Anybody in here that wants to be the same? Then tonight's the night. Some way or another, connect with God. Connect with God and say, I don't want to be the same. You said, Jesus said, you must be born again. You must be in the process of being transformed. Our spirits, the day we accepted Jesus, instantly. transformed. The rest of it we're experiencing day by day. Tonight's message is going to be treasure in the fields of shame. Let's think about that for a second. Treasure in the fields of shame. Because we all know something about shame. At some time or another in our lives if shame has come upon us, Maybe tonight the shame is some relationship that is not a relationship anymore. Maybe the shame tonight is something that is happening in your body and you don't know why you're having to go through the things that you're going through. This last year has been a tough year for me. And so I'm so very thankful to be able to come and to think about a message that has treasures, in the fields of shame. Maybe tonight you have a sin problem and you've managed to really kind of keep it out of sight. But you know that one day, unless God gives you such grace, it will show through and you're living with the shame of not yesterday of today, but the shame of tomorrow. Maybe in your life somewhere there's someone who's very precious to you and they have a problem with addiction and you're living in that field of shame. Or there are other things that can be going on that you're having problems with. I had a sit down with a couple this week and was able to talk with them and they said, we don't know what to do about a loved one in our life. They've got a same sex attraction and we don't know what to do about that type of thing. And I said, well, you've got to love them. I mean, what do you mean? You've got to love them. So how do we go about doing that? And I said, when's the last time you communicated with them? They said, well, it's been a while. We don't know how to be around them. And I said, you don't have to be around them. You need to communicate with them. Well, we have a hard time even just talking to them on the telephone. I said, write them a card. Well, what do we say to them? And I thought, tell them you love them. You know, this is a thing that the shame affects everybody. Jesus came down from heaven to be able to find us in our fields of shame. and say, I love you for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish. I said, tell them that you love them. And they said, well, there are so many things that they find because we're struck, they're Christians, they don't want to hear anything from us. I said, just tell them that you love them. I said, they said, but they were born again. They did have an experience with Jesus. I said, then tell them that you'll be glad when the both of y'all stand together before the throne of God. Because that's going to be a day whenever you're able to be without all of the trappings of shame that there are down here. So are you kind of excited about the possibility of hearing about treasures in the fields of shame? There was a, I have a couple of things that I want to share with you. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get them all down. Then we're going to jump into the scripture and we're going to wade. And then we're going to get out deep enough where we're going to have to swim. And then we're going to hope that somebody comes by and throws us a rope and a ski so we can get up and ski all over everywhere as we're looking into the scriptures tonight. There was a man by the name of David Livingston. Have you all ever heard of this missionary, David Livingston? He was an explorer and a missionary. He died in Africa after 30 years. He died in Africa of things that were difficult to take care of in Africa. There are so many things that are difficult to take care of, aren't there? And he died there. And whenever he died, the people that he died among, and he had been teaching about Jesus Christ, he had had a big impact upon them. And the part of the field of shame for us is how many people are we having an impact upon? Because that's a field of shame where we need to be looking for treasures. Am I really impacting anybody? And so he died there and the people that he had been among, that he was having an impact upon him, they were very superstitious people and they did not believe that his body should leave the place where he was. But they were willing to part with almost all of him. They kept a part of him behind and they buried it under a tree that was known as a tree of blessing because he had been such a blessing to them. Do you know what part they kept behind? His heart. They kept his heart behind. And they didn't believe that you could do much more than just put a body in the ground, but they wrapped his body up, they put the substances that they knew would help preserve that body upon it, and they carried it hundreds of miles to where it could be taken from a ship from there back to England and he could be buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral. I think it's Saint Paul's is the big Cathedral. There were all the big big uppity ups are buried and