Ruth After Judges: When God Is King in the Chaos

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Narrative juxtaposition.
Aw, I love that.

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Word.
Say it five times.

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Fast juxtaposition,
juxtaposition, juxtaposition.

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Now I think we define the word
at least the first.

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Yeah, we should do dedicate.
That's smart.

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But maybe you haven't been
listening and you're tuning in.

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So juxtaposition really means
we're taking 2 seemingly

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unrelated things and putting
them right together.

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Sometimes, you know, in literary
sense, authors were well

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juxtaposed to ideas and find
some commonality or contrast

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them or whatever.
And I, I love this.

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I'm loving this series.
We talked about Matthew, this

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Jewish gospel and the Gentile
intrusions.

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We talked Mark in sandwiches.
Looked at Mark.

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He breaks up these stories.
Why does he break him up with

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this other story?
We talked to Jonah, this prophet

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that stands really in a strange
place when you compare them to

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people like Ezekiel and Obadiah
and Micah and you're like a

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different tone, different kind
of story.

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Today we're in the fourth
episode of this series.

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It's titled My God is king in
the days when there was no king.

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We're talking to Ruth judges and
this this quiet theme of the

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kingship of God.
That's really not not so quiet.

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And I think we've alluded to
this a lot through Joshua.

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Like as we went through that, we
talked, we kind of alluded to

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judges a lot.
So I'm excited to see how these

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books, put right next to each
other, really emphasize the

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kingship of God.
That's nice.

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So with that in mind.
Yeah, let's do it.

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Let's take it to the next level.
Let's fire up that twanga music.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
Here's the claim all.

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Right.
The book of Ruth is

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intentionally placed after
judges to show that even when

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Israel collapses morally,
collapses politically, God

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continues to rule and reign as
king.

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I'm not working how you may
expect through judges, through

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warriors, but do something
totally different altogether.

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Quiet faithfulness, loyal love
and redemption.

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And I think, I think it's
applicable to today.

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You just expect like all these
like ways you would want to be

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done.
But sometimes that flies in the

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face of how God chooses to
operate.

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Now, when I think of Ruth, I
just think of this passage that

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always gets quoted at weddings.
Yeah, it's that great passage.

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But I mean, that's probably why,
because there's going to be so

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many weddings in first and
Second Samuel that they needed

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to know this passage that.
Yeah, exactly right.

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Yeah, I feel like Ruth, same
thing.

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I'm not saying this is bad, but
it's it's like Ruth and Esther

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and these things are a lot of
times like relegated to like

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women Bible studies or you know
what I'm saying?

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Like instead of like
incorporated into the body of

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Christ, it's kind of like.
Oh, that's for women.

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Yeah.
And like there's a probably

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disproportionately a number of
studies that's like we're going

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through Esther or you know,
these things and it you know,

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not saying that's like.
A type of men's Bible study that

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does Ruth, Esther.
Maybe we look at what's the

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woman in Jericho?
Rahab.

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Rahab, you know we should do
something.

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That would like in the midst of
all this, like gender and

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sexuality issues, like really
flying in the face, but in a

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positive way, like you might
actually land some people who

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were like way on different
spectrum, you know what I mean?

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And they're like, whoa, that's
like the full circle.

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That's $1,000,000.
That's not half baked, Michael.

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That is that is good.
Well, we're going to walk

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through this as we're looking at
the notes.

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I have a lot of notes.
We might not.

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We don't have to make it all the
way through.

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Some of this might be overkill,
but I really like these themes.

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So we're gonna start at the
beginning of Ruth.

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And so Michael is gonna read for
us, Ruth.

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One versus 1 and 2.
I'll read it at What you have

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printed here is 1 and two.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That way we get the ESV 'cause I
know it's near and dear.

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Alright, that's right.
In the days when the judges

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ruled, there was a famine in the
land, and a man of Bethlehem and

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Judah went to sojourn in the
country of Moab.

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The name of the man was
Elimelech.

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Great, Let's stop right there
because before we get even into

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the story, we come across this
name.

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We've emphasized names of a lot
of this podcast.

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It's easy to run past them.
And I never really knew this

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growing up, but once I saw it, I
can't Unsee it.

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This Elimelech that you read,
his name means my God is king.

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And then we and the the part I
never knew that the part that I

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feel like is always emphasized
is the end of the book where we

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talk about Obed and David and
ends talking about a king.

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But it begins that way too.
And it talks about my God is

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king.
And so as you get into this book

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of Ruth, we we have this tension
because the book right before in

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Judges doesn't talk about God
being kingly.

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It actually is much more tragic.
If you study judges, you

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probably know where where we're
going with this.

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But Judges many, many times
we've and we've talked even when

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doing Josh, we talked about this
recently.

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What's the refrain that we hear
over and over?

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And they did what was right in
their own eyes.

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It it.
Exactly.

