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Caption transcript for Ruth: “Finding the Redeemer” (3/8)

• 00:06 IT WAS A JOURNEY NO ONE EXPECTED.
• 00:09 FAMINE IN JUDAH HAD BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN MOAB
• 00:13 AND NOW...
• 00:15 NOTHING COULD TEAR THEM APART.
• 00:19 FOR NAOMI THE RETURN TO BETHLEHEM WAS A BITTER ONE.
• 00:23 BEHIND HER LAY HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS BURIED IN FOREIGN SOIL.
• 00:29 FOR RUTH...
• 00:31 A NEW LAND...
• 00:34 A NEW PEOPLE...
• 00:36 A REDEEMER...
• 00:39 AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF UNYIELDING DEVOTION.
• 00:42 A LOVE STORY FOR THE AGES.
• 00:56 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO OUR SHOW.
• 00:57 I'M MYLES WEISS,
• 00:58 THIS IS MY WIFE AND CO-HOST, KATHARINE
• 01:01 AND WE ARE IN THE SERIES OF THE BOOK OF RUTH...
• 01:04 "YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE".
• 01:07 THIS KIND OF REMINDS ME OF OUR STORY MYLES,
• 01:10 ME BEING A GENTILE, NOT A MOABITE...
• 01:12 BUT A GENTILE
• 01:13 COMING TO FAITH IN YESHUA
• 01:15 AND THEN SHARING WITH YOU MY BOAZ.
• 01:17 SO TELL US WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THE REST OF THE STORY.
• 01:20 THIS IS WHERE THE COMMITMENT GETS REALLY REFINED.
• 01:23 AND IT'S A NARROW DOOR LIKE MATTHEW 7:14,
• 01:26 SIMILAR TO WHAT JESUS SAID WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO US IF WE CHOOSE TO FOLLOW HIM.
• 01:30 THAT'S WHAT RUTH IS CHOOSING.
• 01:31 SIMILARLY THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH US.
• 01:33 WE BECAME BELIEVERS 25 YEARS PLUS AGO.
• 01:36 IT JUST STIRRED THINGS UP AROUND US.
• 01:39 AND SOMETIMES YOU MAY FEEL LIKE YOUR COMMITMENT IS STIRRING LIFE UP AROUND YOU.
• 01:43 THAT IS THE NARROW DOOR THAT GOD IS CALLING YOU THROUGH JUST AS HE DID FOR US.
• 01:48 WE PICK UP THE STORY WITH RUTH AS SHE'S ABOUT TO FIND ROMANCE WITH BOAZ.
• 01:56 IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE HARVEST SEASON IN THE FIELDS OF BETHLEHEM.
• 02:01 AND THERE WAS A WEALTHY LANDOWNER NAMED BOAZ
• 02:04 WHO COMMANDED HIS YOUNG MEN.
• 02:07 BOAZ WAS A FAMILY MEMBER OF ELIMELECH, NAOMI'S HUSBAND WHO HAD DIED IN MOAB.
• 02:14 THIS WAS GOING TO BE A GOOD HARVEST.
• 02:18 IT WAS A TIME FOR DILIGENCE
• 02:20 KNOWING FULL WELL THAT FAMINE COULD ONE DAY COME AGAIN ON THE LAND OF JUDAH.
• 03:11 CHAG SHAVUOT SAMEACH! -
• 03:13 HAPPY PENTECOST...
• 03:14 FEAST OF WEEKS... AS THEY SAY HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 03:17 THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS IN GOD.
• 03:19 AND JUST AS RUTH AND NAOMI ARRIVED IN BETHLEHEM EXACTLY IN TIME FOR THE HARVEST,
• 03:24 SO KATHARINE AND I ARRIVED HERE AT THE FEAST OF WEEKS,
• 03:28 AT SHAVUOT - PENTECOST
• 03:29 IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
• 03:31 IT'S AMAZING THAT WE HAPPEN TO BE HERE EXACTLY WHEN THIS HOLIDAY IS BEING CELEBRATED.
