Two Did Build | Pastor Paul McGee

Amen. Praise the Lord everybody today,

the House of the Lord thankful, Amen, for the songs and

musicians and such, Amen. Tonight, each of you in the

House of the Lord, glad for all of our guests here tonight as

well, Amen. For each one of you, glad to

have Patty with us tonight. Amen.

Patty was like MVP help whenever the disaster was over at the

high rise, Patty came here and they ran and got before we even

had coffee made. They was running to Burger King

and bringing coffee back as much as she could and she was just

like a pinball machine. She's just going around.

I told her there's still a rut in the yard where she makes so

many paths. That's a that's a Paddy

dedication right out there where she just made so many paths.

And so we're so grateful, Amen, for her being with us tonight

and Holly again and then all of you that have been coming

whenever you can. I'm so glad that life is allowed

you to be here. Amen.

Jeanette and Tatum love to see you all.

And Jayden, it's Jayden. We have we're on like, you know,

kind of tilt the head terms. We just got it, what's up, you

know, type of stuff. So we're glad to have Jayden,

Amen with us tonight. Amen.

Appreciate him in the House of the Lord.

Also glad to have Ben Benjamin with us this evening.

Benjamin's from Greater Grace Brother Clark's church, but

we're glad to have him here with us, Amen, Tonight.

We appreciate his pastor in that congregation, Amen.

In Oakland City, Going to be turning to the book of Ruth here

today. The Book of Ruth chapter #4 I

want to read a few verses of Scripture.

Amen. From Ruth chapter #4 tonight.

Yeah, I'll tell you right now. It's going to take me just a bit

to get where I need to be. All right.

Now, some of the struggle with me, let me tell you, the

struggle of a, of a minister, he already knows where he's going.

And the difficulty sometimes is for me not to get excited about

where I'm headed before I get there, all right?

But I know it will just be totally meaningless to you

unless you go to trip with me. All right, So I'm opening up the

bus door tonight and say all on board.

All right, help us this evening. Bible says in Ruth chapter #4

and verse #10 moreover, Ruth the Moabitus, the wife I'm alone,

have I purchased to be my wife. This is Boaz speaking.

This I've purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of

the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not

cut off from among his brethren from the gate of his place.

Ye are witnesses this day. This is taking place at the city

gates. And all the people that were in

the gate and the elder said, We are witnesses.

This is the the blessing or prayer that was pronounced then

over them. The Lord make the woman Speaking

of Ruth that has come to thine house, Boaz's house.

The Lord make her like Rachel, and everybody say, and like

Leah, which too did build the House of Israel.

And do thou worthily in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Verse 12 And let thy house be like the House of Therez, whom

to mar bear unto Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give

thee of this young woman. He said Let let Ruth let this

woman be like Rachel and like Leah, which too did build the

House of Israel. This is important tonight

because he didn't just say like Rachel built it or just like

Leah built it. And they are are two vastly

different women. History tells us, but it took

both of them for the building of God's Israel Amen.

For a little while tonight just very simply a phrase pulled from

the scripture. I was betwixt in between what to

call it, but I'm just going to use biblical phrase to did build

If you don't like that. The other thing I was contended

with with kingdoms of contrast. But 2 bit 2 did build 2 did

build. Let's ask the Lord to help us

Father, I love you tonight. I thank you Jesus God for your

spirit God that you have been here with us today.

I pray Lord, you continue to be so Lord Jesus in this place

tonight, God, anoint our minds, anoint my lips of clay.

I pray, O Lord, today convey something God will be Lord

meaningful, helpful. Lord Jesus, God for us and our

Lord walks and relationships with God.

And I'll not Lord, fail to give you the praise Lord, for what

you accomplished Lord, through your word in the lovely name of

Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah and Amen of the

church say Amen. You may be seated tonight in

Jesus name. 2 to did build the book of Ruth, of course, is an

interesting book and I'm not going to go into the complete

story of the book of Ruth, but Ruth is peculiar in that the

book of Ruth opens with a few different funerals, but it ends

with a wedding and the birth of a child that brings great

comfort to the family and to Naomi and to Ruth and to Boaz.

And so it's it it ends much more jubilant than it begins as with

the funerals that it opens up with.

But the Bible was describing that Boaz, a character hearing

the story, is meeting with some of the elders at the city gate.

