"KINSMAN REDEEMER"
Part 1

Ruth 4:14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.

• She married a Hebrew man's son.
• Elimelech was her father-in-law.
• He died and left his wife with her two sons.
• The boys married women from Moab, Orpah and Ruth.
• These boys died, also, and the women were left there as widows (Ruth 1:1-5).

The deceased husbands owned land in Israel.

• In Bethlehem.
• But when the husbands died, the women lost their land there.

Naomi left to go to her original home, since she heard God blessed the people there again with bread.

• The daughters-in-law went also.
• Naomi told them both to return and remain in Moab.
• Orpah returned but Ruth vowed to go to Israel.

Ruth 1:16-17 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, [or] to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people [shall be] my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me.

• They went to Bethlehem.
• They left Moab to live in Poverty in Israel.

Not only was Ruth a widow, but also a Gentile in Israel.

• a "stranger".
• A law of Israel made provision for her to be able to glean the corners of the fields of the Hebrews for her own food.

Levi 19:9-10 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.

Ruth 2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

• She gleaned from Boaz' field.
• Boaz was a very wealthy man in Israel.

Ruth 2:3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field [belonging] unto Boaz, who [was] of the kindred of Elimelech.

• The man was a relative of Ruth!
• He was her single hope to getting her land back.
• She could retain her inheritance through him.
• He was a kinsman.
• A Law existed in Israel called the Levirate Law
• (Levir is the Latin term for brother)
• The deceased man's brother was supposed to marry the widow.
• To keep the deceased man's name in the land through male children, the deceased man's brother would marry and bear children by the widow.

LEVIRATE LAW

Deut 25:5-10 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and [if] he stand [to it], and say, I like not to take her; Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

• The deceased man's name would be lost if he had no sons before he died.
• The woman did have his name, but lost it, in effect.
• She would die, and without a son with his name, the name would die.
• When one lost their name, they lost authority they had and power and possessions.
• The name implied authority and power.
• Kinsman Redeemer would buy back that which was originally held, but lost.
• In this case, her husband's power and name was lost.

As time passed, Boaz began to love Ruth.

• But a man closer in kin to her husband was alive and therefore had to right to marry her before him.
• This other man was the rightful redeemer.
• And to marry her and have a firstborn son, would cause that son to be named after the widow's deceased husband.

Ruth 4:1-6 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our brother Elimelech's: And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may know: for [there is] none to redeem [it] beside thee; and I [am] after thee. And he said, I will redeem [it]. Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem [it].

• The rightful redeemer would not redeem the inheritance for fear of marring his own inheritance.
• So he gave the right to Boaz.
• Boaz would redeem the heritage and marry Ruth!

Ruth 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day. And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman. So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

• Adam was the Man in God's Image.
• His name was power and authority.
• He ruled over the earth.
• But he fell into sin and lost all.
• He died.

Gene 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

• Mankind lost the "land"
• We became poverty-stricken.
• Adam was our "head" as a woman's husband was her headship.
• We were left to glean fields.
• We are also known as "strangers", as Ruth was a stranger in Israel.
• Gentiles.

God looked upon us and sought to redeem us.

• There had to be a kinsman to redeem us.
• A human, like Adam would alone be "kin".
• Angels were brethren, but humanity is still lower than the angels.
• So God became a human.
• He then was closer to man than the angels.
• He became our KIN.

Of humanity, we read this:

Hebr 2:5-8 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

A quote from Psalm 8:5.

• How is this Psalm 8:5 true?
• Man is not over the works of God's hands.
• But Jesus is!
• We may not see mankind over all, but Jesus is!
• Man was created to be over these things.
• But Adam lost that authority.
• Jesus came to redeem it.

Hebr 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Man was lost.

• Death took Adam, and death came by sin.
• Adam's name one time meant authority but became slavery.
• Poverty.

God, Himself, became a man.

• Jesus sent nobody else.
• Jesus paid the redemption price.
• Jesus incarnated as man and became kin to mankind.
• The redeemer had to pay the price of something he owned.
• He gave HIMSELF.

Gala 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Now it can be said that Psalm 8:5 is true.

• Redemption was in effect when one bought back something that formerly belonged to a party but was passed into other hands and owned by that other.
• God redeemed Israel from Egypt.

Exod 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

God lost Israel to Egypt.

• God even redeemed Israel from Babylon by giving the price of Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba to King Cyrus.

Isai 43:3 For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee

Isai 48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it [even] to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isai 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isai 62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Jesus redeemed the church with the payment of His own blood.

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Boaz loved Ruth.

• He redeemed her place in Israel.
• Christ loves us and redeemed our place in the GARDEN!

• She was the great grandmother of King David.
• She was the ancestor of Mary, the mother of Jesus!
• She was a Gentile, termed as "not a people", but became part of the family of God's people.

Ruth 4:18-22 Now these [are] the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

Christ has redeemed Adam's name and power and dominion.

2Cor 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

• He paid the price for our redemption.
• He loved you that much.
• Without Him we are lost forever.
• Accept the fact that He paid your redemption and then come to Him.
• Without Him we're nothing.
• Not a people.
• In the poverty of sin.
• Be redeemed!

At the GATE, Boaz announced his redemption.

• GATE is the CHURCH.
• "Bethel" means HOUSE OF GOD.
• Jacob called a place BETHEL after he saw the gate to Heaven opened.

Leviticus 23 gives the law of gleaning.

• Verse 22.
• This law is listed between the explanation of two sets of feasts.
• Spring feasts and Autumn feasts of Israel.
• All the Spring feasts have been fulfilled. (Passover, Feast of firstfruits, Pentecost, etc.)
• The Fall feasts are not fulfilled yet.
• We are in the summer now.
• Between the fulfillment of feasts.
• In the HARVEST age of summer where the gleaning of fields occurred and Ruth was redeemed!