• 03:35 THIS CELEBRATION COMES FROM THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS.
• 03:39 IT'S ONE OF THE BIBLICALLY MANDATED FEASTS THAT GOD SPEAKS OF TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
• 03:44 IN LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 15 HE SAYS,
• 03:56 THE COMMANDMENT IS TO DO THIS 50 DAYS AFTER PASSOVER.
• 04:01 SO THE CONNECTION IS FROM PASSOVER...
• 04:03 50 DAYS LATER... PENTECOST...
• 04:06 50 DAYS TO THE FEAST OF WEEKS, SHAVUOT.
• 04:08 AND HERE IN ISRAEL, IN MODERN ISRAEL, IT'S STILL BEING CELEBRATED.
• 04:13 YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME THE POWER OF THE CELEBRATION.
• 04:16 WE'RE HERE AT KIBBUTZ NAN, ONE OF THE LARGER KIBBUTZIM IN THIS AREA.
• 04:21 PEOPLE COME FROM ALL AROUND TO CELEBRATE WITH THEIR CHILDREN,
• 04:25 TO ENJOY THE HAPPINESS OF BRINGING IN THE FRUIT OF THE LAND,
• 04:29 AND TO CELEBRATE GOD'S GOODNESS IN HIS PROVISION FOR THEM.
• 04:33 IT'S NOT ONLY THAT CELEBRATION THAT WE SEE,
• 04:35 BUT ISN'T IT AMAZING THAT FOR US AS BELIEVERS IT'S THE SAME TIME OF YEAR
• 04:40 THAT THE DISCIPLES WERE GATHERED IN THE BOOK OF ACTS FOR PENTECOST IN ACTS CHAPTER 2.
• 04:47 EVERYONE WAS IN TOWN.
• 04:49 IT WAS THE PERFECT TIME FOR GOD TO BIRTH HIS BELIEVING COMMUNITY, OR THE CHURCH.
• 04:54 ACTS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1 SAYS,
• 05:02 THERE IS A SEAMLESS CONNECTION
• 05:04 BETWEEN SHAVUOT
• 05:06 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 05:07 AND PENTECOST SHAVUOT
• 05:08 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 05:10 THERE'S A SEAMLESS CONNECTION
• 05:12 BETWEEN WHAT THE JEWS CONSIDER THE GIVING OF THE TORAH AT SINAI
• 05:16 AND THE CHURCH RECEIVING THE LAW WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS.
• 05:20 IT WAS AT THE SAME TIME DURING PENTECOST.
• 05:22 YOU SEE, ISRAEL GATHERED AT THE FOOT OF SINAI
• 05:26 AND IT'S WHEN ISRAEL HAD BECOME A NATION IN THAT ONE DAY,
• 05:29 JUST AS THE CHURCH WAS BIRTHED IN A SINGLE DAY.
• 05:32 AT THE FOOT OF SINAI... THERE WAS FIRE AND SMOKE AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN.
• 05:36 AND IN PENTECOST, IN THE UPPER ROOM,
• 05:38 THERE WERE TONGUES OF FIRE ABOVE THE HEADS OF THE DISCIPLES.
• 05:42 AT PENTECOST IN SINAI THE PEOPLE CAME AS A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS.
• 05:45 THEY WERE TO BE CONSECRATED TO THE LORD.
• 05:48 THEY WERE BROUGHT OUT TO THE DESERT FROM EGYPT TO WORSHIP THE LORD.
• 05:51 AND SO THEY WERE GATHERED IN THE UPPER ROOM TO BECOME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS UNTO THE LORD.
• 05:57 AT SINAI, DURING THE TIME OF THE GIVING OF THE TORAH,
• 06:01 3,000 PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE.
• 06:04 BUT PRAISE GOD - IN ACTS CHAPTER 2...
• 06:06 3,000 WERE BORN AGAIN WHEN THE WORD WAS PREACHED.
• 06:10 IT'S AN AMAZING CONNECTION
• 06:12 ONLY GOD COULD ORCHESTRATE THAT.
