Love alone is worth the fight!

Do you believe that? Ruth thought it was true, and Boaz knew it was real. Their love was founded in his compassionate provision, protection and pursuit of her. Yet this is more than a love story, more than a flash of light amidst a dark age. It’s a story of redemption about a faithful woman and a good man, all pointing to the great Story of Redemption, where the greatest Man, Jesus, the Faithful and Righteous One, pursued and provided for His Bride.

EPIC Ruth & Boaz

Message title: Ruth & Boaz: Love Alone is Worth the Fight
Week 12 of EPIC series (following the Hero of God’s Story)
Scripture: Ruth 1-4
Preacher: Jeff Patterson
Date: 3/30/14

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Scripture reading: 

Ruth 1:1-14

1 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. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food. So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept. 10 And they said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.” 11 But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons, 13 would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.” 14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.


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