“Can This Be Naomi?” (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Where is God in the dark days? Join Alistair Begg on Truth For Life for a study in the book of Ruth. It’s a story of loyalty, duty, and love in the midst of heartbreak and hard times. Learn how it all happened under God’s providential hand.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Welcome to Truth for Life. |
| 0:27.9 | Today we begin a new study in the book of Ruth. |
| 0:31.3 | This is a story of loyalty, duty, and love in the midst of heartbreak and hard times. |
| 0:36.9 | And it all happens under the providential |
| 0:39.8 | care of God. |
| 0:42.1 | Alistair Begg begins by introducing us to a widow in a desperate situation. |
| 0:53.3 | I would like to ask you to take your Bible again and turn to Ruth with me, if you would. |
| 0:59.8 | Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deutronomy, Joshua, judges, Ruth. |
| 1:05.5 | You say, well, how did we get to Ruth? |
| 1:08.2 | Well, I have to confess to you that this is a book that I have never ever touched. |
| 1:12.7 | I have never preached one verse out of the book of Ruth. |
| 1:15.9 | Not because I haven't wanted to, because I've wanted to, I can tell you how many times I've |
| 1:19.8 | started an outline of a series of studies in Ruth, only to throw it away very, very quickly, |
| 1:26.4 | before it ever saw the light of day. Indeed, |
| 1:29.5 | I have nothing at all by way of outline. I only have what I have in front of me. A few Sunday nights |
| 1:34.3 | ago, someone came up to me at the end of worship and said, hey, by the way, when are we ever going |
| 1:38.3 | back into the New Testament? We seem to be stalled. Back to the Old Testament. We seem to be stalled in the New Testament. I said, well, |
| 1:46.4 | we'll go back to the Old Testament as soon as I can, and this is as soon as I can. And so we're going |
| 1:52.8 | to take these evenings to look at this book of Ruth together. I'm not sure just how far we'll get |
| 1:59.5 | this evening. And when Derek Prime was |
| 2:03.6 | here some years ago, he gave a talk and he said, and I thought it was a very novel way of introducing |
| 2:08.1 | it. He said, the address that I have to give you today will have something about it of what |
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