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CHAPTER 4
WHAT WE SHOULD SEE
• God
– God’s providence
– God’s hesed
• Naomi
– Naomi’s hesed
– The Prodigal's
restoration
• Boaz
– Boaz’s hesed
– Christ
• Ruth
– Ruth’s hesed
– The Church
GOD’S PROVIDENCE:
– God knows and has predetermined what we will
freely choose and we are held accountable for our
choices.
– God is morally perfect and infinitely wise. He has
a morally justifiable reason for everything He
allows, but doesn’t tell us why.
– Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God
works for the good of those who love him, who
have been called according to his purpose.
GOD’S CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES
• INCOMMUNICABLE: One, Triune, Creator,
Sustainer, Sovereign, Infinite, Independent,
Eternal, Infallible, Unchangeable, Judge,
Transcendent, Omnipresent, Omniscient,
Omnipotent
• COMMUNICABLE (hesed): Holy, Righteous, Loyal,
Trustworthy, Truthful, Faithful, Honest, Loving,
Kind, Merciful, Gracious, Gentle, Humble, Patient,
Good
• God’s hesed
– Exodus 34:6 The LORD passed before him and
proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness…
– Holy, Righteous, Loyal, Trustworthy, Truthful,
Faithful, Honest, Loving, Kind, Merciful,
Gracious, Gentle, Humble, Patient, Good
• Believer’s hesed (Fruit)
– Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there
is no law.
– Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit,
but in humility count others more significant than
yourselves. 5 Have this mind among yourselves,
which is yours in Christ Jesus
RUTH CHAPTER 4
• Scene 1: 4:1-12
– The court proceedings
• Scene 2: 4:13-16
– In the home of Boaz and Ruth
• Scene 3: 4:17-22
– The Narrator’s Epilogue
4:1 Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat
down there. And behold, the redeemer, of
whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said,
“Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he
turned aside and sat down. 2 And he took ten
men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down
here.” So they sat down.
3 Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has
come back from the country of Moab, is selling the
parcel of land that belonged to our relative
Elimelech. 4 So I thought I would tell you of it and
say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and
in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you
will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me,
that I may know, for there is no one besides you to
redeem it, and I come after you.”
And he said, “I will redeem it.” 5 Then Boaz said,
“The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi,
you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of
the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the
dead in his inheritance.” 6 Then the redeemer said,
“I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own
inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself,
for I cannot redeem it.”
7 Now this was the custom in former times in
Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to
confirm a transaction, the one drew off his
sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the
manner of attesting in Israel. 8 So when the
redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he
drew off his sandal.
9 Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people,
“You are witnesses this day that I have bought from
the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech
and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.
10 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I
have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name
of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the
dead may not be cut off from among his brothers
and from the gate of his native place. You are
witnesses this day.”
11 Then all the people who were at the gate and
the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD
make the woman, who is coming into your house,
like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the
house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah
and be renowned in Bethlehem, 12 and may your
house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore
to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD
will give you by this young woman.”
13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he
went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and
she bore a son. 14 Then the women said to Naomi,
“Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day
without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in
Israel! 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and a
nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who
loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given
birth to him.” 16 Then Naomi took the child and laid him
on her lap and became his nurse.
GOD’S PROVIDENCE – HESED IS
NOT JUST FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
17 And the women of the neighborhood gave him a
name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They
named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father
of David. 18 Now these are the generations of Perez:
Perez fathered Hezron, 19 Hezron fathered Ram, Ram
fathered Amminadab, 20 Amminadab fathered Nahshon,
Nahshon fathered Salmon, 21 Salmon fathered Boaz,
Boaz fathered Obed, 22 Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse
fathered David.
GOD’S PROVIDENCE – HESED IS
NOT JUST FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to
David were fourteen generations, and from David to the
deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from
the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen
generations. 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place
in this way… 20…“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to
take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her
is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you
shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from
their sins.”
CHRIST IS THE ONE DIRECT MEDIATOR
OF GOD’S HESED
• Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
• Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only Son, that whoever believes in him should
not perish but have eternal life.
PEOPLE ARE INDIRECT
MEDIATORS OF GOD’S HESED
Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming,
declares the LORD, when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and the house of
Judah, 33 But this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, declares
the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will
write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.
PEOPLE ARE INDIRECT
MEDIATORS OF GOD’S HESED
1 Thessalonians 2:7 But we were gentle among
you, like a nursing mother taking care of her
own children. 8 So, being affectionately
desirous of you, we were ready to share with
you not only the gospel of God but also our
own selves, because you had become very
dear to us.
WHY PEOPLE ARE INDIRECT
MEDIATORS OF GOD’S HESED
• Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do far
more abundantly than all that we ask or think,
according to the power at work within us, 21 to
him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations, forever and ever.
Amen.
• 1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink,
or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
PRINCIPLES
• Boaz is a role model for men on how to love (hesed)
their wives like Christ loves (hesed) the church.
• Ruth is a role model for women on how to respect
(hesed) their husbands like the church respects (hesed)
Christ.
• Naomi is a role model for prodigals that God is good all
the time.
• God is the Divine Weaver displaying His Glory over all
creation from the beginning to the end.
APPLICATIONS
• Are you like Orpah and Mr. So and So or like Ruth
and Boaz?
• Are you a mediator of God’s hesed to those
around you?
• Do you trust God’s Invisible Hand even when you
don’t understand?
• What is most important to you: What you want
or what glorifies our LORD?