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February 17, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Thank you for joining me today. Today we will be completing the book of Ruth with Chapters 3 and 4. We will see Ruth obeying Naomi's guidance to go to Boaz, asking him to marry her and take care of her as a man related to her husband, and his responsibility to do so, since her husband had died. We will see Boaz thankful to Ruth and honoring to God, making sure that the man first in line has the opportunity to accept this responsibility before agreeing to marry her. We will see Boaz caring for both Ruth and Naomi when he gives Ruth food before she leaves. In our discussion I will share my personal application to how I related to Ruth marrying an older man who had been taking care of her.
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Introduction to the Bible Reading Session
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Happy President's Day, everyone. Today is Monday, February 17th, 2025, and you're here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching. We're here for our daily Bible reading.
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I hope everyone is doing great this Monday, and we are reading through the entire Bible in one year, and we are using the Day by Day Kids Bible, which is written by Karen Henley.
00:00:26
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This is a chronologically written Bible and it's also written in story form. So we are getting the big picture from Genesis all the way to Revelation with a focus on ah the family line of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham.
00:00:43
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Not in that order, the reverse order usually.
Current Reading and Participation Encouragement
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And so ah we have been reading through the entire Bible and we are in the book of Ruth at the moment. So welcome, everybody. If you have your calendar, you can go ahead and get that out and get ready to mark off your day on your calendar.
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We are using these calendars to mark off our commitment and our achievement to read the Bible every day this year. And if you don't already have your own calendar, then please feel free to head over to my site at
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and click on the Read the Bible in One Year tab, and you will find a free downloadable calendar for you to mark off your days. And it doesn't matter what you use to mark off your days, but if you are interested in supporting the event, then I will send you a printed copy of that calendar on sugar cane paper, as well as a sheet of stickers, ah the same ones that I'm using for the month.
00:01:42
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And that is just my way of giving back to you as a thank you for supporting my event. It is not necessary. It is absolutely voluntary. And it doesn't matter if you ah use that downloadable calendar and use your own stickers or your own way of crossing off that calendar.
00:01:59
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I just want to make everybody aware that it is an option if you are new here. And if you're not new here, thank you for listening to me say that almost every day.
Ruth's Story and Genealogy Significance
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So I hope you've been enjoying our Bible reading. We are in the book of Ruth right now, and it's an awesome book. It's short, and it takes place in the middle of Judges.
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So since this is chronologically written, it is inserted in between some chapters of Judges. And that lets us know the timeline of when things occurred.
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So let's go ahead and get started with our reading today.
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Today's reading is going to complete the book of Ruth with chapters 3 and 4. And if you are interested in hearing more details about what happened in our story and you feel that there is just a little bit more that you're not getting and you're interested in in knowing, please head up your Big Bible and check out Ruth chapters 3 and 4.
00:02:57
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This is a beautiful book, and it really highlights God's divine provision for Ruth. during this time And for the family line of Jesus, as we will see a little bit of the genealogy at the very end of the chapter, which is included in the regular version of Ruth.
00:03:18
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And i know I mentioned this before, but ah the family line of Boaz in the story, his father was Salmon and his mother was Rahab, who was the woman in Jericho who helped the spies be safe while they were there checking out Jericho before the Israelites came in and took over the city.
00:03:41
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And I think it's really great that in Matthew chapter one, when Matthew gives us and the genealogy of Jesus, that he mentions both Rahab and Ruth. And that's one of the ways that we know that Rahab was the mother of Boaz.
00:03:56
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It's because she was married to Salmon. She ended up marrying Salmon and then they had Boaz.
Ruth's Dedication and God's Plan
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And we saw yesterday that and Naomi was very sad in her life, thinking that God had turned his back on her ah for some reason.
00:04:11
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But we wanted to remember that God does not turn his back on any of us, that he had a divine plan all along. And as I was reading about Ruth and doing a little bit of backstory, because I like to learn a little bit more, i'm that's the way I'm hungry. I'm always curious to know a little bit more about the story. And so I do some research on that in general.
00:04:35
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and And it is a thought also that elsewhere in the Bible, i think it was Isaiah, that ah when God crafts the wild vine into the the olive branch, that it is referring to Ruth and Rahab because they were both Moabite women and they represent Gentiles who became ah believers in God and worshiped God and were very dedicated to God. that They left their people to serve God and they both declared that God um was to be their God.
