Bro John Pople, from the series “Growing Closer to GOD” which was given at the 2015 New Zealand Bible School, class 4 was used for GCT episode #224<\/p>\n
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\nOur third period speaker is
\nBrother John poeple, on growing <\/p>\n
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\ncloser to God.
\nThe subtitle for today, is <\/p>\n
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\nSheltering under the wings of
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the first talk in his
\nseries. <\/p>\n
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\nThe introductory reading is Ruth
\nchapter 2 verse 4 through to <\/p>\n
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\n3:13 Thank you brother.
\nJohn Piper, please. <\/p>\n
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\nGood evening.
\nOnce again what a wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nBible school is I’m having a
\nwonderful time already and it’s <\/p>\n
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\nonly the first full day, that’s
\nmainly because you’re setting <\/p>\n
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\nsuch a an incredibly welcoming
\nwelcoming atmosphere. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s wonderful to be here.
\nI bring the love of Mike Leisure<\/p>\n
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\nwho expressly said, they wanted
\nto be remembered to you as the <\/p>\n
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\nSan Francisco Peninsula.
\nEcclesia be sure of somewhat <\/p>\n
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\ndubious name.
\nIf you in its San Fran pain form<\/p>\n
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\nbut it’s lovely to be with you.
\nOnce again I thank you. <\/p>\n
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\nIt this is a different series
\nfrom The Morning series to <\/p>\n
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\nseries called growing closer to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s actually a not so much
\na series, but a sequence of <\/p>\n
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\nmodular studies each study is
\ngoing to look at one character <\/p>\n
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\nand it’s going to sort of follow
\nthem sort of almost webcam style<\/p>\n
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\nto see how they grew closer to
\nGod and then how we by extension<\/p>\n
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\ncould follow in their same
\nfootsteps and part of what we’ll<\/p>\n
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\nend up concluding is Growing
\ncloser to God is very much a <\/p>\n
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\ncommon like tivity and that’s
\nwhy the title slides are always <\/p>\n
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\noff brothers and sisters from
\nall around the world, in <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent countries, engaged in
\ndifferent activities, where it’s<\/p>\n
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\na wonderful privilege to have a
\nfamily that we can go to visit <\/p>\n
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\non almost any country in the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
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\nSo then, let’s make a start.
\nWhy do we look at the subject <\/p>\n
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\ngrowing closer to God?
\nThat’s, I don’t know if you can <\/p>\n
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\neven make that out.
\nSo it’s still a little very <\/p>\n
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\nbright in here.
\nMaybe we kill a couple of the <\/p>\n
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\nlights.
\nIs that something we can do? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s could you see who that
\nis? <\/p>\n
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\nYes, that’s right.
\nIt’s that’s a movie star. <\/p>\n
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\nPossibly, even a movie star of
\nyesterday, I suppose, Catherine <\/p>\n
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\nZeta-Jones.
\nI don’t follow the movie stars <\/p>\n
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\nor particularly pay attention to
\nthem, but I happened to catch by<\/p>\n
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\nchance an interview.
\nShe gave many years ago now. <\/p>\n
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\nLeast, 15 years ago off know, if
\nnot more, and she was talking <\/p>\n
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\nthe things you said we’re fairly
\npredictable. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she was saying, I got a huge
\namount of fan mail. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, it’s no surprise.
\nShe’s a beautiful and woman <\/p>\n
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\nwhose images are well
\ndistributed. <\/p>\n
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\nDid in movies and sitcoms and
\nsuch around the world. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she says, and and people
\nwrite to me specifically, mainly<\/p>\n
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\nmen, right?
\nTo me and they tell me that they<\/p>\n
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\nare deeply in love with me, and
\nthis was the comment that she <\/p>\n
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\nmade.
\nThey keep saying that they love <\/p>\n
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\nme and want to marry me, but how
\ncan they love me when they don’t<\/p>\n
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\neven know who I am?
\nThere’s a poignant in that <\/p>\n
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\nphrase as well isn’t there?
\nThere’s some there’s some <\/p>\n
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\ninsight that and so we’re not
\ninterested in movie stars <\/p>\n
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\nparticularly but that phrase is
\nsomething we can certainly <\/p>\n
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\nborrow in our discipleship life.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I guess the reasons
\nalready obvious, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nI wonder how many times those
\nwords are spoken in Heaven by <\/p>\n
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\nalmighty God.
\nGod forbid almost that he would <\/p>\n
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\nsay those words about me, but is
\nit possible? <\/p>\n
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\nHe could be saying of me, he
\nkeeps saying that he loves me. <\/p>\n
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\nBut how can he love me when he
\ndoesn’t even know who I am? <\/p>\n
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\nSo there is a prerogative there
\nthat to love is to know. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd therefore if we desire to
\nlove God or if we assert that we<\/p>\n
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\nalready do, there’s going to be
\nsome responsibility on us to <\/p>\n
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\nmake sure we actually understand
\nwho is this. <\/p>\n
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\nGod, I’m following almost
\ndirectly outside from the <\/p>\n
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\nexcitation, not by plan, but by
\nhappy circumstance. <\/p>\n
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\nWho is God?
\nWe’re going to look tonight at <\/p>\n
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\nwho Is God, and how to grow
\ncloser to God? <\/p>\n
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\nVery much from the perspective
\nof that. <\/p>\n
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\nExcellent, disciple, roof, and
\nindeed, her equally spiritually.<\/p>\n
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\nExcellent, husband Boaz,
\nrecognize, my methods is what <\/p>\n
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\nthis is called or Sheltering
\nunder the wings of the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the theme is going to be
\nconquering, alienation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s something.
\nWe can probably identify with, <\/p>\n
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\nthink about these two phrases.
\nIs anything in your heart or <\/p>\n
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\nmind.
\nEver been synchronized with <\/p>\n
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\neither of those two expressions.
\nI Totally distanced from this <\/p>\n
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\nstrange religion or community
\nand or this is not a culture, I <\/p>\n
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\nrecognize.
\nAnd if you weren’t sort of <\/p>\n
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\nbrought up in this culture, it
\nmight seem very, very strange to<\/p>\n
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\nhave met it from an external
\nperspective. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet, I can speak with full
\nconfidence and saying, even <\/p>\n
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\nhaving been brought up in this
\nculture, sometimes I can still <\/p>\n
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\nfind myself in a mindset that
\nsaying this is very strange to <\/p>\n
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\nme.
\nI feel curiously, alienated <\/p>\n
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\nsometimes, even when amongst
\nmany Brethren their periods of <\/p>\n
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\nour discipleship, where we might
\ngo through that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Ruth is a superb
\nprovision from from the Lord <\/p>\n
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\nguard to have given for him to
\nhave given us her discipleship. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd her example, because she
\nreally was a very alienated from<\/p>\n
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\nthe hope of Israel in her
\nnatural circumstances. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s just remind ourselves why
\nRuth might be seen very much as <\/p>\n
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\nan alien for one thing she was
\nwidowed. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s at a time in a
\nculture, where your voice in <\/p>\n
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\nsociety, your voice in The
\nSocial Circle, came through your<\/p>\n
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\nfather.