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And it even in in Judges 2125,
let's see how many, how many

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chapters are in Judges?
Is it 21?

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Even better, the very last verse
of Judges says in those days

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there was no king in Israel and
then everyone did right in their

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own eyes.
So those things kind of go

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together and then Ruth picks up
talking about alumna like kind

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of like subtly, this idea of my
God is king.

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So Judges ends in a bad way,
moral chaos, political

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fragmentation, spiritual
collapse.

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And Ruth boldly begins with this
opening name of my God is King.

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And so a question maybe you as
the reader should be thinking

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about internalizing do God's
people actually believe that God

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is king?
Coming from Judges, it's

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probably a hard thing to
understand.

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There is no king.
And even this, the wealth the

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the people who mean well don't
get the job done.

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I'm trying to make a connection
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Oh yeah, 'cause we, we talked
about there's this character.

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I think it was more of a title
that when Abraham pawned hit

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Sarah off as was a oh sister.
His name was Abimelech.

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Abimelech.
Yes, but it had a similar

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meeting.
Something like something is king

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or.
I think you're right.

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Did you just look it up or?
See, I'm trying to find it but I

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couldn't find it and I was like
not being able to pay attention

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to you to talk as much.
I think there is something

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there, yeah, that would make
make sense.

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Yeah.
So.

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Same kind of probably similar
root word.

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Yeah, Yeah.
We'll have to.

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Maybe we'll we'll try to find
that as we keep moving on and

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talking about the book of
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So, you know, to better
understand Ruth and this

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positive way it ends that we all
talk about, we need to really

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embraced and and understand this
darkness throughout Judges where

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we get this cycle over and over.
One of the key passages that

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really encapsulates this cycle
can be found in Judges Chapter 2

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verses 11 through 19 kind of
kind of shows this.

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This cycle you.
Want to read that?

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Yeah, go for it.
Says Then the sons of Israel did

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evil in the sight of the Lord,
and served the Baal's, and they

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forsook Yahweh, the God of their
fathers, who had brought them

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out of the land of Egypt, and
followed other gods from among

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the gods of the people who were
around them, and bowed

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themselves down to them.
Thus they provoked Yahweh to

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anger.
So they forsook Yahweh and

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served by all and the Asteroth,
the anger of Yahweh burned

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against Israel.
And He gave them into the hands

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of plunderers who plundered
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He sold them in the hands of
their enemies around them, so

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that he could no longer stand
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Wherever they went, the hand of
Yahweh was against them for

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evil.
As Yahweh had spoken, and as

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Yahweh had sworn to them, so
they were severely distressed.

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Then Yahweh raised up judges who
delivered them from the hands of

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those who plundered them.
Yet they did not listen to their

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judges, for they played the
harlot after other gods and

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bowed themselves down to them.
They turned aside quickly from

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the way in which their fathers
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commandments of Yahweh, they did
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When Yahweh raised up judges for
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Yahweh was the Judge and
delivered them from the hand of

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their enemies.
All the days of the judge for

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Yahweh was moved to pity by
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who oppressed and afflicted
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But it came about when the Judge
died that they would turn back

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and act more corruptly than
their fathers and following

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other gods to serve them and bow
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They did not abandon their
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ways.
Man.

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So we see Israel sins, God
allows oppression, Israel cries

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out, God raises a judge, but
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and it's classically described
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Not only that, you kind of
progress through judges and you

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kind of see that's that spiral
really going more and more and

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more.
It gets more fragmented, Faith

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is weaker, the leaders fail and
you kind of get to the final

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chapters of Judges and you see
things like religious idolatry

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being rampant and Judges 17 and
18, you read Judges 19, this

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horrific sexual violent of this
lady who's all cut up and this

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kind of stuff.
And you're like, wow, insane.

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And, and the book basically ends
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Very, very dark where Israel's
not living under God's rule, but

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truly everyone's doing what's
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And so that raises no small
question, you know, what happens

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to God's promises when God's
people refuse God's rule?

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And then Ruth comes in and I, I
think, attempts to answer this

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question.
And so El Amalek, his name means

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my God is king.
Abimelech, my father is king my.

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Father is king OK?
El is the God, yeah, yeah.

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So that the emelec must mean is
king, yeah.

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We learned something new Molech
just be throwing out some some

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knowledge.
Michael read the opening verses

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of Ruth Elimelech.
He'll leave this town of

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Bethlehem.
Maybe you've heard of this

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before and travels to a place of
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If you, if you've read, if
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you know both of these places,
probably Bethlehem going back to

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me.
Moab descendants of Lot.

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Moab descendant of lot.
That's gonna be important.

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I want to circle back around to
that at at the end of this

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Bethlehem, this town we talk
about a lot at Christmas, a

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little town of Bethlehem.
It literally means House of

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bread.
Sounds good.

