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October 2, 2026 - Ruth 4 & Proverbs 16:30-33 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Friday, October 2nd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Ruth 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And behold, the Redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Boaz said, Turn aside, friend, sit down here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he turned aside and sat down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, Sit down here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they sat down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he said to the Redeemer, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thought I would tell you of it and say, Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and in the presence of the elders of my people.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you will redeem it, redeem it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you will not, tell me that I may know, for there is no one beside you to redeem it, and I come after you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, I will redeem it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Boaz said, The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Redeemer said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance, take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging.
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  SPEAKER_00: To confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when the Redeemer said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself, he drew off his sandal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belong to Elimelech, and all that belong to Kileon and to Maulon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Maulon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead and his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are witnesses this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then all the people who are at the gate and the elder said, We are witnesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: May you act worthily in Ephratha and be renowned in Bethlehem, and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went into her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the women said to Naomi, Blessed be the Lord who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter in law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, A son has been born to Naomi.
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  SPEAKER_00: They named him Obed.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now these are the generations of Perez.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Aminadab, Aminadab fathered Nashon, Nashan fathered Salmon, Solomon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs sixteen, verses thirty through thirty three.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things, he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.
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  SPEAKER_01: Grey hair is a crown of glory, it is gained in a righteous life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
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  SPEAKER_01: The lot is cast into the lap.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's every decision is from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, today we are finishing the book of Ruth, and I want to just tie all the things together that we have seen in this short book, these four chapters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The story of Ruth is really meant to point us to Christ, to show us who he is, what he offers to those who place their faith and trust in him, and ultimately it gives us this really motivating reason to trust in Christ, who is the ultimate demonstration of God's faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Boaz serves as what's called a type of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: He serves as a type as a person or a place that is kind of established in the Old Testament that points forward and finds its fulfillment in the New Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think of Moses as a type of Christ, where he is the deliverer of the Israelites from Egypt, the Egyptians in slavery, and of course Jesus is the new and better Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Boaz is also kind of like a type as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Boaz in this chapter in chapter four, he does all the work, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he takes the initiative, he goes to the gate, which is where, by the way, uh, you know, court proceedings, if you will, and just the business happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he goes to the gate, he calls over the nearer kinsmen, he summons the ten of the elders to session, he constructs the court proceedings, and he ultimately becomes Ruth and Naomi's Redeemer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, how does that show us Christ?
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  SPEAKER_00: How is that a picture of Christ?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Christ took the initiative for us, he came down from heaven, he fulfilled all of the righteous requirements of the law that we could not, he taught the message of reconciliation with God through repentance and faith, and while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And through his death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead three days later, he became our ultimate redeemer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so in the book of Ruth, we see a a kind of type, a Christ figure, if you will, in Boaz, who is a man of character, a godly man.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've seen that in chapter two, three, and now in four, ever since we were introduced to Boab, uh Boaz.
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  SPEAKER_00: But one thing that I want to draw your attention to is what I see as this kind of literary feature or device that the author of Ruth uses throughout the book.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called a prophetic pattern.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's basically the contour lines of scripture that are intended to give us a picture of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I said a type.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be a person, it could be a place, it could be items.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and so we see kind of a prophetic or a type even within the writing of this story and a literary device that the author uses to, again, to show us Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is a pattern essentially of God taking those who are empty and making them full.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me give you just a couple examples of this from the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, here's a pattern of God taking the Israelites from empty to full.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know this story well.
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  SPEAKER_00: We read it in Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, of course, the Israelites were enslaved and oppressed by Pharaoh.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Israelites, as a result, they end up crying out for help.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are empty in that sense, they have no ability to free themselves or provide for themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what does God do?
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  SPEAKER_00: God raises up Moses to save the people, and the Israelites are delivered from slavery.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, think of that as even the shape of they are empty in their slavery and they're made full, so to speak, through their deliverance.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also see uh a pattern again of even in the judges that we just got done reading, the Israelites do evil in the sight of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's their emptiness shown, their idolatry.
