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Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited. Tell somebody it's not a sin

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Speaker 1: to have a good time in church. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to just endure it. God gave it to us to

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Speaker 1: enjoy it, and I intend to do that. I intend

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Speaker 1: If I got to do it every seven days, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have a good time. And the truth of the

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Speaker 1: matter is, I believe you are too. I believe I

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're expecting today. I think God is

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Speaker 1: gonna beat it. And I know that's bold. I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about me. I'm saying what he said for me

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Speaker 1: to tell you. It's just so meaningful. And I want

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Speaker 1: you to find that little book called Ruth in your

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Speaker 1: Bible one more time, this accidental sermon series from the

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Speaker 1: Book of Ruth. The Lord tricked me into preaching a

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Speaker 1: sermon series on Ruth. I mean, I used to plan

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Speaker 1: in reverse. So but I know this will at least

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Speaker 1: be the end of the series for now, because we've

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Speaker 1: got Easter on Sunday, and I'm sure I could preach

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Speaker 1: Ruth for Easter, but the Lord gave me another message

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Speaker 1: for Easter, and then we'll see. I don't know, but

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Speaker 1: one thing I know about God. He's taking us from

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Speaker 1: glory to glory, I mean, from good to better, and

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Speaker 1: get your expectation up, all right, get your expectation. Oh

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Speaker 1: you know, I say, don't get your hopes up? Do it?

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Speaker 1: Get them up, get them up, get them as high.

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Speaker 1: Lift your hands right now and say, Lord, reaching for

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Speaker 1: the spirit of faith God wants. Okay, y'all be mad

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Speaker 1: if I read twenty verses, do your feet hurt? Because

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Speaker 1: you've been running through my mind all day? Ruth, Chapter two,

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Speaker 1: verse one. Now, they only had a relative on her

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Speaker 1: whose name was all the single people shout bow ass,

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Speaker 1: But we've been learning about this, okay, because she did not. Ruth,

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Speaker 1: And the theme of it. What is so refreshing to

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Speaker 1: She said, please let me glean and gather among the

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Speaker 1: Boaz replied, I've been told all about what you have

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Speaker 1: the Lord repay you for what you have done. I

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Speaker 1: under whose wings you have come to take refuge. May

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Speaker 1: She said, you have put me at ease by speaking

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Speaker 1: you and call the message blown away, Oh, blown away,

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Speaker 1: blown away, blown away. You know what the hardest thing

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Speaker 1: it wrong. Not only do we not understand the context

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Speaker 1: the broader schemata of scripture as a bridge between the

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Speaker 1: Ruth would be the great great, great great grandmother of

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Speaker 1: God is doing something that will result in a king

427
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Speaker 1: named David and a king named Jesus. And they don't

428
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Speaker 1: get to read that part, and you don't get to

429
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Speaker 1: read that part. And that's why it's not easy for

430
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: you to raise kids. And that's why other people who

431
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: have sent their kids far, far away and only have

432
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: to see them three times a year can tell you

433
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: how to raise your kids, because they got to read

434
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: the last sentence of the book where the kids left

435
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: the house, but yours are still here. You don't get

436
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: to read how it is. You don't get to know

437
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: how it is. You don't get to know as it's

438
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Speaker 1: the end. You don't get to know what's my best

439
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: behind me. You don't get to know any of that.

440
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: You have to live in the tension. That's hard to do.

441
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: And yet there is this note of grace. It's almost

442
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Speaker 1: implied that Naomi and Ruth are walking along together back

443
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: in Bethlehem, Ruth away from everything that she knew. You

444
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: know that God Kimash that she grew up serving, demanded

445
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: human sacrifices according to their mindset, and now she's learning

446
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: how to worship a God that she's only heard about

447
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 1: through the lens of Naomi, who is bitter about what

448
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: God has allowed to happen in her life. And she

449
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: just makes a decision one day in the scripture. I

450
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: love this scripture. It really got my attention to know

451
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Speaker 1: that the Bible doesn't say the Lord led Ruth to

452
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Speaker 1: the field, It just says she went to work. Now,

453
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: if you are not a ten person, the Lord is

454
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: leading me every step I take, every breath I take.