he was buried there in that place. And when a resurrection comes. Part of his body is going to come out of there. And part of his body is going to come out of Africa. Are you excited about the resurrection tonight? Because until the resurrection. We're going to be walking in fields of shame. and we need to be looking for the treasures. Jesus talked about a man who found a treasure in a field. You remember this? He talked about a man. It was one of the shortest little parables that there ever was. He found a treasure in a field, and he went and sold everything he had so he could have that treasure. I want you to think about that. The story goes along with that. He collected baseball cards. Have you all ever known anybody that collected baseball cards? Well, he was a professional collector, and every time he went to a party, every time he went anywhere, he was always talking to people about, do you know if any loved one that you had ever collected baseball cards? And he got ahold of somebody who said, yeah, my grandfather did. And there's a whole bunch of them up in the attic, and we think they're probably pretty special. and everything, but if you want to come over and go up in the attic and look, and he went over and he said, but we don't have, the man who the cards were in their attic, he said, we don't know how much they're worth, but we think they're probably worth a little something, I want you to think about this now, worth a little something, And the man who went up there, got into that trunk and started pulling out cards. And there were a lot of the cards that weren't worth anything at all in there. And he found a card that was so rare. And he went downstairs and he said to the people, he said, I'll offer you $3,000 for the trunk because there were a lot of cards in there. And they thought, well, that's probably more than we thought we could get out of it anyway. And he took that trunk and he left and he went and sold it for $300,000. Now you'll say, but that's not fair. Well, no, it was fair. The people down there that he was dealing with, they felt like they had gotten something. Out of their field, whatever kind of field it was, they had received something special. They knew that they had received something special. And the man who had bought it, I don't know what it took for him to be able to get $3,000, but this was back years ago whenever $3,000 was a lot of money. How much did he have to go out to be able to find that much money to be able to do it? And he came up with with a with something that was so both of the men were blessed. Blessed more than they thought they were going to be blessed. OK, I want you all to think about that, because a man when he found a treasure in a field. Well, what about the man the treasure belonged to, the field belonged to? And the other man that had found the treasure went and sold everything. He came back and whatever he had managed to get together, he sold everything that he had and he came back to the man and he said, I'm willing to give you all of this for this property that you have. And so both of the men felt like that they had been blessed. And so there's a blessing in that. I want you to think about that. God has blessings. Maybe you're in somebody else's field of shame. Or maybe you have somebody else in your field of shame. And you're wanting to say, what am I going to do? How am I going to be able to handle this? Well, we want to look at some people tonight. And to be able to look at them and to consider this, I'm going to take you back to one of my favorite stories. It's only four chapters long. Do you all have any idea what chapter, what book I'm going to? That's only four chapters long. Thank you. Who said that? Thank you, Ace. It's Ruth. I love the story of Ruth. In the story of Ruth, we find out about... I'm going to kind of give you a thumbnail sketch till we get down to the place where I want to be. And starting in chapter 1, we find out there was a famine in Bethlehem of Judah. And there was a man by the name of Elimelech. My God is king. And the Jews tell us that this wasn't just any regular type of man. This was a man who was a scholar about the things of God. And he was willing to do whatever it took to be able to learn more about God. And he was a very liberal man. He was wealthy. We're going to find out that he had relatives that were wealthy. And he was a very liberal man. He was wealthy and he did lots of good things. But when the famine came, he said, I have done so much good for so many people. Tonight, could it be that because you've done so much good for so many people, you feel like that you have to abandon being able to do good for people anymore because you might be moving into a field of shame. You understand what I'm saying? You've done good and you say, maybe you feel like I've just done everything I can and it's time for me to retire. God never expected for any of his people to ever retire from being his servant, doing his will wherever. So anyway, he went away from there and took his money with him. It's an amazing story. Whenever he gets down there, he sets up business. I don't know what kind of business he had, but they were glad to have