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and we're humbling our hearts to god save from the [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] now [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] trouble [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus is [Music] is [Music] [Music] hey good evening here we are here we are we made it we are on this side of hurricane nicholas isn't that a blessing i don't i don't know about you but but i went to bed and it was raining and it was raining and the wind was blowing and it kind of reminded me of jonah but but thank the good lord i didn't need the fish and i pray you didn't need to fish either in fact in fact i pray all is well in your corner of the world uh welcome to all of you that are here tonight and uh it's so good to see you i i do not take for granted that you take from your on time uh to come here and so i'm appreciative that you are here and that you're serving and i ought to call everybody's name and just personally say thank you uh i don't i don't want to i don't want to put too much attention on you but but i want you to know that there is a record on how and and and i'm i believe that every once in a while god checks attendance y'all remember little kids i used to check attendance and and when they call your name you have to say present yeah well somehow in the course of heaven tonight i believe just you sitting here you're shouting presence and just you watching you you know you didn't have to take up your time to watch you know you could have been doing something else but there's a spiritual side of you there's a godless side of you that says you know what i need to have some time with god and so god bless you god bless you god bless you we're going to tiptoe in tonight's lesson i'm excited about getting into tonight's lesson uh we're going to tiptoe into it but before we do i want to open with the word of prayer i need prayer i need anybody else need praying they like yeah i i need some prayer in my life i'm trying to do right but i know the effectual of fervent prayer of the righteous men availeth much and and so what a joy to be able to have someone go to the throne room and pray for us and i don't know who i'm talking to tonight maybe somebody tonight you're watching from your ipad and and the truth be told uh there is no power in the house and you're using your last bit of power trying to connect with god and so god bless you uh maybe tonight we're talking to somebody and you got affected by the storm it wasn't just everything is hunky-dory now it's long you've still got some stuff to deal with some roof damage some tree damage some lawn damage and so i don't know where you are tonight but but but i want to start with prayer and and and i want to lift your name up i want god to help us as we talk to god and so i've already asked brother stacy one of our members here one of our faithful members here would he mind going to god in prayer in our behalf come on brother stacy take us in prayer would you let us bow father we just want to say thank you lord we want to say thank you because you are bringing us through storm after storm after storm when we are giving up lord you find a way to give us back our hope our appreciation for how much we love you and what you have done for us in the beginning lord i come praying lord for this living room here lord that this message through ruth bless each and every one of us here and those who are watching uh via facebook instagram or youtube and that they call and understand and study and want to ask that great question what must we do to be saved lord we have an open heart here at the garden oaks church of christ we have love here at the garden oaks church of christ we have appreciation for you here at the garden oaks church of christ and i pray that everything that we say do and do will be pleasing acceptable to your sight lord we come praying for uh thanking you for our leader here john tillman lord as he studied uh would you just crown his head lord and bring out all the good in this book lord that someone somewhere will understand and want to read and learn you more lord lord i pray for those who have been devastated in the storm i pray for those who have been devastated in life i pray for those who are devastated and just don't know where to go lord we all need you lord we all fall short lord be with us and guide us for we love you forevermore this is our prayer in jesus name amen amen amen amen amen hey listen um i want to start our study off tonight and uh i need you to put your thinking cap on put your thinking cap on bro how hurry over here cause you might have to rescue the team okay hurry over here rescue the team thinking cap ladies and gentlemen here is a question i need you to answer don't shout it out just think about it in the book that we call the bible there are 66 books correct 66 books of those 66 books there are two books that are entitled with the name of a woman only two out of the 66. now here is here is here is here is the question you all ready y'all already know look at this a jekyll over there cheating she already look she already look at that talish y'all bro elder you need to talk to sister elder okay yeah she she okay all right what's what's what's the two ladies what are the two books that carry ladies names yes ma'am we got a mic right here come on wait wait the book of esther and the book of ruth oh wait show us some love would you show us a look [Applause] you own it you own it you own it you own it you own it so that that's very interesting that two of the books are named after women i want to continue our study and i want to continue by asking you was esther a hero was ruth a hero what's your what's your answer you say yes you think they were do you think they were you think both esther and ru how many people think esther and ruth were heroes no sheros let's get that right she rose so so so tonight