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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Truth for Life where we are studying the story of Ruth, a widowed Moabite living in a foreign land and caring for her poor Jewish mother-in-law. |
0:34.6 | Ruth played a critical role in God's overarching plan, but do you think she |
0:39.6 | realized that at the time? |
0:42.2 | Today, Alistair Begg looks at Ruth's response to her circumstances and God's providential |
0:47.9 | provision. |
0:49.5 | Alistair is teaching from Ruth, Chapter 2. |
0:58.1 | Thank you. is teaching from Ruth chapter 2. Everything that God gives any of us, and every opportunity of obtaining what we need |
1:04.8 | are undeserved mercies from the giver of every good. When a man or a woman, when a young person actually |
1:15.1 | believes that and has that written into the corner of their existence, then it will transform |
1:22.3 | how we approach any task and every day. Everything that God gives us, and every opportunity of obtaining what we |
1:32.1 | need is an undeserved expression of his favor. And in a society that is preoccupied with its |
1:41.7 | rights, the Word of God calls us to focus on privileges. that is preoccupied with its rights. |
1:47.9 | The Word of God calls us to focus on privileges. |
1:55.6 | So Naomi, who doubtless might have wished for better circumstances for both herself and Ruth, |
2:00.1 | responds kindly in just a little phrase, she says, go ahead, my daughter. In other words, I wish that |
2:02.3 | it was very different from this, Ruth. I wish I could have brought you back to a really nice |
2:07.4 | place. I wish we'd been able to come back at a different level. I wish that we'd been able |
2:12.3 | to slot right back in to wonderful circumstances. And here you are out picking up aluminium cans, you know, |
2:18.3 | or the equivalent of, and you're doing it because you love me and because you say you love God now. |
2:25.8 | Yeah, go on, my daughter. |
2:29.3 | Incidentally, in passing, parents have to learn to respond to the good graces of their children in an equally |
2:36.3 | graceful fashion. There are many children who, in endeavoring to do well for their parents or for |
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