I Will Follow

  

Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, 'We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.' So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: 'Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.' Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. 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 4:11-17

The Bible really is an amazing book. Written over 1500 years by 40 authors from different walks of life. (Kings, peasants, fishermen, shepherds, philosophers, statesmen, and scholars).

No book has been read by more people.

No book has been published more, translated more, has as much manuscript evidence.

No archaeological discovery has ever converted a biblical reference.

Elimelek: El-God (Elohim) + Melek-king =“God is King.”

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 1:6

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, '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. May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.' Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud.

-Ruth 1:8-9

'Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons—would you wait until they grew up?'

-Ruth 1:11-13

'It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!'

-Ruth:13c

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.' 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

'My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay 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 thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.'

-Ruth 2:8-9

'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 2:20

In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet! 'Who are you?' he asked. 'I am your servant Ruth,' she said. 'Spread the corner of your garment over me…'

-Ruth 3:8-9

'Spread the corner of your garment over me for you are my kinsmen redeemer.'

-Ruth 3:9b

'I will do everything you ask.'

-Ruth 3:11

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. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.'

-Ruth 1:16-17

If you hope to save someone, you will have to lose something.

  

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: 'Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth. Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. 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 4:13-17

'For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.'

-Ruth 4:15b

I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness...

-Isaiah 61:10

'May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.'

-Ruth 1:17b

'For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?'

-Mark 8:36

Faith and Status are two things Christians have had to choose between since Christ gave up his status in heaven to come to earth to save us.

'No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.'

-Matthew 6:24

    

     

      

    

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