i'm i'm excited because we're going to focus on a shero we have spent the past month or so and we've been examining uh the man named very good very good very good so we've been examining the man named jonah and it's been for me a great great study but but tonight i want to take you to a different place all right and and so let me start this study in a different place i need everybody to go to the book of matthew and i need you in matthew chapter one and i know you're saying that we're studying the book of ruth and he's taking us to matthew yup i'm taking you to matthew matthew chapter 1 is where i would like for you to be and i would like for you to read verse five and verse six and then uh however this might be a question for you bro piles el there might be a question for you why would i start in matthew chapter one verse five and six but before you answer give me your time to let the computer spin i i need somebody to read matthew chapter one verse five and verse six somebody read somebody hold the mic somebody read please matthew chapter one verses five and six and seven beget bowles uh ray kemp and bose begat albeit a ruth and ruby beget jesse and jesse beget david the king and david became the guest solomon of her that had been wife of uriahs anybody anybody want to speculate why in the world would i want to spend our introductory time here in matthew chapter 1. anybody want to speculate all right preach man preach a man come on because it was since she was in the lineage jesus was in the lineage of uh in matthew a boat ruth was mentioned in the lineage of uh david all right very good give give uh the preacher man he kind of choked on it but get a preacher man show him some love so so so ladies and gentlemen if i am not mistaken and i could be mistaken there are 61 names 61 men names that appear in the genealogy in the lineage of jesus christ our savior five five women and one of the women is the woman we're going to study tonight i i think it's so interesting when you start looking at the bloodline the blood of jesus who who's involved in that when god sent his only begotten son to the world and god ordained the genealogies the bloodline who did he put in the bloodline and why did he put in the bloodline and so we're going to tiptoe into a story and we're going to get the backside of the story of this particular verse we're going to look at ruth and we're going to spend time and we're going to be academic we're going to be spiritual we're going to do applications but i want you to see this lady like you've never seen it before anybody got time for a study in the book of rule i hope you're all up for it i'm up for it i'm i'm i'm excited to be able to go and focus on this lady that's in the bloodline of our savior jesus christ our lord listen i have entitled uh this series the best is yet to come the best is yet to come for those of you for those of you that are not members here we have a very strong strong group called the wise eyes the wise owls are a active working group here you'll see them at funerals you'll see them giving out goods to the to the needy on thursday mornings they they love serving but one of the things that the wise owls love to do is have fellowships they'll be open at christian life center and everybody will have a dish and uh the dishes will be so good but one of the things i have learned is that when you finish eating the main course do not discard the fork because the best is yet to come and and and and so and so i don't want you to miss it when we when we dive into this book this book is going to remind all of us that the best is yet to come i i don't i don't know i have no idea what anyone in this group tonight is going through i i don't know what you're going through i i don't but if your world is like my world you know what i thought this wearing the mask stuff was going to be over in a january february time frame i thought this whole thing about the pandemic and all of this stuff after we got the vaccines after we could run and get our vaccine i thought we would be able to go happy go lucky again but can i tell you it's september and they're saying the worst is yet to come and and and so somehow somehow as we all are dealing with the things that we deal with we need to be reminded the best is yet to come some somebody tonight might be struggling and wondering how you gonna pay the apartment no uh somebody might be struggling and worrying about where am i gonna get a job at um we might have somebody worried about the school you know what what what am i gonna do about school uh all sorts of things compound where we are every day and i suggest to you that we need to have a strategy we need to have a rope that we tie tight and hang on when things start to get shaky and and so in just a moment we're going to step into the book of rupert and you're going to see it is shaky as can be another way we would say it in today's language it's as messy as it can be this book is set in a messy setting and so if you got a crisis in your life if you got a moment where you're scratching your head and you're saying you know what this is horrible and it's not going to get any better i need you in this study i need you in this study because when you get in this study this study is going to say to you and it's going to scream have hope it says have hope because god is still on the throne it's going to have hope even if you cause the mess yourself you're in a self-inflicted mess don't worry have hope god is still on the throne if if you are a victim of circumstances somebody you married somebody you thought that would not leave you left you and the kids high and dry you stay in this study because this study is going to say whether you cause the situation of whether the situation was perpetrated upon you god's still on the throne god can fix it and so i i i i need you to see it i need you to feel it i i guess i guess if we wanted to kind of just