God’s Love Helps Us Reach Out to Hurting People based on Ruth 1:1-19a

I. Ruth and weddings and Ruth 1:16-17. Ruth 1:16-17 “But Ruth said, “For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried.”

II. Challenging time in history and Judges 21:25. Judges 21:25 “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

III. Naomi like Job in difficult times.

IV. Naomi and Ruth head for Bethlehem and Ruth 1:16-17. Ruth 1:16-17 “But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

V. Naomi and family showed love to Ruth.

VI. Interesting twist in Ruth and genealogy of David.

VII. Christians reach out with love to hurting people.

VIII. God has mercy on us like Jesus had mercy on lepers and Luke 17:17-19. Luke 17:17-19 Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”

IX. Like Ruth, the Samaritan man was thankful for God’s mercy.