00:05:14
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And so God had purpose for for these women even before we knew of them. and he has purpose for us too.
00:05:23
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So we pick up with ah Ruth and it's called a Night in the Barn. One day Naomi told Ruth, you should have a husband.
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You need someone who can take care of you. Here's our law. Your husband has died. So someone in his family should marry you. And Boaz is from your husband's family, and you've been working in his field.
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Boaz will work in the barn with the grain tonight. So wash up and put on some perfume, said Naomi. Get dressed in your best clothes and then go to the barn.
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Don't let Boaz see you, said Naomi. He will eat and drink and watch him and go see where he lies down to rest. And then go over to him and take the covers off of his feet.
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Then you lie down at his feet too. And Boaz will tell you what to do after that. All right, said Ruth. I'll do whatever you want. So that night Ruth went to the barn and she did just what Naomi had told her to do.
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Boaz ate and drank, and he was feeling good. There was a big pile of grain on the floor, and Boaz went around it to the other side. He lay down there.
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Ruth was very quiet. She walked over to Boaz, and she took the covers off of his feet. Then she lay down, too. Late in the night, Boaz woke up.
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He turned over, and he saw someone lying at his feet. It was a woman. Who are you? he asked. I'm Ruth, she answered, and you are from my husband's family.
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Would you take care of me? God will bring good things to you, said Boaz. This is the kindest thing you could do for me. You didn't try to get younger men to like you.
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They might have been rich or poor, but you didn't go after them. So don't be afraid. I'll do what you're asking. Everybody knows you're a good person.
00:07:33
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Boaz went on. You're right. I am from your dead husband's family. But there is also another man who is from your dead husband's family. And by law, he gets to marry you first if he wants.
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So stay here for the rest of the night. And in the morning, I'll go ask him. If he wants to marry you, then he can. But if he won't, then God knows that I will.
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So just stay here until it's morning.
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Ruth stayed in the barn until early morning, and she got up while it was still dark. Boaz said, Don't let anybody know you were here. Now hold out your coat.
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Ruth held her coat out, and Boaz filled it with grain. He helped tie it around her, and then she went back to Naomi's.
Boaz and Ruth's Marriage
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What happened?
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asked Naomi. And Ruth told na Naomi everything. She showed Naomi the grain Boaz gave her. We'll wait now, said Naomi.
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Boaz will find out what he needs to know today.
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a Deal at the City Gate, Ruth, Chapter 4.
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That same morning, Boaz went to the city gate. He sat down. Soon the other man in Naomi's phone but family came by. Hello, friend, called Boaz.
00:08:57
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Come sit by and lean. So the man went over and sat down by Boaz. Boaz asked 10 town leaders to sit with them. He said to the man next to him, Naomi came back to Bethlehem from Moab, and she is selling land that once belonged to our family.
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And I thought I should tell you, that way you can buy it if you want to. If you don't want it, I'll buy it. By law, you get to choose first. Then I'll buy it, said the man.
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Ruth, the woman from Moab, comes with the land, said Boaz. And when you buy the land, you have to marry her. Then I can't buy the land, said the man. You buy it for yourself.
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Now back then, people made a deal this way. One person would take his shoe off and he would give it to the other person. And that's what the man did.
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Then Boaz told all the people listening You see this. Today i am buying the land from Naomi, and Ruth will be my wife.
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You saw the deal we made. Then the people said, We saw it, and we pray that God will give you children. We pray that you'll have a good family. So Boaz married Ruth.
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Later, God gave them a baby boy. The women of the town were happy for Naomi. Praise God, they said. Now you have a family again.
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we hope everyone hears about Boaz. Ruth loves you, and now you have a grandson. He will cheer you up when you are old. Naomi held the baby in her lap.
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She helped take care of him. The women said, Naomi now has a boy in her family. They named the baby Obed. He grew up and he became Jesse's father.
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And Jesse grew up and became King David's father.
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And that's the end of our reading today.
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And we know that Jesus was descended from King David's family. And this is how we see it way back when. And I just love that.