\nAs you were young or through <\/p>\n
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\nyour husband for a female as you
\nwere older. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, Ruth was old enough to be
\nmarried and had been married. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now she’s Widow.
\nThere’s no social security to <\/p>\n
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\nfall back on.
\nShe’s in a very precarious <\/p>\n
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\nposition.
\nAs a consequence, she makes that<\/p>\n
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\nfaithful decision because she
\nloves Naomi’s, God her <\/p>\n
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\nmother-in-law’s, God to come
\nback to Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nI will go with you wherever you
\ngo, she says. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so at that point, she
\nbecomes a foreign immigrant and <\/p>\n
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\nthat can be a difficult.
\nVery difficult circumstance, <\/p>\n
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\nparticularly in that day and
\nage, even to this very day to be<\/p>\n
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\na foreigner.
\nImmigrant is often to welcome to<\/p>\n
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\nwelcome yourself to some level
\nof hostility or at least <\/p>\n
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\ndistancing and not only is she a
\nforeign immigrant but she <\/p>\n
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\nhappens to be a foreign
\nimmigrant from Moab a <\/p>\n
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\nspecifically shunned.
\nAnd and distanced ethnicity. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if anyone can feel
\ndisenfranchised, if anyone can <\/p>\n
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\nfeel alienated from those
\nenjoying the hope of Israel Ruth<\/p>\n
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\nis certainly very well placed to
\nexperience that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think that’s part of why
\nwe’re given her wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nexample, to see how she
\npersevered, and how she broke in<\/p>\n
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\nand came very close to Israel’s
\nGod and made Israel’s God very <\/p>\n
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\nmuch, her God from position, far
\nfurther away than I’m probably <\/p>\n
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\nyou or I have experienced.
\nAnd we’re going to focus on that<\/p>\n
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\none particular, very curious
\nstory that we read about and <\/p>\n
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\nthank you, too, brother.
\nEvan for reading that for us, <\/p>\n
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\nthen involves some very odd
\nnocturnal activity. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat exactly is going on here?
\nLet’s just recapitulate. <\/p>\n
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\nA couple of the key sentences
\nBoaz had finished eating and <\/p>\n
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\ndrinking and was in good
\nspirits, you went over to lie <\/p>\n
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\ndown at the far end of the grain
\npile. <\/p>\n
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\nRuth approach, quietly
\nuncovered. <\/p>\n
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\nHis feet.
\nVery Strange and lay down in the<\/p>\n
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\nmiddle of the night.
\nBoaz was startled. <\/p>\n
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\nHe turns and discovers a woman
\nlying at his feet. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat exactly one wonders is Ruth
\ndoing and we know actually it <\/p>\n
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\nwasn’t something she dreamt up
\nin the moment. <\/p>\n
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\nOne very satisfactory answer is
\nwell she was following a plan. <\/p>\n
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\nVery carefully concocted between
\nherself and her mother-in-law <\/p>\n
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\nNaomi.
\nSo this was a very deliberate <\/p>\n
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\nplan.
\nBut what was that plan? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what we’re going to see is
\nnot only a Romantic interlude <\/p>\n
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\nbetween Ruth and Boaz.
\nIn terms of the relationship, <\/p>\n
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\nthey develop, but a romantic
\nrelationship developed between <\/p>\n
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\ntwo, extremely spiritually deep
\nand perceptive disciples, and <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s where the real value is
\ngoing to lie in seeing how they <\/p>\n
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\nboth, see how the god of Israel
\noperates, and how they took <\/p>\n
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\nthose operations and absorb
\nthem, very directly into their <\/p>\n
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\nown lives.
\nAnd there’s going to be some <\/p>\n
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\nvery explicit advice for us
\nboiling down almost to a bumper <\/p>\n
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\nsticker on Answer, mainly
\nbecause it’s an evening session <\/p>\n
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\nand it’s hard to sort of stay
\nawake in terms of how we can <\/p>\n
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\ngrow closer to God in this same
\nway. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a certain amount of
\nlanguage that needs to be <\/p>\n
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\nexplained here because the
\nlanguage is actually very <\/p>\n
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\nbeautiful for those of you who
\nappreciate language. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not skilled in languages
\nparticularly other than English <\/p>\n
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\nbut I certainly appreciate the
\nbeauty of language. <\/p>\n
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\nThe little that I understand, I
\nam your servant Ruth Ruth says <\/p>\n
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\nspread the corner of your
\ngarment over me since you are a <\/p>\n
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\nkinsman redeemer.
\nThere’s a lot going on there in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Hebrew and none of it.
\nShines through in the English, <\/p>\n
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\nlet’s pick out just one word
\nThis quote comes from the NIV at<\/p>\n
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\nleast the NIV of 1984 corner of
\nyour garment. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve highlighted there in gold
\nand underlined that’s four words<\/p>\n
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\nin that particular English.
\nIt’s one word in Hebrew and I’ve<\/p>\n
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\nidentified it here and I’m going
\nto pronounce that. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, I’m going to
\ndeliberately mispronounced it <\/p>\n
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\nbut just to show a similarity it
\nhas with an English word, which <\/p>\n
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\nis non coincidental.
\nI’m going to pronounce that <\/p>\n
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\ncanopy.
\nIt’s in really are our English <\/p>\n
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\nword.
\nCanopy has derivations there <\/p>\n
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\nfrom its the Be spread the
\ncanopy over me since you are a <\/p>\n
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\nkinsman.
\nRedeemer is what she says to <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nLet’s just pick up that same <\/p>\n
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\nquote in a couple of different
\nversions. <\/p>\n
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\nI am Ruth Vine handmade.
\nThis is the King James, of <\/p>\n
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\ncourse, spread.
\nTherefore thy skirt over thine <\/p>\n
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\nhandmaid.
\nSo he’s talking she’s talking <\/p>\n
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\nabout the skirt of the row that
\nsort of voluminous part that can<\/p>\n
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\nsway around and cover over
\nthings. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the new King James I think
\nis what our reading came from. <\/p>\n
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\nAs what sounds like a very
\ndifferent take. <\/p>\n
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\nI am Ruth.
\nYour maidservant. <\/p>\n
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\nTake your maidservant under your
\nwing for, you are a close <\/p>\n
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\nrelative.
\nNow that sounds like the new <\/p>\n
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\nKing James is taking a bit of a
\nliberty there and putting in <\/p>\n
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\nsome sort of euphemism and
\ndeparting from the literal <\/p>\n
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\nHebrew.
\nNot a bit of it. <\/p>\n
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\nThe new King James top marks
\nhere for seeing not only the <\/p>\n
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\neuphemism at play, but not
\ndeparting at all from the <\/p>\n
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\nliteral Hebrew.
\nIt turns out, The Hebrew for <\/p>\n
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\ncorner of robot or the skirt of
\nthe robe is canopy. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s exactly the same word for
\nthe wing of a bird. <\/p>\n
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\nSo in Hebrew a bird has to
\ncanopies. <\/p>\n
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\nWe recognize the word canopy.
