 Starts to put it in a historical context,

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 and the very last verses,

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 chapter 4, verses 21 and 22,

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 Salmon, the father of Boaz,

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 Boaz the father of Obed,

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 Obed the father of Jesse,

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 and Jesse the father of David.

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 So when we talk about David,

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 we're thinking King David,

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 we're going back a thousand years before the time of Christ.

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 We're talking about three thousand years ago.

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 And in the days when the judges ruled,

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 we're talking about a period of time

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 between when Joshua led the people of Israel

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 into the promised land,

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 and settled there,

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 and the two or three hundred year period

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 between them and God establishing a kingship

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 under King David.

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 So that's the history.

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 From a literary point of view,

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 I hope you see straight away from what we did this morning,

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 it's a story, it's a narrative.

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 By reading the parts,

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 we see that there's a story

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 which is being told by the writer,

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 and so it's a true story.

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 It's not just a parable

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 which is made up to teach something true from.

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 This is a true story,

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 and the characters are in a historical setting.

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 Now the biblical question,

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 Ruth is between Judges and 1 Samuel.

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 So in chapter 1, verse 1,

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 it says,

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 In the days when the judges ruled.

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 In the days when the judges ruled.

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 And really,

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 if you know your Bible,

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 that is a very negative way to begin the tale.

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 It's not a very glorious time in Israel's history.

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 It's about a two or three hundred year period

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 from 1300 BC,

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 roundabout after Joshua conquered the land,

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 to 1000 BC,

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 when David was king.

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 And then you go to the end

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 where we went a minute ago,

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 and it finishes with the words,

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 or Judges itself finishes with the words,

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 chapter 21, verse 25,

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 In those days,

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 Israel had no king.

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 Everyone did as he saw fit.

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 And if you read across Judges,

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 you will see that it's a time of escalating decline,

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 which finished in civil war,

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 with one tribe, Benjamin,

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 almost being obliterated

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 from amongst the people of God.

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 Not a happy time in Israel's history.

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 And the recurrent theme,

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 which is mentioned several times

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 in the book of Judges,

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 is,

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 In those days,

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 Israel had no king.

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 In those days,

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 Israel had no king.

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 Chapter 18, verse 1.

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 Chapter 19, verse 1.

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 In those days,

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 Israel had no king.

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 And it's the author's way

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 of saying to us,

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 those days were really bad.

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 Now, in some ways,

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 Ruth doesn't start much better.

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 Chapter 1, verses 1 to 5,

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 it says,

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 In the days when the judges ruled,

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 there was a famine in the land.

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 And a man from Bethlehem in Judah,

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 together with his wife and two sons,

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 went to live for a while in the country of Moab.

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 The man's name was Elimelech,

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 his wife's name Naomi.

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 And the names of his two sons were Marlon and Kilian.

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 They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah.

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 And they went to Moab and they lived there.

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 Now, Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died,

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 and she was left with her two sons.

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 They married Moabite women,

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 one named Orpah and the other Ruth.

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 And after they had lived there about 10 years,

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 both Marlon and Kilian also died.

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 And Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

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 Now, one of the commentators I read,

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 a man who I love,

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 he's spoken at the SMBC preaching conferences a few times,

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 a man called Ralph Davis from the States.

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 He's written about this and he says,

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 Take a look at Ruth 1 to 5.

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 Right away we meet the big word famine.

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 Quite likely a judgment on Israel at large.

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 And then we hear of the big move.

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 Whether justified or not, need not concern us here.

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 And then of a bad fact, Elimelech dies.

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 And so now we have one death, one widow, two sons.

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 And next we read of two marriages to foreigners, 10 years,

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 two more deaths, and so three total losses.

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 And he says you can tally up the mathematics of trouble.

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 One famine, three deaths, three widows, 10 years.

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 Five verses.

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 Five verses.

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 That's the opening block of the book of Ruth.

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 It's sudden and sobering and instructing it.

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 Instructive.

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 And is it not telling us that one's whole life can fall apart in five verses?

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 That such stuff can actually happen to the people of God?

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 Five tightly packed verses that ought to cure us of falling for the prosperity gospel.

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 So in a time of national disaster,

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 Ruth begins with personal disaster for a particular family.

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 And that's captured when Naomi says in verse 20,

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 Don't call me Naomi.

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 Call me Mara.

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 Means bitterness.

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 Because the Lord Almighty has made my life very bitter.

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 I went away full.

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 But the Lord has brought me back empty.

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 Why call me Naomi?

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 The Lord has afflicted me.

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 The Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.

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 Her name describes her circumstances at that point in her life.

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 And they are very bitter.

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 And she lays her circumstances at God's feet.

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 He has afflicted me.

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 He has brought misfortune on me.

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 Her faith tells her that her circumstances haven't happened outside of God's control.

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 Are you comfortable when you hear that?

