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be seated well good morning it is my

first time to Tulsa and I’m so turned up

because we’re gonna turn over Tulsa OK

no listen y’all might not know me my

name is Bianca waters old tough I hail

from the promised land

aka California and but I have heard

about you I have seen what God is doing

here through the pastures to the

leadership through y’all I just wanna

say thank you for believing the mission

of this house the message and is coming

out of here is going around the world

around the world and you get to be part

of that some people sit down and watch a

move of God but you all are in the

middle of them oh my god on behalf of

those that are part of the

transformation they should have we just

thought they thank you thank you thank

you and we’re all watching online we

love you we’re so glad you’re with us

this morning so let me tell you our

access roads mentioned my husband and I

are charged planters eight months ago we

launched a church and so I’ve been

keeping an eye on this church because

you guys are just setting the pace you

guys have set the bar and I look at

Pastor Mike and Natalie and I’m like so

cool like they’re in some fashion and

you’re all right your own music like I’m

the girl I can’t get her life together

like I think I’m the most disqualified

person to be leading a church right now

to have any relatives that feel like a

hot mess Express to honest people thank

you thank you praise God what about

thank you brother I got ups oh thank you

one more the back-trace guys listen

one day my life could be put together

but it ain’t that day and I remember I

was heading to a conference and I knew

that the Lord was gonna do something so

I just wanted to precaution myself with

any attack of the enemy and I packed my

bag and I made a to-do list and to not

forget listing the whole night

hmm but in truth beyond confession I

wake up the next morning and pack my bag

and I said not today say time’ remember

everything everything everything my

to-do list my my my bible my ipad my

charger everything – my luggage head to

LAX I get to the Delta desk and they

said what good morning this is all tough

we’d like to inform you thing you have a

first class upgrade hey yeah thank you

Jesus won’t he do it hey guy I’m sitting

in first class like I’m bushi I’m

sipping my sparkling water in my pinky

out lace is so common yes how’s the buzz

of me over here you know no it’s not my

life let’s fake it you know say to you

make it so I’m like I’m I’m ready I’m

ready to download from god I’ll be at

30,000 feet I’m going to this conference

I’m like yes Lord do it again so I pull

out my notebook and I pull out my Bible

I pulled my journal I realized that my

bag was very light so then I open up my

bag and I realize sweet Jesus

I call him a husband I said babe we have

an emergency I don’t know what to do and

he’s freaking out on the other hand

saying what’s wrong is the fight but you

okay what happened happened with all

seriousness I forgot my makeup bag in

the bathroom now listen listen y’all

natural Tulsa folk you’re like what’s

the big deal listen

some of your husband’s in here you know

you know when you’re lying I know you’re

wearing a no eyebrows or lashes you know

like hell’s about to open up right there

right so I called my husband about how I

said it’s emergency I’d love to do like

I need concrete for my face I need

eyelashes so long like when people when

I believe people feel the Spirit of God

you know like that’s my level see I wear

makeup like RuPaul okay I don’t look

like this and she said bless his heart

this is hard he said be what if the Lord

wants you to be natural natural get

behind me Satan this is spiritual

warfare okay now it was a very traumatic

moment and I know you’re like wow you

are dramatic listen it may not feel like

trauma to you but it was trauma to me in

fact from psychological terms there is

capital T trauma that’s trauma of like

death that is divorce that is terminal

illness and then there’s lower case T

trauma which includes things that are

equally as and as nerve-wracking and

heartbreaking but less of a scope of

dramatics less of scopes of terminal

issues but the thing is is is is that

