Ruth 2

Ruth’s Gleaning in Boaz’s Field

Ruth chapter 2 here the word of the Lord. Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.

And she said to her Go my daughter. So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the Reapers and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz who was of the clan of Elimelech.

And Behold Boaz came from Bethlehem and he said to the Reapers the Lord be with you. And they answered The Lord bless you. Then Boaz said to the young man who was in charge of the Reapers whose young woman is this.

And The servant who was in charge of the Reapers answered She is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. She said please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the Reapers.

So she came and she has continued from early morning until now except for a short rest. Then Boaz said to Ruth Now listen my daughter Do not go glean in another field or leave this one. But keep close to my young women let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping and go after them.

Have I not charged the young men not to touch you and when you are thirsty go to the vessels and drink what the young? Men have drawn. Then she fell on her face bowing to the ground and said to him Why have I found favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me since I am a foreigner.

But Boaz answered her all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me and How you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before the Lord repay you for what you have done and A full reward be given to you by the Lord the God of Israel under whose wings you have come to take refuge.

Then she said I have found favor in your eyes my lord for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant Though I am not one of your servants. And at mealtime Boaz said to her come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.

So she sat beside the Reapers and he passed to her roasted grain and she ate until she was satisfied. And she had some left over when she rose to glean. Boaz instructed his young men saying let her glean even among the sheaves and do not reproach her and Also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean and do not rebuke her.

So she gleaned in the field until evening and then she beat out what she had gleaned and it was about an ephah of barley. And she took it up and went into the city her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned.

She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over from being satisfied and her mother-in-law said to her Where did you glean today and where have you worked blessed be the man who took notice of you.

So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said the man's name with whom I have worked today is.

Boaz and.

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law may he be blessed by the Lord whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead. Naomi also said to her. The man is a close relative of ours one of our Redeemers and Ruth the Moabite said.

Besides, he said to me you shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest. And Naomi said to Ruth Her daughter-in-law it is good my daughter that you go out with his young women lest in another field you be assaulted.

So she kept close to the young women of Boaz gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvest and she lived with her mother-in-law. May the Lord add his blessings to the reading of his Holy Word.

Providence, Coincidence, and God’s Hidden Hand

Well ever had a coincidence. Maybe something too coincidental just to be chance. How about a coincidental rendezvous? One of my favorite professors in seminary whom I met outside of class. Well, I've only two I met outside of class was William Lane.

I have a commentary on mark from him I bought at the time. He was a fairly well-known scholar. He was a visiting professor at the seminary and a full-time professor at a university in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

And an interim pastor at there in Bowling Green that I later pastored at briefly. Over a decade later. He had died in the meantime about 20 years after that at Joshua's 2019 graduation from NC State held in this large basketball arena.

We go in and apparently at random we sit down and while we're waiting for it to begin I hear a man behind me mentioned Bowling Green, Kentucky. And I turn around and say that I lived there for a little while and we talked and the man introduces himself as something.

I forgot his first name, but Lane last name Lane. And I said wait there used to be a famous professor there named William Lane and the man said he was my father. It just so happens that we were right in front of the son of one of my favorite Professors from 30 years before one of the like of only two professors at my entire time in seminary that I met outside of class.

Who was also the interim pastor at the same church? I was later at I'm not sure exactly what that means. Is that maybe I was in the right place I guess but it's just too coincidental to be a coincidence another one the vote at another church that led to this church was a choice between two things.

The choice was determined by the others not by me between stay and Go that is the people of the church were asked to vote for stay or to go go one. Which led to the question whether me and my family up with us.

We should go elsewhere. We should just move away. And as we were reorganizing and very busy and looking for a place to live and moving and everything. Having been told by people To go I decided to redo a series of sermons I had done earlier on first Timothy.

Which is also convenient because first Timothy is about organizing the church and we were looking into whether we should start a new church. Which turned out to be this one? I opened the computer file with my sermon notes on it just a day or two after the stay or go vote.

Having totally forgotten what originally several years before I had entitled the first sermon from first Timothy chapter 1 to my surprise my shock I'll never forget when the file opened and I saw that it just so happened coincidentally to be entitled Stay as Yogi Berra said that's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

Albert Einstein said coincidence and God's way of remaining anonymous. Maybe that's true sometimes but some coincidences are just so Coincidental like those that led to this church. They're not really anonymous at all.

