In order to redeem someone, there are certain requirements you must meet.

In this message from David Platt, we'll see how Boaz fulfilled these requirements in Ruth,

Chapter 3, and 4.

We'll also see how Boaz's act of kindness pointed to something

or someone much greater.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast. The latest sermons from teacher,

author, and pastor David Platt delivered weekly.

As always you can find more gospel-centered missions-minded resources at our website

radical.net. The story of Ruth ultimately points us to what God has done for us through Christ our

Redeemer. We have been brought from death to life and from despair to hope. Here's

David with part three of an Advent sermon titled Hope for

the Herding. If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does you can

look on with let me invite you to open with me to

Ruth chapter three is the book of Ruth not incredible like today we come to

part three of three in this lead up to Christmas in the book of Ruth and

for those of you who are wondering what in the world this story has to do with

Christmas today is your day because today we come to the climax of this story to the ending of all

endings and the surprise of all surprises. Have you ever read a book or watched a

movie and something happens at the end that makes you look

back at everything that happened before it and think, now it all makes sense.

Well that's going to happen today in a way that I pray will encourage

and maybe change your life. I know there are people visiting here today.

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