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 Would you be comfortable sitting with a friend who has lost their husband and their sons?

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 Who has been cut off from their descendants?

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 Who won't be provided for by social security and into old age?

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 Are you comfortable sitting with them in absolute agony and allowing them to say,

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 The Lord has done this to me?

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 I've sat with friends in agony.

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 And sometimes it's really tempting to give an apology for God at that point.

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 And sometimes it's better to allow them just to pour out their grief and their agony and their distress.

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 Because even when they're saying,

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 The Lord has done this to me,

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 in some measure they're expressing faith in his sovereignty and his control,

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 even though it seems in the most negative way.

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 You read across the book of Ruth,

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 and God is strangely silent.

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 He does not speak anywhere.

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 He does not say a word.

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 And we're told the story of a particular family's life.

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 And we watch and we see what it means for them to live by faith in an unseen God, the Lord.

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 When you read across Ruth, there is a recurring expression.

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 The writer continually refers to Ruth,

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 The Moabites.

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 The Moabites.

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 He almost shouts at us.

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 She's an outsider.

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 She's an ethnic.

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 She's not true blue.

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 She's not one of us.

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 She's not a Chatswood original.

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 And Naomi, in chapter 1, verse 15, says to her,

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 Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods.

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 Go back with her.

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 And Ruth says,

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 Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you.

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 Where you go, I will go.

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 And where you stay, I will stay.

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 And your people will be my people.

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 And your God, my God.

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 And where you die, I will die.

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 And there I will be buried.

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 And may the Lord deal with me,

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 be it ever so severely,

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 if anything but death separates you and me.

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 And so this Moabites, this foreigner,

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 attaches herself to Naomi

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 and to the people of Israel

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 and even more remarkably to the Lord.

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 You look in your English Bibles

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 where it's got the Lord written in capitals.

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 What it means is Yahweh in the Hebrew.

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 It's the personal name of God

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 which is only known amongst his people.

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 And Ruth attaches herself to Yahweh.

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 So despite all the difficult circumstances of her life,

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 she has come to know Yahweh.

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 She knows his name.

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 This foreigner has somehow come into God's kingdom.

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 Now the writer doesn't say it,

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 but I think that he expects us to realise it.

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 A foreigner has come amongst the people of God.

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 A Moabites calls him by his personal name Yahweh.

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 Now Israel's in a terrible state in the time of Judges.

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 And yet here is God

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 continuing to be faithful to his promises

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 that he made so long before to Abraham.

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 God promised Abraham

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 that all the nations of the world

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 would be blessed through him.

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 And now in this one family

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 during a time of national disaster,

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 God has brought a Moabite woman

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 named Ruth into his kingdom.

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 And you see it especially,

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 chapter 2, when Ruth says to Boaz,

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 why have I found such favour in your eyes

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 that you notice me a foreigner?

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 And Boaz says,

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 I've been told all about

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 what you have done for your mother-in-law

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 since the death of your husband

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 and how you left your father and mother

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 and your homeland

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 and you came to live with a people

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 that you did not know before.

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 May the Lord, may Yahweh,

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 repay you for what you have done.

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 May you be richly rewarded by Yahweh,

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 the God of Israel,

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 under whose wings you have come

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 to take refuge.

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 It only just came to me,

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 it's not in my notes,

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 but the whole notion

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 of coming to refuge in the Lord,

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 the whole notion

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 that somebody might come

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 from outside our church family

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 knowing nothing of God

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 and come amongst us

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 and find refuge in him

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 by the beauty and the love of his people.

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 We bear a high responsibility

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 in how we present ourselves

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 to the outsider.

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 And Ruth has taken refuge in the Lord

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 and Moses spoke,

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 if you go back in Exodus,

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 Moses spoke about God

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 being a refuge for his people

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 in Deuteronomy chapter 32.

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 He said,

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 the Lord's portion is his people

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 and in a desert land

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 he found him

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 in a barren and howling waste

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 and the Lord shielded him

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 and cared for him.

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 He guarded him

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 as the apple of his eye

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 like an eagle

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 that stirs up its nest

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 and hovers over its young

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 that spreads its wings

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 to catch them

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 and carries them in its pinions.

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 The Lord alone led him,

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 no foreign God was with him.

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 God is a God

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 who is concerned

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 for his people

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 and God is a God

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 who is concerned

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 about outsiders.

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 And Ruth comes

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 and finds refuge

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 and protection

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 in the Lord.

