I think we're going to get back on eventually here on proving your position. And we're going to go over the wrap here and all these things. But this evening I'd like to go to a little book of group all the way back in the Old Testament, a little book of roots. And we're going to take a look at roots and we're going to cover the whole book in one evening. And the other reason I'm doing this is to point out the foundation of the book that way if you read it for yourself you'll understand what the book of root is all about. In our Sunday morning we've been doing a little study on the redeemer or the book of root is a good indication of the redeemer. As we've been studying the book of Ecclesiasties so we're gonna take a look at the book of root which is sort of goes into a little bit about to the same thing in the book of Ecclesiastes and we're going to look at some types in the little book of Ruth. Probably take a couple of Wednesdays to do that and then probably I don't know I'm going to leave it up to you guys but probably in January we're going to cancel Wednesday night for a while because I don't like coming out in this lousy weather. But anyway, verse one, chapter one, verse one, a little book of Ruth. It came to pass in the days when the judges ruled that there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to Surgeon in the country of Moab. He and his wife and his two sons, and the name of the man was Alemulek, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons, Meylaan and Chilean Effortites of Bethlehem Judah, and they came into the country of Moab and continued there. An alumni named Naomi's husband died, and she was left in her two sons. And I see here. And they took themselves wives of the women of Moab, the name of the one was Orfa, and the name of the other Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years. And Malone and Shillian died also both of them, and the women were bereft of her two sons and her husband, the woman. There was a famine in the land, so let's take a look at the first type. This is a type of a Christian that just plain didn't trust God. They should have stayed where they were and trusted God to provide their needs. Instead they walked away from God into Moab. Of course, you know that Moab was one of the the incestual sons of Lot, one of the sons he had with his one of his daughters. And God, being a righteous God, gave lot and his children the land of horror for their property. Being a righteous God, he didn't have to do that, but he did. So they left their God and went to dwell in the land of Moab. They did two things. They went and they stayed. And that's what happens when a Christian backslides and they leave God, go into the land the land of Moab, the first thing they do is look and then they stay. She left her God behind and Naomi did, lost all of her blessings, lost her family, and finally she went back to God that she shouldn't have left in the first place. When things get hard and when things get tough, it's easy to walk away from God, isn't it? I have a family, as a matter of fact, Carl just did a Funeral service for one of my family members my cousin and His parents I probably shouldn't say his mom won't say it anyway. His parents never took the kids to church and Every one of the kids is well There are a bunch But the funeral the Carl just did and Carl actually tried to preach this guy into heaven which I thought was wrong the rest of the message was pretty good But he tried to preach this guy in the heaven. I would never do that. I think you're dishonored God when you do that. But anyway, the mother and the father, the father don't make one time that he used to teach Sunday school in the Methodist Church years. But he let his kids go. And if he really taught Sunday school and if he was really saved, which I'd really doubt, don't you think he would have considered his salvation and told his children how to be saved? Never did. Every one of them is alcohol and drugs is one of their biggest problems. You never see them in church, even though they asked me to do all their human rules and all their weddings and all the other crap. But you never see them in church. And if he really was a Christian, he's a perfect example of a Christian that walked away from God. Matter of fact, his mother, my aunt, said, well, we were going to church when the kids were young kids were young and everything went bad for us and we said if that's the way God is we don't want to have anything to do with him. That was her statement. Sort of like Naomi. Things went bad, a little bit of famine, you know. I don't get everything I want. I'm going to walk away from God and I'll go to the Moabites. And that's exactly what they did. They're a perfect example of Naomi. And she came to church a couple of times. I don't care if they ever come back doesn't matter to me and I don't. They're my family, I know, but my mother's angry with me because I call them a bunch of musheds. But that's a break. I can't help it. They're a bunch of musheds. And so they walked away from God. When they did, she lost her husband and her two sons. You cannot walk away from God and enjoy any blessings. It just doesn't work. No matter how hard things get, no matter how hard times get. Blame God for all my troubles. They're God. I don't need you. You did just to me. It's your