Personal Story Parallel
00:11:20
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So I wanted to ah give you a little bit of insight about some of the things. So basically, Ruth proposed to Boaz. And when she spread her her coat over his feet in ah in a Jewish wedding ceremony, they spread out a cloak, a cloth, and that is to show that they will be covered under the same cover to share life together.
00:11:47
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And so she was asking him to marry her. as was his ah right to do so as part of her family, because she was married and her husband had died and had left them with no children.
00:12:00
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And so it was Jewish custom that if a man died and the wife was left with no children, that another man from the same family ah was to marry her, if possible, and have children with her so that the family would not go without children.
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And so we see that this is what they are asking. And Boaz was thrilled. He was thrilled that Naomi was asking him when he was an older man.
00:12:34
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And that he commends her that she could have ah gone after and been interested in any man younger than him, whether they were rich or poor, because everyone knew she was a good woman.
00:12:48
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And so he was he was very thankful that she had gone to him. And Boaz honored the law and made sure that he was doing right in God's sight by making sure that the other man who had priority over him was given the choice to take her as his wife as well.
00:13:07
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And that's why Naomi would have been selling the land too, is to make sure that Ruth was provided for and that the other man said no and Boaz said he would do it.
00:13:20
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So I thought that was wonderful to see God's great provision. One of the reasons that I like ah the story of Ruth is that I feel a little bit like Ruth. Remember when we talked at the very beginning that we're to see ourselves in the story and to... um see where we are similar to the people.
00:13:40
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And for me, ah the the the story is is is close for me because ah when I met my husband, I was about eight months pregnant with my daughter.
00:13:52
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And And he ended up being known to my boss, who, when when I told him, when he asked me where was I working, i told him where I was working. And he asked me if Vicky still worked there.
00:14:06
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And I said, well, nobody calls her Vicky. It's Victoria. And he said, well, I do. And tell her that I said hello. So I went to work the next day. And i told my boss, hey, I'm supposed to tell Vicky.
00:14:20
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And she sat up. She knew only one person called her Vicki. And said, I said, I'm supposed to tell you that Jim Busolato says hello. And she said, you're going to like him.
00:14:35
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was like, okay. And it turned out that i did like him. But he cared about me, just like how Boaz cared about Ruth. And notice how even when she left in the morning, he filled her cloak with grain.
00:14:50
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and he sent her away with food for Naomi and for her. So he was always taking care of them. And in the same way, when my daughter was born, ah he came and he brought me gifts for her, diapers and wipes and stuff, just as gifts, not because I needed them at the time, but because they were thoughtful gifts that he was using to take care of me.
00:15:09
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And he was just always looking out for me. And in the same way, years later, um i asked him to marry me. And he agreed to marry me.
00:15:22
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um And so he ended up actually adopting my daughter as well. And so I have, I feel like my own little Ruth story with my own Boaz, because he is older than me.
00:15:33
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And, um, Yeah. So I just thought I would share that little bit. And so I feel like, uh, over the years I have often felt, uh, a kindred spirit with Ruth, uh, in, in that I had my Boaz taking care of me and, uh, God has a plan for everybody.
00:15:54
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And we've, we've talked about that many times. And so I, I always like to think, um, of him being part of that plan that God had to take care of me. That part of my life choices, I wouldn't be where I am today if I had not had those opportunities that I had um when when we met and got together.
Session Wrap-up and Technical Notes
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So i hope you ah have enjoyed the story of Ruth today and yesterday. And tomorrow we will pick back up again in Judges. So thank you for being here today with me, whether you have found me on TikTok or YouTube or on my site.
00:16:31
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And I don't know what happened to the video yesterday on TikTok. i i was sure that I posted it and i watched it click post, but I noticed when I got home late last night um that it it wasn't there.
00:16:43
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So I'm sorry if you were looking for it there on TikTok and and had to go to YouTube. to find it. um I just don't know what happened. I know that I clicked posts. And later on it said, a video you were editing did not post ah when I re-uploaded it.
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And I was like, and it didn't even show me that until after I'd finished posting the other one. And I was like, whatever. so
00:17:08
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ah it done anyways. So it is posted. So whether you are watching on TikTok YouTube or on my site, or whether you are listening via your favorite podcasting app, thank you so much for being here.
00:17:20
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00:17:33
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And let's help spread the word about reading God's word. Thank you so much for being here with me, and I will see everybody again tomorrow.