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 When I was in South Africa

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 the other week

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 I had the privilege

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 of meeting Michael Cassidy

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 on a number of occasions

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 and one of those

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 he was shuffling,

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 he was jogging along the road,

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 my friends were a bit unkind

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 and said he was shuffling

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 along the road,

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 jogging

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 and we stopped beside him,

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 pulled up

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 and had a conversation

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 for a few minutes

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 and he,

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 a very funny man,

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 he told us a few stories

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 but one of the stories

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 he said he was incensed,

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 he went to his local church

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 and the annual meeting

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 they were carving up

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 the budget,

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 they were cutting the budget

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 to mission

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 and to outsiders

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 and he stood up

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 and he said

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 the church

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 is the only organisation

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 in the world

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 that exists

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 for the benefit

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 of non-members

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 and he told me

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 that he was greeted

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 by an Antarctic frost.

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 Steve Jeffrey

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 was talking to me

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 the other day

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 about Islam

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 and you know

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 sometimes we get in a flap

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 and we worry about Islam

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 and all the threat

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 that it is to the world

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 and you know what he said to me?

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 It will never stop us

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 preaching the gospel

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 but we are fearful

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 of losing our lives

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 and our lifestyle.

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 We don't want to lose

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 our stuff.

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 You come into chapter 3

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 in Ruth

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 and Ruth

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 and there is a change

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 of pace.

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 Boaz has noticed

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 and he has protected

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 Ruth

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 and Naomi

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 notices

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 Boaz's protection

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 and his care

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 and so

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 in verse 9

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 or verse 11

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 Naomi says

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 my daughter

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 should I not try

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 to find a home

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 for you

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 where you will be

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 well provided for?

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 Is not Boaz

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 with whose servant

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 girls you have been

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 a kinsman of ours?

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 Tonight he will be

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 winnowing barley

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 on the threshing floor.

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 Wash

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 and perfume yourself

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 and put on your best clothes

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 and then go down

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 to the threshing floor

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 but don't let him

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 know you are there

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 until he has finished

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 eating

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 and drinking

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 and when he lies down

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 note the place

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 where he is lying

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 and then go

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 and uncover his feet

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 and lie down

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 and he will tell you

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 what to do.

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 He sends it

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 she sends him

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 to a day spa.

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 I think it's really hard

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 to read this

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 and not think sex.

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 A woman

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 beautifies herself

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 perfume

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 best clothes

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 goes to a man

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 alone

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 who is alone

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 in the middle

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 of the night

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 and goes to him alone

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 uncovers his feet

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 and lies down

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 is that what you want

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 your teenage girls

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 to do with their boyfriends?

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 Do what he tells you.

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 It sounds like

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 Naomi

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 is sending

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 Ruth to Boaz

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 to use

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 her feminine charms

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 to seduce him.

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 Ruth

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 and Boaz

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 both understand

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 perceptions

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 because she gets up

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 and leaves

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 at his instruction

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 presumably

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 while it's still dark

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 in the morning

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 before anybody

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 can recognise them.

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 Those gay

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 Hollywood

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 gossipers

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 on breakfast

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 television

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 would have a field day

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 with this story.

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 There is sex

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 but not because

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 they've slept together yet.

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 this is a love story

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 which is full of

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 tenderness

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 and nobility

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 and honour.

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 Nothing sleazy

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 in this story.

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 Boaz is a near

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 relative

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 of Naomi's

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 a kinsman

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 redeemer

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 a man

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 under God's law

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 in a society

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 without social security

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 a man

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 who would have

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 been required

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 to bring

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 protection

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 to a widowed

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 near relative.

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 And Ruth

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 shows her

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 willingness

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 to come

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 under his

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 protection.

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 She's willing

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 to love

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 and to trust

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 this man

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 and he's

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 a normal man

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 and he goes

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 wow

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 you'd marry me

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 and he blesses

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 her for not

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 chasing younger

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 men

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 whether rich

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 or poor.

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 Great story

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 and Boaz

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 recognises

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 that there is

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 a nearer

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 relative

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 that he must

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 now deal

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 with.

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 So he gets

00:21:15.660 --> 00:21:16.240
 his witnesses

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 he tells

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 the near

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 relative

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 that Naomi's

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 lands for sale

00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:21.920
 you can increase

00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:22.559
 your empire

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 you get

00:21:24.660 --> 00:21:25.359
 first dibs

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 you're a nearer

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 relative

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 than me

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 and the other

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 relative says

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 I'll buy it

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 and then Boaz

00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:32.980
 very cannily

00:21:32.980 --> 00:21:33.660
 says

00:21:33.660 --> 00:21:34.600
 or points out

00:21:34.600 --> 00:21:35.259
 that he doesn't

00:21:35.259 --> 00:21:36.400
 just get the land

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 you get

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 the widow

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 as well

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 Ruth

00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:41.420
 the foreigner

00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:43.779
 to maintain

00:21:43.779 --> 00:21:44.580
 the name

00:21:44.580 --> 00:21:45.880
 of the dead

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 with the property

00:21:46.820 --> 00:21:49.820
 and a good

00:21:49.820 --> 00:21:50.460
 looking deal

00:21:50.460 --> 00:21:51.259
 suddenly doesn't

00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:52.019
 look as attractive