\nDon’t we often talk about <\/p>\n
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\nforests and trees, when they
\nhave spreading branches, the <\/p>\n
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\ntrees have a canopy over the
\nland over, which they stand <\/p>\n
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\nwhile in Hebrew canopy is the
\nwing of a bird. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is also the skirt of the row.
\nSo to say, take take me under <\/p>\n
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\nyour a wing is actually an
\nexcellent translation there and <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to therefore, see
\nthat there is a direct <\/p>\n
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\ncorrelation is the same word for
\ncorner of garment and Wing that <\/p>\n
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\nteaches us a few things.
\nSo there’s one thing she is <\/p>\n
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\nasking quite literally to be
\ntaken under his wing. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is literally accurate
\ncomment. <\/p>\n
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\nBut there’s more in the Hebrew
\nthan that. <\/p>\n
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\nRight now, we’re just
\nappreciating the beauty of it <\/p>\n
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\nwill see the spiritual value in
\njust a minute. <\/p>\n
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\nSpread the corpsman to corner of
\nyour garment over me since you <\/p>\n
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\nare a kinsman redeemer.
\nWell, actually, here’s some more<\/p>\n
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\ndepth to that statement that
\nisn’t just hey, I’m cold. <\/p>\n
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\nCan I share a bit of the
\nblanket? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s not what’s being said
\nhere, as much as this is a known<\/p>\n
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\nengagement custom.
\nWe have that from Ezekiel 16 <\/p>\n
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\nthat we actually looked at this
\nmorning in a different context <\/p>\n
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\nwhen I looked at you sir.
\nScarred and saw that you were <\/p>\n
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\nold enough for love.
\nI spread the canopy over you and<\/p>\n
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\ncovered your nakedness.
\nI gave you my solemn oath and <\/p>\n
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\nentered into a covenant with you
\ndeclares The Sovereign Lord and <\/p>\n
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\nyou became mine.
\nSo this is a big deal. <\/p>\n
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\nThis isn’t about keeping warm.
\nThis is about a recognized <\/p>\n
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\npractice.
\nI realize, of course. <\/p>\n
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\nEzekiel is many years Downstream
\nchronic chronologically from <\/p>\n
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\nRuth, But this is a recognized
\npractice in the Hebrew culture <\/p>\n
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\nthat this is how you claimed a
\nbride. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Ruth is being very direct
\nhere, she’s saying marry me. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right.
\nJust just cutting right to the <\/p>\n
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\nchase but she’s doing it in a
\nvery beautiful way that says, I <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand the customs of the
\nLord God of Israel and not just <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to make this crashed him.
\nAnd I’m going to show you that I<\/p>\n
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\nhave researched this and I
\nunderstand how it is that. <\/p>\n
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\nGod himself might take a bride.
\nAnd again English is at fault <\/p>\n
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\nhere but Hebrew has one more
\nbeautiful symmetry or anti <\/p>\n
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\nsymmetry?
\nI should say, here Ruth <\/p>\n
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\napproach, quietly uncovered his
\nfeet, and lay down. <\/p>\n
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\nSpread the canopy over me.
\nShe says, since you are a <\/p>\n
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\nkinsman redeemer, and it’s not
\nat all obvious in English, but <\/p>\n
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\nthis word uncovered has a
\nrelationship with this word <\/p>\n
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\nkinsman redeemer.
\nLet me just show you what an <\/p>\n
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\nattractive symmetry is played
\nout in the Hebrew text. <\/p>\n
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\nThose are the words.
\nThe Hebrew for uncovered is <\/p>\n
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\nGullah, but the Hebrew for
\nkinsman redeemer is Gaal. <\/p>\n
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\nSo they are actually
\nphonetically opposites. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s saying I have Galah so
\nthat you can get real. <\/p>\n
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\nSo again, just in a tract in
\nattraction, at least. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s playing a good game in a
\nlanguage, which isn’t originally<\/p>\n
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\nhers.
\nWe can think by extension of <\/p>\n
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\njust the little children’s game
\nof peekaboo. <\/p>\n
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\nUncover Gala recover gural.
\nSo a kinsman redeemer is <\/p>\n
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\nactually seen as a recover.
\nER, In every sense of the <\/p>\n
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\nEnglish word.
\nSo I will you Galah, so that you<\/p>\n
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\ncan me.
\nGot are so, she’s playing on <\/p>\n
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\nmany different levels here.
\nEtymological levels, and also <\/p>\n
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\nspiritual levels.
\nShowing her understanding of how<\/p>\n
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\nthe god of Israel works.
\nAnd there’s more than just would<\/p>\n
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\nplay.
\nThis isn’t just some sort of <\/p>\n
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\nUniversity study.
\nShe’s provoking the sense of <\/p>\n
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\nempathy.
\nShe’s saying, if I uncover, you <\/p>\n
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\nguess what your feet are going
\nto get cold? <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re not going to be a
\npleasant in a pleasant situation<\/p>\n
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\nentirely that’s the situation
\nthat I’m in. <\/p>\n
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\nI am entirely uncovered.
\nI have no social protection. <\/p>\n
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\nI am lying your feet without any
\ncovering. <\/p>\n
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\nYou will probably wake up in due
\ncourse because your feet are <\/p>\n
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\ncold.
\nJust because part of You is <\/p>\n
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\nuncovered, and so she’s
\nprovoking in Boaz this sense of <\/p>\n
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\nempathy, which any true disciple
\nwill have. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen I see someone uncovered,
\nthe true disciple will say, I <\/p>\n
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\nmyself experienced part of that
\nuncovering, this comes from God <\/p>\n
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\nhimself, God hears the groaning
\nof the Israelites under <\/p>\n
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\noppression and he remembers his
\nCovenant with Abraham with Isaac<\/p>\n
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\nand with Jacob.
\nSo God looked on the Israelites <\/p>\n
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\nand was concerned about them,
\nGod is Ascetic, when his people <\/p>\n
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\nare in pain, God feels their
\npain. <\/p>\n
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\nRuth knows that Ruth has
\nrealized that Ruth has <\/p>\n
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\nunderstood the oral history of
\ncoming out of Egypt and she’s in<\/p>\n
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\nacting part of that.
\nIn her concern, in her situation<\/p>\n
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\nwith Boaz and we should be the
\nsame way. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know that the whole creation
\nhas been groaning as in the <\/p>\n
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\nPains of childbirth, right up
\ninto the present time, not only.<\/p>\n
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\nSo, but we ourselves who Have
\nthe first fruits of the spirit <\/p>\n
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\ngroan inwardly as we wait
\neagerly for our adoption as <\/p>\n
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\nSons, the Redemption of our
\nbodies. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the more that we report to
\nGod In Prayer, I am Galah. <\/p>\n
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\nI am uncovered and exposed.
\nWe’re left in these mortal <\/p>\n
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\nbodies that are simply falling
\napart as we watch and we Decay <\/p>\n
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\nGod will hear our pain and say.
\nYes, I am sending the kinsman <\/p>\n
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\nredeemer.
