Just as Ruth in the Old Testament had Boaz, you and I have Jesus to stand in our place.

Listen to Adrian Rogers.

Listen, that's what Jesus did when He saved us.

He stands in our shoes.

He stands in our shoes.

He takes the sin, the hell, the degradation, all that we have coming. He takes

the price that we cannot pay. And Jesus says, I will stand in your shoes as Boaz stood in the

shoes of that nearer kinsman. He said, I'll do for you what you can't do for yourself.

Welcome to Love Worth Finding featuring the timeless teaching of Pastor Adrian Rogers.

Today we conclude Pastor Rogers' dynamic study of the Book of Ruth.

And as we've learned in the past few weeks, Ruth and Boez's story is a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ's redeeming love for the church.

Ruth, Chapter 4, shares a picture of our salvation in Christ, who stepped in to become our

kinsman Redeemer.

What does that mean?

If you have your Bible, turn to Ruth, Chapter 4, as we hear part two of redeeming love. Well, friend, the story that we have today has for us

a happy ending. It doesn't start happily, but it ends happily. It starts with a funeral, but it ends

with a wedding. And this is the happy ending to this story. It is a wonderful story about two people who get married,

and we just feel like we want to add a last verse to this book and have it saying they lived happily

ever after. It is the story of a marriage between a woman whose name is Ruth and a man whose name is Boaz. Now, it's a wonderful

love story in and of itself, but Ruth was a Moabitus and Boaz was an Israelite, and Ruth was a stranger

and alien. She was from Moab, which was a nation. I hated an hateful nation that had a curse upon it,

and she was alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel, and yet Boaz redeemed her, brought her in,

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