1. Ruth Chapter 3

2. Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return,
that we may look upon you!
Song of Songs 6:13

3. Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return,
that we may look upon you!
What would you see in the Shulamite?
As it were,
the dance of the two camps.
Song of Songs 6:13

4. Ruth is a widow
, a Moabitess
, an heir
Law of Land Redemption (Lev 23:23-28)

5. ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.
Leviticus 25:23

6. And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.
Leviticus 25:24

7. ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.
Leviticus 25:25

8. ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.
Leviticus 25:25

9. Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, then let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.
Leviticus 25:26-27

10. But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.
Leviticus 25:28

11. Ruth is a widow
, a Moabitess
, an heir
Law of Land Redemption (Lev 23:23-28)
↳Law of Kinseman Redeemer
Law of Levirate Marriage (Deut 25:5-10)

12. “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Deuteronomy 25:5

13. And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:6

14. Ruth is a widow
, a Moabitess
, an heir
Law of Land Redemption (Lev 23:23-28)
↳Law of Kinseman Redeemer
Law of Levirate Marriage (Deut 25:5-10)

15. Ruth is a widow
, a Moabitess
, an heir
People of character
Providential encounter
Birth of a Romance

16. Birth of a Romance
- Practically
Naomi
- the matchmaker
Ruth
- the submissive, soft helper

17. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22

18. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:23-24

19. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

20. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

21. - the submissive, soft helper When dealing with a clueless man...
Birth of a Romance
- Practically
Naomi
- the matchmaker
Ruth
- the submissive, soft helper
When dealing with a clueless man...
- Option 1 - give up
- Option 2 - take over
- Option 3 - help softly
leave room for man to be the man....

22. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

23. Birth of a Romance
- Practically
Naomi
- the matchmaker
Ruth
- the submissive, soft helper
Boaz
- the loving, responsive leader
↳Listens
↳Blesses
↳Leads
↳Provides

24. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
Ephesians 5:25-26

25. that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:27-28

26. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Ephesians 5:29-31

27. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

28. Birth of a Romance
- Practically
Naomi
- the matchmaker
Ruth
- the submissive, soft helper
Boaz
- the loving, responsive leader

29. Birth of a Romance
- Spiritually

30. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

31. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:32

32. Birth of a Romance - Spiritually Ruth Boaz -Church -Jesus
- Seeking security, to well with
- Approach
- wash
, anoint
, clothe
- At His feet - lay your life down
- Ask for covering, submit to Him
- Wait on Him
Boaz
-Jesus
- Threshing Barley...the Word
- Waits for us to ask...
- Blesses, protects, provides
- Working on our behalf

33. God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:1

34. Be still, and know that I am God... The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
Psalm 46:10

35. Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!
Psalm 27:14

36. and wait patiently for Him
Rest in the Lord,
and wait patiently for Him
Psalm 37:7

37. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, And in His word I do hope.
My soul waits for the Lord
More than those who watch for the morning...
Psalm 130:5-6

38. Have you not known. Have you not heard
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40:28

39. He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might
He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,
Isaiah 40:29-30

40. But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings
like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31

41. Birth of a Romance - Spiritually Ruth Boaz -Church -Jesus
- Seeking security, to well with
- Approach
- wash
, anoint
, clothe
- At His feet - lay your life down
- Ask for covering, submit to Him
- Wait on Him
Boaz
-Jesus
- Threshing Barley...the Word
- Waits for us to ask...
- Blesses, protects, provides
- Working on our behalf