Themes from The Book of Ruth:

• Commitment
• Redemption
• Love Story
• Parallels to Christ

 

Ruth Chapter 1:1-5

Where Did You Come From?

 

Ruth Chapter 1:6-18

Who’s with Me?

 

• Our commitment to God

“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.’ And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.” Ruth 1:16-18 ESV

 

• God’s commitment to us

“I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.” Exodus 6:7 ESV

“…that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” Deuteronomy 29:13 ESV

 

Book of Life:

• Philippians 4:3
• Revelation 20 and 21

 

Ruth 1:19-22

Where Did You Go?

 

• Ruth was committed to Naomi even when she chose to remain bitter
• Naomi looked at her circumstances and changed her identity
• God looks at our circumstances and calls us His children