trauma affects all of us whether we

realize it or not and so we’re kicking

off this is fun month and we’re gonna

start with this understanding that when

trauma happens to us what if we get to

hold on to the fact that trauma will not

destroy us that sounds real good as some

of y’all are with me this side is the

holy side praise God we’re gonna work

with y’all all right just gonna bless

your heart right now so you know I

learned in the South with some blesses

your heart they’re really out blessing

your heart what they think you sure is

do business ha ha

today we’re gonna be honest in the house

of God whether you want to play or not

this is what statistics will tell us

trauma is affecting all of us and it

might be that you’re in the middle of a

divorce because 50% of marriages are

facing divorce you might be experiencing

infidelity because 20% of relationships

are experiencing infidelity half of this

room is feeling low grade or high grade

depression sixty percent of people in

this conversation right now are facing

anxiety forty percent of people online

and in this room are facing the feeling

of being alone and isolated eighty

percent of people in the scope of this

conversation eighty percent are facing

debt and fifty percent of us are trying

to lose weight to the glory of God but

you know bread is so good you’re like

why Jesus but what if we could face

trauma I knew that it wasn’t the end

what if I were to tell you right now

that though life sucks yours do you

don’t have to so if you’re know take on

what you pull out your Bible on what you

pull your notebook and I want you to

write down the title of this message

which is how to have your life not suck

I heard a Hebrew scholar who lives we’re

stuffing some words and I learned that

the word tragedy do y’all know the word

tragedy is not in the ancient Hebrew

language and the scholar went on to tell

me and to teach us that the word tragedy

isn’t there because with the ancient

Hebrews believed that if God had not

redeemed the situation thank God was not

done and I went on a two-year journey

through the Book of Ruth the Book of

Ruth is a small four chapter book in the

Old Testament because I didn’t I haven’t

seen this played out any more than in

the life and times of two women from the

Old Testament out of the Book of Ruth

and so what I wanted to do is kind of do

a 30,000 view of this beautiful book

sandwiched in the Old Testament so if

you brought your Bibles with you please

turn with me to Ruth chapter one I’m

gonna open up with a quick word of

Prayer

father God we ask you to bless this mess

maybe pastor might come back and fix any

mistake I make in Jesus name

man you said Amy a little too loud

sister but I like you anyway Saul riding

in roof chapter 1 as we’re gonna start

off in and in verse 1 through 2 we learn

about a man who was from a town called

Bethlehem Bethlehem means House of bread

and they were experiencing a famine so

he takes his family to a different land

and this is where he picked this up in

chapter 1 verse 3 now Elimelech Naomi’s

husband died and she was left with her

two sons they married Moabite women

that’s important about your Bible

highlighted circle it if your neighbor

brought their Bible Circle it for them

there you go one named Orpah and the

other roof after they had lived there

for about ten years both Malin and

Killian also died and now ami was left

without her two sons and her husband so

we have an interesting set of characters

that have rolled on to the scene but the

two that I want to highlight in this

moment right now is Naomi

who’s the matriarch of the family and

her name if you like to geek out with me

some word nerds in here her name means

sweet and pleasant and the other

character they’re gonna pay attention to

today her name is Ruth and the name Ruth

means friendly and so friendly and sweet

and pleasant have experienced loss after

loss after loss their dreams are buried

six feet under three times over

father-in-law dead

brother-in-law dead husband dead blow

after blow hit after hit trauma after

trauma these women had the fortitude to

stand back up and I want us as people

who believed in our Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ and if you don’t yet you

