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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Thank you. I'm sure all of us have said or done things that we have come to deeply regret. |
0:31.8 | And if that describes you, take heart, because today on Truth for Life we'll learn how God uses even our wrong choices |
0:38.6 | for ultimate good and for his glory. |
0:42.6 | Alistair Begg is continuing our study of Ruth and her kinsman redeemer Boaz. |
0:48.3 | We're looking at the opening verses in Ruth Chapter 3. |
0:57.6 | For the in Ruth chapter 3. For those of you who like to write stories or have the responsibility to write stories, |
1:02.4 | this is a wonderful story. |
1:05.6 | This is marked by a fascinating brevity, by a skillful use of language, and in it all, leading forward the |
1:13.8 | reader, not answering all the questions immediately, holding out possibilities, introducing little |
1:19.8 | themes, creating ideas in the back of people's minds, and leaving us at the end of chapter |
1:24.9 | two wondering, I wonder if Boaz and Ruth are going to get |
1:29.1 | together. I wonder what will happen next. Now Naomi at the end of chapter two had informed |
1:36.6 | Ruth that Boas was a close relative. Indeed, in verse 10 of chapter two, she had said to him that he is |
1:44.1 | one of our kinsman redeemers. |
1:47.2 | There are two Old Testament pictures that need to be understood as the background to the events of chapter 3. |
1:53.8 | Incidentally, we will only go five verses into chapter 3 now. |
1:57.9 | But the two Old Testament practices are number one, that of the leveret, L-E-V-I-R-A-T-E. The noun is a lever. |
2:12.5 | Not a lever that you would use on a machine, but it is a Latin word which translates the Hebrew for |
2:19.7 | brother-in-law. And it is the leveret process which, according to the Mosaic law, was to regulate |
2:30.5 | marriage customs when the man of the house died. So that God, in his wonderful provision, |
2:39.3 | had determined that rather than leaving everything up to the women fancy of people, |
2:45.1 | if there was a death within the family framework, then he had determined the way in which that should be addressed. |
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