Ruth - 2

Facing Crisis After Crisis

Crisis #2: She was to face materialistic problems

 Famine in the land (1:1b)

• Judges 6:1-6
• Job 5:20
• Deuteronomy 28:15, 24

Lesson: God will chastise a believer just as He disciplined Israel if we live a sinful life.

• John 15:2
• Zechariah 13:9
• I Peter 1:7

Facing Crisis After Crisis
Crisis #3: She experienced unbelief on the promises of God

They left Bethlehem (1:2)

• Deuteronomy 8:2-4

Lesson: unbelief will keep us from experiencing eternal life

• John 3:36

Lesson: unbelief will cause us to die in our sins

• John 8:24

Lesson: unbelief will cause us to forsake God

• Hebrews 3:12
• Psalm 42:2, 84:2
• I Thessalonians 1:9

Crisis #4: She experienced death in the family

She was all alone in a foreign country (1:3)

• Ruth 1:3

Lesson: Death cannot be escaped. 

• Romans 5:12