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Introduction
CAVEAT:
This morning, we will be looking at Ruth 3.
That might surprise you because it surprised me.
I must confess that I had 100% planned to preach on Romans 8,
but do to some providential hindrance.
AKA known as a glitch with the backup system that my Bible software company uses.
My sermon vanished in the computer system.
And thus, God has providentially allowed us an opportunity to look at the book of Ruth.
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Stubbornness,
Rebellion,
An enemy of God.
Those are strong words,
but they are the words that characterize my flesh apart from Christ.
These are words that characterize our flesh apart from Christ.
And
We would like to say that no true believer could be in rebellion against God.
But is that true?
Certainly, in terms of an absolute and persistent“hatred” for God I would agree.
By very definition - a believer is someone who is no longer an enemy of God.
But can a believer be opposed to the power and wisdom of God.
That is to be
bitter
or angry at God.
And I think you can.
We all have meet people who are angry or bitter against God.
- Whether it be some perceived wrong,
- or suffering that God allowed.
But they have come to a point they are mad at God.
Some of us have lived in periods life - where we have struggled with what God allowed in our life.
There is a fine line here,
but I believe as we look at the character of Naomi
>>>> we could easily describe her as in rebellion and angry at God.
((((It is not the kind of rebellion that she does not believe in God )))
but a kind of rebellion that fails to depend on God.
It fails to submit the power and wisdom of God.
And it fails to recognize that suffering and hardship often are apart of God’s love.
As we consider the book of Ruth -
What can we observe about Naomi’s motives?
She is more concerned about food than obeying God.
Just consider this brief survey of Ruth.
Ruth 1:1 – Naomi leaves Bethlehem, the house of bread, to go to Moab because of a famine.
Ruth 1:6 – She returns to Bethlehem because the famine is gone.
In other words - She is after food again.
Ruth 1:8-18 – She tells her daughter-in-law’s, Ruth and Orpah, go back.
I do not have any husband to provide for you.
Ruth 1:19-21 – She tells us she is bitter against God.
Call Mara, not Naomi.
This is a women who trusts in her own means, rather than in her God.
Rather than trusting in Yahweh’s promise in Deuteronomy 28,
blessings and cursing’s,
she is looking for her own way.
But God has been working in her life.
And we observe the providential hand of God upon her life.
As I began here - I must mention
The book of Ruth - is not like other books.
That is… it doesn’t outright tell us how God is working in their lives.
Nevertheless .. in masterful irony and seemingly providence
>>>> We learn that God is good and merciful and providentially ruling in their lives.
Consider the amazing provision of Ruth 3.
Ruth 3:1–18 (ESV)
Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor
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