And the city gate, typically customary for those times, was

the place where business was was contracted and where legal

affairs were taken care of. And he met with with a kinsman

that was nearer than he was for acquiring the land of some of

the deceased relevant relatives of Naomi.

Her husband had died, her sons had died.

And so he's there to attempt to purchase those lands and also

take the responsibility for Naomi, who is a widow and Ruth

is a widow and any future children that would come as a

result of of a marriage to Ruth. And the Bible tells us that the

nameless, it's a nameless kinsman Redeemer in Scripture

who refused to redeem any of this land and refused to redeem

Naomi or Ruth or any of them and raise any type of seed into the

deceased name. But Boaz, the Bible says he, he

gladly did it. The Scripture even says in verse

10, he said it says, moreover, Ruth the the Moabitus, the wife

of Malone, he said, have I purchased to be my wife?

This, this is something you must understand.

This is an Israelite purchasing a Moabite wife who has proven

her loyalty to God. It was customarily known in that

day that the Moabites were hated by the Israelites.

They were not on good terms. But here is Boaz that's

purchasing A Moabite wife and he's not just simply taking her

as his wife, but he's perching her, purchasing her to be his,

his wife. And this happens though not in

some corners, somewhere. It's not like some place that

it's just he and Naomi and Ruth where all this is taking place.

This is taking place, if I can use some Southern Illinois talk

smack dab right there at the city gate, just smack dab where

all of the business and the legalities of of the city takes

place. And so there's people there that

that have come to coordinate their business beyond just Boaz.

There's others that have business to take care of that

day. And here they all all are right

in front of all of these people that have come to coordinate

business that day and, and, and in front of the city elders,

this, this thing has been made. And, and the city elders are not

just, you know, just Joe Blow over on the corner.

These elders are, are not necessarily even old men, but

these elders served as leaders within their city.

They, they were known as judges and arbiters of, of, of justice

within their community. These, these were men that were

known for and recognize for the wisdom and their experience and

their integrity and they know the history of Israel and they

want to safeguard her future as well.

They, they understand that what takes place at the city gates

that they have a hand on and they, they can give guidance in

and, and all of this is taking place right here at the city

gates because whatever is decided there, everybody, at

least the elders for sure is going to know there.

There's not going to be any future disputes over the

decisions made at the city gates because it was made in the eyes

and in front of the ears, if you will, of these elders, people of

wisdom and experience that had Israel's best mind, a man at

heart. And so you have these caliber of

men and there's others, of course, that's come for

business. And so part of their affirmation

for Boaz and for Ruth, and for this deal, if you will, that's

taking place at the city gates, they bring an affirmation, even

partly if you want to call it a prayer.

And they say the Lord make the woman that is Ruth that's coming

to Boaz's house like Rachel and like Leah, which too did build

the House of Israel. And the history of Israel is

that she had a small beginning, but she for sure had been built

in her military strength, in her numbers, and in her land.

The House of Israel had come into its own.

It had a feeble beginning, but she's not like what she once

was. She, she began, according to the

Scripture, with a single family through Abraham.

And it struggled through some uncertain times as a single

family. But through Isaac it gained a

little bit more ground. And through the sons of Jacob

and Esau, it gained a little bit more ground.

And then you come through Jacob and you have this whole family

of 12 tribes. So it gains a little bit more

ground. And we read in Scripture that

when they were taken into Egypt and Joseph and his family went

in, they were only 70 souls. But whenever they departed, some

400 years later, the Bible calls them a nation.

So this, this Israel had built itself up.

Israel at the beginning had no central government.

It it just only had patriarchs of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

And later it had some tribal heads of authority with

government, government. But then there was the judges

even during the time of Ruth. So it's grown in its government.

It's grown in all of its political status.

We even read in Scripture that that Israel just as a claim of

land. The Bible says that Abraham

didn't even have so much to set his foot on anything.

The only thing he had concerning Israelite land was a burial

ground for his family. A meager beginning, but God had

promised them the land of Canaan and Jacob family would

eventually settle in the land of Egypt.

That seems far from where they needed to be but God would take

them and deliver them and settle them in the land of promise in

the days of Joshua. And now you have 12 tribes that

are taking over the whole land of the land of Canaan.

