Lessons from the unknown redeemer – Ruth 4: 2-12
1b. He responded with a qualified ‘Yes’.
v4 “I will redeem it,” he said.
Yesterday we saw how that was held within his own personal agenda.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17
We worship a God who knows sacrifice and asks us to follow him in this way.
Offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1
A missionary society wrote to the African missionary David Livingstone saying “We have some people who would like to join you. Do you have some easy access roads to get where you are?” Dr Livingstone wrote back and said:
“If you have men who will come only if there are good roads, I don’t want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all.”
This way of life will cost you. But if you “no longer live but Christ lives in me” then as a dead man you don’t have any rights anyway. Lets not give lip service to a God who sacrificed His Son for us. Let us realise that all that we are and all that we have is God’s anyway, so let us get on to the altar of sacrifice with no conditions and let God truly have our lives for Him and His work. The unknown redeemer gave a qualified ‘Yes’ because he was selfish and it robbed him of a destiny in God.
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