December 12th - Reckless Inclusivity: Ruth

 Scripture Passages: Ruth 1:11-18; 2:8-13: 3:1-4; 4:1-6

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Reckless Inclusivity
"There is a place for you at Mountainview"

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Reckless Genealogy
5 Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,...
David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,

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Loyal Love (khesed)
Ruth is a love story

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God's Loyal Love for Naomi
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.

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God's Loyal Love for Naomi
14 The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer... 17 The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!”

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Ruth's Loyal Love for Naomi
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.

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Boaz's Loyal Love to Ruth
8 So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me.

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God's Loyal Love to Ruth
 12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

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What Loyal Love is this?
   4 When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”

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Boaz's Loyal Love to God
5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”

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Genealogy of Naomi and Ruth
21 Salmon the father of Boaz,
Boaz the father of Obed,
22 Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of David.