Ruth

 

 

In the Book of Ruth God shares the story of a woman who did not belong to the "right race, the right religion, or right church."  Ruth said: “ Please don't urge me to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. ~ Ruth 1:16. 

Ruth was a Moabite woman who marries a Judean immigrant named Mahlon (Ruth 1:1–4; 4:10). Upon his death she becomes a childless widow who chooses to accompany her mother-in-law, Naomi, to Judea. She was also hard-working and gracious, a woman of steadfast faith, who had forsaken her home and her relatives in order to follow the Lord, and one who treated her mother-in-law with respect, kindness and love.

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Book of Ruth is about loyalty, faith, redemption, and God's providence, showing how steadfast love, obedience, and humble service in difficult times can lead to blessing and fulfill divine purposes, even placing Ruth, a foreigner, in the lineage of King David and Jesus Christ. 

Three Truths from the Book of Ruth

• God is concerned about ALL people regardless of what they are, who they are, or where they are from. 
• There is hope even during the most devastating times of your life. 
• God uses unlikely people for His purpose regardless of what "church" they attend.

Denominational Chruchianity competes for members like it's some sort of recruiting contest. They debate who's right and who's wrong forgetting that it is God who chooses who enters the Kingdom. In John 15:9-17, Jesus makes it very clear not to hate or condemn brothers and sister in Christ for we are all one body.

⁹ “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹² This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.

Denominational Churches will not fellowship with one another, they will not allow other pastors to speak to their congregation, they constantly accuse anyone who is not a member of their church of being a heretic. They all claim to worship the same God and the same Savior, yet said, "Jesus is my friend, but he does not like you because you don't belong to the right church."

Come judgment day, Jesus Christ will separate the sheep from the goats, the wheat from the tares. As Christians, we may not all agree on doctrine or certain practices for we cannot see another brother or sister's heart as Jesus does. No Church has a franchise on God or a monopoly on the truth. 

A Bible believing follower of Jesus Christ will change when the Holy Spirit reveals new truth. An indoctrinated follower of denominational Churchianity will not change when presented with Biblical facts, nor will they search the Scriptures to see if it is true.

 

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The purpose of Renew Your Strength Bible Study Group is to get people to think about what they believe and why they believe it, not debate who's right or wrong. Over the years, as Renew Your Strength has continued to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have recognized that some of the things we once held as true, in fact, are not; and therefore we will not “cast in stone” a statement of our beliefs. We reserve the right to be wrong and to repent of such error when we discover it. To learn the revealed truth of God we must know and understand the true meaning of the words God inspired to be written. Use Strong's Concordance to check the original word before it was translated. Do your own research, make up your own mind, rely on the Holy Spirit to guide you.