Well, howdy, Pastor Mark Triscoll here wanting to welcome you to my series on Ruth, the big little love story.

We're going through the Cinderella story of the Old Testament in six weeks with two amazing characters, Ruth, a Moabike gal who was widowed, Boas, an older, wealthy, affluent

single guy, they fall in love, get a little bad counsel from a gal named Naomi, and God works it all out so they can get

married, have a baby named Obed, and through him would come another guy you might have heard

about, his name is Jesus.

You're going to love this love story and I thank you for your

prayers. I thank you for your support and your gift of any amount as we get God's

word out to God's whole world. Thanks a bunch, Pastor Mark out.

All right, if you got a Bible,

go to Ruth Chapter 2.

We're in the Great Cinderella love story

of the Old Testament.

One of the most epic short love stories, perhaps the best written little love story

in the history of the world, and in Ruth Chapter 2, we're talking about redeeming romance.

And what happens is, you and I are born and we enter into a culture and that's the only culture that we will have experienced up until that point.

So for us we assume that's that's normal and then we judge everyone and everything else based upon what we

perceive to be normal when it comes to relationships in general but specifically romantic

relationships the way we do romantic relationships today in our culture,

it's normal to us, but it's abnormal historically.

That's not the way that people have dated or gotten married or done life together.

It's not normal globally.

Most of the people in the world today don't do their romantic relationships the way that

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