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What a name.
I want to go there.

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You should have a restaurant in
Bethlehem, and it's, like, known

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for its breads.
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That'd be good.
There's like, yeah, there's got

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to be some of the Bethlehem
bakery or something.

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That's awesome.
Something like that should

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definitely exist.
We read Ruth and we see

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Bethlehem, this House of bread.
But what's interesting, this

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juxtaposition, there's a famine,
not a lot of bread going on,

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driving them away.
And there's Moab, not just a

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random place, but like you said,
distance from lots historically

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at odds with Israel.
They're not, not a lot of times,

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you know, aligned.
I don't know if you can pull up

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for us Deuteronomy chapter 23
and 3:00 and 4:00 because it

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speaks specifically about
Moabites by name and kind of

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shows us maybe what the average
Jew of the day might might think

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about with these Moabites.
So Ammon and Moab were both

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grandsons of Lot, and if you
read that story about those, how

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those grandsons came about, not
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But so we'll just leave it that

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probably familiar.
If not, you can look it up.

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There you go.
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It says that no Ammonite or
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of Yahweh.
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to the 10th generation, shall
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Yahweh, because they did not
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the way when you came out of
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against you Balaam, the son of
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to curse you.
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Moses, we're in.
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It's not, it's not like
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the, it's embedded in the in the
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Recent, maybe 100 years ago.
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like, you know, we know American
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actually probably a lot of
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embraced and can remember things
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So Alumlek, this guy, he leaves
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and seeks survival among
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kind of strange.
Like, why are we going away from

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the promised land?
This guy whose name my God is

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king.
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at least.
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Alumlek dies, doesn't last long
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married these Moabite women.
I always want to say Oprah when

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I say Orpa.
It's just like that, you know?

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Do you know that Oprah was
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it was misspelled on her birth?
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This Yeah, that's how Oprah got
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supposed to be Oprah ORPA.
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That's yeah, easy mistake to
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I make it almost all the time.
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parents.
There's the sons that marry the

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Cobite women die as well.
So Naomi has three widows, no

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heirs.
And so the line of Olmelek, it's

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not not looking pretty.
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there before so.
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had two sons, Elimelech.
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left is Naomi, the original
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in laws, Ruth and Orpa.
That's that's good.

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That's good.
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And there's not a lot of heirs
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No.
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time inheritance did not flow
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well in in for Jews.
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which we know about in in Ruth.
I don't know if we're.

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No, that's good.
That's not something I, I, I, I

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think, I think that's great.
And so like Alema, like my

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goddess King goes away from
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MO about women.
It just, it just seems really

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bleak.
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That's the right word.
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Even when Naomi returns to
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famous laments, very honestly
says, don't call me Naomi, call

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me Mara, for the Almighty has
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What a name.
Like, you have to be feeling

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damage if you want people like
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just think of that.
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So it's like a big contrast.
I've worked with Amara.

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It was spelled slightly
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I wonder if it's the same route.
I'll be a cassette.

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It's just Hebrew.
Like what's the?

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What's the?
Are you a bitter person?

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You know, and so it's
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it's one of these areas if you
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of thing, she speaks about
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We talk about that a lot with,
with things like the Psalms or

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Lamentations, not abandoning
hope totally, but you know,

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recognizes some dire situation.
So, so it seems right now in

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Ruth that God is silent, but
like Ruth and other places in

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Scripture, you know, and, and we
probably have to have this

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distortion where we just like
expect like miraculous things

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happen in every page of
Scripture.

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It's, it's funny, people expect
that in every day of their life.

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It doesn't even happen in every
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That's right.
That's right.

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Yeah, 'cause there's, you know,
hundreds, thousands a year,

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sometimes between miraculous
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And and we talked about with
Ezra, Nehemiah, not a lot going

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on, you know, famously.
And Esther, like, you know, name

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of God is not mentioned.
And Ruth, God doesn't speak

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directly.
There's no prophets, there's no

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angels, there's no miracles.
But it's almost like that

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highlights God working seemingly
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That's right.
That's right.

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And it is.
It is really cool you read

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through Ruth.
There's some really good stuff

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for men to learn there.
Yeah, there you go.

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Well, that's exactly right.
Let's see, Ruth Two, we meet

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Boaz, and, you know, we kind of
get this idea of, you know, what

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some people would call
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It's actually divine Providence,
you know, that God, again, this

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theme that we're going to see is
ordinary faithfulness, like

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maybe your hope was in Samson
and these judges really God is

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working in this different way.
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Yeah, just add on to that
because, you know, if you've

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read the rest of the story,
David is going to come for this.

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And when David was picked out,
he was kind of ordinary, too.

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Yeah, it's like the story, it
like keeps on, it keeps on going

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that that's really, really good.
And so in Ruth, she's now kind

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of the center of the story, this
Moabite woman, and she has like

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probably one of the most, you
know, beautiful confessions of

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faith in all of Scripture.
I've got it here, but Romans 116

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or something.
This is paraphrase in my notes.

