<TITLE>13. Par 102-108</TITLE>L-102 Now, now, we want to give one more little illustration in the 5th verse here, and then we will start over on--get our 6th verse and start off. Now, I want you to notice in the plan of redemption how God foreshowed it, He worked it out perfectly in Ruth and Boaz. I... That's where we ended up last Sunday. Now, I want to begin right there now today on Ruth and Boaz.
Now, there is four stations or four junctions in Ruth and Boaz. The first is Ruth deciding. How many ever heard the--me preach the message? Let's see your hands. I know that all of you, I guess. I've had it here, and had it on tapes and so forth. Ruth, first, she had to decide whether she was going to go into this land or not with Naomi. She had to make a decision. Then after she got there, the next thing she had to do was serve in the field of Boaz; out there, barefooted, gleaning behind the reapers, serving. And then after she had found grace in Boaz's sight, then she had to wait till Boaz done the kinsman redeemership, to take back all Naomi lost in order to bring in Ruth, the Moabite. And then the next stage, is--is Ruth rewarded.
Now, watch. Ruth, deciding, perfectly...
Oh, if anybody'd say that Bible wasn't inspired, there's something wrong with them. Every Word of It's inspired, every Word of It fits right together just like a dovetail on a--on a--on a plank. It just goes perfectly together like the cogs on a mighty wheel turning, just timed to the millionths of a second, just exactly right.

L-105 Now, notice in this now, Ruth, deciding, she had to make a decision whether she was going to decide to go over there or not. She had to make a decision. Now, that's the way every believer has to do. You've got to leave your old haunts; you've got to leave your old life; you've got to leave the old--old things of the world.

L-106 Brother Roy, was Sister Roberson got sick? Oh, I just thought maybe she was sick or something. I was going to say bring her up here if she'd gotten sick or something.

L-107 They had to leave their old haunts of life, or something like that, and--and cross over into a new land, with a new people that you never knew before. Is that what you done, you become a Christian? You left the pool room; you left the nightclubs. You had to come over into a bunch of people that looked like had spasms; they quivered, and shook, and cried, and shook their head and jumped up-and-down, and, why--why, it was a--it was a--a crazy bunch to you. So you had to make a decision whether you would go or not. And that's right. And you knowed that when you did, your own people was going to make fun of you, the ones you'd left. Is that right? That's just automatically. You just ought to expect that to begin with, 'cause that's the way it is.

L-108 Now, Ruth had the same thing. What would the Moabites say to her when she crossed over to go over to Israel, to a bunch of fanatics? See, she had to make a decision. She had to decide. And you've got to decide. And, finally, when she made up her decision, she went over into the--the new land.
Now, that's justification. Is that right? Now, watch this, church. Oh, it's perfect.
You know how we... How many heard "The Seed of Abraham" when I preached on that? How that justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now, see whether this is right or not.


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