455
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: What's the song every sep? So creepy? It's such such

456
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: a stalker song. If you're not a ten on that

457
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: it's okay if you want to believe that the Lord

458
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Speaker 1: is leading me, but it doesn't feel like it or

459
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Speaker 1: seem like it right now. If you want to believe

460
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Speaker 1: that the Lord is leading you, but you know it's

461
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: your own stupidity that got you in the storm to

462
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Speaker 1: begin with. If you are somewhere in the six I

463
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: think God is leading me here. I think I'm going

464
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Speaker 1: to go out today and I'm going to see if

465
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Speaker 1: I can glean in the field. That's all Ruth said.

466
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Speaker 1: And that's what we talked about last week. Were you

467
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Speaker 1: here last week? When Ruth was going through the field,

468
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: it was so powerful she had to look for what

469
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Speaker 1: other people left behind. When the reapers would go through

470
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Speaker 1: the field, they had to leave what they dropped for

471
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Speaker 1: the foreigners, for the for the people who couldn't have

472
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: their own field. And so Ruth is just gleaning behind them.

473
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: And we talked about how sometimes in our life we

474
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Speaker 1: need to learn to glean in our own field, in

475
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: our own life, in our own situation, to be able

476
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Speaker 1: to say, you know what, I walked my own body

477
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: into church today. Somebody else didn't do that. They would

478
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: love to have walked into church today, and I did.

479
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: That's gleaning that's when you're like, put my back hurts

480
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: and my hipside of socket. And I got these bills.

481
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: But I walked into church today and somebody else is

482
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Speaker 1: in a wheelchair. And while that doesn't mean I'm better

483
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: than them. I have got to learn to go through

484
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: my own field and glean things. You gotta do it

485
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: for yourself. Nobody is gonna do this for you. You

486
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: will never reach a moment in time where you go,

487
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: I've arrived. God is good, and I'm blessed and highly faith.

488
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: That is a statement of faith you have to make.

489
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: You have to make it daily. Somebody shout I'm blessed.

490
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: You call that a shout. Let me tell you something.

491
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: A lot of people died because they couldn't breathe in

492
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: the last two years. And I told you to shout

493
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: I'm blessed. And the Bible says, let everything that has

494
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: bread praise the Lord. Now breathe deep and say I'm blessed.

495
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: That's how you glean. And that's what you gotta do

496
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: to the devil, not only when I tell you to

497
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: do it, but you gotta shout. Now I'm crazy because

498
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: I'll be sitting there having a panic attack almost and

499
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: I'll just start shouting I have peace. I'm not sure

500
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: who I'm trying to convince, but watch, I'm trying to

501
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: glean peace. Glean doesn't mean it just pops up. Ruth

502
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: didn't wake up and pray for bread. Ruth didn't wake

503
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: up and pray for colonels. Ruth didn't pray for seeds.

504
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: She went in a stray feel to find it. Are

505
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: you in a strange field trying to figure out what

506
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,239
Speaker 1: am I doing? And nobody knows that? You don't know

507
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: what you're doing either. They got you making budgets for

508
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: the department, and if they saw your bank account, Oh

509
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: my god, oh ma, show me in the scripture where

510
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: Ruth went to Gleaning University. She had to do it.

511
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: You have to do it. Some of you won't rejoice

512
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: over simple stuff because you haven't been low enough yet.

513
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: You haven't been low enough yet. You don't know how

514
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: good sunshine feels because you haven't been closed up yet

515
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: where you couldn't get to it. You look at people

516
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: in church. Some of you are so judgmental of how

517
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: other people praise God. I don't like how they say

518
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: wow every time Pastor Stephen says something Wow. Oh Wow,

519
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: what's going on down there. I don't think it takes

520
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: all that. I don't think they asked you. Maybe they

521
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: were so hungry when they came that they can survive

522
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: off of a syllable every work that bro I'll lift

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00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: my brother alone. I needn't work. Wud you get hungry enough,

524
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: you won't be so picky, You won't be so picky.

