<TITLE>15. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 She laid at Boaz's feet, and when he woke and seen the confidence. My, one of these days, He will see the confidence that His Church has got in Him. When He seen the confidence, He taken His own robe, Holy Spirit, spread it over her. It was getting cool, and he spread the--his robe over her, and sent her on her road. And so did the people on the day of Pentecost, the new Church, when they went out there and--out there, wasn't ashamed, and stood under there waiting for ten days according to His Word. Christ spread His Robe, the Holy Ghost, over the Church, to protect her and warm her, to keep your heart right, warmed up in fellowship until the full time of redemption.
He said, "Now, there's one thing has to happen yet. Before you fall heir to everything, the whole harvest and all," he said, "I have to do the work of a kinsman, before I can call you mine."
And so, the work of a kinsman, most every scholar knows what it was to do. The first thing, it had to be a relative, had to be kinfolks, had to be a close relation.

L-52 Now, how is God, from Eden, when His people was lost through the law of redemption... Look at the beautiful picture. If we just had time to go through it. I'm pressed terribly. So bear with me.
But look, in order for God to redeem His human race, God had to come down and be made a human too. Christ Jesus was God manifested in the flesh. You see what I mean? God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. God was made kinfolks to the human race, because He was made flesh and dwelled among us.

L-53 Then he had to be worthy. And he was worthy. He was the lord of the harvest. And another thing, he had to be--had to be the right kind of a man. And Jesus was.
And then what he had to do after that, was call the elders of the city on the outside of the gate, and then he had to lift up an ensign, plucking off his shoe and declaring it before all the elders of the city, that he had redeemed Naomi. And in order to redeem, or get Ruth, he had to redeem Naomi, and all that she had in order to get Ruth.
That's the reason Jesus came to the Jews alone. He had to redeem the Jew in order to get the Gentile Bride. You see what I mean? He had to redeem her, and there had to be a public testimony made, and the requirement was death. So God came down and lived in His own Son, tabernacled here on earth, and was led outside the gates of Jerusalem, the principal city of the world at that day, religiously speaking, and there was lifted up between heavens and earth, before Caiaphas, the high priest, and all the elders, to show that He had redeemed the Church with His own Blood.

L-54 What did He redeem? He redeemed your soul from hell. He redeemed and brought back everything that Adam lost, when he put you in the pawn shop. Jesus Christ, on Calvary was your Kinsman Redeemer that redeemed you from every curse of the devil. He redeems your soul. He redeems your sick body. He redeems your weary, dreary spirit. He brought you happiness. He brought you joy. He brought you... That's what the redemption brought you, brought you peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, meekness, power, the Holy Spirit, brought you Divine healing. All these things Jesus Christ brought to you, because He was our Kinsman Redeemer.
He came to the earth. He suffered as a man. He was in tempted in all manners like we are, yet, without sin. He become a perfect Kinsman Redeemer. He suffered in His body, bore our infirmities in His body to take it away, and came down to become kinfolks. What is it? God condescending, coming down.


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