<TITLE>13. Par 106-116</TITLE>L-106 Ruth making the decision. Now, Ruth serving under her decision. (Now, watch just a minute.) Now, she goes into the field to glean.
Now, her mother told her, which the Old Testament telling the New, you know. Her mother told her, said, "We've got a kinsman, and his name is Boaz. He's a rich man. And He's a near kinsman. You go to his field and perhaps... Don't you go to another field; go to his field."
How the Holy Spirit tells us not to get off into some kind of a--a church book, some kind of a catechism, but go to God's Field, the Old Testament, the Bible. Don't say, "Well, we'll say this. And we'll say this for a prayer. We'll have this." Stay right with the Field. Go right in It, 'cause He's the near Kinsman.

L-109 God's Word, the Old Testament, is the Near Kinsman to the New. The Old church is a mother to the New church. See? The Christian, a believer...
"Don't go to another field. Stay right in his field. And maybe someday you might find grace with him."
And one day while she was out in the field, this rich young man by the name of Boaz, a ruler, a wealthy man, came by and he saw her. Oh, when he saw her, he fell in love with her. He thought she was a wonderful woman. He liked her character. You remember he said, "I know, and then the people knows, that thou art a virtuous woman." Made her decision clean and clear, come right back over and lived just exactly what she said she'd do.

L-111 In otherwise, today they'd say, "We know that you're a Christian. We know that thou art a man of God, 'cause no man could do these miracles except God be with him."
That's what Nicodemus said to Jesus, said, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God. No man could do the things that you do except God be with him," when he could see Him set there and discern the very thoughts of their heart.
Woman touched His garment; turn around, said, "Who touched Me?" All of them denied it. And looked back out in the audience, and said, "You with a blood issue there, your faith has made you well."
Said, "No man can do that except God be with him. We know you come from God. We can't accept you, because we'll be kicked out of the church." See, that grafted vine, Brother West, as we was talking last night. They'll kick you out. "But down in our hearts we know you come from the original Vine." And Christ is the Vine; we're the branches. "We know, because we see the same Life that is in God, that's in you."
That's what Boaz had seen in Ruth, that clean-cut decision, that virtue of woman standing there. And he fell in love with her.

L-116 Now, I want you to notice, Naomi, the old church begin to explain to Ruth all the laws about her religion, like the Old Testament is a shadow of the New. Now, I want you to get this story right here.
Now, I want to show the shadows. The Old Testament explains the New if you'll just read it, for it is a foreshadow of the New. Now, if I was going towards that wall, and I never seen myself, and I seen my shadow, I would know--have some conception of what I'd look like. If you don't... If you know what the New Testament is, read the Old and you'll see the shadow of it. See? And then when the New Testament comes in, you say, "Why, sure, this is It." The Book of Hebrews, going back, Paul explaining it...


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