John Pople – Class 1: Ruth – Recognize My Methods/Sheltering Under The Wings Of The LORD

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This is the 50th New Zealand
christadelphians Bible School.

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Our third period speaker is
Brother John poeple, on growing

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closer to God.
The subtitle for today, is

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Sheltering under the wings of
the Lord.

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This is the first talk in his
series.

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The introductory reading is Ruth
chapter 2 verse 4 through to

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3:13 Thank you brother.
John Piper, please.

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Good evening.
Once again what a wonderful

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Bible school is I’m having a
wonderful time already and it’s

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only the first full day, that’s
mainly because you’re setting

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such a an incredibly welcoming
welcoming atmosphere.

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It’s wonderful to be here.
I bring the love of Mike Leisure

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who expressly said, they wanted
to be remembered to you as the

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San Francisco Peninsula.
Ecclesia be sure of somewhat

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dubious name.
If you in its San Fran pain form

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but it’s lovely to be with you.
Once again I thank you.

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It this is a different series
from The Morning series to

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series called growing closer to
God.

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And it’s actually a not so much
a series, but a sequence of

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modular studies each study is
going to look at one character

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and it’s going to sort of follow
them sort of almost webcam style

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to see how they grew closer to
God and then how we by extension

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could follow in their same
footsteps and part of what we’ll

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end up concluding is Growing
closer to God is very much a

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common like tivity and that’s
why the title slides are always

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off brothers and sisters from
all around the world, in

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different countries, engaged in
different activities, where it’s

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a wonderful privilege to have a
family that we can go to visit

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on almost any country in the
world.

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So then, let’s make a start.
Why do we look at the subject

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growing closer to God?
That’s, I don’t know if you can

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even make that out.
So it’s still a little very

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bright in here.
Maybe we kill a couple of the

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lights.
Is that something we can do?

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That’s could you see who that
is?

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Yes, that’s right.
It’s that’s a movie star.

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Possibly, even a movie star of
yesterday, I suppose, Catherine

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Zeta-Jones.
I don’t follow the movie stars

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or particularly pay attention to
them, but I happened to catch by

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chance an interview.
She gave many years ago now.

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Least, 15 years ago off know, if
not more, and she was talking

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the things you said we’re fairly
predictable.

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And she was saying, I got a huge
amount of fan mail.

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Well, it’s no surprise.
She’s a beautiful and woman

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whose images are well
distributed.

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Did in movies and sitcoms and
such around the world.

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And she says, and and people
write to me specifically, mainly

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men, right?
To me and they tell me that they

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are deeply in love with me, and
this was the comment that she

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made.
They keep saying that they love

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me and want to marry me, but how
can they love me when they don’t

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even know who I am?
There’s a poignant in that

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phrase as well isn’t there?
There’s some there’s some

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insight that and so we’re not
interested in movie stars

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particularly but that phrase is
something we can certainly

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borrow in our discipleship life.
Why?

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Well, I guess the reasons
already obvious, isn’t it?

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I wonder how many times those
words are spoken in Heaven by

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almighty God.
God forbid almost that he would

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say those words about me, but is
it possible?

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He could be saying of me, he
keeps saying that he loves me.

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But how can he love me when he
doesn’t even know who I am?

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So there is a prerogative there
that to love is to know.

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And therefore if we desire to
love God or if we assert that we

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already do, there’s going to be
some responsibility on us to

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make sure we actually understand
who is this.

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God, I’m following almost
directly outside from the

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excitation, not by plan, but by
happy circumstance.

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Who is God?
We’re going to look tonight at

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who Is God, and how to grow
closer to God?

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Very much from the perspective
of that.

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Excellent, disciple, roof, and
indeed, her equally spiritually.

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Excellent, husband Boaz,
recognize, my methods is what

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this is called or Sheltering
under the wings of the Lord.

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And the theme is going to be
conquering, alienation.

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And that’s something.
We can probably identify with,

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think about these two phrases.
Is anything in your heart or

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mind.
Ever been synchronized with

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either of those two expressions.
I Totally distanced from this

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strange religion or community
and or this is not a culture, I

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recognize.
And if you weren’t sort of

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brought up in this culture, it
might seem very, very strange to

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have met it from an external
perspective.

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And yet, I can speak with full
confidence and saying, even

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having been brought up in this
culture, sometimes I can still

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find myself in a mindset that
saying this is very strange to

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me.
I feel curiously, alienated

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sometimes, even when amongst
many Brethren their periods of

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our discipleship, where we might
go through that.

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And so Ruth is a superb
provision from from the Lord

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guard to have given for him to
have given us her discipleship.

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And her example, because she
really was a very alienated from

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the hope of Israel in her
natural circumstances.

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Let’s just remind ourselves why
Ruth might be seen very much as

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an alien for one thing she was
widowed.

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And that’s at a time in a
culture, where your voice in

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society, your voice in The
Social Circle, came through your

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father.
As you were young or through

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your husband for a female as you
were older.