They're God's way of saying that, you know, I'm in control here even over things that appear out of control. Coincidences are God's Providence that are right on the border of being miraculous you know, there's nothing about just happening to sit in front of the son of your favorite professor from 30 years before in California and the interim pastor of your church about 20 years before in Kentucky Coincidentally sitting right next to him or the title of the sermon happening to be just so happening Coincidentally to be the same word in the church vote just a few days before that conveys the message you desperately need.

There's nothing about all that that kind of defies the laws of nature. You know, that's a miracle that would just convince a skeptic that that's technically supernatural, but still It's just too coincidental.

To be a coincidence now. Naomi would have understood all this immediately.

Well, of course.

He is God Almighty the one she mentioned last week the El Shaddai. Modern people have a hard time understanding this first. They like to think that they are the captains of their fate. They make their free choices.

Uninfluenced undetermined by anything else. They're in control. They think of their entire lives. So they don't like to think God's actually in control of law you think of that that a basketball arena.

What went into my sitting here or there and his sitting there we ended up right by each other. Both of us made what we thought were free decisions and yet they were determined by God. So did I make a free decision?

Yes was God behind it? Yes. And we like to put those like they're contradictory. They're not and we'll see that here in root chapter 2. The modern people like to say either gotta have one or the other God either God's in control or we're free.

Well, God says no both. Both and you've seen this meme online this Chinese girl. It's like why not both? That's what I think. Oh my god says it's my will free or it's got a control and God says why not both?

Well skeptics will even say that if God's in control and bad things happen like disasters and diseases and deaths. And even Naomi thinks this for a little while. Then God is a moral monster. He's against us.

Christians won't admit that we should know better to say that especially in church. Instead they'll either ignore the issue completely. Let's pretend God's is not in control of the disaster. They're like they're out of control or claim that God has given us over To our own free will and so he's left things out of control.

So they make a free will defense again getting back to this. It's either got to be God in control our free will either one and God says no. They're both and so what such people really mean is that we don't really trust him with the controls.

It's like a teenager with a car. You might think he means well, but you're afraid if you've let him drive without supervision. He'll wreck the thing. But here at root chapter 2 we see again that God is Almighty Jedi that he is in control and we should be glad he is.

Because he knows what he's doing. He is controlling the lives of people because of his steadfast love the great Hebrew word even the psalm today Psalm 143 revealed to be show to me your Chesed your steadfast love his loyal love his covenant commitment to do good to his people.

So the entire book of Ruth is a story to show among other things what this steadfast love what this Chesed. What it is what it means here in chapter 2 we see that steadfast love is at least three things.

Steadfast Love as Consistent, Considerate, and Covering

First it is consistent then it is considerate and finally it is covering. First set the scene. Naomi has returned from Moab to Bethlehem. Telling the other ladies there that the Lord has brought her back empty.

I went away full the Lord has bought me back empty. She said the Almighty Caused him the Almighty the Shaddai has brought calamity on me. She says and Ruth hands her a tissue at that moment. You know, she's got to do that answer a tissue roots right there.

They all feel sorry for Naomi. Ruth's feel sorry for Naomi. She definitely believes in the sovereignty the control of God over all things. What she doubts is whether God is good to her. But it just so happens.

What she still can't see she has arrived empty. She says but not really she has this loyal daughter-in-law and The barley harvest has begun. And that's not a coincidence at all. Chapter 1 verse 6 says that the Lord had visited his people and Given them foods not just left up to the laws of nature of the Lord.

Does it that's why they have harvest coming. The Lord has made the fields flourish and Naomi is crying that she's empty but she has Ruth to go out to those fields for her and Glean for her and she has another relative Boaz.

Notice the chapter begins with that Boaz relative of Ella Malick. You could be thinking wait Naomi said she was empty but she has this relative. Yeah, she forgot. She's not empty at all. Described verse 1 is worthy.

The work could be distinguished or he's honored. He's a noble man. He's noble isn't good. He owns a field around Bethlehem. So he's a property owner. He's fairly well off. Naomi had either forgotten about Boaz or she just so devastated by her own personal losses.