00:21:52.019 --> 00:21:52.620
 to him

00:21:52.620 --> 00:21:53.980
 he doesn't want

00:21:53.980 --> 00:21:54.720
 his own estate

00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:55.480
 falling into the

00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:56.300
 hands of a foreigner

00:21:56.299 --> 00:21:57.279
 buy it yourself

00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:00.139
 happy ending

00:22:00.139 --> 00:22:02.019
 so verse 13

00:22:02.019 --> 00:22:02.720
 Boaz took

00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:03.079
 Ruth

00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:04.299
 she became

00:22:04.299 --> 00:22:04.960
 his wife

00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:06.259
 he went

00:22:06.259 --> 00:22:06.799
 to her

00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.159
 and the Lord

00:22:08.159 --> 00:22:08.839
 enabled her

00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:09.460
 to conceive

00:22:09.460 --> 00:22:10.200
 and she gave

00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:11.159
 birth to a son

00:22:11.159 --> 00:22:13.279
 and then there's

00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:13.740
 even more

00:22:13.740 --> 00:22:14.379
 because the women

00:22:14.379 --> 00:22:15.119
 said to Naomi

00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:15.919
 verse 14

00:22:15.919 --> 00:22:17.359
 praise be to the

00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:18.119
 Lord who this

00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:18.839
 day has not

00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:19.259
 left you

00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:19.659
 without a

00:22:19.659 --> 00:22:20.039
 kinsman

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 redeemer

00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:22.500
 may he become

00:22:22.500 --> 00:22:23.079
 famous

00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:24.119
 throughout Israel

00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:25.659
 he will renew

00:22:25.659 --> 00:22:26.240
 your life

00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:27.019
 and sustain you

00:22:27.019 --> 00:22:28.000
 in your old age

00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:29.519
 for your daughter

00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:29.899
 in law

00:22:29.899 --> 00:22:30.759
 who loves you

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 and who is

00:22:31.259 --> 00:22:32.899
 better to you

00:22:32.899 --> 00:22:33.579
 than seven

00:22:33.579 --> 00:22:34.200
 sons

00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:35.379
 has given him

00:22:35.379 --> 00:22:35.779
 birth

00:22:35.779 --> 00:22:37.819
 and then Naomi

00:22:37.819 --> 00:22:38.779
 took the child

00:22:38.779 --> 00:22:39.839
 laid him in her lap

00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:40.700
 and cared for him