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If you want to read the real
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it's good.
Yeah, you want me to read it?

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Read it, go for it.
And you said Romans.

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You did.
But it's Ruth.

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You'll be like And they gave
themselves over to yeah.

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It brought, yeah, but Ruth said
do not urge me to leave you or

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turn back from following you.
For where you go I will go, and

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where you lodge I will lodge.
Your people shall be my people

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and your God, my God.
Where you die I will die, and

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there I will be buried.
Thus may Yahweh do to me, and

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worse, if anything but death
parts me and you.

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Man strong language where she's
living, leaving her homeland,

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her future, her security and
like we see in these other

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places where we're highlighting
this like foreigner, she shows

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this covenant loyalty that so
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covenant, you know, members
often lack.

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And so we get to this concept of
has said, we see this kind of

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phraseology used in Scripture a
lot, talking about steadfast

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covenant, love.
Also the name of Shout we should

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shout out, the Brinson's
ministry has said Olathea.

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Has said Olathea they're doing
some work in Uganda.

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Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah.

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So yeah.
Man, they should.

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Yeah, be great, Be great.
If they were going to Moab, you

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know, plugging, plugging, that's
great.

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That's good.
And you know, you could we're

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not going to do it today, but
you could pick up on this theme

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of has said several places
throughout Ruth Boaz pointing it

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out a few times.
So so you back up again, judges

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are showing like this covenant
violation where people like the

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people of digital transgress
over and over and over and over

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again.
This Moabite woman, Ruth, she

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she shows covenant faithfulness
when things are looking pretty

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bad.
Like she probably has, you know,

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quote UN quote every reason to
like, just like, give up.

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Yeah, there's no explicit
condemnation of Elimelech.

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Yeah, Yeah.
You see him dying and, you know,

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maybe he should be commended.
It's hard to.

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Know it is.
It's hard.

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It is hard to read.
Yeah, you know, because you

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would think, OK, your family's
starving and there's nothing

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around.
At least he showed some

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gumption.
Yeah, but you know, it's hard to

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know.
It's.

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Kind of the same thing with
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There's famine in the land.
He goes to Egypt and it's like

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being proactive.
But it, I think in Abraham's

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case, it's painted more
obviously that this was not a

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great thing here.
Maybe a little bit different,

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but yeah.
But then you see this like it is

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a huge contrast between this Jew
who's named my my God is my King

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versus this Moabite woman and
the great confession she makes.

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You know, it's, it's a pretty
big, it's, I would say it's a

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juxtaposition there.
You go nice.

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Well, we're we're going to turn
and talk about Boaz.

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His name means strength, strong
name we should bring, people

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should bring about Boaz.
Do you know any Boazes?

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I don't know any Boazes and at
last we didn't have any sons, so

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it's not even like we got down
any of the the male biblical

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names.
And this guy whose name means

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strength is a very different
strength than you see in judges.

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We see a lot of violence in
judges a lot, a lot of, you

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know, a lot of times in a good
way, like courage and a lot of

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times not in a good way, right?
But when we read about Boaz, we

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see him and his strength
protecting Ruth, providing for

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her.
When he has the opportunity to

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exercise this redemption that
you mentioned, he does it the

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right way with integrity,
following the legal rules.

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His strength is not not, you
know, not right domination, but

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it's a protection, loyalty,
covenant, faithfulness.

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I so those things, I don't know
if that's on purpose.

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Juxtapose that in that way, but
this guy's name mean strength,

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and his strength looks a little
bit different than what we see

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over and over and just even
among like, you know, the good

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guys and judges, a lot of it is,
you know, kind of crazy.

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Yeah.
And he's it's a tender strength.

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A tender strength, yeah, that's
right.

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That's.
Exactly right.

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It's really great.
Yeah, that's good.

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Now let's go and talk about the
and we alluded to this Obed to

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David, God's quiet answer to
chaos.

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Again, we're going like, what do
these names mean?

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Obed, I don't know these things
all the time, but Obed means

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servants.
And we know that Obed leads to

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Jesse, so.
Related to the term eber,

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probably.
Hey, it could.

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It could.
I think that makes a lot of

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sense.
Here's a just a very quick

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aside.
Let's do it.

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There was a choir director when
I grew up whose last name was

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Sheets and they were going to
name their son Obed.

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OK.
Yeah, I guess that's.

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Funny and then like they're like
they make his middle name of so

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obed of sheets.
I don't know if that ever

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happened, but he he said it like
it was a for real thing.

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I I should I should find out if
that ever?

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That's great.
You know, if like guys were

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solely in charge of naming and
there's like no like white

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spouse to like bounce them out,
that's great.