That she can't think of anything else, but now we know That she's not empty. We know even as Naomi is crying about being empty that Boaz is nearby, but God remembered. And he's about to arrange a rendezvous.

As the harvest begins Ruth has to go out and glean after any harvesters that will will let her Notice the way it's put after them. He's back literally behind them. Now Israel had a law in Leviticus chapter 19 and chapter 23 that they were not supposed to totally harvest their fields.

Don't strip them bare. But leave the edge the margins. Unharvested so that the poor can come and help themselves and anything the field hands drop. You know when they're when they're picking up the harvested crop don't just go back and pick it up.

So you taking everything but leave it like for any needy person like Ruth to go out and get it. This is sort of Israel's welfare program. This is their way of taking care of the poor who didn't have any fields anything of their own.

Notice that they would have to actually go out and work for it. So they have to do some work not just given to them.

But.

Something is left out there for them to get and of course some people aren't going to follow the law and Others might do it technically. They kind of I really got to do this. I want to harvest all the crop but but they'll do it reluctantly because they're made to Leave a few barley stalks up at the edge and maybe treat any destitute people who come by to try to pick it up as rudely get out of here and some will do the minimum and resent having to do it and Some if they see some scrounger taking too much will send out their field hands as ruffians To assault them and Naomi mentions that in verse 22 near the end notice that you go somewhere else.

You may get mistreated, but this Boaz he'll take care of you. Ruth says she wants to go out and harvest wherever she can quote fine favor in verse 2. So she doesn't know where that is. It's going out hoping That she will find favor.

So Ruth goes out at random as far as she can tell she's making a free choice. Free will is it work? She sees some Reapers in the field it goes behind them picking up everything they miss in the middle of verse 3.

This is key in the middle of verse 3 notice she happened on a particular field. We could translate as she just so happened. Can you believe it with a knowing smile? What a coincidence, of course. It's too coincidental be a coincidence.

She happened to go to Boaz this field who's a relative of Naomi that Naomi has forgotten about. She doesn't know it. She didn't know Boaz is notice Naomi didn't tell her about Boaz. This is why you get the words there of their conversation.

Please let me go out and harvest them up wherever I can fight favor and then he says yeah go. She doesn't say yeah. Oh, by the way, try Boaz's field is right there on the corner of you know, first at Maine or whatever.

No, nothing like that. She knowing Naomi doesn't remember Boaz at all. So Ruth said she'll go out and look to glean wherever she can get treated kindly. Somebody feels out there around Bethlehem and the word Bethlehem means house of bread.

So there's fields everywhere. And so they bring in a lot of grain. Everybody is harvesting. Now what are the chances she just so happens. To find herself in Boaz's field. The author reminds us at the end of verse 3 that Boaz is a relative of Ellie Malek.

No, she repeats that twice. Verse 1 fell to the element act verse 3. That's not because we forget two verses later. No, it's because we we need to be reminded. She just so happened to come on the relative of Naomi a relative a Relative mind you you know what that means.

A relative means he could be a Redeemer. Just so happens upon his field of all the fields are and then God's control over everything. That's his control everything even over what of where Ruth freely chooses to go gleaning.

She makes a free choice. She looks out uses her free. Well, I'm gonna go there I guess. And it happens to be Boaz's field and we see here that for his people for Naomi and Ruth that control. Somehow God guided her free choice and that's loving that's good.

Well first it's consistent. It's steadfast as in the English translation here. Ruth herself is steadfast having committed herself in famous words of Ruth chapter 1 where you lodge Naomi. I will lodge.

Your people should be my people and your God my God. And so she goes with her all the way back to Bethlehem House of bread and is now working by gleaning the leftovers and other people's fields. I'll think about it.

We call it low. Desperate life. This is you don't have a field of your own. You just have to go out to a field and hope you can pick up scraps. Leftover from the harvesters and that you won't get assaulted by the owners of the field there.

That's life and as far as she knows as Ruth knows this could be the rest of her life. This could be what she's doing from here on out. And one of the desperately poor picking up the scraps from the paid workers, you know, at least the real harvesters.

They're paid they got jobs and they got a grown house, but you're below them. You're just picking up what you can. Going through the dumpsters.

