Embodying God's Kindness: Lessons from Ruth and Boaz
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"Have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually be with Jesus here on earth? I know some of us talk about what it would be like to be with Jesus. But have you ever actually thought about what it would be like to be with Jesus? Like, first of all, I don't know if you know this or not, but multiple times that the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell the story that Jesus actually knew what the disciples were thinking, that Jesus actually knew the intent of their heart. So how many of you now would like to be around Jesus, knowing that he knows your thoughts, knowing that he knows your motives, knowing when you tell little white lies, or knowing when you are doing something with the looking good on the outside, but you have another intent on the inside, that he would know that about you, and maybe even sometimes even call that out." [00:33:18]
"Boaz goes way beyond what is required. The old covenant law, the law of Moses in Israel's, in the nation of Israel, they were required to do this. They were, they were obligated to do this under the law to take care of those who were without. In fact, if you owned a land in Israel, you were required to give a certain percentage of that land on the outside of the land to those who were poor and who were vulnerable, who were people like Ruth, who's a widow, and it was that they would come and glean on the edges of your land. It was sort of like Israel's welfare system, where somebody could come and no one would go without, and all Boaz had to, under the law, was allow her to glean from the field." [00:45:22] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
"And Jesus is going to show that when he teaches us in the Sermon on the Mount, that we would love our enemies. The gospel, the gospel begs us to move in that position. We see in the book of Galatians how the Jews and the Gentiles, Paul tells the Jews and the Gentiles to eat together. That's hesed. Hesed breaks family barriers, racial barriers. Chesed causes us to love when someone has hurt us, even when we struggle to forgive that person. Chesed causes us not just to forgive, but Chesed also says that we will be kind and we will be generous, even to those who have wronged us." [00:59:39] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
"Yes, we get eternal life. Yes, we're saved from sin. But the gospel is not that reductionistic. It actually says you get to live as an image bearer of Him. And church, who might you mirror God's tested today? And some of you might say, well, Ben, I hear you talk about love and kindness, and that's great and everything, but that's just not my really personality. I'm a little bit more stern. I'm a little bit more harsh with how my approach is. That's just a little bit more for touchy -feely type people, right?" [01:04:22] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"Have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually be with Jesus here on earth? I know some of us talk about what it would be like to be with Jesus. But have you ever actually thought about what it would be like to be with Jesus? Like, first of all, I don't know if you know this or not, but multiple times that the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell the story that Jesus actually knew what the disciples were thinking, that Jesus actually knew the intent of their heart. So how many of you now would like to be around Jesus, knowing that he knows your thoughts, knowing that he knows your motives, knowing when you tell little white lies, or knowing when you are doing something with the looking good on the outside, but you have another intent on the inside, that he would know that about you, and maybe even sometimes even call that out." [00:33:18]
"Boaz goes way beyond what is required. The old covenant law, the law of Moses in Israel's, in the nation of Israel, they were required to do this. They were, they were obligated to do this under the law to take care of those who were without. In fact, if you owned a land in Israel, you were required to give a certain percentage of that land on the outside of the land to those who were poor and who were vulnerable, who were people like Ruth, who's a widow, and it was that they would come and glean on the edges of your land. It was sort of like Israel's welfare system, where somebody could come and no one would go without, and all Boaz had to, under the law, was allow her to glean from the field." [00:45:22] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
"And Jesus is going to show that when he teaches us in the Sermon on the Mount, that we would love our enemies. The gospel, the gospel begs us to move in that position. We see in the book of Galatians how the Jews and the Gentiles, Paul tells the Jews and the Gentiles to eat together. That's hesed. Hesed breaks family barriers, racial barriers. Chesed causes us to love when someone has hurt us, even when we struggle to forgive that person. Chesed causes us not just to forgive, but Chesed also says that we will be kind and we will be generous, even to those who have wronged us." [00:59:39] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
"Yes, we get eternal life. Yes, we're saved from sin. But the gospel is not that reductionistic. It actually says you get to live as an image bearer of Him. And church, who might you mirror God's tested today? And some of you might say, well, Ben, I hear you talk about love and kindness, and that's great and everything, but that's just not my really personality. I'm a little bit more stern. I'm a little bit more harsh with how my approach is. That's just a little bit more for touchy -feely type people, right?" [01:04:22] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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