Boaz, Kinsman Redeemer | Part 2
In this episode, we explore the true meaning of a Goel—a kinsman redeemer—and the three essential qualities required for redemption. Through Boaz’s story, we uncover a powerful connection to Jesus Christ, our ultimate Redeemer. This timeless concept not only reveals our deep need for a savior but also transforms how we understand our roles in relationships and family life.
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Welcome to the Fortifying youg Family podcast.
Speaker A:It can be daunting to navigate through an anti marriage and family culture.
Speaker A:Our teacher will expound biblical principles to help fortify our families and keep these sacred institutions strong.
Speaker A:And now, here's this week's teaching from Sam Wood.
Speaker B:Goel didn't just give his advice to someone or tell someone where they could go get help or even just give some money for a temporary solution to a problem.
Speaker B:A Goel owned the problem.
Speaker B:They took total ownership of the problem that that person had.
Speaker B:It's a very, very strong term.
Speaker B:But for Boaz to be the Goel of the kinsman Redeemer, there had to be three things that were true of him.
Speaker B:Now this is very important.
Speaker B:We see.
Speaker B:First, he had to have the right to redeem.
Speaker B:Secondly, he had to have the resources to redeem.
Speaker B:And thirdly, he had to have the readiness to redeem.
Speaker B:He had the right, he'd have to have the right, he'd have to have the resources, and he would have to have the readiness to be that kinsman Redeemer.
Speaker B:So let's look at these for just a moment in the message this morning.
Speaker B:First, he had to have the right to redeem.
Speaker B:If he doesn't have the right to redeem, it doesn't matter how much willingness he has, it doesn't matter how much wealth he may have, he cannot be the kinsman Redeemer.
Speaker B:He first has to establish his right to be the Goel, his right to be that kinsman redeemer.
Speaker B:And the right is established by being the nearest of kin.
Speaker B:So Boaz had to be first, we might say, with Naomi and Ruth, in the deepest possible way.
Speaker B:He had to be the nearest kin to them.
Speaker B:Now follow the text very carefully with me at this point.
Speaker B:Look with me at chapter two in your Bible for just a minute.
Speaker B:And we see that there are four Hebrew words that progressively show Boaz kinship to the family of Naomi and Elimelech.
Speaker B:Look at them quickly with me.
Speaker B:In verse one it says, and Naomi had a kinsman.
Speaker B:That's the first one of her husbands, a mighty man of wealth of the family of Limlech, and his name was Boaz.
Speaker B:The word here simply means the word kinsman means a relative.
Speaker B:She had a relative of her.
Speaker B:So we know that Boaz was a relative of Elimelech.
Speaker B:When God introduces him in verse one of chapter two, then look at verse three.
Speaker B:In her hap was the light upon part of the field that belongeth unto Boaz, who was of the.
Speaker B:Here's the second word Kindred of Elimelech.
Speaker B:Now, this is an altogether different word.
Speaker B:This one means one of the family.
Speaker B:He's one of the family.
Speaker B:A little bit closer, it's showing here, kin to her than it did the first time.
Speaker B:So he's not just a relative, he's actually one of the family, we might say.
Speaker B:And then you go to verse 20, which I said is a very pivotal verse.
Speaker B:And you look at that verse, it says, and Naomi said unto her daughter in law, blessed be he of the Lord who hath not left off his kindness to the living and, and to the dead.
Speaker B:And Naomi said unto her, the man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
Speaker B:At the end of that verse, it gives us two more descriptions, Hebrew words for, we might say the description of a family member.
Speaker B:The first one is near of kin.
Speaker B:And near of kin means he's not only of the family, but he is a close relative of the family.
Speaker B:So as we go down through these verses, we are singing, it's getting closer and closer and closer to the fact that he is actually, at the end of verse 20, a next kinsman.
Speaker B:But a next kinsman.
Speaker B:There in the Hebrew means goel.
Speaker B:He is a goel.
Speaker B:So Naomi now realizes that Boaz is just not a relative.
Speaker B:He's not just part of the family.
Speaker B:He's a very close relative of hers who potentially could be a near kinsman, who could be a redeemer of them, a go El for them.
Speaker B:She realizes that he is qualified or has the right to redeem them by his near kinsmanship to them.
Speaker B:Now listen, we cannot help but see through this description of Boaz as a kinsman, redeemer, the person of Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:Listen, folks, we're all destitute.
Speaker B:We're all depraved and without hope.
Speaker B:We all have a tremendous sin debt that none of us can ever pay in and of ourselves.
Speaker B:We all have sinned against God and we all stand guilty before God.