tiptoe into it i i tiptoe by asking you have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were dealing with a lemon and trying to make lemonade talk back to me anybody anybody you got a lemon in your life it's really a lemon lemon's so sour that when you you know some numbers you can suck and it's not too bad but some numbers you suck a really sour lemon so i need you to see that and i need you to recall it i don't i don't know what the situation is that you recall maybe it was the death of a loved one maybe it was a class you took in school and you tried your best and you failed maybe it was a next-door neighbor that just went belligerent you've had a circumstance in your life that that was not pleasant and you had to deal with it uh maybe if i wanted to prolong and i don't want to prolong i i maybe would ask you how'd you deal with it but i want to take you where i want to go and i want to ask you not did you have a lemon that was a sour lemon that you had to deal with but ever had a bunch of sour lemons at one time i mean you look over here this one's sour and you look over there and that one's out and you everywhere you look it's like what is it that ever happened to you yeah i mean you you're dealing with the children and you're trying your best with the child and so the child is acting up and then you deal with the spouse and the spouse is acting up and then you look at your health and your health is acting up and then you look at your finding i mean you dealing with uh has it ever happened to you has it ever happened to you to the point that you wanted to say you know what i'm done i'm done i'm done bro you've been preaching uh at uh for what 25 30 years where you are right now madisonville how long 29 years so i would ask you and you don't have to answer you'll have to answer have there ever been to a point that you said you know what i'm driving all these miles i'm doing it because i love the lord my car is acting up the people are acting up i i i'm not going to do this anymore can i can i can i just be honest we all get to a point in our lives whether we acknowledge it or not we all get to a point in our lives when we're dealing with things that we set ourselves it's the breaking point that's the breaking point it's like i i can't figure out why this is happening and so if you can if you can pull that thought from the back of your head to the front of your head and remember a time when you were exhausted remember a time when you just felt like you know what i can't go on remember a time when you say you know what this is it i'm up to here i'm out of here then if you can remember that then you are ready to go to the book of ruth ladies and gentlemen may i encourage you to go with me to the book of ruth it is the eighth book in the old testament okay and so when you come out of judges you end up in ruth and and i need you to recall the idea of judges because we're going to be there in just a second so prepare your man start thinking about what happened ruth is the book that follows judges start asking yourself good to see you brother cool start asking yourself what was it like doing the judges conjure up some of the judges you remember because that's going to be critical okay ladies and gentlemen meet me in the book of ruth book book of rule and tonight if the lord says the same we will deal with the first five verses i want to encourage you those of you out there in virtual land i know perhaps you didn't have a moment to really catch up with us and so we're not going to complete the whole chapter tonight we're just going to deal with the first five verses that the lord says the same and it'll give you an opportunity to go back and take some deep dives into the book of ruth don't do shallow stuff don't do shallow stuff see i already know that it's only four chapters in the book of rule you can read those four chapters in five minutes and say i did it done it got it but but but but i promise you if you do that then you're going to miss some of the things that the writer wants to convey the writer conveys a number of things through subtleties and and i want to surface those things so you all can see the book of ruth is everybody there the very first thing we're going to give and you watch it is we're going to get time place time and place he's going to be a good author he's going to he's like a news reporter he's going to give us some time and place of what's occurring and then the people that it is occurring with but but i've entitled it instead of saying give me the time the place and the people i've incur entitled to six crisis remember i was talking about lemons while ago i want you to see six crises that this woman naomi endured right at the opening of the book i want i want you to see her saying out of here can't do it anymore come on let's let's get in the book let me let me read for us let me read for us are you going to read yeah please no please no come on come on please please know man and if you like you can read all five of the verses and then we're going to back up and we're going to go back and we're going to take deep dives in but please be listening for the setting look for the time look for the situation we're going to take deep dives into it first five verses please ma'am in the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land so a man from bethlehem in judah together with his wife and two sons went to live for a while in the country of moab the man's name was elimelech his wife's name was naomi and the names of his two sons was maelon and killian they were ephrathy tights or whatever from bethlehem judah and they went to moab and lived there now elimelech naomi's husband died and she was left with her two sons they married more bite women one named orpah and the other ruth and they lived there about 10 years both malan and kellyanne also died and ruth and naomi was left without her two sons and her husband thank you thank