Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

In our journey through Scripture, we've come to one of my favorite books of the Bible.

It's the little book of Ruth in the Old Testament.

It is one of only two books in the Bible that bear the name of women.

The other, of course, being Esther.

I think it's very interesting, but Esther was a Jewish girl.

Ruth is a Gentile girl.

Esther was a Jewish girl who married a Gentile and saved the promised line. Ruth is a Gentile girl who married a Jew and

extended the promise line. And so both of them find their way into this beautiful story of the

coming of Messiah. Oh, it's wonderful that he comes to the Jew,

but it's to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Salvation is of the Jew, but it's not just for

the Jew. And so whether you are an Esther or you're a Ruth, whether you're a Jew or Gentile,

we're all made one in Christ, it's an amazing book. Now Ruth was a Moabitus girl,

and she was a young lady that never would have known God except for grace. And that's really the

message of the book of Ruth. It is a message of grace. If you begin in Ruth chapter number one

and verse number one, you begin with this phrase.

The Bible says that this story takes place in the days when the judges ruled, which means that the little book of Ruth literally in history fits into the book we just studied, which was the book of judges.

So the whole story fits right into the setting of the last book, the time of the judges. And the book of Ruth is the book of judges. So the whole story fits right into the setting of the last book,

the time of the judges. And the book of Ruth is the story of one family living at this particular time.

The short version of this story is that there was a family that left Bethlehem and moved down to Moab.

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