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Well, Ruth was old enough to be
married and had been married.

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And now she’s Widow.
There’s no social security to

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fall back on.
She’s in a very precarious

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position.
As a consequence, she makes that

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faithful decision because she
loves Naomi’s, God her

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mother-in-law’s, God to come
back to Israel.

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I will go with you wherever you
go, she says.

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And so at that point, she
becomes a foreign immigrant and

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that can be a difficult.
Very difficult circumstance,

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particularly in that day and
age, even to this very day to be

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a foreigner.
Immigrant is often to welcome to

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welcome yourself to some level
of hostility or at least

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distancing and not only is she a
foreign immigrant but she

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happens to be a foreign
immigrant from Moab a

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specifically shunned.
And and distanced ethnicity.

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So if anyone can feel
disenfranchised, if anyone can

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feel alienated from those
enjoying the hope of Israel Ruth

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is certainly very well placed to
experience that.

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And I think that’s part of why
we’re given her wonderful

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example, to see how she
persevered, and how she broke in

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and came very close to Israel’s
God and made Israel’s God very

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much, her God from position, far
further away than I’m probably

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you or I have experienced.
And we’re going to focus on that

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one particular, very curious
story that we read about and

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thank you, too, brother.
Evan for reading that for us,

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then involves some very odd
nocturnal activity.

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What exactly is going on here?
Let’s just recapitulate.

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A couple of the key sentences
Boaz had finished eating and

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drinking and was in good
spirits, you went over to lie

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down at the far end of the grain
pile.

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Ruth approach, quietly
uncovered.

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His feet.
Very Strange and lay down in the

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middle of the night.
Boaz was startled.

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He turns and discovers a woman
lying at his feet.

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What exactly one wonders is Ruth
doing and we know actually it

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wasn’t something she dreamt up
in the moment.

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One very satisfactory answer is
well she was following a plan.

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Very carefully concocted between
herself and her mother-in-law

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Naomi.
So this was a very deliberate

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plan.
But what was that plan?

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And what we’re going to see is
not only a Romantic interlude

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between Ruth and Boaz.
In terms of the relationship,

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they develop, but a romantic
relationship developed between

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two, extremely spiritually deep
and perceptive disciples, and

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that’s where the real value is
going to lie in seeing how they

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both, see how the god of Israel
operates, and how they took

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those operations and absorb
them, very directly into their

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own lives.
And there’s going to be some

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very explicit advice for us
boiling down almost to a bumper

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sticker on Answer, mainly
because it’s an evening session

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and it’s hard to sort of stay
awake in terms of how we can

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grow closer to God in this same
way.

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There’s a certain amount of
language that needs to be

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explained here because the
language is actually very

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beautiful for those of you who
appreciate language.

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I’m not skilled in languages
particularly other than English

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but I certainly appreciate the
beauty of language.

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The little that I understand, I
am your servant Ruth Ruth says

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spread the corner of your
garment over me since you are a

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kinsman redeemer.
There’s a lot going on there in

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the Hebrew and none of it.
Shines through in the English,

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let’s pick out just one word
This quote comes from the NIV at

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least the NIV of 1984 corner of
your garment.

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I’ve highlighted there in gold
and underlined that’s four words

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in that particular English.
It’s one word in Hebrew and I’ve

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identified it here and I’m going
to pronounce that.

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In fact, I’m going to
deliberately mispronounced it

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but just to show a similarity it
has with an English word, which

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is non coincidental.
I’m going to pronounce that

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canopy.
It’s in really are our English

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word.
Canopy has derivations there

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from its the Be spread the
canopy over me since you are a

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kinsman.
Redeemer is what she says to

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him.
Let’s just pick up that same

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quote in a couple of different
versions.

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I am Ruth Vine handmade.
This is the King James, of

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course, spread.
Therefore thy skirt over thine

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handmaid.
So he’s talking she’s talking

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about the skirt of the row that
sort of voluminous part that can

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sway around and cover over
things.

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And the new King James I think
is what our reading came from.

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As what sounds like a very
different take.

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I am Ruth.
Your maidservant.

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Take your maidservant under your
wing for, you are a close

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relative.
Now that sounds like the new

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King James is taking a bit of a
liberty there and putting in

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some sort of euphemism and
departing from the literal

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Hebrew.
Not a bit of it.

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The new King James top marks
here for seeing not only the

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euphemism at play, but not
departing at all from the

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literal Hebrew.
It turns out, The Hebrew for

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corner of robot or the skirt of
the robe is canopy.

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It’s exactly the same word for
the wing of a bird.

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So in Hebrew a bird has to
canopies.

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We recognize the word canopy.
Don’t we often talk about

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forests and trees, when they
have spreading branches, the

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trees have a canopy over the
land over, which they stand

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while in Hebrew canopy is the
wing of a bird.