00:22:40.700 --> 00:22:42.460
 and the women

00:22:42.460 --> 00:22:43.059
 living there

00:22:43.059 --> 00:22:43.659
 said Naomi

00:22:43.659 --> 00:22:44.419
 has a son

00:22:44.419 --> 00:22:46.599
 and they named

00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:47.299
 him Obed

00:22:47.299 --> 00:22:48.759
 he was the

00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:49.720
 father of Jesse

00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:51.099
 the father

00:22:51.099 --> 00:22:51.940
 of David

00:22:51.940 --> 00:22:54.200
 this then

00:22:54.200 --> 00:22:54.899
 is the family

00:22:54.899 --> 00:22:55.700
 line of Perez

00:22:55.700 --> 00:22:57.200
 Perez was the

00:22:57.200 --> 00:22:58.200
 father of Hezron

00:22:58.200 --> 00:22:58.899
 Hezron the

00:22:58.899 --> 00:22:59.879
 father of Ram

00:22:59.879 --> 00:23:00.940
 Ram the

00:23:00.940 --> 00:23:01.740
 father of

00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:02.440
 Amminadab

00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:03.519
 Amminadab the

00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:04.480
 father of Nashon

00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:05.119
 Nashon the

00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:05.960
 father of Salmon

00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:06.779
 Salmon the

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 father of Boaz

00:23:07.619 --> 00:23:08.240
 Boaz the

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 father of Obed

00:23:09.180 --> 00:23:10.039
 Obed the

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 father of Jesse

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 and Jesse the

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 father of David

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 what a mouthful

00:23:14.180 --> 00:23:15.639
 thanks Ken

00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:20.520
 this wonderfully

00:23:20.520 --> 00:23:21.440
 tender story

00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:22.280
 finishes with a

00:23:22.280 --> 00:23:22.980
 genealogy

00:23:22.980 --> 00:23:27.120
 what a way to

00:23:27.120 --> 00:23:27.740
 finish a love

00:23:27.740 --> 00:23:28.220
 story

00:23:28.220 --> 00:23:32.920
 Naomi's

00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:33.620
 fortunes are

00:23:33.620 --> 00:23:34.120
 reversed

00:23:34.120 --> 00:23:35.860
 she has a

00:23:35.860 --> 00:23:36.840
 son Obed

00:23:36.840 --> 00:23:37.860
 his name means

00:23:37.860 --> 00:23:38.720
 servant servant

00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:39.480
 of the Lord

00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:43.220
 the genealogy

00:23:43.220 --> 00:23:44.220
 is tantalizing

00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:44.900
 in itself

00:23:44.900 --> 00:23:45.980
 simply put

00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:47.840
 Boaz and

00:23:47.840 --> 00:23:49.140
 Ruth are the

00:23:49.140 --> 00:23:50.019
 great grandparents

00:23:50.019 --> 00:23:51.100
 of David

00:23:51.100 --> 00:23:51.840
 the son of

00:23:51.840 --> 00:23:52.160
 Jesse

00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:54.660
 and so the

00:23:54.660 --> 00:23:55.600
 very last words

00:23:55.600 --> 00:23:56.220
 of this love

00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:57.060
 story tell us

00:23:57.060 --> 00:23:58.080
 that Naomi is

00:23:58.080 --> 00:23:58.960
 the great great

00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:00.160
 grandmother of

00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:01.060
 the great future

00:24:01.060 --> 00:24:01.800
 king of Israel

00:24:01.800 --> 00:24:02.280
 David

00:24:02.280 --> 00:24:05.720
 and the writer

00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:06.300
 here doesn't

00:24:06.300 --> 00:24:06.960
 need to say the

00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:07.759
 great future

00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:08.380
 king like I

00:24:08.380 --> 00:24:08.980
 just said

00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:10.640
 he only has to

00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:11.160
 mention the

00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:11.860
 name David

00:24:11.859 --> 00:24:13.379
 word and it

00:24:13.379 --> 00:24:13.819
 resonates

00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:14.740
 throughout the

00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:16.779
 room because

00:24:16.779 --> 00:24:17.919
 everybody knows

00:24:17.919 --> 00:24:19.479
 immediately who

00:24:19.479 --> 00:24:20.299
 he is talking

00:24:20.299 --> 00:24:20.740
 about

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 so we did

00:24:25.539 --> 00:24:26.319
 history quickly

00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:27.319
 we did literature

00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:28.339
 quickly we've done

00:24:28.339 --> 00:24:29.959
 bible over a fair

00:24:29.959 --> 00:24:30.959
 bit longer and now

00:24:30.959 --> 00:24:31.359
 we come to

00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:31.919
 application

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 and we ask the

00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:34.539
 question

00:24:34.539 --> 00:24:37.119
 what did all

00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:37.920
 this mean to

00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:38.519
 the original

00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:39.639
 readers and

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 then we want to

00:24:40.139 --> 00:24:40.779
 ask the question

00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:41.259
 what does it

00:24:41.259 --> 00:24:41.899
 mean to us

00:24:41.899 --> 00:24:43.259
 and in some

00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:43.980
 measure I've dealt

00:24:43.980 --> 00:24:44.720
 with them both a

00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:45.440
 bit even as I've

00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:46.099
 been speaking

00:24:46.099 --> 00:24:48.299
 but come back to

00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:49.159
 the first question

00:24:49.159 --> 00:24:51.619
 the original

00:24:51.619 --> 00:24:52.599
 readers why

00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:53.399
 you could ask the