• 06:15 AND SO IT IS FOR OUR HEROINES IN THE STORY, FOR RUTH AND NAOMI,
• 06:19 BECAUSE THEY ARRIVED JUST IN TIME TO GLEAN IN THE FIELDS OF BOAZ.
• 06:24 BOAZ IS A NEAR-KINSMAN.
• 06:26 HE IS THEIR KINSMAN-REDEEMER.
• 06:29 AS WE MEET HIM WE'LL FIND OUT WHY GOD NAMES HIM BOAZ,
• 06:34 BECAUSE THAT NAME MEANS "IN HIM THERE IS STRENGTH."
• 06:37 HE'S A PICTURE OF THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO ALL OF US,
• 06:42 YESHUA HA-MASHIACH - JESUS CHRIST.
• 06:45 AND SO GOD IS ABOUT TO REVEAL TO US THE INCREDIBLE SYMMETRY
• 06:50 AS HE BRINGS THIS MOABITESS INTO THE LINEAGE OF THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD...
• 06:55 AN IMPOSSIBILITY FOR YOU OR FOR ME,
• 06:57 BUT COMPLETELY POSSIBLE WITH GOD.
• 07:00 WE MEET BOAZ SOON...
• 07:01 BOAZ, WHO WAS A PICTURE OF THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH.
• 07:06 THE WHOLE FIELD IS HIS,
• 07:07 AND HIS NAME IS JESUS.
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• 08:00 HARVESTING IN THE FIELDS OF BETHLEHEM BEGAN WITH THE REAPERS.
• 08:05 IT DEMANDED A STRONG BACK AND A KEEN HAND.
• 08:09 FROM DAWN TO DUSK BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WORKED TOGETHER UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THEIR MASTER.
• 08:16 THE CUSTOM WAS FOR THE POOR TO FOLLOW THE PAID WORKERS
• 08:20 GATHERING THE FEW UNCOLLECTED STALKS OF GRAIN WHICH REMAINED SCATTERED ABOUT THE FIELD.
• 08:26 AND RUTH GLEANED IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ.
• 09:02 AND NOW THE ROMANCE BEGINS -
• 09:04 A LOVE STORY FOR THE CENTURIES.
• 09:06 WE SEE IN THE HEBREW, IN RUTH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 4
• 09:11 [SPEAKING HEBREW]
• 09:19 ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT BOAZ, WHO WAS A TYPE OF THE MESSIAH -
• 09:23 HE'S A PICTURE OF THE ONE TO COME,
• 09:26 HE'S A PICTURE OF THE REDEEMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH -
• 09:29 IS COMING OUT OF BETHLEHEM
• 09:31 AND SETTING THE STAGE FOR A GREATER ONE WHO WILL COME LATER ALSO OUT OF BETHLEHEM.
• 09:37 YOU KNOW PEOPLE OFTEN WANT TO KNOW,
• 09:40 HOW DOES THIS ROMANCE ARISE?
• 09:41 WHY ARE THESE TWO PUT TOGETHER?
• 09:43 IS THERE A PRECEDENT IN THE BIBLE?
• 09:45 IS THERE A REASON THAT THEY WOULD COME TOGETHER BASED IN THE TORAH?
• 09:49 REMEMBER, AT SHAVUOT WE CELEBRATED THE GIVING OF THE TORAH
• 09:53 AND IT'S REFLECTED IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 WHERE THE LAW IS WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS.
• 09:59 WELL, IN THE TORAH THERE'S A CLEAR APPLICATION AND A MANDATE
• 10:04 REALLY GIVEN TO FAMILY MEMBERS
• 10:06 THAT THEY ARE TO TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER.
• 10:08 LISTEN TO DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 25 IN VERSE 5 AND FOLLOWING:
• 10:29 YOU SEE, GOD WANTED TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE ISRAELITE FAMILY.