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It is also the skirt of the row.
So to say, take take me under

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your a wing is actually an
excellent translation there and

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we’re going to therefore, see
that there is a direct

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correlation is the same word for
corner of garment and Wing that

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teaches us a few things.
So there’s one thing she is

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asking quite literally to be
taken under his wing.

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That is literally accurate
comment.

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But there’s more in the Hebrew
than that.

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Right now, we’re just
appreciating the beauty of it

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will see the spiritual value in
just a minute.

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Spread the corpsman to corner of
your garment over me since you

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are a kinsman redeemer.
Well, actually, here’s some more

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depth to that statement that
isn’t just hey, I’m cold.

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Can I share a bit of the
blanket?

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That’s not what’s being said
here, as much as this is a known

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engagement custom.
We have that from Ezekiel 16

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that we actually looked at this
morning in a different context

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when I looked at you sir.
Scarred and saw that you were

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old enough for love.
I spread the canopy over you and

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covered your nakedness.
I gave you my solemn oath and

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entered into a covenant with you
declares The Sovereign Lord and

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you became mine.
So this is a big deal.

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This isn’t about keeping warm.
This is about a recognized

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practice.
I realize, of course.

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Ezekiel is many years Downstream
chronic chronologically from

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Ruth, But this is a recognized
practice in the Hebrew culture

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that this is how you claimed a
bride.

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So Ruth is being very direct
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All right.
Just just cutting right to the

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chase but she’s doing it in a
very beautiful way that says, I

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understand the customs of the
Lord God of Israel and not just

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going to make this crashed him.
And I’m going to show you that I

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have researched this and I
understand how it is that.

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God himself might take a bride.
And again English is at fault

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here but Hebrew has one more
beautiful symmetry or anti

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symmetry?
I should say, here Ruth

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approach, quietly uncovered his
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Spread the canopy over me.
She says, since you are a

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kinsman redeemer, and it’s not
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this word uncovered has a
relationship with this word

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kinsman redeemer.
Let me just show you what an

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attractive symmetry is played
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Those are the words.
The Hebrew for uncovered is

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Gullah, but the Hebrew for
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So they are actually
phonetically opposites.

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She’s saying I have Galah so
that you can get real.

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So again, just in a tract in
attraction, at least.

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She’s playing a good game in a
language, which isn’t originally

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hers.
We can think by extension of

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just the little children’s game
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Uncover Gala recover gural.
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actually seen as a recover.
ER, In every sense of the

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English word.
So I will you Galah, so that you

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can me.
Got are so, she’s playing on

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many different levels here.
Etymological levels, and also

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spiritual levels.
Showing her understanding of how

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the god of Israel works.
And there’s more than just would

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play.
This isn’t just some sort of

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University study.
She’s provoking the sense of

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empathy.
She’s saying, if I uncover, you

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guess what your feet are going
to get cold?

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You’re not going to be a
pleasant in a pleasant situation

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entirely that’s the situation
that I’m in.

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I am entirely uncovered.
I have no social protection.

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I am lying your feet without any
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You will probably wake up in due
course because your feet are

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cold.
Just because part of You is

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uncovered, and so she’s
provoking in Boaz this sense of

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empathy, which any true disciple
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When I see someone uncovered,
the true disciple will say, I

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myself experienced part of that
uncovering, this comes from God

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himself, God hears the groaning
of the Israelites under

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oppression and he remembers his
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and with Jacob.
So God looked on the Israelites

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and was concerned about them,
God is Ascetic, when his people

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are in pain, God feels their
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Ruth knows that Ruth has
realized that Ruth has

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understood the oral history of
coming out of Egypt and she’s in

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acting part of that.
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with Boaz and we should be the
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We know that the whole creation
has been groaning as in the

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Pains of childbirth, right up
into the present time, not only.

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So, but we ourselves who Have
the first fruits of the spirit

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groan inwardly as we wait
eagerly for our adoption as

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Sons, the Redemption of our
bodies.

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So the more that we report to
God In Prayer, I am Galah.

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I am uncovered and exposed.
We’re left in these mortal

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bodies that are simply falling
apart as we watch and we Decay

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God will hear our pain and say.
Yes, I am sending the kinsman

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redeemer.
I am sending your cover-up in

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due course, Course at the right
time your cover will come.

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So this increase in those
prayers to the Lord God.

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As Ruth did essentially to Boaz
knowing exactly how the mind of

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the Lord God himself is
operating.

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In fact, Ruth is being clever
than that and you can see

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there’s been planning a foot and
discussion with Naomi Ruth is

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actually responding to a comment
of Boaz months earlier at the

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earlier Harvest.
And we read about it.

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I’ll just pop the quote up again
so we can see it Boaz.

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Says, to Ruth.
I’ve been told all about what

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you’ve done for your
mother-in-law.

