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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
5 - RUTH 4 - LOVE’S REWARD: BELOVED WIFE AND MOTHER</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.
4:1 (4:1-2, ESV) BOAZ: GAINS WITNESSES FOR THE TRANSACTION. <font size="3">“Now
Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the
redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, ‘Turn
aside, friend; sit down here.’ And he turned aside and sat down.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Kingdom business
requires Kingdom diligence. How we bless You Father, for the example
of Boaz. May we too show the same diligence for Kingdom matters!
</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.
4:6 (4:3-6) BOAZ: ELIMINATES THE NEARER KINSMAN. <font size="3">Then
the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my
own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot
redeem it.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">This
almost sounds like a chess game. Point by point Boaz moves forward;
move by move he makes. He was careful to do Your will, Father. </span><b><i>Your
:kingdom come!</i></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><span style="font-style:normal">3.
4:8 (4:7-8) BOAZ: RECEIVES THE KINSMAN’S S</span><span style="font-style:normal">ANDAL</span><span style="font-style:normal">.
</span><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">So when the
redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” he drew off his
sandal.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Move
by move Your purposes continue, Father! How sovereignly, wisely and
inexorably Your will comes to pass! </span></span><b><i>Your :will
be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
4:9. BOAZ: REDEEMS ELIMELECH’S INHERITANCE. <font size="3">Then
Boaz said to the elders </font><font size="3">a</font><font size="3">nd
all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from
the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all th</font><font size="3">at</font><font size="3">
belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Nothing
was left to chance. Boaz had arranged for the ten witnesses. He did
all things decently and in order. You and Your Kingdom deserve our
best, Father. </span><b><i>Our :daily :bread Give us this day.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
4:10. BOAZ: PURCHASES RUTH. “<font size="3">Also Ruth the Moabite,
the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the
name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may
not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his
native place. You are witnesses this day.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Move
by move You continue to mastermind Your purposes, Father! We marvel
at the greatness of Your wisdom and Sovereignty! </span><b><i>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
4:11 (4:11-12) BOAZ: BLESSED BY TEN WITNESSES. <font size="3">Then
all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are
witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your
house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of
Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in
Bethlehem.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We hear
this blessing, Father! </span><b><i>And bring us not into
temptation!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>7.
4:14-15 (4:13-22) BOAZ: BLESSED WITH RUTH THROUGH DAVID. <font size="3">Then
the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you
this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">15 </font><font size="3">He
shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age,
for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven
sons, has given birth to him.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a proclamation of faithfulness to You, Father! </span><b><i>But
deliver us from the evil </i>one!</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>:
4:17 (4:13-22) OBED: GRANDFATHER OF DAVID! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has
been born to Naomi.” The</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">y</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a testimony, and conclusion of the matter! How Your Name is glorified
in it all, O Great Jehovah Father!</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
by Smith Wigglesworth: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“I
am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved
only by what I believe.” </span></span></font></font>
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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: 125:1-2 (125) THE LORD SURROUNDS HIS PEOPLE.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Those who
trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but
abides forever. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">As the
mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from
this time forth and forevermore.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Hallelujah!
You Father, are a stronger defense for us than the mountains about
Jerusalem. What a comfort! We rest in this truth! </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">Faith
has praised Jehovah for past deliverances, and here she rises to a
confident joy in the present and future safety of believers. She
asserts that they shall forever be secure who trust themselves with
the Lord. We can imagine the pilgrims chanting this song when
perambulating the city walls. We do not assert that David
wrote this Psalm, but we have as much ground for doing so as others
for declaring that it was written after the captivity. It would seem
probable that all the Pilgrim Psalms were composed, or at least
compiled by the same writer, and as some of them are certainly by
David, there is no conclusive reason for taking away the rest from
him.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">125:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>They that trust in
the Lord shall be as Mount Zion. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">What
a privilege to be allowed to repose in God! How condescending is
Jehovah to become the confidence of His people! To trust elsewhere is
vanity; and the more implicit such misplaced trust becomes, the more
bitter will be the ensuing disappointment; its result shall be its
best vindication.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">125:2.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>As the mountains
are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from
henceforth even forever. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
What a double security the two verses set before us! First, we are
established and then entrenched; settle</span><span style="text-decoration:none">d</span><span style="text-decoration:none">,
and then sentineled; ma</span><span style="text-decoration:none">d</span><span style="text-decoration:none">e
like a mount, and then protected as if by mountains. This is no
matter of poetry; it is so in fact; and it is no matter of temporary
privilege, but it shall be so forever. The two verses together prove
the eternal safety of the saints: they must abide where God has
placed them, and God must forever protect them from all evil. It
would be difficult to imagine greater safety than is here set forth.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">125:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>For the rod of the
wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
people of God are not to expect immunity from trial because the Lord
surrounds them, for they may feel the power and persecution of the
ungodly. Isaac, even in Abraham’s family, was mocked by Ishmael.
Assyria laid its scepter even upon Zion itself. The graceless
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">often bear rule and wield
the rod; and when they do so they are pretty sure to make it fall
heavily upon the Lord’s believing people, so that the godly cry out
by reason of their oppressors. Egypt’s rod was exceeding heavy upon
Israel, but the time came for it to be broken. God has set a limit to
the woes of His chosen: the rod may light on their portion, but it
shall not </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">rest</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
upon it.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">125:5.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>As for such as turn
aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall le</b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>a</b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>d
them forth with the workers of iniquity.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
Two kinds of men are always to be found - the upright and the men of
crooked ways. Alas, there are some who pass from one class to
another, not b</span><span style="text-decoration:none">y</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
a happy conversion, turning from the twisting lanes of deceit into
the highway of truth, but by an unhappy declension leaving the main
road of honesty and holiness for the by-paths of wickedness.
Such apostates have been seen in all ages, and David knew enough of
them; he could never forget Saul, and Ahithophel, and others. How sad
that men who once walked in the right way should turn aside from it!
All sin will one day be expelled from the universe,
even as criminals condemned to die are led out of the city; then
shall secret traitors find themselves ejected with open rebels.
Divine truth will unveil their hidden pursuits, and lead them forth,
and to the surprise of many they shall be set in the same rank with
those who avowedly wrought iniquity. </span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b> </b></span></i></font></font>
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