• 10:34 AND SO HE MADE A PROVISION FOR NEAR KINSMAN, FOR RELATIVES,
• 10:38 THOSE WHO MIGHT BE CONNECTED TO THE FAMILY ALREADY
• 10:41 TO COME IN AND TO TAKE UP THE FAMILY CARE FOR THE ONE WHO DIED.
• 10:46 IT GOES ON TO SAY IN THE SAME PASSAGE,
• 10:57 IN OTHER WORDS HIS NAME, HIS FAMILY LINE WOULD CONTINUE.
• 11:00 THERE WOULD BE NO LOSS.
• 11:02 THERE WOULD BE NO SETTING ASIDE OF THAT FAMILY,
• 11:04 BUT THE LINE WOULD CONTINUE BECAUSE OF THIS PROVISION OF THE NEAR-KINSMAN.
• 11:19 SO IT WOULD BE THE RIGHT OF THE NEAR-KINSMAN
• 11:21 TO REFUSE TO TAKE UP WITH THE WIFE OF THE DEAD BROTHER.
• 11:25 BUT LOOK WHAT HAPPENS.
• 11:26 IT GOES ON TO SAY,
• 11:27 AND I'LL PARAPHRASE FOR YOU.
• 11:29 IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT IF THE RELATIVE DOES NOT TAKE CARE OF THE WIFE,
• 11:33 THAT SHE IS TO PUT A SHOE IN HIS HAND, SPIT IN HIS FACE,
• 11:37 AND HE IS TO WALK SHOELESS THROUGH THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL,
• 11:40 AND HIS NAME WOULD BE KNOWN AS ONE WHO WOULD NOT TAKE CARE OF HIS BROTHER'S FAMILY.
• 11:45 WOW, WHAT A DIFFICULT WORD.
• 11:47 WHAT A DIFFICULT TASK.
• 11:49 AND SO WE SEE THAT BOAZ SEES RUTH COMING.
• 11:52 HE'S HEARD ABOUT WHO SHE IS.
• 11:54 HE FINDS OUT...HE'S ASKING, WHO IS THIS ONE?
• 11:57 AND HER REPUTATION HAS PRECEDED HER.
• 11:59 BUT LOOK AT BOAZ'S CHARACTER.
• 12:01 EVEN WHEN HE ARRIVES ON THE SCENE THE FIRST THING HE DOES IS TO COME INTO THE SCENE
• 12:07 AND BE KIND TO HIS WORKERS, TO THE POOR THAT WORKED FOR HIM.
• 12:11 HERE'S A WEALTHY MAN.
• 12:13 HE OWNED ALL THE FIELDS.
• 12:14 HE OWNED EVERYTHING THAT WAS IN SIGHT
• 12:16 AND YET HE WAS KIND TO HIS WORKERS.
• 12:18 WHAT A CHARACTER...
• 12:19 WHAT A PICTURE OF OUR MESSIAH...
• 12:21 WHAT A PICTURE OF KINDNESS TO THOSE AROUND HIM.
• 12:24 AND SO WE SEE BOAZ'S CHARACTER REVEALED EVEN BEFORE HE GETS HIS EYE ON RUTH.
• 12:30 AND WHEN THE TWO OF THEM MEET IT'S GOING TO BE FIREWORKS.
• 12:33 IT'S GOING TO BE A FUTURE SET FOR THE TWO OF THEM
• 12:36 AS THEY MEET AND FALL IN LOVE AND THE ROMANCE BEGINS.
• 12:40 WHAT A SCENE.
• 12:41 AND IT IS SO IMPORTANT
• 12:43 BECAUSE BOAZ IS WILLING TO TAKE UP THE KINSMAN'S ROLE.
• 12:47 REMEMBER, A KINSMAN HAD TO BE A RELATIVE, HE HAD TO BE WILLING,
• 12:51 HE HAD TO BE ABLE TO PERFORM,
• 12:53 AND HE HAD TO BE WILLING TO ASSUME ALL OBLIGATIONS
• 12:58 ON THE BEHALF OF THE ONE WHO HE WAS TAKING INTO HIS HOME.
• 13:02 AND BOAZ DISPLAYS ALL THAT CHARACTER.