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I love it.
So good, but we we we mentioned

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how this ends that God's answer
to this chaos and judges is not

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right away political revolution
right away, but it's this quiet

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family line lead to some
political success with with

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David and Solomon and this
thing, but it comes through

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famine, redemption, this kind of
thing preparing the next king.

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Well, the a king of Israel that
they will one day receive.

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We mentioned Bethlehem's
connection.

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00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,080
If we want to take that all the
way through to test, I don't.

447
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,480
I think that's that's most
people when they nail that, they

448
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,160
nail for one thing.
Right Christmas time, we.

449
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,800
Don't have to spend a lot of
time on that.

450
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,360
But one thing that I thought was
interesting, if we go all the

451
00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:29,480
way down to NUM point #9 here, I
think some of this is some

452
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,360
undertones we mentioned a little
bit.

453
00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:35,760
But it might be good to draw out
a little more really if if you

454
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,680
want to read Judges 1922 through
26.

455
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,600
Because this is gets down to one
of one of these dark stories and

456
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,640
judges probably one of the
darker stories in all of

457
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,680
scripture.
Judges 19 What was it?

458
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:54,240
19 verses 22 through 26.
And if you get shocked by this

459
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,760
narrative, it's, I think that's
the point.

460
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,680
It's meant to kind of make you
uncomfortable.

461
00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,800
While they were celebrating,
behold the men of the city,

462
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,520
certain worthless fellows
surrounded the house, pounding

463
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,640
the door, and they spoke to the
owner of the house, the old man

464
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,200
saying, Bring out the man who
came into your house, that we

465
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,960
may have relations with him.
Then the man, the owner of the

466
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,560
house, went out to them and said
to them, No, my fellows, please

467
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,480
just do not act so wickedly.
Since this man has come into my

468
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,440
house, do not commit this act of
folly.

469
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,240
Here is my virgin daughter and
his concubine.

470
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,760
Please let me bring them out,
that you may ravish them and do

471
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,280
to them whatever you wish, but
do not commit such an act of

472
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,800
folly against this man.
But the men would not listen to

473
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,720
him, so the man seized his
concubine and brought her out to

474
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,680
them, and they raped her and
abused her all night until

475
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,480
morning, then let her go at the
approach of dawn.

476
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,480
As the day began to dawn, the
woman came and fell down at the

477
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,880
doorway of the man's house,
where her Master was until full

478
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,080
daylight.
Is that good?

479
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,720
That's good.
Not good, but enough.

480
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,880
Pretty, pretty crazy.
This is like kind of that we're

481
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,200
getting towards an edge the.
Darkest.

482
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,040
One of the darkest stories in
all judges.

483
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,720
You're like, this is crazy.
And we'll talk about I just want

484
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,040
to forget this.
I think I have this in my notes

485
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,720
later.
But this story in in a way we're

486
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,840
going to kind of talk at the
end, maybe a connection between

487
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,880
a lot and Moab.
It's kind of reminiscent of this

488
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,880
lot story, right?
So I think that's like in there

489
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:20,480
too.
But but you read here, you know,

490
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,000
bad, bad stuff's happening.
It really leads to this national

491
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,880
collapse leads to the Civil War.
You read this and compare it

492
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,960
with Ruth.
This is this and judges happen

493
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,240
right around the region of
Bethlehem.

494
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,080
There's vulnerable vulnerable
women.

495
00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:37,800
This moral climate is pretty,
pretty terrible.

496
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,320
And in Judges 19, a woman's
abuse and discarded.

497
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,920
And Ruth, there's this
protection, honor, and

498
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,480
redemption of this vulnerable
foreign woman of, of Moab.

499
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,200
Very crazy.
And then kind of moving all the

500
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,680
way down.
We'll try to make this

501
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:58,480
connection to point #10 because
I think it's interesting lots

502
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:04,080
daughters to Ruth that this
redemption in Genesis 19 after

503
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,760
Sodom's destroyed, lots
daughters believe their family

504
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,680
line will disappear.
Take matters into your own

505
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,760
hands, like you kind of
mentioned at that outset.

506
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,280
And the older daughter gives
birth to a sudden a Moab.

507
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,840
You know, Genesis will, you
know, have this aside that he's

508
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,600
the father of the Moabites to
this day to ruin their origins

509
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,040
or not.
Not great shame, fear, human

510
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,640
manipulation, some bad some bad
stuff.

511
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,720
We read that passage in
Deuteronomy that said no

512
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,600
Ammonite or Moabite may enter
the assembly of Yahweh.

513
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:37,400
Clearly they're outsiders, but I
I like how it's like scripture

514
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,680
intentionally picks Ruth being a
Moabite highlights that doesn't

515
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,560
run away from that and has that
here, has that, you know,

516
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,640
mentioned in the in the
genealogies all all the way

517
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,320
there.
And Matthew, it's mentioned

518
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:57,280
explicitly with Boaz and Ruth
and Jesse and all of this kind

519
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,600
of thing.
So good.