him because he was a man of wealth. And the people back in Bethlehem were suffering because they no longer had somebody that they could go to and ask for help from that person. And he's down there and his sons need to get married. And one of his son there marries a girl named Orpah and the other marries a girl named Ruth. It is said that Ruth was a descendant of King of Moab, Balak. She was royalty. Something had happened in her family though. Either they were very money hungry to get married into this Jewish family or they had fallen on hard times. And so she got married to one of Elimelech's sons, to Naomi's sons. Then Elimelech dies. Then the boys are sick and they die. And pretty much it is everything of wealth and value that Ruth had is pretty much gone. There's some land that she has back up in Bethlehem, but everything of spending power is pretty much gone. So there she is living in Moab. Moab was a field of shame. It had been a field of shame for her from the day that her husband had brought her there. Could anything good come out of the field of shame? Now then, her two daughters-in-law have a decision to make. She tells them, go find somebody else to get married to. Find somebody else that you can find some rest with. Be very wise in choosing another husband. Both of them say, no, we're going with you. And she says, I have nothing left to give you. If I were able to have children, If I were able to get married again, one in a thousand shot, and if I were able to have children, one in 10,000 shot at her age, would you be willing to wait around until that boy was able to be your husband and be able to take care of you? And one of them said, that's illogical. I'm going back. The other one said, no, I've heard about your God. I'm not going back from your God in the field of shame. She was willing to find something to give her life to because she's going to go and beg in the fields of shame. Are you with me? When she gets back up there, Naomi's going to come back. There's something big that's happening in Bethlehem. We don't know exactly what it is because the whole city's gathered together on the fateful day whenever Naomi and Ruth come walking in. Now then, Naomi knows she's going back. Not only had Moab become a field of shame for her, now then she's going back and people are going to say, if only you had been here during our time of trouble, but you went away. She knew she was going back to a field of shame. But she was also going back because she believed that that's where God wanted her to be. Maybe there's a field of shame that you're saying, I don't want to go there. Do you know where God wants you to be? Are you willing to be in the place where God wants you to be? You can say, well, there are things that have happened to keep me from being in that place where God wants me to be. That's fine. Find the place where God wants you to be now. And get there. Because that's what, whenever Naomi went back, they said, is this Naomi? Is this our sunshine? Is this the one that we said, she's so pleasant, we want to be around her all the time, and she said, do not call me Naomi, call me Marah, call me bitter, because God has dealt with me. Field of shame. Now you understand about the field of shame, don't you? Her coming back to be in that field of shame? God has dealt bitterly with me. And so then, very soon, it's the time of barley. The time of barley coming into heads and being harvested in the land of Israel is right after the Passover. That's when barley is being harvested. And so Naomi, she has nothing left to be able to feed them. I mean, she's got land, but she doesn't have any way to be able to feed them. And so, Ruth says, I'll go and beg. Now then, we understand that whenever she goes into the field, that the Bible calls Boaz a mighty man of wealth. And you should need to know that that word for wealth there is the same word that I have told you all about before, kail, C-H-A-Y-I-L, kail. It's the same thing for a virtuous woman. Virtuous is kail. So he comes and he's overlooking his fields. And somehow in the scripture, it tells us that when Ruth went out, in verse three, I want y'all to see this, in verse three it says, and she went and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. There's one day when she gets ready to go out. Now then, is she from this area? How many of you all have ever been in a place and you got in your car and your phone wasn't helping you out and your thing on your car there, whatever that is that we use to be able to get, what's that called? Your GPS is not working and you're trying to figure out where you're going and you're thinking, okay, do I know how to get home? Because at the end of the day, she's going to work from early in the morning. She's gonna work until the daylight closes and she's gonna have to, and so she's marking her trail. She's come out, marking her trail, coming out as she's coming out. She's going home like Hansel and Gretel, following those little bread pieces to get back home. So she knows the way. She comes out and it says she goes out and she comes. There's two trips she's making that day. to be able to be a beggar. Think about what intent that takes. She