will by the end of the service I’m

claiming that in the name of Jesus but

what I’m believing right now is that we

– when trauma hits us if we can stand up

and say if this is not done then my god

ain’t done if this is not redeemed then

God is not done these women are our

guide they felt that way and we have to

now here’s some context Naomi was a Jew

but Ruth Ruth description tells us she’s

a mole – she’s from a land called Moab

now Moab was a city that no good Jew

wanted to go to

good Jews do not go to Moab in fact this

city was started from a father who slept

with his daughter and they had a son

named Moab from then the sin just

spirals out and the culture think of its

like a cross between like Vegas and

Bangkok turn-ups all the time its

parties is debauchery it’s beautiful

people and then we meet this mole bodies

by the name of Ruth Ruth she’s you know

she’s a hard-working hustler if you read

the book which I highly encourage you I

just wanna make this book so appetizing

are you gonna go home this week and read

it as a personal devotion in the name of

Jesus but he is a hard-working hustler

she a little rough around the edges you

know and she comes from a crazy ethnic

family so so in my mind and my mind’s

eye if I were to personify her as a

person

she’s like a biblical cardi B you know

like she got some attitude and we have a

tendency to think that like Road this

with his sweet docile girl like on this

road I’ve lost my husband Naomi but I

will follow you know this girl has an

attitude on the desert dusty road she

turns tonight on me she said no I’m

mommy listen okay where you go I will go

your people be my people your God oh my

god okay like Sheree with her that

that’s a big tall order that is a tall

order listen okay let me just pause for

a second kids it is my first time

teaching in Tulsa

so some of you are like where did we

come today okay I’m Mexican which means

that my dad is Mexican my moms Puerto

Rican everybody hey

for the whooping Rican living in Tulsa

god bless you sister and you have to

understand that my love for narrative

storytelling and having a very young age

very young age my grandmother my I love

my Puerto Rican grandmother I’d go to

her house and we’d sit on her couch with

the clear plastic covers your legs just

sweat and you’re like screeching

everywhere she pour me a cup of coffee

at the age of six and

pottery can and we would watch her

stories her soap operas oh you are do

you already know where I’m going but see

my fear is that here in Tulsa when I say

soap operas you’re probably thinking

like Luke and Laura and like young and

the restless’ General Hospital what Life

to Live but when I talk about big bold

moves yes yes but when I talk about soap

operas you need to not talk about this

thing called novellas all right

that’s a whole other level of crazy

right there and some of y’all you know

don’t understand the difference let me

tell you real quick what the difference

is in in a soap opera the beautiful

fair-skinned woman with neatly combed

hair very light makeup probably

bareMinerals she’s like standing there

with a svelte waist thighs that

definitely don’t touch as her forlorn

lover has just broken up with her and

she buried sanely says but John please

don’t leave me I love you and then a

novela somebody comes in in a Dukey

booty dress you know her hair is back

home like a B hi she got ten pounds of

makeup on eyelashes so long when she

bleeds you actually feeling through the

screen and she lives in her forlorn

lover and screams I don’t need nothing

on me I care but again then someone runs

in shoots Juanito you find out that Y

needles or sing her baby daddy you’re

like oh my god

that’s the way I read the Bible okay

and I’m so tired yeah

Oh y’all came to play no boo-boo you

boring okay no so check out when I only

said after they leave Moab they’re going

back to Bethlehem and they roll up into

the house of bread and this is what she

says she says in verse 19 so the two

women went until they came to Bethlehem

when they arrived in Bethlehem the whole

town was stirred because of them the

woman explained can this be my homie and

Naomi Yiddish actually says oh they

don’t call me Naomi she told them call

me Mara because the Almighty has made my

life very bitter I went away for but the

Lord has brought me back empty why call

me Naomi

the Lord has afflicted me the Almighty

has brought misfortune about upon me now

I want us to go there and understand

this would have been traumatic for us to

lose a husband and sons but in a

patriarchal society where women did not

have voting rights property rights land

rights financial rights name rights they

lost everything and this woman had the

space to come in and say I’m upset I’m

sad no in a patriarchal society if your

husbands are gone and your sons are gone

ideally there’d be an heir and a spare