525
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: I don't like that song interpetitive. Oh, Ruth again, Ruth

526
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 1: rus and RUMs. I'm a bad parent. I told Holly

527
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: quit fighting with Abby, telling her she needs to eat

528
00:34:53,560 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: her dinner and starve her. Put a padlock on. I'm

529
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: the pantry, and then when she says down, she will

530
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: not be able to wait to see what mom made

531
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: All this arguing back and forth. That's not gonna get it.

532
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: She's not hungry enough. She's not hungry enough. Ruth was

533
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: hungry enough. Oh. Oh, desperation looks just like faith. Oh,

534
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: you have so much faith. No, I'm just that desperate.

535
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: I've been depressed, so I know the value of joy.

536
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: I've been broke, so I know the value of when

537
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: God provides for my needs physically. My dad was a barber.

538
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: When we would go to the Chinese restaurant. He would

539
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: count how much the meal costs and say, that's seven

540
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: heads of hair. I got a cut to pay for

541
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: this meal. I can't eat with that guilt of me.

542
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. When they showed me my first job, they said,

543
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: here's your salary, here's the benefits. I said to what.

544
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: Now I know it makes me sound stupid. I was

545
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: twenty two. I didn't know my dad was self employee,

546
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: so I didn't know that somebody else would pay your benefits.

547
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: I had already done all of the division and the

548
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: calculations on this much per month, and we could do this,

549
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: and the apartment is four to ten. And the internet, now,

550
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: I gotta have high speed internet. Lord, that's a necessity.

551
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: I can't be serving Jesus out here and shall be

552
00:36:53,880 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: on a modem, a dial up. But then I was

553
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: buying my own insurance, and when Rick Bowling said, and that,

554
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: of course doesn't include your benefits, I said, my what?

555
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: And I had to pretend like I expected it, you know,

556
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to look as dumb as I was.

557
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, the benefits. But I

558
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,919
Speaker 1: got out to my car, I picked up my car

559
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: phone don't know about the car phone. I picked up

560
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: my Zach Morris Motorola car phone. I called chunks. I said,

561
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: they got benefits on this job. I don't have to

562
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: pay the health insurance to any of that out of

563
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: my pocket anymore. I wish I could feel the way

564
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: I felt that day again about benefits. Now, I've been

565
00:37:54,080 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: getting benefits so many years, so many benefits. Why that

566
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: the Bible saying Let me ask you this, Why does

567
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: the Bible saying Psalms, bless the Lord O my soul,

568
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: and forget not all his benefits. It's like he already

569
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: knows that the longer we stay in a field, the

570
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: less we will respect the treasure and get more focused

571
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: on the dirt that's around it. I have to practice gratitude.

572
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 1: I am not naturally good at it, because I am

573
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: naturally good at catastrophizing, so I can imagine everything that

574
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: could possibly go wrong. And I told you about this

575
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: a little bit last week. But that's why gleaning was

576
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: so meaningful to me, Because I realized that the five

577
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: hundred dollars bonus that they gave me that year, the

578
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars that they gave me that year, same job.

579
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: He said, Oh, and here's your Christmas bonus. I said,

580
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: my what he said, your Christmas bonus is five hundred dollars.

581
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you how five hundred dollars

582
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: felt that day. I didn't expect it. This is where Ruth,

583
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: a widow and a foreigner, had an advantage over everybody

584
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: else in Boaz's field, because as she walked through what

585
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: they were used to, it was new to her as

586
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: she so, Lord, show me how to walk through my

587
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: salvation and my relationship with Jesus, and my relationship with

588
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 1: that woman on the front row, and show me how

589
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: to walk through that field again, and focus more on

590
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: the treasure than the dirt. You follow me, life will

591
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: layer you with dirt. Life will layer you like Naomi,

592
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: with bitterness, with experiences that all of a sudden become

593
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: the focus. The Bible does not say that the treasure

594
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: was sitting in the field waiting to be discovered. The

595
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: treasure was actually hidden beneath something that had to be

596
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: dug through to recognize what was there all along. And this, yeah, yeah,

597
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: this is a message for somebody who is guilty as charged. Lord,

598
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: I have gotten more focused on the field. The work,

599
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: the stress than I am, the blessings and the treasure.