goes out, she's observing the people in the fields and how they're begging. Now there are some of them that are mistreating one another because the famine is over. This is the reason why she's gone back. The famine is over and they're out there to get whatever they can for their family. Have you ever been around people, even good people, whenever they've got to get something for their families? And she goes back, and whenever he comes, he comes riding out. It calls him a mighty man of valor in here somewhere, and I'm not gonna try to find that. If y'all are able to find that, that's good enough. And so he comes in and he notices that Ruth is not in the same part of the field as the others. Can you imagine what it was like for her to be in the same part of the field where there was rough and scum, tumble and things like that going on? And yet she was finding begging in places where other people wouldn't beg. Are you with me tonight? Are you thinking about what it's like to find treasure in the fields of shame? What is the field of someone that you know Or what is the field of yourself that you're needing to find treasure in? You need to think about that tonight. So anyway, she's there, he comes in and he says, whose damsel is this? He says, look at how she is begging. She's begging according to all the ways that God would have a person be begging. I know that there are people in my field who I would rather not have here, but somebody has taught her, has shown her the proper attitude to have. And in the field of shame, we need to know there should be a proper attitude. That proper attitude is not giving up on God, but believing that God has a plan. Even when we're in the field of shame, so there she is in the field of shame and and he notices her and he goes to her and he begins to talk to her and he calls her a virtuous woman and he calls her a virtuous woman because she is taking care of her mother-in-law. Everybody knows that Ruth doesn't have anything. Now I'm sure there's some people that are helping out. giving them a little bit. I had a man who called me on Monday or yesterday sometime and he said, I've got a refrigerator finally. And if you saw how it was living, you would be amazed that he's being able to do anything at all. And he said, but I need $35. And I said, wow, where were you able to find a refrigerator for $35? And he said, well, God must have been in it because, but the problem is I don't have the $35 to be able to do it. I'm not asking you all to put any money to do anything like that. I'm just wanting you to know that there are people that are around us that we need to be looking for, that we might be able to bless them in some way, just like Ruth and Naomi were having some people give them a little bit of something, but there's not any way that you can take care of anybody else, but you can help. But Ruth was going out because she didn't want them to have to help her any more than they had to. How many people in America that are needing help have that type of attitude? Because I'm going to tell you, there are some of them, if you help them, they own you. They think you should do everything for them. How did we get that way? Well, that's what the government does to the way we think. When people get a little bit of help from the government, they think they should always be able to get that type of help. We have to be very careful that we don't allow people to think that they belong to us. Otherwise, they're going to end up in a field of shame, always believing that somebody else should take care of them. So she went out and he noticed her and he said, stay here in my field. After this field is all harvested, go with my people to the next field and enjoy all of the harvesting there is to be done that. And whenever you get finished being in that field, go with my people. Always find my people. If you lose your way, because I've heard that you You came out with everybody today and you went back home and everything like that. If you lose your way, they'll make sure that you get back because you're probably going to do what you've done already. You're going to get here early in the morning and you're going to stay until it's dark. How many people are we teaching to be able to have that kind of work ethic in America today? And she rested whenever there was a time of rest. And she ate whenever there was a time to eat. But she was there all day long. When she came home that night, she had such an abundance that she had begged for in the proper manner. She came home with such an abundance that her mother-in-law said, where were you? And she said, I was in the fields of Boaz. And she says, this is of the Lord. Even in our fields of shame, God's still at work. Go back to him, don't depart from going with his and being in his fields. So then we find that pretty much takes us through chapter two. Now let's go to chapter three so that we can get through here. And remember, we're thinking about the fields of shame because God wants to have treasures in the field of shame. He wants to have blessings in the fields of shame. We come here on the second Wednesday night of every month, and I'm giving you all a little