you um ladies and gentlemen um if this is your first time reading this you have to say this is painful you you you have to say i wish i could interview the author and give details behind what happened i it's it's a matter of fact it's it's it's it's one crisis after the um other and when i think about the crisis i think about job you you remember you remember the crisis that job went through uh job is in his house he's he's he's he's he's minding his own business and then there is a meeting up in heaven and satan asked permission to attack job and then the attack begins and one thing after the other collapses in job's life you remember that so so so tonight we're not looking at job tonight we're looking at naomi and and so i want you to take your time and i want you to feel what naomi felt i want you to walk in her sandals if you will all right so come back to the text and i need you to see the first five or six words in verse 1 3 six seven so can some you know would you would you read the first seven verses if you lower your mask uh give me the first three six seven verses seven words in the days where the judge's rules stop so he is he is like a good news reporter he's giving us the setting in the days where the judges ruled i don't put anybody on the spot anybody remember anything that happened no let me give you a hint a good teacher would always give you a hint please go back to one book to the book of judges please go to the last chapter in the book of judges last chapter in the book of judges and what i'd like for you to do is i'd like for you to read the last verse in the last chapter of the book of judges verse 25. in those days there was a king in israel every man did that king every man excuse me in those days there was no king in israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes can anybody help me with that anybody help me with that what's going on here come on say that mike please i i need you to i need you to speak that please had to be chaos i i need you to feel because the author wants us to understand the setting the setting is a very difficult place a very dark side of israel there is no king remember now when you are in joshua which is the book before judges joshua is conquering the land the promised land right you remember and he is he is conquering one a tribe one group after the other and and and so joshua ends his campaign and the book of judges starts right and then when we get out of the book of judges or get into the book of judges there are no kings right and the bible indicates that everybody did whatever they felt like doing please don't miss that the morality in israel is at an all-time high if time would permit and i'm not going to do it to you tonight but if time would permit i would take you to stories in the book of judges where multiple guys raped a lady if if if time would permit i would take you in the book of judges where people offered their children to baal it it is a time where it is helta skelton no laws it's like getting in your car right now and pulling to the intersection there are no stop signs there are no red lights and everybody's doing their own thing it's it's it's crazy the government system of that day was all messed up there was no king though they had entered into a contractual agreement with god in deuteronomy chapter 28 it is almost as if they forgot that they were under god's rulership right and so they're doing anything if welcome welcome welcome so glad to see you my sister so glad to see you uh it it it is almost and and i don't want to take things out of context it's almost like what we're living in right now right but before i came down tonight i was watching the news and the news uh aired a story about a man who was at a filling station with another man and when he opened his door his door being the mercedes benz there came a discussion between the two and before the discussion ended this man who had dinged the mercedes was laying on the ground and i think it was 16 shots 16 shots if you've been watching the news if you've been watching the news they're getting ready to retry a young man that when he was 16 years old they accused him of killing both his mom and his dad it's like there is no law and order i i can do drive-bys i can i can do domestic i can do whatever and so we're in a time where the judge's rule and and and if you remember the story god would bless his people with a judge a samson was a judge anybody remember simpson gideon was a judge anybody remember gideon deborah was a judge and so every time god would hear the cry of his people he would send a good judge right and they would live good while that judge was in office but soon they would go right back to that same low level and god would have to chastise him sometimes he would use the midianites to chastise them sometimes they would steal their crop it's it's a horrible time when naomi rule or naomi live i i need you i need you to see and feel chaos chaos for no reason whatsoever everybody's packing everybody's got a license and everybody's taking the law into their own hands it's the darkest days of israel many scholars would say please come back to the text now and so as we get the setting he says it was a time when the judges ruled i need you also he is trying to give us man we're in the book of ruth eight books in right after the book of uh uh judges we're eight books in and and and we're just sitting in the book of ruth because there's a back story that we're trying to get to and the back story is ruth herself and we're going to figure out how ruth got to the bloodline of jesus okay um ladies and gentlemen i i need you back in the text now we read the first seven verses first seven words now i'd need somebody else to read the next six words he's given the author is trying his best to give us hints somebody read the next six words when when chapter one verse one uh he's already told us it was days when the judges ruled