So this is it.

This is what she committed herself to do. Consistently. It just so happened she's in the field of her relative or her deceased father-in-law. Boaz shows up blesses the Reapers the Lord be with you. Showing his Piper says he's a God saturated man.

His foreman is there supervising and all the workers say the Lord be with you and he asked his foreman Whose young woman is this? Pointing at Ruth. She's moving gradually through the field picking up what everything whatever she can the foreman says.

Well, she's the Young Moabite woman. No, it's the. She's the one everyone's been talking about. Remember the whole town of Bethlehem was a buzz about Naomi returning with her loyal daughter-in-law. Ruth was the talk of the town along with Naomi and everyone the foreman.

Everyone's talking about them and foreman said she's she asked politely to glean after the Reapers. That's been other was after they're done and she's been consistently working from early morning with only a short break.

Now love today is usually celebrated in movies and songs and poems for his first passion a brilliant burst of feelings but in the Bible it is celebrated mainly for its faithfulness its endurance its loyalty being a steady consistent Commitment.

Love is a long-distance race not a sprint. Here Ruth has committed herself where you die. I will die and there I will be buried. I'll still be there after you die. She's consistently living that out.

She's out in the field from dawn until dusk. She's working hard. Get some food for herself and for Naomi because of her Love. As we sang about last week from lamentations the steadfast love of the Lord Never ceases his mercies never come to an end.

They are new every morning. God's death fast. Love is consistent. It's enduring is for the long haul it never ceases. It's up early working every morning. And if you have it.

That.

Love and you will be consistent and enduring. Steadfast love is also considerate. It puts itself in the place of the loved sees what life is like for them considers them what they're going through. Boaz says to Ruth not you've got enough from us now, by the way, we left a little out for you.

You've gotten it now go try somebody else you moocher. Now he's considerate. He says now listen my daughter. Let's cause her daughter tender notice the tenderness of his words. Do not go glean in another field.

Don't bother about another field or don't leave this one. But keep close to my young women in other words stay. Stay here with the women harvesters. I have working for me now. They say that during the harvest there those times the men would take the sickle and like a swing blade and cut down the grain.

Beat the hard work and then the women would come after them. So you kind of gathering together all that's been cut down. Stacking it and then binding it together. Boaz he is saying here you stay close to the women.

So you look like you're you're one of them even the action the other women are actually my harvesters. They're working for me. You're really not but you can stay close to them. So you look like you're part of them and so Boaz is saying you Ruth stay close you be a part of us.

You'll be included. You won't look like a straggler or a moocher. You're welcome here. Boaz considers her what's it like to be that you know. You have all these people working in the field that you're straggling behind and you're obviously the odd one out.

Yeah, obviously the destitute you're the beggar. You're the low one here and so Boaz considers that what it's like for her to be in her position. He's not just thinking about his bottom line remember he's a businessman and this is his business.

He makes his living by getting a good harvest. He owns this field. He's hoping this time of year he planted it. We did it whatever whatever else he had to do to it. The harvest now has come and he this is where the profit comes from.

It's finally getting his income. And so good thing. Well, I gotta keep as much as I can. Inconsiderate men would look at people like Ruth poor gleaners picking up their crops. You look at him as these these are parasites.

Like Ebeneezer Scrooge's are there no prisons? Are there no work houses? My taxes go to pay for welfare. I've got to look after myself here look out for number one. They say but Boaz knew better. Boaz the worthy man here shows why he's worthy.

He considers the needs of others. Particularly the needs of the needy. And he considers the humanity of those like Ruth who are barely getting by and so he says in verse 9 He has charged the young men not to bother her.

They're not gonna harass you and When she's thirsty, she can go to get a drink from the water that they provide for their own workers. Otherwise you get our benefits. Too so Boaz wasn't just keeping the letter of the law.

He wasn't just you know doing the very minimum He had to do to keep God's law. He was going beyond it to the spirit of the law. He wasn't just doing the minimum by leaving some crops at the margins, but was considerate of the marginalized.

Not thinking just of his profit margin. So Ruth unlike some poor people today. You think they have a right to what's given to them and aren't appreciative. Ruth is amazed at the favor. That's given her the favor in verse 10.