600
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: I have gotten more focused in my relationships on what

601
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: annoys me about that person. May I remind you that's

602
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: what attracted you to them in the first place, and

603
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 1: now you want to be annoyed by what you were

604
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: attracted to, because, like the country preacher said, before marriage,

605
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: opposite its attract After marriage, opposites attack you loved he

606
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: was quiet. Oh he's mysterious. Ah, ten years in that field,

607
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: tell about I can't get him to talk. He's mysterious.

608
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: Now you're miserable. Now you're magnified everything that makes you miserable.

609
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: I wish I could do a Bible study on this.

610
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes I hate this format. I wish I could have

611
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: the ten people who are the hungriest, and I wish

612
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 1: I could just come over to the house and Holly

613
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: could cook something for you, and then I would serve

614
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: up the dessert of the Word of God, and I

615
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: would say, did you save room for dessert? And you

616
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, yeah, I was hungry today. I was

617
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: hungry today. I went through a breakup last month. I've

618
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: been asking God why I've been wondering, is there anybody

619
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: for me, I'm hungry today. I'm hungry today. I don't

620
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: have the money that my neighbor has. They think I do.

621
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm driving a car. What they don't know is every

622
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: time I stop and think about the payments, I almost wreck.

623
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: And they're impressed with my car, but they don't know

624
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: I can't even afford what I'm driving in I'm hungry today.

625
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: Tell me something I made some mistakes. Tell me something

626
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: I passed up the best thing that could have happened.

627
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 1: Tell me something I could have bought Apple for three

628
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: dollars a share and I didn't. All these regrets in here.

629
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm hungry today. I'm hungry today. Give me something. If

630
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 1: I could talk to the ten hungriest people in the room,

631
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: here's what I would tell you. When Ruth said, why

632
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: would you notice me a foreigner? It's a wordplay. The

633
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: Hebrew word for a foreigner means notice. Don't you see

634
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: what's happening? She's blown away, she's blown away. When's the

635
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: last time you were blown away by God? When's the

636
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: last time you were blown away by his benefits? I'm

637
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: not talking about a BMW, I'm talking about forgiveness. When's

638
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: the last time you thought about, Oh my you, Lord,

639
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: you didn't have to love me. You ain't even have

640
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: to give me the chance to live. I'm not even

641
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: supposed to be here. When's the last time you thank

642
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: God for your church? Just slipping that in? When's lesson

643
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: and you've been here a minute? What used to blow

644
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: me away is now just benefits. I think we got

645
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 1: to walk through our field and glean Right, Lord, I'm

646
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: thanking you for this. Lord, I am thanking you for that. Lord.

647
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: I'm thanking you for the thing that I don't like

648
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: right now, trusting that you are going to use it

649
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: in my future. Because that's the beauty of this text.

650
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: You can walk walk through your own field, your own

651
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: What would it look like for you? This is my

652
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: challenge to you. What would it look like for you

653
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: to walk through your own life like a foreigner in

654
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: the field. What would it look like for you to

655
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: go back through the things God has done for you

656
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 1: and the things He is doing. Because here's the trick.

657
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: It is easy to see what God did after you're

658
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: on the other side of it. And that's when we

659
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: say things like it was the best thing in the

660
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: world that they broke my heart, It was the best

661
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: thing in the world that I had to move. It

662
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: was the best thing in the world. If I hadn't

663
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: have gone through that, I wouldn't have this. The trick

664
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: is not recognizing God's guidance later. The trick is can

665
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: you recognize God's guidance in real time, to say, like Jacob,

666
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: the Lord was in this place and I was not

667
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: aware of it, To say, Oh, God must be here too. Oh,

668
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: God must be you using this too. Oh. God has

669
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: a plan for this too. Oh, I can't wait to

670
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: see how God works this sin. Oh, I can't believe

671
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 1: God let me be in this field at this time.