to take over the name but since that

wasn’t the case my only as scripture

tells us in roots chapter 1 when you

read it this week for homework that she

says what can I give you I’m too old I

can’t get knocked up anymore like wait

it’s done and then grew she was

infertile we could say knocked up in the

house of God Ruth

she was barren she couldn’t have a baby

so what is Naomi say I love the realness

she says don’t call me sweet that’s not

my name call me bitter because the Lord

has dealt very better leave me I love

her authenticity I love her realness and

you know where she came to have that

honest conversation

she came to the house of bread she went

back to Bethlehem with her community and

it’s okay to not be okay

Church but she did it in her beat group

she did in her community she came to TC

and said I love God but I don’t

understand in fact right now if I’m

honest with you I’m a little salty and

we could see this and say well that’s

just you being bitter what happens when

your business goes bust what happens

when you experience infidelity in your

marriage what happens if you are you

know single for a little bit too long

you are sexy single and sanctified but

all of a sudden you hear the biological

clock ticking in your head and you just

feel like let me just sleep with anybody

who has too lazy to walk because the

thirst is real I’m parched

I’m deep operated I need Jesus to do

America are you better

I might my fear is that we can come to

church and sometimes some amazing saints

will come and put some pretty platitude

of spirituality and be like Oh give it

just gonna be okay just don’t be bitter

bitters bad Ephesians says bitterness is

bad Hebrew says don’t let it ruin a

bitterness come in bitter this is bad if

you were bitter you are bad Romans you

8:28 says there all things work together

for good you know what stop I know that

I have the tattoo on my forearm like a

hipster that says that but right now

right now I’m questioning the goodness

of God

I hate being good cuz my life am bitter

so for you to have your life not suck we

learn from basic principles I the

PlayBook of Ruth I want you to write

down this number one the decisions you

make today determine your tomorrow the

decisions you make today determine your

tomorrow now what they didn’t know

though their lives were pockmarked with

pain what they didn’t know was that

something was about to change that

through loss God was gonna do what

others said was impossible others could

have written them off others could have

said it’s done in the grave bye Felicia

tell them boy bye it’s done it’s done

but we stand on our salvation today

because the faithfulness of these two

women imma back this up with some

scripture troubled me to Ruth chapter 2

now Naomi had a relative on her

husband’s side a man of standing from

the clan of Allah Malik whose name was

Boaz and Ruth the Moabitess said to

Naomi let me go to the fields and pick

up the leftover grain behind anyone

whose eyes I find favor now he said to

her go ahead my daughter so we find

these women back in Bethlehem without

two pennies to rub together they are

hopeless husbandless childless there’s

nothing but then hope enters into the

beginning of chapter two with a man

named Boaz oh I love that name and there

will be people in here right now that

are a little salty be like I don’t like

Bible names they’re so lame listen Boaz

is better than yo ass you want to know

why because Boaz means strength

Boaz means the Valor Boaz means

integrity yeah

single ladies take know you wanna Boaz

not a broke-ass okay in the

I’m salt and pepper what a man what a

man what a man what a mighty good man

and yet the year all right you got her

back all right on the brink of

starvation Ruth asked if she can get a

job you love that even though life

sucked for Ruth she was still

responsible and she got her butt in gear

I love that I want us to pull up a

powerful principal at a ruse playbook

write this down when life sucks

don’t quit work now I’m not talking

about just going you know getting a job

at Starbucks as a barista or whatever no

no I’m talking about go to work

spiritually go to work emotionally go to

work are relationally do the work to be

healthy even in moments that may feel

tragic and you might be sitting in here

today and feeling like others had said

that you are a lost cause others have

written you off and said they’re not

gonna change they’re gonna repeat the

general sight generation was like those

of everyone before them maybe worse

god forbid you’ve written yourself off a

couple two years ago now my team and I

have embarked in going into prisons and

jails to provide resources and

conferences for our incarcerated

brothers and sisters and we had gone

into Lubbock Texas and I mean I preached

there’s no better place to preach in

