Ruth - 7

The Kinsman Redeemer

Insight into the curse on Moab

• Isaiah 16:13-14 (God gave Moab three more years and then judgment by the Assyrian King, Sargon)
• Jeremiah 48:11-13, 42-43 (Moab has been at ease & hadn’t been emptied from vessel to vessel. Moab shall be destroyed)
• Ezekiel 25:8-11 (They will know that I am the Lord)
• Amos 2:1-3 (devastating judgment on this cursed people)
• Deuteronomy 23:3-4 (Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord, even to the tenth generation)
• Nehemiah 13:1-2 (Our God turned the curse into a blessing)

Is there any HOPE?

Insight into the curse on Moab because of continual rejection

                                                         Isaiah 56:1-7

• Verse 3 introduces a brand-new thought
• Let not the foreigner think that he can’t be joined to the Lord.
• For my house will be called a house of prayer for” - what? - “all the peoples.” Wow!
• Curse, then, is only in place unless there’s a turning to God.

                                Lamentation 5:21

Ruth Chapter 1 (overview)

• The story takes place in the time of the judges but written in the time of David        
• Elimelaech takes the family to Moab because of famine
• Elimelech, Mahlon and Chilion die in Moab
• Three widows are left in need
• Naomi has heard there is bread in Bethlehem
• Orpah returns to Moab and her gods, but Ruth cleaves to Namoi

                 Ruth 1:16-17

• Providentially, it was the time of barley harves

Ruth 1:22

Ruth goes out to glean in a field that belonged to Boaz

Ruth gives the report to Naomi

       Ruth 2:19-20

This is an amazing work of our almighty God who cares for His sheep

Naomi thinks Boaz is a great possibility. 

She knows Boaz can redeem her and Ruth

Ruth 3:1-12

Who art thou? Vs. 9

Ruth had already garnered a reputation as a virtuous woman

But there is a problem!

Ruth 2:13-16

There’s somebody who’s a closer relative than Boaz