520
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,880
A lot, a lot of through lines
just to think about that, you

521
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,080
know, if you're not in a woman's
Bible study, you might not, you

522
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,960
might not, might not make your
way all the way through through

523
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,600
Ruth.
Yeah, there was one line that it

524
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,520
that we skipped over that
already thought that was good.

525
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:18,600
It it said that Judges asks who
will rule us and Ruth answers

526
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,680
God.
Ari is.

527
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,080
He's.
He's in control even though.

528
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,880
Like this, yeah, it seems like
it's things aren't going great

529
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,800
and God's ruling and.
And that's one of those things

530
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,480
you can apply today.
I think every culture probably

531
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,120
struggles with it a lot because
it is confusing and there are

532
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,840
political powers and you're just
like, man, wouldn't it be great

533
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,600
if like Christians just like
dominated the world, like, you

534
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,400
know, like took over.
And if that happens, great.

535
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,040
Like, great.
But things can look really bleak

536
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,960
on the outside and God is still
still raining.

537
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,120
And it's like, even with all the
political chaos and all this

538
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:56,680
stuff, it's like you read
stories and it's like the church

539
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,720
in China's growing, the Iranian
church, you know, It's like you

540
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,080
read the things, you're like,
that's kind of crazy, you know

541
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:01,960
what I mean?
It's crazy.

542
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:02,560
Yeah.
Yeah.

543
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,920
So you, you wonder you we don't.
We just don't know all God's

544
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,520
accomplishing through some of
the things that seem odd to us.

545
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,400
It is it seems like there's such
a such a battle.

546
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,160
Things look bad.
I don't know, I think good.

547
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,440
So anyway, it's it's one of
those things I enjoy reading

548
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,760
about these, you know,
juxtapositions.

549
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,800
But you know that that's good.
Ruth doesn't take that long to

550
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,200
read, right.
You could get to Ruth and

551
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,160
that's, that's fairly short, 4
chapters.

552
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:30,640
I see.
Yeah.

553
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,240
Yeah.
Final take.

554
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:35,600
Yeah.
What's what's on your mind,

555
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,400
Michael?
I really don't have anything on

556
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,520
my mind.
I'm getting ready.

557
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,440
For chess tournament, yeah.
Big chess tourney, yeah.

558
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,520
Can you see your players as they
performers?

559
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,240
Like a close off remembers like
Windows and you can see

560
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,240
everyone.
Do walk around.

561
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,040
I am.
I am an arbiter.

562
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:49,000
OK.
Yeah, Yeah.

563
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,800
So.
I'm one of the guys that walked

564
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,680
around, but I can't answer a
question that has it that

565
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,440
involves a game of my own
students.

566
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:58,200
Oh, I see.
That's something.

567
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,920
So when my.
Parents has a question, I have

568
00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:02,760
to get one of the other arbiters
over to answer it so that

569
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,360
there's just no question of
because it's not a good optic.

570
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,160
I've seen some things I'm like.
I know you can't.

571
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,760
Say anything.
And I've even thought if this

572
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:14,640
was someone else's player, I
might say something to them.

573
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,280
But you know, generally we're
not supposed to interfere at all

574
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:18,720
unless they raise their hand and
ask.

575
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,280
And so, yeah.
Yeah, it's one of those things

576
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,800
that's yeah, it's and this is
all day events.

577
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,440
Yeah, we will leave at 7:30.
Takes about an hour and a half

578
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,800
to get there.
So we'll get there around 9:00,

579
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,480
get set up.
It's just the whole convention

580
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,720
floor.
It will be twice as big since

581
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,920
because we cancelled the day.
Nice and so it'll be about twice

582
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,040
as big and so yeah and so we'll
have lower school and middle

583
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,480
school together tomorrow yeah
wow tomorrow as of the day

584
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:52,160
we're.
Here.

585
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,880
Big day for Emerson.
Yeah.

586
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,640
You know, come back ready for
some soccer he'll be you know,

587
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:57,960
ready to ready to run around.
He'll be.

588
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,760
Good.
He went from 5th grade last year

589
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,200
to the top of lower school to
6th grade, bottom of the middle

590
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,440
school.
But there's this, there's a

591
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:11,800
well, I guess he's a 3rd grader
now at Pinewood who's pretty

592
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,760
tough yeah.
I expect him to win the lower

593
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,720
school division tomorrow 'cause
he's won it before.

594
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,560
He's I mean he when I play them,
we bet we traded games like I

595
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:23,920
would win 1 he.
Would win.

596
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,360
It is amazing how some people
just like take it all in

597
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,400
computer mind can just, you
know, figure it out, make it

598
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,480
happen.
Cool, Yeah.

599
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,720
When you played chess, did you
have a favorite opening?