\nI am sending your cover-up in <\/p>\n
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\ndue course, Course at the right
\ntime your cover will come. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this increase in those
\nprayers to the Lord God. <\/p>\n
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\nAs Ruth did essentially to Boaz
\nknowing exactly how the mind of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord God himself is
\noperating. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, Ruth is being clever
\nthan that and you can see <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s been planning a foot and
\ndiscussion with Naomi Ruth is <\/p>\n
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\nactually responding to a comment
\nof Boaz months earlier at the <\/p>\n
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\nearlier Harvest.
\nAnd we read about it. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll just pop the quote up again
\nso we can see it Boaz. <\/p>\n
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\nSays, to Ruth.
\nI’ve been told all about what <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ve done for your
\nmother-in-law. <\/p>\n
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\nSince the death of your husband,
\nMarla may you be richly rewarded<\/p>\n
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\nby the Lord the god of Israel
\nunder Whose wings you have come <\/p>\n
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\nto take refuge.
\nNow, again, if you’re just <\/p>\n
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\nreading the English Bible, it’s
\nnot obvious in English that this<\/p>\n
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\nword Wings is going to be the
\nidentical Hebrew word to what <\/p>\n
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\nRuth asked Boaz to put over her
\nthe corner of the road. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the same word.
\nSo Boaz is said to roof, I know <\/p>\n
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\nthat you’ve come here to shelter
\nunder the wings of my God. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is actually the start of
\nthat conversation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s the second half of the
\nconversation that happens months<\/p>\n
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\nlater in in the The Granary.
\nSo Boaz says you’ve come to take<\/p>\n
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\nshelter under the wings of my
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nIs that just a pretty phrase is
\nthat just nice poetry. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat pair of wings do we suppose
\nboas was referencing? <\/p>\n
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\nRelatively straightforward
\nquestion. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat do we think?
\nYeah, it’s quite possible but <\/p>\n
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\nprobable that Boaz has actually
\nseen these wings as the arc is <\/p>\n
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\ncarried around.
\nThe Arc was adorned with many <\/p>\n
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\nthings including primarily to
\nCaribbean whose wings stretched <\/p>\n
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\nout across the surface of the
\narc and touched. <\/p>\n
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\nSo now here’s the key question.
\nThen of course, There we are. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you shall make to care of,
\nof gold at the two ends of the <\/p>\n
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\nmercy seat, and the Caribbean
\nshall stretch out their wings <\/p>\n
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\nabove, covering the mercy seat
\nwith their wings. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is relevant, why?
\nBecause it’s not just like, oh, <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a little space.
\nYou can kind of curl up him. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you’re small enough, this is
\nsaying this is a very special <\/p>\n
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\nplace underneath the wings of
\nthe Caribbean is the localized <\/p>\n
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\npresence of the mercy of God.
\nNo, to some extent that’s <\/p>\n
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\nmetaphorical because God is
\neverywhere and God’s mercy <\/p>\n
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\noperates everywhere.
\nNevertheless, it’s quite clear. <\/p>\n
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\nJust as with a magnetic field, a
\nmagnetic field can be all across<\/p>\n
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\nthe room.
\nIt can still be strongest at a <\/p>\n
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\nhighly focalized, highly focal
\npoint. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is how God describes
\nhimself as I’m everywhere. <\/p>\n
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\nBut, I exist at concentrated
\nfocal points as and where I <\/p>\n
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\nchoose, and I choose to manifest
\nmyself at my most concentrated <\/p>\n
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\nin terms of my Mercy.
\nBeneath the wings of the <\/p>\n
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\nCaribbean.
\nIf you’re beneath my wins, you <\/p>\n
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\n00:19:42,600 –> 00:19:48,900
\nare receiving the most focal
\nintensity of my Mercy Boaz knows<\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:48,900 –> 00:19:51,300
\nthis Boaz is a highly spiritual,
\nman. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:51,600 –> 00:19:54,200
\nThis is doubtless.
\nWhat is driving Boaz is comments<\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:54,200 –> 00:19:57,000
\nwhen he says to Ruth, you are a
\nvery Godly woman. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:57,000 –> 00:20:01,200
\nYou have clearly come here to
\nshelter under the wings of my <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:01,200 –> 00:20:06,100
\nguard to receive the maximum
\nextent of his Mercy. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:06,400 –> 00:20:10,500
\nAnd Ruth understands what Boaz
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:11,000 –> 00:20:15,900
\nAnd so she is replying to him by
\nwhat she does on that night. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:16,000 –> 00:20:18,600
\nLet’s make sure we’re not just
\ngetting ahead of ourselves, the <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:18,600 –> 00:20:21,000
\nwings indicated, the focal point
\nof God’s. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:21,000 –> 00:20:24,400
\nMercy is not quite correct, the
\nspace beneath the wings <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:24,600 –> 00:20:27,500
\nindicated, the focal point of
\nGod’s mercy. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:29,100 –> 00:20:32,300
\nThe Lord bless you.
\nMy daughter Boaz replies to Ruth<\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:32,900 –> 00:20:37,100
\nthis kindness is greater than
\nthat which you showed earlier, <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:37,200 –> 00:20:39,900
\nyou have not run after run after
\nthe young men, whether rich or <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:39,900 –> 00:20:42,600
\npoor.
\nNow, some of the grammar here is<\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:42,600 –> 00:20:44,300
\npoor in my opinion, in the
\nEnglish. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:46,200 –> 00:20:48,600
\nThis last Clause you have not
\nrun after the younger men, <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:48,600 –> 00:20:52,700
\nwhether rich or poor, this is
\nnot the greater kindness. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:53,800 –> 00:20:56,100
\nWhen you look at the grammatical
\nconstruction of the Hebrew, this<\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:56,100 –> 00:20:59,500
\nis the first kindness.
\nO as says you’ve done me to <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:59,500 –> 00:21:02,700
\nkindnesses.
\nThe first one is, you didn’t <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:02,700 –> 00:21:05,600
\nsay, ah, he’s too old.
\nI want a young man like me, <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:05,600 –> 00:21:09,500
\nwho’s young and strong, and
\nYouthful as I am, since you have<\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:09,500 –> 00:21:11,300
\nnot run after the younger men
\nwith Rich or poor, that was the <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:11,308 –> 00:21:14,900
\nfirst kindness.
\nHe says, what you have done now <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:15,800 –> 00:21:20,700
\nis a greater kindness than that.
\nSo the first kindness was Ruth, <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:20,700 –> 00:21:22,300
\nnot favoring.
\nThe younger men or men have her <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:22,300 –> 00:21:25,800
\nown age.
\nWhat is the greater kindness <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:25,900 –> 00:21:31,600
\nthat she’s done?
\nWhat kindness has she done to <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:31,600 –> 00:21:34,800
\nBoaz?
\nAnd when we can answer that <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:34,800 –> 00:21:38,600
\nquestion and we’ll dress it
\ndirectly, then we have the true <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:38,600 –> 00:21:42,900
\nspiritual power of this
\nincredibly clever, spiritual and<\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:42,900 –> 00:21:49,100
\nromantic into play.