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  SPEAKER_00: God hands them over to be conquered by their enemies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel cries out for help.
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  SPEAKER_00: God raises up a judge to deliver them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see that that pattern of God taking the Israelites who are empty, who are in need, and making them full by providing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if we walked quickly back through the book of Ruth, you're gonna see this pattern of empty and full.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in chapter one, verse 21, this is again Naomi speaking.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said, I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why call me Naomi when the Lord has testified against me?
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  SPEAKER_00: So she's in this place of emptiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: She lost her husband, Elimelech, she lost her two sons, Molon and Kileon.
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  SPEAKER_00: She feels empty.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in the very next verse, and I said this was this is going to be important, at the end of chapter one, it says, So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her Moabite, her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab, and they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, barley was food, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can see that there's this sense of Naomi and even Ruth with her are empty.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're going to Bethlehem with nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a promise, even kind of a literary, just the glimmer of hope, I said, uh a ray of sunshine in the darkness is this reality that at the beginning of barley harvest, uh, something's coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fullness, if you will, is coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we pick that up in Ruth chapter 2, verse 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him, in whose sight I shall find favor.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she goes to Boaz's field, again, unbeknownst to her, with nothing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: She has no money, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Seemingly, she has no husband, she has uh nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's going to the field empty-handed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how does she leave?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know the story, Tyler, you know of Boaz's just incredible generosity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so Ruth 223, towards the end of the chapter, uh, so it says, So she kept close to the young woman of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvest, and she lived with her mother-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she starts the day at the field empty and she leaves full, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Boaz gives her everything that she needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same thing in chapter three, verse one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, should I not seek rest for you that it may be well with you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Another just drawing back to the reality that her husband died, they have no child, uh, there's no future in that sense, no posterity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's a reminder of her emptiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And towards the end of the chapter, chapter three, she has the weird sort of marriage proposal to to Boaz.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's how Boaz responds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and even while she's kind of reiterating some of this to Naomi, but verse 18, she replied, Naomi speaking, wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the man will not rest, but will settle the matter today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was after he gave her six measures of barley.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, she comes literally with nothing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: She uncovers his feet, she leaves full.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, we see the same pattern finalized here in chapter four, uh, even in verse five.
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  SPEAKER_00: He talks about uh to the other Kimzin Redeemer, you also, if you were to purchase this land, acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another reminder of her emptiness, so to speak, and what happens, she ends up marrying Boaz, and the Lord makes her full.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife, and he went into her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she is full in that sense of what she was lacking.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord provided through Boaz, her redeemer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, all of this, I just say, is pointing forward to the reality in the gospel that when we come to Christ, we are empty, we uh are open-handed, we are needy, and by believing in him, we can be full.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the gospel message is an invitation by Christ to bring our emptiness to him so he can make us full.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I don't mean full as in our life is gonna be just happy, go lucky, and rainbows and sunshine, and this and that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I just mean that he will give you your deepest desire.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will be your deepest desire, he will be your your satisfaction, he will be your bread of life, he will be your living water.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's the whole idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will be full, whoever comes to me, Jesus says, will never hunger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, wrapping all of this up, this story points forward to Christ in a very direct way through the genealogy that is mentioned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, uh, they have a son, they name the son Obed, Obed fathered Jesse, Jesse fathered David, and surprise of all surprises, Jesus is from the line of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even in Matthew chapter one, it says the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ has all these names.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then in verse five of Matthew 1, it says, and Solomon, the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, Jesus is from the line and lineage of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the New Testament opens with a genealogy, and that genealogy is meant to be a flashing neon sign that says God has fulfilled his promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now remember, the backdrop of the book of Ruth is the judges, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is idolatry, is covenant unfaithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the midst of Israel's unfaithfulness, God is weaving together a story, a reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's preserving his promise to be a savior to his people, to provide a messiah that would crush the head of the serpent.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is why this book is just so incredible to me, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The the genealogy ends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and Ruth, the Moabite woman, which again the the author of Ruth just goes to great pains to make sure that you know she's a Moabite, Moabite, Moabite, Moabite, not of Israel, not of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she ends up in the genealogy of Jesus Christ for no other reason than the grace of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the book of Ruth, think of it as God takes those who are empty, makes them full, that points forward to Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, in the gospel, we can be made full and fully satisfied because Jesus is our living water.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as we as we wrap up the book of Ruth uh today in our Old Testament reading, we are going to wrap up chapter 16 in our our wisdom literature in chapter 16.
