This is the Bible Book Club. And we're so excited to be in one of my favorite books, The Book of Ruth.

Welcome to the club.

Last episode, we read Chapter 3 of Ruth. Naomi played Matchmaker, which was a crazy plan,

and Ruth got dressed up and lay at Boaz's feet while he was sleeping on the threshing floor.

It was a very risky move for Ruth, but she agrees willingly.

She must have been scared to death because Boaz sees that fear in her eyes, but the plan worked.

Boaz then realizes that he is the answer to his own prayer and that God would reward Ruth for her love and loyalty to Naomi.

However, there's a hitch for Boaz to become the Kingsman Redeemer, the relative closer to Naomi than he must first decline to do that deed.

Okay, this is Ruth for our final episode. I love this book. I've titled

this, The Seed is Planted. In this episode, we will come to the climatic end of our story.

We began the book of Ruth with a story of famine and death, and we will end the Book of Ruth with a story of provision and

birth. The Book of Ruth is, above all else, a story of redemption. God is in the business

of redeeming what was lost. So starting in chapter four, scene one, Boaz goes to town to win a wife. This scene takes

place at the city gate, a common practice for the day. The area around the gate was usually a

spacious enough place for people to assemble. It was also a place where business was conducted

as people went in and out all day

long. So if you wanted to find someone without a cell phone, this was the first place to look.

We pick up from chapter three. The last verse we read was from Naomi to Ruth instructing her to

just wait for Boas because the man would not rest

until the matter was settled today. Naomi was right. Our chapter begins with the word,

meanwhile, which implies that even as Naomi spoke these words to Ruth, Boaz was already acting.

He went straight to the city gate with one intention. He was going to marry Ruth and redeem this family.

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