• 13:05 HE IS REVEALED AS A MAN OF GRACE AND GREAT STRENGTH.
• 13:09 REMEMBER, HIS NAME MEANS
• 13:11 "IN HIM IS STRENGTH."
• 13:25 ♪WHEN WE'RE THERE, WHEN WE'RE THERE,♪
• 13:26 ♪IN THE LAND OF ZION♪
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• 13:49 ♪NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM♪
• 14:03 WOW...EVERY TIME I SEE ISRAEL IT MAKES ME HOMESICK.
• 14:06 IT NEVER GETS OLD...
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• 15:57 SO NOW LET'S BACK TO OUR STORY WHERE THE PLOT IS DEVELOPING BETWEEN RUTH AND BOAZ.
• 17:02 HERE WE SEE THE ENCOUNTER COMING
• 17:04 BETWEEN RUTH AND BOAZ.
• 17:06 WOW, IT IS AN AMAZING TIME.
• 17:08 BOAZ OBVIOUSLY IS SMITTEN WITH HER,
• 17:10 BUT IT GOES DEEPER THAN JUST HER BEAUTY,
• 17:12 JUST HER PHYSICAL BEAUTY.
• 17:14 HE ASKS WHO SHE IS
• 17:15 AND THE SERVANT'S REPLY
• 17:17 THAT THIS IS THE ONE THAT COMES FROM MOAB.
• 17:19 THIS IS THE ONE THAT CAME UP WITH NAOMI.
• 17:21 AND AGAIN WE SEE BOAZ'S CHARACTER REVEALED.
• 17:23 EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM HIM IS KIND, IS OPEN-HEARTED, IS STRONG; FIRM, BUT FULL OF LOVE.
• 17:31 AND HE IS SMITTEN WITH RUTH.
• 17:33 HE IS TAKEN BY HER.
• 17:35 I LOVE THE FIRST LINE THAT HE SAYS, "WHO IS THIS ONE?"
• 17:38 "WHO IS THIS ONE THAT'S COME UP OUT OF MOAB?"
• 17:41 HER BEAUTY CAPTIVATED HIM,
• 17:43 BUT HER HEART CAPTIVATED HIM EVEN MORE.
• 17:46 YOU SEE THE VIRTUE THAT SHE BESTOWED UPON HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
• 17:50 TO LEAVE HER FAMILY,
• 17:52 TO LEAVE THAT WHICH WAS FAMILIAR AND TO GO
• 17:54 AND TO CARE FOR HER MOTHER-IN-LAW,
• 17:56 TO RISE UP AND TO HAVE FAITH
• 17:58 AND TO EVEN ASK HER MOTHER-IN-LAW,
• 18:00 "LET ME GO GLEAN IN THESE FIELDS."
• 18:02 "LET ME GO DO THE WORK SO THAT WE CAN PROSPER IN THIS LAND."
• 18:06 YOU SEE NOT ONLY HER BEAUTY OUTWARD WAS ATTRACTIVE TO BOAZ,
• 18:10 BUT HER INWARD BEAUTY WAS EVEN THAT MUCH MORE.
• 18:12 SHE WAS A WOMAN OF FAITH
• 18:14 AND SHE WAS A WOMAN OF DILIGENCE.
• 18:17 I MEAN SHE GOT UP EARLY THE SCRIPTURE SAYS
• 18:19 TO GO GLEAN IN THESE FIELDS.
• 18:21 AND THE WORKERS EVEN TOOK NOTICE THAT SHE WAS SOMEBODY THAT THEY TRUSTED.
• 18:25 AND SO HE CHARGES HER TO STAY IN HIS FIELD.
• 18:29 ISN'T THAT JUST LIKE THE LORD?
• 18:31 WHEN HE CALLS US HE CALLS US TO STAY IN HIS FIELD,
• 18:35 TO NOT GET DISTRACTED,
• 18:36 TO NOT BE LOOKING AT OTHER THINGS.