prison not only can they not leave you

know it’s brunch time no no they can’t

leave but they are hungry for the word

of God

so we preached in about 107 women said

yes to Jesus on that day and one of them

pray God amen

one of them was a woman by the name of

Bridget now what I heard from other

people was Bridget was a G like she’s

super hardcore

rough like she was in there for a number

of things I would let her tell her story

and one day her story will be heard

around the world that what I do know but

but no one believed that Bridget saying

yes to Jesus that day actually caused a

causal change in her heart she had

written off by so many people she had

fought with so many people she actually

fought with one of the prison guards and

because she liked knock someone out

she’s put in the Shu for two months if

you don’t know the Shu google it praise

God

so when she said yes to Jesus she pulled

me aside at the end of the conference

and she said hey would you be able to

pray with me because I still have seven

years of my sentence I want to be

reunited with my daughter she’s pregnant

and I want my life to change I said okay

here’s the thing with prison ministry is

that you’d be able to meet with someone

and have a great connection but you

don’t know what happens to them

afterwards but I prayed in faith and I

spoke over the negativity that has been

just bathing and surrounding this woman

and how hard her life was and why she

was the way that she was well a week

later she was transferred to a

maximum-security prison to serve the

seven-year remainder on her sentence but

my God is so good my God is so faithful

cuz a week in the warden called her and

said we want to reward you for your

positive behavior at the last

institution and here and you will serve

one more year of her sentence and then

be released but wait we got Levela we

wonder why because we she was released a

year later she was released on a

Thursday on Sunday where does she find

herself in the house of God she went to

her Bethlehem nervous how she was gonna

be perceived an ex-con an ex-inmate she

comes into the church and she sits in

the very very very last row she’s in the

very last row nervous and apprehensive

about who was gonna be there she turns

to her right and who does she see the

prison guard who she beat up in prison

who stands up walks over to her hugs her

and says you were not an inmate you were

my sister in Christ

Oh buddy gets better because she was

reunited with her daughter and her

granddaughter and they’re walking with

the Lord I’m going to show you a picture

of Bridget and I want to thank God for

what he’s doing right now our God is

good

our God is faithful if you are not dead

then God is not done

look it point to you might be one step

away from stepping into God’s abundant

blessings

look at verse three of chapter two so

she went out entered a field and began

to glean behind harvesters glean is

collecting wheat during this case barley

as they turned out she was working in a

field belonging to Boaz who was from a

clan of a little egg this phrase as it

turned out is better translated it just

so happened in some of your translations

I was gonna say the Biv which is the

Vianca International Version me I Pastor

Mike we’ll have our own version on you

to uh what is it you version it there

you go yes but this expression of it

just so happened I want to just pause

for a second because that isn’t an

American idiom based on a theological

understanding of God’s providential good

he is in control of everything

therefore we have our American

expression nothing just happens you know

where that’s rooted in an understanding

of biblical providential care of a good

God this phrase nothing just happens is

an indication that God is in control of

everything

Providence encompasses every aspect of

created order from morning tonight from

beginning to end from heaven to earth

from animate to inanimate from

individuals to Nations from hours to

ages from a weeds to wheat from birth to

death to the catastrophe to come

everything our good God is over

everything that is why nothing just

happens look at what the Baker Dec ssin

area of biblical theology says to

breakdown Providence in God’s wisdom

power righteousness in love he is

hastening lis slowly to work out his

eternal purposes for his own glory and

for our eternal good his glory I were

good his glory our good his glory our

good when we go through trauma when we

go through trials we go the tribulation

life sucks this is where your glory and

my good I love holding on to that guard

I’m holding on to that and I’m believing

that you are good I were quote what the

psalmist says I will see the goodness in

the land of the living so Ruth

coincidentally finds herself here in

this field so to paint the picture

imagine you being Ruth coming to Tulsa

homeless living in a homeless shelter

