Ruth: Loss & Legacy
God is Always Working
Message Date: 3/12/23
Speaker: Pastor Rod Hidalgo

RUTH SERIES

Review

Suffering: Our suffering can lead us closer to God or further from God.

Bitterness: Does not have to be a permanent state in our life; we can overcome it

At this point, we have seen Naomi and Ruth experience difficult, discouraging circumstances.

GOD IS ALWAYS WORKING

Ruth 2:1

Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was

.

NOW: the author is saying something important to notice, a variable

God is

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working; We don’t always see it.

“Before God changes our circumstances, He wants to change our hearts.” —Warren W. Wiersbe

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.”

Ruth lived by faith.

To live by faith is to take God at His Word and then

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upon it.

Ruth 2:3

Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

So she went

, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to

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, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

Our obedience connects us with God’s master plan!

AS IT TURNED OUT…

Are you allowing your obedience to connect you with God’s master plan?

Ruth 2:5-7

Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?”

The overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi.”

“She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has

here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”

Ruth stood out from others.

Ruth 2:8-9

So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here.

here with the women who work for me.”

“Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are

, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

Boaz is saying, ‘I will take care of you…’

1. God is always working.
2. We don’t always see it.
3. Faith is active, not passive.

Ruth 2:10-12

At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such

in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

Boaz replied, “I’ve been

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

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you for what you have done. May you be richly

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by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

We don’t need to self-promote!

God still has good people living among us.

Ruth 2:19-20

Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work?

be the man who took notice of you!”

Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is

,” she said.

“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 kinsman-

.”

God is

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working; We don’t always see it.

Matthew 1:5-6

Salmon the father of

, whose mother was

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,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was

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,
Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of King

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.

Boaz is a reflection of the character of God.

In what circumstance do you need to follow God?

What is the cost that you need to pay to honor God right now?

What action do you. Need to take to live out your faith in this season?

God is always working; We don’t always see it.

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