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God’s Grace and Redemption - the story of scripture!
Grace: The inexhaustible goodness of God which he freely bestows upon human beings, which is undeserved, unearned, and unable to be repaid.
Grace is God’s unmerited favor.
It is by grace that we are saved, and it is grace that is to serve as a believer’s motivation for righteous living and good works.
Our gratitude for God’s grace provides the power which moves us toward obedience, worship, and fellowship with the Lord.
Personal power and strength become perfected as we experience a greater level of God’s grace.
We are to grow in our understanding of grace and are also called to extend grace to one another as a reflection of God’s grace in our own lives.
Redemption: To deliver through the payment of a price.
Christ’s death was the price God demanded to redeem us from slavery to sin.
God never skips sin.
Someone has to pay the price—either you or an acceptable substitute.
On the cross Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30), meaning, “paid in full.”
All the requirements necessary to pay for our redemption were put up by Jesus Christ on the cross
What do you do in the midst of trials?
Ken talked about this last week.
Story of moving to Kansas City and Back again.
What can happens when we don’t trust in the Lord?
Ruth 1:1–5 (ESV)
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.
2 The name of the man was Elimelech (my God is King) and the name of his wife Naomi (My Delight), 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.
3 But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.
4 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth.
They lived there about ten years,
5 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Days of the Judges?
“everyone did what was right in their own eyes”
Sojourn = leave with the intention of returning
Moab?
Moabites?
Who are these people and why did it matter?
Moab - name of the son of Lot and his oldest daughter
God had commanded that the Israelites not intermarry with the other nations of Canaan, including the Moabites.
The reason God didn’t want them intermarrying was because they did not serve the One True God and He knew it would draw them away from Himself.
Consequences for disobeying God
Death of a husband and sons
Naomi left with two daughters in-law and now way to support themselves.
Ruth 1:6–18 (ESV)
6 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.
Cycle of the book of Judges.
People disobeyed, God allowed oppression by neighboring nations, people cry out to God, God sends help in the form of a Judge.
God had not forsaken Israel, Israel forsook God.
Naomi and her family didn’t leave Israel because God told them to, they left because the country had strayed from the Lord and didn’t trust him for anything, even their own provision.
Now that Naomi has lost everything, she goes back because she hears that God has provided.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.”
This obviously weighed heavily on Naomi’s heart and mind.
She felt that the calamity which came upon her family came because they were disobedient, probably in leaving the Promised Land of Israel and marrying their sons to Moabite women.
14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again.
And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
15 And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
16 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.
17 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.”
18 And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
And your God, [will be] my God meant that Naomi’s relationship with God made an impact on Ruth.
This is striking, because Naomi did not have an easy life.
She had been widowed, had lost both her sons, and believed that she had caused each calamity by her disobedience.
Yet she still honored and loved the LORD.
People should be able to look at your life, just as Ruth looked at Naomi’s, and say “I want your God to be my God.”
Your trust in God, and turning towards Him in tough times, will often be the thing that draws others to the LORD.
Ruth 1:19–21 (ESV)
19 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem.
And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them.
And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”
20 She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi (My Delight); call me Mara (bitter), for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
21 I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty.
Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”
Naomi knew that the tragedy that came into her life was not because of fate, chance, or blind fortune.
She felt the tragedies were an example of God’s affliction because she could not see the end of His plan.
But she knew there was a sovereign God of heaven and didn’t think she had just run into a string of “bad luck.”
Not everyone reacts to trials the way Naomi did.
“Many are humbled, but not humble; low, but not lowly.
These have lost the fruit of their afflictions... and are therefore most miserable.”
(Trapp)
Ruth 1:22 (ESV)
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab.
And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
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All the good that happens in the future chapters begins here: With Naomi’s godly repentance and honesty.
It will make a difference not only in her life, but in the life of her daughter-in-law Ruth — and in the destiny of the nation Israel — and in your eternal salvation.
It is possible for God to accomplish amazing things both for now and eternity, if we will turn towards Him today, not only in our feelings, but also in our actions.
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