They started small, but they have been built up as a great

nation. And so as the elders are

standing there and pronouncing this blessing upon Ruth.

And so as they're they're alluding to the fact of the idea

that Israel has been built up as a nation.

It's matchless how they have come to the place that they are

politically land wise and with people.

But he says all of that was dependent upon two women.

It was dependent upon Rachel and it was dependent upon Leah.

He doesn't merely refer to them just bearing children, although

they did. Amen.

And at least much more than Rachel and their handmaids bore

children as well. But he's just not referencing

their children. Yes, 12 tribes is definitely a

large amount of children to be born.

But Rachel and Leah built the houses, not so much just by the

fact of children, but by their their way in which they carried

themselves, their own lives, fed into, if you will, the success

of the nation of Israel, their roles.

They were ensuring the promises of God that had come to Abraham

and went down the line from one generation to the next

generation, The building up of the House of Israel.

For them, it wasn't just biological.

They made and created a framework for Israel's identity

of being the greatest nation that the world had ever known.

Everybody doing all right. I'm just trying to get there.

Hey, man, it's interesting that the elders do not mention May

May Ruth make she be like Abraham and Sarah, or may Ruth

be like Isaac and Rebecca. Those would seem good benchmarks

because that's where the nation begin.

But that's not what he says. He says let it be like Rachel

and let their house be like Leah, the builders of the House

of Israel. It was a collection of these

two. And folks, when you start

reading the story of Leah and of Rachel, it represents a messy,

painful, complicated home. Amen.

It's messy. I would have understood if he

said let it be like Rachel rather than Leah because Rachel

was the one that the Bible says that was Jacob's first choice.

The Bible says that Jacob loved Rachel. 14 years of his life had

been spent in order to acquire his marriage with Rachel.

The Bible tells us the first seven years he thought he was,

he was working for her and he married then of what he assumed

to be Rachel. But the Bible says in the

morning it wasn't Rachel, it was her elder sister Leah.

Amen. And the Bible says this is

scripture wording in Genesis 2931 that he, Leah, was hated or

she was loved less than Rachel. I would think that the Scripture

would say let her house be like Rachel, the one that Jacob loved

and the one that he adored. The Bible even describes Rachel

as being a lovely lady, a beautiful lady.

I mean, you want that type of heritage and legacy for the

nation of Israel. Something lovely, something

beautiful. Amen.

Because when you read about Leah, the Bible calls Leah that

she was tender eyed. She's tender eyed or likely

meaning she was weak eyed or a little plain, a little less

striking then what Rachel was. But the elders that knew the

wisdom knew the history. And we're trying to protect the

future of of the nation said we want them to be like these two

that built up the Kingdom of Israel.

She's going to be a glorious nation and an altering Kingdom

because it's built on these two. The Kingdom that we know today

isn't just composed of everything that's been lovely,

of everything that's been. It's not always been flowers and

sunshine. It's not always been lovely.

It's not always been the no, no, no.

He says this thing has had some tender eye moments too.

This thing has had some unwanted moments too.

And he says the way that the Kingdom is built, it's not on

one or the other, but in the Kingdom and in our lives.

It takes the unwanted, yes. Someone say Amen, it is the

scripture. Look at the scripture, Amen

tonight in your word Amen. We see Amen that what we see

here in the word. This existence of the nation of

Israel was due to what was loved and also due to what was hated.

It was due to what was lovely and it was also due to what was

unknown or or unwanted. It strides into the future

because of these mixing of, of these two things.

You asked anybody in that day how did how to achieve a nation

like Israel in terms of numbers and in terms of territory and in

terms of spiritual Fang. Somebody might say, we just got

to get everything just right. Everything's just got to be so.

So in order for that to happen, they might tell you you, you,

you got to surgically remove the unwanted parts of the story.

You got to suppress the plane. You you got to turn out the weak

eyed. But that's not what the elder

said. It said it involves both their

opinion was it's a Rachel and a Leah type Kingdom.

You know why that's interesting? Because the Bible says Rachel in

the earliest part Amen of her her her marriage to Jacob.

The Bible says she is struggling with barrenness for years, but

Leah is bearing children quite quickly and repeatedly.

It is the makeup of the Kingdom of God, Baroness and

fruitfulness. What do you say?

