Sweet Redemption (4 of 4)
Series: The Romance of Redemption
Ruth 4:1-22
Keith Krell
Lori and I come from a long line of photographers. Over the years Lori has collected pictures and created photo albums of our family. We store these albums away in a closet. When we occasionally get nostalgic, we take the photo albums out and leaf through the pictures. This past month as I was walking through our family room, I caught my son Justin looking through stacks of our family photo albums. Apparently, he was really bored, or he was seeking to relive the memories of his youth all over again. In either case, pictures help us to keep the story alive.
As we've studied through the book of Ruth, we've looked at some pictures in order to keep God's story alive for us. We've seen pictures of God's mysterious sovereignty working through faithful men and women. We've even seen glimpses of God's grace pointing toward Jesus as we've studied Ruth. Now in Ruth 4 we arrive at our final set of pictures, which are suitable for framing.
1. Boaz redeems Ruth (4:1-12). Our story begins with a man on a mission. After Ruth proposed to Boaz and asked him to be her kinsman redeemer, there seemed to be a fairy tale ending on the horizon. But Boaz told Ruth that he just wanted to be friends. No, he actually informed her that there was a nearer relative with the ''first right of redemption.'' No doubt Ruth was crushed, so Naomi told her to patiently wait because Boaz wouldn't rest until he settled the matter of her marriage proposal that very day (3:18). Thus, the words of 4:1a come as no surprise: ''Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there . . .'' Clearly, Boaz wasted no time. He wanted to resolve the legal complications surrounding Ruth's marriage proposal. So he went straight up to the town gate and sat down. The town gate served as a city hall and courthouse where transactions took place and where cases were heard. It was also the local hangout where you might run into someo ...
Series: The Romance of Redemption
Ruth 4:1-22
Keith Krell
Lori and I come from a long line of photographers. Over the years Lori has collected pictures and created photo albums of our family. We store these albums away in a closet. When we occasionally get nostalgic, we take the photo albums out and leaf through the pictures. This past month as I was walking through our family room, I caught my son Justin looking through stacks of our family photo albums. Apparently, he was really bored, or he was seeking to relive the memories of his youth all over again. In either case, pictures help us to keep the story alive.
As we've studied through the book of Ruth, we've looked at some pictures in order to keep God's story alive for us. We've seen pictures of God's mysterious sovereignty working through faithful men and women. We've even seen glimpses of God's grace pointing toward Jesus as we've studied Ruth. Now in Ruth 4 we arrive at our final set of pictures, which are suitable for framing.
1. Boaz redeems Ruth (4:1-12). Our story begins with a man on a mission. After Ruth proposed to Boaz and asked him to be her kinsman redeemer, there seemed to be a fairy tale ending on the horizon. But Boaz told Ruth that he just wanted to be friends. No, he actually informed her that there was a nearer relative with the ''first right of redemption.'' No doubt Ruth was crushed, so Naomi told her to patiently wait because Boaz wouldn't rest until he settled the matter of her marriage proposal that very day (3:18). Thus, the words of 4:1a come as no surprise: ''Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there . . .'' Clearly, Boaz wasted no time. He wanted to resolve the legal complications surrounding Ruth's marriage proposal. So he went straight up to the town gate and sat down. The town gate served as a city hall and courthouse where transactions took place and where cases were heard. It was also the local hangout where you might run into someo ...
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