"Being a Boaz pt 3: Everything is in a Name" - By Rev. Troy Benton

Sunday,

October 15, 2017

 

Ruth 2:19–23

(CEB):

 

¹⁹ Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? May the one who noticed you be blessed.”

She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

²⁰ Naomi replied to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, who hasn’t abandoned his faithfulness with the living or with the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is one of our close relatives; he’s one of our redeemers.”

²¹ Ruth the Moabite replied, “Furthermore, he said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they’ve finished all of my harvest.’”

²² Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It’s good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, so that men don’t assault you in another field.”

²³ Thus she stayed with Boaz’s young women, gleaning until the completion of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

 

Psalm 78:35-39

They would remember that God was their rock,
    that the Most High was their redeemer.
³⁶ But they were just flattering him with lip service.
    They were lying to him with their tongues.
³⁷ Their hearts weren’t firmly set on him;
    they weren’t faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ But God, being compassionate,
    kept forgiving their sins,
    kept avoiding destruction;
    he took back his anger so many times,
    wouldn’t stir up all his wrath!
³⁹ God kept remembering that they were just flesh,
    just breath that passes and doesn’t come back. 

 

Romans 3:24

²⁴ but all are treated as righteous freely by his grace because of a ransom that was paid by Christ Jesus.