Speaker B:We all desperately, folks, need a go El.
Speaker B:We all desperately need a kinsman redeemer, just as Ruth and Naomi need it in their life.
Speaker B:We need someone to pay that sin debt.
Speaker B:We need someone who can cover that for us.
Speaker B:But they have to be a near kinsman.
Speaker B:And what gives Jesus, we might ask the question, the right to be our goel.
Speaker B:Now, Jesus has a right, and this is so important to understand, Jesus has a right to be our goel, or Jesus has a right to be our near kinsman, number one, through the incarnation, through the incarnation, when Jesus was born and Placed in a manger.
Speaker B:Philippians chapter 2 and verse 7 says, but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant.
Speaker B:And listen to the end of this.
Speaker B:And was made in the likeness of what?
Speaker B:Men.
Speaker B:Jesus was made in the likeness of men.
Speaker B:This means that he became bone of my bones.
Speaker B:He became flesh of my flesh.
Speaker B:He became a true infant human being, just as you are.
Speaker B:Just as I am.
Speaker B:Except, and this is a big except, except for sin.
Speaker B:He was God in flesh.
Speaker B:So he came to this earth as God in flesh through the incarnation.
Speaker B:This means that the incarnation, or the embodiment of God in flesh, was absolutely necessary for our redemption.
Speaker B:Jesus had to come this way.
Speaker B:And those who would say, folks, the virgin birth is not an essential doctrine or totally wrong, there's a popular author right now and I'll just say his name because I think you should know it.
Speaker B:His name is Rob BAAL and he's come out several years ago and he wrote a book and he said, you can take as a brick wall, a brick out of that wall called the virgin birth.
Speaker B:And that wall will still stand.
Speaker B:I say, absolutely it won't.
Speaker B:It's foundational to the wall.
Speaker B:If we don't have the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, if we don't have God in flesh, if we don't have the incarnation of Jesus Christ, then Jesus cannot be our kinsman, Redeemer.
Speaker B:Jesus became a next to kin to us.
Speaker B:But listen closely to me this morning, that wasn't close enough.
Speaker B:Incarnation is not all that is necessary.
Speaker B:If Jesus had only been God in body and in flesh, that would not have been enough to redeem us.
Speaker B:He could be a totally perfect man, live perfectly, and keep the law without any sin, which he did.
Speaker B:But if it stopped with that kind of nearness, then he still can't redeem us.
Speaker B:I remind you of Romans chapter 8, verse 3, where it takes Jesus out of the manger and it places Jesus on the cross.
Speaker B:For what the law could not do, in that it was weak.
Speaker B:It says what the law could not do, in that it was weak.
Speaker B:Through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness.
Speaker B:Listen to this.
Speaker B:Of sinful flesh.
Speaker B:And for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.
Speaker B:It says, having been made in the likeness of man, he is now made in the likeness of sinful flesh.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:So on the cross he became one of us in the deepest.
Speaker B:Listen folks, in the deepest and the truest and most tragic sense, we might say he took on our sins as though he was a sinner himself.
Speaker B:The theological word for this is atonement.
Speaker B:He atoned for our sins.
Speaker B:We are reconciled to God through the sacrificial death of his Son Jesus Christ on the cross.
Speaker B:This establishes his kinship.
Speaker B:This establishes his right to redeem us.
Speaker B:Every part of our life became his, including our sin.
Speaker B:I love the verse in Second Corinthians, chapter 5 and verse 21, where it says, for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Speaker B:Therefore the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:Listen to me, brothers and sisters.
Speaker B:Established his right to be our Goel, his right to be our kinsman Redeemer.
Speaker B:By the Incarnation and by taking our sins upon his flesh, he became our kinsman.
Speaker B:Redeemer had the right to redeem us, but not only did he have the right to redeem us, have to have that right.
Speaker B:He had to have the necessary resources to redeem, to buy back or redeem the land for relatives who had died.
Speaker B:The kinsman Redeemer had to have the necessary resources.
Speaker B:I mentioned a while ago, Elimelech had lost his land.
Speaker B:It would require a great amount of wealth, a great amount of riches to buy this land back.
Speaker B:It's highly significant that the first time that Boaz is mentioned in chapter two and verse one, it says, he's a mighty man of what?
Speaker B:Wealth.
Speaker B:He's a mighty man of wealth.
Speaker B:This tells us immediately that Boaz has the wealth, Boaz has the riches or resources necessary to redeem Naomi and Ruth.
Speaker B:Listen.
Speaker B:Boaz was rich in pedigree.
Speaker B:He was rich in pedigree.
Speaker B:At the end of chapter four, it's no accident God gives us a lineage of Boaz.
