Notes: Sunday Morning Service

Pastor Lincoln Corbin

September 30th, 2007

Topic: “I need a Boaz not a Boy” “I need a Wife not a Woman”

Verse: Ruth 3: 10-13

  • Marriage is grown folk’s business
  • A Ruth-type seeking her kinsman redeemer
  • Must be able to commitment
  • Must be a kingdom first man
  • Boaz (5 degrees of a man) seeking a daughter of destiny
  • Must be an asset not a liability
  • Must be an all-weather wife not a fair weather friend
  • Points to ponder
  • Desperation is not the motivation to destiny. Your nobility will be recognized, remembered and rewarded.
  • You must be wiling to take righteous risks to accomplish the will of God.
  • Read the Bible and heed to the marital advice God gives—after all, He’s the inventor of it
  • Ask some other trusted source about the person. Boaz did a fact check on Ruth. Are you scared to ask someone about your Boaz/Ruth?
  • Can the pastor meet them?
  • Emotional Maturity
  • Dependency-baby
  • You don’t want someone so needy they can’t make it without you.
  • Independency- good start
  • Inter-dependency- able
  • We complement each other, we flow together as a couple
  • Work together, fast together, go to church together
  • Commitment- is it really that scary?
  • What is their spiritual commitment? If God doesn’t have them, what makes you think you do?
  • In order to operate you have to learn how to cooperate.
  • What are they faithful to?
  • It’s easy to be faithful when everything is going ok. How about when trouble comes?
  • Boaz was a man of commitment.
  • Men must decide once and for all: who’s in charge? God or you. S
  • Putting God first is not an idea it’s a commandment.
  • In order to be a man of authority you need to be under authority.
  • If you’re a man that cannot be pastured because of pride. . .
  • A man of God that hides when the man of God comes into the room.
  • Then there’s something wrong with your authority
  • You have derived authority. The more that you walk with God. . . the more authority you have.
  • Your house is your first church. Your first ministry.
  • Financial and vocational responsibility
  • It’s not her job to provide for you.
  • Boaz must have
  • A relationship based on love (and must know how to say it)
  • Nothing to do with the bankruptcy of her state
  • Nothing to do with pulling her down.
  • Nothing to do with making her living beneath the woman of God that she is.
  • Mighty man of valor, mighty man of the law
  • The divine right because of relationship to redeem the woman of God
  • He must be willing and able to redeem her.