recycling aluminum cans to make a living

you are eating at the soup kitchen and

the one person you know in Tulsa is

experiencing chronic depression okay

that’s Ruth’s life and no matter what

we’re facing they would hit rock bottom

and to add I love that scripture

scripture reads like a novella remember

it adds to the drama it just so happens

as it turned out this is like saying lo

and behold what great luck hey what a

chance

well good fortune karma was totally on

their side like whatever expression you

want to use here the beautiful thing is

no more else in the Old Testament do we

see this phrase no where no words you

want to know why it was an ancient

writing device it was like humor it was

tongue-in-cheek it was irony it’s the

equivalent of saying she just so

happened to move from Moab to Bethlehem

she just so happened to be starving she

just so happened to move from Bethlehem

to Moab and starving and just so

happened to go to work she just so

happened to go into a field she just so

happened to go in a field of a man named

Boaz who happened to be her relative he

happened just so happened to be a

relative who was single and rich and

sexy just by his name okay that’s a word

for someone some single ladies in here

like I love man that’s beautiful you

want man that biblical okay like that’s

what you want that’s what you want she

just so happened to go into that field

this is where I want to pause and say

this is not happenstance circumstance or

chance this is Providence

God is in control of everything

and sometimes God will move visibly

sometimes he’ll move visibly the Red Sea

will part mana will fall a bush will

talk but for most of us including Ruth

God works invisibly she coincidentally

randomly ended up in a field that just

so happened to belong to Boaz

so when you feel like you’ve lost your

way you can’t find your way we trust our

way maker and as Ruth decided to go to

work

so should we this gets us to 0.3 your

end just might be your beginning now

I’ve said this in this message but as

long as I have been a child my daddy

always said if you are not dead then God

is not done and that sounds real good

you like to preach that and say Amen and

come on somebody take me to Zion like we

like to play like that in a safe place

like here but what happens walk out

these doors and God is silent what

happens when our marriage is in the

rocks what happens when our wayward

child is strung out on drugs what

happens and we can’t get that job and

sometimes in the silent places it feels

scary the one person who could change a

situation was Boaz now Boaz was referred

to in this book is a kinsman redeemer

he’s the one that could take them as

their family now they had a great lunch

third lunch date went awesome and

chapter two go read it remember has

their homework and let chapter 2 that a

great lunch take but then he like

ghosted her he like didn’t chirp he

didn’t ask him his line to the DMS there

was none of that he like he’s silent so

then in chapter 3 verse 3 mama Naomi has

any good meddling Jewish mother-in-law

she was like hey Ruthie come here

darling I need you to shower I need you

it smell like them go put on some

perfume changeless clothes there’s a

party I gotta go to now why did she do

that because I only knew that harvest

season was ending and harvest season was

ending the Ruth was not gonna be around

boa Sabu has is not around Ruth the

house was balls gonna follow through and

though what’s gonna happen is they’re

gonna be like jobless and homeless and

money listen desperate so she encourages

her to go take care of herself to catch

Boaz his eye now here’s the word that’s

not the message her name here’s a word

for it a single you single right

like a Pringle you know you know let me

give you a little words out of from mob

and Iommi

take a shower okay put on some perfume

have two eyebrows iron your shirt okay

like this is this is God’s blessing over

your life all right come on pick this up

after mama

Naomi tells Ruth okay this is what I

want you to do make sure he eats and

when he’s done with the harvest party

he’s gonna go lay on the threshing floor

why because robbers would come and try

to take the grain so mom now is she’s

smart she encourages Ruth and picked

this up in chapter 3 verse 9 Ruth is at

the feet of Boaz and he says who are you

he asked I am your servant Ruth she said

spread the corner of her garment over me

since you are my kinsman redeemer now I

want to pause on this interesting phrase

because about Ruth knew that for their

life to be together for their life to be

safe they needed Boaz to take them as

their own but notice that she did not

offer her body to get what she wanted

she didn’t offer her body she knew to

use her brains see Ruth already knew my

one second my one sentence purity talk

no ringy no dingy okay you’re welcome if