\nLet me paraphrase Booth, but as <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:49,100 –> 00:21:52,500
\nI said to Ruth at The Barley
\nHarvest, you’ve come to take <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:52,500 –> 00:21:55,000
\nrefuge under the wings of the
\ngod of Israel. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:56,100 –> 00:22:00,900
\nAnd then when Ruth uncovers his
\nfeet and lies down and says, <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:00,900 –> 00:22:07,500
\ntake me under your wing.
\nShe is saying implying I can <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:07,500 –> 00:22:14,000
\nfind Refuge this same Refuge
\nBeneath Your Wings, Boaz. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:15,000 –> 00:22:21,100
\nSo what is she actually saying?
\nHe’s saying absolutely. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:21,100 –> 00:22:25,400
\nShe is saying to Boaz you’ve
\nrecommended this wonderfully <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:25,400 –> 00:22:31,600
\nmerciful god, I see that
\nmerciful god in you. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:34,600 –> 00:22:38,200
\nWhat an amazing statement and
\nBoaz is sufficiently spiritual <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:38,200 –> 00:22:42,500
\ndeep as Ruth.
\nHe understands what she said and<\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:42,500 –> 00:22:44,400
\nthat’s why he says this is
\namazing. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:44,700 –> 00:22:47,800
\nThis is a greater kindness that
\nyou have done me now than you <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:47,808 –> 00:22:50,200
\ndid before.
\nIn simply not going after the <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:50,208 –> 00:22:53,600
\nman of your own age.
\nYou have said you can see the <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:53,600 –> 00:22:57,900
\ngod of Israel in me when I told
\nyou came to shelter under his <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:57,900 –> 00:23:01,600
\nwings, you turn around and said
\nthat’s pretty much the same as <\/p>\n
388
\n00:23:01,600 –> 00:23:05,900
\nbeing under your wings.
\nWhat a beautiful interplay and <\/p>\n
389
\n00:23:05,900 –> 00:23:09,600
\nhow subtly done and how powerful
\nis all that scene. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:09,700 –> 00:23:11,700
\nAnd unfortunately, given that we
\nread it in English, we can miss <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:11,700 –> 00:23:13,500
\nthat.
\nBut in the Hebrew, it’s a little<\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:13,500 –> 00:23:18,700
\nbit more obvious Ruth, implies
\nthat Boaz reflects the image of <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:18,700 –> 00:23:25,800
\nGod, that he to Boaz, as well as
\nGod is a cover-up, is a real, <\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:26,000 –> 00:23:31,000
\nthe one who covers and provide
\nshelter beneath his canopy. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:31,400 –> 00:23:35,300
\nSo I find that when I first kind
\nof dug At out of those chapters,<\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:35,300 –> 00:23:38,400
\nthere was a tingle, went down my
\nspine, I thought what an amazing<\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:38,400 –> 00:23:41,000
\ninterplay.
\nIt’s almost like a sort of a <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:41,000 –> 00:23:44,000
\nsword fight but it’s not a sword
\nfight with intent of malice. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:44,300 –> 00:23:45,500
\nThat’s actually a terrible
\nexample. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:45,500 –> 00:23:48,700
\nNow that I think about it but
\nit’s an interplay between the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:48,700 –> 00:23:50,600
\ntwo.
\nThat’s absolutely magnificent <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:50,800 –> 00:23:54,200
\nand wonderful in its in its
\nspiritual power. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:55,300 –> 00:23:59,000
\nThis is the second kindness.
\nThe greater kindness Ruth saying<\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:59,000 –> 00:24:05,900
\nI see your God reflected in you.
\nAnd as a consequence Boaz <\/p>\n
405
\n00:24:05,900 –> 00:24:11,100
\naccepts, Ruth’s subtle marriage
\ninvitation, I have also acquired<\/p>\n
406
\n00:24:11,100 –> 00:24:14,500
\nRuth, the moabite.
\nS Marlins Widow is my wife in <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:14,500 –> 00:24:17,400
\norder to maintain the name of
\nthe Dead with his property so <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:17,400 –> 00:24:21,000
\nthat his name will not disappear
\nfrom among his family or from <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:21,000 –> 00:24:24,300
\nthe town records.
\nToday, you are witnesses. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:24,800 –> 00:24:27,100
\nThere’s something important
\nlying in there and it’s not some<\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:27,100 –> 00:24:28,900
\nclever academic trick in the
\nHebrew. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:29,600 –> 00:24:33,900
\nThis is the point we mustn’t.
\nMiss Boaz essentially. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:34,000 –> 00:24:37,300
\nResurrects.
\nMarlon now Boaz is only human so<\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:37,300 –> 00:24:39,200
\nhe can’t resurrect him as God
\nmight. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:39,600 –> 00:24:42,800
\nBut he says this man has died
\nand his name is expunged from <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:42,800 –> 00:24:45,800
\nthe records.
\nI can’t resurrect his body but I<\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:45,800 –> 00:24:49,600
\ncan at least resurrect his name.
\nI can give him a continuing life<\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:49,600 –> 00:24:53,000
\nthat he otherwise wouldn’t have
\nas much as I can. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:53,000 –> 00:24:57,300
\nSo SPO as I am trying to be
\nJesus of Nazareth long before <\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:57,300 –> 00:25:01,900
\nJesus, come along, the one who
\ngives life Where life is lost. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:25:02,400 –> 00:25:06,700
\nAnd here’s the point that I like
\nto identify growing closer to <\/p>\n
422
\n00:25:06,700 –> 00:25:11,700
\nGod has tangible results.
\nThis isn’t just an academic <\/p>\n
423
\n00:25:11,700 –> 00:25:14,000
\nromantic into play.
\nThat could be done by email. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:14,900 –> 00:25:21,000
\nHe married the Widow he provided
\nshelter in very real tangible <\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:21,000 –> 00:25:22,500
\ncost.
\nEffective terms. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:22,800 –> 00:25:26,000
\nHe gave her a home, he gave her
\nfood, he gave her shelter. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:26,200 –> 00:25:29,800
\nHe even to the best of his
\nlimited ability resurrected. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:29,900 –> 00:25:32,800
\nThe name of her former dead
\nhusband. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:33,400 –> 00:25:36,900
\nIf we want to grow closer to
\nGod, this isn’t just an academic<\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:36,900 –> 00:25:41,700
\nexercise, it involves real
\nactions that change people’s <\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:41,700 –> 00:25:43,300
\nlives.
\nAnd I think that’s one of the <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:43,300 –> 00:25:48,100
\nkey points that From the story
\nof Ruth and Boaz. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:50,100 –> 00:25:55,900
\nTime passes. and in a way Ruth
\npasses, from the story, and in a<\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:55,908 –> 00:26:04,700
\nway she sticks right around Oh,
\nas was the father of Obed, whose<\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:04,700 –> 00:26:08,200
\nmother was Ruth.
\nWe are reminded Obed, was the <\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:08,200 –> 00:26:11,600
\nfather of Jesse and Jesse the
\nfather of King David. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:11,600 –> 00:26:16,400
\nSo Ruth is therefore, get this
\nright great-grandmother to King <\/p>\n
438
\n00:26:16,400 –> 00:26:19,300
\nDavid.
