Jesus Our REDEEMER!
Ruth 4: 1-11
Sermon Series:
Realizing Our Godly Potential!
Sharing God’s Light for our Journey
The Preaching Ministry of Dr. Kip McKee, Pastor
11AM Worship Service – October 31, 2021
Salem Springs Baptist Church


I. Boaz went to the Elders to REDEEM Ruth!
(Ruth 4: 1-8a)

“Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So Boaz said,
“Come aside, friend, sit down here.” So he came aside and sat down. 2  And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down
here.” So they sat down. 3  Then he said to the close relative, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, sold the piece of land
which belonged to our brother Elimelech. 4  And I thought to inform you, saying, ‘Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’ ” And he said, “I will redeem it.”
5  Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy it from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance.” 6  And the close relative said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin
my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself for I cannot redeem it.” 7  Now this was the custom in former times in
Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm anything: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a confirmation in Israel. 8  Therefore the close relative said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”

~Jesus left Heaven’s Glory to Come to Earth
to REDEEM us from our sins! (Ephesians 4: 1-14)


II. Boaz PAID the PRICE to REDEEM Ruth!
(Ruth 4: 8b-12)

“So he took off his sandal. 9  And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. 10  Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have
acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from his position at the
gate. You are witnesses this day.” 11  And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may
you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12  May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of