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do you do The account of Jesus' birth, his life, death, and resurrection, is found in the New Testament, but all of scripture points us to Jesus.

We're going to find out how that's possible today on Truth for Life weekend as we begin a series

titled, Preaching the Gospel.

Alisterbegg kicks off the study

by finding Jesus in the Old Testament Book of Ruth is arguably one of the loveliest short stories ever written. Here in these four short chapters not very many

verses we have literary art and theological insight at its very finest.

And what makes the Book of Ruth sparkle so much

is the background against which it is set

in the same way that when you go to the jewelers they always bring out

that dark velvet cloth as part of their stick in order to try and make a tiny diamond

look as though it's really a little better than it was.

But against the background of the period of the judges, the Book of Ruth shines, because the

story of judges, as you will know know was at the very least a time of instability.

If there had been blogs in those days, then they would have been filled with reports of civil unrest, of a kind of moral decay, religious declension,

and unchecked corruption. And that you read all the way through and we find that as the book

of judges finishes it says and in those days Israel had no king and everyone did as he saw fit. And then you turn the page and you discover in the book

of Ruth that there is another site to the story that away from all the clamor in the corridors of power, we find that God is at work in a very unusual way in a sequence of events involving a Bethlehem farmer, a foreigner from Moab, and a lady who had

faced a triple bereavement. If these four short chapters were to be made into a movie

and we had the privilege of interacting at all with the way the musical score was

written, we would lobby very strongly for the music

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