\nNow, I don’t know how many of <\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:19,300 –> 00:26:25,500
\nyou knew your great-grandparents
\nbut we are all products of the <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:25,500 –> 00:26:31,700
\n20th and 21st century and given
\nsocio-economic cultures that we <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:31,700 –> 00:26:35,700
\nhave generally are generational
\noverlap is about to. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:26:36,200 –> 00:26:38,300
\nThat’s a very nerdy way of
\nsaying something that should be <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:38,300 –> 00:26:41,600
\nsaid, simpler, you probably did
\nknow your grandparents. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:41,900 –> 00:26:44,300
\nYou probably didn’t know your
\ngreat-grandparents. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:44,900 –> 00:26:46,400
\nThey’ll be exceptions either
\nside. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:46,400 –> 00:26:49,500
\nI realize that, but that’s
\nThat’s our common Western <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:49,500 –> 00:26:55,200
\nCivilization generally.
\nGenerational overlap, two <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:55,200 –> 00:26:58,500
\nsequences looking back at the
\nages of giving birth and the <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:58,500 –> 00:27:02,000
\nages of Life length.
\nIt is almost certain that King <\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:02,000 –> 00:27:05,200
\nDavid new Ruth.
\nThe King David would have sat on<\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:05,200 –> 00:27:08,600
\nroofs lap, so to speak in a very
\nreal sense that they would have <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:08,600 –> 00:27:11,300
\noverlapped.
\nIt’s highly unlikely that he <\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:11,300 –> 00:27:15,300
\ndidn’t know her.
\nSo Ruth was a part of the life <\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:15,300 –> 00:27:19,100
\nof David.
\nIs there any evidence of that? <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:20,000 –> 00:27:23,100
\nOh, there’s there’s some massive
\nevidence of that, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
456
\n00:27:23,500 –> 00:27:25,000
\nThink about that wonderful
\nstory. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:25,000 –> 00:27:28,300
\nImagine that story between Boaz
\nand Ruth was the story of your <\/p>\n
458
\n00:27:28,300 –> 00:27:30,100
\ngreat.
\nGrandparents when that be a <\/p>\n
459
\n00:27:30,100 –> 00:27:33,600
\nwonderful Legacy to be able to
\njust reflect upon particularly, <\/p>\n
460
\n00:27:33,600 –> 00:27:37,200
\nif your great-grandmother has
\nherself, told you the story on <\/p>\n
461
\n00:27:37,200 –> 00:27:40,100
\nher knee?
\nDo you notice that there’s a <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:40,100 –> 00:27:44,600
\nphrase that only one man in the
\nwhole Old Testament ever uses? <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:45,200 –> 00:27:48,800
\nAnd he keeps using it in his
\nPsalms you seen it. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:49,500 –> 00:27:53,900
\nKeep me as the apple of your
\neye, writes David hide me in the<\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:53,900 –> 00:27:58,800
\nshadow of your wings.
\nThis is David’s phrase, there <\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:58,800 –> 00:28:03,600
\nare seven Psalms Which are
\nwritten with this phrase, none <\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:03,600 –> 00:28:07,600
\nof them from asaph, none of them
\nfrom the sons of Korah, they all<\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:07,600 –> 00:28:10,900
\ncome from the same Source.
\nIt’s a man who has a strong <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:10,900 –> 00:28:13,400
\nAffinity with this beautiful
\nClause. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:13,800 –> 00:28:16,000
\nHow Priceless is your unfailing
\nlove? <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:16,200 –> 00:28:21,400
\nSays David both high and low
\namong men find refuge in The <\/p>\n
472
\n00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:25,800
\nShadow of Your Wings, you can
\ntell that Ruth has done. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:28:25,800 –> 00:28:29,600
\nWhat the law instructed her to
\ndo and has impressed upon her <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:29,600 –> 00:28:33,100
\nchildren.
\nIndeed her Children indeed, her <\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:33,100 –> 00:28:36,800
\ngreat-grandchildren and what a
\ngreat great grandchild. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:36,800 –> 00:28:41,100
\nHe was the lessons that she’d
\nlearned from the god of Israel, <\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:41,500 –> 00:28:45,300
\nI long to dwell in your tent
\nforever says David and take <\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:45,300 –> 00:28:47,500
\nrefuge in the shelter of your
\nwings. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:47,700 –> 00:28:52,600
\nIt’s his phrase, you won’t find
\nit on the lips of anybody else. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:53,900 –> 00:28:58,700
\nDavid loves this personal family
\nmetaphor, he uses it in seven, <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:58,700 –> 00:29:02,100
\nPsalms and such was the
\ninstruction from the law. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:02,300 –> 00:29:05,000
\nThese Commandments, that I give
\nyou today are to be upon your <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:05,000 –> 00:29:07,700
\nhearts, impress them upon your
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:08,300 –> 00:29:13,100
\nThere’s a way to grow closer to
\nGod, Impress, the wonderful <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:13,100 –> 00:29:16,700
\nthings, you know, about your
\nfather on the hearts. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:18,200 –> 00:29:21,600
\nSam 57.
\nSo as he’s running from Saul and<\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:21,600 –> 00:29:24,300
\nhiding in that cave, he says
\nhave mercy on me. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:29:24,300 –> 00:29:28,100
\nO God have mercy on me for you.
\nIn for, in you, my soul takes <\/p>\n
489
\n00:29:28,100 –> 00:29:31,300
\nRefuge.
\nI will take refuge in The Shadow<\/p>\n
490
\n00:29:31,300 –> 00:29:36,100
\nof Your Wings until the disaster
\nhas passed, and the disaster are<\/p>\n
491
\n00:29:36,108 –> 00:29:38,100
\nvery real and genuine disaster
\nis. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:38,100 –> 00:29:40,300
\nHis life is being hunted down by
\nthe king. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:41,700 –> 00:29:44,900
\nAnd then you have that very
\ncurious situation where Saul <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:44,900 –> 00:29:49,400
\ncomes into the cave and is tired
\nand he’s taking some form of <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:49,400 –> 00:29:51,900
\nrest and I’m assuming he’s
\nnapping, different suggestions, <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:51,900 –> 00:29:57,200
\napply that he’s taking a nap and
\nDavid sneaks up and he wants to <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:57,500 –> 00:30:00,800
\nhe wants to show Saul.
\nLook, I could have killed you <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:00,800 –> 00:30:03,500
\nbut I spared your life and so he
\nsays I know what I’ll do if I <\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:03,500 –> 00:30:06,000
\nget a bit of his clothing,
\nthat’ll kind of prove it which <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:06,000 –> 00:30:10,100
\nis a good plan.
\nSo David creeps up on noticed <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:13,900
\nand cuts off.
\nA corner of Saul’s robe. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:15,400 –> 00:30:18,600
\nAfterward.