672
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: She gleaned and gathered and gleaned and gathered and gleaned

673
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: and gathered, not knowing that Boaz was gonna end up

674
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: being her husband, not knowing that Naomi knew who he was,

675
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: not knowing that God would put her in a position

676
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: to be a part of the lineage. Can you stand

677
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: there in the field surrounded by dirt or you're gonna say, God,

678
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: I don't want the dirt. I want the treasure. God,

679
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: I don't want the pain. I want the progress. I

680
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: used to always say, God, I don't want the v ups.

681
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,439
Speaker 1: I want the six pack. God, you know what I'm saying.

682
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: I don't want the discipline, but God, I do want

683
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: the benefits of commitment. You have to You have to

684
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: glean and gather in those moments when you don't even

685
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: know why you're here or how this is going to

686
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: turn out. Wow. The most delicious verse in the text

687
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: to me is verse seventeen. After Ruth got done gleaning

688
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: in the fields and gathering, the Bible says something is

689
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 1: almost something you would skip over. It said that after

690
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: she gleaned in the field until evening, then she threshed

691
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 1: the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about

692
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: an epha. See what I'm saying. That is the least

693
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: sexy verse in the whole passage, but it talks about

694
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: the next thing that Ruth had to do and that

695
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: you and I have to understand too. It said that

696
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: after she gleaned in a field where she didn't even

697
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: have the right to be, after she gathered everything that

698
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: she could, she threshed the wheat before she took it home.

699
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: And when she finished threshing it, they measured it and

700
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: it was an epha, which means nothing to us, but

701
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: if you look it up and search the word epha

702
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: in the Bible. Do it later, not right now. Do

703
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 1: it you'll find it again. In First Samuel seventeen, verse seventeen,

704
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: the chapter where David fought Goliath, it said the day

705
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: he went down there, his dad sent him to his

706
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: brothers with an epha of grain, So it's a measurement.

707
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: And he had three brothers that were down at the battle,

708
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: and his father sent him with an epha of grain.

709
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: So we still don't know how much it is, but

710
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: that must be a lot of grain if it fed

711
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: three teenage soldiers in the heat of battle. And now

712
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: remember we're down to just Ruth and Naomi. They are

713
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: the only two left. They don't know about bo as yet.

714
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 1: They don't know who he is yet, what he's gonna

715
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: do yet. Oh and there's God, the character who is

716
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 1: not named by the other characters, but is implied because

717
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: he's always working, even when he's not named, even when

718
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 1: he's not seen, even when he's not felt, even when

719
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: he's not speaking, he's still speaking, even if you're not

720
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: hearing it, he's still speaking. And she gleaned an epha

721
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: enough for three teenage soldiers, for just her and her

722
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: mother in law. So that made me wonder, can we

723
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: find out about how much grain is in an epha?

724
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: And when I found out how much an efa was,

725
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: I was blown away. It turned out that an epha

726
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: is somewhere between thirty and fifty pounds in a day,

727
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: in a day. She's only been in this field one day,

728
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 1: and she's not even an experienced laborer, and she's one woman.

729
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: And when she measured it after she threshed it, it

730
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: was thirty pounds. Thirty pounds of grain after she threshed it,

731
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: after she threshed it. See, you can't really measure it

732
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: until after it's been threshed. You can't really measure You

733
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: don't really know what you have until it's been threshed.

734
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 1: You think you know what you have, but you don't

735
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: really know what you have. Helped me, Jesus, you don't

736
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: really know what you have. Until Naomi turns to Ruth

737
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: and orphans as y'all leave, an Orpha says okay, and

738
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 1: Ruth says, I'll stay because she was being threshed. Naomi

739
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: was being threshed. She lost her husband, she lost her boys.