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  SPEAKER_01: So verses 30 to 33.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh something that stood out to me today uh is uh the different ways that the heart is revealed, whether it's uh whether it's winking, whether it's pursing lips, whether it's some kind of body language that that reveals someone's real and true intentions.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see a caution and a warning here speaking to those people who would not be uh letting their yes be yes and their no be no.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this doesn't always mean if you wink, you're you're plotting and and and planning evil things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like if you're if you're someone that winks, like, hey, like I I think my my spouse is is good looking, you might wink at her, or if there's some kind of other um like like surprise or something going on, you might you might wink at someone and say, like, remember what we talked about.
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  SPEAKER_01: This doesn't always apply.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're winking or if you have a twitch or a blink, you're not plotting dishonest things, and whether you're pursing your lips uh or not, you're not always bringing evil to pass, but nonetheless, it should draw our attention to to deceit, whether we're crossing our fingers or winking or pursing our lips.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we should always be meaning exactly what we say.
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  SPEAKER_01: We should be speaking clearly, not uh not not speaking with a covert coordination with the ways that we are using our body language, but we're we're we're using the the bodies and the words and the minds that God gave us to speak honestly, to speak truthfully, and and to speak directly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um our next verse speaks to uh my favorite verse in the Bible was gray hair is a crown of glory, it is gained in a righteous life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my hope.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm I'm I'm working on my gray as well, but I mean I I do know I do know of people in this life that have a whole lot more gray than me, uh, but are definitely just really wicked.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying I'm I'm above, I haven't done wickedness in my life, but this doesn't this isn't a broad sweeping, um speaking to those with with lighter hair.
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  SPEAKER_01: But no, uh the the note that I had here, PJ, is we look to the age of those um that are older than us, those who are mature, those who have been walking with the Lord a long time, and we see, we see their age, we see the wisdom that God has given them, and we see that as a gift from God.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see that as uh a faithful testament to to their walk with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: God has blessed them with great years, and and we we treasure these people.
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  SPEAKER_01: We treasure the wisdom that God has given them because they're responsible to to invest it and share it with the next generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and the key here, of course, is not just the color of the hair, and it's also not the age of uh you know, the amount of years that you've lived on this earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really qualified there clearly.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is gained in a righteous life, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: A lifetime of pursuing righteousness through the fear of the Lord produces something uh that is a crown of glory, something that can be and should be recognized, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, you can be 50 years old and uh foolish, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So it has nothing to do really with uh, you know, being 50, 60, 70, 80.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has all to do with living a life pursuing the fear of the Lord and following him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those that do, that are you know more advanced in years, that are seasoned saints, as we often will call them, uh, there there is that sense of recognizing and giving honor to them as a result of their faithfulness to follow the Lord and to grow in the fear of the Lord over again of a lifetime gained in a righteous life.
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  SPEAKER_00: These last two proverbs, whoever slow to anger is better than the mighty.
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  SPEAKER_00: We even talked about that when we were in our Proverbs series, uh, that it takes uh self-control produced by the Spirit of God to have a sense of control over anger.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then verse 33 the lot is cast into the lap, but it's every decision is from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just again, reiterating the sovereignty of God over all things.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing random in this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's we're not just making decisions with a magic eight ball, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Throwing dice in the office.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not how we make decisions here.
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  SPEAKER_00: No such thing as luck in God's economy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is in control, and what a great comfort that that can be and that should be for those who trust in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bob Reading Podcast.
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