600
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,760
I don't know I I am so bad now
where I did not know a lot of

601
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,680
times I did not know like names
of things necessarily but just

602
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,480
like.
Had tendencies and.

603
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,800
Played certain ways, yeah, I
would.

604
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,560
And then as I got older, like I
stopped playing after middle

605
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,880
school, really.
And it was, you know, really the

606
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,920
that was part of it.
I just did not.

607
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,280
I see you still have a chess.com
account, do you still play on

608
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,200
there every now and then or no?
I.

609
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,720
Yeah, this is my, my, my life
with chess is like every 2 1/2

610
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,240
years I'm like, I'm gonna get
back into chess and play a

611
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,720
little bit and I'll play for
three months and I'm like, oh,

612
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,440
I'm kind of picking up.
Then I'll get then I'll just

613
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,120
forget about it for another year
and a half, you know what I

614
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,800
mean?
So that's kind of my level play

615
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,160
a little bit.
And it's like everyone get my

616
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,440
kids involved and I'll play and
like, I'll play against them.

617
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,400
Like I made them an account, me
an account.

618
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:23,880
And they'll have them like play
against each other on it

619
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,320
sometimes or these kind of
things.

620
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,680
And they get excited and they
get bored.

621
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,560
And I'm like, you know, so I
want, you know, I want them to

622
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,160
play chess more.
They want to play against me.

623
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,200
They can.
Oh yeah.

624
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,560
I don't play odds chess where
I'm like down a piece or so.

625
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:37,560
Oh, there you go.
Yeah.

626
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,480
Yeah, because my kids.
Are like at the point like Jaden

627
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,120
and Jackson, like know how to
play chess and they'll play, but

628
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,720
right, not a lot of strap.
They're just like moving pieces,

629
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,600
you know what I mean?
I know this is a legal move.

630
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,880
I know.
Exactly, and they'll be like,

631
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,800
oh, and they'll like be like no
rhyme or reason this, you know,

632
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,600
a little rhyme or reason, like
they know how to protect a

633
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,400
little bit, but definitely
thinking a couple steps ahead.

634
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,160
It's not what we're doing.
We're just, you know, we're

635
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,840
like, you know, always
surprised, but you know, it's

636
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,400
good.
I, they, they like playing,

637
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,480
which is fun.
I should, you know, it's just

638
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,360
there's so many things to like,
teach your kids.

639
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,080
You know, it's like I'm really
trying to focus on like soccer

640
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,800
one day, then basketball, then
chess.

641
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,840
It's hard to, you know, keep
attention.

642
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,320
And it's like not, you know,
walk that fine line between like

643
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,640
they don't need to be doing this
for five hours straight or

644
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:23,520
whatever.
You know, like if they do

645
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,480
something else, it's fine if
it's not what they want to do.

646
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,800
But yeah, chess, they can start
5th grade's the first year at at

647
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,520
Northwood.
Northwood they could play

648
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:37,760
earlier by Skisa rules, but it
would be tough to because

649
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,160
there's lower school kids show a
lot of interest in chess, which

650
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,880
is good as I feel bad.
Like I I couldn't handle, you

651
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,560
know, 20 from each grade or 10
from each grade.

652
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,280
You'd have to have someone else
there.

653
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,560
It was kind of more full time or
something full.

654
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,120
Time chess teacher.
That would be cool, wouldn't it?

655
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,880
Like that's like what you did at
Northwood.

656
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,800
There's like a chess class
that'd.

657
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,240
Be pretty cool.
Yeah, you just show up and do

658
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,600
chess class.
It's like what you do.

659
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,480
Yeah.
That's like pretty amazing.

660
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,280
Yeah.
I don't have another update, you

661
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,640
know, I'm just been working on
my editorial skills for the

662
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,000
Northwich shout out.
Trying to try and do make make

663
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,120
it sound better.
Good.

664
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,040
Yeah.
You're talking about JV soccer

665
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,000
and the.
The the thing, this is what's

666
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,480
frustrating to me.
The frustrating thing is we

667
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,640
played a game on Tuesday and
then weather was weird on

668
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,800
Thursday and so practice was
cancelled.

669
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,000
So we have a game on Friday,
Next practice is today.

670
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,920
Weather is weird, it's camp.
So we have three games in a row

671
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,280
with no practices.
It's like.

672
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,680
Because you can't correct
anything.

673
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,320
Yeah, it's like we can talk
about it, and each game we like

674
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,760
talk about things, so we go
hoping.

675
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,480
No, I paid attention a little
more in the first half.

676
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:48,120
Oh, that's good.
Yeah.

677
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,760
And this is.
Thank you for what it's.

678
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:50,240
Worth.
It's good.

679
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,840
Bring it on.
Offensive lineman.