• 18:39 MAYBE WHAT GOD'S CALLED US TO DO,
• 18:41 BUT TO STAY FOCUSED ON THE THINGS HE'S ASKED US TO DO.
• 18:44 YOU KNOW ALSO IN THIS PASSAGE
• 18:46 OF BOAZ AND RUTH BECOMING ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER OR HE TO HER, SHE SAYS,
• 18:51 "HOW HAVE I FOUND SUCH FAVOR AND KINDNESS?"
• 18:54 HERE SHE'S BOWING DOWN
• 18:55 AND IN THREE DIFFERENT VERSES
• 18:57 IT TALKS ABOUT IN THIS CHAPTER ABOUT FAVOR.
• 19:00 THIS WHOLE LOVE AFFAIR STARTS WITH GOD'S FAVOR UPON RUTH,
• 19:05 AND THEN BOAZ RETURNING THAT FAVOR UPON HER.
• 19:09 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL TESTIMONY OF HOW LOVE AND LIFE CAN WORK TOGETHER.
• 19:14 IT'S SUCH A PICTURE
• 19:15 OF HOW GOD WANTS OUR CHARACTER TO BE FORMED BY HIS SPIRIT
• 19:19 SO THAT WE ARE AT WORK IN HIS FIELD IN THE WORLD,
• 19:22 BUT DISPLAYING THE CHARACTER OF THE LORD.
• 19:25 EVEN TODAY...
• 19:26 YOU KNOW THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT PURE RELIGION IS UNDEFILED.
• 19:30 IT'S LIKE THIS.
• 19:31 IT'S TAKING CARE OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
• 19:32 EVEN TODAY, HERE IN THIS LAND
• 19:34 WE HAVE FRIENDS, BELIEVERS,
• 19:36 PEOPLE OF FAITH WHO ARE TAKING IN ORPHANS,
• 19:39 WHO ARE TAKING CARE OF WIDOWS.
• 19:40 THEY ARE RECEIVING WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
• 19:43 FROM THE SUDAN OF ALL PLACES,
• 19:44 FROM FARAWAY LANDS,
• 19:46 AND BRINGING THEM IN
• 19:48 AND DISPLAYING THE CHARACTER OF RUTH AND BOAZ IN CARING FOR THOSE AROUND THEM.
• 19:52 THAT'S REALLY WHAT THIS IS A PICTURE OF.
• 19:54 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT RUTH AND BOAZ IN THAT TIME AND IN THAT DAY,
• 19:58 BUT IT'S A STORY FOR US TODAY.
• 20:00 IT'S A STORY FOR HOW WILL WE LIVE OUR LIVES.
• 20:03 WILL WE LIVE IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BRING GLORY TO THE LORD?
• 20:06 WILL WE LIVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE DISPLAY HIS CHARACTER,
• 20:09 HIS GOODNESS?
• 20:11 YOU KNOW I THINK ABOUT MY FRIENDS BOTH IN THE WEST AND HERE IN THE LAND
• 20:14 THAT TAKE CARE OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
• 20:16 AND I MARVEL AT THEIR COMMITMENT -
• 20:18 THE KIND OF COMMITMENT THAT YOU SEE HERE WITH RUTH AND BOAZ.
• 20:21 YOU SEE, THEY ARE TAKEN WITH EACH OTHER.
• 20:23 THEY'RE EACH SURPRISED IN A SENSE AT THE OTHER ONE'S CHARACTER,
• 20:26 AT THE OTHER ONE'S KINDNESS,
• 20:27 AT THE OTHER ONE'S GOOD WORKS.
• 20:29 AND ISN'T THAT THE WAY IT IS?
• 20:30 THEY'RE UNFEIGNED.
• 20:32 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PRIDE
• 20:33 OR ANY HAUGHTINESS INVOLVED.
• 20:35 THERE'S AN UNFEIGNED LOVE
• 20:37 THAT'S ABOUT TO BE BIRTHED BETWEEN THEM
• 20:39 AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE INCREDIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR YOU AND FOR ME, FOR ALL OF US,
• 20:44 BECAUSE RUTH AND BOAZ ARE BEING DRAWN BY DESTINY,
• 20:47 BY THE HAND OF FATE,
• 20:49 BY THE HAND OF GOD,
• 20:50 INTO THE FAMILY OF THE MESSIAH.
