Redeeming Love Week 1

September 13, 2020

Redeeming Love Week 1- Dean Johnson  – 09.13.2020

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Silence Is Not Absence

– Ruth 1:1-2 
1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. 2 The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.

– Judges 21:25
In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.

– Deuteronomy 11:16-17
16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.17 Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.

– Deuteronomy 23:3,6
3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.  6 Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.

– In moving to Moab, Elimelech was stepping out of the of God

– Ruth 1:3-5 ESV
3 But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. 4 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, 5 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

– Ruth 1:5 ESV
5 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

– Ruth 1:6
6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. 

– Ruth 1:7-9
7 With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. 8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. 9 May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.”

– Ruth 1:9-13
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud 10 and said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.” 11 But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? 12 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons— 13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!”

– Ruth 1:14
14 At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

– “clung” is the same word we see in Genesis when God says a man is to be joined or CLEAVE to his wife. Implies deep attachment

– Ruth 1:15-17
15 “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.” 16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” 

– Ruth 1:17
17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried.

– By making the statement that she would be buried in Israel, Ruth was declaring her not only to Naomi, but to Naomi’s God, the God of Israel.

– Ruth 1:18-19
18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.19 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

– Ruth 1:20-21
20 “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”

– Naomi means “”. Mara means “

– God is working to turn tragedy into

– Ruth 1:22
22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.

– God can turn into

– God’s silence is not of his presence

 

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