Speaker B:I can't go into it today, but you go read it for yourself.
Speaker B:And he's traced back to the tribe of Judah.
Speaker B:This shows that Boaz is rich in pedigree.
Speaker B:But not only is he rich in pedigree, he is rich in power.
Speaker B:Boaz is a man of great authority.
Speaker B:He's a man of great power.
Speaker B:When he speaks, his servants do what he tells them to do.
Speaker B:They obey him.
Speaker B:We see in this story he is a prominent, preeminent figure in this story.
Speaker B:He's a man of great pedigree, but he's also a man of great, great power.
Speaker B:But also he is rich in provision.
Speaker B:He's rich in power.
Speaker B:He's rich in pedigree, but he's rich in provision.
Speaker B:Everything about him speaks of sufficiency.
Speaker B:He owns these large fields.
Speaker B:He's wealthy and can supply whatever the needs of the people might be.
Speaker B:When Ruth comes into his field and he sees her.
Speaker B:He gives her extra above all that she could ask or think.
Speaker B:He is rich in provision.
Speaker B:He is rich in protection, folks.
Speaker B:Boaz protected Ruth from any harm that could come to her.
Speaker B:He watched over her.
Speaker B:He said, listen, don't leave my fields.
Speaker B:It's dangerous.
Speaker B:You're a Moabitess.
Speaker B:You're out here in the fields.
Speaker B:Don't leave my fields.
Speaker B:I'll protect you.
Speaker B:Not only that, he commands his young men.
Speaker B:Listen, guys, if you touch her, you messing with me?
Speaker B:You better not touch her.
Speaker B:Boaz protects her.
Speaker B:We see that he is rich.
Speaker B:Listen, folks, he's rich in pedigree, he's rich in power, he's rich in provision, and he is rich in protection.
Speaker B:Now, folks, you have to have your eyes closed to not see that.
Speaker B:Boaz is a vivid foreshadowing of our goel, Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:Listen, folks, Jesus is rich in pedigree.
Speaker B:He is God incarnate.
Speaker B:He is God in flesh.
Speaker B:He is of the house of King David.
Speaker B:Jesus is rich in pedigree.
Speaker B:But Jesus is also rich in power.
Speaker B: In Matthew: Speaker B:Jesus defeated sin, death, hell and the grave.
Speaker B:He is rich in power, folks.
Speaker B:Jesus is rich in provision.
Speaker B:Said in Philippians 4:19.
Speaker B:But my God shall supply all you need according to his riches in glory.
Speaker B:He's rich in provision to us.
Speaker B:If you're a child of God, you're a joint heir of God.
Speaker B:Praise his name.
Speaker B:The moment I trusted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, he became responsible for me.
Speaker B:I am now in Christ.
Speaker B:If you have trusted Christ, you are now in Christ.
Speaker B:Everybody.
Speaker B:Every sin I've ever committed is his responsibility.
Speaker B:And every sin I ever will commit is his responsibility.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:I am clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:He has provided for me.
Speaker B:And folks, let me say also, Jesus, in case you've forgotten, is Listen.
Speaker B:He's rich in protection for us, too.
Speaker B:And praise God he is.
Speaker B: In John: Speaker B:Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Speaker B:No man, no demon, no principality, nothing can take you.
Speaker B:Nothing can take me as a child of God, out of the hand of God.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:God is the author of our salvation.
Speaker B:I didn't put myself into his hands, and I can't take myself out of his hands.
Speaker B:And nobody else can take me out of his hands or you if you're in Christ, I'm secure in Christ.
Speaker B:So this kinsman Redeemer, he has to have the right to redeem.
Speaker B:He has to have the resources to redeem.
Speaker B:Boaz had the right.
Speaker B:He had the resources.
Speaker B:Jesus has the right, and Jesus has the resources.
Speaker B:But let me close by saying this.
Speaker B:You also have to have the readiness to redeem.
Speaker B:The readiness to redeem.
Speaker B:That is, he must be willing to redeem or perform the task that's given to him without having the readiness to redeem.
Speaker B:It doesn't matter if you have the right.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker B:It doesn't matter if you have the resources.
Speaker B:If you don't have the willingness or the readiness to redeem, none of that matters at all.
Speaker B:Chapter three.
Speaker B:In the middle of the night at the threshing floor, Boaz is asleep and something startles him.
Speaker B:And he wakes up and he sees there is someone at his feet.
Speaker B:That would startle me, too.
Speaker B:Wouldn't it startle you?
Speaker B:He says, who art there?
Speaker B:She says, I am Ruth, thine handmaid.
