Creation, according to Romans chapter 8, is groaning, awaiting for the return of the Son of God.

Just groaning, everyday groaning for Jesus to come back and restore it.

And here's what I want to say to you.

Your big mess is not bigger than God's miracle.

Thank you. big mess is not bigger than God's miracle. All right.

Now, I want you to look at 116, verse 7 again.

I told you this would be big to us.

Return to your rest, oh, my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

Would you go with me now to Ruth?

You're going to go to the Book of Ruth.

We're going to go deep into the Old Testament.

And you're going to find the Book of Ruth, and you're going to go to the first chapter.

You'll find the first five books of the Bible.

They're going to be followed by Joshua and Judges, and then you are going to start running into Ruth.

I wish I had time to really tell their story, but I don't.

It was a woman who was Jewish, who had married a Moabite man, and they had moved to Moab.

They had had several sons.

Their sons had been married.

They had great lives, as far as we can tell.

And then all the men died somehow for some reason and left them all widows. And so she's going

back because the only hope she has of survival is to go back to her homeland and try to

claim whatever little piece of property

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