• 20:53 AND HERE IS THIS ONE, THIS MOABITESS FROM FAR AWAY
• 20:56 AND SHE IS BEING BROUGHT INTO THE FAMILY LINE OF JESUS CHRIST
• 21:01 AND IT IS BOAZ WHO IS BEING BROUGHT INTO THAT AS WELL.
• 21:04 YOU CAN'T IMAGINE.
• 21:06 YOU CAN'T MAKE UP A STORY LIKE THIS.
• 21:07 IT'S SO CRAZY, SO WILD, SO WONDERFUL, SO FULL OF LOVE!
• 21:11 AND GOD IS GOING TO PUT THEM TOGETHER
• 21:13 IN A WAY TO BRING A DESTINY FOR YOU
• 21:16 AS WELL AS FOR US.
• 21:30 ♪AHALEL, AHALEL♪
• 21:34 ♪AHALEL, AHALEL OTCHA♪
• 21:38 ♪AHALEL, AHALEL♪
• 21:43 ♪AHALEL, AHALEL OTCHA♪
• 21:47 ♪BECHOL MA SHEYESH BI♪
• 21:51 ♪BECHOL LIBI♪
• 21:55 ♪AHLEL OTCHA♪
• 21:59 ♪ADONAI, YESHUATI♪
• 22:08 ♪BECHOL MA SHEYESH BI♪
• 22:12 ♪BECHOL LIBI♪
• 22:16 ♪AHLEL OTCHA♪
• 22:20 ♪ADONAI, YESHU..A..TI♪
• 22:32 ♪ADONAI (AD..ONAI)♪
• 22:36 ♪YESHUATI (YESHU..A..TI)♪
• 22:41 ♪AHLEL OTCHA (AH..LEL..OTCHA)♪
• 22:46 ♪AHLEL OTCHA♪
• 22:49 ♪AHLEL OTCHA (AH..LEL..OTCHA)♪
• 22:58 ♪BECHOL MA SHEYESH BI♪
• 23:02 ♪BECHOL LIBI♪
• 23:07 ♪AHLEL OTCHA♪
• 23:11 ♪ADONAI, YESHU..A..TI♪
• 23:22 THAT WAS SOME WONDERFUL MUSIC FROM SASHA AND ANYA FROM ISRAEL.
• 23:26 I LOVE HEARING INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC IN HEBREW.
• 23:28 IT'S JUST SO WARMING TO MY HEART.
• 23:31 NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO FURTHER
• 23:33 AND KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE WHAT HAPPENS IN ISRAEL
• 23:35 THE REST OF THE YEAR OUTSIDE OF HARVEST TIME
• 23:38 FROM OUR GOOD FRIEND ARIE.
• 23:42 THE STORY OF RUTH
• 23:44 TOOK PLACE MAINLY IN BETHLEHEM.
• 23:47 LET US REMEMBER
• 23:48 WHERE BETHLEHEM'S LOCATED.
• 23:50 BETHLEHEM IS LOCATED ON THE WATERSHED OF THE MOUNTAINS OF JUDEA
• 23:57 WHICH MEANS EAST OF BETHLEHEM
• 24:00 ALL THE WAY TO THE DEAD SEA
• 24:02 WE HAVE A DESERT.
• 24:04 WEST OF BETHLEHEM
• 24:06 ALL THE WAY TO THE SHEPHELAH...
• 24:08 TO THE COAST,
• 24:10 WE HAVE AGRICULTURE AREA.
• 24:11 IF I WAS ONE OF THE WORKERS OF THE BOYS THAT WORKED WITH BOAZ
• 24:18 HOW MY YEAR WILL LOOK AROUND.
• 24:21 ON THE FIRST RAINS
• 24:24 WHEN GRASS WOULD COME
• 24:26 I WOULD WORK WITH THE SHEEP IN THE FLOCKS.