\nDavid was conscience-stricken. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:19,400 –> 00:30:20,900
\nI’ve always found that very
\npuzzling. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:21,800 –> 00:30:23,300
\nHe always knew what he was going
\nto do. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:23,300 –> 00:30:25,100
\nA choir a piece of clothing to
\nprove to Saul. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:25,100 –> 00:30:28,700
\nI could have killed you and I
\nspared you and he cuts off. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:28,700 –> 00:30:30,400
\nWell, you’ll never guess what
\nthat word is. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:30,400 –> 00:30:31,800
\nOf course, you’ve already
\nguessed. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:32,400 –> 00:30:37,300
\nIt’s the canopy, it’s the wing.
\nHe clipped Souls wings. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:39,500 –> 00:30:43,800
\nAnd so he was conscience
\ntricking because what he’d taken<\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:44,800 –> 00:30:49,600
\nwas the canopy of the row and
\nin, physical terms, who cares? <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:49,600 –> 00:30:53,300
\nIt’s just a piece of clothing,
\nbut this is his favorite <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:53,300 –> 00:30:56,400
\npersonal Family Matter for
\nembedded in the life of his <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:56,400 –> 00:30:59,800
\ngreat-grandmother with this
\nwonderful spiritual connection. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:03,400
\nShe made with Boaz and that’s
\nprecisely what he’s violated. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:04,200 –> 00:31:08,200
\nHe’s amputated Sol’s Wings.
\nThe very symbol, only a symbol <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:08,500 –> 00:31:10,800
\nof Saul’s ability to reflect
\nGod. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:11,700 –> 00:31:15,800
\nIf Saul wants to spread his wing
\nover someone, his wing least in <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:19,600
\nthe clothing sense has been cut
\noff and I have no doubt <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:19,600 –> 00:31:23,000
\nwhatsoever anymore.
\nThat that is why David is cut to<\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:27,000
\nthe heart when he realizes, what
\nhe’s taken the canopy. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:32,600
\nDon’t deprive others of a chance
\nto show Mercy is essentially the<\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:36,100
\nspiritual equivalent of what’s
\ncoming out of that, very strange<\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:36,100 –> 00:31:39,000
\nchoreographed event.
\nAnd I find that a wonderful <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:39,000 –> 00:31:41,900
\nsolution to what has always.
\nOtherwise been an extremely <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:41,900 –> 00:31:48,500
\npuzzling detail in the Bible.
\nBut there’s another man who uses<\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:48,500 –> 00:31:52,100
\nthat phrase David is the only
\nman in the Old Testament, but <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:52,100 –> 00:31:55,000
\nthere’s one more, he too is a
\nson of David. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:55,200 –> 00:32:00,400
\nHe is a son, if you like of
\nRuth. o Jerusalem Jerusalem he <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:05,100
\nsays you who kill the prophets
\nand Stone, Those sent to you how<\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:05,100 –> 00:32:09,400
\noften I have longed to gather
\nyour children together as a hen <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:14,900
\ngathers her chicks under her
\nwings, but you were not willing <\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:15,500 –> 00:32:19,800
\neven to those who tried to kill
\nhim successfully in the end and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:19,800 –> 00:32:24,300
\nagainst whom he railed In This
\nVery chapter ultimately, his <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:24,300 –> 00:32:28,200
\nheart was still saying but I
\njust wanted to spread my canopy <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:28,300 –> 00:32:33,300
\nHe’s over you and take you under
\nmy wings, was the greater son of<\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:33,300 –> 00:32:38,600
\nDavid that the utter, these
\nwords and not only that but I’d <\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:38,600 –> 00:32:41,600
\nlike to show you one more
\nstrange, little mystery or <\/p>\n
539
\n00:32:41,600 –> 00:32:45,900
\ninnocuous detail that I believe
\nthis same logic helps solve. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:46,300 –> 00:32:49,000
\nHere’s a detail that we
\nseemingly never needed to know. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:49,200 –> 00:32:53,800
\nLook at this, Jesus is garment
\nwas seamless were at the time of<\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:53,800 –> 00:32:56,600
\nthe crucifixion?
\nI should say, excuse me woven in<\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:56,600 –> 00:33:01,800
\none piece from top to bottom.
\nLet’s not tear, it said the <\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:01,800 –> 00:33:06,000
\nsoldiers, one to another.
\nLet’s cast lots to decide who <\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:06,000 –> 00:33:08,400
\nwill get it.
\nWhy did they say that? <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:08,700 –> 00:33:12,100
\nWhy is that recorded for us?
\nThousands, of years later, <\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:12,400 –> 00:33:15,000
\npartly?
\nI guess because to show us the <\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:15,100 –> 00:33:18,300
\nthe Synergy between Old
\nTestament and knew that this <\/p>\n
549
\n00:33:18,400 –> 00:33:21,700
\npassage in John fulfills.
\nThe psalmist’s words of long <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:21,700 –> 00:33:25,900
\nago, David’s words from long
\nago, but what else does that <\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:25,900 –> 00:33:29,900
\ntell you?
\nJesus had a robe. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:33:30,900 –> 00:33:33,600
\nAnd nobody ever cut the Wings
\noff. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:33:34,900 –> 00:33:41,400
\nJesus never lost the ability to
\nshow Mercy, even in his death. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:41,400 –> 00:33:44,100
\nAnd how fitting is that?
\nBecause in his death, he <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:44,100 –> 00:33:48,200
\nactually showed a Greater Mercy
\nand provided a Greater Mercy <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:48,300 –> 00:33:51,200
\nthan he’d even provided in his
\nlife to date. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:52,400 –> 00:33:56,500
\nJesus is wings, were never
\namputated his ability to Grant <\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:56,500 –> 00:34:00,700
\nthe mercy of the father that he
\nknew and loved was maintained <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:00,900 –> 00:34:06,000
\neven arguably, Amplified even in
\nhis death and that’s held up <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:09,800
\neven in this very curious symbol
\nthat for some reason, God said, <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:10,000 –> 00:34:12,900
\nyou need to know that Jesus
\ngarment never had the wings <\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:16,600
\nchopped off.
\nOtherwise a meaningless detail <\/p>\n
563
\n00:34:16,800 –> 00:34:21,600
\nto do with clothing, but
\nactually a powerful lesson to do<\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:25,100
\nwith the power of the mercy of
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:34:26,500 –> 00:34:31,199
\nAs an eagle stirs up, its nest
\nhovers over its young spreading <\/p>\n
566
\n00:34:31,199 –> 00:34:35,199
\nout its wings, taking them up,
\ncarrying them on its wings. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:34:35,300 –> 00:34:39,100
\nSo the Lord God Alone LED
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:45,500
\nI like this verb here, hovers
\nbecause it speaks about how God <\/p>\n
569
\n00:34:45,500 –> 00:34:49,800
\nprotects his young, it talks
\nabout, he’s got them under his <\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:49,800 –> 00:34:54,699
\nspread out wings, and the wings
\nthemselves, hover and vibrate <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:55,100 –> 00:34:59,800
\nalmost like a Worried parents,
\nwho’s concerned and, or excited <\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:00,100 –> 00:35:03,900
\nabout the wonderful thing that
\nis before him the father. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:04,400 –> 00:35:06,700
\nAnd where have we first seen
\nthat same verb? <\/p>\n
574
\n00:35:07,900 –> 00:35:10,500
\nWe know don’t we right at the
\nstart of creation? <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:12,200 –> 00:35:15,800
\nThe Earth was formless and
\nempty, Darkness was over the <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:20,800
\nsurface of the deep and the
\nspirit of God was hovering that <\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:20,800 –> 00:35:24,700
\nsame word.