I wish it was all the time. A new birth, a new birth, a new

birth. But there are seasons of

bareness. And sometimes it's the mix and

the muddling of both that builds the Kingdom.

There's moments like Rachel, the Bible says, she said give me

children else I die. She had a longing for it.

She had a passion for it, but she wasn't producing.

But then there's somebody else over here like Leah that's

producing on the left hand and producing on the right hand.

And the Bible says she's giving praise to God for what's taking

place. And so we have a home then here

between Leah and Rachel, they're with rivalry, there's jealousy,

there's emotional imbalance that's taking place inside of it

all. But in all of that, God says,

I'm going to flesh out my purpose.

I'm going to flesh out my plan. And so God took the brokenness

of a family. God took the brokenness of the

unwanted. He took the brokenness of the

Baron. And he says, I'm going to build

a nation. Hallelujah.

I'm going to make this a birthplace for a nation.

Because it takes both to build my house not just in quantity,

but in quality. Rachel has a longing heart.

She's trying to pursue something that seems to be ideal.

But Leah, here she is just a person of duty.

She's being faithful. Hey, man, although maybe

unwanted and not as appealing, she's being faithful.

But when you can blend the passion of a Rachel with the

duty of a Leah, it builds God's Kingdom.

Someone say man, I love the passion of God's people.

Oh yeah, I want to be there when the church is dancing.

I want to be there when the church is shouting.

I want to be that whenever they are pursuing hey man.

But I also want, hey man, I also want people who will marry

themselves just to the duty of walking.

Work a little bit. I got my jacket off.

We'll work a little bit. Amen.

I'm all about shouting and dancing.

I'm all about Amen, the bizarre and the, the miracle and all of

that. But I'm also about Amen the duty

of just walking. I'm about the fan, the, the

fantastic things that take place.

But hear me, you can't just live your life on that.

Because what I know about life, there's more days I'm walking in

life than when I'm running in life.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. These two, these two.

Because on the days that passion is short, duties going to carry

on. It's with good reason, ladies

and gentlemen, that in the New Testament Scripture that Jesus

whenever he was in the wilderness to be tempted of the

devil. It's with good reason that

through the testing that whenever the devil came to him

and said, Son of Man, will you turn these stones into bread,

that Jesus did not do it. It's with good reason that

whenever the enemy tested him and took him to the pinnacle of

the temple and he said, cast yourself down, Amen.

The angels have charge over you thee, that you would not dash

your foot against a stone. It's with good reason that Jesus

didn't do that just to prove him wrong.

Why? Because he's going to leave that

place in the spirit and the power of the Holy Ghost.

The Bible says, and he's going to gather together a Peter and a

Andrew and a James and a John and a Bartholomew that he's

going to be a leader to. And he did not want to start

their process of ministry with the idea that all there is in

this is sensationalism of these great exploits.

He wanted them to understand that along with extreme longings

is the the aspect of just ordinary days that's comprised

of duty and keeping the shoulder to the grindstone.

All of it together builds the Kingdom.

Hey, man, answer me this. What what what made the Apostle

Paul who he was? Was it the healing and this is

in your Bible in the New Testament.

Was it the healing of the land the lame man at Lystra Was it

the casting out of the evil spirit at Philippi or perhaps it

was healing published his father and Malta.

Maybe it was the fact that the apostle Paul a man who survived

A venomous snake biter or escaping from numerous attempts

on his life. Amen.

We read all these things. We read that he was instrumental

in the man that fell off from the third loft and went to the

ground and was taken up as dead, that he brought him back to

life. Many were healed by

handkerchiefs that came from the body of Paul.

The dead were raised. He preached throughout the Roman

Empire. He wrote all of the epistles,

most of them. But among all of those fantastic

things, it's also his portfolio of 2nd Corinthians 11, where he

also mentions ordinary laborers, stripes, being beaten,

shipwrecked, hunger, thirst, code, nakedness.

Which parts made the apostle the apostle?

Both parts made the apostle the apostle.

It takes Aaliyah and a Rachel to build the lovely and the

unlovely, The Wanted and the unwanted, the barren and the

broken. Takes it all just to keep the

lovely parts of the apostles, Paul, Paul's life where they

have something other than Paul. If he's shunned the hated parts,

the unwanted parts Brother Fred, you would not be the Paul that

you and I won't know to remove any part that was good, bad,

whatever love, hated, productive, ordinary.

