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13 of the plant.

I've you are visiting us.

This your first time here you may notice.

This is not super Christmas Eve of a series that we're in right now.

Sometimes comes up when you do the genealogy is your Advent series, but but we're not in a Christmas sweater this week, but I am wearing Christmas socks.

So there's some Christmas there.

The background is still read.

The reason why we're not in a special Christmas services because our goal has been to follow the whole story of the Bible.

From beginning to end.

We started in September.

And the goal is to meet up, I sync up with Easter, and so that means that we're nowhere near the Christmas story in December, but I'll be making some connections.

But we've been our goal is to understand the whole story, The Bible.

And if you are new to this, then we should remind everyone.

You can listen to all of our sermons online.

You can watch them on YouTube or you can go to our website and listen to our podcast.

You can get sermon notes, so you can get all of all of that material online.

And also there's a podcast that the ministry's do every week that goes into some of the other stories were skipping over gosend and things like that.

And you can find that as well on our website is called a fully grown podcast.

As you've been looking at the story, The theme that we have found that unites the whole Bible together.

Is this idea that the Bible?

The story of God's plan to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

This is always the plot of the Bible that God made the world.

He put people in that.

He told them to rule it on his behalf.

And I was their purpose.

And then he came to live with them on the 7th day and then human being to mess it up and ever since then, God has been working to restore that plan.

And the the stage the where I was when he's Chosen One people and he's going to work through that 1 people.

And so he chose the family of Abraham and Sarah the family of Israel and their has people, he gave them a specific place, the land of Israel to be theirs and to have his name on it and he lives there with them in the Tabernacle and he has given them the law of Moses that is meant to tell them how their supposed to live in the land of his room.

So the idea is that, during this time.

If you wanted to know who got it is, you would look at his real.

And that's how you God would be revealed to the world, cuz you can't have a relationship.

You don't know who he is and you don't know what he's like.

So Israel's responsibility is to, is to show the world of God.

It's like now, if you were here last week, you know, that at this point in the story we were in judges, Israel is doing a terrible job of that.

They didn't push the Canaanites out of the land.

And so they they just kind of gave up and, and matri's instead.

And through that compromised.

They started to get insta.

Be influenced by these other.

These other approaches to God, that were much easier and more magical and, and all about immediate gratification.

And so, they ended up living in just terrible ways, that that did not reflect God into the world.

And the ending of Judges is just horrible.

And when we pick up in 1st Samuel, it's still going to be in that terrible place, but in between those two books, there's a little kind of Novel at and it's called Ruth.

And if a little Ray of Hope, in the middle of this dark Valley that were in.

And but the interesting thing about Ruth is it's not part.

It's it's not telling that this big metal story of his focus is on one family, and one family's problems in the solution to that one little family's problems.

And took me a little bit difficult to connect that with the whole story until we're going to start.

Instead of going straight to, the corn is ready to start by connecting the story of Ruth with the rest of the story of the Bible.

So I'm going to, I'm going to read us the opening verses of Ruth.

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.

So a man from Bethlehem in Judah together with his wife and two sons went to live for a while.

In the country of Moab.

They went to Moab and live there.

Now a little like Naomi's, husband died, and she was left with her two sons.

They married moabite women, one, indoor, and the other Ruth after they had live there, about 10 years.

Both Malin and Killian also died, and they owe me without her two sons.

And her husband.

Interesting tidbit who is actually the main character of The Story of Ruth.

Who's the story about so far?

But Naomi, actually the main character in Ruth is Naomi.

Cuz the story of Ruth is about solving the problem that Naomi is in and we start.

So the first thing we find out is her situation and they only situation is that she has lost her home, her family, and her future.

I only explained as you don't get all the details in chapter one.

You have to go to chapter 4, to get the rest of the details about the home parts.

But will you find out in chapter 4? Is that they are now.

His family is mortgaged to the hilt.

They, they actually would have to buy their land back in order to be able to use it.

And so when there's a famine, they don't have land that they can farm.

So that's why they have to leave and go to mount Tilly.

Lost the Family Farm.

It's been, it's, it's an Hawk, they can't, they don't have the farm, then they go to Moab and Naomi's husband dies.

Now, in that culture, you have to understand main job for everyone, is to keep your family going.

That's the goal is to have a family and a Heritage, right?

You need to keep your family going.

If your family carries the promises of God like Israelite families, dude, then it's especially important that you keep your family going.

So Naomi's, husband dies, which means that her ability to expand, the family is now done.

That stage is the chap.

Is over, right?

So she marries her son's to available when they're in Moab.

So the women that are available or moabites so that the sun's jobs to carry on the family.

The sons are made for 10 years and have zero children and then they die.

Which means Naomi's, family is done.

It.

Her family is now a dead end.

There is no way for her to family to continue.

It's a winner Branch.

It's done.

So she has no future.

That's that's this horrible place that she is in and it's hard enough to lose your family members, but on top of that, she's lost her purpose.

That it's it's not just lost its also failure.

Their family has failed.

Question, we have to ask is why?

See if you were if you're reading the whole story of the Bible and you're memorizing it as you go, which I know we're all doing.

Right?

Like you all have Deuteronomy memorize just like I do.

If you had Deuteronomy memorized.

Then you would see a couple red flags go up in the story that we brought her a couple of a signpost first.

In the time of the judges.

How is his real doing in the time of the judges?

Good bad terrible, right.