<TITLE>16. Par 148-153</TITLE>L-148 Now, let's take a little bit on redemption. Before--before this person could be--could redeem, the first thing, he had to be worthy, he had to be the right kind of person. So this was accomplished when Jesus Christ was borned a virgin birth, for He was God. He was God Himself made a man; He was God in human flesh. He had to be worthy, and the virgin Blood of Jesus Christ made Him worthy.
Now, we find that, if you want to go through the Scripture of it, of I Peter 1:18 to 20, if you're keeping the Scriptures down. He had to be worthy. And He was, because He took upon Him the form of man. He became man; God became kinfolks to us. And there we find then the beautiful part of God Jehovah made flesh and dwelt among us as the worthy One. Amen.
He prevailed. God took on the form of human flesh; He came to earth, was born a little baby and walked among us. And through His holy Blood He prevailed.

L-150 Now, in the Old Testament, how a man was to proclaim his own, what did he do? He took an elder, ten elders, and went to the gate and introduced what he was doing, to redeem what he had been lost, and showed who he was, and was give a witness. We find the beautiful story here (as I had a little note wrote here so I wouldn't forget it, being nervous this morning) upon Ruth, the kinsman and Boaz. We went through it not long ago. I want you to notice the three stages now of this resting.

L-151 I want you to notice the resting of the church, just exactly the same thing. Now, watch. The first place we find, as we've all been through that sermon, "The Kinsman Redeemer." God was made flesh in order to become the Redeemer. He was the One here in the 5th chapter, in the 5th chapter, said...
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the Book, neither to look thereon.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the Book or to read, or to read the book, neither to look thereon.
And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof... (He's the One; He's that One we're looking at.)

L-152 Notice how Ruth... How... And Naomi... Boaz is just a perfect picture. How Naomi in the time of famine left the church, left the country, went over into the Moabite land to dwell there, sojourn. And there she lost all she had. And when she went away, her husband, Elimelech, died while they was over there, so that left his inheritance to fall to anyone. Then when we come--when she comes back, she brings back the beautiful young Moabite widow with her. And when Boaz saw this widow, a type of Christ, he fell for her. And he loved her. So that he had to redeem, the only way he could ever get her to be wife was to redeem what his brother, Elimelech had lost.

L-153 And so then he asked his other brother if he would redeem it, one closer than he, and he couldn't do it. So he went down to make a perfect example of the laws of God. He went to the gates, and he kicked off his shoe, and said, "Let it be known this day that I have redeemed all that Naomi had. All that she has, all that Elimelech (my brother) lost, I am the next kinsman now, and I'm the one that can redeem it, so I have come to claim it. If there's any man here who can show a just cause why, or anybody closer than me, let it be known." And everybody kept their mouth shut. So he kicked off his shoe and throwed it for a testimony, "I have redeemed all that our brother Elimelech had." Why? He was a kinsman. He was a kinfolks redeemer. Oh, how beautiful it is. It's such a beautiful story.
And then, all this time, Ruth was resting and waiting to find out how it would come out. Then he comes back. No one can give a testimony against it. He come back and took Naomi. And took Ruth, the beautiful Moabite girl, and they were married and lived on this possession. What a beautiful story.


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