We would have someone else besides Paul if I did.

OK, so if you don't want the weak lie, eat weak eyed Leah.

You want the unwanted gal was slipped in by her daddy, you

don't want her then you got to remove her offspring.

Leah gave birth to Reuben, and to Simeon, and to Levi, and to

Judah, and to Issachar and to Zebulun.

If you want to exclude the Leah and being in the equation, then

you exclude the offspring of Leah.

And if you don't have a Levi, you don't have a Levitical

priesthood. If you don't have a Judah,

praise is waning somewhere in the atmosphere.

If you don't have a Judah, you don't have a kingship, even for

Israel. If you don't have a Judah, if

you don't have an Isacar, you're missing out on a segment of

people that understand the times and know what Israel to do when

times are uncertain. If you're lacking a Zebulon,

you're you're lacking an expert of war and an expert in

instruments of war. So if you're going to do away

with Leah, someone say Amen. Say.

But. But.

But, Brother McGee, how about we just then?

OK. You convinced me.

Yeah. We'll, we'll keep the priesthood

and the kingship. We'll we'll keep the praise and

we'll keep all of that. But what?

I mean, Rachel only bore two sons.

Anyway, let's just. I mean, Lee is the dutiful 1.

You know, Rachel's over here passionate.

Nothing's happening. Why don't we just kind of cut

her off? Well, again, you, you cut her

off and you cut the contribution of her offspring of Joseph and

Benjamin. That doesn't sound like much

until you remember most of Genesis contains a story about

Joseph who was cast in a pit by his brothers, favored, yes, by

his fathers, sowed into slavery, endured prison, came second in

control of Egypt. And all of that was timed right

so that when a famine was in the land that could have taken out

his family, Israel, Joseph opened up the grain race and out

his brothers and his family in a little spot of Goshen and

sustained in there. So if you cut off Rachel, you

cut off the ruler that preserved the people during the famine in

the What are you saying? I'm saying it takes both to

build the Kingdom. On one side you have Rachel that

sustained Israel through Joseph, but on the other side you have

Leah that sanctified Israel with her priesthood and her praise

and her. It takes both.

God constructs His house this way, with that which is by some

the loved and the unloved, the scene and the unseen, the

desired and the disregarded. He will not only use the Rachel

moments of your life, the beautiful celebrated seasons of

your life, He'll also use the Leah moments.

Even that's tearful. That's unchosen assignments.

He'll use those, and he'll build something lasting from both.

I know there may be some set here in the sound of my voice.

It seems like until this juncture of the road, you've

been dealing with the Liam mentality, the unwanted,

unchosen, unloved periods and factions of your life.

Amen. But I'm telling you, God will

bring a Rachel, a passion. He'll bring a Rachel of love.

And he'll take both the ugly and the beautiful, The Wanted and

the unwanted, and he'll construct.

Are these two someone say Laurie, I'm reminded.

Then I'm reminded. Here's Leah over here with her

little quiet acts of obedience, persevering in the shadows, her

unseen service, but her essential service.

I see Rachel over there desire a passion, a longing, but they

alone do not produce lasting fruit in and of itself.

I'm going to trust God for the celebrated and the hidden

seasons. Did you hear me for the

celebrated and the heat hidden seasons?

Because they're part of my journey to contributing to the

plan of something great. It is the story of Scripture for

Israel that God's Kingdom is built through contrasting

things, desire it's built upon, and duty It is built upon the

joy and the struggle sometimes of living your life for the

Lord, the celebrated, and your overlooked consecration when

you're doing something that nobody knows anything about.

It's not just the public prayer before church.

It's the private prayer in your closet.

It's the scene in the. Someone say thank you, Lord, the

lasting preach, Sister Sheila, Our lives, much as we might not

believe it does not come from eliminating everything that's

been hard for everything that's been unwanted, as if we were to

take, if you will, a list of our lives.

How can I make life better? We would start scratching out

everything that we didn't want, everything we didn't care for,

everything that was hard, everything that was difficult.

But God says I purposed to to take the whole bundle, the whole

bundle. Oh come on, tie the good and the

bad, the ugly and the lovely. I'm going to take the whole

bundle and I'm going to make something great out of that.

