The The The Old Testament Book of Ruth is an amazing love story. It rivals any love story,

but it's a whole lot more than a simple tale of romance between a man and a woman.

On Truth for Life Weekend, Alistairbegg illustrates how we catch a glimpse of Jesus

in Ruth's kinsman- Redeemer, Boaz.

When we come to something like the book of Ruth, we have to immerse ourselves in if you like the sights and the sounds and the

smells and the tastes. Ruth invites us to feel deeply and it will then be our

understanding of the gospel which will prevent us from making any kind of wrong applications from the book,

so that we might be able to apply it properly.

We're going to have three charcoal sketches, all right? Three charcoal sketches.

My first sketch has a title and the title is Three Women on the road to somewhere.

Three women on the road to somewhere.

And now she stands in between Moab and Bethlehem,

urging her two daughters-in-law to go back to the place where they

would find security. And essentially what she is doing is urging these girls to

count the cost, a cost which St. Ferguson puts as they had to choose

between Yaway plus nothing in Bethlehem or everything minus Yaway in Moab.

And with that choice set before them, Orpa, as we know, goes back. But Ruth

refuses to go back, despite the urging of Naomi, despite the incentive that's created as she sees her sister-in-law going back up the road.

She says, look, Orpa's going back up there. Why don't you go with Orpa? You've still got a chance. You could still catch her now.

Go back my daughter.

And yet look at this amazing response.

No, don't urge me to leave you. Don't urge me to turn back from you. And what we have

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