now he's giving us another clue okay there was a famine in the land stop all right so so we got chaos y'all right we got we got okay correll everybody shooting them up everybody doing what they want to do i'm telling you i could take you to a store where they raping people i can take you to a store where they're killing people it is a horrible time in the life of the israelites but not only is it a horrible time in the life of the israelites as it relates to government it's a hard time as it relates to being able to live famine when you think of famine somebody tell me what do you think of when you think of a famine family family yes ma'am food show did you food short all right anybody got a picture in their head i'm gonna put a picture in your head i'm gonna put it's already in there i'm just gonna bring it to the forefront anybody remember when they used to go over to africa all of the time it was really bad in ethiopia they would show those children that were big children as bulging stomach protruding bones protruding and it was obvious that they were malnutrition y'all remember those pictures so when when when the writer's giving us clues the judges are ruling it's chaotic it's chaos you think that we have chaos now when is is it 11 republican states saying that that are hit the hardest by the pandemic or saying i'm going to sue biden because biden says wear masks no it's crazy here but not only is it crazy as it relates to government it's crazy in terms of people can't feed themselves there is no costco no sand no heb no and what i need you to see what i need you to see is there is no rain which means there is no crops which means not only are people starving i need you to see the cat the cattle atlanta that is he he has given us clues he wants us to see the setting and so i i'm telling you it was it was god sent when i got the idea uh and brother timothy wells helped me with the idea the best is yet to come we're in a difficult and i'm i'm talking to somebody right now that that that you are having a difficult time and and maybe as i talk to you tonight maybe your heart is breaking maybe there are tears in your eyes because the truth of the matter is you're trying to put on your big draws and play big girl and you're trying to put on your big draws and play big boy but the truth of the matter is bad this is bad and so i want you to see that this story is set in a bad time but even at a bad time god is still on the throne see see when we get through with this story god is going to take these bitter situations and he's going to make it good my sister and he if he did it for them that don't make me preach tonight if he did it for them so stay in the text it's it's it's chaos in the government it's famine in the land it's bad the crops are not growing the rain is not coming i i need to say this to you if you go back in your head and you research biblical history famines most occur when god is trying to get his people's attention for the past month or so we looked at jonah and when god was trying to get jonah's attention he sent a storm right right y'all remember that right play like we did you know come on you remember the storm right all right so so listen over and over in the bible when god wants to get his kids attention a god sends a famine and and i can give you new testament stories i give you old testament stories let's do an old testament story real quick anybody remember king ahab and remember jezebel and remember the 450 prophets of baal on mount carmel and there is no rain it had not been rained for three years the crops are horrible elisha comes up to mount karma and he says to the people well you pray for rain then he starts to crack jokes ah your god must be on vacation or something right these people are serving bail the text leads us to believe that that that the children of israel have been off serving baal and god is trying to get their attention and so god allows a famine to come you get it i i need to keep going and and i need you to see the next two four six seven give me the next seven words seven words because that's how you pull your your bible up give me the next seven words now the next seven words and a man from bethlehem and judea said do it again and a man from bethlehem in judea stop so now we've got the city we got the setting and i try to make it come alive for you we got chaos in the government ranks we got poverty on on an individual wide scale and now we are zeroing in on a city called help me what do you know anybody anybody somebody what do you know about the city of bethlehem where what uh who was born there wow anybody know anybody else was born i tell you somebody else was born there ruth and boaz's son we'll get to that but ruth and boaz has a son and their son has another son and that son has another son and that son his name what king david king david is born in the city of bethlehem and so ladies and gentlemen it is with excitement that we tiptoe into bethlehem god has bethlehem in his scope he's going to use bethlehem it's it's like it's starting now it's starting now so we're in bethlehem can i tell you what bethlehem judea means bethlehem means house of bread bethlehem means house of bread judah means praise ladies and gentlemen we've got a famine in the house of bread where there is no praise bethlehem happens to be one of the cities that are that's in the country of israel and so ladies and gentlemen if we've got a famine in the house of bread bethlehem the city in israel think about all of israel these are these are crisis this is the mess this is the situation that naomi is dealing with don't don't don't minimize what naomi is dealing with and so we've got the setting now i need you to see their idea so please complete verse number one anybody and you can read the whole verse if you like queen come on somebody somebody come on lord at mass and come on read all of one now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled that there was a famine in the land and a certain man of bethlehem judah went to sojourn in the country of mohammed he and his wife and his two sons stop all right so we haven't got names yet right but we see a decision right what's the decision help me with it we're getting out of here we're getting out of here it's chaotic as it relates to government it's it's poverty stricken as it relates to food this stuff is bad we're getting out of here we're leaving the house of bread but where are we going the arthur's playing with us y'all can i tell you where my web is moab is 50 miles from bethlehem moab has an interesting beginning y'all got time to see the beginning i promise you once you see the beginning you'll always remember moab please go with me quickly to genesis chapter 19. i need you to see the beginning i need you to see the beginning come on go with me to genesis chapter 19. genesis chapter 19. i i need i need you to see the beginning um sister jeffrey i want you to read and uh because there is a lot of reading and if you get to a word that you don't can't pronounce just say big word and keep going where am i starting you're starting in genesis chapter 19. i need you to begin at verse 30 and just read until you get to the end of the chapter have a good time but everybody needs to listen because i got a question after we i got some questions after we get through come on please okay lot and his two daughters left zoar and settled in the mountains where he was afraid to stay in zoar he and his two daughters lived in a cave one day the older daughter said to the younger our father is old and there is no man around here to give us children as in the custom all over the earth let's get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father that night they got their father to drink wine and the old drunk and the older daughter went in and slept with him he was not aware of it when she laid down or when she got up the next day the older daughter said to the younger last night i slept with my father let's get him to drink wine again tonight and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father so they got their father to drink wine that night also and the younger daughter went in and slept with him again he was not aware of it when she laid down or when she got up so both of lot's daughters became pregnant by their father the older daughter had a son and she named him moab he is the father of the moabites of today the younger daughter also had a son and she named him being a me as he is the father of the ammonites of today so hey here's a question here's a question let's see have you got any money i need i need twenty dollars if you can answer this question correctly i got 20 okay was lot the father of moab or was lot the grandfather of moab he was a father how many people say he was the father how many people say he was a grandfather huh uh too many people answered that correctly he was the grandfather and the father what what a horrible start horrible stuff he was an innocent bystander can i tell you that both the moabites and the ammonites became starch enemies of israel i i want you to forget i want you so so wait a minute wait don't forget now they're getting ready to leave the house of bread huh they're getting ready to leave a place where there is a tabernacle they're getting ready to leave a place where there is god's presence they're getting away getting ready to leave a place where god is providing and they are making a decision it's better over on the other side do you think this going in well anybody think it's going to end well no well we're going to run out of time somebody tell me what time ooh i'm i'm in trouble because i'm going to finish this first kings do i want first kings i think i want first kings chapter 11. i think that's what i want i think that's what i want first kings can you give me chapter 11 real quick chapter 11. come on chapter 11. first kings chapter 11 real quick first kings chapter 11 first kings chapter 11 real quick i will need verse 1 and verse 2. first kings chapter 11 verse 1 and 2. somebody quickly read it for me but king solomon loved many strange women together with the daughter of pharaoh women of moabites ammonites idolites zidanes and hittites of the nation concerning with the lord said unto the children of israel ye shall not go to them neither shall they come in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods solomon cave unto these in love so ladies and gentlemen please please and we'll get to this in just a second but i need you to see that that that they're leaving the house of bread they're leaving a place where god has told them to be and they're going to a place where somebody says i can provide better for my family i need to pause for a second and i'm running out of time i need i need for all of the men to hear this i do not know what is in the limolex head maybe elimelech says i am a provider and my main role in life is to provide can i tell you i disagree with that i think our main role in life is to fulfill three functions we are the priest we are the provider and we are the protector those are the three roles that a man ought to find himself in and so he seems to me left the idea i'm a priest and he took his family to an enemy country i could take you to so many more scriptures where the moabite women seduce the israelites i i i could just show you over and over in the scripture that what elimelech is doing is he is leaving a place of refuge and he is moving out on his own but i need to stop and i need to ask you how many times is it that we decide we decide you know what this will work for me i know this is what god said but i got my own man when we step over the will of god into our will be careful we're headed for trouble i got to go back to the texas i'm going to finish these five verses please go back to the book of ruth ladies and gentlemen what we're about