740
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: She's being freshed, she's being threshed. That word doesn't even

741
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:23,919
Speaker 1: sound appealing. Thresh it sounds violent. It is violent. It's

742
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: a violent process. The process of threshing is not nice

743
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: like gleaning. It's not taking a journal and writing to

744
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: Jesus a love note for all of the beautiful sunsets.

745
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, I saw that sunset today. I'm just so

746
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: proud that you did that. It's just for me. Lord,

747
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: you are such a great artist. I saw the sunset

748
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: and I saw your eyes, and I'm so thankful. Threshing

749
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: is different than that. When they threshed the grain, they

750
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: would have the cattle to beat the grain out until

751
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 1: the stalks and the seeds were separate, until the grain

752
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: and the husk were separate. The threshing. When it says

753
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: that Ruth threshed, it was a process of separation. It

754
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: was a process of separating the grain from the husk

755
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: or what they call the chaff. Everybody say chaff. And

756
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: the way they would do it is that after it

757
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: was beaten, after it was trodden, after it had been

758
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: after it had been laid out on the threshing floor.

759
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: Now all a threshing floor is. It's not fancy. It's

760
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: just a solid surface in a high place. And the

761
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,720
Speaker 1: reason it's in a high place is because you would

762
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: thresh at evening, and the process of threshing was very simple.

763
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,760
Speaker 1: After it had been beaten, you would take the grain

764
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: that was left on the floor, you would sweep it

765
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: up and gather it from the clean surface. You would

766
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: throw it up into the Mediterranean wind, and the grain

767
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 1: would fall back down to the ground. But the chaff,

768
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: the chaff wouldn't fall back to the ground. The chaff

769
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: would be blown away. The chaff, the stuff that couldn't

770
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: stay on the threshing floor, would be blown away into

771
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: the evening wind that came off the Mediterranean Sea. And

772
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: so I see a lot of you on the threshing

773
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: floor of life right now. I hear from you, I

774
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: meet you, and even when I study, it's like the

775
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: spirit of God brings you to my mind. And I

776
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: see the things that you're going through in your life

777
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: right now, not as a process of destruction, but as

778
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: a process of threshing. See, you don't know what you

779
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: have until it's been threshed. You don't know what's real

780
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: until it's been threshed. You don't know what's edible, you

781
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: don't know what's sustainable. You don't know what is substance

782
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: until it has been threshed. And a lot of us

783
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: have been in a big wind lately. All the winds

784
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: will blow and beat against every house. Whether you build

785
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: it on the rock of Jesus or whether you build

786
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 1: it on the shaky foundations of the world, the wind

787
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: will blow. And the wind has been blowing. But you

788
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: have been misinterpreting the wind. You have been thinking that

789
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: the wind was sent by the enemy to destroy you.

790
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: But it wasn't. But it wasn't, But it wasn't, But

791
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was sin so that all the chaff

792
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: could be blown away, blown away, blown away. See, God

793
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: is dealing with your insecurities right now, and he's got

794
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: you on the threshing floor, and you're watching people walk

795
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: away and opportunities evaporate. You used to know that you're

796
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: now separated from But this wind is not sent by

797
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: the enemy. This wind is under the control of the

798
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:14,240
Speaker 1: mighty hand of it all, seeing God, and the grain

799
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: that falls back to the ground is all you need

800
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:23,720
Speaker 1: to live on, and the rest will be blown away,

801
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: blown away, blown away, blown away. The Lord told me

802
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: to preach to you, blown away, and he said to

803
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: tell you, when you see what I'm going to do

804
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: after you get done going through what you're going through,

805
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: if you will keep gleaning and stay in my hands

806
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: through this process. When you see what I'm gonna do

807
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,959
Speaker 1: through my life, I wish I had an organist. When

808
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: you see what I'm about to do, your eyes have

809
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: not seen, your ears have not heard. Lord has it

810
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,439
Speaker 1: in and into your heart? What I have a pair?

