Brad Evans

Grace Bible Church

“Life for the Redeemed”

Ruth 4: 13-22

Ruth Overview

What are the two books in the Bible named after women?

When is the setting?

What is the historical context?

Where does Ruth take place?

Who are the major characters?

Why is Ruth included in our Bible?

Life for the Redeemed

• A Husband (4:13a)

• A Son (4:13b-17)

Genesis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

John 10:10-11 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Col. 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

Col. 3:3-4 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

1 John 5:11-13 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

• A Lineage (4:18-22)

2 Samuel 7:12-16

"When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. "He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. "I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. "Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever." ' "

Four Women in Matthew 1:1-6

• Tamar

• Rahab

• Ruth

• Bathsheba

So What? Jesus delights in taking broken, destitute and starving foreigners and making them family!

Applications

1. Anyone still a foreigner living in the land of Moab? (Ephesians 2:11-16)

2. Anyone who has received Christ but has gone back to laboring in the field?