Speaker B:And she says this to him.
Speaker B:She says, spread your skirt.
Speaker B:Spread the skirt of your gown.
Speaker B:Spread it over me.
Speaker B:You know what she's asking him to do?
Speaker B:She's proposing to him.
Speaker B:She's saying, will you marry me?
Speaker B:Will you be my Goel?
Speaker B:Will you be my kinsman Redeemer?
Speaker B:She says, cover me with your garment.
Speaker B:Take me to be your wife.
Speaker B:Redeem my family.
Speaker B:Give us back our inheritance.
Speaker B:And he looks at her and he says, I will do everything that you ask.
Speaker B:So Boaz has the readiness or he has the willingness to do two things.
Speaker B:The willingness to pay off the debt owed by our family and the willingness to marry this young girl by the name of Ruth, who is from a different ethnic background, who is an alien of Israel.
Speaker B:And listen, folks, I love the end of the verse.
Speaker B:In verse 11, in chapter 3, it says, Boaz, testimony of Ruth is this.
Speaker B:All of Israel knows that you are a what?
Speaker B:Virtuous woman.
Speaker B:He says, listen, the distinction for me marrying you is not racial, it's theological.
Speaker B:You are a child of God.
Speaker B:You're a virtuous woman.
Speaker B:You're a godly woman, so I know I can marry you.
Speaker B:He doesn't say, I'll just give you enough money to get you out of debt and leave you with no one to pass on your family's inheritance.
Speaker B:But I'll take on all of your debt and I will marry you.
Speaker B:So what happens to Ruth?
Speaker B:All his wealth, which wasn't hers, which she had never earned or worked for, becomes hers legally.
Speaker B:And immediately.
Speaker B:In other words, all the debts aren't just paid for.
Speaker B:But she has a whole new life.
Speaker B:When she becomes a bride of Boaz, he totally takes ownership of every problem that she has.
Speaker B:Listen, folks, in the providence of God, Naomi and Ruth come back to Bethlehem.
Speaker B:Judah at the beginning of barley harvest.
Speaker B:In the providence of God, a young widow named Ruth just happens into Boaz's field.
Speaker B:In the providence of God, this mighty man of wealth named Boaz remains unmarried and Boaz looks upon her and loves her and lowers himself to her.
Speaker B:This alien pagan woman from Moab to be his wife.
Speaker B:He's willing to be his her Goel.
Speaker B:He's willing to be her kinsman, Redeemer.
Speaker B:Everything in this story shows that Ruth is totally undeserving.
Speaker B:But again, I remind you of the verse where she falls at his feet and says, why do I find favor seeing that I'm a stranger?
Speaker B:Do you realize today that Jesus is our great Goel?
Speaker B:Do you realize today that Jesus is our great kinsman, Redeemer?
Speaker B:Listen.
Speaker B:Jesus has the right to redeem us.
Speaker B:He came as God in flesh and bore our sins upon the cross.
Speaker B:He has the resources redeem us.
Speaker B:He has the pedigree, the power, the provision and the protection to give to us.
Speaker B:And folks, let me just say here this morning, he has the readiness to redeem us.
Speaker B:For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Speaker B: Jesus said in John: Speaker B:The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Speaker B:The verse I mentioned at the beginning of the message this morning.
Speaker B:Behold what matter of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.
Speaker B:Listen, in the providence of God, you're sitting here this morning in a pew.
Speaker B:I don't believe it's an accident that you're here this morning.
Speaker B:By the providence of God, you're in this building this morning and you're listening to the word of God and hearing this message from.
Speaker B:From the Word of God.
Speaker B:And God is saying to us this morning, you have a burden.
Speaker B:Your sin, would you give it to me?
Speaker B:You've got a sin debt.
Speaker B:I paid for all of your sin on the cross at Calvary.
Speaker B:You've got a messed up life.
Speaker B:You can have new life in Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:Jesus came to beat our great Goel.
Speaker B:Our great kinsman, Redeemer.
Speaker B:Am I ready and willing to be the bride of Jesus Christ?
Speaker B:He's ready.
Speaker B:He's willing.
Speaker B:He's ready for you to come to him by faith and cry out to him, God forgive me, I'm a sinner.
Speaker B:God forgive me.
Speaker B:I know I have no hope in and of myself.
Speaker B:God forgive me by faith.
Speaker B:I trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
Speaker B:Today I want Jesus Christ to be my goel.
Speaker B:Jesus says, come, come to my feet and let me cover you with the skirt of my garment.
Speaker B:Come to me and I will clothe you in my righteousness.
Speaker B:Come and let me be your bridegroom today.
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