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've got a Bible,

go to Ruth Chapter 4, if you've got a Bible,

and let me catch you up on the story if you're new.

The story begins in a town called Bethlehem.

It's basically over near the temple, Israel,

God's people, worshiping God there about 3,000 years ago.

It literally means House of Bread.

And because God's people were being disobedient,

he withheld some of his provision

and a famine hit literally in the place

named the House of Bread.

And so families had to decide, how will we respond?

What will we do?

One family was led by a man named Dlemelik.

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