to see now in these next verses is we're about to see the prodigal family right the prodigal family now you have been uh introduced in times past to the prodigal son he is in luke chapter 15 right he goes into the fall country when he gets into the fall country he finds himself in the pig pen right come come come because god is going to work on this family please begin reading at verse number 2. the man's name was come on okay verse number two the man's name was elimelech his wife's name naomi stop so eliminate means god is king for some reason another this man's got the right name yeah but he's got the wrong action you can have the right name on the outside of the building you can wear the right name but you could have the wrong actions elimelech decides i'm getting out of here and he takes his wife with him his wife is named naomi naomi means pleasant and they had two sons come on read some more and the names of his two sons were maelon and killian all right now one one commentary says that that that these boys were sickly their names indicate they were sickly i don't know about that but study it their names indicate that they were they were sickly men or sickly boys come on come on read some more they were ephratites from bethlehem judah and they went to moab and lived there all right so here we go we've got family leaving we got naomi it it looks good i mean the american dream today is have a child and uh have a wife and two children not have a wife and six children proposed five okay five four five five his cup runs over this cup runs over okay so so so so so this is the dream they got two kids and so they leave a place of blessing and they go to another place there are times when we go places that god will not bless us there are times we end up in places that we want to be blessed but the blessings of god won't come there this is the prodigal family in the prodigal country watch what happens one thing happens after look look look from the eyes of naomi verse three somebody verse three then elemental leg naomi's husband died and she was left in her two sons so ladies and gentlemen they're in enemy territory right there is no welfare system you can't get a welfare check out of the mailbox uh what you depend upon is you depend upon your young bulls to support you and so now all of a sudden her young bull elimelech is gone right is is god saying the naomi come home baby it is is right there eliminate took him out there is god saying to her maybe enough is enough come home now how how long and how many times does god have to i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know sometimes we go through situations and sometimes we end up in places and god is gently trying to tell us you don't belong here baby you don't blow you you don't belong with that wild crowd you don't belong at that club you don't belong at that party you really don't belong with that man you really don't belong slow down but but sometimes we're so bent and so determined but listen naomi could have packed her bags and her boys and said we're out of here we're going back home y'all i'll have uncle here i don't have auntie here i don't have anybody here all i got is y'all and they don't like us because we're from israel but she stays there right so so i need you to begin to ask yourself very quickly how old do you think uh the boys were when the daddy died were were they five years old were were they seven years old were they little guys so so naomi's got a naomi's got sister would you appreciate it naomi's got to take care of herself and she got to take care of her family my man's gone it's gonna get worse somebody somebody read the next next verse please now they took wives of the women of moab stop anybody got a problem with me somebody help me help somebody help me anybody got a problem here what's the problem huh these women don't know god these women don't worship the same god in fact when ruth gets ready to tell them and when they when they're on the road to bethlehem ruth tells him you go home to your mama go home to your daddy go home to your gods well i'm sorry i said ruth i meant naomi now homie tell them you go you so sometimes and people hold it against me but but i if if i'm gonna counsel somebody and they want to get married then one of the one of the criteria for me is they need to worship together don't give me five dollars under the table or give me 25 under the table and and and and she is this religion and you this religion and it's going to work out i tell people that what you need is you need god to be the sinner the glue because sooner or later both sides are going to shake and if you don't have god as the glue you're going to mess this thing up and so here they are they are marrying women that don't know god somebody one of one of the commentaries i read says now that's one of the reasons that naomi had the discussion on the road to bethlehem trying to send both those women back because she didn't want the embarrassment of going back to bethlehem with those foreign women it's like everybody's going to look at a tangle light already right and then she come bringing those women that are strange women there so so it's a problem element like you the priest now you you're gone but you left the spiritual place and now look at your boys so somewhere we need to be reminded don't don't don't spend all your time working don't don't spend all your time trying to get this and get that because you got to be able to pour into your kids making sense to anybody so so let's let's keep going let's keep going so now now the boys have grown up she missed the opportunity to get out of there the boys have grown up the boys have grown up they married women now come on read some more the name of the name of the one was arfa arpa and the name of the other was other ruth wait a minute the name of the one was orpah and the name of the other ruth and they dwelt there about 10 years okay