advertisement. It'll be about 30 seconds long, and then you can turn it off. Actually, it'll probably be more like 45 or a minute. But we come here on the second Wednesday night of every month, and on that Wednesday night, we partake in the blood covenant. And I'm telling you all, find people. Don't go out looking for little slivers of grain laying on the ground. Go out as though you're a beggar. Looking for people to be able to bring them in to participate in a blood covenant with Almighty God. Ask God to give you an abundance of people that can come and be a part of that. And so, in the third chapter, and it says, Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, sent her my daughter, shall I not seek rest for you? What is this rest thing? I mean, people worked back then. It wasn't saying, well, honey, you need to have a life of ease like we had down in Moab. Even in Moab, they worked, even though their money was going away from them, they worked. The rest here that she's talking about is to be able to put her in a position to where even in the field of shame, treasures can come forth and blessings can come forth. And shall I not find rest for you? that it may be well with thee, that you'll find blessings, that you'll find treasure. And my eyes are beginning to be a little bit difficult to see something. So, and it says, and now it is not Boaz of our kindred with whom maidens you have been. Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor. They begin to harvest the barley a little bit before Passover and they harvest it and then the the other grains that there would be there. And I cannot tell you what the other grains were all the way up until about the time of Shavuot, our Pentecost. And that would be almost three months. It's important that you understand it to be almost three months. Because there's going to be a thing that's going to need to be known about her. Whenever they get a little bit farther down, there's going to be a thing that needs to be known about her. She's been with them and she's a hard worker, but they don't know anything about this. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Because she's saying now then that we've gotten to this place and you're not doing this, I'm looking for to be able to find rest for you. And maybe there's something, somebody here that has a loved one that's in this field of shame. And you're gonna be saying, is there any treasure or is there any blessing in this particular place? And we need to know that babies are a treasure. And even in the matter in those impossible places that there are blessings to be had there. In fact, we need to go around talking about the blessings of God. Get up in the morning and say, Lord, thank you for the blessing of this day. I don't know how it's gonna turn. It may turn out to be difficult, it may be impossible, but you're a God who finds a blessing in every place. I want to stop for a few seconds before we get on with the rest of the story. Proverbs 25, 2 says, and if you can put that up there, I apologize, you're going to have to come back again. Proverbs 25, 2. I heard this proverb once in the book A Night with the King, which was about Esther. And it said, it is the glory of God to conceal a thing, even in the field of shame. Can you think of it that way? It is the glory of God to conceal a thing. But it's the honor of kings to search out a matter. If you're in a field of shame, are you going to search for what God has hidden in that place? Because you're not there by accident. You're not there because God said, I've got to have somebody that's in this field of shame. He knew the fields of shame would come. He's able to hide in the fields of shame. And oh Lord, don't we worry and we try to hide it and we try to forget it. our problems, our heartaches, our bitterness and our frustration about the things that we have in the field of shame. But it's glory of God to conceal a thing. Where can God conceal a thing? Anywhere He wants. There's a beautiful poem that the preacher used to read. It was about, I thank You for the things that You caused to bring out of me. You put Your tender, nail-scarred hands into my... dirty, ugly heart and you find those things that are hidden into the depths of me and you bring those out. Do you not understand what it's like to have a relationship with God? That there are things that are even hidden in you, as well as the things that are around you. Okay, let's get back to this. And so a Boaz said go. She said now is Boaz not one of ours and in verse 3 and it says wash yourself therefore and anoint yourself and put on your raiment upon you and get down to the floor, but make not thyself known unto the man. OK, what is the deal? She's going to put her raiment upon her, but she's not going to be noticed. How is that possible? Well, she's got to go down. In the skies. And I want you to know it's summertime. So she's got to have her best clothing on, but she can't be noticed. I don't know whether she's going to take her clothing down in a bag and put them on once she gets there and it gets dark. Do you understand what she's doing? She's going down. She's going to present herself and say, three months, I'm