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Since the death of your husband,
Marla may you be richly rewarded

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by the Lord the god of Israel
under Whose wings you have come

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to take refuge.
Now, again, if you’re just

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reading the English Bible, it’s
not obvious in English that this

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word Wings is going to be the
identical Hebrew word to what

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Ruth asked Boaz to put over her
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It’s the same word.
So Boaz is said to roof, I know

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that you’ve come here to shelter
under the wings of my God.

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This is actually the start of
that conversation.

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And it’s the second half of the
conversation that happens months

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later in in the The Granary.
So Boaz says you’ve come to take

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shelter under the wings of my
God.

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Is that just a pretty phrase is
that just nice poetry.

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What pair of wings do we suppose
boas was referencing?

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Relatively straightforward
question.

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What do we think?
Yeah, it’s quite possible but

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probable that Boaz has actually
seen these wings as the arc is

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carried around.
The Arc was adorned with many

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things including primarily to
Caribbean whose wings stretched

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out across the surface of the
arc and touched.

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So now here’s the key question.
Then of course, There we are.

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And you shall make to care of,
of gold at the two ends of the

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mercy seat, and the Caribbean
shall stretch out their wings

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above, covering the mercy seat
with their wings.

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This is relevant, why?
Because it’s not just like, oh,

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there’s a little space.
You can kind of curl up him.

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If you’re small enough, this is
saying this is a very special

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place underneath the wings of
the Caribbean is the localized

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presence of the mercy of God.
No, to some extent that’s

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metaphorical because God is
everywhere and God’s mercy

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operates everywhere.
Nevertheless, it’s quite clear.

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Just as with a magnetic field, a
magnetic field can be all across

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the room.
It can still be strongest at a

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highly focalized, highly focal
point.

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And this is how God describes
himself as I’m everywhere.

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But, I exist at concentrated
focal points as and where I

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choose, and I choose to manifest
myself at my most concentrated

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in terms of my Mercy.
Beneath the wings of the

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Caribbean.
If you’re beneath my wins, you

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are receiving the most focal
intensity of my Mercy Boaz knows

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this Boaz is a highly spiritual,
man.

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This is doubtless.
What is driving Boaz is comments

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when he says to Ruth, you are a
very Godly woman.

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You have clearly come here to
shelter under the wings of my

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guard to receive the maximum
extent of his Mercy.

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And Ruth understands what Boaz
said.

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And so she is replying to him by
what she does on that night.

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Let’s make sure we’re not just
getting ahead of ourselves, the

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wings indicated, the focal point
of God’s.

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Mercy is not quite correct, the
space beneath the wings

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indicated, the focal point of
God’s mercy.

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The Lord bless you.
My daughter Boaz replies to Ruth

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this kindness is greater than
that which you showed earlier,

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you have not run after run after
the young men, whether rich or

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poor.
Now, some of the grammar here is

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poor in my opinion, in the
English.

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This last Clause you have not
run after the younger men,

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whether rich or poor, this is
not the greater kindness.

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When you look at the grammatical
construction of the Hebrew, this

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is the first kindness.
O as says you’ve done me to

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kindnesses.
The first one is, you didn’t

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say, ah, he’s too old.
I want a young man like me,

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who’s young and strong, and
Youthful as I am, since you have

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not run after the younger men
with Rich or poor, that was the

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first kindness.
He says, what you have done now

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is a greater kindness than that.
So the first kindness was Ruth,

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not favoring.
The younger men or men have her

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own age.
What is the greater kindness

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that she’s done?
What kindness has she done to

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Boaz?
And when we can answer that

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question and we’ll dress it
directly, then we have the true

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spiritual power of this
incredibly clever, spiritual and

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romantic into play.
Let me paraphrase Booth, but as

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I said to Ruth at The Barley
Harvest, you’ve come to take

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refuge under the wings of the
god of Israel.

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And then when Ruth uncovers his
feet and lies down and says,

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take me under your wing.
She is saying implying I can

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find Refuge this same Refuge
Beneath Your Wings, Boaz.

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So what is she actually saying?
He’s saying absolutely.

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She is saying to Boaz you’ve
recommended this wonderfully

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merciful god, I see that
merciful god in you.

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What an amazing statement and
Boaz is sufficiently spiritual

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deep as Ruth.
He understands what she said and

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that’s why he says this is
amazing.

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This is a greater kindness that
you have done me now than you

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did before.
In simply not going after the

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man of your own age.
You have said you can see the

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god of Israel in me when I told
you came to shelter under his

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wings, you turn around and said
that’s pretty much the same as

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being under your wings.
What a beautiful interplay and

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how subtly done and how powerful
is all that scene.

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And unfortunately, given that we
read it in English, we can miss

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that.
But in the Hebrew, it’s a little

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bit more obvious Ruth, implies
that Boaz reflects the image of

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God, that he to Boaz, as well as
God is a cover-up, is a real,

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the one who covers and provide
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So I find that when I first kind
of dug At out of those chapters,

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there was a tingle, went down my
spine, I thought what an amazing

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interplay.
It’s almost like a sort of a

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sword fight but it’s not a sword
fight with intent of malice.