• 24:29 I WOULD TAKE THE SHEEP AND SOME GOATS...
• 24:32 I WOULD SHEPHERD THEM IN THE DESERT
• 24:36 FOR DECEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH..APRIL.
• 24:40 IN MAY WE WILL BRING THEM UP TO THE CITY,
• 24:43 WE WILL SELL THEM AFTER CUTTING THE WOOL
• 24:47 AND GETTING GOOD MONEY OF THE WOOL.
• 24:49 AND THEN WE WILL GO TO THE FIELDS
• 24:51 TO WORK WITH THE HARVEST...
• 24:54 FIRST THE BARLEY...
• 24:56 LATER ON WITH THE WHEAT.
• 24:58 WHEN WE WERE FINISHED WITH THE WHEAT
• 25:01 THE FIGS ARE WAITING FOR US.
• 25:03 AND THEN OF COURSE THE DATES...
• 25:05 THE POMEGRANATES...
• 25:07 AND LASTLY THE OLIVES.
• 25:09 SO ALL THE YEAR AROUND WE ARE OUTSIDE OUR HOMES.
• 25:18 I NEVER GET TIRED OF SEEING ARIE BAR-DAVID.
• 25:21 HE IS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE RESOURCE.
• 25:23 WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN ISRAEL
• 25:26 HE HAD ME IN TEARS AND THEN HE HAD US LAUGHING.
• 25:28 HE'S SUCH A WARM, WONDERFUL MAN AND HE'S BEEN A BELIEVER...
• 25:32 HE'S A SECOND GENERATION BELIEVER
• 25:34 AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING MORE WITH HIM.
• 25:37 HE'LL SHARE SOME MORE WITH US LATER ON IN INTERVIEWS TO COME.
• 25:41 YEAH THAT'S WHAT I'M HOPING TO DO
• 25:42 IS WE'LL GET A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW HIM AGAIN
• 25:44 BECAUSE THE TESTIMONY THAT HE HAS AS A BELIEVER IN THE LAND IS SO INCREDIBLE.
• 25:49 THAT'S WHAT'S BUILDING IN THIS STORY...
• 25:52 IS COMING TO FAITH.
• 25:54 THAT WHAT'S BUILDING IS THE IDEA OF COMING BROKEN AND HUMBLE AND NEEDY BEFORE THE LORD.
• 25:59 AND THAT'S WHAT RUTH IS DOING.
• 26:00 SHE'S COMING BEFORE BOAZ AND SAYING "IF I FIND FAVOR".
• 26:03 SHE'S LOOKING FOR THAT SUSTENANCE
• 26:05 FOR THAT REJUVENATION...
• 26:07 FOR A REVIVAL IN HER LIFE FOR HERSELF AND FOR NAOMI.
• 26:10 I THINK THAT'S HOW WE COME TO THE LORD.
• 26:13 WE DON'T COME FULL OF OURSELVES AND READY TO GO
• 26:15 AND JUST FULL OF GOD, FULL OF OURSELVES...
• 26:18 WE COME BY SAYING "GOD, I'M BROKEN...I'M NEEDY".
• 26:20 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID HE DIDN'T COME FOR THE WHOLE
• 26:23 BUT FOR THE SICK WHO NEED A PHYSICIAN.
• 26:25 WE NEED TO KNOW THAT SOMETHING'S MISSING WITHOUT YESHUA BEING IN OUR HEARTS.
• 26:30 AND THAT'S THE STORY OF RUTH
• 26:32 IS THAT WE CAN FIND OUR BOAZ IN THE HARVEST FIELD♪
• 26:35 AND COME TO WHOLENESS,
• 26:37 COME TO FULLNESS,
• 26:38 BY MEETING WITH YESHUA, THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL AND THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.
• 26:43 WELL...THAT'S IT FOR THIS WEEK.
• 26:44 AND SO WE WANT TO SAY TO YOU,
• 26:46 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:49 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM