Jesus Is Greater: Ruth
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This sermon series looks at the lives of heroic figures in the Bible and how Jesus is greater than each of them. This time it’s Ruth. Ruth was brave, hard-working, and devoted to her mother in law, Naomi. But those aren’t the only labels she carried. Amid hardship, she meets Boaz, and the tale becomes one of redemption. Jesus redeems us from the labels we have as well. Speaker: Pastor Tom Hendrikse.
Ruth 1:16–17 (Listen)
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.”
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Ruth 2:8–10 (Listen)
8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women. 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.” 10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”
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