CrossWay Church
November 27, 2022: Ruth 1
These are the Bible passage and sermon notes for our Sunday morning worship services.
Locations & Times
CrossWay Church Battle Ground
311 N Parkway Ave, Battle Ground, WA 98604, USA
Sunday 9:30 AM
Ruth 1:1-22: Ruth’s Kindness
I) Naomi's Suffering
A) The book of Ruth occurs in the time of ________________.
1) In Judges, the people of Israel _________________ God and suffered a variety of consequences.
2) Bethlehem, the “house of ____________,” faced a famine.
B) Elimelek doesn’t _________ God and heads to Moab to find food.
When has your lack of trust of God caused you to make foolish decisions?
1) Naomi’s________________ dies.
2) Her sons’ marry ____________ women.
3) Naomi’s life becomes ______________ when her sons die.
II) Naomi blames God for her misfortune!
A) She is angry that ______________ God has let these things happen to her.
B) We can get angry at God too!
What things cause you to doubt God’s love like Naomi?
III) God was at work in Naomi's life.
A) Naomi ________________ home to God’s people.
1) Naomi encourages her daughters-in-law to ________ in Moab because she cannot provide for them.
2) Orpah follows Naomi’s advice, but Ruth __________ with her.
B) Ruth joins God’s __________.
C) Naomi isn’t ___________ handed. She has Ruth and barley harvest has started.
IV) God works during our dark times too.
“Ah, the Saved…what happens to them is best described as the opposite of a mirage. What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery, turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt deserts memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water.”― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
A) God can use difficult times to draw us __________ to him.
B) Ruth’s kindness to Naomi is a foretaste of Christ’s ________________ kindness toward believers.
I) Naomi's Suffering
A) The book of Ruth occurs in the time of ________________.
1) In Judges, the people of Israel _________________ God and suffered a variety of consequences.
2) Bethlehem, the “house of ____________,” faced a famine.
B) Elimelek doesn’t _________ God and heads to Moab to find food.
When has your lack of trust of God caused you to make foolish decisions?
1) Naomi’s________________ dies.
2) Her sons’ marry ____________ women.
3) Naomi’s life becomes ______________ when her sons die.
II) Naomi blames God for her misfortune!
A) She is angry that ______________ God has let these things happen to her.
B) We can get angry at God too!
What things cause you to doubt God’s love like Naomi?
III) God was at work in Naomi's life.
A) Naomi ________________ home to God’s people.
1) Naomi encourages her daughters-in-law to ________ in Moab because she cannot provide for them.
2) Orpah follows Naomi’s advice, but Ruth __________ with her.
B) Ruth joins God’s __________.
C) Naomi isn’t ___________ handed. She has Ruth and barley harvest has started.
IV) God works during our dark times too.
“Ah, the Saved…what happens to them is best described as the opposite of a mirage. What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery, turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt deserts memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water.”― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
A) God can use difficult times to draw us __________ to him.
B) Ruth’s kindness to Naomi is a foretaste of Christ’s ________________ kindness toward believers.