Redemption

I recently taught a bible study on the Book of Ruth which deals with the kinsman redeemer provisions of the law. This is a great allegorical story for the truth of redemption, which is lost to most of the world. It is one of the truths that divide the masses on the blog and perhaps the sole reason I mention God at all. Dorean promises redemption from fraud and from the overarching fraud, which has come in to defend it. Now redemption not being understood by the many will be confusing and be ridiculed by the masses. For the few though it resides as an endless well of hope. In the book there is a character I call the barefoot redeemer. He is the first in line as kin to Naomi and Ruth. He has all the legal rights and is symbolic of the law. The law was a schoolmaster but never had the power to redeem. Every view upon the law found us lacking and deficeint. In this state we could only be condemned. Many people even in their good intentions have found themselves trapped in this law of condemnation. It is something we inherited in the curse of the fall; the knowledge of good and evil. In Romans 3:21-26 it is made clear that there is a righteousness apart from the law and I’ll add exceeding the law and that being the faith of Christ. This righteousness is not absent the law but satisfied it. Boaz in the book symbolizes Christ who having a desire to redeem was diligent to do all that He had to do to obtain the right. He went to the barefoot redeemer (the law) and satisfied it. He did this in the courts of heaven in front of all the witnesses by contract. Only then could he redeem by right.

In the New Testament we are admonished not to judge lest we be judged by the same standard we use. If we use our knowledge of good an evil like most here then the law will condemn absolutely. In Christ we have His faith, which exceeds the law without minimizing the law. The term used for God in this book is Shaddia that gives us a clue of the stories intent. Shaddi is “Almighty” which must automatically contain authority over the law. The other connotation of the name is the breasted one. The mother side of God. This nurturing, mothering bosom that we all ran to when we were perplexed by the discipline of our fathers. As Christ teaches us a righteousness greater than the law we are disciplined and nurtured by the same redeemer. I point this out to you because many here have all the wise judgment they presume because absent most of the facts and knowledge of anything greater they use their myopic midget minds to pronounce their decrees of good and evil. One of the great markers of this wonderful gift is others are always evil and I am always good. Harsh judgment for others and mercy for me. Can you think of a more severe judgment then to be lost in your trespasses and sins and believing you are good? I have never professed my righteousness on here except that I boast in Christ and His ability to keep me obedient. I can forgive those who for a mere $3,000 think I owe them my life wrongly and then hate me when through a greater righteousness than their law I willingly give it. I encourage all of you to run to the faith of Christ for you will discover a righteousness apart from the law that will never allow you to view the law or righteousness in the same way again. It is only this truth exceeding the foolish righteousness that can assist you in standing in opposition when it violently attempts to impose itself upon you. There is far more to a trial of Dorean, the mortgage industry, and society than simple formulas that wicked men will get there just deserves. That is mere child’s play not capable of solving adult problems. Righteous men suffer and wicked men don’t it appears. Can that tell you more about your God than Shaddi? No my redeemer lives and the law you take comfort in has been nailed to a cross lost to a better plan resurrected.