Binge The Bible - Ruth
TIFFANY GOWESKY
Ruth:
AUTHOR: unknown (some scholars say Samuel)
AUDIENCE: Israel
ASSIGNMENT: to understand the power of redemption
ADDRESS: after 1010 BC, during the book of Judges
Movement 1, Chapter 1 : The Breakdown.
3 Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. 4 They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, 5 both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. 6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. —Ruth 1:3-6
16 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 1:16
PT. 1 IN
Movement 2: Chapter 2, Dependence.
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.”
Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” 3 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. —Ruth 2:2-3
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 2:12
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; —Psalm 91:4
PT. 2 GOD’S
Movement 3, chapters 3 + 4 : The Redemption.
When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down. 8 In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!
9 “Who are you?” he asked.
“I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer of our family.” —Ruth 3:7-9
PT. 3 GOD CALLS US TO STAY
5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.” —Ruth 4:5
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one” —Romans 3:10
GOD CAN REDEEM ANYTHING AND AT ANYTIME.