Ruth - Redemption Illustrated - A Free Course

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Day 1 - Part 1

Dear friend,

In this study, we seek to do as God does in exalting His Name and His Word above all things (Psalm 138:2). We are fully persuaded that God uses His Word to save men and women from their sin, to set them apart from a lifestyle that dishonors Him, and to finally bring them to Himself in glory. Because of the way God uses His Word like this, we sense an imperative to get God's Word out to people so that we might watch Him use it in their lives in the manner mentioned above. We love to see God grant repentance to one who has lived long in sin; we love to see Him begin to satisfy the heart of one who has hungered and thirsted with unfulfilled longings, and is now seeing that Christ alone satisfies the heart of man.

So with this in mind, we begin our study in the Book of Ruth. Ruth was written in the time when judges ruled the land of Israel; this was a time of spiritual and social turmoil, as the Israelites were not being led spiritually by prophets of God, but rather they were being led socially by judges. Oh how important spiritual leadership is to a man or woman, to a family, to a home, to a church, and to a country or nation. Apart from spiritual leadership, people do what is right in their own eyes (Judges 21:25), which is usually wrong in God's eyes, and they come under the wrath or the disciplining hand of God.

The book of Ruth teaches some very amazing truths, indeed they are life-changing truths. Ruth teaches us that sin leads to death (chapter 1:1-5), that repentance leads to acceptance with God and satisfaction in the human heart (1:17-22), that God accepts outcasts and places them in the line of Christ (entire book), that God is in control of "happenstances" and "coincidences" (2:3), that redemption from sin includes protection by, covering with, and more importantly, marriage to Christ (chapter 3), that union with ...

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