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That’s actually a terrible
example.

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Now that I think about it but
it’s an interplay between the

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two.
That’s absolutely magnificent

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and wonderful in its in its
spiritual power.

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This is the second kindness.
The greater kindness Ruth saying

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I see your God reflected in you.
And as a consequence Boaz

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accepts, Ruth’s subtle marriage
invitation, I have also acquired

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Ruth, the moabite.
S Marlins Widow is my wife in

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order to maintain the name of
the Dead with his property so

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that his name will not disappear
from among his family or from

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the town records.
Today, you are witnesses.

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There’s something important
lying in there and it’s not some

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clever academic trick in the
Hebrew.

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This is the point we mustn’t.
Miss Boaz essentially.

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Resurrects.
Marlon now Boaz is only human so

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he can’t resurrect him as God
might.

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But he says this man has died
and his name is expunged from

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the records.
I can’t resurrect his body but I

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can at least resurrect his name.
I can give him a continuing life

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that he otherwise wouldn’t have
as much as I can.

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So SPO as I am trying to be
Jesus of Nazareth long before

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Jesus, come along, the one who
gives life Where life is lost.

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And here’s the point that I like
to identify growing closer to

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God has tangible results.
This isn’t just an academic

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romantic into play.
That could be done by email.

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He married the Widow he provided
shelter in very real tangible

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cost.
Effective terms.

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He gave her a home, he gave her
food, he gave her shelter.

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He even to the best of his
limited ability resurrected.

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The name of her former dead
husband.

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If we want to grow closer to
God, this isn’t just an academic

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exercise, it involves real
actions that change people’s

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lives.
And I think that’s one of the

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key points that From the story
of Ruth and Boaz.

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Time passes. and in a way Ruth
passes, from the story, and in a

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way she sticks right around Oh,
as was the father of Obed, whose

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mother was Ruth.
We are reminded Obed, was the

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father of Jesse and Jesse the
father of King David.

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So Ruth is therefore, get this
right great-grandmother to King

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David.
Now, I don’t know how many of

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you knew your great-grandparents
but we are all products of the

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20th and 21st century and given
socio-economic cultures that we

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00:26:31,700 –> 00:26:35,700
have generally are generational
overlap is about to.

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00:26:36,200 –> 00:26:38,300
That’s a very nerdy way of
saying something that should be

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said, simpler, you probably did
know your grandparents.

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00:26:41,900 –> 00:26:44,300
You probably didn’t know your
great-grandparents.

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00:26:44,900 –> 00:26:46,400
They’ll be exceptions either
side.

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00:26:46,400 –> 00:26:49,500
I realize that, but that’s
That’s our common Western

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00:26:49,500 –> 00:26:55,200
Civilization generally.
Generational overlap, two

448
00:26:55,200 –> 00:26:58,500
sequences looking back at the
ages of giving birth and the

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00:26:58,500 –> 00:27:02,000
ages of Life length.
It is almost certain that King

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David new Ruth.
The King David would have sat on

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roofs lap, so to speak in a very
real sense that they would have

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overlapped.
It’s highly unlikely that he

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didn’t know her.
So Ruth was a part of the life

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of David.
Is there any evidence of that?

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00:27:20,000 –> 00:27:23,100
Oh, there’s there’s some massive
evidence of that, isn’t it?

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Think about that wonderful
story.

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Imagine that story between Boaz
and Ruth was the story of your

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great.
Grandparents when that be a

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wonderful Legacy to be able to
just reflect upon particularly,

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if your great-grandmother has
herself, told you the story on

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her knee?
Do you notice that there’s a

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phrase that only one man in the
whole Old Testament ever uses?

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00:27:45,200 –> 00:27:48,800
And he keeps using it in his
Psalms you seen it.

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Keep me as the apple of your
eye, writes David hide me in the

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shadow of your wings.
This is David’s phrase, there

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00:27:58,800 –> 00:28:03,600
are seven Psalms Which are
written with this phrase, none

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of them from asaph, none of them
from the sons of Korah, they all

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come from the same Source.
It’s a man who has a strong

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Affinity with this beautiful
Clause.

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How Priceless is your unfailing
love?

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00:28:16,200 –> 00:28:21,400
Says David both high and low
among men find refuge in The

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00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:25,800
Shadow of Your Wings, you can
tell that Ruth has done.

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What the law instructed her to
do and has impressed upon her

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00:28:29,600 –> 00:28:33,100
children.
Indeed her Children indeed, her

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00:28:33,100 –> 00:28:36,800
great-grandchildren and what a
great great grandchild.

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00:28:36,800 –> 00:28:41,100
He was the lessons that she’d
learned from the god of Israel,

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00:28:41,500 –> 00:28:45,300
I long to dwell in your tent
forever says David and take

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00:28:45,300 –> 00:28:47,500
refuge in the shelter of your
wings.

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00:28:47,700 –> 00:28:52,600
It’s his phrase, you won’t find
it on the lips of anybody else.