00:24:53.399 --> 00:24:55.240
 question why is

00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:55.759
 Ruth in the

00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:56.079
 bible

00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:02.980
 and I think I

00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:03.579
 would say to

00:25:03.579 --> 00:25:04.079
 you I'm not

00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:04.439
 sure what you

00:25:04.439 --> 00:25:04.960
 said to one

00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:05.919
 another what did

00:25:05.919 --> 00:25:06.379
 you say to one

00:25:06.379 --> 00:25:06.659
 another

00:25:06.659 --> 00:25:13.159
 it's a bit

00:25:13.159 --> 00:25:13.819
 unfair when I've

00:25:13.819 --> 00:25:14.240
 already been

00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:14.919
 preaching for 20

00:25:14.919 --> 00:25:15.339
 minutes or

00:25:15.339 --> 00:25:15.659
 whatever

00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:19.659
 so the genealogy

00:25:19.660 --> 00:25:31.900
 so an outsider

00:25:31.900 --> 00:25:33.620
 and the genealogy

00:25:33.620 --> 00:25:34.120
 to David

00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:36.279
 anybody else

00:25:49.660 --> 00:25:51.720
 for anybody

00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:52.220
 who can't

00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:52.460
 hear

00:25:52.460 --> 00:25:53.600
 Richard took

00:25:53.600 --> 00:25:54.460
 us to the

00:25:54.460 --> 00:25:55.680
 genealogy of

00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:56.259
 Jesus at the

00:25:56.259 --> 00:25:56.660
 beginning of

00:25:56.660 --> 00:25:57.400
 Matthew's gospel

00:25:57.400 --> 00:25:57.900
 and drew the

00:25:57.900 --> 00:25:58.580
 link to Ruth

00:25:58.580 --> 00:25:59.380
 I'm not going to

00:25:59.380 --> 00:25:59.800
 say more than

00:25:59.800 --> 00:26:00.240
 that because I'm

00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:00.660
 coming to that

00:26:00.660 --> 00:26:01.279
 now no more

00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:01.880
 questions you'll

00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:02.360
 take my sermon

00:26:02.360 --> 00:26:03.779
 away he did

00:26:03.779 --> 00:26:08.920
 well I would

00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:09.560
 say that this

00:26:09.560 --> 00:26:10.360
 story is a

00:26:10.360 --> 00:26:11.180
 crucial bridge

00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:11.740
 between the

00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:12.480
 dark days of

00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:13.019
 the judges

00:26:13.019 --> 00:26:13.940
 when we are

00:26:13.940 --> 00:26:15.060
 continually told

00:26:15.060 --> 00:26:16.200
 that in those

00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:17.140
 days Israel had

00:26:17.140 --> 00:26:18.180
 no king and

00:26:18.180 --> 00:26:18.779
 each people

00:26:18.779 --> 00:26:20.119
 each person did

00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:20.700
 what was right

00:26:20.700 --> 00:26:21.259
 in their own

00:26:21.259 --> 00:26:23.399
 eyes and I

00:26:23.399 --> 00:26:24.059
 think the story

00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:24.740
 is saying to

00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:26.759
 us that not

00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:27.619
 everything was

00:26:27.619 --> 00:26:31.639
 dark God was

00:26:31.639 --> 00:26:32.740
 still king even

00:26:32.740 --> 00:26:33.740
 though people were

00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:34.740
 rejecting him as

00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:37.859
 king and he was

00:26:37.859 --> 00:26:38.579
 working his

00:26:38.579 --> 00:26:39.980
 incredible purposes

00:26:39.980 --> 00:26:41.440
 and promises out

00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.039
 and even in

00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:45.200
 darkness God was

00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:46.059
 reaching out to

00:26:46.059 --> 00:26:46.960
 people beyond

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:48.759
 Israel and

00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:49.500
 bringing them

00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:50.099
 under the

00:26:50.099 --> 00:26:51.059
 protection of

00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:53.960
 his wings even

00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:54.680
 if his people

00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:55.339
 weren't interested

00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:56.440
 in the job God

00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.740
 was doing it and

00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:01.759
 God was working

00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:02.480
 even through

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:04.680
 foreigners to

00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:05.680
 prepare the way

00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:07.119
 for his king

00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:10.839
 David and David

00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:11.839
 was the king to

00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:13.359
 whom God will

00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:14.259
 promise an

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:15.640
 everlasting dynasty

00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:17.060
 something that

00:27:17.060 --> 00:27:17.700
 we've looked at

00:27:17.700 --> 00:27:18.580
 in the course of

00:27:18.580 --> 00:27:19.360
 this series

00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:22.140
 Matthew's gospel

00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:22.840
 Richard's right

00:27:22.840 --> 00:27:23.580
 picks up on the

00:27:23.580 --> 00:27:24.500
 significance of

00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:25.440
 God keeping his

00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.400
 promises when he

00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:28.080
 opens with a

00:27:28.080 --> 00:27:29.020
 genealogy which

00:27:29.020 --> 00:27:30.100
 says a record of

00:27:30.100 --> 00:27:31.080
 the coming to be

00:27:31.080 --> 00:27:32.420
 of Jesus Christ

00:27:32.420 --> 00:27:33.460
 the son of David

00:27:33.460 --> 00:27:34.560
 the son of

00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:35.020
 Abraham

00:27:35.020 --> 00:27:37.220
 and so what he

00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:37.960
 does he places

00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:38.900
 the coming to be

00:27:38.900 --> 00:27:39.980
 of Jesus Christ

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:41.000
 in direct line

00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:42.060
 with the promises

00:27:42.060 --> 00:27:43.180
 of God of

00:27:43.180 --> 00:27:44.280
 kingship to David

00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:45.200
 and of a blessing

00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:45.980
 to the nations

00:27:45.980 --> 00:27:46.759
 in Abraham

00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:52.039
 Matthew quotes

00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:52.819
 Ruth when he

00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:53.720
 says in verse

00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:54.980
 chapter 1 verse 5

00:27:54.980 --> 00:27:55.700
 this is Matthew's

00:27:55.700 --> 00:27:56.099
 gospel

00:27:56.099 --> 00:27:57.379
 Sammon the father

00:27:57.379 --> 00:27:58.259
 of Boaz whose

00:27:58.259 --> 00:27:59.619
 mother was Rahab

00:27:59.619 --> 00:28:01.819
 Boaz the father

00:28:01.819 --> 00:28:02.899
 of Obed whose

00:28:02.899 --> 00:28:04.059
 mother was Ruth

00:28:04.059 --> 00:28:06.460
 Obed the father

00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:07.279
 of Jesse and

00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:08.119
 Jesse the father

00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:09.000
 of King David

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:10.879
 Matthew's not

00:28:10.879 --> 00:28:11.660
 subtle at all

00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:13.480
 he won't sanitise