you don’t know what dingy is ask Pastor

Mike because you know he loves to talk

about that right this this phrase oh

this phrase spread the corner of her

garment over me this is an idiom for

marry me she essentially said boo me up

babe

well we up marry me you’re my kinsman

redeemer take me as your own and Ruth

knew for her life not to suck she had to

make some brave decisions and so will we

and know this your decision will not

impact just your life but the lives yet

to come we hosted our third prison

conference and there was word going

around from various wardens in the state

of Texas about what what we were doing

and so a warden called me and said hey

we we would love we know that you’re

coming here for a woman’s conference

would you mind doing a men’s conference

why was so excited I said yes and I hung

with phone I’m like I think I might be a

little under qualified so call my daddy

pastor Pancho waters out of East Los

Angeles California I said dad will you

come with me he’s absolutely I’ll be

there and I in flight we were talking

about the conference and he said isn’t

ironic that we’re both doing this

together I said what do you mean he said

well that were both going to jail

together I said yeah I said why he said

well I’ve been to jail my dad had been

to jail not once not twice but three

times and I just found out about it

two things hit me in that moment number

one I’m hardcore cuz my dad’s a G okay

but yes but then the other side was my

God my God

you are so faithful that the decision

that my dad made to change his life

didn’t just affect his life and didn’t

affect my life but the thousands who

have come and received Jesus at my dad’s

Church and that day my dad and I get

pretty got to preach to incarcerated men

the goodness of Jesus his life his death

his burial his resurrection to the

marginalized to the oppressed to the

Unforgiven to receive forgiveness in

Jesus name and the best part I got to

stand before them and say look at the

effect of one man who made a decision to

change his life the decisions we make

affect not just us for the next

generation if you are not dead then my

god is not done and my fear is that I’m

seeing an entire generation frustrated

in the sucky seasons and the sucky

moments and saying I just I’m carrying

up the now not later so we see them we

see them we see that we have friends you

know they buy a house that’s out of

their means they go on these tropical

vacations and put an Instagram filter on

it everything’s great but to charge me

to the credit card we we end up having

great five minutes in bed and we

compromise our entire destiny because

something with two legs and can walk try

to hit at me and holler at me we are

worried about the now and not the later

but we need to care about a good legacy

not a good weekend

which is the last boy I wanted to hold

on to don’t think about your legacy

brothers and sisters build your legacy

decision by decision day by day week by

week and here by year in Chapter four

this is the final chapter we see that

ruse proposal was taken seriously bow

has ain’t no fool you know Chompy was

like oh yes i will take you and your

crazy mama okay I’ll say bow the are

right and we see in true fairy tale form

Boaz marries Ruth when we picked this up

in verse 13 the woman who could not get

pregnant he picked us up in 13 so boaz

took ruth and she became his wife when

he made love to her the Lord enabled her

to conceive and she gave birth to a son

a barren widowed outcast pagan worship

her from Moab became a one hit wife

being a Moabite mommy this is the stuff

that Disney fairy tales are made out of

and here’s the best part

it didn’t stop there the story didn’t

end there the best part I believe of

this entire book is the last fortune 4

verses of chapter 4 it’s listed as a

genealogy a genealogy is basically like

a Hebrew phonebook it’s like your

daddy’s daddy’s daddy’s daddy daddy’s

daddy’s tribe so you know where you came

from and the story ends not just for

baby Obon though that’d be amazing I

want you to skip down to verse 20 and

verse 18 it says this is the family line

of Perez and it lists out daddy’s name

after daddy’s name after daddy’s name

and get down to verse 21 so I’m in the

father of Boaz bow as the father of who

church oh come on

sure she got wake up okay Boaz the

father of Obed the father of Jesse the

father of who King David this is not the

last time that we see the name Ruth in

fact this beautiful story goes from not

just Oh bed and to Jesse and from Jesse

to King David and from King David to

King Jesus no it goes even

or it goes further it goes higher we

level up because in Matthew we see the

genealogy of Jesus the next time we see

the name Ruth it is in the lineage of

our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Ruth is a reminder that is not what has

