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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>NOV
4 - RUTH 3 - LOVE’S REQUEST: VIRTUOUS SUPPLIANT</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
3:1-2a (3:1-2, ESV) NAOMI: CLAIMS RIGHT OF KINSMAN-REDEEMER FOR
RUTH. <font size="3">“Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, ‘My
daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with
you? </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2 </font><font size="3">Is
not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were?’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
marvelous the ways of Your Kingdom, Father! How bountiful Your
Kingdom wisdom! </span><b><i>Hallowed be your :name.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
3:5 (3:3-5) NAOMI: PLANS KINSMAN-REDEEMER RIGHT FOR RUTH. <font size="3">And
Ruth replied, “All that you say I will do.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Here
it is Father: the same heart as was in Mary who said to Gabriel, “Be
it unto me according to your R</span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">E</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ma-word.
Circumcise our hearts, and give us hearts of flesh. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
3:6 (3:6-7) RUTH: FOLLOWS THROUGH ON NAOMI’S PLAN. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“So
Ruth went down to the threshing floor and did just as her
mother-in-law had commanded her.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
isn’t enough to say, “Yes!” We must follow through like Ruth,
and act upon our resolution. Then You find pleasure in us, Father!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your :will be
done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">3:9 (3:8-9) RUTH:
PRESENTS OBLIGATION OF KINSMAN-REDEEMER. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Boaz
said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your
servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a
redeemer.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
marvelous understanding and obedience and faith on the part of Ruth!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our :daily
:bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
3:13 (3:10-13) BOAZ: PROMISES RUTH HIS HELP. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Remain
tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do
it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives,
I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You were with Ruth in the time of the testing of her faith! You made
her an ancestress of King David and his greater son, Jesus! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
3:14 (3:14-15) BOAZ: PRESENTS RUTH WITH A GIFT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“So
Ruth lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could
recognize another. And he said, ‘Let it not be known that the woman
came to the threshing floor.’” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
see the wisdom of Boaz. He allowed no occasion for misunderstanding.
He avoided all appearance of evil. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
3:18 (3:16-18) NAOMI: COUNSELS PATIENCE FOR RUTH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Naomi
replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns
out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Now
Naomi is restored to full faith. The years the locusts have eaten
have been restored. Your Sovereign workings on her behalf have
convinced her, Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
3:11 (3:10-13) THE COMPLETELY SATISFACTORY ASSURANCE OF BOAZ. </b></span><b><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask,
for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
leaders and the elders of the city sit in the Gate. Ruth has
received a testimony of virtue from the highest in the land. For Your
sake Father, we would have the same testimony.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Quote
from Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“Prayer
is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the
same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition
(there is nothing so much as prayer life that tells the truth about
us as Christian people). Everything we do in the Christ life is
easier than prayer.”</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: </span><span style="text-decoration:none">124:6-8
(124) OUR HELP IS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Blessed
be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth! </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">7
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">We
have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is
broken, and we have escaped. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">8
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
deliverance Father, is right at hand in the midst of extremity.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed be
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">124:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>If it had not been
the Lord Who was on our side, now may Israel say. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">We
murmur without being stirred up to it, but our thanksgiving needs a
spur, and it is well when some warm-hearted friend bids us say what
we feel. Imagine what would have happened if the Lord had left us,
and then see what has happened because He has been faithful to us.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">124:2.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>If it had not been
the Lord Who was on our side, when men rose up against us. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">There
is no doubt as to our Deliverer; we cannot ascribe our salvation less
than Omnipotence and Omniscience could have wrought our rescue. We
set every other claimant on one side and rejoice because the Lord was
on our side.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">124:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Then they had
swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">They
were so eager for our destruction that they would have made only one
morsel of us and have swallowed us up alive and whole in a single
instant. The fury of the enemies of the church is raised to the
highest pitch; nothing will content them but the total annihilation
of God’s chosen. Their wrath is like a fire which is kindled and
has taken such firm hold upon the fuel that there is no quenching it.
Anger is never more fiery than when the people of God are its
objects. Sparks become flames, and the furnace is heated seven times
hotter when God’s elect are to be thrust into the blaze.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">124:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The stream
has gone over our soul. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
the world’s enmity obtains a vent it both rises and rushes, it
rages and rolls along, and spares nothing. In the great water-floods
of persecution and affliction, who can help but Jehovah? But for Him
where would we be at this very hour? We have experienced seasons </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">in
which the combined forces of earth and hell must have made an end of
us had not omnipotent grace interfered for our rescue.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">124:7.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our soul is
escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler. </span></i></b><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Fowler</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
have methods of taking small birds, and Satan has many methods of
entrapping souls. Some are decoyed </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">by
evil companions; others are enticed by the love of dainties; hunger
drives many into the trap, and fright impels numbers to fly into the
net. Fowler</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
know their birds and how to take them; but the birds see the snare so
as to avoid it, and they cannot break it so as to escape from it.
Happy is the bird that has a deliverer strong, and mighty, and ready
in the moment of peril: happier still is the soul over which the Lord
watches day and night to pluck its feet out of the net. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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