811
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: But when you pumping the boy ass, you're gonna be

812
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: blown away? Now what good hell? Who is able to do? Indaderably?

813
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: Blown away? High five at least six people and tell

814
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,800
Speaker 1: them you're gonna be blown away. You're gonna be blown away.

815
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 1: You're gonna be blown away. Hey, it's a promise. It's

816
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,360
Speaker 1: not a problem. It's a promise. Everything that you're going

817
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: through is going to serve the purpose. Pump the blood

818
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: you've belonged to. You're gonna be threshing. Hurts like hell,

819
00:55:56,120 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: but sometimes it comes from heaven. You can't even really

820
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: measure the blessing until after it's been threshed. No, my

821
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: advice is your brother in Christ, let it blow. Don't

822
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: try to control it so much, don't even try to

823
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 1: understand it. Too much. The grain will stay you hear me,

824
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: That's what I know about God. The grain will stay.

825
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: Thirty pounds is not a day's worth of food, y'all.

826
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:45,439
Speaker 1: They lived off of this for weeks. When Rabbi said

827
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 1: that would have been four months of wages in a day.

828
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: That's why Naomi was like, whoa, I'm blown away, and

829
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: Ruth was like me too, I'm blown away. And Boaz

830
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 1: when he saw Ruth, he was like, I'm blown away,

831
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: and everybody is blown away. Accept God. Accept God. He

832
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: knew exactly where to put Ruth, exactly where to put Boas,

833
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: exactly who to let her glean behind, and exactly who

834
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: to send her home to. When you see what you

835
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: cannot see with your spirit, instead of judging what you're

836
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: going through with your eyes by the spirit of God,

837
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: I prophetically declare, if it's not your word, get out

838
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: of the way so somebody else can receive it. You

839
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: will be blown away. You will be blown away. My

840
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: prayer lately is God, I'm assuming that it's either you

841
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: doing this or is something that you will use If

842
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: it's not. Don't you love that prayer? It's really just

843
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: a threshing floor prayer. It's really just a threshing floor prayer.

844
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: It's going here. It is godsh whatever is not meant

845
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: to stay, Blow it away, Blow it away, God, I

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Speaker 1: don't want it. If it's chaff. I don't want the

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Speaker 1: attitudes I clung to. Like I saw the whole story

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Speaker 1: of Ruth through a different lens. When I read it

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Speaker 1: like that, I said, of course she had to thresh

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Speaker 1: the grain because she herself was being threshed, a mo

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Speaker 1: bie leaving her gods, a mobie leaving her family, a

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Speaker 1: Moabie leaving her customs. And that's been you lately, and

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Speaker 1: it's been windy. Just lift your right hand if it's

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Speaker 1: been windy in your life. We don't have to talk

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Speaker 1: about why. We don't have to talk about who, we

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Speaker 1: don't have to talk about what. Just it's been Wendy.

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Speaker 1: Raise your hand if it's been wendy. All right, catch

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Speaker 1: the wind of the Holy Spirit in this moment and

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Speaker 1: allow it to carry you forward in the field that

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Speaker 1: you're in until you find the treasure from it. Because

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Speaker 1: that's what the kingdom is like. It's like a man

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Speaker 1: who found a treasure in a field. It is like

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Speaker 1: the grain that stayed after the wind blew. So in

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Speaker 1: this season of my life, God, on the threshing floor

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Speaker 1: of failure, on the threshing floor of frustration. For whoever

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Speaker 1: this word is for today, I declare prophetically that they

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Speaker 1: will stand here a year from now and be blown

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Speaker 1: away by what you did through an epha. I declare

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Speaker 1: over them that their epha is enough. Come on, let's minister,

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Speaker 1: let's minister together, your epha is enough. I want you

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Speaker 1: to begin to believe again in the enoughness of God. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I made the word up, the enoughness of God. I

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Speaker 1: want you to begin to believe that whatever has left

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Speaker 1: your life, that you still have something to live for.

