Topic: I Need a Boaz Not a Boy I Need a Wife Not a Woman
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.