come on come on read some of it i gotta end this thing then both mylon and chileon also died so the woman survived her two sons and her husband so quick question um anybody um anybody see the three graves in the graveyard you see the three great you you see the three women with black veils on and black outfits on you you see it now i'm just gonna say in the end god has got god's been chastising me i i i think and i and i've experienced that there have been times when i have been acting out of my mind and god has allowed situations and occurrences to come in my life and and i think what he was trying to do is he was trying to say john i love you too much to let you destroy yourself like this i got plans for you you're out here in the street you're out here running while john and the truth was told all of us have been in places where god has said i love you too much to let you do this to yourself this this story is steeped into a very very painful uh place i i need to end and i'm gonna end by just touching verse six i'm not going to verse six we'll be in verse 6 next week verse 6 says naomi is out in the field and what happens when she's out in the field come on somebody help me she heard some good news what's the good news i'm going home i'm going home you remember the prodigal son he came to his senses you remember what he said he says in my father's house when when when you come to your senses and you leave the place even if it is a self-inflicted wound god can still deal with you when when when naomi realized you know what baby i'm getting out of here with or without you she put god in a place where god could deal with her as long as she was if you will stubborn and rebellious and living in moab god says you know what that's your thing you do your thing i i love the fact that in verse 6 it's a story of repentance i'm going home to the father i i need to end tonight maybe maybe somebody is listening maybe you just popped in and you listening tonight and maybe the truth of the matter is uh your relationship with god is strained you've been dabbling you've been doing things that you have not been have not uh should not have been doing and and and so tonight is a night that you can say you know what i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired i'm i'm sick and tired of going through this storm i i believe that what god wants me to do is come closer to me closer to him and so i'm going to get up from where i am and i'm running home maybe the truth be told i'm talking to somebody in the group tonight maybe maybe you're tiptoeing out and you touching things that god is saying don't do that and it's a light slap now it's a light slap now but but if you don't wake up the life slap will be a heart slap and and so it's it's the idea that naomi's gonna come to a census and we're gonna get excited next week but we got some more tough times to go through because she's got to go back and reintroduce herself but but but naomi's going home i love the fact that we've got a god that we can come home to huh i don't care how hard it is i don't care if life has just abused us i don't care whether or not if we have abused ourselves we got a god that says okay baby you want to come home come home come home i pray tonight that uh this study and you come back and be with us next week i pray to this study because because because the best is yet to come and and we won't get to the best but i pray you'll be blessed or you were blessed tonight thank you for all of you coming but would you please have the last comments and would you please close us out you know when we read the first five six chapters it really seems almost like a death worship that every way this family turn seems to be a wrong move but by the time we get to the end of this chapter into this book we'll find that god was working throughout the whole process and so sometimes it seems like we're in the bottom of the pit and we can't look up yes but you never know god may have you there for a reason to take you somewhere else so god is good let's pray righteous father in heaven god we thank you we thank you for all you do for us lord we even thank you for our journeys that you allow us to go on sometimes to father when we're in the midst of our journey we find ourselves in a place that we didn't want to be but dear father help us to hold on to your unchanging lord and if we just hold on to your unchanging hand that you will bring us to the other side so help us dear father to commit our thoughts and our words and our actions to you and allow you to guide and direct our lives the father for some of us even in this audience to realize that they've taken the wrong path and they're trying to find their way to you lord we ask you to forgive us of our sins whether they've been by words thoughts are indeed and help us the father to correct our wrong action and follow after you dear father we pray that you keep us and protect us and guide us and continue to bless us until we meet again these are so many other blessings we asked of you in jesus name we pray packed my amen and i'm headed for the gospel train and i know the train is on time because the lord is never late i got my ticket and i'm gonna get home boys and for those of you that are out there listening in the audience you need to know that this facility that we worship in is a facility that has the capacity of roughly 2 000 people and so if you say 25 occupancy i believe you're in the neighborhood of four to five hundred people and so as i glimpse the audience today there are roughly 100 or so people so that means 400 more of you 300 more of you could come and we'd have plenty enough space to worship [Music] break up my god to experience heaven's fees singing breaking always praising things we can't comprehend because i got all i need and i'm on a mission to bring people oh yeah so pack your [Music] is [Music]

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