Sunday, August 9, 2020: The Book Of Ruth ~ Series: MERCIES IN THE SHADOWS ~ Message: Glimmers of Hope ~ Scripture: Ruth 2:17-23 ~ Pastor Philip Miller
Image: Ruth Gleaning in the Fields (Ruth and Naomi), by Judith Mehr
The Book Of Ruth
MERCIES IN THE SHADOWS
Glimmers of Hope
Sunday, August 9, 2020
The Book Of Ruth
Series: MERCIES IN THE SHADOWS
Message: Glimmers of Hope
Scripture: Ruth 2:17-23 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
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Scripture Reading from Isaiah 40 ESV
Comfort for God's People
40. Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord's hand
double for all her sins.
3. A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4. Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
5. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
The Word of God Stands Forever
6. A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7. The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
8. The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
The Greatness of God
9. Go on up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
“Behold your God!”
10. Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
11. He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead those that are with young.
12. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?
13. Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord,
or what man shows him his counsel?
14. Whom did he consult,
and who made him understand?
Who taught him the path of justice,
and taught him knowledge,
and showed him the way of understanding?
15. Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and are accounted as the dust on the scales;
behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
16. Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,
nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
17. All the nations are as nothing before him,
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
18. To whom then will you liken God,
or what likeness compare with him?
19. An idol! A craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.
20. He who is too impoverished for an offering
chooses wood that will not rot;
he seeks out a skillful craftsman
to set up an idol that will not move.
21. Do you not know? Do you not hear?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22. It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
23. who brings princes to nothing,
and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
24. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
25. To whom then will you compare me,
that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
26. Lift up your eyes on high and see:
who created these?
He who brings out their host by number,
calling them all by name;
by the greatness of his might
and because he is strong in power,
not one is missing.
27. Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God”?
28. Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
29. He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30. Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
31. but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
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Message: Glimmers of Hope
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Sunday, August 9, 2020
THE BOOK OF RUTH
Series: MERCIES IN THE SHADOWS
Message: Glimmers of Hope
Ruth 1:17-23 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Videos: Inspirational
SERMON NOTES
Sunday, August 9, 2020
The Book Of Ruth
Series: MERCIES IN THE SHADOWS
Message: Glimmers of Hope
Ruth 2:17-23 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
1. What if this is not the end after all?
Takeaway: This is a chapter.
2. What if these mercies are messages?
Takeaway: Mercies are everywhere.
3. What if there is shelter in the shadows?
Takeaway: God is right here with us.
4. What if redemption is Godʼs intention?
Takeaway: Godʼs kindness has just begun.
Audio: Ruth 2 ESV
Ruth 2:17-23 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.18 And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied. 19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.” 20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.” 21 And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’“ 22 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.” 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.