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Speaker 1: Come on, shout it, Shout it for the devil to hear.

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Speaker 1: I still have something to live for. I still have

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Speaker 1: something to live for. I will not die in Moab.

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Speaker 1: I will not die in bitterness. I have something to

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Speaker 1: live for. I have something to live for. And God,

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Speaker 1: by your eternal word, would you sanctify those who you

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Speaker 1: are calling to yourself, because we don't want to be

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Speaker 1: in Bethlehem in our body, but be in Moab in

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Speaker 1: our mind, living in the thing that you did. God,

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Speaker 1: your word said that you could do exceeding abundantly above

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Speaker 1: what we ask her imagine. So I don't want to

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Speaker 1: hold so tightly to what I thought you'd do that

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Speaker 1: I can't be blown away by what you have in store.

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Speaker 1: Your eyes have not seen, your ears have not heard,

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Speaker 1: neither has it even entered into your heart. You don't

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Speaker 1: even have the capacity to imagine what God is going

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Speaker 1: to do through your life. And Ruth knew none of that.

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Speaker 1: If we would have told her that we're going to

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Speaker 1: turn to the Book of You at Elevation Church in

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Speaker 1: April of twenty twenty two, she would have said who,

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Speaker 1: And we would have said you, Ruth, see if you

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Speaker 1: only knew the glory that God is going to get.

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Speaker 1: I can feel that your faith is weak. I can

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Speaker 1: feel that your faith is worn. I can feel that

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Speaker 1: your mind is weary. But I'm calling you back to

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Speaker 1: that place of surrendering God to let the wind of

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Speaker 1: His spirit blow on your situation. If it's something with

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Speaker 1: your kids, if it's something in your body, do everything

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Speaker 1: you can do. Don't say it's God's plan but you

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Speaker 1: ate sugar. Go on the diet. Well, when the Lord

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Speaker 1: wants to take me out, he's going to take me. No,

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Speaker 1: you can eat some broccoli and stay another ten years.

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Speaker 1: So don't do that. But sometimes we get separated from

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Speaker 1: everything we knew, and everything we planned, and everything we thought.

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Speaker 1: And that's the threshing floor. God. After that, we have

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Speaker 1: gleaned your word. Today we accept the process of your threshold,

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Speaker 1: giving it up to you. Let you blow away whatever

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Speaker 1: doesn't belong. I got something to live for. I've got

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Speaker 1: something to live for. And I'll tell you something else.

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Speaker 1: I've lost a lot, but I've got a lot left.

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Speaker 1: Do it real quick, look in the eyes, look in

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Speaker 1: the eyes of the person your next to, and say

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Speaker 1: you've got a lot left. You do, You've got a

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Speaker 1: lot left. Now bow your head, say it to yourself.

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Speaker 1: You've got a lot left. You said that softer. Why

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Speaker 1: can you encourage them? But you can't encourage you. Close

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Speaker 1: your eyes and say to yourself, you've got a lot left.

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Speaker 1: So bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not

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Speaker 1: all his benefits, who redeems your life from the pit,

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Speaker 1: and who crowns you with love and compassion. You've got

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Speaker 1: a lot left. You've got a whole Epha. You got

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Speaker 1: thirty pounds to take back to Naomi. You got a

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Speaker 1: basketful to take home. You can live off of this

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Speaker 1: word for a week. You can live off of this

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Speaker 1: word for a month, and you will be blown away.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's lift up a sound of anticipatory praise.

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Speaker 1: Praise me for what I haven't seen. I praise you

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Speaker 1: in the unknown. Hot five. Everybody you can read say,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be blown away, blown away, blown away, blown away,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be blown away. Boom, mind blowing blessings, boom,

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Speaker 1: pot seeking blessings, boom, basket full, pressed out, check it together,

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Speaker 1: better run it over well. If you enjoyed today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple of things I'd love for you

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Speaker 1: to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast.

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Speaker 1: You can also help us reach others by investing today

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Speaker 1: joining us on the Elevation Podcast.