MORE THAN PRETTY: SEEING CHARACTER IN MY FUTURE MATE (2 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
More Than Pretty: Seeing Character in My Future Mate (2 of 3)
Series: The Invisible Hand
Scott Maze
Ruth 2 & 3
Many of you know of Benjamin Franklin, one of the fathers of our country, was also the ambassador to France. And while he was in France, he was a member of a literary society. So Ben Franklin, without letting this agnostic literary society know where he had gotten the story, shared with them the love story of Ruth. Not knowing it came from the pages of the Bible, the French infidels were astounded. They said to him, ''Dr. Franklin, that is beyond a doubt the most beautiful romance - love story - we've ever heard. Would you give us leave, please, that we might have it published and give it broad distribution?'' He said, ''It is already published, and it already has broad distribution. It is found in the Bible, that book that you profess to despise'' - this wonderful story of Ruth that is found here, in the Bible.
If that story isn't true, it should be!
I want to tell you a love story today that spurred the very pages of history. The little book of Ruth is a beautiful love story set 3,000 years ago in ancient Israel. Ruth is 1 of only 2 books in your Bible named for women.
Week One Reminder
Just a reminder of week one in Ruth's story. Naomi and her husband went to Moab, modern day Jordan, because of a famine in Bethlehem. They live in the same Bethlehem where Jesus was born. While the family was in Moab for ten years, she experienced the death of her husband, the marriage of her 2 sons to foreign wives, and the death of her sons. It was one blow after another for Naomi. All this caused Naomi to say, ''Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me'' (Ruth 1:20b). Naomi knew there was a God but she felt God was against her at every turn.
She came back home to Bethlehem with only a daughter-in-law, Ruth. Widows were the most socially and economically vulnerable people of ancient society. In ou ...
Series: The Invisible Hand
Scott Maze
Ruth 2 & 3
Many of you know of Benjamin Franklin, one of the fathers of our country, was also the ambassador to France. And while he was in France, he was a member of a literary society. So Ben Franklin, without letting this agnostic literary society know where he had gotten the story, shared with them the love story of Ruth. Not knowing it came from the pages of the Bible, the French infidels were astounded. They said to him, ''Dr. Franklin, that is beyond a doubt the most beautiful romance - love story - we've ever heard. Would you give us leave, please, that we might have it published and give it broad distribution?'' He said, ''It is already published, and it already has broad distribution. It is found in the Bible, that book that you profess to despise'' - this wonderful story of Ruth that is found here, in the Bible.
If that story isn't true, it should be!
I want to tell you a love story today that spurred the very pages of history. The little book of Ruth is a beautiful love story set 3,000 years ago in ancient Israel. Ruth is 1 of only 2 books in your Bible named for women.
Week One Reminder
Just a reminder of week one in Ruth's story. Naomi and her husband went to Moab, modern day Jordan, because of a famine in Bethlehem. They live in the same Bethlehem where Jesus was born. While the family was in Moab for ten years, she experienced the death of her husband, the marriage of her 2 sons to foreign wives, and the death of her sons. It was one blow after another for Naomi. All this caused Naomi to say, ''Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me'' (Ruth 1:20b). Naomi knew there was a God but she felt God was against her at every turn.
She came back home to Bethlehem with only a daughter-in-law, Ruth. Widows were the most socially and economically vulnerable people of ancient society. In ou ...
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