Boaz
Kimani Upshur, M.Ed.
Upshur Unlimited LLC · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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Hook "I will do to thee all that thou requirest." That is what Boaz said to Ruth at the threshing floor in the middle of the night, and it may be the most quietly powerful promise in the whole Old Testament. A man with every reason to protect his own name and his own money bound himself, on the spot, to do everything a poor foreign widow required of him. Boaz was a rich man, a respected man, and a busy man. He owed Ruth nothing. She was a Moabitess — an outsider, a widow, a gleaner picking up leftover grain behind his hired men. Nobody would have blamed him for a kind word and a small gift. Instead he did something far more expensive: he stepped into the role God had designed centuries earlier, the kinsman redeemer, the goel. He bought back Naomi's lost field. He took Ruth as his wife. He raised up a name that would otherwise have died in the dirt of Bethlehem. And here is the part that turns the story from a romance into a revelation: Boaz's great-grandson was King David. And David's line runs straight to a manger in Bethlehem, where the greatest Kinsman Redeemer of all was born. Everything Boaz did for Ruth and Naomi — the kindness, the buying, the redeeming — was a living picture of what Jesus Christ would do for you. God the Father sent Him. God the Son paid the price. God the Holy Spirit applies the purchase to your heart, not by your willpower but by His power. This book is about one man and the three words that describe him: kind, buying, redeeming. Follow him from the barley field to the city gate to the genealogy of Jesus, and you will understand redemption — not as a religious word, but as the most personal transaction in history. Somebody paid. Somebody bought. And the Somebody had a name: before David, before Bethlehem's manger, the name was Boaz, and he was showing you Jesus.
Hook "I will do to thee all that thou requirest." That is what Boaz said to Ruth at the threshing floor in the middle of the night, and it may be the most quietly powerful promise in the whole Old Testament. A man with every reason to protect his own name and his own money bound himself, on the s...
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Kimani Upshur, M.Ed., is a Christian author, educator, publisher, and founder of Upshur Unlimited LLC. His mission is to make knowledge understandable, encourage lifelong learning, and share biblical truth while honoring Jesus Christ. More at upshurunlimitedllc.com
Kimani Upshur, M.Ed., is a Christian author, educator, publisher, and founder of Upshur Unlimited LLC. His mission is to make knowledge understandable, encourage lifelong learning, and share biblical truth while honoring Jesus Christ. More at upshurunlimitedllc.com
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