Ruth: Loss & legacy. Kinsman-Redeemer
Message Date: 3/26/23
Speaker: Pastor Matt Moore

RUTH SERIES

Ruth 3:18

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, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”

Ruth 3:12

“Although it is true that I am a

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of our family…”

Kinsman-Redeemer

Leviticus 25:23-24

The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the

of the land.

Leviticus 25:25

If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest

is to come and redeem what they have sold.

Deuteronomy 25:5-6

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not

outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his

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will not be blotted out from Israel.

Ruth 3:12-13

“Although it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer of our family… there is another who is more

related than I.

…if he wants to do his duty as your kinsman-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not

, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it.”

Ruth 4:1-10

Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the kinsman-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.”
So he went over and sat down.

Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.

Then he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek.”

“I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and

that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.”

“I will redeem it,” he said.

Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to

the name of the dead with his property.”

At this, the kinsman-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might

my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”

(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)

So the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. I have also acquired

the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

Romans 6:15

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!

Kinsman-Redeemer

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