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Unexpected Redemption - Ruth
God’s plan is
Redemption: price
In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. —Ruth 1:1
The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. —Ruth 1:2-5
“Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. —Ruth 1:8
…Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.” But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.” —Ruth 1:14-16
Self-absorption
So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek. Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, “The Lord be with you!” “The Lord bless you” Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?” —Ruth 2:3-5
God’s plan is
I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.” At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?” Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge. —Ruth 2:9
God’s plan is
“Where did you glean today? Where did you work?” “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz.” The Lord bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.” —Ruth 2:19
A redeemer needed: The
“Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.” —Ruth 3:3-4
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. —Ruth 4:13; 16-17
Next Steps:
• Share your story of redemption (Ps. 107:1-2)
• Connect to this community (Compass Church)
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Discussion Questions:
- What aspects of the book are unclear? What parts seem hopeful?
- Why do you think it is easy to become self-focused during difficulty?
- Share about one thing God has redeemed you from?
- How will you respond?