fault. I'll never try to serve you so on and so on and so on. Well, we all have hard times when we start walking away from God because of it. He's not to blame. We are. So now we lost everything. Then she arose in verse 6 with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab. Shouldn't have been there in the first place. She should have stayed where she was, God would have fed her and her family. For she heard in the country of Moab, how the Lord had visited his people and giving them meat. Isn't that something? If they had stayed, the Lord would have visited them and gave them meat. Instead, they left and she lost their way. Wherefore, she went forth out of the place where she was and her two daughters-in-law with her. And they went on the way to return and do the land of Judah, and Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law go return each to her mother's house the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me but then I want you to look at another verse here if you will on down in verse let's see here find the right verse I'm looking for oh here we go verse 15 and she said Naomi did behold thy sister-in-law is going back unto her people, or Naomi Ruth, and unto her gods, returned out after thy sister-in-law. In other words Naomi is saying, go back to your gods. Isn't that sad? Naomi, if you really believed in your God, why in the world would you tell somebody to go back to their false god? Isn't that foolish? Now I don't know what kind of a Christian Naomi was to begin with, but when we walk away from God, it sure gives us some strange, strange attitudes, isn't it? In verse 8, return to your mother's house, Lord deal kindly with you, and then she tells them to go to their back to their own God. So how in the world can you expect the Lord to deal kindly with you? When you're telling somebody to go back to their God, it's pretty full of you. Verse 9, the Lord grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed him and they lifted up their voice and they said unto her surely we will return with the end to thy people. You can't walk away from God. You can turn your back on God, but you can walk away from the… Let's put it this way. If you walk away from serving God, trusting God, keeping your faith in God, then you walk away from the blessings that God has to offer. Let's put it that way. What's that? No, you can't lose… Well, you can lose your faith. Yeah, you can lose your faith. You can. Huh? James chapter two. Yeah, you can lose your faith. You, but uh, well hold your place. Right there. Go over to the book of Timothy over here. You can lose your faith. If you're not serving, nobody knows from the hell in the face. I'm glad you brought that up. All the way back here in 2nd Timothy chapter two. Okay. In 2nd Timothy chapter two, you can lose your faith. You can lose your faith. my wife's seen people do it. As a matter of fact, my aunt that I just mentioned was a good example. I don't know how much faith she had, I don't know if she was saved, I don't know if she had that kind of faith or not, but they were going to church, and then when things didn't go very good for them, and they walked them, they didn't go to church anymore, blame God for the problems, and things went better for us, and that's a funny thing that she would make that statement because things are going better force now that we don't go to church anymore, and she just lost two of her sons. She just lost two of them, and telling me things are going better for you, I don't think so. Anyhow, verse 11, chapter 2, 2nd Timothy. What's that? I'm going very good for the two that died, huh? No. No. Not very. And I doubt very much if they were saved. I know the one funeral I did, I did one of their funerals, and I didn't preach the boy into heaven. I didn't know if that's where he was, and I talked to him about it, and I believe he was saved, but he didn't get saved until I talked to him about it just before he died. And even then, I'm not sure 100% he was saved because people will always tell you what they think you want to hear. But I certainly didn't preach him into heaven, I think that's a dishonor to God. But anyway, it is a faithful saying, for if we're dead with him, we shall also live with Now, if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. And look at the rest of that verse, if we deny Him, He also will deny us. And if we, Christians, believe not, yet He abided faithful, I can go all the way back to the point of unbelief. I can be saved by faith in Christ and go all the way back to the point of, I don't believe that anymore. And as soon as I walk away from serving God, like Naomi did and like Solomon did and backslide and then I go all the way to the point of unbelief, but it also says he abided faithful. He cannot deny himself. In other words, when we put our faith in him, we are saved and then I can start serving him and when things go bad, you know, and I get all bent out of shape and blame God for all my problems, I can go all the way back and say, and what happens is when I, when things start going bad, the more I walk away and the more I stop, the worse things are going to get. And the worse things get, the less I'm going to believe. But once I'm saved, he abides faithful. He saved me. He cannot deny himself. You cannot lose your salvation. If you did, God would