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David loves this personal family
metaphor, he uses it in seven,

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00:28:58,700 –> 00:29:02,100
Psalms and such was the
instruction from the law.

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These Commandments, that I give
you today are to be upon your

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hearts, impress them upon your
children.

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There’s a way to grow closer to
God, Impress, the wonderful

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00:29:13,100 –> 00:29:16,700
things, you know, about your
father on the hearts.

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00:29:18,200 –> 00:29:21,600
Sam 57.
So as he’s running from Saul and

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hiding in that cave, he says
have mercy on me.

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00:29:24,300 –> 00:29:28,100
O God have mercy on me for you.
In for, in you, my soul takes

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00:29:28,100 –> 00:29:31,300
Refuge.
I will take refuge in The Shadow

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00:29:31,300 –> 00:29:36,100
of Your Wings until the disaster
has passed, and the disaster are

491
00:29:36,108 –> 00:29:38,100
very real and genuine disaster
is.

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00:29:38,100 –> 00:29:40,300
His life is being hunted down by
the king.

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00:29:41,700 –> 00:29:44,900
And then you have that very
curious situation where Saul

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00:29:44,900 –> 00:29:49,400
comes into the cave and is tired
and he’s taking some form of

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00:29:49,400 –> 00:29:51,900
rest and I’m assuming he’s
napping, different suggestions,

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00:29:51,900 –> 00:29:57,200
apply that he’s taking a nap and
David sneaks up and he wants to

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00:29:57,500 –> 00:30:00,800
he wants to show Saul.
Look, I could have killed you

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00:30:00,800 –> 00:30:03,500
but I spared your life and so he
says I know what I’ll do if I

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00:30:03,500 –> 00:30:06,000
get a bit of his clothing,
that’ll kind of prove it which

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00:30:06,000 –> 00:30:10,100
is a good plan.
So David creeps up on noticed

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00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:13,900
and cuts off.
A corner of Saul’s robe.

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00:30:15,400 –> 00:30:18,600
Afterward.
David was conscience-stricken.

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00:30:19,400 –> 00:30:20,900
I’ve always found that very
puzzling.

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00:30:21,800 –> 00:30:23,300
He always knew what he was going
to do.

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00:30:23,300 –> 00:30:25,100
A choir a piece of clothing to
prove to Saul.

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00:30:25,100 –> 00:30:28,700
I could have killed you and I
spared you and he cuts off.

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00:30:28,700 –> 00:30:30,400
Well, you’ll never guess what
that word is.

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00:30:30,400 –> 00:30:31,800
Of course, you’ve already
guessed.

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00:30:32,400 –> 00:30:37,300
It’s the canopy, it’s the wing.
He clipped Souls wings.

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00:30:39,500 –> 00:30:43,800
And so he was conscience
tricking because what he’d taken

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00:30:44,800 –> 00:30:49,600
was the canopy of the row and
in, physical terms, who cares?

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00:30:49,600 –> 00:30:53,300
It’s just a piece of clothing,
but this is his favorite

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00:30:53,300 –> 00:30:56,400
personal Family Matter for
embedded in the life of his

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00:30:56,400 –> 00:30:59,800
great-grandmother with this
wonderful spiritual connection.

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00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:03,400
She made with Boaz and that’s
precisely what he’s violated.

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00:31:04,200 –> 00:31:08,200
He’s amputated Sol’s Wings.
The very symbol, only a symbol

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00:31:08,500 –> 00:31:10,800
of Saul’s ability to reflect
God.

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00:31:11,700 –> 00:31:15,800
If Saul wants to spread his wing
over someone, his wing least in

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00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:19,600
the clothing sense has been cut
off and I have no doubt

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00:31:19,600 –> 00:31:23,000
whatsoever anymore.
That that is why David is cut to

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00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:27,000
the heart when he realizes, what
he’s taken the canopy.

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00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:32,600
Don’t deprive others of a chance
to show Mercy is essentially the

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00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:36,100
spiritual equivalent of what’s
coming out of that, very strange

524
00:31:36,100 –> 00:31:39,000
choreographed event.
And I find that a wonderful

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00:31:39,000 –> 00:31:41,900
solution to what has always.
Otherwise been an extremely

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00:31:41,900 –> 00:31:48,500
puzzling detail in the Bible.
But there’s another man who uses

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00:31:48,500 –> 00:31:52,100
that phrase David is the only
man in the Old Testament, but

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00:31:52,100 –> 00:31:55,000
there’s one more, he too is a
son of David.

