"You look like Jesus" Series: Boaz

“You look like Jesus” Boaz

Into to the series – we are going to look out the doctrine of typology

To define our terms, a type is a shadow cast on the pages of the Old Testament

An account in the Old Testament that is meant to expound a significant truth about Messiah (Jesus) and his mission.

Teaches us about Jesus before Jesus came to earth as a man so people would recognize Him.
Types have the following characteristics:
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
3. Types all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT, NT and Today.
Tell the story of Naomi, Ruth and Boaz
Naomi and Elimalech leave Bethlehem with two sons, they marry two Moabite women. Elimelech and two sons Die and Naomi realizes she should go back o her land and her people and told her two daughters in law to stay with their people and their gods.

Ruth would not leave her and went to Bethlehem. So they got there and all the people heard and Naomi told them to call her Mara which means bitter because she feels that the Lord’s hand has went out against her.
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Naomi and Ruth were poor so Ruth went to glean in the fields and happened to glean in Boaz’s field.

Boaz took notice of her, he also heard about what she had done for Naomi 2:11

Boaz gave her a protection and allowed her to work in his field during the Harvest.

Eventually at Naomi’s advice Ruth pursued Boaz to be her kinsman redeemer = Deut. 25 was a Leverite law in which the closest living relative of a widow would marry her and take care of her and the family.
Boaz was not the closest relative but he had already showed kindness and compassion to Ruth

When Ruth pursued him his response was that there was a kinsman redeemer closer then he was 3:12-13. Ruth asked

So Boaz sits down with the unnamed kinsman redeemer with the legal court which were the Elders and showed how this man was not the right man for Ruth.

The unmanned man said 4:1

So now Boaz took Ruth in marriage and they conceived a son named Obed who was grandfather to king David.

So what do we learn about Jesus from Boaz?

Look at the characteristics for a type
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
Ruth and Boaz fathered Obed who was David’s Grandfather and they were the family in which Jesus would come from.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
v4:11 Famous not only Ruth and Boaz but the offspring who will eventually be Jesus will be famous. Matthew 1 Genealogy why?
Obligation and religion does not save (the loser kinsman who did nothing)
Having Ruth in Jesus’ genealogy communicates that Jesus is all about redemption and grace not religion and obligation. Matthew is saying look you thought it was “be good and God will love you” “you have an obligation to God”
Religion is like the unnamed kinsmen redeemer the loser it will let you down.
Christianity teaches “God loves you and wants to make you good”
3. They all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
Character traits of Boaz that foreshadow Jesus… These are also things we can apply to our lives so we look more like Jesus.
Compassion-saw she had a bad situation and wanted to make it better. Jesus did that for us and many of his miracles were spurred on by compassion Challenge is how can you do that in another persons life? Maybe there is someone around you that is suffering and you have the resources to help, but you need compassion on them
Kindness-Boaz was kind to her and the passage actually says 2:13 Comforted with words of Kindness. Jesus did that in His earthy ministry and His Word is a comfort for us daily. Challenge for us is are we using our words to kindly speak to others and comfort them?
Provider-Boaz provided job and food for Ruth and Naomi. Jesus provides for us, “every good gift is from above” He provides a way for us to get to heaven. Challenge is how can you provide for other people? Maybe you have a gift or talent that you can use to provide a service for others, maybe it is financial, maybe it is time.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT , NT and Today.
Redeem means to pay off and the main parallel between him and Jesus is that it teaches about us about Redemption.
Boaz stepped in with grace and not obligation redeemed Ruth from her situation and one of the many reasons why is because Ruth asked.
Redemption- we all need to be redeemed from our desperate situation. Gospel Jesus was not obligated but willing to redeem us sinners. We only have to ask