Legacy - Ruth: Beauty - Week 4

“Ruth - Beauty”

Ruth 1-3

Bryan Jones

This morning we are going take a look at the story of Ruth. Like the children’s story about a boy named Alexander, the story of Ruth is filled with terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days. Ruth lost everything. She lost her husband and then left behind her family, and her religious beliefs, and everything that was familiar to start a new life with her mother-in-law in a new land. But God was at work behind the scenes, even in those very bad days.

Through a series of very unlikely “coincidences,” God provided a man named Boaz to be a redeemer for Ruth. Boaz paid her debt, became her husband, and gave her a new life. All of us are Ruth - we owe a debt we cannot pay. And our Redeemer, Jesus, paid that debt to give us new life.