Sermon Tone Analysis

1.

You need to take _the first step_

Ruth 2:2 (ESV)

2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.”

And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

1.

You need to take the first step

Ruth 2:3 (ESV)

3 So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.

Ruth 2:5–9 (ESV)

5 Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”

6 And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.

7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’

So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”

8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.

9 Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them.

Have I not charged the young men not to touch you?

And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”

Ruth 2:14–16 (ESV)

14 And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.”

So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain.

And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

15 When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.

16 And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”

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You need to remain _humbly grateful_

Ruth 2:13 (ESV)

13 Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”

3.

You need to practice consistent _persistence_

Ruth 2:11–12 (ESV)

11 But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

12 The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

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You need to practice consistent persistence

Ruth 2:17 (ESV)

17 So she gleaned in the field until evening.

Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

Ruth 2:23 (ESV)

23 So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests.

And she lived with her mother-in-law.