\nHis wings were spread out right <\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:24,700 –> 00:35:27,900
\nfrom the start of creation over
\nthe whole world. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:28,100 –> 00:35:35,300
\nAs he says, look what I have
\nmade even I tremble with <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:35,300 –> 00:35:39,700
\nanticipation at what I have done
\nand what I have wrought. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:40,400 –> 00:35:43,200
\nThere’s the work of the ultimate
\nparent. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:35:43,600 –> 00:35:48,400
\nSo this this metaphor is as old
\nas creation itself. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:35:48,700 –> 00:35:52,100
\nIt’s in the very first two
\nverses of our Bible. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:35:52,100 –> 00:35:55,800
\nAnd where can it take us?
\nIt can take us to a quote that <\/p>\n
585
\n00:35:55,900 –> 00:35:59,400
\nwas used very, very beautifully
\nyesterday in our exultation and <\/p>\n
586
\n00:35:59,400 –> 00:36:02,400
\nit will actually allow us to
\nperform a strange translation. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:06,700
\nAnd if you haven’t heard this
\nverse before, I’d be astonished,<\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:07,100 –> 00:36:10,000
\nbut I still hope to provide a
\ntranslation just on what we’ve <\/p>\n
589
\n00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:13,200
\nsaid that you may not have heard
\nbefore see what you think of it.<\/p>\n
590
\n00:36:14,100 –> 00:36:17,800
\nThese are the verses very well.
\nKnown even youths grow tired and<\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:17,800 –> 00:36:20,400
\nweary and young men, stumble,
\nand fall. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:20,500 –> 00:36:24,300
\nBut those who hope in the Lord
\nwill renew their strength, they <\/p>\n
593
\n00:36:24,300 –> 00:36:28,500
\nwill soar on wings, like eagles.
\nThey will run and not grow <\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:28,500 –> 00:36:31,300
\nweary.
\nThey will walk and not be faint.<\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:31,300 –> 00:36:35,500
\nThey will soar on their own
\nwings, like eagles. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:36,000 –> 00:36:39,800
\nSo one can see in these verses
\ngiven everything we’ve taken <\/p>\n
597
\n00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:43,100
\nright from the covering of Ruth
\nall the way down. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:36:43,200 –> 00:36:46,000
\nBye.
\nMetaphor, if we spread our <\/p>\n
599
\n00:36:46,000 –> 00:36:51,700
\nwings, we can learn to fly, and
\nAscend to heaven in metaphor. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:56,700
\nWe’re not going to heaven, but
\nin metaphor, that means this is <\/p>\n
601
\n00:36:56,700 –> 00:37:01,000
\nhow we grow closer to God, why?
\nBecause God is in heaven, and if<\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:01,000 –> 00:37:05,100
\nwe actually become creatures,
\nthat can fly why, then we go in <\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:05,100 –> 00:37:08,000
\nthat same metaphor, just in that
\nmetaphorical picture we grow <\/p>\n
604
\n00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:10,900
\ncloser to God, okay?
\nFine, it’s all metaphor. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:10,900 –> 00:37:12,600
\nWhat do I have to do to make
\nthat happen? <\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:12,700 –> 00:37:14,900
\nLike a flap, my arms, All day,
\nI’m not going anywhere. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:16,900 –> 00:37:19,500
\nSo to translate that, according
\nto what we’ve, what we’ve <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:19,500 –> 00:37:22,700
\nstudied already we Ascend to
\nHeaven, We Grow closer to God. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:22,700 –> 00:37:24,800
\nThat’s fair.
\nIE, Learn to Fly. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:24,800 –> 00:37:27,400
\nIE develop his character because
\nhe’s the one who’s had his wings<\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:27,400 –> 00:37:31,300
\nspread out over us right since
\nthe creation of time, we Ascend <\/p>\n
612
\n00:37:31,300 –> 00:37:33,100
\nto Heaven.
\nLearn to Fly by spreading our <\/p>\n
613
\n00:37:33,100 –> 00:37:35,700
\nwings.
\nWe grow closer to God, I develop<\/p>\n
614
\n00:37:35,700 –> 00:37:44,200
\nhis character by spreading our
\nwings which is By our provision <\/p>\n
615
\n00:37:44,300 –> 00:37:48,700
\nof Mercy.
\nYou want to grow closer to God? <\/p>\n
616
\n00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:53,800
\nIncrease in Mercy.
\nIsaiah 40 is where it says that <\/p>\n
617
\n00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:57,500
\nit’s very hidden.
\nOf course. that’s the process of<\/p>\n
618
\n00:37:57,500 –> 00:38:01,300
\nspreading our Wings, by which we
\nlearn to soar on wings like <\/p>\n
619
\n00:38:01,300 –> 00:38:08,400
\neagles as God himself did and
\ndoes And that then is our <\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:13,100
\nconclusion Ruth as Boaz
\nrecognizes that beautiful <\/p>\n
621
\n00:38:13,100 –> 00:38:15,800
\npattern of God.
\nThe Sheltering Wings their <\/p>\n
622
\n00:38:15,800 –> 00:38:19,300
\ndifferent cultures are overcome
\nby the commonality that they see<\/p>\n
623
\n00:38:19,300 –> 00:38:24,000
\nin knowing god, how can they say
\nthat they know me when they <\/p>\n
624
\n00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:29,800
\ndon’t even know who I am Ruth
\nand Boaz found out about God. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:30,100 –> 00:38:34,100
\nAnd that’s what they saw Ruth
\nimprints her experiences with <\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:34,100 –> 00:38:38,900
\nGod on her children, her Legacy
\nEven educates the man, you might<\/p>\n
627
\n00:38:38,900 –> 00:38:40,700
\nwrongly think required no
\neducation. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:38:40,700 –> 00:38:42,400
\nHe was so spiritual.
\nPerhaps that’s me, that’s where <\/p>\n
629
\n00:38:42,400 –> 00:38:46,400
\nhe came from, King David.
\nThe man after God’s Own Heart, <\/p>\n
630
\n00:38:46,400 –> 00:38:51,100
\nher great-grandson.
\nAnd the abstract literary beauty<\/p>\n
631
\n00:38:51,100 –> 00:38:55,000
\nof the Sheltering Wings actually
\nhas a concrete translation. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:59,400
\nWe grow closer to God by
\nproviding Mercy. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:38:59,800 –> 00:39:04,400
\nThe more times, we show Mercy
\nthe more times we get closer to <\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:07,400
\nGod.
\nHow do I grow closer to God <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:07,400 –> 00:39:09,600
\nRuth?
\nSays, you need to spread your <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:09,600 –> 00:39:12,800
\nwings and then, then you will
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