680
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,080
For football.
'S observation on soccer, but my

681
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,280
only thought was that once the
ball got played out to your

682
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,600
forwards, the Mids did not try
to take up ground in order to

683
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,160
help keep it on the other side
of the.

684
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,440
Field our whole team like this
is what we're working on.

685
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:10,800
Our whole.
I'm trying to get our whole team

686
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:16,040
to like press up like even our
defense like stays like really

687
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,199
far back.
And it's like, let's like make

688
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,679
the field a little smaller, make
it a little harder for them to.

689
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,159
And we can, like you're saying,
like support our offense because

690
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:26,400
it's like.
One or two guys trying to keep

691
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,280
the ball away from 4:00 and it
would immediately go back into

692
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,320
the all side of the field
instead of getting into the

693
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,639
other side of the field.
And like they need support from

694
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,560
their mids, they've got to run
up and help.

695
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,000
And our mids.
Our mids are good players.

696
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,719
We do need better conditioning.
Like we can't move.

697
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,120
Like we were getting really
tired of it.

698
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,560
Our mids are like good.
They're really good at soccer.

699
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,679
And last, the positive thing in
the last game was like the coach

700
00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,080
gave me the roster, which is
cool because I like seeing their

701
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:59,160
roster and they only only had
five ninth graders ever and that

702
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,520
so it was like a lot closer.
To our age more closely matched

703
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,000
in age than than than the
previous game that I saw.

704
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:12,560
Because like our game, our game
that you saw on Friday, we were

705
00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:17,200
ten 6th graders and four 7th
graders, I think.

706
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,080
And then they were, they had a
couple 6th graders out there,

707
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,320
7th graders and 9th graders.
They were kind of split even 6th

708
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,080
and 7th, even 9th.
I don't think they had 8th

709
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,480
graders, 9th graders.
And they had a couple 9th

710
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,080
graders that were just like they
were more our sized by a couple

711
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,080
were like pretty fast 9th
graders that were they had a

712
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:37,880
couple guys that were fast.
I would love Lieber said that

713
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,120
this team is he said he thinks
they're all 7th and 8th grade at

714
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,760
Heathwood for JB.
I'm like that would be really

715
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:45,760
good.
Even though we're most 6th and

716
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,920
7th, we have 1/8 grader that
would be like great to have like

717
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,480
no high schoolers on the field
just to see and the killer last

718
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:54,720
game.
It would have been more even

719
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,880
than that's two.
We were missing our starting two

720
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,200
center backs, our starting left
back, our starting keeper, who

721
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:05,320
all happened to be our 7th and
8th graders too.

722
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,240
Randomly.
We do have a.

723
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,800
Were they sick?
They were sick, 11's on

724
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,600
concussion protocol and then the
other ones are sick.

725
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,000
OK, well, and the goalie
apparently isn't, was injured

726
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,920
too.
And then tomorrow we're missing

727
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,760
the guy who played goalie for
us.

728
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:25,800
He's got a fever, he's out
tomorrow, so I'm hoping there's

729
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,240
other goalie can play.
What?

730
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:28,840
Does he need more cowbell he's
got?

731
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:29,640
A fever?
Yeah.

732
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,760
So I'm hoping our other goalie
who missed last game is able to

733
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,400
come or roll down our two, our
first two goalies.

734
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,920
Or the third string.
So that's tough so.

735
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,000
I'm hoping 'cause that would
that's a game changer.

736
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,760
Like if we get so Emerson might
have to suit up.

737
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,000
He plays some goalie in his
history.

738
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,600
So it might be Emerson.
He might be used I'm.

739
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,840
Hoping Emerson, yeah, yeah, he,
he's not hit his growth spurt

740
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,640
yet.
And goalie, you need a little,

741
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,320
you need a little bit of size,
like, Oh yeah.

742
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200
So we'll we'll see what happens.
But that's a good Yeah.

743
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,640
It's like if we can, part of it
is we're missing our whole

744
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,200
defense that really initiates
because really I think if our

745
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,520
defense pushes up, I'm hoping
that would push up our midfield.

746
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,720
Like everyone just kind of steps
up a.

747
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:12,480
Little bit make Karis look like
a.

748
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,080
Hey, let's do it.
Let's do.

749
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:17,680
It play goalie for you.
That was good.

750
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,920
She played great goalie in that
shootout game.

751
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,920
That was cool, that.
Was good that one that she

752
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,240
saved.
That was awesome.

753
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:26,400
It's cool to make.
It's cool to save a shot against

754
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,360
the other keeper, too.
You know you want to do that,

755
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,600
right?
Yeah, that's pretty cool.

756
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,120
That's a good one.
But that was good Northwood

757
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:33,880
soccer.
We'll see.

758
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,120
We'll see how it goes.
Anything else you got?

759
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,560
On your mind?
No, I'm good.

760
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,560
All right.
Well, that's our take.

761
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:44,360
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762
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763
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