I'm I'm trying to tell somebody tonight.

Don't you begrudge, don't you begrudge the unlovely parts.

God can even redeem the unlovely.

God can even redeem the unwanted.

God can even redeem. He's got I didn't what I didn't

like what was dealt to me missing, but God says I'm going

to mix that in with the ingredients of the good and I'm

going to make something. There's a Jew that coming from

there. There's a priesthood coming from

there. There's kingship.

Someone say every season and there's many, aren't there.

Time to pluck up and time to plant, time to mourn and time to

dance. Time to embrace and time to

refrain from embracing. It's lisastes.

But the marvel my God is he takes every season, every time,

he says, and I'll use it and I'll put it forward.

The parts you would rather forget about and you don't want

to tell anybody else about. He says, I'll take Lee and I'll

put her in the program because God has an eternal value

in his plan. Lasting fruit isn't about what

we're eliminating. No, no, no, no.

It's about embracing both and trusting God, the master

Craftsman, to be able to weave those threads together to make

something beautiful laying right beside the lovely, the unlovely,

just just a tapestry, if you will, of beauty that He'll make

and it's enduring. So it's with all of this that

these elders on the history of Israel where she had come to and

who she had been built upon and the content of their lives says

over Ruth, a Moabite US who was not a Israelite but avowed her

allegiance to God, says let her this foreigner that's not an

Israelite who once served Pagan gods, Let her be like unto the

House of Leah and to the House of Rachel.

Because I believe these elders and those that knew Ruth and had

been among their city now for quite some time in Bethlehem

because she came back with Naomi.

You know what they were already seeing reflected in the life of

Ruth, Aaliyah and a Rachel. See.

Because through the eyes of Boaz, Ruth is the Rachel that he

loves. But as an outsider coming in.

Usually Israelites hated Moabites in that day.

She's a woman that many are skeptical of and are having

borderline hatred. Hey man 4.

Boaz honors her even as an outsider.

Yet in Ruth's time, there was a period of time from the moment

she got there till finally they're standing before the gate

and they're making the wedding vows.

There's time that she's doing, if you will, threshing in fields

that don't belong to her, that she has no history with.

There are times she's laying down on the threshing floor

trying to get the attention of Boaz.

There are times she's looking at Naomi, Naomi's looking at her,

and they don't know what they're doing for the next bundle of

grain the next day. There were times of waiting.

Just like Rachel, she has a passion to be, a passion to do,

but she has to wait so much. Amen.

But also in all of that time of waiting, God's making provision

and God's showing favor and God's giving status, and he's

unfolding his timing. And her son Ruth and Boaz, his

son Obed, would become the grandfather of David.

And all of that underscores Ruth's enduring fruit and her

her faithful patience in her waiting that at the same time,

Ruth is mirroring Aaliyah. Overlooked Moabite us,

overlooked Moabite us. She'll be in the field, but

she's overlooked by many of the city.

And like Leah, she enters a covenant, a covenant in this

family, and she enters it by unusual circumstances.

Leah's thrown in with Jacob because her father says she's

got to be married first, not because she was chosen.

It was thrust upon her and thrown in here.

And here is Ruth unlikely circumstances.

Her husband died in Moab, so she's just going to go with her

mother-in-law, Amen. Back to the city of Bethlehem.

It is unlikely circumstances. Socially, she's marginalized as

a Moabite, this widow. But here is Ruth.

Ruth is trying to be loyal to her, Amen.

Loyal to Naomi, care for her. She's trying to be obedient to.

That's the reason why she said those phrases.

Where you go, I go. Where you lodge, I lodge.

Your God will be my God. Your people will be my people.

Where you die, that's where I'm going to die.

That's where I'm going to be buried.

All along she's proven Amen that God works through the unseen and

the undervalued and the overlooked.

All of that wrapped up in Ruth, Leah, Rachel.

So within loot Ruth, their prayer, their petition is come

to pass because she combines the attributes of both of these

women of Rachel and Leah. She's beloved, yet she's in

waiting. She's overlooked, yet she's

fruitful from the mostly least likely place, a Moabitess, and

she's used an instrumental for building God's house spiritually

covenant wise and family wise. Someone say man, no.

God takes these contrasts even found in Ruth, all those that

I've formally mentioned, and he weaves them.

