Grace and Favor (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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A bleak outlook can be defeating. Ruth may have felt that way—a poor widow in a foreign land with no one to protect and provide for her and her mother-in-law. Yet she responded with faith and action. Hear her story on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes Sometimes the circumstances we're facing can create a bleak outlook, leaving us tempted to just give up. |
| 0:32.3 | Ruth, in the Old Testament, must have felt that way. |
| 0:34.6 | She was poor and widowed, living in a foreign land with her |
| 0:38.2 | widowed mother-in-law. They had no one to protect or provide for them. Well, today on Truth for |
| 0:44.0 | Life, Alistair Begg considers how Ruth met her trials with faith and action. |
| 1:00.7 | Well, can I invite you to turn again to the second chapter of Ruth? |
| 1:05.7 | Naomi had a relative on our husband's side from the clan of Alimelech, a man of standing, |
| 1:15.4 | whose name was Boas. And Ruth the Moabatest said to Naomi, let me go to the fields. What we've tried to remind one another of as we've been coming to these studies is the very humanity of what we |
| 1:21.7 | have before us, that as with the other sections of the Bible, we're dealing with real men and women in real places in the span of human history, |
| 1:33.2 | locations that are still present today in this instance in the town of Bethlehem, which some of you will have visited. |
| 1:41.2 | And the events that unfold in the book of Ruth are taking place in the very same |
| 1:45.9 | fields in which King David, or the one who was to become King David, would in turn be out looking |
| 1:52.5 | after the sheep that were under his care, the same fields in which the angels would appear |
| 1:58.8 | to shepherds in their day announcing the arrival of the |
| 2:03.1 | Lord Jesus himself. And so having left Moab and come back to the Bethlehem area, what we have is |
| 2:11.2 | the story of these two widow women, one the mother-in-law of Ruth and Ruth herself. And when the morning's sunlight |
| 2:20.0 | wakened her to this new day, she probably did what you and I do unless we have slept in, |
| 2:27.2 | and that is take just a moment to remind ourselves where we are. And she would have doubtless |
| 2:32.7 | looked up at the ceiling and said to herself, oh yes, that's right. |
| 2:36.8 | We're now in Bethlehem. She would have reminded herself, as it is routine to do, I think, |
| 2:43.5 | or maybe it's just me, but I find myself running through a catalogue of events that give me |
| 2:48.2 | stability as I think about who and where I am. It would have been |
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