She bows to the ground. Why have I found favor in your eyes? That you should take notice of me. Since I'm a foreigner she didn't feel a title to this but the law lets me have it. I can take as much as I want.

No, she knows this is favor. It's given to her. She doesn't deserve it. She realizes that they could say, you know Israelites first sure. That's our law that's for Israelites you Moabites go back to your own country and scrounge there.

But notice how Boaz responds in verses 11 and 12 all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me. The story of Ruth the epitome of steadfast love it's gotten around and he's heard it completely.

Boaz has heard about it. And so he's moved by that. He realizes she said your people will be my people your God my God. Now this Moabitess is now she's one of us. Is she gonna be treated like one of us.

Boaz says you left your father and mother and your native land and came to people. That you do not know before. Remember he's responding to her question. Why have I found favor since I'm a foreigner. I know you could exclude me and his answer steadfast love has brought you here.

Away from your people to a new people. You said you committed I heard it my people. Your people will be my people. I'm gonna be a part of you. The Lord will be my God. And that's what steadfast love does it takes people away from their native people the people of this world.

Or money or pleasure or ego or ethnicity or race or nationality. Is there God and it brings them to a new people? To other people to whom God has shown his steadfast love to Boaz is considering what it's like for Ruth.

Have you consider what it's like for people have left their native land? You are far away from their people. We have several people like that around here. You know, I've very many people here, but several of them are like that here.

We're far away from their people. What's it like when your biggest holiday? Is it recognized at all? Where you are where you're from the biggest holiday is not recognized in the place where you are now.

So like for.

When your biggest holiday Chinese New Year isn't observed by no one around you anymore. You can't even get the day off. I Live in Singapore through Thanksgiving. It's Thursday there. You have to go to work.

And the best I could do it is go to a Denny's after work and order a turkey sandwich. That was Thanksgiving. Makes a difference when people consider you. Because of your steadfast love. Boaz considers Ruth her needs for food her refreshment for peace and he doesn't consider her to be a foreigner because of her.

Steadfast love.

Steadfast love is also it's considerate and also.

The Lord’s Covering and Refuge

Covering.

Boaz has already promised covering protection for Ruth as long as she works in his fields. He is not gonna let the young men. There's his field hands bother her Ruth tells. Boaz tells Ruth in verse 12 the Lord repay you for what you have done.

For your steadfast love Ruth made the Lord repay you. A full reward be given to you by the Lord the God of Israel. Under whose wings. This is important here, it'll become even more important in the next chapter.

Under his wings. You have come to take refuge. Ruth the Moabite notice she's called that she's still moment. Okay, that's where she's from is now part of the true Israel. Because she's come under the Lord's Covering under his wings.

Your God will be my God. I'm coming coming under his wings. Like a baby bird just hatched getting refuge from the mother bird. Ruth is now getting her refuge her covering from the Lord and refuge.

Gives rest. Ruth is resting.

Under the Lord's wings and Boaz is honoring that the Lord Repay you he says and he does his part. To see that she is repaid Ruth is just amazed by Boaz's Steadfast love that he's providing her with the opportunity the protection welcome the respect.

He's covering her. Insulating her from harassment young men aren't gonna bother you here. Don't go anywhere else whether you might get bothered by get harassed here. You have covering. Remember in chapter 1 Naomi pleaded with both or pie and Ruth to go back home to your parents and there You can get rest there.

You can get security there. You can get the covering of another husband in Moab and Orpah did but Ruth clung to Naomi. And by doing that Ruth was saying I'll get my covering from the Lord. With no hope for a husband anything like that bitch.

She would seek her covering from Naomi's God and so here at least in part Boaz provides it. She says in verse 13 I have found favor in your eyes my lord small l in English a term of respect. For you have comforted me and spoken kindly to me.

To your servant.

She's comforted literally in Hebrew. That means you spoken to my heart. This is not just words to and give me information. You've your words went down in my heart. Now, of course, the words are comforting because they were backed up by action.

But I didn't just say the Lord bless you. Now you've taken enough from us get out of here go to another field. No, he said the Lord bless you and then practically provided what Ruth needed to be blessed.

You've spoken and she's response. You have spoken kindly to my heart to your servant. Though I'm not one of your servants I'm not one of your field hands not one of your employees that you're looking after so that they can work.

