Ruth
4:9-12 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. 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.” 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. May
your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the
offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman.”
Last
weekend, I was visiting my dad at Bass Lake, California and went to church with
him, so I’d like to share the notes from pastor Herk’s Sunday Sermon. The fourth
chapter of the book of Ruth has a happy ending, and God can do the same for us.
We all want to hear the words: “and they lived happily ever after.” The Bible
tells us of Job, Daniel and Joseph, who knew and loved the Lord their God, yet
met with great adversity in life (beyond our imagination) and these “pillars of
faith” patriarch’s stories all had a “happy ending”. We have to get to the
absolute end of ourselves in order to find the beginning of God.
Revelation 22:20-21 He who
testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even
so, come, Lord Jesus! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you all. Amen.
We
must remember that Jesus Christ is the ultimate happy ending. When change the
way that we look at life, we change the way that we live. Pastor Herk gave us
four truths that lead to a happy life and a happy ending. (1) Don’t think of yourself
as a failure. Sure, Romans 3:23 tells us that “all have sinned and fall short
of the glory of God”. We all have failed miserably in the past, but we are not remembered
by our failures. God refuses to identify His redeemed people as a bitter
failure, so neither should we. God can see our heart, so be a man or woman
after God’s heart.
2 Peter
1:3-4 “As His divine power
has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which
have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through
these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world through lust.”
(2)
God has a way of working things out. How we identify ourselves determines our
path in life. See yourself as holy people; righteous, blessed, sons and
daughters of God through faith, out of the darkness of sin and into the godly light
now and forever more. We are sinners saved by grace, however, grace says that
we were once identified as “lost sinner”,
but now ‘saved saints”.
Let’s
continue my notes on Pastor Herk’s
message on “A Happy Ending” on the next post.
In
Christ, Brian
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