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00:31:55,200 –> 00:32:00,400
He is a son, if you like of
Ruth. o Jerusalem Jerusalem he

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00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:05,100
says you who kill the prophets
and Stone, Those sent to you how

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00:32:05,100 –> 00:32:09,400
often I have longed to gather
your children together as a hen

532
00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:14,900
gathers her chicks under her
wings, but you were not willing

533
00:32:15,500 –> 00:32:19,800
even to those who tried to kill
him successfully in the end and

534
00:32:19,800 –> 00:32:24,300
against whom he railed In This
Very chapter ultimately, his

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00:32:24,300 –> 00:32:28,200
heart was still saying but I
just wanted to spread my canopy

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00:32:28,300 –> 00:32:33,300
He’s over you and take you under
my wings, was the greater son of

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00:32:33,300 –> 00:32:38,600
David that the utter, these
words and not only that but I’d

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00:32:38,600 –> 00:32:41,600
like to show you one more
strange, little mystery or

539
00:32:41,600 –> 00:32:45,900
innocuous detail that I believe
this same logic helps solve.

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00:32:46,300 –> 00:32:49,000
Here’s a detail that we
seemingly never needed to know.

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00:32:49,200 –> 00:32:53,800
Look at this, Jesus is garment
was seamless were at the time of

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00:32:53,800 –> 00:32:56,600
the crucifixion?
I should say, excuse me woven in

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00:32:56,600 –> 00:33:01,800
one piece from top to bottom.
Let’s not tear, it said the

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00:33:01,800 –> 00:33:06,000
soldiers, one to another.
Let’s cast lots to decide who

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00:33:06,000 –> 00:33:08,400
will get it.
Why did they say that?

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00:33:08,700 –> 00:33:12,100
Why is that recorded for us?
Thousands, of years later,

547
00:33:12,400 –> 00:33:15,000
partly?
I guess because to show us the

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00:33:15,100 –> 00:33:18,300
the Synergy between Old
Testament and knew that this

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00:33:18,400 –> 00:33:21,700
passage in John fulfills.
The psalmist’s words of long

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00:33:21,700 –> 00:33:25,900
ago, David’s words from long
ago, but what else does that

551
00:33:25,900 –> 00:33:29,900
tell you?
Jesus had a robe.

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00:33:30,900 –> 00:33:33,600
And nobody ever cut the Wings
off.

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00:33:34,900 –> 00:33:41,400
Jesus never lost the ability to
show Mercy, even in his death.

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00:33:41,400 –> 00:33:44,100
And how fitting is that?
Because in his death, he

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00:33:44,100 –> 00:33:48,200
actually showed a Greater Mercy
and provided a Greater Mercy

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00:33:48,300 –> 00:33:51,200
than he’d even provided in his
life to date.

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00:33:52,400 –> 00:33:56,500
Jesus is wings, were never
amputated his ability to Grant

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00:33:56,500 –> 00:34:00,700
the mercy of the father that he
knew and loved was maintained

559
00:34:00,900 –> 00:34:06,000
even arguably, Amplified even in
his death and that’s held up

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00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:09,800
even in this very curious symbol
that for some reason, God said,

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00:34:10,000 –> 00:34:12,900
you need to know that Jesus
garment never had the wings

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00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:16,600
chopped off.
Otherwise a meaningless detail

563
00:34:16,800 –> 00:34:21,600
to do with clothing, but
actually a powerful lesson to do

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00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:25,100
with the power of the mercy of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:34:26,500 –> 00:34:31,199
As an eagle stirs up, its nest
hovers over its young spreading

566
00:34:31,199 –> 00:34:35,199
out its wings, taking them up,
carrying them on its wings.

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00:34:35,300 –> 00:34:39,100
So the Lord God Alone LED
Israel.

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00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:45,500
I like this verb here, hovers
because it speaks about how God

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00:34:45,500 –> 00:34:49,800
protects his young, it talks
about, he’s got them under his

570
00:34:49,800 –> 00:34:54,699
spread out wings, and the wings
themselves, hover and vibrate

571
00:34:55,100 –> 00:34:59,800
almost like a Worried parents,
who’s concerned and, or excited

572
00:35:00,100 –> 00:35:03,900
about the wonderful thing that
is before him the father.

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00:35:04,400 –> 00:35:06,700
And where have we first seen
that same verb?

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00:35:07,900 –> 00:35:10,500
We know don’t we right at the
start of creation?

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00:35:12,200 –> 00:35:15,800
The Earth was formless and
empty, Darkness was over the

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00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:20,800
surface of the deep and the
spirit of God was hovering that

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00:35:20,800 –> 00:35:24,700
same word.
His wings were spread out right

578
00:35:24,700 –> 00:35:27,900
from the start of creation over
the whole world.

579
00:35:28,100 –> 00:35:35,300
As he says, look what I have
made even I tremble with

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00:35:35,300 –> 00:35:39,700
anticipation at what I have done
and what I have wrought.

581
00:35:40,400 –> 00:35:43,200
There’s the work of the ultimate
parent.

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00:35:43,600 –> 00:35:48,400
So this this metaphor is as old
as creation itself.

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00:35:48,700 –> 00:35:52,100
It’s in the very first two
verses of our Bible.

