<TITLE>14. Par 111-118</TITLE>L-111 Ruth, making her decision a type of the church, the Gentile church, she decided and crossed over into the land. Now, a lot of times, we Methodists and Baptists, we think that's all you have to do. She just got started. She hadn't got nowhere yet; she just got over into the land.
Now, the next thing she had to do; she had to work. She become a legalist. She had to work out her own salvation with fear and trembling like you did. She went out into the field, and put her clothes upon her, and went out into the fields, and gleaned behind the maidens in order to get sustaining food for the day. Is that right? What was she doing? She was trying to find favor with Boaz. So she worked her way through the stage of legalism.

L-113 And that's exactly what the church did. The Luthers believed it by faith and come into the land. But the Methodists taught sanctification, which was the legalistic standpoint of It (See?), "You've got to do something. I got to quit. I got to let my hair grow out," said the woman. 'Course they don't do it no more; but they--they did do it, let their hair grow out. They had to quit wearing the paints in their faces. They didn't wear their--their skirts wrong and--and, or, short like the others did. They had to do something. See? That's what she did, the state of justification, the state of sanctification.

L-114 Now, when finally she found favor with Boaz, what happened? Then Naomi told her, "You wait here while Boaz does the work of a kinsman redeemer, 'cause he is the only one that can do it. He is our next kinsman redeemer, and you just wait here. Don't go in the fields no more. Don't do this, that, or the other. You just wait until the kinsman redeemership has been fulfilled." And she rested. Amen.
That's exactly what the church has come to in this last stage of Pentecost. See? In the beginning of Pentecost they all worked up, and they had to do this, and they shook them and everything else. Now, what is the church doing, the true church? Is just resting. What is Rest? Here it is. Rest is the Holy Spirit, the sabbath day. (The Seventh-day Adventists want to tell us, you know, about being the seventh-day sabbath or something like that.) In Hebrews the 4th chapter, said, "We which have entered into His Rest have ceased from our works as God did from His." So the sabbath is the Holy Spirit.

L-116 And when Ruth was resting, it was a type of the church resting in the promises of God. We have the Earnest now of our salvation. We're not worried whether we're going over there or not; we're going. That's right. God said so. God promised it, and we've got the Earnest (Amen.), done been received; Christ has accepted us. No way to get away from It now, we're there. Amen. All you have to do is just wait till the--He takes... He's down doing the Kinsman Redeemership. We have the Earnest of it right now, waiting for the time that when He comes back.
And then what next thing Ruth was, Ruth was rewarded.
That's what the church did. It entered into justification under Luther. Then it went into sanctification under Wesley, went into the baptism of the Holy Ghost in this last days, and now resting with the Earnest of our inheritance that we know that something happened in us; we've passed from death unto Life, and waiting, groaning with nature for that time when we will receive an immortal Life, an immortal fulness. Our bodies will be redeemed. Everything's redeemed, and we're just waiting from Him to return back from the gate. Amen.

L-118 Then what? Ruth was rewarded. That's when we'll be rewarded. That's what this seven-sealed Book is going to open up to us. What is these things? They're mysteries. They're not wrote in the Word; they have to be revealed by the Holy Spirit; but if you'll notice, actually, they are revealed all down through the Scriptures, but they been hid from the people. When we get to the roll after while, you'll see how it was fixed; then you'll know just how them things open up.


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