He doesn't just make something enduring, he makes something

redemptive. If he could build Israel from 2

rival sisters. If he could rebuild the hope of

Israel through the grief of a widow called Naomi.

If he could birth kings through a Moabite convert who?

When you read the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,

particularly Matthew. And it begins to go through the

genealogy of Jesus Christ mentioned there is Ruth and the

Son that she and Beau as had obed.

You don't get to the man Christ Jesus without him looking in his

family tree. And he took the good and the

bad, the Tamar's, the Rahab's, the Ruth's, the David's, all of

these to produce the man for whom was slain for sinners.

It took all of that. It took both.

I don't know how to make this anymore plain to you, but if you

remove the Tamar, there's not the Christ.

If you remove, if you remove the roof, there's not the Christ.

If you remove, if you. Why?

Because God is showing us something of what He can do with

what we have, of whatever condition it may be, and what He

can create the outcome to be. Who did build?

I don't know.

Yeah, you stand with me, I guess.

Israel could have never been built on Rachel's favor alone.

They can never been built on Leah's fertility alone, because

you're going to have a dead nation when Egypt comes.

Required a blending. And yes, I am being repaired,

but it required a blending. The place where this blessing

takes place at the gate, Bethlehem, Judah, it'll be the

birth place where David will happen.

It'll be the birth place where your savour takes place, where

the elders with the knowledge and the wisdom said it's going

to take two, it's going to take 2.

Ladies and gentlemen, God's Kingdom.

Might I even say your life is built through similar contrast

tonight it is. We look over the histories of

our life. There's not a single person that

here that says, well, it's all been lovely or it's all been

productive. It's all been pink elephants and

Skittles from the clouds. So there's been dark days,

there's been times you've been moaned wondering if light was

ever going to shine again. In my mind, just right now in

that moment goes to the New Testament Scripture.

The Bible talks about man, the storm that is upon the waters,

storm that's upon the waters, and the Bible says while it was

yet dark, while it was yet dark, that Jesus arrived.

My Lord doesn't show up just whenever it's sunny, He'll show

up while it's yet dark in your life, while it's yet dark in

your circumstance. What?

For us, it's like he needs an opportune time.

But for the Master, any time is an opportune time.

The unwanted times, the weak times, the ugly times, the good

times. The 2 did build every season.

Your struggles, your victories, every season, you're quite

obedient, your recognition, everything in God's plan.

You know what God makes sure of that there's nothing wasted.

Every contribution contributes to His purpose.

All things can work together for the good to them that love the

Lord and are the call according to His purpose.

They're striving. They're trying to live for me.

I'm going to take that past failure and I'm going to needle

it in right there. I'm going to take that broken

marriage. I'm going to needle that in

right there. I'm going to take their wayward

and children that are gone and there's there's dysfunction.

I'm going to take that thread. I'm going to put it right by

something that's lovely of their life.

We need to raise our hands right now.

I feel the witness of the Holy Ghost in this praise right now.

Some of us are spending too much time trying to expunge our

record when we need to place it in the hands of the master

Craftsman so he can weave a wonder above the wheel.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This halter's open right now.

I wish you'd respond to the Spirit that's right now in this

place. God's wanting to do work.

God's wanting to bring revelation.

God's wanting to bring, if you will, moment to you that step on

the two He did build the good, the bad, the ugly, the one that

the unwanted, the weak, the hated, the love.

Bring all those pieces. Bring all those parts of your

life to God and see what He can do with it.

Come on, Sir. Come on, ma'am.

You don't have to drop your head.

You don't have to walk with your shoulders pulled over.

Amen. As though you're defeated.

Bring it to the Lord. Bring it to the Lord.

Come on, Sir. Come on, ma'am.

If you're even feeling the inkling right now, even if it's

from your seat, you just need to raise up a hand, a hand of

surrender to God. God, I don't know.

I know I don't have everything beautiful to hover.

I know I don't have everything perfect to hover, but here's

what I got. What can you do with these?

What can't? He says.

I'll take a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

I'll take that begrudge spot and that favorite spot and I'll mail

them together and I'll build something.

It doesn't matter if you just started a walk with God or

you've been walking with God for 50 years.

It doesn't matter if you're an older person or if you're a

young child or any between. It doesn't matter if you're

married or if you're single. All these two He shall build.