00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:14.420
 the family history

00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:16.060
 he proudly reminds

00:28:16.060 --> 00:28:16.720
 his Jewish

00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:17.680
 readership that a

00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:18.460
 foreigner called

00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:19.580
 Ruth stands

00:28:19.580 --> 00:28:20.320
 firmly in the

00:28:20.320 --> 00:28:21.180
 family history of

00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:22.600
 King David and

00:28:22.600 --> 00:28:23.519
 of God's eternal

00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:24.600
 King Jesus Christ

00:28:24.600 --> 00:28:25.160
 himself

00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:29.460
 at a human

00:28:29.460 --> 00:28:29.900
 level

00:28:29.900 --> 00:28:31.980
 Ruth is a

00:28:31.980 --> 00:28:33.019
 story of lives

00:28:33.019 --> 00:28:33.980
 lived by faith

00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.840
 even in the face

00:28:34.840 --> 00:28:35.380
 of terrible

00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:35.800
 bitterness

00:28:35.800 --> 00:28:39.540
 real tragedy

00:28:39.540 --> 00:28:40.519
 struck Naomi

00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:41.339
 and her family

00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:44.059
 you don't have

00:28:44.059 --> 00:28:44.960
 to minimise it

00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.039
 calling herself

00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:47.859
 Mara or

00:28:47.859 --> 00:28:48.740
 bitterness was a

00:28:48.740 --> 00:28:49.660
 true reflection of

00:28:49.660 --> 00:28:50.639
 her circumstances

00:28:50.639 --> 00:28:52.720
 there was no

00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:53.599
 fresh word from

00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:54.379
 God for her

00:28:54.379 --> 00:28:56.660
 life seemed

00:28:56.660 --> 00:28:57.160
 over

00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:59.139
 she and her

00:28:59.139 --> 00:29:00.180
 family faced

00:29:00.180 --> 00:29:01.039
 ruin and

00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:01.639
 despair

00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:09.400
 not everybody

00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:09.920
 who sits

00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:10.540
 amongst us

00:29:10.540 --> 00:29:11.080
 this morning

00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:11.740
 is enjoying

00:29:11.740 --> 00:29:12.380
 life at the

00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:12.700
 moment

00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:19.380
 and a word

00:29:19.380 --> 00:29:19.900
 from God

00:29:19.900 --> 00:29:20.420
 may feel

00:29:20.420 --> 00:29:21.259
 very distant

00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:26.220
 but Naomi

00:29:26.220 --> 00:29:27.040
 still had

00:29:27.040 --> 00:29:27.660
 faith in

00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:28.020
 God

00:29:28.020 --> 00:29:30.140
 despite

00:29:30.140 --> 00:29:31.160
 feeling bitter

00:29:31.160 --> 00:29:31.540
 with him

00:29:31.540 --> 00:29:31.940
 for what

00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:32.240
 he had

00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:32.740
 given to

00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:33.040
 her

00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:38.520
 and what

00:29:38.520 --> 00:29:39.259
 does stand

00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:39.920
 out is the

00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:40.860
 constancy of

00:29:40.860 --> 00:29:41.420
 faith in

00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:41.900
 Yahweh

00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:42.520
 in Ruth in

00:29:42.520 --> 00:29:43.080
 particular

00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:45.340
 attached herself

00:29:45.340 --> 00:29:45.940
 to Naomi

00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:46.920
 attached herself

00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:47.680
 to the Lord

00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:49.800
 her hope

00:29:49.800 --> 00:29:50.400
 in God

00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:51.300
 is maintained

00:29:51.300 --> 00:29:51.980
 despite

00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:53.240
 his apparent

00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:54.100
 silence

00:29:54.099 --> 00:29:58.319
 and perhaps

00:29:58.319 --> 00:29:58.959
 that's one of

00:29:58.959 --> 00:29:59.399
 the places

00:29:59.399 --> 00:29:59.879
 where this

00:29:59.879 --> 00:30:00.179
 story

00:30:00.179 --> 00:30:00.759
 particularly

00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:01.359
 comes home

00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:01.899
 for us

00:30:01.899 --> 00:30:04.519
 we live

00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:05.099
 by faith

00:30:05.099 --> 00:30:05.339
 in the

00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:05.699
 promises

00:30:05.699 --> 00:30:06.299
 of God

00:30:06.299 --> 00:30:08.779
 our biggest

00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:09.799
 hope is in

00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:10.519
 God's ability

00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:11.139
 to raise

00:30:11.139 --> 00:30:11.639
 the dead

00:30:11.639 --> 00:30:14.119
 our hope

00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:14.819
 is firmly

00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:15.559
 rooted in

00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:16.179
 the resurrection

00:30:16.179 --> 00:30:16.839
 of Jesus

00:30:16.839 --> 00:30:17.619
 Christ from

00:30:17.619 --> 00:30:18.059
 the dead

00:30:18.059 --> 00:30:20.139
 and because

00:30:20.139 --> 00:30:20.719
 God has

00:30:20.719 --> 00:30:21.379
 raised him

00:30:21.379 --> 00:30:22.059
 we can face

00:30:22.059 --> 00:30:22.639
 death with

00:30:22.639 --> 00:30:23.079
 the hope

00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:23.559
 that God

00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:24.119
 can raise

00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:24.519
 us to

00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:24.939
 eternal

00:30:24.939 --> 00:30:25.460
 life

00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:28.759
 God is

00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:29.659
 faithful at

00:30:29.659 --> 00:30:30.559
 every place

00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:30.879
 in the

00:30:30.879 --> 00:30:31.199
 scriptures

00:30:31.199 --> 00:30:31.779
 in keeping

00:30:31.779 --> 00:30:32.539
 his promises

00:30:32.539 --> 00:30:33.859
 even through

00:30:33.859 --> 00:30:34.460
 the darkest

00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:35.019
 days

00:30:35.019 --> 00:30:37.899
 so Ruth

00:30:37.899 --> 00:30:38.659
 is a story

00:30:38.659 --> 00:30:39.119
 of living

00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:39.720
