i want to share with you very practically tonight number one if they're not hiring don't sit at home
for a young person idle time is the devil's time
if you are single if you are young and you have a free time that means the devil has opportunity
if you don't have a free time you can actually be holy the more free time you have the less chances
you have to live your life right before god because that is the way you are wired you can't
just do free time you always get find something troublesome to do that is the way god wired us
for us to be occupied and busy with what god wants us to do and for those of you who maybe you just
finished with high school or you're finishing with high school and there is a pressure of the family
you need to go get a degree you need to quickly sign up to a university or to cbc i want to tell
you something hold on i know your parents might get mad at me but tell your parents this most
people who go to college switch their majors many times i know people personally who have master's
degree and they have a certificate hanging in the wall but they're working in a completely different
job they go to college they accumulate so much debt why because there's a pressure of culture
get a degree get a degree get a degree i say this take one year and pause and no not one year and
go get pregnant i'm not saying go one year and go and just travel and get a lot in debt but
take one year and say god i want my roots to go deeper god i want to learn more about you
god i want to learn more about myself i want to learn who you made me to be instead of spending
four years 60 000 accumulating debt and then never ending up doing that which i studied for
i see what happens with ruth is ruth she begins to occupy herself she begins to serve she begins to
give her free time to actually go pick up at somebody's field and she was doing that little did
she know the field she was picking up grain from in a matter of time will be the field she will own
the places you volunteer might be the places you will lead one day if they're not hiring volunteer
i always say to our guys for those of them who are looking for a job and i say if you're
currently right now between jobs don't sit at home and catch up on latest netflix tv shows
don't do that what you want to do is this if you simply are without a job or maybe
you are looking for a job and they're not hiring listen don't just sit at home and fall into
depression you get up in the morning you dress up like you would go to work and you come to church
at nine o'clock and pastor vlad will be your boss you won't be paying you much except compliments
but we all know you need them we all need them but you're going to get experience you're going to not
waste your time you're going to feel productive and something is going to happen you never know
where volunteering in somebody's field will lead you to idle time is temptation
time do not allow the devil to tempt you by making yourself too available to him
fill yourself with good things fill your summer with the important things and then
you will see the devil will just simply have no hookup for you i wanna i wanna just mention one
more thing for those of you who um maybe are just working now you're working for somebody
i want you to begin to dream that one day you will be your own boss but can i throw you a
bigger dream which is the boaz dream boaz was not his own boss boas was a boss to other people
it's selfish when you only think about i just want to be independent i want to be able to wake up at
10 o'clock and nobody to remind me to show up to work i want to do what i want that is a selfish
thing that is a limited thing to do you need to be dreaming that you will run a company you will
run an organization yes you might be only 15 you might be 16 but listen you're running your own
family already you got your siblings doing what you what you want them to do so god has a call
for you and god has a destiny for you and maybe you have an assignment over boaz inside of you
come on somebody i want you to quickly write down number two is that purity only happens when
passion is regulated by our principles so ruth is volunteering at boaz's field she's hanging out
there she's serving and beau is the boss he just kind of lets her do that he's very generous and
and we learned that god wants us not only to to be our own bosses god wants us to employ other
people just like boaz but if you're like ruth god doesn't want you to sit at home and just wait for
somebody to call you go and serve and you go volunteer pretend like you're working and god
will take care of you and you will find a job you will find your career you will know what
to do if you give your time to the lord instead of just sitting at home and binging on netflix
what i want you to see secondly is that ruth is a single lady she's a young lady she's attractive
and her mother-in-law says ruth um girl you to get married she said well nobody's proposing and naomi
tells you this he says uh why don't you go to boaz and propose to him so girls i want to give you a
permission and freedom in here today okay because we have some boaz's okay who are slow asses
and and they need a little push sometimes now if you are 18 and below this for next
two minutes i want you to completely forget may god give you amnesia forget everything i said
but anybody who is older than that and you already have a car and you already
have a job i want you to see something is happening where ruth comes to boaz it's
night now this is not a good thing to do during this culture but in this culture was
fine she comes during the night the homeboy is sleeping she comes she lays next to him
okay that's what her mother-in-law says so if your mom says that you do that checked it with your
pastor first but but the mother-in-law says go lay next to him she lays next to him there was nothing
inappropriate that happened the guy gets pretty cold he's looking for a blanket he's realizing
a woman is laying next to him and this is what i want you to see they could have quickly made out
they could have quickly had a little thing going a little fling going and ruth looks at him and says
listen um just want to give you a heads up single ready to mingle i see you're single too your
status hasn't changed on facebook um what do you think about taking this nice lady out for a date
and boaz says you really would like want to go on a date with me yeah i've been waiting
been giving the signals didn't you get it and boaz says well you know what this is
great i would love to actually go out with you marry you right here on the spot but by the way
there's a guy that's because they have a tradition where you can't just marry a widow the the closest
to the family has to marry the widow first and if he declines it then somebody else needs to come in
and marry and he says as much as i like you you're attractive you're young you you fit i click i mean
i feel that in my heart but i gotta go talk to the elders i want you to see this about boaz
he did not let his passion dictate his principles he let the principles regulate his passion
that means if he's hot that does not mean
that well he's not christian it doesn't matter he's hot hell is hot too you don't want help
but you don't understand she can change no no no no no you can't you can't let
your passion dictate your life you gotta let the principles of god control your passion