In other words, you provide the water and the food so that they can work all day. I'm not one of those. But you're treating me like I am which is good kind words are backed up by consistent considerate action.

Speak to her heart. And this is the pinnacle of the chapter. Where Boaz blesses. Ruth says made the Lord give you a full reward for coming to him under his wings. For a covering that's what steadfast love does.

It draws people effectively to the Lord? The invitation goes out to all people as the Lord Jesus said come to me all who labor like Ruth in the fields and are heavy laden. With grief with tragedies with questions about where food or shelter was security where whether Love is going to come where it's all coming from and Jesus says come to me and he says and I will give you.

Rest.

Covering.

Jesus has come to be all who labor in Matthew chapter 11 verse 28. Matthew chapter 11 verse 27. The previous verse says no one knows the Son except the Father and anyone to whom the Son Chooses to reveal him to reveal himself I assume to reveal the Son.

So no one comes at Jesus invitation, even though it is to all who labor Understand but the only ones who come are those whom Jesus chooses to reveal Himself. In other words all are invited come to me but only the chosen the revealed to Come and Ruth was one of those.

So she gets rest. She gets consideration a covering a place among God's covenant people not first because she had steadfast love although as if She earned her way in by being loyal to Naomi that was sort of the work she did That granted her the reward from God of being one of his people.

No, it was because God first God the one who arranged that she would just so happen to be in Boaz's field. It wasn't a coincidence God had steadfast love on her the book of Ruth is first the story of God's Steadfast love.

So this is the pinnacle of the chapter you've been mountain climbing you reach the pinnacle. What do you do then? Well, then you got to go back down and you see that kind of the same sites. All over again, but then you see it from a different angle.

This is the pinnacle the chapter Boaz blesses Ruth and verse 12 We're taking refuge under the wings of the Lord and the rest of the chapter takes us back down. Like mountain climbing once you've reached the summit go back down back through other facets of steadfast love same ones We've seen before we see him again.

The summit is the Lord's covering. He provides for his people rest for your souls. For those he loved like Ruth then back down again. We see steadfast. Love is again. Consider it in verse 14. They had their lunch break boys invites Ruth remember.

She's not part of the work gang officially. She's just a straggler or she's just a beggar really picking up the scraps, but Boaz invites her a Ruth. Come over here. Come on. Join us join our lunch over here.

We all the hands the employees are taking our break for lunch. You come join us.

Come.

Where we heard that before come. Come you labor Ruth. Have your rest have lunch with us. He doesn't have to provide lunch for the poor gleaners. He should provide lunch for his workers understand, but Ruth's not one of those.

She's just one of the beggars. So he doesn't have to provide lunch for her, but he does. They have bread and they wine and roasted grain. Boaz passes the roasted grain right to her notice that detail.

Says he passed it right to her. Oh, she didn't just leave it there and she could help herself. No, he made sure that she understood you're included here. We're considering you we're thinking about you.

Went up to her. Here's here's the food. She is enough to be full. She can even take a doggy bag back home to Naomi. She can take a box. Back to her then when she goes back to work Boaz goes far beyond the call of duty.

And he tells us feel hands verse 15. Let her glean even among the sheaves. Remember what she's supposed to do is what he stragglers is anything that's left. Unharvested or anything that's fallen down that she can take but buzzes say, uh, even that harvested stuff the stuff.

We piled up over there. She's. We've already worked to take up she didn't even go there and take whatever she wants. Stack grain. She can take from there and verse 16 He tells them to pull out. Does that she even goes further than that?

Not only she can she go among the sheaves had tell you what guys guys guys guys. Go pick some out of the also harvested of the stacks lay it out for her. Already already bundled and they're looking at what you we harvested that stuff buddy, but I know I know go lay it out for her.

And do not rebuke her. He says it twice. Don't rebuke her. Don't challenge her. Don't tell her to go somewhere else. No, let her take whatever she wants. He's considerate, isn't he? Now sometimes there are Christians who say they're compassionate that they care.

They'll pray for you. I'll be your helper. I'll do whatever you want. Like James says they'll say be warm be filled. To some poor hungry cold person, but then they won't actually share anything.