 by faith

00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:40.299
 through dark

00:30:40.299 --> 00:30:41.039
 and unrelenting

00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:41.679
 days even

00:30:41.679 --> 00:30:42.159
 when God

00:30:42.159 --> 00:30:42.939
 seems strangely

00:30:42.939 --> 00:30:43.419
 quiet

00:30:43.419 --> 00:30:45.519
 he is

00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:46.099
 absolutely

00:30:46.099 --> 00:30:46.919
 working his

00:30:46.919 --> 00:30:47.740
 purposes out

00:30:47.740 --> 00:30:50.019
 his graciousness

00:30:50.019 --> 00:30:50.439
 to this

00:30:50.439 --> 00:30:50.939
 family

00:30:50.939 --> 00:30:52.439
 is shown

00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:52.820
 in his

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 complete

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 reversal

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 of their

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 fortunes

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 not something

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 that he

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 promises

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 this side

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 of heaven

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 but in

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 this story

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 he does

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 do it

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 so brothers

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 and sisters

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 I would say

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 to you

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 that no matter

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 how difficult

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 life for you

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 is at present

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 no matter

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 how bitter

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 the circumstances

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 of your life

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 may seem

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 to be

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 no matter

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 how impossible

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 the future

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 may appear

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 I want to

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 say that

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 God is

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 absolutely

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 to be

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 trusted

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 he may

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 not reverse

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 your circumstances

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 this side

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 of heaven

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 but he

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 is

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 absolutely

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 faithful

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 hope in

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 him

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 is not

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 futile

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 and

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 persistent

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 faith

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 will know

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 great

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 reward

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 in faith

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 we cling

00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:53.579
 to his

00:31:53.579 --> 00:31:54.059
 promises

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 and we

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 join

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 to Paul

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 the writer

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 of Romans

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 and we

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 say

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 knowing

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:03.059
 all these

00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:03.700
 things

00:32:03.700 --> 00:32:04.440
 we are

00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:04.940
 more than

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 conquerors

00:32:05.580 --> 00:32:06.059
 through him

00:32:06.059 --> 00:32:06.539
 who loved

00:32:06.539 --> 00:32:06.960
 us

00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:09.539
 for I am

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 convinced

00:32:10.180 --> 00:32:10.819
 that neither

00:32:10.819 --> 00:32:11.519
 death

00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:12.480
 nor life

00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:13.759
 neither

00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:14.480
 angels

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 nor demons

00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:16.920
 neither

00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:17.600
 the present

00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:18.039
 nor the

00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:18.600
 future

00:32:18.600 --> 00:32:20.240
 nor any

00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:20.900
 powers

00:32:20.900 --> 00:32:21.240
 neither

00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:21.680
 height

00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:22.340
 nor depth

00:32:22.340 --> 00:32:23.400
 nor anything

00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:23.920
 else in

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 all creation

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 will be able

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 to separate

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 us

00:32:27.980 --> 00:32:28.880
 from the

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 love of

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 God

00:32:29.600 --> 00:32:30.080
 that is

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 in Christ

00:32:30.699 --> 00:32:31.179
 Jesus

00:32:31.179 --> 00:32:31.599
 our

00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:31.879
 Lord

00:32:31.879 --> 00:32:33.579
 Amen