be one big hypocrite, wouldn't He? But He's not. Huh? Yeah. Wouldn't He know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Back to Ruth here, if you will. Verse 11, and they only said, turn again, my daughter, and why will you go with me? That was the wrong question, as she should have said, let us go to my God instead of why go with me to my God, pretty foolish. And turn again, my daughters, verse 12, go your way for I'm too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband also tonight and should also bear sons, you tarry for them till they were grown. Would you refrain or stay for them from having or refrain from being married? That's what it means. Name my daughters for a grieve with me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. In other words, she was chasin. Her husband was really chasin. He was killed. And they lifted up their voice and wept again and said to her, and verse 16, and Ruth said, and treat me not to leave me or turn away from following thee. For when stout goes, I will go and where thou lodges, I will lodge thy people, shall be my people, by God, my God. She had a goal, she was determined, and verse 17, she was committed. She had heard about Naomi's God somehow or other, and that's what she wanted. Doesn't have very often, does it? Where thou dyes, will I die, and there will I be buried, the Lord do so to me, and more also, but death, part, thee, and me. So she was determined to go, and she went. Didn't seem like Naomi had a lot to offer, but she's a hellward. No, Naomi didn't. And of course that's what happens when you backslide and you get into a backslidden condition blame God for your problems, that's what Naomi did. See what God has done to me? He dealt this. No, you asked for it. You should have stayed where you were, trusted him, and you and your husband both filed out. Anyway, by the way, Moab, you know who Moab was, of course. He was lots, the Moe vites were a pretty rotten, lousy, despicable bunch of people. Verse 21, all the way down to verse 21, if you will, is verse 20, brother. And she said unto them, call me not Naomi, call me Mara, which means bitter for the Almighty health dealt very bitterly with me. It was her own fault. It was your fault. I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home empty again. Let me ask you a question. Is she telling the truth here? Why did they leave the land if they were full? That's pretty foolish, isn't it? There was a famine in the land and they walked away. They left, they ran. You didn't run out. You didn't go out full. You left, empty, and you came back empty. And the Lord brought me home empty. Why didn't call you, me, Naomi? And the last part of the end of the hall, mighty hath afflicted me. Yes, you did, you got to come up. So Naomi returned and Ruth, the Moabitis, her daughter-in-law with her, who returned out of the country of Moab and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of Barley Harvest. No more famine for those who stayed. Isn't that something? Now what gets me is Christians who have the slightest little problem come along and the The first thing they want to do is blame God and run away. It's pretty sad. So did she give up her land to go somewhere else? Well, yeah. They did. Yeah. But of course, if you go back to Jewish tradition, the land always comes back. And, yeah. But in this case, they got the land, but it was a little different. So let's go down to chapter two. I'm going to finish this up before we get done here. And Naomi had a kinsman in chapter 2 verse 1 of her husband, a mighty man of wealth, with a family of a limoleck, and his name was Boaz. So he was still a family member of her husband, and his name was Boaz, which meant, just as Vince said, that the land that she walked away from still belonged to her. Although at this time she didn't really own it, but it was hers. If you understand the Hebrew and the way God had set it up, anyway, and Ruth. The Moabite said, I don't know, let me now go to the field and glean ears of grain after him and whose side I shall find grace. And she said, go, my daughter, and behold, Boaz came in verse 4 from Bethlehem and said unto the rapers, Lord be with you. And verse 5 then said, who was set over the rapers? Who's damn so does this? He's seen this woman working. She was not a Jew, apparently he probably realized that, but she was willing to work for nothing in hopes that Boaz would look kindly upon her. Let's see now. We want to skip some verses because I want to cover all this. Let not thine eyes, in verse 9, let not thine eyes be on the field that they do reap and go after them. Have I not charged a young man that they shall not touch thee and when thou art thirsty, go to the vessels and drink of that which the young men have drawn in those times and in those days tradition was that the heathens didn't drink with the Jews, but he said you go ahead and drink with all the people. Then she fell on a face and bought herself to the ground and said unto him, why have I found grace and dynamite that thou should take knowledge of me seeing I am a foreigner, a stranger? Then on down, if you will, to verse 12, the Lord Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. That's probably one of the most important verses in the whole book. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee, by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. You know something? Naomi and her husband should have done that. thing that Naomi did, when she came back to the Lord, she brought a sinner with her. And for those who backslide and lead serving the Lord, what they really ought to do is bring somebody back with her. So anyway, she had integrity, Ruth did, and the Lord recompensed thy work, and a full reward be given thee by the Lord God of Israel under whose wings our come to trust. You know, it reminds me of the parable of the sewers. It doesn't matter how much you do for the Lord or how much He rewards you. The point is, it ought to be our attitude. Whenever we serve the Lord, it ought to be our attitude. Not expecting much, but knowing that the Lord will reward us, bless us, and protect us if we just serve him by faith. He will always do that. Chapter four, go all the way over there, if you will, and then we'll close with this here, but I'm trying to cover the whole book of Ruth because I want you to get the just foundation, then when you read it yourself, when you get the time to do that, you'll understand what Ruth is all about. In verse four, chapter four, verse one, then when Boaz up to the gate and sat down there and behold the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke, came by him, he said, And who, such a one, turn aside, sit down here, and he turned aside. And he took many of the elders of the city and said, sit you down here and they said down. And he said unto the begins men, Naomi, who has come again out of the country of Moab, saweth a plot of land which was our brother, a limolex. The land was still hers. But it needed to be redeemed. Remember Revelation chapter 5. What does it take to redeem the land? Yep, has to be able, has to have the price, and they have to be a Kinsman. Boaz was a Kinsman of Naomi. He was willing, and he paid the price. He is a perfect example of the Lord Jesus Christ, a perfect example. He took Ruth, she became his wife. He redeemed her because he was willing. He was able to pay the price and he was a kinsman. And the bottom line, if you read the whole thing, Naomi got the land back and Ruth became the wife of Boaz and she became not a mobile bite, but she became a Jew and it's a perfect type of Jesus Christ our Redeemer. The most important thing, one of the most important things is that this route became one of the few women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Did you know that? Roof the Moabitis. There are two places in the Bible where we have a genealogy of Jesus Christ. One is in the gospel of Luke, and the other one is in the gospel of Matthew. And then the genealogies, Ruth, is mentioned as the mother, she was married to Boaz, but she was mentioned in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, you know, when you and I see Jesus Christ face to face, I don't think we're going to see a white person, a black person. I don't think we're going to see an Indian, a Hebrew, I don't think every human being is going to see their own self in Jesus Christ. I think the Chinese will see their nationality in him. I think the black person will see their nationality in him because in the genealogy of Christ we see every nationality, every person, every nation and the Moabitis is a perfect example of the world in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. She's a perfect example of a person with a character. Let's see here. What do we want to close? In chapter 4, root, verse 17, when you get the opportunity, look up your in your genealogies in chapter 1 of Luke, and you'll see the genealogies. But in chapter 4, verse 17, and the women who were her neighbors gave him a name saying this is a son born to Naomi. And they called his name Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Then of course we have G. Dow's. What's important there? There is a son born to Naomi. The genealogical line that Jesus, that God started with Abraham never ceased, never did cease. Sam and Begot Boaz and Boaz Begot Obed and Obed Begot Jesse and Jesse Begot David and my mother Begot me and that was one of the biggest mistakes she ever made. I'm kidding. I shouldn't say that when my mother was around but she gets angry with me the poor girl. So anyway, that's the book of route. Pretty simple, isn't it? Pretty simple. When you walk away from God, you always have to pay the price one way or the other. They only did, but thank God Ruth. Got her possessions back, got her nationality back, got everything back that she lost when she walked away from God. Isn't it funny? Sometimes the only way you get back to your blessings is by a center isn't it funny okay let's have word of prayer and we'll close anybody else have anything they'd like to add you want to bring bring another messenger Cassie you're done now for the day okay let's have word of prayer we'll close dear Lord we just thank you for your Word which is the absolute 100% truth. We thank you to Lord with all the types and all the examples that you give in your Bible that just prove that your Word is 100% correct, all the examples for us not to follow, and all the examples that we should follow. We just thank you for your truth. And I personally thank you for those that come to this little church to hear the word and I thank you for him and bless him in Christ's name. Amen.