You see, Boaz is a kinsman, a close relative of Naomi’s deceased husband. Naomi’s situation is so desperate, she is willing to risk everything so that Ruth and Boaz might finally come together as husband and wife. So this is Naomi’s brilliant plan: she will send Ruth to Boaz, alone, in the middle of the night, to lie down at his feet, and then suffer whatever the consequences. So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do. “I will do whatever you say,” Ruth answered. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. Wash and perfume yourself, and put on your best clothes. One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for? Is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been, a kinsman of ours? Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Desperate situations call for desperate measures, and Naomi comes up with a plan that is so shocking that it only serves to highlight how desperate their situation really was.
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Unless Ruth marries, the two of them will always be in a precarious position, plus neither of them will have any children to carry on the family line. God has provided food for them for which they are very grateful, but their great need is for Ruth to marry. So let’s jump into chapter three.Īnd what we find in chapter three is that Ruth and Naomi are in a desperate situation. And that is exactly what we get in chapter three: a big, daring, bold, breath-taking plot twist that no one could ever have seen coming. We are going to need a major plot twist if Ruth and Boaz are ever going to get together. And so chapter two ends with Ruth living with her mother-in-law instead of married to Boaz. And the big obstacle right now is that the harvest season has ended, and Ruth and Boaz never got together. There are always some obstacles along the way. A happy ending to chapter two would have read like this: “And so Boaz and Ruth got married, and they lived happily ever after.” Right, isn’t that the way a love story is supposed to end? Instead we get this for the last sentence: “And she lived with her mother-in-law.” What? You mean the guy doesn’t get the girl? What kind of a happy ending is that? Well, as with most love stories there are some twists and turns along the way before we can get to that truly happy ending. As we said last week, the book of Ruth is a love story, and God in his providence orchestrated events so that Boaz and Ruth would meet, and Boaz offered kindness, protection and provision to Ruth while she harvested in his fields.Īnd so chapter two ended on a happy note, boy meets girl, except for the very last sentence. It was harvest time, and when Ruth went out to glean in the fields, she “just happened” to glean in the fields of Boaz. After both of Naomi’s sons died, Ruth and Naomi traveled back to Bethlehem where we met the third main character in the story, the man Boaz. Next we met Ruth, who was from Moab and who married one of Naomi’s sons after Naomi’s husband died. First we met Naomi, who left Bethlehem and moved to Moab with her husband and two sons. We have now met all three of the main characters in the book of Ruth. Once again we will walk our way through a large section of Ruth this morning, but let’s begin by reading verses 9-13. And that is most definitely a description of the Christmas story as well. Because this week we learn that the book of Ruth is the story of a kinsman-redeemer who redeemed his beloved from a desperate situation at great cost to himself. Well, that also could be a description of the Christmas story. And then in week two we saw how it is the story of a righteous man who offered kindness, protection and provision to a young woman in her time of need. Well, that could also be a description of the Christmas story. In week one we saw how it is the story of a young woman who made a radical commitment of faith to God and then journeyed to Bethlehem where she gave birth to a child who would change the world.
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INTRODUCTION: We are continuing in our advent series on the book of Ruth, and we are seeing how the book of Ruth, even though it is in the Old Testament, is really a Christmas story. Click here for more messages from the Ruth – A Christmas Story series.Ĭlick here to return to the Sermons page.
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