While the world often ignores or mistreats those who are weak and vulnerable, the Lord

takes a different posture toward those in need.

Welcome to the Radical A David Platt podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and

pastor David Platt delivered weekly. And beginning last week we have started a

journey through the Book of Ruth, but as always you can find thousands of more

free sermons and other resources over at our website radical.net.

On today's message from Ruth chapter 2, David Platt points us to the God of Israel's abundant

mercy toward a needy Moabite woman named Ruth.

Like Ruth, we too need God's mercy. And for those who have received that mercy in Jesus Christ,

we should be extending mercy to the most vulnerable in our own communities and around the world.

Here's David Platt with today's sermon

titled The Ministry of Mercy

from Ruth chapter two.

Well, if you have a Bible, and I hope you you do let me invite you to open them with me to Ruth

chapter 2. Ruth chapter 2 as you're turning in your Bibles to Ruth I want to remind you of what I hope is obvious

but I want to make sure to point out the poetry that we're using is extra biblical. In other words it's not exactly the words of

scripture, not equivalent to scripture. I hope it doesn't contradict scripture, but it does take some liberties and some licenses with

ideas, possibilities for what could have happened here or there.

The whole point is to help us

explore some concepts and themes that are in scripture, but I want to make sure we

distinguish between the two and what is what we know is true what is authoritative is what we're

going to read here in scripture even the picture of of white and black and

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