been done to you

or what has been dealt to you but what

you do with what God has given you and

I’m not just pontificating some peoples

of going just to be smart listen I say

this is a first generation American of

Latino descent my parents came here with

the dream and a mission we lived

oppressed oppressed people of color

living in a concrete jungle of East Los

Angeles I couldn’t rerun her spell at

the age of 12 I was obese I weighed more

than my father I could have been written

off by anyone and everyone but God God I

want to see people that believe that God

is good but even when life sucks you

don’t have to we can build a legacy we

can build a legacy and our legacy isn’t

to give money to our children and give

them a mansion you remember the legacy

is Jay by day building a spiritual

foundation roof no this roof know that

she was gonna build the spiritual

foundation and a biblical legacy

contrary to our regular legacy a

biblical legacy is our contribution into

the next generations the foundation of

faith that they get to stand on Ruth

know this she knew this that with every

sacrifice she gave with every trial she

endured with every promise that she held

onto from God that she was adding to the

spiritual foundation of the faith that

we now stand upon today and this is a

ripple effect this is a ripple effect

because you will leave it like I see

good or bad the question is which one

are you gonna leave because you will

leave a legacy what will you like a

Seabee we make our decisions about the

future we must remember that this is not

about us dare I say dare I say we find

our purpose we’d give her life away and

close them aback this up because Ruth

knew this Queen Esther knew this Paul

the Apostle knew this most importantly

Jesus noticed in the face of trial

trauma and tribulation their purpose was

proven when they gave their life away

Ruth gave her food away so others can

live

sir and sir gave her privilege and her

power away so that others can live

Paul the Apostle gave Ali his prestige

and prominence so others can live

Jesus Christ gave His life so others can

live if you don’t want your life to suck

get the life away

give your life away and see what God

does take our ordinary acts place in the

hand of an extraordinary God and the

legacy that we leave in our wake so

today I want to take a quick moment

don’t take a quick moment because we’re

gonna walk out these doors and my fear

is that this message is gonna be muddled

and muted by the voices in your head and

the voices from the outside and I want

us to be real here in the house of God

because here’s the thing you could lie

to your co-workers you glad your kids

you can lie to her class may take a lot

of your spouse you could even lie to

yourself but you can’t lie to God so in

this moment it’s okay to feel like my Oh

me it’s okay to be like I’m facing a

really really rough season and I need

God to reveal himself we want to pray

for you

so in this moment I’m just gonna ask

that me bow our heads and close our eyes

because I want to create it just a

sacred space that feels safe to people

in this room that are gonna do some work

some soul work but that is you and you

feel like you are not on me you feel

like you are wandering on a desert road

and you feel forsaken by God we want to

pray with you and I want to pray over

you so that you leave difference not

forsaken and forlorn but fully loved by

a good God if that’s you right now will

you please just raise your hand to

acknowledge where you’re at God whoa yes

hands everywhere praise Jesus I’m gonna

pray over us

and those online I believe in faith

you’re having a come-to-jesus moment

father god I come before you and I pray

for every single man woman and child the

sound of this message is experiencing

a feeling of bitterness depression maybe

anxiety about the future I pray Lord God

that you breathe on their soul that you

awake in their hearts you captivate

their mind so that they feel a tangible

presence of you in the name of Jesus we

pray amen amen

and before we go because this is like my

favorite part as Ruth gave her life away

Jesus gave His life away so that we can

experience new life in him and maybe

this is your first time to

transformation Church maybe you’re

watching online maybe this is the first

time you’ve ever heard the gospel today

we want to invite you to experience not

a Boaz as a kinsman redeemer but Jesus

Christ as our real Redeemer who could

take our sin you could take our junk and

make something beautiful out of the

ashes of our life so if you’ve never

accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and

Savior in a second we’re gonna give you

that opportunity but maybe maybe you’ve

come today and you know that you have

been so far from God the biblical word

is repent or return from the life that

we were living we turn from our sin and

we come back to God that’s a repent and

maybe this is your opportunity to

respond but maybe maybe you’ve grown up

in church maybe you have been coming

here for a few weeks maybe a few months

trying to figure out if this is your

vibe and eventually your tribe but

you’ve never confessed Jesus Christ

publicly see Jesus says if you come if

you profess me in front of man I’m

professing from the my father in Romans

tells us that if we confess with our

mouth and believe in our heart that we

are saved guess what we will be saved

and so right now I’m gonna do something

brave with every eye open and every head

lift and I’m gonna give people in this

house an opportunity to say yes to Jesus

I’m gonna count to three and you’re

gonna shoot your hand up in faith so we

can acknowledge you but one by you

raising your hand you are saying Jesus

Christ is the Lord and Savior of my life

today I choose Jesus to guide me to is I

believe it through the remission the

shedding of Christ’s blood I can be

forgiven that there is no sin to

separate me from God because he came

down for me and third I am believing

that his presence His Holy Spirit will

come and reside in me

so that is you you are saying yes to

Jesus for the first time you’re

repenting and coming back to God or this

is a public direct declaration of faith

one two three will you raise your hand

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god bless you god bless you

is there anyone else your heart is

pounding your heart is pounding you’re

like I need to add on so embarrassed

will you raise your hand high raise your

hand high

yeah yeah

we are celebrating a we’re gonna we’re

all gonna break can we stand to our feet

can we start every because we’re gonna

pray as a family we don’t want you to

make the decision alone

welcome to Bethlehem the house of bread

you thought you’re in Tulsa but you’re

actually in the family of Jesus Christ

guess what we’re all Jewish today okay

we’re gonna pray this prayer of

salvation this prayer in our heart

that’s gonna declare us together the

decision that we choose Jesus can we all

say dear Jesus forgive me of my sins

cleanse my heart cleanse my mind give me

a clean conscience fill me with your

spirit to do what you’ve called me to do

today I choose you Jesus as my savior

and the name of Jesus can we all say

Amen hey guys thanks for watching

today’s message and don’t forget

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