- (Rth 1:14 ESV) Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And __________ kissed her mother-in-law, but __________ clung to her.
- Following the last urge of __________ to go, to leave her and return to their homes
- She had nothing to __________ them
- If she loved them she would send them away to a __________ life
- __________ concedes: It is the best option to return
- Orpah made a logical decision
- Looking at the options
- The logical choice was to go back home
- But Ruth clung: She did everything completely the opposite.
- Knowing all these __________
- Ruth decides not on __________
- But on faith: On what she trusts to be right
- Regardless of how things look.
- (Rth 1:15 ESV) And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has __________ back to her people and to her gods; __________ after your sister-in-law.”
- When the logical argument fails to change Ruth’s mind
- Naomi pleads to __________ pressure.
- See! She is doing it! Why don’t you as well?
- It is easy for us to get sucked in
- Everyone else is doing this, buying that, __________ there. I should too!
- Everyone else is __________ that, having that. I should too!
- Everyone else is sticking pennies in power outlets on TikTok. I should too!
- Everyone else is doing it
- And even when we know it is __________, we get sucked in.
- We get __________ and follow the crowd, but we don’t have to
- In fact as __________ we are called to exactly the opposite of that.
- We have a choice to make here: Do we leave or do we __________ when things get hard?
- As Christians we are to be more and more like Christ
- Day by day changed to be more like Christ
- Can you honestly look at your life today
- And say you are different?
- John 17:10-20
- We are here until __________ calls us home
- And while we are here we are called to be __________
- To be transformed.
- To not follow the __________
- That is a prime example of our girl Ruth
- While she had all the same __________
- All the same __________
- And all the same __________ from Naomi
- (Rth 1:16 ESV) But __________ said, “Do not __________ me to leave you or to __________ from following you. For where you __________ I will go, and where you __________ I will lodge. Your __________ shall be my people, and your __________ my God.
- (Rth 1:17 ESV) Where you __________ I will die, and there will I be __________. May the __________ do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
- Don’t encourage me! Stop it, Naomi.
- I will not __________
- For where you go, I will go
- Genesis 3:8, Genesis 5:22-24. Genesis 6:9
- And where you lodge, I will lodge
- To abide, to remain, to pass the night
- This is not so much the idea of setting roots and staying in one place – more __________
- Your people shall be my people
- Literally it means __________
- Kinsman, Country-men
- This is both a renouncement of her heritage in __________
- And a shift to ingraining herself in the nation of __________
- Your God my God
- Ruth identifies that Naomi has a specific religious __________
- What you believe, Naomi, about a higher power, I believe that same thing also.
- Where you die, I will die. And there will I be buried.
- In essence she is __________ to taking care of Naomi for the rest of her life
- And seeing her through to the grave
- Not even __________ will part us
- We will be together in life
- And when this life ends
- We will be together in death
- So don’t try to run me off, __________
- My the LORD to so to me
- LORD – Yᵊhōvâ – yeh-ho-vaw’
- Note this time Ruth names the Lord
- A proper noun
- His name: __________
- Not just the word for a god
- (Rth 1:18 ESV) And when Naomi saw that she was __________ to go with her, she __________ no more.
- This is the commitment:
- We might think link __________
- But as Christians we act like __________
- (Rth 1:19 ESV) So the two of them went on until they came to __________. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was __________ because of them. And the women said, “Is this __________?”
- (Rth 1:20 ESV) She said to them, “Do not call me __________; call me __________, for the __________ has dealt very __________ with me.
- Naomi
- Once __________ and sweet
- Now looking the same
- Inside she is __________
- Dry, Not refreshed.
- Mara
- (Rth 1:21 ESV) I went away __________, and the LORD has brought me back __________. Why call me Naomi, when the LORD has testified against me and the __________ has brought __________ upon me?”
- Theres the call: The LORD brought her back
- She had the __________, The call was made
- __________ drew her back to the place
- The land
- The people
- The faith
- She should have never __________
- And she is not the same person today
- We have to recognize common trait here
- She says the __________ brought calamity, but we know that she and __________ made the choice to go
- To leave the promised land and the covenant people. __________ did not magically relocate them against their will.
- He let them follow their desire
- And suffer the __________
- He does the same for us
- We stray, and __________ allows it
- (Rth 1:22 ESV) So __________ returned, and __________ the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of __________. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of __________ __________.
- We get this little glimpse of __________.
- Two broken people looking to be restored with __________ and His people at the time of His abundance