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00:35:52,100 –> 00:35:55,800
And where can it take us?
It can take us to a quote that

585
00:35:55,900 –> 00:35:59,400
was used very, very beautifully
yesterday in our exultation and

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00:35:59,400 –> 00:36:02,400
it will actually allow us to
perform a strange translation.

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00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:06,700
And if you haven’t heard this
verse before, I’d be astonished,

588
00:36:07,100 –> 00:36:10,000
but I still hope to provide a
translation just on what we’ve

589
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:13,200
said that you may not have heard
before see what you think of it.

590
00:36:14,100 –> 00:36:17,800
These are the verses very well.
Known even youths grow tired and

591
00:36:17,800 –> 00:36:20,400
weary and young men, stumble,
and fall.

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00:36:20,500 –> 00:36:24,300
But those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength, they

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00:36:24,300 –> 00:36:28,500
will soar on wings, like eagles.
They will run and not grow

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00:36:28,500 –> 00:36:31,300
weary.
They will walk and not be faint.

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00:36:31,300 –> 00:36:35,500
They will soar on their own
wings, like eagles.

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00:36:36,000 –> 00:36:39,800
So one can see in these verses
given everything we’ve taken

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00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:43,100
right from the covering of Ruth
all the way down.

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00:36:43,200 –> 00:36:46,000
Bye.
Metaphor, if we spread our

599
00:36:46,000 –> 00:36:51,700
wings, we can learn to fly, and
Ascend to heaven in metaphor.

600
00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:56,700
We’re not going to heaven, but
in metaphor, that means this is

601
00:36:56,700 –> 00:37:01,000
how we grow closer to God, why?
Because God is in heaven, and if

602
00:37:01,000 –> 00:37:05,100
we actually become creatures,
that can fly why, then we go in

603
00:37:05,100 –> 00:37:08,000
that same metaphor, just in that
metaphorical picture we grow

604
00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:10,900
closer to God, okay?
Fine, it’s all metaphor.

605
00:37:10,900 –> 00:37:12,600
What do I have to do to make
that happen?

606
00:37:12,700 –> 00:37:14,900
Like a flap, my arms, All day,
I’m not going anywhere.

607
00:37:16,900 –> 00:37:19,500
So to translate that, according
to what we’ve, what we’ve

608
00:37:19,500 –> 00:37:22,700
studied already we Ascend to
Heaven, We Grow closer to God.

609
00:37:22,700 –> 00:37:24,800
That’s fair.
IE, Learn to Fly.

610
00:37:24,800 –> 00:37:27,400
IE develop his character because
he’s the one who’s had his wings

611
00:37:27,400 –> 00:37:31,300
spread out over us right since
the creation of time, we Ascend

612
00:37:31,300 –> 00:37:33,100
to Heaven.
Learn to Fly by spreading our

613
00:37:33,100 –> 00:37:35,700
wings.
We grow closer to God, I develop

614
00:37:35,700 –> 00:37:44,200
his character by spreading our
wings which is By our provision

615
00:37:44,300 –> 00:37:48,700
of Mercy.
You want to grow closer to God?

616
00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:53,800
Increase in Mercy.
Isaiah 40 is where it says that

617
00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:57,500
it’s very hidden.
Of course. that’s the process of

618
00:37:57,500 –> 00:38:01,300
spreading our Wings, by which we
learn to soar on wings like

619
00:38:01,300 –> 00:38:08,400
eagles as God himself did and
does And that then is our

620
00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:13,100
conclusion Ruth as Boaz
recognizes that beautiful

621
00:38:13,100 –> 00:38:15,800
pattern of God.
The Sheltering Wings their

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00:38:15,800 –> 00:38:19,300
different cultures are overcome
by the commonality that they see

623
00:38:19,300 –> 00:38:24,000
in knowing god, how can they say
that they know me when they

624
00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:29,800
don’t even know who I am Ruth
and Boaz found out about God.

625
00:38:30,100 –> 00:38:34,100
And that’s what they saw Ruth
imprints her experiences with

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00:38:34,100 –> 00:38:38,900
God on her children, her Legacy
Even educates the man, you might

627
00:38:38,900 –> 00:38:40,700
wrongly think required no
education.

628
00:38:40,700 –> 00:38:42,400
He was so spiritual.
Perhaps that’s me, that’s where

629
00:38:42,400 –> 00:38:46,400
he came from, King David.
The man after God’s Own Heart,

630
00:38:46,400 –> 00:38:51,100
her great-grandson.
And the abstract literary beauty

631
00:38:51,100 –> 00:38:55,000
of the Sheltering Wings actually
has a concrete translation.

632
00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:59,400
We grow closer to God by
providing Mercy.

633
00:38:59,800 –> 00:39:04,400
The more times, we show Mercy
the more times we get closer to

634
00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:07,400
God.
How do I grow closer to God

635
00:39:07,400 –> 00:39:09,600
Ruth?
Says, you need to spread your

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00:39:09,600 –> 00:39:12,800
wings and then, then you will
fly.