asking you to do something. Three months have passed. Your men and your girls can tell you that I have not had anything to do with anybody. I have tried to do the best I could, but I'm still in a field of shame. And so she's going to go to him and it says, verse seven, and it shall be when he lies down that you shall mark the place where he does lie and you shall go in and uncover his feet and lay down. The uncovering of his feet was to let him know, I'm asking you to be my husband. You have a responsibility for me. You're a family member of my father-in-law. Her father-in-law was wealthy. Is it any surprise that Boaz is a wealthy man also? You know, you have someone who is so wealthy, and he loves you so much, and he's waiting for you to come to him and say, would you be my covering? Would you be the one who takes care of all the impossibilities of my life? And you shall go in and uncover his feet and lay down and he will tell you what you shall do. And she said unto her, all that you say unto me I will do. And she went down to the floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade and Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry and he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn. What was he doing? He was there to guard the stuff that belonged to him. And she came in softly and uncovered his feet and laid down. And it came to pass at midnight that the man was startled. Y'all ever had anything that happened at midnight that startled you? And sometimes you don't even know why you're startled. But he was startled. And behold, a woman lay at his feet. And he said, Who are you? And she said, I am Ruth, your handmaid, spread therefore your skirt. Over me? When's the last time you talked to God? I'm in a field of shame. I need somebody to cover me in this situation. God is faithful. He will not stop covering you or anybody that belongs to you if you'll just talk to Him. Now then, we're going to find treasure and blessings in this field of shame. And so she said, cover your handmaid. And he said, blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter, for thou has showed you have, you are truly a virtuous woman. Remember at the first, he called her a virtuous woman. You have showed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning. And as much as you followed not young men, whether poor or rich, and now my daughter, fear not, I will do to you all that you require for all the city of my people do know that you are a virtuous woman. He knows. She's waited the three months to be able to prove that there's never been any other person except for the husband that ties her to Him. And no, it is true that I am your near kinsman. How be it? There's one that is nearer than I don't know how this person was related, but his relationship was a closer relationship than Boaz Terry this night and it shall be in the morning that if he will not perform that part unto you of the kinsman, well, let him do the kinsman. If he will let him do the kinsman part, but if he will not do the part of the kinsman to you, I will do the part of the kinsman Redeemer. Here's the thing. Jesus wants to be our Kinsman Redeemer. He's not just saying, I'll do it. Glad you finally got around to asking. He has done everything but ask us personally himself to let us be his kinsmen redeemer. He's waiting for us to do our little part and ask him, say, I'm in the fields of shame. I have a loved one who's in the fields of shame. My community is in the fields of shame. Maybe my church is in the fields of shame. Maybe my nation is in the fields of shame. I need for you to cover me and cover those that are with me. And I will do that part, tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform it, then that will be why. And she lay at his feet until the morning, and she rose up before one person could know another. Do you know how early that is in the morning? That's pretty early. And she rose up before one could know, and he said, let it not be known that a woman came to the floor. He said, now then, you've got on your raiment. You don't have on the the raiment of a beggar. Don't let anybody know that that you have done anything besides be a beggar. He also and you can say, well, I want to put on. I want to be like that Christian whose face shines in the field of shame. If you will call upon the Lord and wait your time, I can guarantee you he wants to make his face to shine on your face. But you have to let him be the one that does it. And said, now then bring the veil that you had and hold it. And when she held it, he measured out, measured out a large amount of barley. and laid it on her, and when she came home, her mother-in-law saw it, and in verse 18, her mother-in-law said, sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall for the man who will not rest until he has finished the thing this day. Oh, the day of being able to finish things. Let me say that again. Oh, the day of being able to finish things. We live in a nation to where nothing can be finished anymore at all. Do you think they finished anything today when they had that seven hours of testimony? I know some of you all watched that. Why? Did you think something was going to happen to there? Or do you think something wanted to start at the throne of God? I need somebody to answer me. Where is it going to start? Is it going to happen where they were? Or is it going to start at the throne of God? throne of God. And so she, she waited, I'm going to almost get finished within my time thing this evening. So the next day, Boaz rose up, he went to where all the elders were sitting together when they were sitting together there. He he saw the the man that was coming in a lonely pony, I think is what they call him in the Hebrew. I don't know what that means, but I found it out. I've been doing some digging, people. I love it when I do some digging and God shows some things to me, even if it's just a funny wording, a lonely pony. So anyway, he goes and he sees him, and he says, Lonely pony, I need to talk to you. And he goes over to talk to him, and he says, now then, Ruth has a piece of property. You know about it. She's back in town. It belongs to Boaz, and she's decided that she wants to do something. I mean, Naomi has a piece of property. And she's decided she wants to do something with it. Are you interested? And he says, yes, I am. And he said, but know this also, in the day that you take it, you're also going to have to take Ruth to be your wife. It's your responsibility to begin to raise her up because she's always going to be known as a Moabite. Feel the shame. She's always going to be known as a beggar. Feel the shame. She's always going to be known as the woman who went begging to try to find a man to take care of her. Feel the shame. But it's his job to begin to raise her up out of that. He says, I don't, I can't take it because my own, whatever is happening in my life, that will cause me too much trouble. And then Boaz says unto him, give me your shoe. There's an important reason for why he's giving him shoe. And he holds the shoe up and he says, let it be known to all the elders that this day I have purchased or I have taken and I'm going to use Naomi's land and I have purchased Ruth to be my wife to raise up. a name for the dead. That's basically what he was doing, because in the child that she had, there was going to come out of that child someone to inherit all of Elimelech's holdings. Field of shame is now beginning to turn into a field of treasure. It's almost too much for me to think about. It's going to turn into a field of blessing. Because this little Moabite girl, she's going to become part of the lineage of David. David is going to raise up, who's going to unite all of the tribes, who's going to lead them into their great golden age. It's said that she lived a lot longer than Boaz. That she lived to be able to see Solomon born. She got to see the future. I don't know that she knew that I'm pretty sure that she hadn't known that David believed understood that God had promised that the Messiah would come out of him and that she had to know she had her part in doing that. Here's the thing. Last thing I'm going to be able to talk about. The one sister-in-law stayed in. In Moab Moab was not a field of shame for her. She must have married well. Because they say. that out of her and subsequent children came a mighty man, Goliath. He was not from the field of shame. And David, he was not head and shoulders taller than all the rest of the Jews. As a young man came out to meet from the fields of shame and bring the victory of God. Is this an amazing message now? Have you ever heard it like that before? I haven't heard it like that before myself. It's almost too good for my mind and my heart to think about. So, for a few seconds, let's just think about the fields of shame. Are we there? Well, if you're real honest, we're there. Every one of us. We don't have to run around and tell anybody about what's going on. God already knows. He's waiting for us to do. I don't know that Boaz was waiting for her to do anything. He was ready. And our God is more than ready. Now then, if you're in a field of shame and you don't know Jesus, you don't have very much hope. But if you'll come and know Him, I'll guarantee you that such possibilities can come to you and those that are with you in the fields of shame. And if you're here and you're a believer like Naomi, yeah, that's the one, and you're here and you're a believer like Naomi and you're in the fields of shame, God is a God who has such plans. They'd gone away to Moab. It seemed like they'd messed everything up. God can't ever redeem this. He can't change it. No. One day that little baby is born. She's able to hold it in her arms, look up to heaven, and say, what have you done for me? I deserve to be in the fields of shame. And I have found treasure from heaven. So maybe tonight you're thinking you should give up on hoping to find treasure from heaven. Don't you do it! Cry out to God tonight. Let's all stand. And you can do whatever you need to do. We have oil for anointing. We have several people who will come and pray with you if you need to be prayed for anything. Maybe your heart needs to be made glad again. If so, we have people who will stand around and will sing joyful songs with you about coming to the throne of God. Let's sing.